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  1. Telegram ordering the confiscation of the films "Desparados" and "You Were Never Lovelier,"

    Telegram, dated May 14, 1944, from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt Amt VI to the head of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in France, SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Hensel, stating that the head of the Film Department wants to know if the films "Desparados" and "You Were Never Lovelier" have been confiscated.

  2. Denkmal das Konzentrations-Auenlager Heppenheim

    Contains an unpublished report, 105 pages, on the Heppenheim concentration camp, compiled by a group of German high school students at the Starkenburgergymnasium, Heppenheim.

  3. Emlékfoszlányok Hazateres -- Az ut

    Consists of a typewritten manuscript, 36 pages, entitled "Emlékfoszlányok" ("Fragments of memories") containing two short stories, "Hazateres" ("Returning home"), in which she describes her journey home from Miskolc, Hungary, where she was attending college, to Munkacs, Hungary in 1944, and "Az ut" ("The journey"), in which she describes her three-day journey in 1944 in a cattle car from Munkacs to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  4. Emily Myriam Saul collection

    Consists of a photocopied registration form issued to Emily Myriam Saul (Emilia Kounio Saltiel) while in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 after her arrest in Saloniki, Greece.

  5. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.

  7. My experiences and survival in Nazi death camps

    Contains a typewritten memoir, 12 pages, describing his life in Beregovo, Czechoslovakia (a.k.a.Beregszasz, Hungary), before and during the German occupation; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp; his transfer to Babitz concentration camp where he worked as an agricultural slave laborer; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp where he worked digging ditches and moving stones; selections by Josef Mengele; a death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp in January 1945; his transfer to Ebensee concentration camp where he worked in tunnels being dug into the mount...

  8. Lila Cohn Chudy memoir

    Consists of a handwritten memoir in the form of a three-page letter to the Museum, dated October 9, 1994, from Lila Cohn Chudy (born Lieselotte Cohn), originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Berlin, her deportation to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, and her postwar emigration with her husband, Herszel, to the United States. She includes a list of family members.

  9. Henrik Deutsch letter

    Letter from Henrik Deutsch to Gizella Deutsch Pienitz, his sister in the United States. Deutsch asks his sister for finanical help so that the family can emigrate from Budapest to the United States. The letter is in Hungarian and the Hungarian Tourist Board supplied the English translation.

  10. Return home: from the diary of Ms. Gorzędowska

    Collection contains an excerpt from the donor's diary describing her underground schoolwork in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to her Gestapo arrest in May 1943. After being beaten in the Warsaw prison, Gorzędowska was sent to Auschwitz until January 1945. On January 17, 1945, she and others were led on a four-day march to an unnamed train depot, packed into boxcars, and taken to Ravensbrück; she arrived on January 25, 1945. In February 1945, she and others were transported to a camp located at Neustadt-Gleve. While there, Gorzędowska was able to be detailed to "house help" in the children's b...

  11. Selected records relating to Jews in Romania during the Holocaust

    Contains copies of selected records from the United States Department of State, Foreign Service Posts, United States Embassy, Ankara, Turkey, General Records, 1941-1943; Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army), War Crimes Case Files, 1944-1945; and the United States War Department General and Special Staffs, Regional Files, 1943-1944 relating to Jews in Romania during the Holocaust.

  12. David Elentukh memoir

    Contains David Elentukh's handwritten memoir, in Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Elentukh describes his pre-war life in Minsk, being drafted into the military in 1941, and escaping to return to his family and move with them into the Minsk ghetto. Elentukh was transferred from the ghetto for forced labor in Minsk, escaped to return to the ghetto, and went into hiding in a cellar. After emerging from hiding, Elentukh and his family were rounded up and marched outside of Minsk to be shot. He managed to run from the column and escape, joining the partisans with his brother-in-law. In 1944, Elentukh...

  13. Joseph Komito memoir

    The Joseph Komito memoir is a typewritten memoir of Joseph Komito in which he describes life in Mielec, Poland, before and during the German occupation; his experiences as a forced laborer first in an unnamed airplane factory and later in Wieliczka, Auschwitz, Flossenbürg, and Leitmeritz concentration camps; and his postwar life in the United States.

  14. Moyshe Rekhtman memoir

    Contains a handwritten memoir describing the author's life in a labor camp near Letichev, Ukraine cutting trees and building bridges and roads; his escape from the labor camp on November 25,1942 to the Luchinets, Ukraine ghetto; his transfer in May 1943 to Tulchin labor camp; and his escape from that labor camp and return to Luchinets three months later where he hid in a Ukrainian family's house until the end of the occupation in March 1944. After the war, he remained in Ukraine until March 29, 1985 when he emigrated to the United States.

  15. Yolanda Friedmann Gold Holocaust memoirs

    Contains of a copy of a typewritten memoir, two pages, written by Yolanda Friedmann Gold, originally of Jibou, Transylvania. The memoir describes life in the gehtto in Simleul-Silvania, then in Goldfill, Estonia. In Estonia, she was forced to work in a pine forest and then was briefly sent to Danzig and Stutthof before being sent to a munitions factory near Hamburg. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, and returned to Transylvania until 1964. Also includes a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, in Hungarian, about her family's Holocaust experiences.

  16. Frida Rabenstein memoir

    Contains a handwritten memoir, two pages, describing the author's deportation in June 1944 to "Lager C" in Auschwitz concentration camp; her transfer to an ammunition factory in Hunsfeld labor camp; the death march to Gross Rosen concentration camp in January 1945; her transfer to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945; and her postwar life in Sweden and the United States.

  17. Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp records and photographs

    Contains an unpublished booklet of photocopies of photographs, correspondence, documents, survivor testimonies, and extracts from publications compiled by Vernon W. Tott and relating to the history of Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp and the liberation of the camp by the 84th Infantry on April 10, 1945. The booklet includes Benjamin Sieradzki's 38-page typewritten testimony, "A teenager survives the Holocaust," describing conditions in the Łódź ghetto, his deportation in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, his transfers first to Birkenau and then to Hannover-Ahlem concentration camps, ...

  18. Louis Drucker collection, 1945

    The collection consists of photographs taken by American Soldier Louis Drucker at the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Gardelegen, and Reims, France. Includes depictions of survivors, bodies, graves, German prisoners of war, and American and Soviet soldiers. Many of the photographs are annotated by Drucker on verso.

  19. Leonid Rubinshteyn memoir

    Contains a handwritten memoir, eight pages, in Russian.

  20. The Izyaslavl ghetto in 1941

    Contains a photocopy of Toiba Shulimovna Shtern's memoir describing life in Izyaslavl, Ukraine following the German invasion in May 1941; her escape with her mother shortly thereafter to Moscow, Russia; and her 5-day visit to Izyaslavl in 1979 during which she went to see the area of the former Yzyaslavl ghetto and several sites of mass shootings of Jews, and spoke with former neighbors and friends who told her about the liquidation of the Izyaslavl ghetto in the fall of1941.