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  1. David Kalinsky collection

    Consists of letters, certificates, family tree, photographs, English translations, etc., which relate to the plight of members of the donor's family during the Holocaust and their postwar experiences.

  2. Henry Bauer memoir

    Consists of an essay written by Henry Bauer, who was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1917. Mr. Bauer emigrated to the United States in February 1940, joined the American military and was sent to North Africa and assigned to administer Allied internment camps for German and Italian prisoners of war. He was transferred to Italy and then participated in the invasion of southern France. After the end of the war, he found out that his parents, who were not able to emigrate prior to the war, were deported and killed in Auschwitz. This essay, 2 pages, was excerpted from an article published in the D...

  3. Charles W. Mullenix papers

    Contains a letter dated May 4, 1945, relating to Buchenwald atrocities, a certificate of service, and an affidavit.

  4. Viktoria Kogan papers

    Contains a memoir and certificate in Russian.

  5. Sager, Simon

    Health Card issued to Simon Sager.

  6. James D. Newton memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, two pages, excerpted from book by donor titled "Remount the Red Horse." This excerpt describes Newton's experience as U.S. soldier discovering concentration camp in 1945.

  7. Joseph Lewi memoir

    Contains information on Mr. Lewi's experiences in labor camps during the Holocaust. In Hungry, he worked in different labor camps, was sent to and liberated from Mauthausen. Includes details about other members of his family.

  8. Henry Kinast memoir

    Consists of one typed document, one page, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Henry Kinast. When Henry was 12, he went to work in a munitions factory in Skarzysko, Poland. In 1944, he was transferred to Czestochowa, and in January 1945, he was transferred to Buchenwald, where he was liberated. Henry was reunited with his father and brother, and they lived in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp for three years. The document is very brief.

  9. A memoir

    Contains information on pre-Holocaust Yugoslavia; Holocaust related experiences while hiding in Vienna; post-war life in Zagreb, and in America, in which the donor was told she was Jewish, not Catholic.

  10. The stories of the families Bach and Herz (Wolf - Mayer)

    Contains a personal testimony and a detailed family history of the Bach and Herz families.

  11. Donya Raykh memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, one page, recounting author's experience in unnamed village, and then deportation to Shargorod, Transnistria.

  12. Khana Shafir memoir

    Testimony: photocopy of manuscript, seven pages, describing author's experiences in Ukraine (Mogilev-Podolsky) during the Holocaust.

  13. Rosalie Klein memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, two pages, recounting family's deportation from Berlin, and time in Krakow and Płaszów.

  14. Olga Shtutman memoir

    Testimony: Photocopy of manuscript, 7 pages, from Olga Shtutman, describing what happened to her family in Moldova during Holocaust.

  15. Ruth Lebram Knopp collection

    Contains a memoir and a postcard from Theresienstadt (Terezín).

  16. A memoir

    Testimony: Typescript 2 pages, recounting family's emigration from Hildesheim, Germany, after start of anti-Jewish persecution.

  17. Sia Hertsberg papers

    Contains certificate from Stutthof, a memoir, and a photocopy of family photographs.

  18. Henry Laskau memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript testimony, two pages, describing the experiences of the donor and his family, from an unnamed German city, through his emigration, his brother's journey on the MS St. Louis, and his parents' deaths at Theresienstadt.

  19. A memoir

    Testimony: Manuscript, three pages, describing a woman's experiences, first in an unnamed ghetto in Poland, then in Tarnopol, and then--posing as a non-Jewish Polish laborer, in Elbing and later in the Harz Mountains.

  20. Report of Joseph Weinstock

    Testimony: typescript, 2 pages, giving brief description of Weinstock's experiences: from Wiewiorka, Poland; interned in Pustinia ghetto, labor camp at Rzeszow, and then Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and loss of entire family.