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  1. "Der 9 Nov. 1938 (die Kristallnacht) in Wien und der 10 Nov. und meine daraus erwachsenen Erlbenisse."

    Photocopy of typescript testimony, 10 pages, in German, entitled "Der 9 Nov. 1938 (die Kristallnacht) in Wien und der 10 Nov. und meine daraus erwachsenen Erlbenisse." The unnamed author is a woman living in Brno, Czechoslovakia, who travels to Vienna to help an elderly rabbi from Austria get out of the country to Palestine, via Italy. She mentions leaving her young son Daniel behind in Brno.

  2. Margarete Knopf Igra collection

    Contains documents relating to Margarete Knopf (Marketa Knopf) and her emigration from Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939. Documents from Vienna (late 1938) documenting birth and residence, poverty due to (forced) unemployment, and tax status. Also contains two Czech documents from early 1939: a police registration form and an inventory of belongings worth 2,300 crowns.

  3. Romanian State Archives records relating to the "Jewish Question" in Romania

    Photocopies of documents in Romanian from the Romanian State Archives.

  4. Document relating to the imprisonment of a female Jewish communist

    Photographic copy of a document (and accompanying negative of same), pertaining to Elisabeth Sencovici, in Romania, August 1944. Appears to be statement recording prison sentence from 1944 to 1967, for "crime" of belonging to a subversive political organization.

  5. Harry Friedman correspondence

    The Harry Friedman correspondence consists of postcards and letters Harry Friedman received from family members including Perl, Simon, and Isaac Friedman in Horodenka, Poland before World War II and under the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  6. Jaffe family postcards

    Postcards (4), sent from Juda Joffe to his brother (Boris, in New York) and son (Juda, in St. Augustine, FL), appealing for help, written from Warsaw (presumably from the ghetto), March through May 1941. One postcard is sent via HICEM in Lisbon, asking for help in contacting various relatives in U.S. and urgently seeking assistance from them.

  7. Lore L. Waller memoir

    Testimony. Typescript, 241 pages, of Lore Waller's autobiography, entitled "View From a Distance."

  8. Letter relating to the Holocaust in Bratslava

    Letter, typescript, addressed to Radu Ioanid of USHMM, from David Wasserman of Yonkers, NY, describing his visit to the museum in August 1993, and his wish to add information about the camp of Bratslav, in Transnistria, and what he witnessed there.

  9. Testimony relating to the persecution of Jews and Jehovah's witnesses in the Netherlands

    Testimony. Typescript, 7 pages, account of Rachel Sacksioni Levee, born Jewish in the Netherlands, and a convert to Jehovah's Witnesses. Describes her experiences as a prisoner in various camps during WWII.

  10. Lawrence B. Wayne collection

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, 26 pages, titled "My Dream? By Louis Weintraub, as told to Technical Sgt. A.W. Schenk," 27 pages. Account of Weintraub, from his hometown of Łódź, to imprisonment at Auschwitz, Oranienburg (Sachsenhausen), and Buchenwald, and of liberation by Americans, including Schenk. Includes two photos of Larry Wayne.

  11. Letter relating to an American soldier's experiences at Buchenwald and Dachau

    Letter, one leaf (two pages), dated 5 June 1945, with envelope, addressed to Major A.F. (Abe) Wechsler in New York, from "Jack" (return address is illegible due to water damage on envelope), a U.S. soldier stationed in Europe, who describes Paris at V-E Day, and two trips he made to Germany in the month afterwards, including one to visit Buchenwald and one to visit Dachau.

  12. Henry and Gertrude Wegner papers

    Photocopied materials about Theresienstadt from 1990s.

  13. Testimony relating to the atrocities discovered by the U.S. Army at Gardelegen

    Testimony. Typescript letter, 3 pages, written by Alex Weiss after visiting the USHMM in 1993, about his experiences as a soldier who encountered the Gardelegen massacre.

  14. Weissman family papers

    Photocopies of letters sent to Jack Weissman, of New York, from his mother and sister in Poland (Zdynia, Lwow), 1940.

  15. List of persons accused or suspected of crimes against humanity and KZ Sachsenhausen documents. (Includes photographs.)

    Booklets: One, "Preliminary List of Persons Accused or Suspected of Crimes Against Humanity," issued by Nehemiah Robinson and the World Jewish Congress in 1961. Other item, titled "KZ Sachsenhausen," is a 156-page booklet compiled by Zentralstelle of Nordrhein-Westfalen in 1961, containing a list with photographs of individuals identified as having worked on prison staff at Sachsenhausen, to help in investigation and capture of remaining war criminals from there, circa 1962.

  16. "And It Was No Lie"

    Testimony. Typescript, 78 pages, titled "And It Was No Lie," by Ruth Weiss, describing her experiences from childhood in a village in Sudetenland, moving to Prague after that area was annexed by Germany, occupation of Czechoslovakia, deportation to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, life in DP camps after war, return to Prague, and the immigration to Israel.

  17. Teresa Wieselberg memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, Polish with English (volunteer) translation, by Teresa Wieselberg, Israel, 1992, in which she looks back on experiences in Lwow (Lviv) during German occupation.

  18. Ricke Papanek testimony

    Testimony. Photocopy of manuscript in German, with a 62 page translation into English, with a postscript. The original manuscript was titled "Aufzeichnungen ueber mein Leben im Kamp durch 2 Jahre, fuer meine Kinder," and was written by Viennese-born Ricke Papanek, who was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943. The manuscript was written in diary form about author's time in Theresienstadt, looking back on life in the Netherlands and events of deportation, to liberation and return to Holland. English translation contains a note by the translator, her niece Erna Winter, who provides a brief bio o...

  19. Episodes of my childhood

    Testimony. Typescript, 36 pages, titled "Episodes That I Remember Out of my Childhood," by Rebekha Perel, reminiscing about her experiences as a child in the Netherlands during the occupation, during imprisonment with her mother, and her subsequent release.

  20. Oral history interview with Howard Wisla