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  1. Elaine L. Roth collection

    Contains a typescript copy of a memoir entitled, "Aron Levenstein June 1930 - May 1975," and typescript poems titled "Little Boy Don't Cry," "Untitled," "For the Land That is us Dear," "Forget It," "The Flame," "Elaine's Lullaby," "The Shoe Shine Boy," "The Men on the Line," "The Bird," "Come Back and I'll Say That I'm Sorry," "The Messiah," "Debra," "The March to Eternity," "Land Where My Children Grow," "I Want to Go on Home," "A Father," "From the Regions of Treblinka," "The Day My Pa Was Crying," "A Mother's Last Appeal," "The Ghetto," "The Grand Lullaby," "Michael's Song," and "If he c...

  2. Letter relating to an American GI's experience at Ebensee

    Contains a letter written by Joseph F. Scott about his experiences liberating the Ebensee concentration camp.

  3. Personal history of Zdzisław Klimek, a Polish Jewish refugee student

    Report (typescript, carbon copy) by unspecified humanitarian aid agency (possibly UNRRA), post-war, discussing a young Polish boy, Zdzisław Klimek, who showed up at DP camp in Gmund and expressed interest in immigrating to U.S.

  4. Selected records relating to homosexuals and sex offenders

    Photocopies of various documents from DOW, selected according to topic.

  5. Berkowicz family collection

    The Berkowicz family collection contains records pertaining to Joseph and Eugenie Berkowicz of Warsaw, Poland. These include identity cards, marriage and birth certificates, and items related to Joseph’s cannery business; Fabryka Konserw “Original.” Also included are photographs of the family and announcements of family member’s deaths. The Berkowicz family papers contain records relating to Joseph and Eugenie (Gene) Berkowicz. The records are primarily certificates and identification, including identity cards, marriage and birth certificates, and Gene’s fake ID under the name Irena Janisze...

  6. The Stories of Eric Haas and Marga Schlamm Haas

    Contains a memoir about Eric Haas (born: July 3, 1917 Offenbach/M. Germany) and Marga Schlamm Haas (born: February 5, 1921 in Berlin, Germany) and their experiences in Amsterdam, Holland, when the Germans invaded, their internment in the Westerbork transit camp, S'Hertogen Bosch (called Vught for short) concentration camp, and in Bergen Belsen, Switzerland, Marseilles, and an UNRRA camp in North Africa.

  7. Wladyslaw Mielcarz memoir

    Contains a typescript untitled memoir relating to Wladyslaw Mielcarz's Holocaust experiences, particularly at a Dachau subcamp. Includes photocopies of black and white photographs from the camp.

  8. Ilse Schoenholz biographical sketch

    Ilse Schoenholz's seven page narrative describes her childhood in Bochum, Germany, antisemitism in her apartment building and at school, how the police and neighbors refused to help when her family's store was vandalized during Kristallnacht, and the forced liquidation of the store and the confiscation of her mother's jewelry and silver. She recounts her journey to England on a Kindertransport and explains that, through relatives, she was able to keep in touch with her parents until they were deported to the Riga ghetto. She details aspects of her life in England including her concerns abou...

  9. Sommer and Bloch family papers

    The Sommer and Bloch family papers primarily document Ralph Sommer, a Jewish refugee who was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles internment camp and later was a member of the French resistance and the French military. Another major portion of the papers contain correspondence from Fred Hanauer, who was a cousin of Ralph's living in the United States and who coordinated efforts with other family members in assisting relatives imprisoned in concentration camps in Europe. Included in the collection is correspondence, identification papers, military papers, and travel visas. The Sommer and Bloch ...

  10. Report on the Czar Boris III participation in war crimes against Macedonian Jews during the Holocaust

    One letter, from Ezra Benjamin to Milton Shapiro of the Jewish National Fund, protesting the latter's involvement in raising contributions for a memorial to Bulgarian King Boris III, for his activities in saving Bulgarian Jews, which Benjamin contradicts.

  11. Hans Oppenheimer letter

    The Hans Oppenheimer letter is a letter written by Hans Oppenheimer (1901-1945), a German Jewish bank official who was detained in Westerbork transit camp and later perished in Bergen-Belsen. The collection is comprised of a single letter written by Hans from Westerbork in 1943 to Dr. K. Prager, a non-Jewish friend and business associate in Amsterdam. In the letter, Hans discusses his wife and children and a little about life in the camp.

  12. A memoir relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Photocopy of letter and map. Letter (less then one page) is from Sherwin Northcutt to Curtis Whiteway, sharing his memories of liberation of Dachau.

  13. Theodore Sargent memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, account of experiences of Theodore Sargent in U.S. Army, and at liberation of Dachau. Compiled by Curtis Whiteway.

  14. Vladimir Rayzman memoir

    Testimony, typescript copy, one page. Describes experiences of Vladimir Rayzman, from the German invasion of his hometown of Brest (Poland/Belarus) to his time as a forced laborer in "Keln-Doits," which is the city of Deutz, across the river from Cologne (Koeln).

  15. Bella Rotner memoir

    Testimony, photocopied, unpaginated, recounting the experiences of Bella Bornstein Rotner, originally of Olkusz, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  16. Lisa Shershavin memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, two pages, from Lisa Shershavin (Elizaveta Shershavina, nee Svoyatytskaya), describing her family's experience in the Minsk ghetto in WWII.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Podolsk and Pechora

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopy of handwritten text. Describes German occupation in Mogilev-Podolsk.

  18. Testimony

    Relates to Morris Jacob's (now Morris Rosenthal) experiences in various concentration camps and on a death march to Austria.

  19. Igor Shtaygman memoir

    Contains a testimony, typescript, two pages, in which Igor Shtaygman describes his experiences in Chernovtsi after occupation, and deportation to ghettos near Vinnitsa.

  20. Yefim Shvartsman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 1 page. Yefim Shvartsman, describes experiences of he and his mother in Djurin ghetto, Vinnitsa district, Ukraine, 1941-1944.