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Displaying items 17,701 to 17,720 of 55,889
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  1. Mikhail Milman memoir

    Testimony, two pages, typescript. Describes experiences of a family in a village near Vinnitsa during German occupation.

  2. Khonya Epshteyn papers

    Testimony, photocopy of manuscript, 100 pages, plus copy of Belarus identification card of 1994, and certificate attesting to Epstein's wartime service as a partisan fighter, and copied excerpt from "Vestnik," November 1994, containing Epstein's account of Krugliansky ghetto. Testimony contains detailed account of his life as a partisan after murder of his family.

  3. Gita Abraham memoir

    Testimony, three pages, photocopy of typescript. Fragment of memoir, describes author's experience at Auschwitz, and at liberation.

  4. Ben Abraham memoir

    Consists of testimony given by Ben Abraham to the Claims Conference regarding his Holocaust experiences in the Auschwitz and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps.

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in Balta

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, in Russian with English summary, about experiences of Orentlikher (born Fira Kaleka) and her family, in Balta ghetto in Ukraine, during occupation. Also, photocopied Soviet-era document attesting to family's presence in Balta ghetto (near Odessa) from 1941-1943.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Belgian and French forced labor camps

    Testimony, photocopy of handwritten text, 16 pages. Describes experiences as forced laborer in Belgium and northern France, interment at Mechelen, deportation to Auschwitz, escape during evacuation of Jawischowitz (Jawiszowice), eventual capture by Russian forces and deportation to Soviet Union (Murmansk, Moscow), and return to Belgium after war.

  7. Grigoriy Getselevich memoir

    Testimony, one page, handwritten, brief account of life under German occupation in Ukraine (near Vinnitsa).

  8. A memoir relating to Experiences in Hungary, Poland and Germany

    Testimony, 1 page, typewritten, 1994. Describes Klein's experiences in Hungary, 1944, with deportation to Auschwitz and then march to Melk (Austria) and Gunskirchen.

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Odessa and Domanyovka ghettos

    Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, about family's experience in Odessa and Domanevka under German occupation.

  10. Grigory Flom memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written circa 1990s, giving brief overview of Grigory Flom's activities during WWII, including his service in Red Army, capture by Germans and experiences as POW in Malinovka, Volchansk, Belaya Kalita, and other locations, until liberation in July 1943.

  11. A memoir relating to Jews in Pechora

    Testimony, handwritten, six pages, about author's experiences in Tulchin (Vinnitsa district), Ukraine, during German occupation.

  12. Notes for a speech in the form of a memoir

    Testimony, typescript, delivered in form of a speech at an unspecified Yom HaShoah event, April 1985. Describes the author's experiences of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia.

  13. Memoir relating to the Holocaust in the Bershad ghetto

    Contains a memoir related to the author's experiences in the Bershad ghetto, in the Vinnitsa district, Ukraine.

  14. Arkadiy Korabelnik memoir

    Consists of one handwritten memoir, 6 pages, entitled "Testimonies about life experiences during the German occupation" by Arkadiy Korabelnik, who spent the war in the Slonim district of Grodno.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences in Warsaw and as a hidden child

    Testimony, typescript, 56 pages, titled "My Story," describing childhood in Warsaw, German invasion and occupation, life in the ghetto, escape from the ghetto, and living in hiding in villages near Warsaw for duration of war.

  16. Roza Borukhovich memoir

    Testimony, four pages, handwritten, about author's experiences in occupied Moldova, ghetto of Chechelnik/Rabnitza.

  17. Khaya Vayuberg memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, English, describing Vaynberg's (Weinberg) experiences in Moldova, then in Mogilev Podolsk, Pechora camp, and liberation.

  18. A memoir relating to experiences to Pechora and Mogilyov-Podolski ghettos

    Testimony, handwritten, 10 pages, regarding experiences in village near Mogilev-Podolsky, in Pechora camp, and Mogilev-Podolsky ghetto.

  19. Papers relating to experiences in the Olgopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages. Regarding family experiences in occupied Ukraine.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in the Krizhopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten, 3 pages, describing experiences of family in their home village, near Vinnitsa, and in ghetto in Chechelnik.