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Displaying items 17,801 to 17,820 of 55,889
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  1. A memoir relating to experiences as a hidden child in France

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written 1994. Describes experiences of the author's family, Polish emigres in Paris, during the German occupation, including their arrest and internment of parents at Drancy, their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz, and Kranowski's own survival in OSE orphanages and with family members.

  2. Lotte Rosenbaum Herz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, circa 1990s, written by Lotte Rosenbaum Herz, describing the arrival of Erich Rosenbaum's family in the United States in 1938.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in the Minsk ghetto and as a hidden child

    Testimony, handwritten, 8 pages, Russian, with typed English translation. About experiences in occupied Minsk.

  4. Ruth Oppenheim memoirs

    The Ruth Oppenheim memoirs contains a two memoirs. One entitled "The Sewing Kit," relating to experiences in Nazi Germany prior her family's immigration to the United States in 1940, and an article entitled "Kristallnacht: How It Was," which recalls her experience during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938.

  5. A letter to my son

    Testimony, 27 pages, photocopy of typescript, written by Paula Cables, titled "Letter to My Son." Describes childhood and youth in Lithuania (near Kaunas/Kovno), occupation by Soviets and then Germans, life in Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, deportation to Stutthof.

  6. "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968," relating to experiences in Białystok, Majdanek, Blizin, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf.

  7. Memoir relating to experiences in Odessa and Domanevka

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript (English) plus another version, handwritten (Russian).

  8. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy) 2 pages, titled "Supplement," about the town of Vinkovtsky (author's hometown) and events that happened there during German occupation.

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Germany and USSR during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 6 pages, handwritten, about experiences of two sisters, from Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg) Germany, whose family went to the Soviet Union in the late 1930s on a "prisoner exchange," and after arrival in Armenia, were arrested and sent to Siberia.

  10. A memoir Relating to experiences in Polonnoye

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript. Describes invasion of Soviet Union in 1941, when author was as Kamenets-Podolsk region of Ukraine, working in a hospital, and life under occupation in town of Polonnoye.

  11. Memoir of experiences in Germany, Kibbutz Bamidbar (Yugoslavia), and emigration to Palestine.

    Contains a memoir relating to experiences in Germany, relocation to Kibbutz Bamidbar (Yugoslavia) in 1934, and emigration to Palestine in 1936.

  12. Henryk Leman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, four pages. Describes the experiences of two brothers, their life in occupied Warsaw and fighting with Polish underground, capture and imprisonment in Germany, liberation and work with Allies in occupied Germany, immigration to the United States.

  13. A memoir relating to the experiences of the Sass family in Poland during the Holocaust

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, in outline form, about experiences of donor's family in eastern Poland under Soviet and German occupation. Describes surviving a Nazi "Aktion" by hiding in attic then fleeing to the forest to live with partisans through duration of occupation.

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in the Olgokol ghetto

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written 1994, concerning experiences of author in town near Vinnitsa during German occupation. Written on a form sent to USHMM Survivor's Registry.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences in Sharkowszczyna and Glubokoye ghettos and as a partisan

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, concerning Zorach Serkin's experience in occupied Belarus, including Szarkowszczyna ghetto

  16. Memoir of a hidden child in Belgium

    Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten by Jacques (Izak) Segal, originally of Poland but who immigrated to Belgium with his family as a child, and describes life in hiding during the occupation.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in the Olgopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten (3 pages) and typed (2 pages), describing life in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, and then German occupation.

  18. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Małogość, Skarżysko Kamienna, and Czeştochowa

    Testimony, typescript, 5 pages. Describers author's childhood in Chlewice, Poland, German invasion and occupation, forced labor in Malagosc, concentration camp in Skarżysko, and then forced labor in Czestochowa, before liberation.

  19. Manfred Katz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, four pages, describing Katz's experience in a village near Kassel, deportation to Riga in 1941, the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps, liberation, migration to US Zone of Germany, and eventual unification with family of sister and immigration to US.

  20. Alexander Zemanek papers

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript letter, dated 1945, from someone in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany, to the donor's aunt in May 1945.