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  1. Memoirs relating to experiences in Salonika and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, typescript, 4 pages, titled "Biographical Narrative for Survivors Registry," of Leon Benveniste, and another one for Flora Benveniste, along with copied documents, all relating to experiences in Salonika.

  2. Mikhail Bershadskiy memoir

    Testimony, four pages, typescript; five pages manuscript. Describes German invasion and occupation of unnamed town in Ukraine (in vicinity of Vinnitsa).

  3. Ralph Parker testimony

    The collection includes a one-page testimony by Ralph R. Parker describing his experiences as a forced laborer, deportation to Auschwitz III (Buna-Monowitz) in 1943, forced march to Gleiwitz and Sachsenhausen, and liberation near Schwerin. Also included is a photocopy of a report given by Rolf Pakuscher (Ralph Parker) for a court case in Hamburg in 1946, describing conditions at Auschwitz.

  4. A memoir relating to experiences in Radom, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 19 pages. Discusses German invasion and occupation of hometown of Radom, Poland; life in ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz, and then to other locations in Germany as forced laborer.

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in Vienna and France

    Testimony, 11 pages, handwritten, about experiences of Arthur Kern (born Oswald Kernberg), originally of Vienna. Describes Anschluss, separation from parents when he was sent on a kindertransport to France in 1939, occupation of France, time in orphanages administered by O.S.E., fate of parents (tried to get out, eventually deported to camps and killed), transport to U.S. in 1941, life in New York.

  6. Nazi prisoner - B 2495

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 10 pages, written about Wolf Pakula by unnamed author.

  7. Yelena Shvartsman memoir and news article

    Testimony, eight pages, handwritten in Russian (with English summary), describing Shvartsman's experiences during German occupation of her hometown of Minsk, as well as copy of news clipping from "Minkskaya Pravda" by E. Joffe, about Maly Trostinets.

  8. A memoir entitled "The Survivors of Buchenwald" relating to Nicholas Burliuk's experiences with survivors on a Hospital Ship

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, five pages, by Nicholas Burliuk. Recounts Burliuk's experiences as a U.S. Army medic at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  9. "From Jaslo - Through Hell - to Freedom"

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 36 pages, by Edward Blonder, written in 1981. Describes childhood in Jaslo, Poland; German invasion and occupation; creation of ghetto in Jaslo and eventual destruction of that ghetto and transfer to Przemyśl ghetto, then Auschwitz and various labor camps (including Ebensee); liberation and immigration to the United States.

  10. A postcard from Dachau 3K

    Postcard (1), written by Matt Dachinger to Anny Dachinger, of Vienna, written from Dachau during Matt's imprisonment there, January 1939.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in Kosice, Bor, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau, and Muehldorf

    Testimony, on questionnaire form then 4 pages from legal pad as supplemental narrative, describing pre-war life in Uzhgorod, time as forced laborer at Auschwitz and elsewhere, and immediate postwar period as DP in Czechoslovakia.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Neustadt

    Consists of a typed copy of one memoir, in English, written by Flora Herzberger in Rodewisch, Germany, in June 1945. In the memoir, Mrs. Herzberger describes the family's deportation from Germany into Poland to the Łódź ghetto in 1941, her husband's death in the ghetto, the deportation of the children of Łódź, and her deportation to Auschwitz with her son and daughter. She describes life in Auschwitz and being sent, with her daughter, to forced laber at the Sackisch subcamp of Gross-Rosen in an airplane factory. She thanks the American military and all who have been so kind to her after...

  13. Why is Lola alive

    Testimony, typescript, 9 pages, titled "Why is Lola Alive?" by Zygmunt Przybylowski, translated from Polish by Jack Taczanowski. The testimony gives Przybylowski's account of the German invasion and occupation of Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) and his efforts as a non-Jewish Polish man named “Ted” to assist Jews in the area.

  14. A postcard from Berlin to Westerbork

    Postcard (1) sent from family in Berlin to Alfred Casperius at Westerbork camp,

  15. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, and Woebbelin

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 18 pages, about the donor's life in Poland prior to and during occupation, time at Auschwitz, as forced laborer in Braunschweig, and as a displaced person after the war.

  16. A memoir relating to experiences in Satoraljaujhely and Auschwitz

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, describing author's experiences in in Hungarian village (unnamed) where her family lived, impact of antisemitic laws, movement to ghetto of Sátoraljaújhely, deportation to Auschwitz, and as forced laborer in Magdeburg until liberation.

  17. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript, brief outline (Romanian survivor).

  18. A memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, brief outline (Romanian survivor).

  19. Abraham and Rachela Melezin collection

    Typescript text in Hebrew, from 1940s.

  20. Documents relating to the Holocaust story of Feygl (Fela) Infeld (Glaser)

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript, about experiences of donor at Stutthof camp in 1945. Also contains news clipping about the same, from newspaper "Jewish Standard," 28 April 1995.