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Displaying items 18,021 to 18,040 of 55,889
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  1. A memoir

    Testimony, 30 pages, photocopy of typescript, plus photocopies of maps and photographs. Titled "To: Our Descendants" from Natalia and Daniel Hochman. Discusses childhood in eastern Poland (now Ukraine), in Sambor and Boryslaw, life in the Boryslaw ghetto, where the Hochmans first met, and life in hiding prior to liberation by Soviet troops in 1944.

  2. A questionnaire

    Photocopy of questionnaire submitted by Magier for a restitution claim, includes narrative account of his time as a forced laborer in Annaberg and Bedzin.

  3. Renee Spindel memoir

    Testimony, two pages, about how author's family survived occupation in France, first by leaving Paris for the Vichy zone, and then splitting family up and hiding (author, as child, was hidden by French farmers until end of war).

  4. Memoirs

    Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten, about experiences of Joseph and Dora Pellenberg, both originally of Poland, and what they experienced during war.

  5. Helena Manaster memoirs

    Testimony, three versions (questionnaire, typed, and handwritten, all photocopied), from Manaster, originally of Lesko, Poland, described her experiences.

  6. Lili Abraham collection

    Consists of one letter written by Lili Kovacs Abraham to the Claims Conference in February 1993. In the letter, Mrs. Abraham describes the invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia and her deportation from Remetske Hamre, Czechoslovakia, to the Uzhorod ghetto in 1944. She was deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944 and describes life in the camp until she was sent for forced labor in Altenburg, Germany. She was liberated by the American military while on a death march near Waltenburg, Germany, in April 1945.

  7. A memoir

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript. Describes family's experience in Łódź ghetto, and his own journey (as six year old) with his mother to Ravensbrück in closing stages of war.

  8. Personal history of Edith Strauss

    Testimony, 5 pages, typescript. Titled "Personal History of Edith Strauss," about childhood in Vienna, changes after Anschluss, immigration to U.S.

  9. Gerald Malenbaum papers

    Testimony, two pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "Ostrog, Ukraine, Summer 1941," written by Malenbaum in 1993, and copies of letters in Yiddish from parents and family members, circa 1915-1930.

  10. Papers of Robert Lissau

    Documents pertaining to Friedrich Lissau, originally of Vienna, including birth, residence and education documents, letters of reference about his work as an apprentice welder in Vienna and Zagreb, 1938-1939, and similar documents (birth, marriage, education records) about Edith Lissau, nee Goldmann.

  11. Irene Shapiro papers

    Contains a memoir entitled "Revisiting the Shadows," and songs written by Irene Shapiro [donor] in the Bialystok Ghetto and in Lipstadt.

  12. Ruth Cohen Horowitz collection

    Contains V-mail relating to conditions in liberated areas of Germany and Austria.

  13. Benjamin Lia collection

    Contains a document and and photograph relating to the murder of Solomon Iancu by the Iron Guard on December 19, 1940, in Romania.

  14. Yom HaShoah Commemorative Ceremony collection

    Printed program (5 copies), from event held at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, 30 April, 1995.

  15. Bernice Golde papers

    Documents (identification), relating to Malka Blajweis (Bleiweiss), and her experiences in DP camps after war, including post-war IDs issued in DP camps, certifying that she was imprisoned in concentration camps.

  16. "My Sisters, My Brothers"

    Testimony, 444 pages, typescript, titled "My Sisters, My Brothers," by Seren Bernstein (Tuvel), with Louise Loots Thornton, of Aptos, CA, in 1980. Thornton, after learning of Bernstein's experiences through her son, started interviewing her and wrote this manuscript as a novelized form of memoir based on those interviews. Includes detailed descriptions of Bernstein's childhood in a village in Transylvania, forced labor in Budapest, death march, and deportation to Ravensbrück. The manuscript was subsequently published as "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival," by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (Putnam...

  17. A postcard from Łódź

    Postcard (1) sent from Siegmund Klein, in Łódź ghetto, to his brother Leo in New York, May 1941.

  18. Photographs of an atrocity scene

    Photographs of corpses, location not identified.

  19. Eugene Waters memoir

    Testimony, 12 pages, handwritten, from Eugene Waters, describing childhood in Kosice, Slovakia, and wartime events there.

  20. A memoir and photographs relating to Rabstein concentration camp

    Letter to USHMM from ex-POW (Donald Ebsch), relating his experiences and seeking to contact other former prisoners. Was imprisoned in a number of locations between Nov. 1944 and May 1945, but was seeking info about camp Rabstein, a subcamp of Flossenbürg, which had an underground aircraft factory, and from which Ebsch was liberated in May 1945. Includes photos of memorial site in 1993.