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  1. Jack Marchick papers

    The Jack Marchick collection comprises letters and photographs collected by Jack during and after his deployment with the United States Army in Europe. The letters are written between 1945 and 1948 by Raymond Weinstein, a former prisoner of the camp Jack Marchick liberated, and discuss the economic and political situation in post-war France. Raymond writes of his struggles to obtain and keep work; his family; his health; and his progress in gaining back his weight after years of malnutrition. Among the 26 photographs are images of a concentration camp, likely Buchenwald, immediately after l...

  2. Donald J. De Lotell papers

    Correspondence (2 V-mail letters from Donald de Lotell to his wife, describing impressions of liberated camp in April 1945), and clippings from 1980s and 1990s describing de Lotell's wartime experiences.

  3. Henry W. Propp collection

    Contains two translations of Michal David Shapobersky's foreword to a book by his brother, Mordechai Slapobersky. The 1994 translation is entitled "Mordechai's Collected Writings" and the1997 translation is entitled "Mordechai's Shroud." Also included is an essay entitled "The Propp Ancestral Shtetl in Lithuania," the author of which is not given.

  4. Abram Kapica collection

    Testimony, 8 pages, photocopy of typescript titled "Young Boy Speaks with Death: The Story of Abraham Kapitza…" Describes German invasion of his unnamed hometown in Poland.

  5. Rev. Stanley Dabrowski papers

    The Reverend Stanley Dabrowski collection contains documents concerning Reverend Stanley Dabrowski, a Polish Catholic priest who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1939 and detained at Dachau until he was liberated in 1945. This collection consists of original documents concerning Reverend Dabrowski’s life and biographical background from pre and post-war Europe and materials he collected regarding the Holocaust and Dachau once he arrived in the United States. Among his original documents is a Polish passport, identification cards, his ship passage ticket to the United States, and correspondenc...

  6. Moses and Miriyam Goldshmidt collection

    Testimony, circa 60 pages, typescript, titled "From the Abyss to Freedom: The Story of a Survivor of the Death Camps, 1939-1945," by Moshe Goldschmidt, composed in Hebrew. Describes pre-war life in Bialystok, invasion and occupation by Soviets, then Germans; life in Bialystok ghetto, then a succession of camps (Belzec, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen). Accompanying account of Miriam Goldschmidt (95 pages, handwritten, in notebook) is also in Hebrew. Miriam describes family's life in eastern Slovakia, then Hungary, followed by German occupation, deportation to camps including Stutthof. Also a c...

  7. Papers of Harry S. Rowe

    Testimony, news clippings, text of speech, photocopied documents. Relate to Harry Rowe, and a speech he gave at the newly reopened Neue Synagogue in Berlin in 1995, a news account of his visit, the text of a speech he gave there at his bar mitzvah in 1937, and his testimony of his wartime experiences, as well as photos of him and his wife visiting the synagogue in 1995.

  8. Memoir

    Testimony, 10 pages with 7 page supplement, photocopy of handwritten account, in Russian, titled "Vospominaniya" ("Memoir"). Brief English translation is also included. Originally from Kharkiv, describes enrollment in Red Army, being stationed near Lithuania and German attack in June 1941, time as POW and imprisonment at Neuengamme.

  9. Memoir relating to family's experiences during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 page, handwritten. Brief description of family history, childhood in Breslau, attempts to emigrate, eventually did so to China.

  10. Memoir relating to experiences in hiding in the Netherlands

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript, in form of interview questions and answers, from interview conducted with Theresia Rodrigues Pereira in Syosset, NY, 1994, about her experiences in occupied Netherlands during the war, and as a Sephardic Jew in hiding there.

  11. Memoir relating to experiences in labor camps

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript. About experiences in Transylvania (Satu Mare), time in forced labor camp in Hungary.

  12. Memoir

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, in Russian, with 1 page typed English summary translation. Brief description of Shtofenmakher's experiences in village near Odessa during occupation.

  13. Memoir relating to experiences in Poland, Germany, and the United States

    Testimony, 9 pages, typescript, by Morris Kirsch, of Kalamazoo, MI, writing about his childhood and experiences in Rachova, Poland, and brief description of Łódź ghetto, Skarzysk labor camp, Buchenwald and Dachau.

  14. Hanetzotz (The Spark)

    Bound periodical from late 1945, apparently from United Zionist Movement among Jewish survivors in Germany.

  15. The papers of Ernst Kluge

    Consists of identification, immigration, and reparations paperwork belonging to Holocaust survivor Ernst Kluge, originally of Bolkenhain, Germany.

  16. Memoir relating to experiences in Poland and the USSR

    Testimony, 54 pages, typescript, titled "Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor," by Feldman. Describes childhood in Stoczek, Poland (SE of Warsaw), invasion in 1939, flight to Soviet Union (after time in Bialystok), time as laborer in Magnitogorsk, Arkhangelsk, and in Uzbekistan, post war life as DP, immigration to Israel then to U.S.

  17. "Choices in a Choiceless World"

    Testimony, four pages, typescript, titled "Choices in a Choiceless World," by Meier Stellel, of Brooklyn, NY. Description of his experiences in Budapest, return to his hometown in 1944, confinement in ghetto ("Desh"), deportation to Auschwitz, and forced labor in salt mine at Hochendorf.

  18. The papers of Harry Frank

    Testimony, consisting of photocopies of handwritten and typescript memoirs that Hellmut (Harry) Frank wrote for high school English courses in U.S. in 1946, as well as photographs, German passport, photos from U.S. Army after WWII, including destruction in what may be Frank's hometown of Krefeld.

  19. Berman and Donner papers

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, written in 1944 by a "Mr. Donner" describing his experiences at Jasenovac. Also enclosed is letter to USHMM from Berman, who met Donner and his family when he was in the U.S. Army in Taranto, Italy, and the Donners were refugees there. Includes photos of Donner family taken in Taranto by Berman, 1945.

  20. The Morris & Sonia Stern papers

    Photocopies of pre-war family photographs, and news clipping from Tucson, AZ about participation of Sterns in a Holocaust commemoration event there in 1992.