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  1. Helen Otley collection

    Memoir, typescript, 78 pages, titled "Meine Lebensgeschichte bis Ende des Krieges im Jahr 1945," by Helen Otley, as well as an English translation of the same, titled "The Story of My Life," as well as copies of documents relating to her imprisonment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and two newspaper articles about her life story, from 1994. The memoir describes her childhood in Vienna and Zagreb, her family's history, Vienna during the 1930s, her political activism as a Social Democrat during her university years, her search for work in Germany following the annexation of Austria, and her employment...

  2. Martha Bernstein collection

    The Martha Bernstein collection includes photocopies of material originally created in the 1940s relating to the wartime experiences of the Bernstein and Heumann families. Included in the collection is correspondence from Therese Heumann, Martha Bernstein's oldest sister, letters between the Bernstein and Blakenstein families, poems written by Benjamin Blankenstein, a fourteen-page diary written by Helene Blumenfeld, and documents issued in Westerbork and Theresienstadt.

  3. Joseph Levy collection

    Containts testimony and correspondence describing Jeseph Levy's experiences in Cologne, Germany; his deportation to Riga and then a succession of camps; his liberation in Kiel; and settlement in Sweden as a displaced person, where he met his wife, a Polish-born DP. Include materials related to his story, such as copy of verdict in post-trial against Nazis who administered Riga ghetto, and a typescript copy of a memoir titled "Mensch unter Menschen," by Werner Sauer, written in Berlin in 1948, which also describes life in Riga ghetto, 278 pages.

  4. Hannelore Marx collection

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, describing author's experience of deportation from Germany to Riga ghetto and subsequent years in nearby concentration camps (Kaiserwald and Jungfernhof) before eventual liberation.

  5. Michael Mautner and Irene Horvath collection

    Photographs, typescript, and Yad Vashem certificate.

  6. Nicholas Reitter collection

    Contains photocopies of a letter and newspaper article, both dated 1993, regarding the reburial of Admiral Horthy in Hungary.

  7. A letter (memoir) relating to the hiding of Jewish children in Radom

    Letter, dated 1993, sent as condolence to the Melamed family at death of Leon Melamed, and reminiscences about how he saved author of letter, Felicia Sandzer, during war.

  8. Rita Mondschein collection

    Testimony, 3 pages, about death march from Grunberg concentration camp from Auschwitz to Ravensbrück, Helmbrechts, and eventually Volary, in present day Czech Republic, and post-war construction of a cemetery for victims of the march. Narrated by Halina Temler, a survivor, and transcribed by Vladimir Jerabek. Also contains two photos of Vera Gerad, sister of Rita Mondschein.

  9. William Margolis letter

    Consists of one letter and it's transcription, dated June 2, 1945, from William Margolis to Abraham Morrison. As a medical officer of the U.S. army, Margolis was placed in charge of the treatment of prisoners at the Mauthausen concentration camp following its liberation. The letter describes the conditions of the camp, and the medical treatment Margolis administered to some patients.

  10. Colin McCrae letter

    Colin McCrae letter consists of a typed letter dated May 10, 1945, 2 pages, written by Colin McCrae and sent to his parents, Raymund and Gladys Shea. Colin McCrae, who was serving with the United States Army in Europe, describes his experiences near Münster, Germany; the news regarding V-E day; the reaction of displaced persons who had been recently liberated from forced labor; and what he witnessed when he toured the Dachau concentration camp at the beginning of May 1945.

  11. Three days in a Nazi prison

    Testimony, 7 pages, typescript, describing author's experiences after annexation of Austria in 1938, including his arrest, forced cleaning of sidewalks, mock execution in basement of police building, and other humiliations.

  12. A Jewish engineer in Europe during the Hitler years in memory of my parents Salomon Nossen and Rosa Hadra Nossen

    Testimony, 40 pages, typescript, about the experiences of the author and his family in Berlin, then in various parts of Europe (Denmark, Netherlands, the Westerbork and deportation to Theresienstadt), as well as role of El Salvador (specifically George Mandel-Mantello) in helping save him and family's life by issuing citizenship certificates.

  13. In combat with satanic forces

    Testimony, 16 pages, typescript, about experiences in pre-war Poland (around Sosnowiec), the start of World War II, flight to the Soviet Union, mistreatment by NKVD, return to Poland, imprisonment, and forced labor.

  14. Blima Glikstein Nunberg testimony

    Testimony, 7 pages, typescript, about experiences of donor (Blima Nunberg) in Sosnowiec during childhood, German occupation, ghetto, and deportation to a labor camp.

  15. Memoir

    Contains a testimony, 142 pages, photocopy of typescript, describing the author's account of being a woman in a concentration camp in Vienna for four months. In the preface, written in 1939, she says events are true but she changed names to protect people who may still be imprisoned. Includes an article from a U.S. newspaper describing Max Niedermeier and his daughter Maria, and alludes to his unnamed wife (likely the testimony author) who spent 4 months in prison in Vienna, while he was imprisoned for 2 months.

  16. The Warsaw ghetto fights, burns, and perishes Recollections from the days of the ghetto uprising

    Testimony, 12 pages, typescript. English translation and typescript of an account by Yanoosh (Janusz ) Ostrowski, originally published in an unidentified Polish-langugage publication, titled "Getto walczy, płonie i ginie," describing his eyewitness account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

  17. Siegbert S. Pfennig collection

    Consists of "Testimonial: Siegbert Shlomo Pfennig," documents from Comite International de la Croix-Rouge, and copies of pages from a book by Dieter Arntz.

  18. The story of exodus from Wien

    Testimony, 15 pages, photocopy of typescript (2 copies) titled "The Story of our Exodus from Wien," by Walter Schwarz, about life in Vienna, the Anschluss and occupation, and his family's escape from Vienna in July 1938.

  19. My life in German concentration camps

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, describing experiences of Franciszek Proch, who served in Polish Army in 1939, after defeat returned to hometown, was eventually arrested by Germans and sent to camp at Szczeglin, and later Dachau, where spent duration of war years.

  20. Twelve lives

    Testimony, 276 pages, typescript, written as account of "twelve stories of heroic escape from the Nazis and starting over in America" written down and compiled by Evelyn Radford, who interviewed Holocaust survivors at a retirement community in Walnut Creek, CA in the 1980s.