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Displaying items 18,881 to 18,900 of 55,888
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  1. Robert Rieser collection

    Contains a memoir in Yiddish, photographs with Yiddish captions, and a certification document.

  2. William P. Rockwood collection

    Photocopies of documents relating to the liberation of Holleischen and prisoners of the camp.

  3. My father's Holocaust

    Testimony, 15 pages, typescript, of the author recounting stories of his father's experiences in occupied Poland (including Krakow, Lwow, and Warsaw).

  4. Leonid Roytan collection

    Various pieces by Leonid Roytman.

  5. Salomon Rubenstein collection

    Memoir, essays, and poem in Yiddish by Salomon Rubinstein.

  6. Tritsch family collection

    Documents relating to the imprisonment of Ernst Tritsch in Dachau in 1938 following Kristallnacht.

  7. A glimpse of the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, typescript, about William Newby's experiences as an American soldier in Bavaria in 1945 encountering a group of former concentration camp inmates.

  8. A handwritten memoir relating to the persecution of a Jew in Berlin

    Handwritten memoir (2 pages), which relates to the donor's experience in 1939 watching a Jewish person being persecuted in Berlin.

  9. Margot Cohen collection about Max, Gisela, and Reha Bayer

    The collection consists of a photocopy of a letter from Katharina Jakobsohn to a Mrs. Stern regarding the fate of Max and Gisela Bayer and their daughter Reha Bayer in Berlin, Germany, all of whom were deported to Auschwitz in 1943 where they likely perished. Also included are two poems and a partial English translation.

  10. Josefa Krajewska collection

    Testimony, 42 pages, handwritten in Polish, with English translated summary. Krajewska, living in Belgium in 1993, saw an article about events that took place in her home town of Olobok in 1943, when a planned delivery of weapons to Polish partisans (Armia Krajowa) from the Polish government-in-exile in London was discovered and aborted by German SS, who took revenge on villagers. Includes English and Polish texts, news clippings and snapshots of present-day memorial.

  11. Letter relating to liberation experiences at Dachau and Landsberg

    "Dachau and Landsberg" is a 3 page letter (memoir) which relates to the Holocaust experiences of Edward Newell as a liberator in Europe.

  12. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, courtroom, a prosecutor reads indictment. LS, prisoners filing into courtroom and taking their seats. Members of the Tribunal take their places. MLS, four unidentified judges at bench. Brig Gen Josiah T. Dalbey reading part of the indictment. Capt Benjamin N Narvid, defense counselor, speaking to the court, prisoners in BG. Pan, LS, spectators and prisoners take their seats. LSs, Court personnel and spectators rise as judges enter. LS, prosecution starts its case. Defendants in prisoners' dock.

  13. Fifty years ago and today distinguished Rabbi Herzberg count on Silberman

    Testimonies (2), handwritten, one being 15 pages, written in 1978, and the other being 26 pages, written in 1994, both detailing the author's experiences of deportation to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, and his imprisonment there and at Bergen Belsen.

  14. Memoir relating to the Holocaust in the Netherlands

    Testimony, 12 pages, typescript, about life in occupied Netherlands.

  15. Eli Rotem collection

    Contains a photocopy of a letter sent by the donor's uncle (in hiding in Italy) to his cousin (living in Palestine) describing what the family had experienced after the German invasion of Yugoslavia. Also includes documentaiton about how the letter was brought by Italians to Israel in the 1990s, as well as brief account of donor's history

  16. Landsberg, Germany

    Testimony, 5 pages, photocopied, about experience as U.S. soldier in the liberation of Landsberg, 1945.

  17. Memoir relating to the plight of Jews on the Island of Rhodes

    Testimony, five pages, photocopy of typescript, describing experiences of donor's parents in the Belgian Congo, where the author was born, and in their native Rhodes, during the Italian occupation and the war, including deportation to Camp Hidar (near Piraeus, Greece) as transit camp for Auschwitz, and author's experience in avoiding further deportation.

  18. How an optimist survived the thousand year Reich

    Testimony, typescript (copied and bound), 136 pages, describing the author's chilhood and life in Berlin, deportation, and how he voluntarily joined family members who had been deported to Auschwitz, and later experiences in other camps such as Buchenwald.

  19. Marussia Filleul collection

    Contains letters, passports, certificate of naturalization, memos and photographs. Collection relates to the Holocaust and post-war experiences of Marussia Filleul (née Blums). Most of documents pertain to the attempts of Marussia to immigrate to the United States.

  20. Oberlandesgericht Posen records (Sygn. 74)

    This collection contains files relating to investigations, indictments, trials, and sentences of criminal cases in the Posen region.