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  1. "Goodbye for always"

    Describes Cecile Kaufer’s (Paris, France, b. circa 1932) childhood in Paris, France; the German occupation of France and the consequent fates of her family including their stay in the Vélodrome d'hiver in Paris and their hiding in Normandy; the liberation of France and their immigration to and life in the United States.

  2. The history of my persecution during the Holocaust

    Stella Kane (née Szajndla Koniecpolski) describes the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland; fates of family members; deportation to the concentration camps of Majdanek, Hasag-Skarzysko, and Czestochowa; and her liberation and immigration to the United States in 1954.

  3. Children of the Holocaust

    Describes the activities and experiences of children inmates in an unidentified Nazi concentration camp in the Baltics.

  4. Road to Exile, 1932-1953

    Describes incidents relating to Alfred Mayerr's (b. 1915) life in Germany; he and his brother's immigration to the United States in 1935 and subsequent life there; their helping other German Jews, including their parents, immigrate to the United States; the death of the Alfred's wife's parents in Auschwitz; and the end of the war and his feelings during a visit to his former home in Germany. Also included are photocopies of documents relating to the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland and to the Alfred's family's history.

  5. Fate one man's journey through the Holocaust

    Describes Abram Korn's (1923-1972) experiences in Lipno, Poland, during the German invasion of Poland; Korn and his family's internment in the Kutno Ghetto; his deportation to and experiences in various concentration camps, including Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hirschberg, Bolkenhain, Ohrdruf, and Buchenwald; Korn's involvement with resistance activities in Auschwitz and that camp's Sonderkommando uprising; a death march; and Korn's liberation and his immigration to the United States in 1949. The memoir's "Introduction" and "Epilogue," written by Joseph Korn, Abram's son, describe both...

  6. Not a moment too soon

    Describes the author's (b. 1926) childhood in Vienna, Austria; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; author's emigration to Belgium and his subsequent escape to France; author's return to Austria in hopes of getting a transport to Sweden; author's arrest and his experiences in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt), Auschwitz, Dachau, Erpfting, and Kaufering; his liberation; the death of members of his family; his attempts to rebuild his life in Vienna; and his immigration to and experiences in the United States.

  7. Nina Ebb papers

    The Nina Ebb papers comprises documents concerning Nina and her mother Emma’s internment and employment in the Theresienstadt ghetto between 1942 and 1944. Records regarding Theresienstadt are primarily administrative reports detailing the ghetto’s barracks and food service protocols. Also included is a roster for the ghetto’s soccer team and poetry written by internees. This collection also comprises memoirs written by Nina after World War II. The Nina Zebb papers comprised documents Nina and her mother Emma obtained while working in the Theresienstadt ghetto and memoirs written after Worl...

  8. "The incredible years" 1939 to 1947

    Describes the death of Ursula Korup's (b. 1935 in Germany) father, in 1938, due to mistreatment he had received in Sachsenhausen; her and her brother's separation from their mother; her experiences in the Children's Home in Eersel, Netherlands, which was run by Catholics; her baptism; the German occupation of the Netherlands; her hiding and capture; her and her brother's experiences in the concentration camps of Vught, Westerbork, and Bergen-Belsen; the death of their mother in Stutthof; their liberation and return to the Children's Home in Eersel; and their immigration to and experiences i...

  9. Chandler Keller letters

    Contains photocopies of an undated letter from Chandler Keller to his father describing conditions inside the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as well as two letters from Keller describing how he and other American soldiers took care of the medical needs of Holocaust survivors.

  10. John R. Kellam letter

    Letter describing John R. Kellam's experiences in 1945 with Gerhardt Gutzat, a German prisoner-of-war, held in Milan, Michigan, who did not believe American press accounts which stated that the Nazis had tried to exterminate the Jews of Europe and that Nazi concentration camps had killed thousands of people.

  11. Robert C. Goldberg letter

    Letter dated Rosh Hashanah 1945, describing the plight of Jewish Holocaust survivors who were living in the American sector of Europe; author's pleas for American Jews to help European Jews; and author's desire that Palestine be opened for Jewish immigration.

  12. Kruszewski family history materials

    "Tadeusz and Irena Kruszewski and their family" describes: Irena Grabowska Kruszewski's family history; the resistance activities of Irena's son, Janusz, during the German occupation of Poland; Irena's imprisonment and death in Ravensbrück. Pamphlet relates Dr. Zbigniew A. Kruszewski's endowment of a Professorship, in honor of his family, at the University of Texas at El Paso.

  13. Politiken

    Contains pages 1 and 2 from the November 12, 1938, issue of the Danish newspaper, "Politiken." The articles relate to the events surrounding Kristallnacht. English translations accompany the newspaper.

  14. Dear Kurt

    Describes a German family's life before, during, and after the Holocaust; author's childhood in Germany; anti-Jewish discrimination; relocation to France and subsequently within France; the family's internment in the camps of Limoges, Nexon, Gurs, and Drancy; hiding under assumed identities; and the fates of family members.

  15. Jehudith Ilan-Onderwyzer memoir

    Draft edition of a memoir describing Yehudit Ilan-Ondervaizer’s (b. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1933 - ) family history and her childhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the occupation of the Netherlands and the German measures to separate the Dutch Jews from the rest of the Dutch population; the author's hiding, capture, and internment in the Amsterdam ghetto; her transport to and experiences in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Treubitz, Germany; her liberation and return to Amsterdam; and her life since the Holocaust.

  16. Statement of Mariya Gilmovskaya

    Describes the experiences of Mariya Gilmovskya, her memories of Nazi atrocities in Mir, Belarus; her internment in the Mir ghetto; death of family members; and her escape and activities with a group of partisans. Includes photocopies of photographs of Mirskoy Castle where Jews were imprisoned and of a mass grave in Mir.

  17. Statement of Leon Liberman

    Describes: author's experiences in Volozyn (a.k.a. Volozhin, Volozhyn, Valozhyn, Wolozyn); his internment in and escape from the Volyzhino Ghetto and a labor camp in Krasnoye; death of family members; and his joining with a group of partisans.

  18. "I remember Germany..."

    Describes Armin Kern's (b. 1923) childhood in Böchingen and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany; the Nazi seizure of power in Germany and the growth of antisemitism; Kristallnacht and the arrest of Kern's father and his internment in Dachau; Kern and his parents' immigration to the United States in 1939; and the Holocaust-related fates of members of the Kern's family.

  19. Memories

    Transcript of speech delivered in April 1991 at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. In the speech, Richard T. Lockhart describes his experiences as an American prisoner-of-war at Stalag IXB, Bad Orb, Germany in 1944, and the fate of the camp's American Jewish prisoners of war who were separated from the American Gentile prisoners of war.

  20. Robert Lieberman letter

    The letter, written on May 19, 1945, describes Robert Lieberman's encounter with a newly-liberated inmate of Buchenwald. Robert was a Jewish soldier serving with the United States Army with the 104th Infantry Division.