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  1. Stalin, Hitler, and Abraham Briansky

    Abraham Briansky's memoir describes how he: was deported from the Soviet Union because of a letter that he wrote and sent to Joseph Stalin; spent two years in Palestine; emigrated to France; fought in the French army during the German invasion; fled to southern France following the French capitulation; was captured by German soldiers after he tried to recover some property in Vichy France; and escaped and emigrated to the United States via Portugal. The photocopied letters relate to Briansky's attempts to get his memoir published.

  2. Ich gedenke Albert Cohen, Hedwig Cohen

    Günter Schmitz's memorialization and Lore E. Cohn's translation describing the Holocaust-related experiences and deaths of Cohn's parents, Albert and Hedwig Cohen.

  3. And where was god?

    The manuscript describes Alfred Dube's experiences in Prague, the Łódź ghetto, as a prisoner of both Buchenwald and a subcamp of Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen), and his liberation in Bergen-Belsen.

  4. Return to life

    De Unikel's memoir "Return to Life," written in 1985, describes her life in Szecseny before the Nazi occupation of Hungary, her experiences in Auschwitz and in a camp in Kraków, Poland, and her liberation.

  5. "The Shadow of My Youth"

    The English translation, from the Yiddish, of Pessia Zislin-Antikol-Galwen's memoir, describes her life in Krāslava, Latvia, before the German occupation, her family's internment in the ghetto in Daugavpils, Latvia, Aktionen that occurred in the ghetto, how she met her first husband, their life together, her pregnancy, and her eventual liberation. Pessia later imigrated to Israel in 1958.

  6. The beginning of the end

    The work entitled, "The beginning of the end," contains three memoirs written by Lilly Gassner and Chaviva Guttmann: "The beginning of the end"; "The great forgivness: life's martyr"; and "The twins." The brief memoirs appear to be written by twin sisters who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and relate their experiences in Birkenau with Dr. Josef Mengele.

  7. Bertl a story of a unique Holocaust survival

    Describes the experiences of Bertha Geminder Brotfeld (Bertl Glotzer Geminder Brotfeld, b. 1912) and her two children, George and Robert Geminder, before the Nazi occupation of Poland; during an Aktion at a cemetery; their stay in the ghetto in Stanislawów, Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsḱ, Ukraine); their experiences during the Warsaw Uprising; their eventual liberation; and their travel to the American Zone in Germany. Bertha later immigrated to the United States.

  8. Memoirs (1940-1980)

    Written in 1980, the text describes how Maria Epstein lived in Lʹviv, Poland (now Ukraine), during the Soviet occupation; was an inhabitant with her husband in the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus; gave birth to and cared for an infant daughter; was liberated from the Germans; escaped from the Soviet Union and fled to Poland; and emigrated with her family to Canada in 1968.

  9. From the Lida ghetto to the Bielski partisans

    Written in 1984, the text describes Liza Ettinger's life in Lida, Poland (now Belarus), before the outbreak of World War II; the Soviet occupation of Poland; the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; the death of her husband at Paneriai (Ponary), Lithuania; her internment in the ghettos in Vilnius and Lida, Lithuania; surviving a "selektion;" joining the partisans; and the end of the war.

  10. Escape from Yugoslavia

    Silvio Finci describes his family's experiences in Yugoslavia, specifically, the family's running away from a small village near Sarajevo to the city of Mostar; how they survived during the Nazi occupation; their escape to Italy; and how they immigrated to Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York and rebuilt their lives in the United States after 1941.

  11. Jadwiga Rokwish letter relating to the Jews of Klimontów, Poland

    Contains a letter in Polish and an English translation of the letter. The letter describe the fates and treatment of Paulette Buchbinder's mother-in-law and the Jews of Klimontów during the German occupation of Poland.

  12. In through the gate out through the chimney

    An eyewitness account by Abner Zehm and William Birch of the U.S. Army Medical Corps describing post-liberation Buchenwald. Contains information about medical experiments on prisoners; starvation; and crematoria.

  13. Cause and effect

    The work is both a history of Kenneth Colvin's (b. 1924) family in the United States before and after the Holocaust and a war-time memoir, much of which describes his experiences as a U.S. soldier and his participation in the liberation of Ebensee and his postwar life.

  14. Vyacheslav Tamarkin papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Vi︠a︡cheslav Lvovitch Tamarkin, originally from the Soviet Union, and includes a Russian certificate, dated 14 September 1993, attesting to the fact that Tamarkin was an inmate of Nazi concentration camps; his memoir, "In the Burrow," describing his experiences in Lyadi ghetto and an unnamed concentration camp, the killing of Jews, his escape from the camp, and his activities in the partisans from March 1943 and June 1944; a map detailing the locations of the partisan group with whom Tamarkin was affiliated; poems that he wrote about his partisan ...

  15. Eldred James Burr papers relating to Mauthausen

    The collection includes photocopies of photographs, some of which Burr took, and a photocopied letter (dated 01 June 1995) relating to what American soldiers and Burr witnessed during the liberation of Mauthausen as well as photocopies of newspaper clippings pertain to the fates of Nazi war criminals.

  16. Heroic action in the Holocaust is recognized

    Erica Foldes' September 30, 1991, essay, "Heroic action in the Holocaust is recognized," describes how John Fulop helped hide and care for six Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest, Hungary, activities which led to his recognition as a Righteous Among the Nations.

  17. Testimony of Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior...

    Contains a 21-page photocopy of a translation of a July 31, 1945, memoir by Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior, in Brussels, Belgium. In the memoir Sister Marie-Aurelie describes how her convent cared for Jewish girls and hid them from the Gestapo during the German occupation of Belgium in World War II.

  18. Genevieve De Gaulle letter relating to Jehovah's Witnesses in Ravensbrück

    Photocopy of a letter written by Genevieve de Gaulle, dated August 8, 1945, describing the treatment she saw in Ravensbrück concentration camp meted out to Jehovah's Witnesses when they engaged in civil disobedience and refused to work in war-related industries.

  19. Torn between tyrants memories about the Holocaust that linger on

    Written in 1952, the memoir (also entitled "Escape to the Forests") describes the author's experiences in the Derechin ghetto, his escape from that ghetto, and his joining a band of partisans.

  20. Materials relating to the Holocaust experiences of Anna Koppich

    The collection relates to the experiences of Anna Koppich, a Hungarian doctor. The letters, which were translated from Hungarian to English by Agnes Kun and which were written by Anna to her husband, describe the German invasion of Hungary; their son's depression after his father had been taken to an unknown location by Hungarian gendarmes; the wearing of the yellow star; Anna and her son's life in the ghetto in Cluj, Romania, their deportation from the ghetto and arrival in Birkenau, and their separation; living conditions inside Auschwitz; and Anna's transfer to an unnamed camp. Richard J...