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  1. George Blau collection

    The collection includes Blau's certificate of discharge from Les Milles (dated 18 September 1939); a photograph of Blau taken at an unknown time; a letter from the police of Marseille vouching to Blau's good conduct; a document from the consulate general of Siam granting Blau permission to emigrate to Siam (dated 28 Sep 1940); a document from a Dr. Monteux that stated Blau was medically ineligible for military service; and documents granting Blau permission to emigrate to the Dominican Republic if the United States did not allow him to enter (dated 30 May 1941). The collection also includes...

  2. Joel Citron collection of family materials

    The original letters and documents (some of which have been either translated or summarized) from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigration Aid Society of America and the International Committee of the Red Cross document the status of and experiences of members of Joel Citron's family from Poland. Most letters are from family in Poland asking for help from family members living in the United States. Among those letters written after the Holocaust, one from Itka Radoszynska (dated 4 Dec 1945) describes how only she, out of all her family from Siedlce, Poland, survived by throwing herself off a t...

  3. Schreter family tree

    The Schreter family tree identifies those family members who died during the Holocaust.

  4. Beno Axelrod correspondence

    Beno Axelrod's two letters (dated 17 Sep. 1939 and 11 October 1939) from Prague to his cousin, Gladys Schneider, in New York City, describe his attempt to emigrate to the United States.

  5. Genocide as the Nazi locomotive of history Trains of boxed victims

    Helen Fein's essay, which she presented to the "Les genocides" conference in Paris (08-10 December 1989), "Genocide as the Nazi Locomotive of History: Trains of Boxed Victims," attempts to prove that the Holocaust should be "understood in the context of Nazi ideology and German war goals" and that "genocide was the ultimately defining program and strategy of Nazi Germany." To demonstrate the correctness of her hypotheses, Fein's essay discusses Nazi antisemitism and members of the party's attitudes about gays, people of Slavs, and Roma.

  6. Helga Burch collection

    Describes the author's feelings about and experiences related to the Holocaust, including the fate of young victims and of her father and other family members; "Selektion;" and being an invited guest of the Berlin Senat in 1969.

  7. Walter Clifton collection

    Relates to Walter Clifton's (née Cohen) registering as an alien and attempts to secure employment in Great Britain.

  8. Memories of a generation

    The memoir describes Michael Goldberg's (1916-1993) childhood in Polan, Polish and Soviet antisemitism before the Holocaust; his interest in Zionism, the German occupation of western Poland and the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his activities while serving in the Soviet military, the end of World War II, his return to Poland, the death of his first wife, his second marriage, and Goldberg's immigration to the United States in 1961.

  9. Where is justice? Case history of divorced father Holocaust survivor

    Samuel Hofman's explanation to his son, Joshua, why he felt his divorce with Joshua's mother was due, in part, to his Holocaust-related experiences.

  10. My story 50 years later

    Describes Helen Hellman's (née Bamberger, b. 1926) childhood in Würzburg, Germany; her family's emigration to Denmark in 1933 and their escape to Sweden in 1943; their experiences in Denmark and Sweden; the family's return to Denmark after World War II; Helen's marriage to Norbert Hellmann, a Holocaust survivor from Germany; the birth of their children; and their immigration to the United States 1954.

  11. A dramatic story of Jewish wandering: brother and sisters meet in Argentina after 46 years of separation

    The newspaper article, "A dramatic story of Jewish wondering, brother and sisters meet in Argentina after 46 years of separation," from the 28 November 1959, Buenos Aires issue of "Die Presse", describes the war-time experiences of Charles Zacepitzky's children whose surviving family members were able to meet in Buenos Aires in 1959. The article also relates how some members of this Polish Jewish family: hid and tried to survive in the forests; joined the partisans; suffered in ghettos; and were killed by Nazis or antisemitic Poles. The newspaper article also includes a photograph of the su...

  12. Alfred Gruenspecht memoir

    The memoir describes Alfred Gruenspecht's childhood in Wüstensachsen, Germany; his family's experiences in Germany before the Holocaust; his immigration to the United States; his family's assimilation; the death of his parents; and the growth of the Gruenspecht family.

  13. Mania Birnberg collection about Mary Barys

    Contains photocopies of clippings and other documents relating to the actions of Mary Barys Szul (b. 1928) who was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1982 (Case Number 3233).

  14. Carolyn Councells drawings

    The two images, intended to complement Robert Doherty's book of poetry, "When Grandpa Flew in World War II (1992)," depict Nazi concentration camp inmates. The collection consists of six drawings, three of each image. One image is of a group of women inmates stretching their hands out beyond a barbed wire fence, and the other shows a male inmate grasping a barbed wire fence. Note: The USHMM Library has a copy of Doherty's book.

  15. Walter Hamann collection

    Contains photocopies of documents, copyprint photographs, and a memoir documenting the Nazi persecution of members of the Walter Hamann family who were Jehovah's Witnesses. Hamann's memoir, "Extract of Memories," describes the conditions of his seven-plus years imprisonment in the concentration camp of Neusustrum, in a Düsseldorf police prison, and in Sachsenhausen, where his brother-in-law died from mistreatment. The photograph of Hamann and some of his male relatives is accompanied by information about their imprisonment. The collection also contains a description of Hamann's education a...

  16. Memoir relating to survival in Auschwitz

    The memoir describes the anonymous female author's experiences and observations, particularly those relating to the German occupation of Hungary, her experiences in Auschwitz, and difficulties experienced by pregnant women. The unknown author was born in Hungary. While she was an inmate of Auschwitz, she gave birth to a daughter. After World War II, she and her daughter moved to Hungary.

  17. Regensburg; Generals meet; liberated Allies; Hungarian slave laborers

    (LIB 6092) City of Regensburg, Germany, April 27, 1945. LS, CUs, infantrymen and trucks of the 65th Infantry Division cross bridge, drive thru streets and outskirts of town. LS, wrecked cars in railroad yard. VS, German civilians clear earthen roadblock under archway, shoveling rocks into carts. CUs, captured German WAC and other prisoners. Seq: Germans, Russians and Poles search through wrecked railroad cars picking out clothing, food and other useful articles. MSs, CUs, German and US officers at surrender proceedings in town square. (NOTE: Surrender was effected between Col Frank Dunkerly...

  18. "The story of the Jews of Vilkomir"

    Consists of a testimony given by three Kronik family members for the "Jewish Committee." At the time, they were in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany awaiting emigration to Israel. Describes: the Kronik family's history; the Lithuanian Jewish communities of Musnik (a.k.a. Musninkai), Sirvintas (a.k.a. Sirvintos, Sirvintai), and Vilkomir (a.k.a. Ukmerge, Wilkomir, Vilkomierz); the communities' responses to the Soviet and Nazi occupations; and the fate of the communities' members. Also includes a list of Lithuanian partisans and police who participated in the mass execution of Jews.

  19. Marketa Farnik memoir

    Describes Marketa Farnik's life in Czechoslovakia; her internment in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen; Marketa's liberation; the fates of family members; the reunion with her mother; her emigration to Israel in 1949; and her feelings about the Holocaust and its participants.

  20. Exposé and synopsis of the book a generation of wrath a story of embattlement

    "Exposé and synopsis of a generation of wrath: a story of embattlement, survival and deliverance during the Holocaust of World War II" (1984) by Elio Romano (b. 1923) contains information about Elio's childhood in Oświęcim, Poland; the German occupation of Poland; his attempted escape to Czechoslovakia; his work as a slave laborer helping to build the Auschwitz concentration camp; his internment in concentration camps in Poland and Germany, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Blachstädt, Annaberg, Dachau, and Kaufering, camp number seven; and his liberation.