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  1. The beginning of Sam Stammer's life as written by him in German

    Describes Samuel Stammer’s (Dornfeld, Austria, 05 Jul 1905 - ) childhood in Austria and life in the Free City of Gdansk (Danzig); his experiences as a Polish soldier during the German invasion and as a prisoner-of-war; his transport to and experiences in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos (including: Majdanek, the Lowicz ghetto, the Warsaw ghetto, the Miedzyrzec ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Schlier Redl-Zipf, and Ebensee); the death of family members at Treblinka; his work counterfeiting American and British money for the Nazis; his liberation and being a displac...

  2. Memoirs of Liselotte Kahn

    Describes Liselotte Kahn’s childhood in Germany; her marriage to Dr. Ernst Müller and the birth of their sons; Nazi antisemitism; their immigration to Greece; her husband's medical practice in Athens, Greece; the Italian and German invasion of Greece; their escape to Palestine; and their immigration to and experiences in the United States in 1941.

  3. "My experiences in concentration camps"

    Describes Stanley Kania’s (Okocim, Poland, 07 May 1920 - ) arrest for anti-Nazi activities and interrogation by the Gestapo; his transport to and experiences in various Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz, Gusen, Wiener Neudorf, and Mauthausen; and his liberation.

  4. In the safety of the Third Reich

    Describes Charlotte Kahane and her mother's escape from an "aktion" and their hiding from German athorities; their activities in the ghetto in Lut︠s︡ʹk, Ukraine; their separation; Charlotte's experiences in Dubno, Ukraine; her mother's death; her escape from and recapture by German authorities; being an Ostarbeiter in Germany; and the end of World War II and her immigration to Australia.

  5. Journey through the valley of perdition traveled by Gary A. Keins

    Describes the Gary Keins’ (b. 1909) life in German Silesia; life in Poland after World War I; the German invasion of Poland; his taking on a false identity; conditions in Warsaw, Poland, during the occupation; his experiences in Zamość, Poland, and Lʹviv, Ukraine; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; his experiences with the Soviet military; the end of World War II; family members' deaths; and the his immigration to the United States.

  6. Freda Karpul memoir

    The collection consists of a four-page memoir of Freda Karpul (née Fridmanaite), originally of Skaudvilė, Lithuania, who was a survivor of the Kovno ghetto (Kaunas) and Batakiai concentration camp. In the memoir, Freda describes her internment in the Kaunas ghetto, deportation to Batakiai, her escape and involvement with partisans, the fate of her family, her liberation by the Soviet Red Army, and later immigration to the United States.

  7. The autobiography of Irene Katz

    Describes the author's experiences in Nazi-occupied Hungary and Vienna, Austria.

  8. Interview with Holocaust survivor Rudy Katz

    Describes the history of Rudy Katz's family in Germany; his experiences after Kristallnacht; his escape to Belgium and immigration to the United States in 1940; and the Holocaust-related fates of members of his family.

  9. "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.

  10. 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.

  11. Children of the Holocaust

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. 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...

  16. "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...

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.