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  1. "16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno Liquidation of the Grodno Ghetto under the command of Kurt Wiese and Erich Schott, the Gestapo men, February-12 March 1943; life in hiding including a detailed description of the hiding place; collaboration of the Polish and Belorussian police with the Germans in discovering hiding places of Jews; capture of the Jews in hiding; escape of the author; the author's transfer to Bialystok.

  2. "A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre-World War II Times and the War Years"

    1. Robert Winkler collection

    Contains a memoir written circa 1992, with information about Robert Winkler's childhood; family experiences and national events in Hungary during the war years; the German occupation of 1944; Winkler's forced labor in Hungary; escape and capture; forced service with a Gestapo unit; re-escape and "passing" with false identification as a Hungarian gentile; service as a "gentile" in the Hungarian army; liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a postscript with information about the subsequent fate of some of the people mentioned in the memoir.

  3. "A true story"

    1. Margot Lawson collection

    Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir entitled "A true story," by Margot E. Lawson. The memoir describes Lawson's experiences in a German prison during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

  4. "Courier: a memoir"

    1. Leah Silverstein collection

    Describes Leah Silverstein's reactions to the Holocaust.

  5. "Daughter" Lodges of the Great Lodge of Germany of the Jewish Order, B'nai B'rith Bnei Brith-Tochterlogen in Deutschland (Fond 1219)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Correspondence and minutes of meetings (1936-1937) of the "Leibnitz" lodge of B'nai B'rith in Hannover. The documents relate mainly to organizational matters, listing of lectures, etc. Included is a notice of May 26, 1936, that all meetings must be registered with the Gestapo and with a Gestapo representative in attendance, as well as correspondence with a nurses' association that was an affiliate of B'nai B'rith in Allenstein, East Prussia (currently Olsztyn, Poland). The Gestapo also reserved the right to cancel any meeting which does not take place at the exact time as registered. Note: ...

  6. "Der Stuermer", Gestapo prisoner testifies, & forced labor discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    07:00:40 (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Inserts, hands turning pages of "Der Stuermer." LS of courtroom as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence adjourns court. LS, MSs, defendants talking to their lawyers during recess. MLS, Dr. Franz Blaha appearing as a witness. Dr. Blaha was arrested when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, held in a Gestapo prison without trial for two years, and sent to Dachau in April 1941. He tells how the Germans forced Russian children to work as slave laborers, and that nearly 60 percent of them died of tuberculosis withi...

  7. "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow Occupation of Radzilow by the German Army, 23 June 1941; attitude of the Poles towards the German Army; handing over of Soviet Army soldiers who did not have time to escape [by the Poles] to the Germans; names of Polish collaborators; abuse and murder of Jews by Poles; robbery of property; desecration of religious objects including the burning of Torah scrolls; attitude of the Poles towards the Jews; incitement of the Poles against the Jews; establishment of a local Polish authority in Ra...

  8. "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald"

    Contains a five page typescript text titled "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald" by Rabbi Dr. G. Wilde. The text recounts Wilde's arrest at his home in Magdeburg on the morning of 10 November 1938, his transfer to a cell in the local jail, and his transport to Buchenwald the following day. He describes conditions in the camp, the torture of other prisoners, the conditions surrounding his release, and attempts to prevent the shaving of his beard upon release. He concludes his account by describing how he and his wife were able to immigrate to England due to the efforst of the c...

  9. "Fort Montluc and Ravensbrück" a record of imprisonment

    Consists of copies of a memoir of an anonymous Holocaust survivor. A member of the French resistance, the young woman was captured by the Gestapo and subjected to severe treatment. The testimony describes her deportation from France to Ravensbrück, slave labor in a German plane factory, experiences with female SS guards, her many illnesses as a prisoner, and her eventual liberation by the Red Army.

  10. "Hell and rebirth: my experiences during the time of persecution"

    Consists of a copy of "Hell and Rebirth: My Experiences during the Time of Persecution," by Dr. Edith Kramer. The memoir describes Kramer's experiences as a Jewish physician forced to care for women in various camps near Poznań, Poland. Also included is information on the inferior medical conditions in the camps, inferior sanitation, the treatment of women, and Kramer's post-liberation acquaintance with Hermann Hesse (Nobel Prize winner) and his wife, Ninon Hesse.

  11. "Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920 Return of a Jewish soldier who fought bravely against the Nazis to an empty city which has been destroyed; life in the Jewish street before the war including preparations for the Sabbath, debates between Revisionists and Zionists and relations between Jews and non-Jews; outbreak of the war; life in the ghetto including hunger, cold, mortality, abuse, beatings, arrest and murder of Jews; transporting of Jews by the Gestapo; destruction of the Jewish street; atmosphere of silence in the cemetery...

  12. "Life versus the Holocaust"

    Consists of a copy of "Life versus Holocaust," a survivor testimony by Dr. Bernard S. Cytryn concerning his experiences of persecution and loss during the Holocaust. The testimony contains information about Cytryn's relatives who were killed during the Holocaust; his family in the United States; his life in Kielce, Poland, before the Holocaust; his deportation to Auschwitz; and his observations on the role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust.

  13. "Mathias Barz: 30.8.1895 Düsseldorf - 19.10.1982 Margarten"

    Consists of a copy of the book "Mathias Barz: 30.8.1895 Düsseldorf-19.10.1982 Margarten" by Günter Goebbels. The book contains biographical information on Barz, his family history, his experiences as an artist during the Holocaust, and information concerning his art exhibitions. Newspaper articles concerning the artist are intermingled with the text of the book.

  14. "Minsk - Im lager der deutschen Juden"

    Photocopy of a published article by Karl Loewenstein, titled "Minsk--Im Lager der deutschen Juden," 16 pages, which originally appeared in "Die Mahnung: Organ des Bundes der Verfolgten des Naziregimes Berlin, e.V.," Vol. 4, No. 1, 1 January 1957. The article describes Loewenstein's experiences, from the point in which he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin in 1941, through his deportation to Minsk and what he experienced and witnessed there until his transfer to Theresienstadt the following year. He describes living conditions in the camp to which deportees from Berlin were assigned, the ...

  15. "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.

  16. "Ruthie's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, entitled "Ruthie's Story," written by Ruth Meta Samson Bamdas, originally of Germany, about her Holocaust experiences. She describes her childhood in Germany and her training in Switzerland as a baby nurse. When she returned to Germany, she was told to report to the Gestapo, was warned to leave the area, and went to the Polish border. She and her aunt were able to obtain visas in 1937 or 1938 for England where she got a job. In 1945, she immigrated to the United States and reunited with her mother. Includes copies of family photographs.

  17. "Secret of the Hat"

    Consists of one videocassette containing a documentary entitled "Secret of the Hat," which appeared on Slovak TV in 1979. "Secret of the Hat" tells the story of Elzbieta Ross (Rossova), known as Elsa in the documentary, born in 1915 in Trencín, Czechoslovkia. Elzbieta, who was Jewish (though that is not mentioned in the documentary) became a communist and was expelled from medical school for her communist ties. She became a courier for the communist underground, carrying directives received from Prague in, among other hiding places, her hat. She was arrested on November 21, 1941, by the Ge...

  18. “Selection” Print 11 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners wrapped in blankets in a barrack being selected for an unknown labor detail by a Kapo and ghetto police officers at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle...

  19. "Shari's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 52 pages, entitled "Shari's Story" by Charlotte Wiesner Kuna, originally of Michalovce, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, she describes pre-war family life in Michalovce, the beginning of anti-Jewish restrictions, and the fate of many friends and family members in Michalovce. In 1944, Charlotte (known as Shari or Shandele) and her sister received identity papers with Aryan names and moved around frequently to escape the Gestapo. They were imprisoned by the Gestapo in the spring of 1945, escaped after five weeks, hiding until they were liberated. She reunited with surviv...

  20. "Soldiers Without Weapons" excerpt

    Consists of an excerpt from the book by Sophia Binkiene, which is comprised of testimony by Dr. F. Gurviciene concerning the rescue of her daughter during the Holocaust by Dr. Ona Landsbergiene, the mother of the future democratically elected president of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis.