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Language of Description: English
  1. "Dina's Story"

    Contains one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Dina's Story," written in 1994 by Dina Littman, originally of Zgierz, Poland. In the memoir, she describes the confiscation of goods, life in the Łódź ghetto, forced labor in Shwachsztrom. In 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz and from there, to Bergen-Belsen and to forced labor in Salzwedel, where she was liberated. She briefly returned to Łódź, married a fellow survivor, Jakob Littman, and tried to emigrate to Israel. After a brief internment in Cyprus, she emigrated to Israel and eventually to the United States.

  2. "Dinnertime Survivor Tale"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "Dinnertime Survivor Tale," by Harvy Simkovits, originally of Kassa (Kosice). In the memoir, Mr. Simkovits describes his mother describing her Holocaust experiences over dinner and how she survived the war as a Slovak-Hungarian Jew. In 1944, when Germany invaded Hungary, the family moved from Kassa to Budapest, using false papers and posing as non-Jews. She described learning of the deportation of the Jews of Kassa, who were sent to Auschwitz in May 1944. She also described life in Budapest at the end of the war and returning to Kassa (Kosice).

  3. "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 70 pages, in English, entitled "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life" by Edward Klein, originally of Sieradz, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Klein, describes his pre-war family and religious life; escape to Warsaw and then to Łódź after the German invasion; life in the Łódź ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer to Sosonowiec; forced march to Mauthausen; and liberation from Gunskirchen. The memoir also includes information about his post-war life, including his 1945 legal immigration to Palestine; fighting and teaching mechanics during the War of ...

  4. "Ein Amerikaner" : Harry L. Ettlinger memoir

    Contains one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Ein Amerikaner: Anecdotes from the Life of Harry Ettlinger," written by Harry L. Ettlinger, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2002. In his memoir, Mr. Ettlinger describes his childhood in Germany, his family's immigration to the United States in 1938, his experiences as a soldier in World War II, and his post-war life. Includes copies of family photographs.

  5. "Ein neuer Fluchtversuch"

    "Ein neuer Fluchtversuch" is a 25 pages memoir about Max Sternbach's incarceration in Bordeaux, and transport to Bruxelles and Paris.

  6. "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...

  7. "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition

    The 1937 exhibit of ENTARTETE KUNST at the Archeological Institute in Munich, not far from the House of German Art, with paintings of modern artwork declared by the Nazis to be "degenerate" on the gallery walls. Museum visitors in the exhibit, walking, viewing the art on display. SS officer in FG. A quote taken from George Grosz and mockingly displayed on the Dada wall: "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst! Es lohnt sich." [Take Dada seriously! It's worth it.] EXT, visitors exiting building. Large sign on the building's facade: Ausstellung: "Entartete Kunst" / Eintritt frei [Exhibition: Degenerate Art / ...

  8. "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition; BDM; farming; Reichsarbeitsdienst

    INT "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibit, "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst" in Munich. 00:20:47 BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart, between Nuremberg and Leipzig. Road between Nuremberg and Dresden with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside, two girls perform a singing act, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, r...

  9. "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibit in Paris with commentary

    Sign advertising "Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme" in Paris. Interior of exhibit featuring a naked female mannequin in a museum display. Shrill, harsh music over scenes of the exhibit and the narrator's critical comments about the exhibit on surrealist art.

  10. "Equality" Egyenlőség [Newspapers]

    A Jewish weekly newspaper issued in Budapest, Hungary, 1882-1938.

  11. "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren"

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 40 pages plus photographs, photocopied, and written in the spring of 1996 by Eric Hoffman, entitled "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren." The memoir details Hoffman's life growing up in Münster, Germany; his move to Antwerp, Belgium; his voyage to Palestine in 1939; his wartime service in the British Royal Army Service Corps and his post-war life. The memoir also includes several personal photographs with, 'The Windmuller Family Chronicle,' which details the fate of 120 members of Eric's close and extended family, as well a...

  12. "Escape from Hitler's clutches"

    The diary, "Escape from Hitler's clutches," (dated 06 September 1939 - 08 May 1945), describes Theodore Diesenhouse's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland.

  13. "Escape from Treblinka"

    Consists of one videocassette, approximately 10 minutes, entitled "Escape from Treblinka." The video relates the Holocaust experiences of Edward Weinstein, originally of Losice, Poland. Mr. Weinstein was deported to Treblinka in August 1942 and escaped on September 9, 1942. He spent the remainder of the war in hiding in the Polish countryside until the area was liberated in July 1944. The video uses photographs and home movies of a 1993 trip to Poland, to tell Mr. Weinstein's story.

  14. "Europa Europa" by Shlomo Perel; translated by Bryan Mark Rigg

    Contains a translation, 117 pages, of Shlomo (Solomon) Perel's book "I am Solomon Perel," or "Europa, Europa."

  15. "Euxin: A Brave Voyage to Freedom" memoir

    Memoir tells the story of Lilly Shalit (nee Roth, ex-Abramovici) who tried to escape Romania in 1942 on the sailing boat "Euxin" with her husband, sister, and brother-in-law. The journey took them six months, as they travelled through the Black Sea and the Bosphorus towards Palestine. Turkish authorities would not let them land in Izmir, and they spent two months on the ship in the Bay of Izmir before the British consulate obtained visas for them to Cyprus. Although they wished to go to Palestine, they accepted the visas and spent Sep. 1942-April 1944 in Cyprus, until they were allowed to l...

  16. "Events in the ghetto: a memoir"

    This handwritten and transcribed oral testimony completed in 1947 at the Warsaw Archive contains information on the Zalkind Family; Germany's invasion of Vilna in 1941; killing of the grandmother, father and uncle of Aron Einat [donor]; life in Vilna Ghetto and concentration camp with donor's mother and brother; liquidation of the camp; hiding during a children's action; being sent to Łódź where donor survived the Holocaust, etc.

  17. "Family Reunion"

    Consists of a copy of "Family reunion," written by Joseph H. Wachtel. The testimony describes a reunion of several members of the Josef Wachtel family at the Transnistria concentration camp in the Mogilev Podolski area of Ukraine. Other topics discussed are resistance, disease in the Transnistria camp, and mass burials.

  18. "Family Saga" memoir

    Memoir, 150 pages, "Family Saga" detailing the life of Joseph Ripp, from his birth in Bochum, Germany, childhood in Nazi Germany, escape to the United States, experiences in the United States Army, and adult life through 2000.

  19. "Fifth Infantry Division Diamond Dust" newspaper

    Consists of the May 25, 1945, issue of the United States Army's Fifth Infantry Division newspaper "Diamond Dust." The issue includes the articles "5th Unearths Another SS Brutality" and the reprint of a letter written by survivor Gerda Weisman (now Gerda Weissmann Klein).

  20. "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor"

    Testimony, eight pages, typescript, with copies of photographs. Titled "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor," by Jack Fleischer, about experiences at Bergen Belsen. Originally from town near Kielce, and discusses experiences after invasion of Poland, time at Skarzysko camp, and later camps.