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  1. "Hlas Pudy Q306" issues

    Contains photocopies of "Hlas Pudy Q306", a children's magazine written and published by eleven children, all under the age of twelve, who lived in the attic numbered Q306 in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto in Czechoslovakia. The children--editor-in-chief Mariana Kornova, Zdenek Grunhut, Hana Brockova, Jiri Kreisl, Anita Brandeisova, Tomas Sladkus, Jan Brod, Petr Abrahamovsky, Petr Fischl, Tommy Brandais, and Kitty Langendorfova--all perished in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. In the magazine, they wrote short stories, poems, puzzles, and humorous observations about their lives and about...

  2. "Hoelle, Tod und Teufel"

    Testimony, photocopied typescript, 122 pages, titled "Hoelle, Tod und Teufel," by Felix Bing, and written while he was at UNRRA camp in Philippeville, Algeria, 1945. Discusses German occupation of Netherlands, internment at Westerbork, and other issues.

  3. "Holocaust/Wartime Experiences"

    Consists of a narrative (constructed from phone interviews) and a document in German from the Dutch Red Cross relating to Abraham Muhlbaum's experiences in the Netherlands in hiding; his escape to England and later arrest when he returned to Europe; deportation to Neuengamme, and transfers to Natzweiler and Dachau.

  4. "Homoe-Homini: Czyli Martyrolagia Zydow w Deblinie"

    Consists of a copy of "Homoe-Homini: Czyli Martyrologia Zydow w Delinie" by Josef Edmund Lucinski and published by the Association of Friends of Dęblin in August 1987. The manuscript is based on personal accounts that describe the terror experienced by the Dęblin Jews from 1939 to 1945. Diagrams of the city designate concentration camps and mass graves in the vicinity. Also included is a layout of a "Labor camp 1" and the Stalag 307 II with lists of prisoners for each.

  5. "Honor... whatever the price: a memoir"

    Discusses Holocaust experiences while living in the Netherlands. Father arrested for political reasons; mother involved in underground movements.

  6. "How do you like America"

    Contains a memoir about Martin O. Stern's life in Essen, Germany, and their escape to the United States after the Nazis rise to power.

  7. "Hungarian Minority" Magyar Kisebbség [Newspapers]

    Magyar Kisebbség [Hungarian Minority], a journal published during the interwar period in Southern Transylvania expressing positions of the Hungarian elite towards the Jewish community in Transylvania .

  8. "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story"

    Testimony: Typescript, 7 pages, titled "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story."

  9. "I Recall"

    Contains a memoir, 40 pages, about Kayla Gitla Skop's Holocaust experiences.

  10. "I Remained Living"

    Consists of one memoir, 162 pages, entitled "I Remained Living" by Usher (Asher) Celinski, originally of Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland, in 1964. Includes information about his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald, and Sliebin and the deaths of his family in Treblinka.

  11. "I remember Germany..."

    Describes Armin Kern's (b. 1923) childhood in Böchingen and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany; the Nazi seizure of power in Germany and the growth of antisemitism; Kristallnacht and the arrest of Kern's father and his internment in Dachau; Kern and his parents' immigration to the United States in 1939; and the Holocaust-related fates of members of the Kern's family.

  12. "I Remember" memoir

    Contains one memoir, 21 pages, detailing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Helga Stein. As the only child of an Aryan father (who passed away when she was three) and a Jewish mother, she details her experiences in Berlin as a child under the Nazi regime. After her family and friends were arrested and deported, Mrs. Stein, then a young adult, hid in a bombed out apartment building in Berlin for the entirety of the war. She immigrated to the United States in 1953.

  13. "I saw Buchenwald"

    Consists of a copy of "I saw Buchenwald" by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jack La Pietra. The testimony describes the inhumane conditions and places of torture and death seen by La Pietra as he was taken through the camp by one of the Buchenwald survivors shortly after liberation. It was written in 1979 and and epilogue was added in 1985.

  14. "I was a Child During the War"

    Consists of one DVD entitled, "I was a Child During the War," which tells the story of Bertrand and Ariane Rosenau, originally of Paris, France. Includes their experiences in Paris after the German occupation, the deportation of their father, and their lives in wartime Paris living under false Aryan identities.

  15. "I was in Oswiecim"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "I was in Oświęcim," by Erna Low. In the memoir, written as she was traveling to the United States after the war, Mrs. Low describes her arrest and deportation in 1944, first to Drancy and then to Auschwitz with her husband and daughter. All three survived the initial selection. Mrs. Low describes living and working conditions, her memory of music in the camp, and her memories of the hanging of Roza Robota and the other women who smuggled powder for the attempted Sonderkommando uprising. She describes the death march to Raven...

  16. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    I’M AN AMERICAN premiered in 1940 on the eve of WWII. The NBC radio broadcast was spearheaded by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Labor to foster a “deeper consciousness of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship and more tolerance for fellow american of all birthplaces”. The weekly program featured distinguished foreign-born citizens discussing their naturalization process, the meaning of “democracy” and reminding all Americans of the value/privilege of U.S. citizenship. Sound recordings of I’M AN AMERICAN are available from the NBC Radio Coll...

  17. "Iasii Mei"

    One memoir, 57 pages, entitled "Iasii Mei," by Dr. Iosif Finkelstein. In the memoir, Dr. Finkelstein describes the events occuring in Iasi, Romania, in June and July 1941, including his own memories of his experiences at that time.

  18. "If Not for Him..."

    Consists of one memoir entitled "If Not For Him..." written by Jakob Yovel (Volovelski, now Yaakov Yovel), originally of Pruzhani, Poland (now Belarus). The memoir, originally written in Hebrew in 1945-1946, when Mr. Yovel was a teenager, documents the friendship between Mr. Yovel and Kalman Grossman, their deportation, and their experiences together in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Melk concentration camps. Includes photographs of the original Hebrew text as well as an English language translation of the same.

  19. "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau"

    Consists of a portfolio of artwork entitled "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau: By John Wiernicki, Polish Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Number 150302." Mr. Wiernicki, who is not Jewish, was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau from September 1943 - December 1944, and in Ohrdruf from December 1944 until the liberation of the camp. The collection contains an introduction explaining Mr. Wiernicki's experiences and 20 watercolor and ink drawings of events he witnessed, both at Auschwitz and in Ohrdruf. Also includes a CD-ROM containing scanned copies of the images.

  20. "In His Hand"

    Consists of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "In His Hand" by Josephine Guarnieri, as told to Lisa Hnath. In the memoir, Mrs. Guarnieri describes her childhood in Settefrati Frosinone, Italy and her memories of being unable to join her father and brother in the United States because of the outbreak of war. She also describes the Allied bombings and going hiding to escape from the bombing and the German occupying troops. She credits God for her family's survival.