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  1. "Neve Diventeremo"

    Consists of one DVD produced by the Italian band "7grani," featuring Mauro, Flavio, and Fabrizio Settegrani. The DVD, entitled "Neve Diventeremo," directed by Luca Tossani, includes an oral history interview with former partisan and Buchenwald survivor Rado Zuccon, as well as a video of the band performing a tribute song, which was shot partially on the grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  2. "Non Omnis Moriar"

    Consists of one memoir, two copies (in English and Spanish), of "Non Omnis Moriar," by Irene Birnbaum, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In her memoir, she describes her life in the Warsaw ghetto, including her memories of the deportations of friends and loved ones, and how she resisted deportation while living in the ghetto. She escaped the Warsaw ghetto in February 1943, and hid, first in Warsaw and then as a Polish Catholic worker in the countryside.

  3. "Nur die toten durften bleiben"

    Martina Baudis' memoir describes why she felt the Nazis wanted to exterminate Jews and the result of Nazi racial policies.

  4. "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis"

    Consists of one manuscript, 104 pages, entitled "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis," with a copy in French, by Giacomo Nunez, originally of Tunis. In the manuscript, Mr. Nunez describes the history of the Jewish community in Italy, Spain, and Tunis throughout history, focusing specifically on the experiences of the Nunez family. He also describes his own childhood in Tunis and memories of World War II as a Jewish boy in North Africa, including his memories of bombings and forced labor.

  5. "Of Tortoises and other Jews"

    Testimony, printed booklet, 24 pages, titled "Of Tortoises and Other Jews," compiled by Hannah Yakin and dedicated to Jan van Hulst, about wartime experiences in the Netherlands.

  6. "Old Glory is Their Flag Now"

    Copy print: black and white image of children standing outside in front of Grant’s Tomb in New York with American flag raised on flagpole in background; pasted on verso are captions in English and Yiddish, stamped “Photo by Al Puhn”; Caption titled “Old Glory is their flag now” identifying the children as “…survivors of Nazi concentration camps from the nearby Reception Shelter of United Service for New Americans at the Hotel Marseilles…”

  7. “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939

    “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939. Police festival. Winter Relief. SS-Standarte Germania gives public concert. Day of Commemoration of Heroes. Carnival in 1939. May Day celebrations in 1935

  8. "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979"

    Consists of a copy of "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979" written by Margaret Collin. The volume contains testimonies of several Holocaust survivors seeking restitution from the German government. The various testimonies describe the experiences of the survivors in concentration camps, escape from the Nazis, life in hiding, episodes of suicide, and great mental anguish suffered since the end of the Holocaust. Also included are recollections of Margaret Collin about her own escape from Germany and the loss of her family. Intermingled in the text are several photocopies of Holocaust-related d...

  9. "One Day This Will be a Film"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "One Day This Will be a Film: Childhood Memories of a Girl from the Lvov Ghetto," by Nava Ruda (originally Sheindel-Charlotte (Lunia) Kohn). Nava and her parents survived with the help of her childhood nanny, Jula Jurek, a Polish woman. This memoir is an English language translation of the the original Hebrew.

  10. "One in 6,000,000" One Woman's Story of Survival

    Consists of one memoir, 36 pages, entitled, "One in 6,000,000: One Woman's Story of Survival," by Hilde Geisen. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Cologne; her memories of Nazi persecutions; her failed attempt at immigration to the United States; the deportation of her parents; life in Theresienstadt; post-war life in Deggendorf; and immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a copy of her identity card and a 2002 portrait.

  11. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  12. "Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fanny Eichenblat"

    Consists of one memoir, 101 pages, entitled "Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fanny Eichenblat,",as told to Dr. Alan David Kaye and Dr. Brian Horowitz. Fania Eichenblat was born in a town near Lublin, Poland, in 1938. In the memoir, she reflects upon her life as a Holocaust survivor and how her father arranged for the family to hide in a dirt hole under a stable for 2 1/2 years. In the spring of 1944, her brother and father were killed while trying to find food and the family was forced to leave their hiding place to find a new one in a hay barn. They were liberated by the Soviet Ar...

  13. "Our Great Escape": Alexander Silbiger memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, entitled "Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution," by Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands. He describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao.

  14. "Our Story"

    Consists of one story, 3 pages, entitled "Our Story," by Ruth and Paul Keller. They tell of their initial meeting as children in Germany in 1934 and their chance encounter in New York in 1942 after their respective emigrations to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. The Kellers presented their story at a 2005 Yom Hashoah commemoration.

  15. "Outpost" "Placówka"

    Contains copies of Placówka, a weekly newspaper for “the Polish village” published clandestinely in Warsaw in 1940. Topics include discussions of the war in general including war news in other theaters and U.S. efforts to build a war machine larger than Germany’s; the need for Polish farmers to retain their land at all costs; the efforts of the occupiers to substitute German and Soviet culture for Polish culture; Soviet deportations of Poles; a speech by the Pope; and plans for the postwar period (assuming the defeat of Germany), specifically that Poland should use German lands to solve agr...

  16. "Parcours"

    Consists of one typed memoir, approximately 30 pages, entitled "Parcours," written in November 2012 by Pierre Saragoussi. In the memoir, Mr. Saragoussi describes his family's pre-war lives in Paris. During the war, he and his sister were cared for by the Caron, Guyollot, and Namias families, who hid the children as Catholics in Appoigny, France, during the war.

  17. "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968," relating to experiences in Białystok, Majdanek, Blizin, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf.

  18. "Piles of Pine Needles"

    Consists of one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Piles of Pine Needles" written in 2005 by Abraham Shavit (born Strikovsky), originally of Skępe, Poland. In his memoir, Mr. Shavit describes his deportation to the Szczechowo ghetto, life in hiding on a farm near Osowo, and post-war life in the Feldafing displaced persons camps. Mr. Shavit also describes his immigration to Uruguay and from there, to Israel. The memoir, which was translated into English by Mr. Shavit's son.

  19. "Pilgrimage to Jeleniewo" collection

    Consists of one videocassette, entitled "Pilgrimage to Jeleniewo," which shows the restoration and re-consecration ceremony for the pre-war Jewish cemetery in Jeleniewo, Poland. The cemetery had been desecrated during the Holocaust and was forgotten by the citizens of Jeleniewo. Also includes one booklet entitled, "Żydzi Jeleniewa," which describes the restoration of the cemetery and shows the headstones found in the cemetery.

  20. "Plungyan" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 60 pages, written by Jacob Josef Bunka, entitled "Plungyan." In this memoir, Mr. Bunka describes the history of Jewish life in Plungyan, Lithuania (also known as Plunge), and his experiences in Plungyan in the early years of the war, evacuation to Russia, and return to Plungyan after the war. He includes the names of Jews who perished, of Lithuanian collaborators, and of Righteous Gentiles. The memoir has been translated into English by Stephen Geller Katz and edited by Rabbi Beyamin Herson. The collection includes a photocopy of the original memoir in Yiddish.