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  1. "Sunday's Child"

    Contains a manuscript entitled "Sunday's Child," by Lili R. Andrieux.

  2. "Survival in the Lion's Den"

    Contains information about the experiences of Fred Angress's family during resettlement in Amsterdam and their life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The testimony draws from Angress' personal diary and other published sources, all of which are listed in a short bibliography. The testimony is dedicated to Nelly Gispen, a close friend of the author during the Holocaust era.

  3. "Surviving the Death March" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 15 pages, relating Sam Silberberg's memories of a death march, between the Blechhammer concentration camp and the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, that took place in late January 1945. Mr. Silberberg managed to escape the death march after one week and reunited with his mother, who was hiding in Neisse, Germany (Nysa, Poland), as an Aryan. His father, who was also on the march from Blechhammer, perished before reaching Gross-Rosen.

  4. "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America"

    Consists of a memoir, 9 pages, by Edward Gruzin, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America." In the memoir, Mr. Gruzin describes his memories of his childhood in pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, his wartime experiences in the Kovno Ghetto and in the Landsberg-Kaufering concentration camp, his post-war experiences regarding liberation, and his emigration to the United States in 1949.

  5. "Surviving the Holocaust with Chutzpah"

    Consists of one memoir, written in 2000 and revised in 2006, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust with Chutzpah" by Gerhard Jitzchak Bochner, originally of Teplice, Czechoslovakia. He describes pre-war life in Teplice moving to Krakow with his sister; reuniting with his parents, whose property was seized after Kristallnacht; the German invasion and occupation in 1939, and moving with his family to Neipolomice in spring 1940 and to Wieliczka in the summer. The family was separated and Mr. Bochner remembers digging mass graves before being deported to a forced labor camp near Rzeszow. He managed...

  6. "Surviving the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust" by Dr. Ilse Leeser, originally of Cologne, Germany. In the memoir, she describes her memories of Kristallnacht, the arrest of her father and uncles, and being sent, with her sister, to live with family friends in the Netherlands in 1939. Her parents later joined them and she describes the occupation of the Netherlands and going into hiding with the Verhoevens family in Utrecht. Her sister joined an underground organization while her parents were deported and killed at Sobibor before they could go into hiding. She describes...

  7. "Survivor"

    Consists of one testimony, two pages, in English, written by Brian Greenberg regarding his father, Samuel Greenberg, orginally of Schumsck, Poland. In spring of 1942, Samuel escaped the mass shootings of Jews of his town while he was gathering food. He was in various hiding situations, including hiding in hay stacks, before joining the Russian army in 1944 as a mine sweeper. In1945, he marched from Warsaw to Berlin with the Red Army and was wounded in battle. He survived the war and immigrated to the U.S. and married Brian's mother, Ethel, in 1950.

  8. "Süssholz Siblings: The War"

    Consists of one memoir, 50 pages, entitled "Süssholz Siblings: The War" by Friedl Süssholz-Wolfstein, originally of Trier, Germany. She describes her childhood, her father and brother's deportation from Germany as stateless persons in 1938, and her own escape as a child into Belgium, where her family was slowly reunited. After various attempts to escape after the outbreak of war, Friedl and her brothers were arrested in France, and Friedl was deported to Auschwitz, where she worked sorting victim belongings in the "Canada" section of the camp. After Auschwitz was evacuated, Friedl was sent ...

  9. "Svenska Dagbladet" article by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).

    Contains a news article from the Swedish newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet," written by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).

  10. "Symbol of survival: concentration camp money of the Nazi Holocaust"

    Discusses money used in various concentration camps.

  12. "Tatters of childhood"

    Testimony, 206 pages, typescript, titled "Tatters of Childhood," about experiences of author in pre-war Czechoslovakia, occupation, and Theresienstadt.

  13. "Tears of Remembrance"

    Consists of a manuscript, 46 pages, containing a brief narration/introduction by Stuart Robinson, entitled "Tears of Remembrance," followed by scanned photographs and maps, and affidavits with translations. The manuscript relates the experiences of residents of Grünberg, Poland, focusing on Mr. Florian Drzymala, who witnessed the executions of forty-one Jewish women during a death march that came through the town in January 1945. Also contains VHS videotape of an August 1999 meeting with Mr. Drzymala, in which he relates his experiences.

  14. "Ted Arie Doron's Autobiography"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "Ted Arie Doron's Autobiography, written in 2004 by Ted Arie Doron (born Tibor Weisz), originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Doron describes life in Budapest before 1944, his experiences as a young child in the Budapest ghetto, including the deportation and death of his father in Bergen-Belsen, life in post-war Communist Hungary. He later emigrated, first to Israel, then to Canada, and finally to the United States.

  15. "Testimonies and evocations presented to the leadership of the Yad Vashem Memorial"

    Photocopy of typewritten manuscript by Mircea Petru G. Sion, a Romanian Christian, regarding his assistance to Jews during the Holocaust.

  16. "The Activity and Rising of the Hitlerjugend" Until the Outbreak of World War II

    Consists of one research paper entitled "The Activity and the Rising of the Hitlerjugend [Hitler Youth] until the Outbreak of World War II," by Shai Rossler. Includes information gathered from interviews with former members of the Hitler Youth and BDM (Bund Deutscher Maedel, or the League of German Girls) and a discussion of the history of the National Socialist youth movements.

  18. "The Black Fox"

    Screenplay based on "Reynard the Fox," adapted from a Franco-German folk tale of the 12th century by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which draws parallels between man's inhumanity to man as portrayed in the folk tale and that was seen in Hitler's Germany. The film was produced by Image Productions, Inc. and narrated by Marlene Dietrich.

  19. "The bleeding sky : my mother's journey through the fire"

    Relates to the early life of Mala Goldrat Brandsdorfer (née Liss) in Poland; life for Jews under German occupation; experiences and observations in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau; evacuation from Auschwitz; incarceration at Neustadt-Glewe; and liberation.

  20. "The bloody record of Nazi atrocities"

    Consists of two copies of the late 1944 publication, "The Bloody Record of Nazi Atrocities" edited by Joe Weil and published by Arco Publishing Company. The publication is split into two parts, "The Crimes," written by Burnet Hershey, and "The Punishment," written by Johannes Steel. The publication is illustrated with artwork by comic book artist A.M. Froelich and with photographs supplied from the Soviet agency SOVFOTO.