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  1. Eli W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eli W., who was born in the United States and grew up in a secular home, observing Jewish holidays. He recounts enlisting in the United States Army after Pearl Harbor; training as a tank officer; serving in the Third Army, 11th Armored Division; fighting under Patton in southern Europe and the Battle of the Bulge; capture near Malmedy; observing from a distance the Germans shooting all the American prisoners; immediately escaping; rejoining his unit; the pervasive stench when approaching Mauthausen; entering in the lead tank; shock at the condition of the prisoners; t...

  2. Eli Wallach collection

    Collection of 31 Nazi propaganda photographs found on the floor of the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin, Germany, August 1945.

  3. Elias A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias A., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1930. He recounts his parents' emigration to Argentina; his brother's birth; his father's death; his mother and brother returning to Athens prior to his birth; his mother's remarriage; the births of two stepbrothers; their poverty; working from age seven; benign Italian occupation; German occupation; his mother paying non-Jews to hide them; moving to his grandparents; his employer hiding him and his stepbrothers; his older brother and cousin joining the partisans; his stepfather retrieving his sons (Elias A.'s stepbrothers) ...

  4. Elias C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias C., who was born in Golub-Dobrzyn?, Poland (then Russia) in 1917, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; moving to ?o?dz? in 1936; his father's death in 1938; military service beginning March 1939; assignment to artillery in Inowroc?aw; visiting his mother (he never saw her again); German invasion; surrender; non-Jewish, fellow POWs concealing he was Jewish from the Germans; imprisonment in Zdun?ska Wola; release; returning to ?o?dz?; traveling to Kutno, looking for his sister; returning to Dobrzyn?; forced evacuation; a futile att...

  5. Elias Horowitz: naturalisation certificate

    Naturalisation certificate of Elias Horowitz

  6. Elias Joelsons samling

    • Elias Joelson'c collection

    The two-volume Joelson Personal and Family Archive contains correspondence and other archival documents that testify to the different fates of the Joelson family during the Holocaust.

  7. Elias Mermelstein papers

    Contains photographs and documents illustrating post-war experience of Elias Mermelstein (donor). Includes an immediate post-war portrait image of Elias wearing his concentration camp uniform; a later portrait of him appearing much healthier; and document issued by UNRRA stating donor was living in Eggenfeld-Pfarrkirchen in Germany from December 1945-February 1946.

  8. Elias R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias R., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1932. He recalls details of Jewish life; traveling with his mother to Athens for his uncle's wedding; remaining there in order to be under Italian occupation (Thessalonike? was under German control); having his brother smuggled to Athens; returning to Thessalonike?; ghettoization; obtaining exit documents from Spain (his mother was Spanish); hiding during round-ups; his father's deportation (he did not return); escaping with his mother and brother to Athens with help from the underground; departing in a German militar...

  9. Elias S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elias S., who was born in Petrova, Romania in 1930, the oldest of six children. He recounts the family move to Strîmtura; attending public school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization in another town for a few weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and younger siblings (he never saw them again); transfer with his father to Buchenwald a few days later; separation from his father when he was transferred to Dora, then Nordhausen; slave labor with his cousin constructing undergrou...

  10. Elias Stainfeld. Collection

    This collection contains : three war-time letters from Charlotte Stainfeld to her brother Elias Stainfeld living in France ; documents and three letters with news about acquaintances written by Elias Stainfeld’s (unidentified) friend Blajwajs or Blejwas who was interned at the Le Vernet camp ; a post-war letter sent by survivor Elias Stainfeld from the Monowitz labour camp to the address of his deported sister Charlotte Stainfeld in Antwerp ; three post-war letters delivering the news of his sister and niece’s deportation to Elias Stainfeld ; a letter and a telegram involving Elias Stainfel...

  11. Elias Trybuch papers

    Photographs, of donor as partisan in Belarus during WWII, and of memorial to murdered Jews in donor's hometown (Staipitz), along with letter from Neal Sher of OSI thanking Trybuch for assistance in prosecution of John Avdzej, which led to his expulsion/deportation from USA in 1984 for his role in collaborating with Germans as mayor of Staipitz during occupation.

  12. Elie Cohen memoir

    Consists of one memoir by Elie Cohen, originally of Thessaloniki, Greece. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes his experiences in the ghetto in Greece and his memories of Birkenau, where he was given the number 114222.

  14. Elie Wiesel Lecture

  15. Eliezer Kaplan: Correspondence re Aliyah

    The correspondence consists of copy outgoing letters either authored by or forwarded to Eliezer Kaplan, and relates to the activities of Keren Hayesod (The Palestine Foundation Fund), in particular the settlement project (?) Mifal Bizaron. The letters bear a London address and a PO box in Jerusalem

  16. Eliezer L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eliezer L., who was born in Dyatlovo, Russia (presently Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) in 1908, one of three brothers. He recounts living in Baranavichy; German occupation during World War I; working with the Bolsheviks in the 1917 revolution; his father's death in 1920; participating in Hechalutz; marriage in 1930; the births of two children; Soviet occupation in 1939; banishment by the Soviets to Valozhyn; frequent secret visits to his family; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Minsk; arrest; posing as a non-Jew when Jews were separated; forced labor; escaping to Baran...

  17. Eliezer Löwi photographs

    The photographs depict Eliezer Löwi's experiences after World War II in Belgium and Israel. The images consist of mostly portrait photographs of Eliezer Löwi as a young boy, at his Bar Mitzvah, and as a member of the Israeli Navy. Also included are a photograph of Mr. Löwi and his mother in Israel and a class portrait of schoolchildren in Antwerp, Belgium.

  18. Eliezer Rozenfeld letters

    Consists of copies of letters, dated 1939-1941, in Hebrew and Hungarian, to Eliezer Rozenfeld, who was living in Palestine, from friends and family in Hungary. The original letters are believed to have been destroyed.

  19. Eliezer S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eliezer S., who was born in Bilki, Czechoslovakia, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, then public school; participating in a Mizrachi youth group; attending yeshiva in Vynohradiv; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's draft into a slave labor battalion; his return; German invasion in spring 1944; deportation with his family to the Berehovo ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from his mother and siblings (he never saw them again); a public hanging; transfer with his father to Buchenwald after thirteen days; ...

  20. Eliezer Yerushalmi papers

    Collection consists of several manuscript and typescript drafts of writings by Yerushalmi describing events in the Šiauliai (Shavli) ghetto during the German occupation as well as other topics. Includes a manuscript text in a notebook, titled "Di geshikte fun Shavler geto un fun zefon Lita bekitzur;" manuscript drafts of several plays, including "Profesor Shuster;" and a draft of a novel, "Man iz im mekane di dira, a novele fun plitim in Italye," which is based on the lives of Jewish refugees in post-war Italy.