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  1. A memoir and documents relating to Holocaust experiences

    Testimony, plus documents, photocopied, in Russian, with some English translation and an inventory, about the author's experience during the German occupation of Kiev, including an eyewitness account of mass killing at Babi Yar.

  2. A memoir and letter relating to Holocaust experiences

    Testimony, 19 pages, typescript; and letter, 2 pages, typescript, from Ellenberg, of Nashville, TN, describing his experiences as child in Mannheim, witnessing Kristallnacht, arrest and imprisonment at Dachau, being a forced laborer in Paderborn for 4 years, then deportation to Auschwitz.

  3. A memoir and news clippings relating to experiences in Hungary, Auschwitz, and Czechoslovakia

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, plus photocopies of newspaper stories from 1990s that told story of Elizabeth Kishazi. All tell of her pre-war life in Hungary, forced labor, deportation to Auschwitz.

  4. A memoir and photographs relating to Rabstein concentration camp

    Letter to USHMM from ex-POW (Donald Ebsch), relating his experiences and seeking to contact other former prisoners. Was imprisoned in a number of locations between Nov. 1944 and May 1945, but was seeking info about camp Rabstein, a subcamp of Flossenbürg, which had an underground aircraft factory, and from which Ebsch was liberated in May 1945. Includes photos of memorial site in 1993.

  5. A memoir entitled "The Book With the Brown Cover" with related documents

    Testimony, typescript, circa 50 pages, consisting of photocopy of journal kept by donor's father, telling of experiences of Peper family in German and in occupied Holland during the war. Also have a couple of photocopied documents, including letter awarding Allegonda Peper a medal for participation in partisans in Netherlands during occupation.

  6. A memoir entitled "The Survivors of Buchenwald" relating to Nicholas Burliuk's experiences with survivors on a Hospital Ship

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, five pages, by Nicholas Burliuk. Recounts Burliuk's experiences as a U.S. Army medic at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  7. A memoir entitled "Through Hell and Back" relating to experiences in Poland

    Testimony (memoir), typescript, 178 pages, titled "Through Hell and Back," by Michael Levitan, recounting author's experiences in Niemenczyn, Poland.

  8. A memoir for Paul, David and Adam

    The memoir describes the life of Paulette Singer Barrett from 1939 to 1953. It includes the pre-World War II emigration of Paulette's parents from Poland and Romania to Paris, France, Paulette's and her parents' journey to southern France after the Nazis seized Paris, the fate of her relatives who stayed in Poland, the resistance activities of French citizens, and the eventual imigration of Paulette and her family to the United States after the war.

  9. A memoir relating to a survivor's experiences at Pechora concentration camp

    Contains a memoir relating to a survivor's experiences at the Pechora concentration camp

  10. A memoir relating to Charles G. Ipjian and the Turkish persecution of the Armenians

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, unpaginated (circa 100 pages), about life of Charles Ipjian, an Armenian immigrant from Turkey, who came to Chicago in the 1920s.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences as a hidden child in France

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written 1994. Describes experiences of the author's family, Polish emigres in Paris, during the German occupation, including their arrest and internment of parents at Drancy, their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz, and Kranowski's own survival in OSE orphanages and with family members.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences as a hidden child in Novi Sad

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Author was native of Vienna whose family lived in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, during the occupation, which she describes, including her life as a hidden child.

  13. A memoir relating to experiences as a refugee in China

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, about family's immigration to China from Austria.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences as a Soviet Prisoner of War at Hammerstein

    Testimony, handwritten, three pages, about life in Minsk region of Belarus, German invasion, service in Red Army, capture as POW in 1944, life in Hammerstein camp and as forced laborer in Ulm, and liberation.

  16. A memoir relating to experiences during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, typescript, plus one photocopy of news article, some written by Liza Alpert, some by others, about experiences of Leon and Liza Alpert, and their respective experiences, in pre-war Poland, in camps (Dachau, Stutthof), and as DPs.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages. Brief account of Hungarian Holocaust survivor.

  18. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz, and the US after 1947

    Testimony, circa 70 pages, typescript. Most appears to be about Novak's life in U.S. after war, not about what her family experienced during it.

  19. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz, Łódź, Poznań, Dachau, and Muhldorf ghettos

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 4 pages, describes childhood in Saarland, Kristallnacht, emigration of siblings, training at school in Berlin, deportation to Łódź ghetto, and then to Auschwitz and Dachau, and liberation.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, from Sagi, of Delray Beach, FL, but originally of Budapest. Describes deportation from Hungary to Auschwitz, and experiences there, and later deportation to Ravensbrueck.