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  1. A memoir relating to experiences in Minsk and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages (with typed English translation), circa 1990s. Describes experiences in Minsk ghetto.

  2. A memoir relating to experiences in Odessa and Domanyovka ghettos

    Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, about family's experience in Odessa and Domanevka under German occupation.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Palemonas and Stutthof

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, about author's experiences in German occupied Lithuania, in unnamed town/ghetto as laborer, deportation to Stutthof.

  4. A memoir relating to experiences in Podolsk and Pechora

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopy of handwritten text. Describes German occupation in Mogilev-Podolsk.

  5. A Memoir relating to experiences in Poland and Germany during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, relating experiences of donor, originally of Kalisz, Poland, in pre-war times, German occupation, and her own time as forced laborer at Neusalz (sub-camp of Gross Rosen) and Flossenbürg.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Poland during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Writes of family's life in Krakow, German occupation, hiding in Nowy Targ.

  7. A memoir Relating to experiences in Polonnoye

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript. Describes invasion of Soviet Union in 1941, when author was as Kamenets-Podolsk region of Ukraine, working in a hospital, and life under occupation in town of Polonnoye.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences in Przemysl, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript. Description of experiences in Dobromil, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Radom, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 19 pages. Discusses German invasion and occupation of hometown of Radom, Poland; life in ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz, and then to other locations in Germany as forced laborer.

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Romania

    Testimony, 1 page, photocopy of typescript (on Claims Conference letterhead), containing summary of telephone conversation with Abram and Mikhail Sheynman, describing occupation of their hometown in Moldova by German and Rumanian troops.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in Russia, and other countries

    Testimony, typescript, 199 pages, titled "A Russian Chronicle, Michael L. Zlatovski, 1881-1951." Inscribed "For Rae and Jack, fondly, Helen." On verso of title page is "Copyright, 1976, Helen Zlatovski-Tenenbaum." Memoir describes life in pre-Revolutionary Russia, the early years of the Soviet Union, and immigration to the United States.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Satoraljaujhely and Auschwitz

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, describing author's experiences in in Hungarian village (unnamed) where her family lived, impact of antisemitic laws, movement to ghetto of Sátoraljaújhely, deportation to Auschwitz, and as forced laborer in Magdeburg until liberation.

  13. A memoir relating to experiences in Sharkowszczyna and Glubokoye ghettos and as a partisan

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, concerning Zorach Serkin's experience in occupied Belarus, including Szarkowszczyna ghetto

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in Sokoly

    Testimony, approximately 50 pages, photocopy of typescript, from Esther Wondolowicz Goldman, of Norfolk, VA, written in 1994. Describes life in Poland during Holocaust.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences in Sosnowiec and Peterswaldau

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, in Polish with partial English translation. Experience of author, from Czestochowa, Poland, and what she experienced in that town, Sosnowiec, and Gross Rosen, among other places and labor camps during the war.

  16. A memoir relating to experiences in Terezin and Prague

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, circa 1990s. Discusses childhood in Vienna, the Anschluss, work as a forced laborer in Saxony (near Dresden), evacuation to Theresienstadt after bombing of Dresden, and the end of the war.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in the Bialystok, Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Kratzau ghettos

    Testimony, typescript, 6 pages, describing childhood in Bialystok, Soviet and then German occupation, deportation to Treblinka and Auschwitz, forced labor.

  18. A Memoir relating to experiences in the Chernauti Ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, in Russian, describing experiences of Pilper and his family in the Chernivtsi ghetto.

  19. A memoir relating to experiences in the Domaniovka ghetto

    Testimony, typescript (copy), 2 pages, about author's experiences growing up in Odessa, arrest and transfer to Domianovka camp

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in the Glusk ghetto and as a partisan in Byelorussia

    Testimony, handwritten, 2 pages, circa 1990s. Describes experiences in village of Glusk (in Poland or Belarus).