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  1. Abraham and Rachela Melezin collection

    Typescript text in Hebrew, from 1940s.

  2. Abraham and Simone Slowes collection

    Consists of 27 family photographs, two photo album pages, five documents relating to Abraham Slowes' family in Vilna (Vilnius) before the war, 45 copies of documents relating to Abraham efforts to secure his family's emigration to Palestine during the years of 1940-1945, and a copy of a family history written by Simone Weil Slowes.

  3. Abraham Atsmon papers

    The Abraham Atsmon papers consist of identification papers, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his participation in a partisan brigade in the areas of Słonim and Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American occupation zone of Germany after the war, his support for the state of Israel, his emigration to Israel in 1948, and his subsequent efforts to record the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Bi...

  4. Abraham Aviel Lipkunski manuscript

    Contains an English translation, 189 pages, of Abraham Aviel Lipkunski's published Hebrew manuscript, "Recollections."

  5. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born into a religious home, one of seven children, in Krako?w, Poland, 1924. Mr. B. tells of the sudden outburst of antisemitism in 1935 and of his discouragement at the sight of his father's defeatist attitude after a period of incarceration following the outbreak of the war. He describes his family's evacuation from Krako?w to a small neighborhood; their move back to the city; his unsuccessful attempt to escape from a 1940 deportation order; and his three years of forced labor in an airplane factory in Mielec and conditions in the slave labor cam...

  6. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Moscow, Russia in 1906. He recalls arrest in 1925 due to his leadership of Hashomer Hatzair; being condemned to death; transport to Odesa; exile to Palestine with his mother and sister (his mother had arranged it); working in Haifa, ?Afulah, and Zikhron Ya?ak?ov for two years; admission to engineering school in Paris; arriving in Marseille in 1928; studying in Toulouse; graduation; working in a coal mine, a hotel, and for a Swiss company in Paris; dismissal due to the depression; working as a salesman; establishing a lucrative textile compa...

  7. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, one of four children. He recalls his family's affluence; attending Hebrew school; his mother's death from a stroke; deportations of Jews; the family's exemption due to his father's business; moving to Nitra, thinking it safer; a Catholic man hiding his father, sister, and two brothers in his home for several months; moving to a bunker their rescuer built when it became more dangerous; liberation by Soviet troops four weeks later; returning to Bardejov; emigration to the United States in...

  8. Abraham Benjamin Shmulevsky Papers

    Correspondence, personal and identification documents, and school records, relating to the Russian community in Shanghai.

  9. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon papers

    Contains photographs, legal documents, and booklets pertaining to Dr. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon's family life in Poland and work for the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American occupied zone. Includes pre-war photographs of family life, wartime photographs of partisans in the Brest-Slonim region, photographs of students in classes at the ORT school in Munich, and photographs of Ben-Gurion in Israel in 1948-1949. Also includes documents and identity cards establishing Dr. Blumowitsch as a physician and as an advisor in displaced persons matters.

  10. Abraham Bohrer photograph album

    Contains a WWII photo album from the US Army 45th Signal Corps.

  11. Abraham Bomba - Treblinka

    Abraham Bomba, a barber from Czestochowa, Poland, is featured prominently in the film Shoah. In the outtakes interview he talks about the treatment the Jews received when the Germans first arrived in his town, deportation to Treblinka, and his work cutting the hair of people right before they entered the gas chambers. Bomba escaped from Treblinka and tried to warn the remaining residents of Czestochowa but they did not believe him. In his memoirs published in 2009, Lanzmann calls Bomba "one of the heroes of my film." FILM ID 3197 -- Camera Rolls #1-3A -- 01:00:06 to 01:33:59 Lanzmann asks B...

  12. Abraham Breski testimony

    Contains six pages of translation (pages 5 and 6 are both numbered 5) of first hand account of Abraham Breski, who was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The account documents Breski's experiences being deported from Pruzana, Poland to the Birkenau killing center in Poland in 1943.

  14. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Z?uromin, Poland in approximately 1919. He recalls German invasion; being sent away for forced labor; returning to find no Jews; traveling to Warsaw; finding his parents and siblings; escaping with his brother to P?on?sk; being joined by his mother, another brother, and sister; their deportation; staying in Strzegowo-Osada, then M?awa; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in December 1942; their assignment sorting clothing of murdered Jews; living with the Sonderkommando, including Leyb Langfus and Zalman Gradowski, whose diaries were found an...

  15. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1907, one of three children. He recounts his father's profession as a master diamond cutter; the family moving to Amsterdam in 1907; their assimilated lifestyle; returning to Antwerp in 1928; training with his father as a diamond cutter; joining Maccabi and a non-sectarian sport club; marriage; the birth of a son; his wife's death from illness in 1939; living with his parents so his mother could care for his son; German invasion in 1940; obtaining papers as non-Jews; his parents going into hiding; moving to Brussels wher...

  16. Abraham D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham D., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three brothers. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; brief Soviet invasion, then German occupation; his father and brothers fleeing to the Soviet zone (he never saw them again); forced relocation; his mother posing as a non-Jew and earning money as a messenger; her disappearance; living with his brothers' friend; hiding with Polish friends when the Jews were liquidated; leaving when his rescuers feared discovery; learning some Jews were taken to Budzyn?; walking there; a privileged kitc...

  17. Abraham Duke papers

    The Abraham Duke papers consists of copyprint photographs of Abraham Duke and his family. Also included is an untitled memoir of Duke's wartime experiences in various ghettos and labor camps, as well as photocopies of articles relate to his childhood in Minsk, Poland (now Mir, Belarus).

  18. Abraham E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham E., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in 1925. He describes the German invasion; fleeing eastward to Sokolow; returning to Os?wie?cim; finding their homes destroyed and possessions stolen; forced labor; SS troops photographing atrocities against the Jews; and evacuation of all local Jews as part of construction of the Auschwitz complex. Mr. E. recalls evacuation to Sosnowiec; his inability to find food; smuggling activities; incarceration and being terribly beaten; his disbelief that humans could treat others, especially a youngster, with such brutality; forc...

  19. Abraham F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham F., who was born in Łomża, Poland in 1919. He recalls his Hasidic family; attending law school in Warsaw; being drafted into the Polish military in 1939; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; imprisonment in a POW camp; returning to Soviet-occupied Łomża; fleeing to L'viv with a Zionist group; their unsuccessful escape attempt; organizing a kibbutz in Vilna in 1940; bringing his brother there; working in a Jewish theater in Kovno; German invasion; an unsuccessful escape attempt; ghettoization; his underground activities; volunteering for a labor camp to jo...

  20. Abraham family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, artifacts illustrating Reha, Ruth and Walter Abraham's experiences surrounding the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, prewar Tel Aviv and postwar Switzerland, and correspondence.