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  1. Adam M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1927. He describes his family fleeing to Belgium; their peaceful life; German invasion; fleeing to Montpellier; his father's arrest and release due to a French medal received in World War I Polish Army service; life in Le Bousquet-d'Orb from 1940 to 1943; participation in a children's transport, organized by Quakers, to the United States in 1942; its cancellation when the U.S. entered the war; and German occupation. Mr. M. recalls his parents' and brother's internment; their release due to his father's World War I service; h...

  2. Adam P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam P., who was born in Hungary in 1938. He recounts his parents' conversion to Lutheranism when they married; living in Miskolc; his father's emigration to Chile when he was four months old; not joining him due to the war; his warm and loving extended family; German invasion in 1944; being sent to live with non-Jewish neighbors; visiting his mother in the ghetto once (he never saw her again); denunciation; deportation to Kecskeme?t; being retrieved by his foster grandfather; denunciation; deportation to Budapest; retrieval again by the grandfather; denunciation; hid...

  3. Adam Peiperl papers

    The papers consist of identification cards, photographs, and a document relating to the experiences of Adam Peiperl after World War II and in Camp Wegscheid near Linz, Austria, and photographs of the Peiperl family before World War II in Poland.

  4. Adam Rogowski memoir

    Typescript memoir, bound, 264 pages, titled "Lost and Found," an English translation of Adam Rogowski's Hebrew-language memoir of his Holocaust experiences, titled "B'Akalton Yelech Adam."

  5. Adam S. Buynoski photograph collection

    The photographs were taken by Adam S. Buynoski in Apr. 1945 during the liberation of the Landsberg concentration camp. Images include soldiers, civilians, buildings, and bodies. Photographs are 1987 prints from the original 1945 negatives.

  6. Adam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland (then Russia) in 1905. He recounts growing up in ?o?dz?; his family identifying themselves with Polish, not Jewish culture; his brother's execution and his father's imprisonment during the Russian Revolution; obtaining a degree in electrical engineering; retuning to Warsaw; employment by the government beginning in 1931; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; evacuation with his wife and daughter to Romania due to his employment status; volunteering for the Polish military in France; separation from his family; German invasio...

  7. Adam Schatz correspondence

    Consists of letter, dated Jul. 27, 1938, to Mr. Drew from Adam Schatz, Vienna, requesting his help in securing an affidavit for immigration to the United States.

  8. Adam, Wilhelm (Generaloberst)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Generaloberst Wilhelm Adam Lebensdaten 15.09.1877 geb. in Ansbach 08.04.1949 gest. in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Werdegang 19.07.1897 Fahnenjunker im bayerischen Eisenbahn-Bataillon 21.09.1902 Bayerische Telegraphen-Kompanie 22.03.1906 Bayerisches Eisenbahn-Bataillon 01.10.1907 zur bayerischen Kriegsakademie kommandiert 09.03.1908 Bayerisches 1. Pionier-Bataillon und kommandiert zur Fortifikation Ingolstadt 01.10.1910 Bayerisches Eisenbahn-Bataillon und kommandiert zur Zentralstelle des bayerischen Generalstabes 01.10.1911 kommandiert zur Fortifikation Ingolstadt...

  9. Addison Moll collection

    Contains numerous photographs accompanied by a mimeographed text titled "Photos of the Signal Corps, Story of the 166th" (approximately 32 pages). The photos depict events in France, Luxembourg, and western Germany, many with captions on verso.

  10. Additional papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee

    Comprises a minute book, bank statements, cheque books, a card index file, and the Society's fourth report, November 1938

  11. Address by Federal President, Johannes Rau

    This collection contains copies of an address in German and English to the Israeli Parliament by the German Federal President, Johannes Rau, 0n 16 February 2000

  12. Address by Leo Laufer to his liberators at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association

    Consists of a speech given by Leo Laufer at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association on Sept. 20, 1986. Leo Laufer was was liberated from Ohrdruf concentration camp by the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion.

  13. Adek Firestone collection

    Th collection consists of a bar of soap, a book, and an identification badge relating to the experiences of Adek Firestone in a Jewish refugee camp after the Holocaust.

  14. Adela C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adela S., who was born in Jaros?aw, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1912, one of nine children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and relative affluence; attending school; working as a seamstress; marriage in 1931; living with her in-laws in ?an?cut; returning to Jaros?aw; the births of three children; her very happy life; German invasion; her husband's flight to the Soviet Union; joining him with their children (she never saw her parents again); their transport to Siberia; her husband's forced labor chopping wood and hers in a bathhouse; her daughte...

  15. Adela Litwak Rozycki collection

    Collection of documents concerning the experiences of Adela Litwak (donor's mother) who was born Jewish in 1920 in Lwow, Poland [present day Ukraine] and hid during WWII under the false identity Ksenia Osoba.

  16. Adela Roser collection

    Testimonies (2), one written by and about Adela Roser, and the other written by Roser about her late husband, Grigory, describing both of their experiences during Holocaust. Also includes Roser's poetry about the Warsaw Ghetto, and two broadsides, color, in Hebrew, about a Holocaust commemoration.

  17. Adela Salberg memoir

    Contains a handwritten memoir, six pages, in which Adela Salberg describes life in prewar Warsaw; conditions in the Warsaw ghetto; relatives who died in Treblinka concentration camp; her postwar reunion with her husband, Marcus, and daughter, Barbara, who had been in hiding; and their immigration to the United States.

  18. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949.

  19. Adelaide Davidovitch passport

    The passport was issued to Adelaide Davidovitch by the French Consulate in Prague, Czechoslovakia, giving her permission to enter Mexico, leaving from France.

  20. Adele B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele B., who was born in Bełchatów, Poland in 1925, the oldest of three sisters. She recalls her large and close extended family; German invasion; working in a factory producing German uniforms, her father thinking it would keep her safe; her deportation with other factory workers to the Łódź ghetto in 1942; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then to another camp a few days later; slave labor in a munitions factory; a forced march and train transport to Theresienstadt in April 1945; others helping her because she was one of the youngest; helping a dying friend by g...