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  1. "The story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"

  2. "The story of Dr. Josef Jaksy"

    Includes of "The story of Dr. Josef Jaksy" by Amira Trattner. The speech includes testimony by several of Jaksy's acquaintances including Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York. The testimonies describe Jaksy's activities as a Righteous Gentile in Czechoslovakia where he was responsible for the rescue and successful escape of many Jews and political deviants. Also included is an invitation to a reception given in Jaksy's honor at the Consulate General of Israel in NewYork.

  3. "The Story of Esther Salamanovich Fortgang 1938-1948"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "The Story of Esther Salamanovich Fortgang 1938-1948," by Esther Fortgang, originally of Praszka, Poland. In the memoir, written circa 1990, the author describes her experiences in Praszka after the outbreak of war, forced labor in a small camp for women in Grünberg, forced labor in an ammunition factory in Neusaltz, the arrival of Hungarian women from Auschwitz, a forced march to Flossenbürg, her liberation in Bergen-Belsen, and recovery in Sweden.

  4. "The Story of my Life"

    Consists of one memoir, 28 pages, entitled "The Story of my Life" by Berta Rosenblatt Berlin, originally of a small town near Buczacz, Poland. In the memoir, written in July 1974, Mrs. Berlin describes the family's move to Vienna during World War I, her marriage to Hersh Berlin, and the anti-Jewish persecution in Vienna after the Anschluss. After Kristallnacht, the Berlin family was able to reunite in Belgium, as Mr. Berlin, then their son Kurt, and finally Berta Berlin, were able to escape Vienna. The family immigrated to the United States through France, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 and 19...

  5. "The story of the Jews of Vilkomir"

    Consists of a testimony given by three Kronik family members for the "Jewish Committee." At the time, they were in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany awaiting emigration to Israel. Describes: the Kronik family's history; the Lithuanian Jewish communities of Musnik (a.k.a. Musninkai), Sirvintas (a.k.a. Sirvintos, Sirvintai), and Vilkomir (a.k.a. Ukmerge, Wilkomir, Vilkomierz); the communities' responses to the Soviet and Nazi occupations; and the fate of the communities' members. Also includes a list of Lithuanian partisans and police who participated in the mass execution of Jews.

  6. "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families"

    Consists of one memoir, on CD-ROM, entitled "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families" by Jerzy Kubowski. The memoir, which is in Russian, Polish, and English, includes excerpts from various family members' memoirs, letters, and copies of photographs and drawings. Members of the family were able to immigrate, while others were sent to the Warsaw ghetto. Some survived the ghetto, while others either perished in the ghetto or in the Treblinka extermination camp.

  7. "The story of two sisters"

    Describes the experiences of the author's twin sisters, Hela and Rela Markovitz, before World War II; the German invasion of Poland; the confiscation of Jewish property; the establishment of the ghetto in Kraków, Poland; the death of the author's parents; the twins' deportation to and experiences in the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland, and the camps of Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, and Hasag-Leipzig; Aktionen; the sanitary conditions and distribution of food; sexual favors being sold by female inmates for food; the twins' survival of a death march; their liberation and reunion with surviving fa...

  8. "The Struggle for Life"

    Consists of one typed translation of a memoir, approximately 47 pages, entitled "The Struggle for Life" by Feivel (Shraga) Solomiansky. In the memoir, he describes hiding during two German raids on his hometown of Iliya (now Ilʹi︠a︡), when inhabitants were rounded up and shot, and his subsequent escape to the nearby forest, where he hid and eventually joined a partisan group. He describes raids against German units and German-held towns; attempts to free Jews from ghettos; a raid in Miadel (Myadel); the daily life of his unit; a raid on the Lida airport; and finally encountering the Red Arm...

  9. "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter"

    Consists of one article entitled "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter," written by his stepson, Reinhold Beuer-Tajovsky. The article describes Szlechter's life as a lawyer in Lwów, fighting in the Polish Army immediately after the German invasion in 1939, and having to flee to Romania, leaving his wife and daughters, to avoid capture. From Romania, he made his way to France and joined the Free Polish Army, spending the war as a member of the French resistance group in the Toulouse-Haute Garonne region. After the war, he discovered his family had perished and married H...

  10. "The United States Army's War Crimes Trials Program in Post-World War II Germany and Austria"

    "The United States Army's War Crimes Trials Program in Post-World War II Germany and Austria" is an unpublished manuscript written by Scott McKay Wallace as an independent study project in 1976-1977. The manuscript describes the administrative and legal aspects of the American war crimes trials, which took place almost exclusively at the former Dachau concentration camp, as well as a history of the trials themselves. The manuscript also includes appendices with photographs and documents regarding the executions of the convicted war criminals.

  11. "The Upside of Memory"

    Consists of two copies of a DVD-ROM entitled "The Upside of Memory," by Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, which follows her parents, Chris and Miles Lerman (a founder and Chairman Emeritus of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council) on a trip to Poland in 2004, to dedicate the new Belzec Memorial and for Miles to receive the Polish Commander's Cross medal from President Aleksander Kwaś́niewski. The Lerman family also visits Tomaszów-Lubelski (birthplace of Miles and his brother, Jona Lerman) and the Auschwitz concentration camp. Chris, an Auschwitz survivor, guides her grandchildren t...

  12. "The Wisconsin Light"

    Consists of 27 issues of "The Wisconsin Light," a monthly (and later bi-weekly) newspaper that discussed gay and lesbian issues. These issues, dated from September 1988-November 1989, include articles by Dr. Terry Boughner in which he described the experiences of and interviewed homosexual Holocaust survivors.

  13. "The words of our mouths: our family's heritage as told by members of the Beer-Lasner, Goss-Kaufman, Katz-Rosenstein, Ribak-Weiner families"

    Includes of a copy of "The words of our mouths..." written by Robert H. Weiner. It concerns the family heritage of the Weiner family and other related families of American Jews. The work includes information about Jewish emigration in the 19th century, the assimilation of immigrant Jews into American Society, and European History. Weiner uses quotes of family members and quotes from family correspondence in order to illustrate the family's story in both Europe and the United States. Special "Who's Who" segments, used alongside photographs, help trace the family tree. Also included is an ess...

  14. "The Yellow Armband"

    Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, titled "The Yellow Armband," by Zalmen Feuerwerker (now Sol Feuer), originally of Sighet, Romania. Mr. Feuer describes his experiences in a labor battalion, his time in the Buchenwald concentration camp, his experiences repairing railway tracks as part of a labor battalion which survived frequent Allied bombings, and his liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Feuer concentrates on the story of his four closest friends, Zoli (a soccer player), Rozi (a religious scholar), Mendl (a holy man), and Doc (Dr. Friedman). Only Mr. Feuer (Freiu) and Rozi ...

  15. "Their Aims, Our Aims"

    Contains a brochure entitled "Their Aims, Our Aims," published approximately 1940 by the League for Human Rights, Freedom and Democracy. Contains quotations contrasting Nazi statements of principles with those of American political and labor leaders. Includes references to Roosevelt's Four Freedoms; the struggles of the labor movement in countries under dictatorships; and extensive quotes from R. Walther Darre and President Roosevelt.

  16. "Theresienstadt;" Gerty Spies poetry

    Consists of a photocopy of "Theresienstadt," a collection of poetry written by Gerty Spies, a survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto. This copy was used by Ms. Spies when presenting her poetry and includes several handwritten corrections. It is inscribed to Elisabeth Schernig, 1983.

  17. "This is Impossible to Forget"

    Consists of one typed memoir, in Russian, written in 2002 by Yevgeny Vodlinger, originally of Krasnye Okna, Ukraine. In the memoir, Mr. Vodlinger describes his experiences as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army during World War II, including how he was treated by fellow soldiers. After the war, he learned that his parents and brother had been taken from their hometown of Ribnita and executed in a mass-shooting by the Nazis near Dubosary.

  18. "Thoughts prior to revisiting Frankfurt"

    Consists of one essay, 4 pages, entitled "Thoughts prior to revisiting Frankfurt" written by Marianne Horkheimer Lewis in July 1993. In the essay, Ms. Lewis talks about her feelings prior to, during, and after a trip to Frankfurt, where she had spent her childhood. Ms. Lewis left Frankfurt on a Kindertransport in 1939 and lost her father in the Holocaust (her mother had passed away in 1937).

  19. "Through the Wall Into the World."

    Contains a manuscript entitled "Through the Wall Into the World," relating to experiences in Berlin and Vienna, 1933-1938; England, 1938-1949; and Berlin after 1949.

  20. "Tilde's Story"

    Consists of a manuscript, 27 pages, entitled "Tilde's Story," consisting of a transcription of a 1977 oral testimony by Tilde Marchetti, which was transcribed in June 1995. In the testimony, Mrs. Marchetti describes her childhood in Sarajevo, her escape using fake documents to Split (Spalato), which was occupied by Italy, and the experience of being sent, with her parents, to Oderzo in northern Italy. She was able to escape capture and deportation with the help of her future husband, Ezio Marchetti, whom she met in Oderzo. Includes copies of a post-war letter telling Mrs. Marchetti's story,...