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  1. Irene R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene R., who was born in Vynohradiv, Ukraine in 1922 to a Hasidic family of twelve children. She recalls visits to grandparents in rural areas; one brother's emigration to the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations resulting in their impoverishment; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from the males, her mother, younger siblings, and relatives; remaining with two sisters, an aunt, and cousins; her sister giving birth to a son (he was taken away by the Jewish midwife); assisting and assistance from her re...

  2. Irene Reiner collection

    The Irene Reiner collection illustrates the experiences of Irén (Irene) Mondschein Reiner surrounding the war. It includes her passport, original photographs, identification cards, translated correspondence, and original certificates. A hardcover Hungarian passport issued to Irén Reiner in 1946 also includes the name of her son, Robert. A stamped Jewish identification card with an original portrait photo of Irene, issued in 1944, indicates that as a registered nurse, the holder must wear a yellow star and can travel between a set number of hours during the day in Budapest. Documents relatin...

  3. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a pair of child's shoes, cut paper works, a trunk and an autograph album and books relating to the experiences of Irene Rosenthal Gibian, her husband, Otto Gibian, and stepdaughter Susanna before and during the Holocaust in Austria and in the United States after their emigration.

  4. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born near Warsaw, Poland in 1921. She recounts her father's difficulty earning a living as a physician in ?o?dz? due to antisemitism; attending music conservatory in ?o?dz?, then in Warsaw in 1938; antisemitic incidents; unsuccessfully attempting to emigrate to Palestine; her father's draft into the Polish army; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; hiding using false papers; joining her mother in the Warsaw ghetto to avoid exposure; moving to the Piotrko?w Trybunalski ghetto with her mother with help from a Polish friend; avoiding separation from her ...

  5. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in 1914 in Ulm, Germany. She recalls an affluent childhood; being forced to leave Germany when Hitler came to power because her father was a Czech citizen; emigration to Vienna, then Czechoslovakia; work in her uncle's summer resort for five years; deportation to a Polish work camp in 1939; and escape with a Polish and a Czech prisoner. Mrs. S. relates finding her parents in Prague; obtaining false papers; learning her brothers had emigrated to Palestine; meeting a former neighbor who exposed her; incarceration in Terezi?n; caring for a German o...

  6. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., a non-Jew, who was born in Cephalonia, Greece in 1929, the second of four children. She recounts the benign Italian occupation in 1941; German invasion in 1944; the murder of a large group of Italian soldiers by Germans; troops entering her village on April 23, 1944; separation of the men from the women and children, including her father and older brother; burning of the village; fleeing with her mother and younger siblings to her father's sister in Samos; her mother visiting her father and brother in jail; learning all the men had been executed on May 1; su...

  7. Irene S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in 1925 in the Galician town of Vizezhany and grew up in Grudziadz, Poland. She describes her life as the daughter of a prominent local musician; her family's move to Bia?ystok in 1938; and their life there under Russian and German occupation. She speaks of the ghettoization of Bia?ystok; ghetto life; her underground activities there; and her capture and transport to Majdanek by way of Treblinka. She tells of her experiences in Majdanek; in a small nearby labor camp; in Auschwitz; and as a slave laborer in Germany where she was liberated by the ...

  8. Irene Shapiro papers

    Contains a memoir entitled "Revisiting the Shadows," and songs written by Irene Shapiro [donor] in the Bialystok Ghetto and in Lipstadt.

  9. Irene T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene T., who was born in Poland in 1912. She recalls her schooling in Drohobych; moving to Krako?w in 1930; marriage; her son's birth in 1938; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; moving to Krzeszowiec, her husband's hometown; searching for her husband in Krako?w after he was taken for forced labor; a German officer who allowed him to leave the labor camp in 1943; hiding until they were reported a few days later; his return to camp in an effort to protect Mrs. T. and their son; obtaining false papers; working as a seamstress; finding hiding places for her ...

  10. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene W., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1925, one of six children. She recounts her father's death in 1936; moving to Warsaw to join two older siblings living with relatives; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; her older brother leaving for home; being smuggled out by non-Jews from Zawiercie; traveling to Wolbrom, then Pilica; living with her uncle and grandfather; smuggling herself with a cousin to Zawiercie; difficulties obtaining food since she was not registered; deportation with other girls to Sosnowiec, then Gabersdorf in February 1942; ...

  11. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene W., who was born in Kobern, Germany in 1921. She recalls feeling secure and respected in the German community; her father's arrest during Kristallnacht; working as a nurse's aide in a Jewish hospital in Cologne; anti-Jewish regulations; sending packages to her parents who were deported to Lublin in March 1942; forced relocation of the hospital into a fortress on the outskirts of Cologne; deportation with about fifty Jews on a passenger train to Terezi?n in 1943; working in a hospital; assistance from her boyfriend's family; transport to Auschwitz; praying during...

  12. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; her close relationship with her grandparents; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; her father's emigration to the Netherlands; his marriage to a non-Jew; attending boarding schools in Belgium and the Netherlands; realizing they had to leave after Kristallnacht; obtaining papers for the United States with assistance from a stranger in Boston who shared their last name; emigration via the Netherlands in July 1939...

  13. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene W., who was born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia in 1930. Mrs. W. describes her childhood; the German occupation of the Sudetenland and her subsequent fear; the liquidation of her town; her family's deportation, first to Munka?cs, then to Auschwitz, where they were separated upon arrival; and her sustaining relationship with her sister, with whom she survived the war. She tells of working in the "Canada" kommando in Auschwitz; the death march from Auschwitz; starvation; and liberation. She also recalls her ability to survive by dissociating herself from the horrors to...

  14. Irene White: papers relating to Eli Alkana and the Holocaust in Luckenwalde

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists of material relating to Eli Elkana (Georg Michelsohn), a Jewish poet and dentist from Dessau (now Saxony Anhalt), who was persecuted by the Nazis as early as 1932/33 for his opposing ideas and writings. He, his wife and his daughter managed to emigrate whilst other family members perished in the Holocaust.Personal papers Including Eli Elkana's manuscripts of 'Die Ritter von der weichen Birne' (1952) (1761/2) and 'Die Militär-Parade' (written as part of a letter to his daughter) (1761/1) as ...

  15. Irenka and Ladislav Gottlieb correspondence

    Correspondence to Irenka and Ladislav Gottlieb in London and Blanka, a cousin in USA from the grandparents of the donor. Includes translations of the Slovakian material.

  16. Irgun Brit Zion photographs

    Consists of 31 photographs originally gathered by Hana Zippora Trozki, a member of the Irgun Brit Zion, a Zionist youth organization in the Kovno ghetto, which took part in resistance activities. She pasted these photographs of her family and friends before the war and in the ghetto in her journals, which she then hid. Hana was killed in an aktion on July 8, 1944. When her sister, Sara Trozki Koper was liberated from the Stutthof concentration camp, she discovered these journals and removed the pictures, burning the journals for fear of being discovered with them.

  17. Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova collection

    The collection contains two items: a photocopy of a typed interview with Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova on April 24, 1982, and a photocopy of a printed version of her personal 1941-1944 diary during the Nazi occupation of Kiev. Ms. Khoroshunova, an ethnic Ukrainian (then 28 years old) provides a detailed account of the events in Kiev under Nazi occupation, including the September 1941 Babi Yar massacre, activities of the Communist underground, shortage of food, Nazi repressions against civilians and her own family.

  18. Irina Farkas Berkovits collection

    The collection consists of two dresses and a suit (jacket and skirt) that belonged to Irina Farkas Berkovits before the war in Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania. The collection also contains an accretion of an additional two dresses that belonged to Irina Farkas Berkovits before the war in Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania. They were saved by Mr. Keleman who was a tenant of the donor's parents, and he returned these dresses to Elly Berkovits when she returned from slavery. In addition, another suit (jacket and skirt) is also part of the collection.

  19. Iris Avni-Menzer family collection

    The collection consists of tefillin with storage pouch and photographs relating to the experiences of Herta (Iris) Menzer and the Menzer and Steiner families in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, and the surrounding region during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Irit R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irit R., who was born in Min?sk Mazowiecki, Poland. She recalls her family's poverty; German invasion; ghettoization; her father's beating by Germans; public humiliation of a rabbi which ended her belief in God; her father's death from starvation in 1941; supporting her family doing farm work; her mother placing her with a farmer in 1942; learning of the ghetto's liquidation; being denounced as a Jew while working under an assumed name; a Polish woman from Ka?uszyn adopting her as a Christian; denouncement by her previous employer; obtaining Christian identity papers ...