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  1. Isaac Stone collection

    Contains two copies of the International Military Tribunal indictment, 1945, of the major war criminals with attached list of errata; "International military tribunal Nurnberg Germany 1945-1946" which summarizes the indictment and brief biographies of the major war criminals; "Guide to captured German documents, prepared by Gehard L. Weinberg, 1952"; and "Conference on Jewish material claims against Germany : Annual Report 1965."

  2. Isaac V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac V., who was born in Lyon, France in 1921. He describes his father's Zionist beliefs; antisemitic harassment in school; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; hiding under false papers after 1943; arrest with his family in May 1944; incarceration with his father in Montluc; transfer with his family to Drancy, via Paris, in June 1944; deportation; separation from his mother and sister upon arriving at a camp (he never saw them again); transfer with his father to Buna/Monowitz; daily beatings, hunger, and public hangings; separation from his father (he never saw him ag...

  3. Isaac W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac W., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1911, one of six children. He recounts attending a German school; manufacturing woolens; German invasion; fleeing to Lublin; traveling to Krako?w, posing as a non-Jewish Pole; living in a suburb to avoid ghettoization; brief imprisonment in Montelupich in 1942; forced relocation into the Krako?w ghetto; transfer with his family to P?aszo?w in March 1943; working at a factory; separation from his parents during the last selection in March 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk; observing Yom Kippur; slave labor; trans...

  4. Isaac Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac Z., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1920, the oldest of four children. He recalls living in Li?va?ni; antisemitic harassment; participation in Gordonyah; leading Gordonyah in Daugavpils and Ri?ga; Soviet occupation in 1940; returning to Li?va?ni; German invasion in June 1941; escaping to the Soviet Union; deportation to Cheli?a?binsk; forced labor; transferring to Alma-Ata; teaching in western Kazakhstan; enlisting in the Soviet military; serving in Stalingrad; transfer to forced labor in coal mines in Novosibirskai?a? because he was born in a capitalist countr...

  5. Isaac Zubovsky papers

    Contains a letter written by Isaac Zubovsky's uncle from Kiev, Russia (August 1941), a certificate given to Isaac Zubovsky's mother by NKVD station of evacuation in Kiev (July 1941), a certificate given to Isaac Zubovsky's father's military unit (July 1941), a photograph of Isaac Zubovsky's uncle Yasha Zaslavsky (1941), and an article written by Isaac Zubovsky entitled, "One more time how it happened."

  6. Isabel a short novel

    Photocopy of "Isabel..." written by Suzanne de Palma (Margot E. Lawson) in 1981. Drawing on the writer's experiences during World War II, the novel describes the protagonist Isabel's involvement in the Dutch resistance to Nazi occupation, her imprisonment, her romance with a man named Alfred who died in Nazi hands, and the liberation of the Netherlands.

  7. Isabel Banas photograph collection

    The collection consists of an envelope and fifteen photographs taken during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  8. Isabella L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isabella L., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary, in 1924. Mrs. L. vividly recalls ubiquitous antisemitism during her childhood; her father's attempts to secure visas for them while in the United States organizing an exhibition for the 1939 World's Fair; their difficult situation during the early years of the war; German occupation; ghettoization of Kisva?rda; deportation in cattle cars with her family to Auschwitz in May 1944; selection by Mengele; the killing of her mother and youngest sister; and receiving messages from her brother scrawled on scraps of wood. She te...

  9. Isabella Leitner collection

    Consists of various materials concerning Isabella Katz Leitner and her family. The documents relate specifically to the emigration of the Katz family members to the United States and the search for other family members who were left behind in Germany. Also included is an audiotape containing a speech by Hajo Kolshorn, a former junior officer of the Nazi German navy. The speech is one in a series from the "History as Recollection" program at Marietta College. The speech discusses antisemitism.

  10. Isabella Leitner letters relating to searches for Holocaust survivors

    Consists of eight letters from Holocaust survivors to Isabella Leitner and her sisters in 1945. The letters presumably concern attempts by survivors to locate members of their families after the Holocaust.

  11. Isabella Roth: personal papers

    Collection of papers of Isabella Roth, an Austrian Jewish refugee.

  12. Isabelle Bates photograph

    Consists of a black and white image of three teenage girls sitting near a tree, holding toddlers. Inscription on verso: "Isabelle in camp 43/ sick already," dated March 1943. Donor is the child seated on the far left, marked with "X." The photograph was taken in a Swiss internment camp.

  13. Isabelle G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isabelle G., who was born in Sopot, Germany in 1926. She recalls expulsion from ballet class, then school because she was Jewish; moving to Danzig in 1936 to attend a Jewish school; attacks by German youths; participation in a "Bar Kochba" sport club; harassment resulting in the family's move to ?o?dz? in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization in 1940; her father's death from tuberculosis; her brother's deportation in 1942; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944; constant thoughts of hunger and food; their transfer to Sasel; bonding with the wo...

  14. Isabelle H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isabelle H., who was born in Czortko?w, Poland (presently Chortkiv, Ukraine) in 1939. She recounts her first memory of her mother bringing her to a Catholic family (her mother survived on false papers); spending most of her time in the attic; forming close bonds with the family; a few occasions when she was almost discovered; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her mother a year later; living with her in Katowice, then Krako?w; hitchhiking to Austria; living at displaced persons camps; visiting her father in Vienna; being rejected since he had a mistress; being ...

  15. Isabelle Rendina collection

    Consists of six photographs of the burial of victims of an unknown concentration camp by the Ninth Army of the United States.

  16. Isador J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isador J., who was born in Vienna, Austria, the older of two children. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; his family's orthodoxy; completing high school; German occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; a fight with a non-Jewish friend; leaving the next day without telling his family; traveling by train to Innsbruck; interdiction while trying to enter Switzerland; being kept at the railroad station and placed on a train to Vienna the next day; jumping from the train; walking toward the Alps; a shepherd sheltering him overnight, then escorting and directing hi...

  17. Isadore Berenstein memoir

    Contains a memoir, 92 pages, which documents Isadore Berenstein's Holocaust-related experiences in Sochocin, Poland, and in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  18. Isadore H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isadore H., who was born in Kielce, Poland. He recounts playing soccer as a member of Hapoel; German invasion; forced labor and starvation in the ghetto; separation from his family; dead bodies on the streets; deportation to Treblinka; escaping the gas chamber by mingling with workers burying corpses from the trains; smuggling himself to a barrack; working in the horse stable; Sunday boxing matches when prisoners were forced by guards to beat each other to death; suicides; escaping with a group of inmates under open gunfire; traveling at night with assistance from non...

  19. Isadore Hollander collection

    Consists of a newspaper, the "Deggendorf Center Review," issued by the Department of Culture of the Jewish Committee in DP Center 7, dated December 1945, Deggendorf, Germany, in Yiddish and English; a magazine clipping from an unknown source showing photographs of atrocities at various concentration camps and sites. not dated; and an article entitled, "Atrocities- Capture of the German Concentration Camps Piles Up Evidence of Barbarism That Reaches The Low Point of Human Degradation."

  20. Isaia Zabludowski collection

    Consists of a letter, written on the letterhead of the Embassy of Japan in Rome, Italy, to Towja Zabludowski in Trieste, Italy. The Embassy informed Towja that Japanese law prohibited issuing entrance visas to persons of Jewish origin.