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  1. Jack Nusan Porter collection

    Contains materials donated by Jack N. Porter. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Jack O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack O., who was born in Sierpc, Poland in 1924, one of six children. He recalls his family's poverty; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization in Sierpc, then Warsaw; escaping back to Sierpc; transfer to another ghetto, then M?awa; transport to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his family; slave labor collecting corpses; sterilization; contact with his father; receiving food from him; assignment to a bricklayer's school; castration on one side in Josef Mengele's "experimental" hospital and, a year later, on the other side; a privileged position sortin...

  3. Jack O. Horton letter describing liberation of slave laborers near Barth, Germany

    The letter was written by Jack O. Horton in 1990 and contains his recollections about the liberation of Jewish slave laborers at a German airport near Barth, Germany.

  4. Jack Ozarow papers

    The papers consist of a letter written on June 27, 1941, by Lonia (nee Russlander) Ozarow of Warsaw, Poland, to her brother, Leon Russlander, in Washington, D.C. and the envelope in which the letter was mailed.

  5. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Koniecpol, Poland in 1915. He speaks of prewar family life; moving as a boy to the larger town of Częstochowa; his family's flight after the German occupation in 1939; and their return a short time later to the beginning of ghettoization. He relates his and his brother's flight to Russian occupied territory and his return to Częstochowa in 1941 to be with his parents. He discusses life in the ghetto; the liquidation of the Częstochowa ghetto; his selection for slave labor in factories in the remaining "small ghetto"; his unsuccessful attemp...

  6. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1912. He recalls his family's long history in Holland; holiday and Sabbath observances; their Zionist affiliations; meeting his first wife at Mizrachi summer camp; believing events in Germany would not impact them; German invasion in May 1940; his mother's non-Jewish friends offering to hide them; marriage; round-ups; constant fear; being caught and released in 1942; assistance from his non-Jewish boss; deportation to Westerbork in July 1943; learning his parents had just been deported east (he never saw them again); ...

  7. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1912, one of four children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-1758), he recounts postwar hospitalization for typhus; traveling to Trier and Hannover; return to the Netherlands; marriage; and encountering antisemitism. Mr. P. discusses the deaths of many relatives and his strong will to survive in the camps. He shows photographs, documents, and the yellow star he wore.

  8. Jack Penrose Stockton papers

    Includes photographs of corpses at liberated concentration camp (likely Ohrdruf), and photocopied documents relating to military career of Jack Stockton in U.S. Army, and letter from U.S. Army in 1993 confirming that his unit liberated Ohrdruf.

  9. Jack Postman collection

    Consists of documents and photographs regarding the pre-war and wartime experiences of Jakob Postmann (later Jack Postman), originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war identity and school documentation, a German passport, emigration paperwork, and wartime education and employment documents in the United States.

  10. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Bran?sk, Poland in 1913. He recalls German invasion; Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; fleeing deportation with his brother's family; hiding in the forest, then in the stable of Polish acquaintances; placing his brother's infant with a family in another village; rescuing the child upon hearing it would be turned in; separation from the others during a German attack; entering the Bia?ystok ghetto; and learning his brother and family had been killed. Mr. R. recounts forced labor in early 1943; hiding duri...

  11. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1913 to a family of ten children. He recounts attending yeshiva in Warsaw; working for a bank in Sosnowiec from 1935 to 1938, then in businesses in Katowice and Be?dzin; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat; hiding in a bunker with his fiancee and siblings during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943; separation from his sisters and fiancee upon arrival at Auschwitz; a privileged office job; visiting his fiancee in the women's camp; transfer with his brother to Sachsenhausen in Oc...

  12. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1913. In addition to information included in HVT-995, Mr. R. discusses continuing nightmares and health problems resulting from his experiences; the difficulty of conveying the totality of his camp experiences; his lack of belief in basic human goodness; continuing anger toward the German people; and the injustice of their never really having been punished.

  13. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1925. He recalls a wonderful prewar life; Soviet occupation in 1940; his older brother joining the Soviet military; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence by Latvians; ghettoization in fall 1941; forced labor; mass killings including his mother and brothers; slave labor with his father sorting possessions of the murdered Jews; the Jewish council and police; arrival of Jews from western Europe; his father's transfer to Lenta in 1943; joining him; encountering a cousin; transfer to Salispils, then back to Lenta; a public ...

  14. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He describes his very loving parents; attending Czech public school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish measures; deportation of non-Hungarian Jews to Poland; clandestinely studying for his Bar mitzvah with a Polish rabbi in 1941; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; his brother's draft into a labor battalion (he never saw him again); separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival at Auschwitz on March 26, 1944; transfer with his father to Buchenwald and Zeitz; forced labor at the Brabag factor...

  15. Jack Ratz collection

    The collection consists of a HIAS pin, a ring made from a ring, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Isaak Racs during the Holocaust in Riga, Latvia, and Lenta, Stutthof, Burggraben, and Goddentow concentration camps, and after the Holocaust in Landsberg, Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Jack Reuben collection

    Consists of nine photographs of the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945 and a Nazi armband.

  17. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1915, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; German invasion; "Bloody Monday" following the invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation to Ciechano?w in 1941; slave labor digging trenches; escaping with two friends; hiding in a forest; returning home; hiding briefly in 1943; his sister being shot trying to join him; his parents' and sisters' deportation; slave labor with his brothers at the HASAG Pelzery munitions factory; liberation by Soviet troops; marriage to a survivor; traveling with his wif...

  18. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recalls their poverty; his father's death before the war; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation of his mother and siblings; his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; observing suicides; transfer three weeks later to Dachau; receiving food from Germans while working outside the camp; liberation by United States troops; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States in 1950; marriage to an American; and the births of two daughters. Mr. S. discus...

  19. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in C?ierna nad Tisou, Czechoslovakia in 1922, to a Hasidic family of twelve children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending yeshiva; Hungarian occupation; his father's fatal beating by Hungarian gendarmes; his mother's death six months later; escaping from a round-up with his nephew; separating from him in Trebis?ov; traveling home, then to Kos?ice; receiving false papers from a military man from his hometown; working in a stable; being recognized by another man from his village; deportation to Auschwitz; his assignment collecting...

  20. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Martynuv Stary, Poland (now Ukraine), one of twelve children. He recalls attending a Catholic school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; posing as a non-Jew and joining Ukrainian partisans in Bukachevtsy with his two brothers and a sister; killing a Jewish policeman in self defense; joining Soviet and Polish partisans; armed conflicts between partisan groups; moving to Stanis?awo?w; burying Jews shot in a mass killing; working on a farm; bringing his sisters and their children to work there; being saved from exposure because his nephe...