• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500837
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir entitled "My escape Into prison and other memories of a stolen youth, 1939 -1948" relating to experiences in Poland as a Jewish partisan and in the USSR as a political prisoner, also includes an article relating to the persecution of Jews in Slovakia.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36010
• English
• 1960-2007
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 92 pages, entitled "My European Childhood," by Adam Zygmunt Szumer, originally of Nieglowice, Poland. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Nieglowice and Jaslo, where his parents worked for a small oil refinery. At the time of the German invasion of Poland, the family temporarily relocated to Stanislawow in eastern Poland, before moving to Drohobycz in late 1939. In 1942, Adam acquired Aryan papers and temporarily went into hiding with two Polish Catholic sisters, but was returned to his parents after a traveling mishap. He describes the Drohobycz ghetto and ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn62045
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one copy of a typed manuscript, 33 pages, entitled "My Experiences as a Prisoner of War December 1944 to June 1945" by C. Robert Hartt, written in 1945. In the memoir, Mr. Hartt describes being wounded and captured at the Battle of the Bulge and being sent on a long march, arriving at Stalag IV-B on January 7, 1945. He describes life in the camp, being taken on a work detail in Zittau, and the importance of Red Cross packages. In May 1945, the soldiers were sent on a march to American lines, but were fired upon and separated; Hartt found a Czech town where he was cared for and w...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn551038
• English
• 2016
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

"My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant" by Dr. Rudolph (Rudy Keimowitz) is a 19 page manuscript. The manuscript includes information about Henry Keimowitz's childhood in Hungary, time in the Hungarian Army during World War I, capture and imprisonment by the Harlem Hellfighters during the Battle of Verdun, experience as a POW in France, and his illegal immigration to the United States as a stowaway around 1922. He married and started a family in the United States, and, during World War II, was investigated as an enemy al...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517298
• English
• 2005
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "My Holocaust Memoirs," by Nathan Ben-Brith (Bundheim), originally of Hamburg, Germany (born Leonhard Nathan Bundheim). He describes his experiences under the pre-war Nazi regime, his family's escape to Belgium after Kristallnacht, his arrest and imprisonment in St. Cyprien and Gurs, his release from Gurs in 1941, his deportation to Drancy in 1942 and experiences in the Ottmuth labor camp, and in the Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Shortly before the liberation of Buchenwald, he was forced to accompany fleeing SS perso...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521798
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of document, seven pages, entitled "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp," by Robert M. Rutan. Mr. Rutan visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on May 2, 1945, shortly after liberation of the camp, while traveling toward the Baltic Sea with the 7th Armored Division. He describes the experience of a visitor to the camp and what he witnessed there.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514306
• English
• 1940
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection includes two copies, one in German and one in English, of a memoir by Leo Waldbott titled "My Life Before and After January 30, 1933," in which Leo describes his own life and life in Speyer, Germany. Leo provides a brief history, with examples, of antisemitism in the region and describes the community's efforts to establish a Jewish home for the elderly, which burned down due to arson during Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938. He also describes his struggles with and eventual immigration to the United States in 1939.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501813
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a typewritten memoir, two pages, of Solomon Wieder, originally of Dolha, Hungary, describing his survival of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; his post-liberation medical treatment in Sweden; and his life in the United States to which he immigrated in 1947; and photocopies of three newspaper clippings about the donor.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35995
• English
• 1940
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one typed memoir, 75 pages, entitled "My Life in Germany, before and after January 30th, 1933", by Erna Prehn Albersheim, who was born in the United States and lived in Frankfurt, Germany until January 27, 1939. The memoir, which is dated March 13, 1940, describes life in Germany during and after World War I, post-war inflation, Hitler's rise to power, the April 1933 boycott, the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation and how these affected her life and late husband's business. She and her daughter managed to immigrate to the United States in early 1939.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513928
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

One memoir, entitled "My Life in Siberia," by Jean Steinberg; contains poetry and prose relating to the donor's life in pre-war Poland and forced migration to Siberia. Memoir is bound, 124 pages, with a cover illustration.

1. Tadeusz Marchaj collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501979
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 14 pages, typed, written by Tadeusz Marchaj, originally of Kielce, Poland and related to his life as a non-Jewish Polish citizen and member of the Polish underground resistance, which later became part of the Home Army. Mr. Marchaj describes his experiences during the Warsaw uprising in 1944, his capture, and life in the Pruszkow, Stutthof, and working as a draftsman in the Sophienwald concentration camps. He was sent on a forced march in February 1945 to Pelplin, where he worked building field works until his liberation on May 9, 1945. The memoir is very detailed, w...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515836
• English
• 2004
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "My Life Story," by Tsilya Bryson, originally of Minsk, Soviet Union. She describes her childhood, experiences in the Minsk ghetto, escape from the ghetto in August 1943, and life with Jewish partisans until they were liberated by the Soviet Army in 1944.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518292
• English
• 1986
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 174 pages, written in 1986, entitled "My Life Story," by Joseph Fischer, originally of Bicsad, Transylvania. Mr. Fischer recalls his experiences growing up in Bicsad, his family's deportation to the Satu-Mare ghetto and their May 1944 deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. Fischer was the only member of his family selected to work and was given the number A-3338. He describes his experiences at the Buna factory, where he worked until being evacuated from Auschwitz on January 17, 1945. From there, he was sent on a forced march to Gleiwitz, then was put on a train to Dora-Mitte...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517357
• English
• 1995
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 46 pages, entitled "My Life," by Dr. Asher Miller, originally of Koszyce, Slovakia. Dr. Miller graduated from medical school in Bratislava, and worked as a doctor in a government hospital until 1944, when he went into hiding in Bully, Slovakia. He was captured in January 1945 and taken to Lichtenrade, Germany, before being transferred to Sachsenhausen. In 1949, he and his family emigrated to Israel.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519008
• English
• 1984-2000
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, written by Sophie Ritterband Lewartowicz Weiss, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Weiss describes her family, childhood, and marriage to Zygmunt Lewartowicz. When the Germans invaded Poland, Mrs. Weiss (then Mrs. Lewartowicz) and her family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. In Decemeber 1939, after witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, the family returned to Warsaw and went into hiding as Catholics. The family lived as Aryans outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mrs. Weiss and her ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515170
• English
• 2003
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of memoir, 66 pages, entitled "My Life-Story," by Ruth Marks (Roma Glowinski). Originally from Kalisz, Poland, Ruth spent the war in hiding as Vislava (Viesha) Serafinska in Pruszków, Poland. Her parents and sister were deported from the Sandomierz ghetto in 1942 and perished in Belzec. Ruth Marks emigrated to Israel in 1947.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516063
• English
• 1987
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of the one manuscript, entitled "My Life: 1920-1943," by Margot Pogorzelski Hodge, originally of Freystadt, Germany. The eldest of five children, she describes her life in Freystadt, her memories of Nazi persecution, dropping out of school to work to support her family after her father's death in 1933, and her immigration to England in 1939 to work as a nurse.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518304
• English
• 2004
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir entitled "My Memoir, 1914-2004," 75 pages, by Maurice Eis, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Maurice describes his memories of childhood in Frankfurt, his arrest on Kristallnacht and brief imprisonment in Dachau, and his immigration, first to Shanghai and then on to the United States. In the United States, Maurice was drafted into the American Army and participated in the D-Day invasion of Europe and the Battle of the Bulge. The memoir includes copies of photographs and documents related to his life.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519132
• English
• 1996
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir written in May 1996, 4 pages, entitled "My Memories from the War," by Claire Holand, originally of Pabianice, Poland. In her memoir, Mrs. Holand, the only survivor of her immediate family, writes about her experiences in pre-war Poland, her deportation to Auschwitz and life in a forced labor factory in Neukolln, Germany, where she worked between 1942 and liberation in April 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38399
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir, entitled "My Mother's Words," about the experiences of Eva Roth, written, transcribed, and edited by her daughter, Marion Amsellem. In Mrs. Roth's memoir, she describes wartime life after her escape from Poland to Russia with her husband, who died in Samarkand during the war. She was remarried to Sol Roth in a displaced persons camp and they immigrated to the United States and reunited with some of Sol's siblings, who had been able to immigrate prior to the war.