• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518630
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "The Crossing," by Ilona Ricardo Kinzer, originally of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, Ilona was staying with relatives in the coastal town of Ymuiden. After the Dutch surrender, Ilona helped her uncle and the other employees of the Blast Furnace plant blow up the complex rather than let it fall into Nazi control. She describes her spontaneous decision to escape to England with a one-legged Englishman, Mr. Judd, across the English channel in a rowboat with only a small motor, and her memories of...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502717
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about the experiences of Lore Metzger during Kristallnacht and during other episodes of persecution as a young Jew in Nazi Germany.

1. Nathan Gutman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504119
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The memoir, "The execution of capo Beim," describes Nathan Gutman's experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland; his internment in Krakow-Płaszów; and his relationship with a kapo in that camp before the Nazis put the kapo to death.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521505
• English
• 1996
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir, "The Eyes of Jewish Resistance," 71 pages, by Litman Litow, compiled by Leon Litow. The memoir recounts the childhood of Litman Litow in Visheva, Belorussia, his experiences on the run and in hiding from the Nazis, and his subsequent years as one of the leaders of a Jewish partisan unit. It also describes his experiences in Russia after the war, emigration to Italy and then to the United States, and reflections on Holocaust commemorations. The memoir contains black and white photocopies of family photographs. The collection also contains a copy of the memoir on a CD-RW...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514412
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

One memoir, 129 pages, which relates the life of Zelik Asher Karpman, born in Biajkow, Poland. He and his family were sent to the Bialobjeg ghetto in 1941. By the summer of 1941, Zelik was the only member of his immediate family who had not been either killed or deported to a work camp. He managed to escape his forced labor within the ghetto and survived the war in various hiding places in Poland. The memoir is written in the format of an oral history.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44455
• English
• 2006
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 176 pages, entitled "The Fine Line" by Asriel Waldman, originally of Czernowitz. In the memoir, Waldman describes his childhood memories in Vicna and in Zastavna, his memories of his relatives, and of Jewish life. He describes the changes that occurred after the outbreak of the war and after the 1940 Russian occupation. The Waldman family was deported from Zastava on October 14, 1941 to Bershad in Transnistria and Asriel's parents both perished within the first year. In February 1944, Asriel, his siblings, and a cousin were selected to return to Romanian and travel t...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500587
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir which Alice Shragai [donor] describes as a kind of diary about her experiences growing up in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, her experiences with anti-Semitisim, and involvement with a Zionist organization called Betarim. She discusses her life in the Riga ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz along with her return home and eventual emigration to Israel and later the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36177
• English
• 2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

"The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944" is a 23 page memoir written by Ruth Katz Leiser. The memoir recalls the Holocaust experiences of the Katz family of Godulin, near Maišiagala, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35971
• English
• 2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "The Holocaust Years", written by Morris Gliklich, originally of Nisko, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Gliklich describes pre-war life in Nisko, the German invasion of Poland, anti-Jewish legislation, and their escape into Russian territory. While in Russian territory, the family was reunited with Mr. Gliklich's father, whom they had believed to have been killed during the German invasion. The family was forced onto a train headed east and arrived in Siberia, where they lived in the areas of Synia and Kirinsk until 1943. The family slowly made their wa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504344
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Describes the death of Ursula Korup's (b. 1935 in Germany) father, in 1938, due to mistreatment he had received in Sachsenhausen; her and her brother's separation from their mother; her experiences in the Children's Home in Eersel, Netherlands, which was run by Catholics; her baptism; the German occupation of the Netherlands; her hiding and capture; her and her brother's experiences in the concentration camps of Vught, Westerbork, and Bergen-Belsen; the death of their mother in Stutthof; their liberation and return to the Children's Home in Eersel; and their immigration to and experiences i...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517299
• English
• 1954
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of a memoir, 3 pages, entitled "The Last Act," written by Hersh Croin (Harry Kron) in June 1954, in "The Seminarian" newsletter, which was published by the students of the Jewish Teachers Seminary at Folks University in New York. In the memoir, Mr. Kron, originally of Janow-Lubelski, Poland, describes his memories of the deportation from Zaklikow and from the ghettos. Mr. Kron escaped from a concentration camp in Budzin and hid until liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn49048
• English
• 2012
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 334 pages, entitled "The Last Train to Auschwitz," by Gary Younger, regarding the Holocaust experiences of his father, Benzion Junger (now Ben Younger) originally of Sapinka in Transylvania (which later became Hungarian). He describes pre-war antisemitism, deportation to the Sapinka ghetto in the spring of 1944, and life in the ghetto. They were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944, where Benzion was separated from his parents and younger sister Reizl, who perished. He saw his sister, Perl, in Auschwitz, but she did not survive the war. He and his uncle, David, were sen...

1. Mina Perlberger collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502758
• English
• 1985
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of the typescript memoir entitled "The Life of Alexander Perlberger, Shortly Before and Shortly After the Second World War" written by his widow, Mina Perlberger. The memoir describes the life of Mr. Perlberger from adolescence until his death. She includes information about Perlberger's imprisonment in concentration camps in Poland, his experiences during Kristallnacht, his enlistment in the Red Army, and his emigration to the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517294
• English
• 2004
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "The Life of Irene Berger," by Irene Berger Glassberg, written in August 2004. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Łódź, Poland, her life in the Łódź ghetto, her deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and her experiences in the Auschwitz, Freiberg, and Mauthausen concentration camps. After her liberation from Mauthausen, she returned to Łódź, and then lived at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp before immigrating to New York in 1946. There, she obtained a nursing degree, became an American citizen, and started a family.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502733
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about Sophie Miklos and her experiences of persecution in Romania, deportation from the Oradea (Nagyvárad, Hungary) ghetto, imprisonment at Auschwitz, and liberation by the Red Army.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517297
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one collection of stories, 95 pages, entitled "The Planet and other stories," by Eva Kronenberg Zysman, originally of Łódź, Poland. After the German invasion in 1939, her family relocated to Radom. She was deported to Auschwitz from the Radom ghetto and liberated from Bergen-Belsen. After liberation, she immigrated to the United States. The book contains short stories of her experiences and the experiences of friends and family members both during the war and after liberation; some events have been fictionized.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42084
• English
• 2009
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 9 pages, entitled "The Rebirth" by Alfred Henick, who was a member of the United States Army stationed in Germany in 1946. In the memoir, he describes meeting members of his extended family who had survived the Holocaust, and his assistance in enabling them to immigrate to the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42641
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor" written by Yuri Prizov, with copies in English and Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Prizov describes his childhood, initially in Zaysan, Kazakhstan, and later near the Polish border, as well as his memories of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the family's escape east, to the region of Karachay-Cherkassia, in the Caucasus, as well as the massacre of Bogdanovka (near Stavropol), where his mother's family lived; posing as non-Jews, and life in Grozny after the war. In the memoir, he described the way...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516391
• English
• 1994-2004
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one manuscript, 46 pages, entitled "The Romanian Jews During W.W.II," by Neha Weinstein Voigt, originally of Iasi, Romania. In the manuscript, Weinstein describes the history of the Holocaust in Romania, including the destruction of Iasi's Jews. Also includes a folder of clippings and letters regarding Mrs. Voigt's Holocaust experiences and photographs of Mrs. Voigt and of her parents.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41909
• English
• 2010
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one manuscript, 23 pages, entitled "The Search for the Truth," by Thomas Edward Brady. In the manuscript, Mr. Brady describes the history of his family, and documents the lives and deaths of his grandparents, Bernhard and Hedwig Kohn, originally of Vienna, Austria, and his aunt, Herta Kohn, who was seventeen years old when she perished in the Holocaust. The manuscript includes copies of archival documents showing his family's experiences, from their deportation to the Łódź ghetto in November 1941 to their deportation and murder in the Chelmno extermination camp. Also includes a ...