• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn85748
• English
• 1894-1973
• boxes 5
• Updated 1 year ago

Typescript copy and translations of the memoirs of Moses Lissiansky (1872-1943), describing his life in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Russia, originally written in Austria in the 1930s, as well as translations and summaries of correspondence that his son, Arnold Lissance, had received from his family in Austria after his own immigration to the United States in the 1930s. Also contains documents produced at the Nuremberg Trials and collected by Lissance during his time working as a translator at the trials, including materials related to the Ministries Trial (Case XI), as well as mimeo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519522
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a testimony, 4 pages, Russian and typescript, along with a 3-page English translation, recounting the author's experience in the Domanovka, Ukraine ghetto, 1941-1943, and in a Jewish children's home after escaping from Domanovka.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501753
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection contains photocopies of a memoir and certificates, in Russian, and of a letter, dated April 22, 1997, in English, from the donor "To Mister Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany," asking for help in locating a German officer who helped him escape from the Nazis.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501817
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Arthur Grossman memoir is a 3-page handwritten memoir in which Arthur Grossman describes his experiences as a slave laborer in Stopnica and Skarzysko, Poland and in Rehmsdorf concentration camp; on a death march from Rehmsdorf to Terezin concentration camp; and his postwar life in the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501083
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimonies, four pages, handwritten, relating to experiences of Asya and Zakhar Mikhelman. Asya was from Brailov, Zakhar from Tiraspol, and both describe experiences during occupation of Moldova.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500974
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Letter, one page, from August Schultheis of Vincennes, IN, addressed to USHMM in 1995, accompanying photos and explaining his own role as U.S. soldier in liberation of Landsberg camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501929
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir about Albert Kretschmer's deportation from Mannheim, Germany, and life in various labor camps in Siberia.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501654
• English
• 1997
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500088
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of an autobiography by Edith Gerda Riemer (née Lefor). The autobiography describes Riemer's experiences as a young Jew in Germany prior to the Holocaust and her emigration to England in 1939. The autobiography also includes information concerning Riemer's family history and her years spent in summer camps and hospitals in England. Three pages are missing from the original manuscript.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502169
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains Eva Lesser Stricks' autobiography, 35 pages, about her childhood experiences in Oranienberg and Berlin, Germany, her arrival in Shanghai aboard the "Conto Rosso," and her later emigration to the United States.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1288
• English
• 1995-1996
• 2 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

Personal, mostly autobiographical accounts of former German and Austrian Jewish refugees, who subsequently became members of the Leo Baeck London Lodge. Also list of authors at 1288/56.This collection of memoirs provides a rich and varied account of the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish refugees to Great Britain. They range in length from 1 page to almost book length.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn561135
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimonies, photographs, newspaper article, and CD, among other items, documenting the history of the Babamusta family, of Kavaja, Albania, and their role in sheltering and rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution in Albania in 1943. Includes the essay “Acts of Courage and Heroism” and “The contribution of the Babamusta family in the rescue of 178 Jews in Kavaja, Albania;” photographs, including copy prints of vintage photographs, of the Babamusta family; a print out of an article about Neki Babamusta, from the Albanian newspaper “Sot,” August 2013, along with an English translation ...

1. John Honig collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn734608
• English
• overall: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Badge depicting a flag made from ribbon related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

1. John Honig collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn734606
• English
• overall: Height: 2.630 inches (6.68 cm) | Width: 1.880 inches (4.775 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Badge depicting the Finnish coat of arms related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504143
• English
• 1989
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

This memoir, written by cousins Paul Bäecher and Ivan Backer, consists primarily of transcribed oral histories, describes his life and the lives of other family members from Czechoslovakia, of which some fled and immigrated to the United States, while others were caught, interned in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt), and suffered on Nazi death marches. The memoir also contains genealogical charts relating to the Bäecher family.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn106398
• English
• 1942-2012
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The memoir “Remember it Well: A Father’s Story,” was written by Pal Balint in Jászberény, Hungary from late 1943 until January 1944. The memoir is a retelling of his daughter’s life, and his imagining what her life in New York was like, based on the letters he received from her, and he expressed his own longing for the family to be reunited. In the memoir, he refers to the difficult circumstances in Hungary of that period, and how his only communication with Susan was through infrequent letters via the Red Cross. Two of those letters, from June 1942 and October 1943—the latter announcing Su...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517194
• English
• 2003
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 71 pages, entitled "The Barber of Goerlitz," by Dr. Kasriel K. Eilender, M.D., originally of Suwałki, Poland. In the memoir, Dr. Eilender describes his childhood in Suwałki, the Soviet and German occupations of the area, his Holocaust experiences in the Derecyn-Slonim ghetto and in the Mogilev, Blizyn, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau concentration camps. After his liberation, he reunited with American relatives; with their help, he emigrated to the United States after the war and attended medical school.

1. Charles Bartfeld collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn88565
• English
• 1896-2003
• boxes 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of documents, copies of memoirs, photographs, and photocopies related to the Holocaust experiences of members of the Bartfeld family. Includes pre-war life, the expropriation of the family butter and dairy product business in Vienna, emigration to Palestine, and life in Palestine/Israel.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501079
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, three pages, typescript, similar description to that of husband (David Wharton; see 1995.A.1150), of life in Kaunas, invasion, ghetto of Slabodka.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38646
• English
• 1935-2009
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of information regarding the Holocaust experiences of siblings Peter Siegbert Bauchwitz and Rita Bauchwitz Molony, both of Halle, Germany. Includes biographical and memoir information, in German and English, about Peter Bauchwitz, copies of correspondence regarding the Jewish community of Halle, and copies of official wartime documentation and correspondence related to the Bauchwitz family (focused on father Paul Bauchwitz and on Rita Bauchwitz). Includes lists of property looted from the family. Rita and Peter were both able to immigrate to Palestine, but their parents were deport...