1. Jan Rozanski collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503649
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about Jan Rozanski's experiences during childhood in Poland; the German invasion and occupation of Poland; anti-Jewish measures; life in the ghetto and concentration camp; and liberation by Soviet troops.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501722
• English
• boxes 4
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains drafts of the preface and several chapters from a proposed book by Drexel A.Sprecher, based on his experiences serving with the Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36281
• English
• 2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 133 pages, entitled "Into the No Man's Land," by Irene Miller, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, she recalls her Holocaust experiences when, as a child, she and her family escaped from Warsaw and were told that they would be taken over the border into the Soviet Union. In reality, their possessions were stolen and they were abandoned in no man's land on the border with other Jews who were unable to enter the Soviet Union. Irene, her father Srulik Miller, and sister Halina were able to escape into the Soviet Union, but her mother, Bella Miller, had to pose ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518477
• English
• 2006
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one book containing a printed copy of a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Dr. Benjamin Lesin entitled "Israel Meyer and Mollie Lesin: From Birth in Lithuania to a New Life in America." The presentation contains family history, photographs, and documents regarding the family of Rabbi Israel Meyer Lesin and his wife, Malke (Mollie) Glatt Lesin, originally of Naumiestis, Lithuania. Rabbi Lesin and Malke Glatt left Lithuania in 1939 and traveled to Switzerland, where they married and Rabbi Lesin worked at a yeshiva as they tried to obtain visas to emigrate to the United States. Fi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517857
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "J'étais une juive allemande: Histoire de Senta Luzie, née en 1926, à Talheim", by Senta Luzie Manesse Victorovich, originally of Talheim, Germany. Orphaned as a child, Senta was deported with her sister and grandmother to the Gurs concentration camp in 1940. She and her sister managed to escape the camp and were hidden for a time before Senta joined a group of Austrian Communist resisters in Lyon, France, with whom she worked until the end of the war. The collection includes a full translation of the memoir into English by Roger Langsdorf.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517863
• English
• 1993-2006
• folder 1 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one manuscript, 56 pages, entitled "Jablonka Family History, 1941-1945" by Philip Zion. The Jablonkas were Polish Jews who immigrated to France in 1929. In 1941, Boruch Jablonka was imprisoned in Pithiviers and was eventually deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. His wife, Helen, and children, Paulette, Rachel, and Raymond, were eventually able to escape into Spain and subsequently to the United States; Paulette and Raymond in 1943 and Helen and Rachel in 1945. Includes copies of photographs and documents. Also includes one DVD-ROM oral history interview with Helen Jablonka,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514361
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

An autobiographical memoir by Janina Spinner Mehlberg, edited by Dr. Arthur Layton Funk; the memoir includes photocopies of photographs of Janina Mehlberg and her husband Henry. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn19433
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Personal recollection of Kristallnacht in Berlin, Germany, printed in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday magazine.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36382
• English
• 2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, entitled "Journey to Survival," by Ninetta Matsa Feldman, originally of Arta, Greece. In the memoir, she recalls watching her father leave briefly for the Greek Army; and wartime life in Agrinio, Greece. In the fall of 1943, her family went into hiding in the small mountain town of Psilovrahos, where they remained for a year, at one point hiding in a cave from a German raid. After the war ended in Greece and the family returned to Agrinio, they learned that the Jews of Ioannina were deported on March 25, 1944, and that only a handful of their family living in Greece ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500939
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, approximately 46 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "Julius Feldman's Voice from Behind the Wall," translated and with comments by Joseph Soski. Feldman (1923-1942) was in the camp at Płaszów, and his memoirs were kept by his family, who loaned them to Soski for this translation in 1993. Was subsequently published in 2002 as "The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500273
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, typescript, 259 pages plus appendix. Author describes his experiences as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division, detailing his early life, training in the Army, landing in France, and operations in 1944-1945 through France, into Germany (Aachen, Ruhr region) up to Ludwigslust, including liberation of Woebbelin concentration camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501462
• English
• 1986
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a typed memoir, in German, by Simha Naor (born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994), originally of Vienna, Austria. The memoir, 238 pages, is based on Ms. Naor's journal, which she wrote shortly after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and which included information about her work in the hospital in Auschwitz. The memoir based on this draft was published in 1986 as "Krankengymnastin in Auschwitz: Aufzeichnungen des Haftlings, Ausgabe 80574."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn72316
• English
• 1995
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Krulik's Story," by Israel (Krulik) Wilder. Wilder describes his childhood in Piotrkow, Poland, the German invasion in 1939, his family's escape to Radom, and life in the Radom ghetto. Israel Wilder got a job working forced labor at the Hortensia glass factory, where he worked until November 1944. He was deported to a series of camps, ending at Buchenwald concentration camp in December 1944, where he remained until the final weeks of the war, when he was sent to Theresienstadt, from which he was liberated. He was sent to England to recover, marrie...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501464
• English
• 1996
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a draft of an English language translation of "La Banalita del Bene: The Story of Giorgio Perlasca," originally of Enrico Deaglio and translated by Gregory Conti. The draft, consiting of 129 pages and including a transcript of part of Perlasca's diary, was later published as "The Banality of Goodness" (South Bend : University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).

1. Jo Ann Glickman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501829
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains Jo Ann Glickman's English translations of correspondence, circa August 1939-March1943, primarily from her grandfather, Albert Kahn, from Munich, Germany, to her parents and her in the United States; reproductions of family photographs and papers, circa 1827-1996; Jo Ann Glickman's childhood recollections of life in prewar Germany and in the United States, to which she immigrated in 1939; and Kahn, Hainsfurther, Lustig, Eigner and Glickman family trees.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518427
• English
• 2003
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, titled "Life Story of a Holocaust Survivor from Shaulen, Lithuania who Lived his Life to Help Others," by Harry Demby, originally of Shaulen (Schaulen; Šiaulai), Lithuania. In the memoir, Mr. Demby describes his life in the Kaukaz (Kaukazas) and Traku St. (Trakai) sections of the ghetto in Šiaulai, his deportation to Stutthof in 1944, his liberation from Dachau, his displaced persons experiences and his post-war life. The memoir includes copies of photographs.

1. Lili Susser collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501290
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Manuscript of donor's memoirs of pre-war childhood in Łódź, Poland; in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, Friehafen, Hamburg-Sasel, and Bergen-Belsen; and after liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41736
• English
• 2009
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of two chapters of a memoir entitled "Living Surgical History, or Sisyphus at the Water Fountain" by Dr. Henry Gans, originally of Zevenaar, the Netherlands. In these chapters, Dr. Gans describes his memories of his schooling in Arnhem under the German occupation of the Netherlands, learning his father was selected for deportation to Westerbork, and the decision for his family to go into hiding. Dr. Gans, a teenager at the time, spent thirty months in hiding with his brother at a farm in Angelo, a small village in the Netherlands. The family was reunited after the Allied liberation...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn49149
• English
• 2012
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one bound memoir entitled "LOL* After 67 Years" written in 2012 by Peter R. Span, who was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, In the memoir, he describes the bombing of Belgrade which ended the attempts of his parents, Ignac Rosenfeld and Elisabeth Span, to emigrate with their sons to Mexico. After the bombing, the family moved to Subotica and in 1942 and again in 1944, Ignac was sent to a forced labor battalion. In the summer of 1944, Elisabeth and her sons (including Peter) were deported to the Ulrichskirchen labor camp in Austria, where they remained until liberation in Apr...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn69538
• English
• 2011
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 59 pages, entitled “Lost and Waiting to be Found,” written by Jackie (Jacky) Young (born Jona Spiegel), originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, Jackie, who was born in December 1941 in Vienna, Austria, but was raised by adoptive parents in England, describes slowly learning about his own past, which his parents had kept from him despite his own faint memories and hints mentioned by relatives. In the memoir, Jackie describes his visit to Theresienstadt, where he was deported as an infant; to Maly Trostinec, where his mother, Elsa Spiegel, was deported and perish...