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  1. Documents relating to alleged Jewish burial sites in Germany

    Names lists, photocopied from several sources, including list of those interred at cemetery at Jammertal, and separate typed list of officially recorded deaths from Schilldenkmal concentration camp near Braunschweig, and unidentified photocopy list. Includes color photos of grave of Abraham Schoenfeld.

  2. Letter written from Gurs concentration camp

    Consists of a letter from Arthur Adler, who lived in Karlsruhe, Germany prior to the Holocaust, composed in the Gurs internment camp prior to his murder at Auschwitz in 1942. The letter, dated 15 November 1940, was likely sent to his cousin, Justin Adler, who immigrated to the United States in 1938. Also included is an envelope for a letter addressed to Arthur from the United States that could not be delivered because he had already been deported.

  3. A letter describing conditions at Dachau

    Letter (photocopied), 5 pages, sent from Pfc. Melvin Swick to his wife, May 1945, describing conditions at Dachau after liberation.

  4. Oral history interview with David Fishel

  5. Barbara Mies-Singer papers

    Correspondence, photocopied, from various people in Sandomierz, Poland, to J. Horowitz in New York, 1939-1940, and one letter from nephew of Pauline Cohen, sent to her in Los Angeles, from Vilnius, 1946.

  6. Memories of Zunsky (Tzur) Zwi of the Ghettos Kozin, Lemberg, Janov and Dubno

    Testimony. Typescript, bound, approximately 15 pages with copied documents, entitled "Memories of Zunsky (Tzur) Zwi of the ghettos Kozin, Lember, Janov and Dubno, 1939-1946 as partisan 'Kelnik.'"

  7. "The Story of Esther Salamanovich Fortgang 1938-1948"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "The Story of Esther Salamanovich Fortgang 1938-1948," by Esther Fortgang, originally of Praszka, Poland. In the memoir, written circa 1990, the author describes her experiences in Praszka after the outbreak of war, forced labor in a small camp for women in Grünberg, forced labor in an ammunition factory in Neusaltz, the arrival of Hungarian women from Auschwitz, a forced march to Flossenbürg, her liberation in Bergen-Belsen, and recovery in Sweden.

  8. Oral history interview with Yehuda Mandel

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Zba̧szyń and emigration to England to the United States

    Four pages of typescript testimony about the experience of a Polish family living in Minden, Germany before World War II, growing antisemitism during 1930s, training in vocational program and apprentice on farm in Oldenburg, and their arrest and deportation during the Polenaktion of 1938 to the camp in Zbąszyń. After efforts of friends from a German farm, he was able to immigrate to England in 1939, but his parents and siblings never made it out of Poland and perished.

  10. Mikhail Milman memoir

    Testimony, two pages, typescript. Describes experiences of a family in a village near Vinnitsa during German occupation.

  12. Lager Lieder von Sachsenhausen

    Contains a handwritten and illustrated songbook believed to have been created in Sachsenhausen concentration camp

  13. Memoir of Holocaust experiences in Russia

    Testimony. Photocopy of manuscript, 22 pages, untitled, author unidentified. Describes the German invasion of Soviet Union and occupation of an unnamed village midway between Vilnius and Minsk, and life she and her husband experienced in hiding during occupation.

  14. Emily Kessler memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, in English, written by Emily Kessler in 1993. In 1941, her husband was killed near Strye in Drohobycz, and Emily, her mother and infant son were evacuated to Khmelnik. She describes forced labor in Khmelnik, moving into the ghetto, and escaping a mass shooting with the assistance of local fascists. She and her son were imprisoned and sent back into the ghetto for forced labor. She went into hiding with the help of a non-Jewish friend, Katya Surovova (who was later named a Righteous Among the Nations) and crossed the border into Romania. She and her son survived...

  15. Jura Soyfer collection

    Consists of programs, text, sheet music, plays, and LPs related to the work of Austrian musician and songwriter Jura Soyfer. Includes the sheet music and translation of a song entitled "Dachau Lied," by Jura Soyfer. Soyfer, an anti-fascist and playwright, was arrested in 1937 and briefly released beefore being arrested trying to cross the Austrian border to Switzerland. He was transported to Dachau and later to Buchenwald, where he died of typhus in February 1939.

  16. Michael Roth papers

    Photocopies of documents and photographs, and one original document, from U.S. occupation authorities, attesting that Roth was a prisoner at Flossenbürg during Nazi era, 1945.

  17. Portrait sketch created in Budapest ghetto

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8906
    • English
    • 1944
    • overall: Height: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm) | Width: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Sketch created in Budapest ghetto by Ilka Gedö in 1944.

  18. Yakov Shvartsman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, one page with handwritten annotations. Describes Shvartsman's experiences in Odessa, the Ahmechetska concentration camp, and Domanevka during occupation.

  19. Documents relating to confiscation of Jewish property and recruitment of doctors and pharmacists to replace deported Jews in Gollub and Briesen

    Photocopies of documents, related to confiscation of Jewish property in occupied Poland, September-November 1939. One document has stamp from Polish State Archive, Torun (Thorn).

  20. Nazi propaganda: war in the Balkans

    This "Sonderbericht der Deutschen Wochenschau" [Special report of the German weekly newsreel] starts on April 4, 1941 with footage of Goebbels addressing the German people via radio and von Ribbentrop delivering diplomatic letters to the ambassadors of Yugoslavia and Greece. Then soldiers, armored personal carriers, and tanks cross the Yugoslav border into Croatia from Styria, thus opening the Southeastern front of WWII after an alleged 'new provocation by the British.' German Stukas [dive fighters] and Italian warplanes fly over Greek mountains. Serbian fortresses and bunkers are captured,...