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  1. Marching to a forced labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust

    Relates to donor's experience in labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  2. Memoir and letter relating to experiences during the Holocaust

    Letter (copy) that Kuttner sent to an attorney in Cologne, Germany, in 1965 (likely in restitution case) detailing experiences during war, in particular death march from Helmbrecht camp to Czechoslovakia in early 1945. Also, copies of poetry presumably written by Kuttner.

  3. Ludwik Krzywonowski letter

    Photocopy of a letter, apparently written in Zborów, Poland, July 1943, but then later sent (with annotations) from Ludwik Krzywonowski from Zborów in 1947, to Wilek Heilmann in Palestine.

  4. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  5. Fishman and Wikiel collection

    Testimony, photocopied, two pages, of Lonia Fishman's experiences during occupation of Poland, along with correspondence from U.S. embassy of Poland, Archdiocese of Boston, and Yad Vashem, in response to Fishman's efforts to recognize the Polish couple who saved him, Maria and Jan Wikiel. Including is documentation from Yad Vashem concerning the naming of the Wikiels as Righteous Among the Nations, and photographs from an event held at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw in 1979 honoring the Wikiels.

  6. Magdelena Borowska and family papers

    Documents, primarily about Borowska's postwar immigration to the U.S. via Britain, and identification from occupied Poland during the war.

  7. Letters from Terezin

    Typescript, titled "Letters Out of Terezin: Never sent and hidden….", a compilation of letters that Eva Sachs originally wrote between 1941 and 1943 in Brno and Theresienstadt, translated into English with an introduction, 1993.

  8. The Jewish legal response to Nazi persecution

    Scholarly paper, typescript, titled "The Jewish Legal Response to Nazi Persecution: 1933-1942," by 2nd Lt. Jody Prescott, USAR, while student at University of Maine School of Law, 1986. 71 pages.

  9. Oral history interview with Ola Hafftka

  10. Arnold H. Einhorn papers

    Photocopied identity documents for Arnold Einhorn including a Spanish immigration document, French documents attesting to Einhorn's service in the Jewish Brigade, and documentation that he was enrolled at University of Montpellier, in France.

  11. Giorgio Perlasca collection

    Contains statements and narrative reports written by Giorgio Perlasca relating to the persecution, deportations, and killing of Jews in Hungary circa 1944-1945, and script of documentary film about Perlasca entitled "Eroe Per Caso."

  12. Pete House letter

    One letter, from Pete House, a former American POW who was held at Stalag IX-B in 1944-1945, and who wrote to the USHMM after visiting the museum in April 1994. Describes the mistreatment of Allied POWs, including soldiers of African descent.

  13. Gaston Schmir memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 207 pages, entitled "Memory: The Story of an Obsession" by Gaston Schmir, written in 1992. The memoir, which includes extensive footnotes, family stories, and family tree information, contains information about Mr. Schmir's experiences as a child in wartime France. He and his sister Louise hid in various situations in Angoulême, Montbron, Breve, Grenoble, and Thônes, France. In 1944, Gaston and Louise escaped into Switzerland and lived in a refugee camp. The siblings, with their father, Samuel Szmir, moved to the United States in 1946.

  14. Memoir

    Testimony, 17 pages, "A Holocaust Survivor's Story," by Marion Landau (1989). Describes German invasion and occupation of Bedzin, Poland, transfer to forced labor camp at Gleiwitz, and later, to Dachau.

  15. Ruth Sien memoir

    Testimony, 14 pages, typescript, from Ruth Sien (born Rachele Faust), of Cranbury, NJ, originally from a village near Rzeszow, Poland. Describes German occupation of Poland, hiding in farms and forests, posing as a Gentile, and survival through war, liberation, pogroms, immigration to U.S.

  16. The man in the black leather coat

    Contains a story entitled "The man in the black leather coat" relating to a friend's experience with Jewish prisoners in Germany in 1938.

  17. Jerry Tepperman collection

    Testimony, 20 pages, typescript, written by Jerry Tepperman, of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, in which he researches and reconstructs the experiences of his father, Leib Tepperman, who died when Jerry was 16 and never spoke about his Holocaust experiences. The elder Tepperman survived the Łódź ghetto, but the documentation compiled by his son focuses on his time at Dachau and Kaufering in 1944-1945.

  18. Mark Monka papers

    Identification documents (2) for Mojzes Maka (Mark Monka) of Bendsburg (Bedzin). One is general ID issued after occupation by Germans, and the other identifies Maka as being resident of Jewish quarter and assigned to work at a clothing factory. Also is a small square card, used as ID by Maka at the factory.

  19. Official photos A Pictorial History

    Contains a photocopy of a photo album that includes battle scenes of World War II, but mostly includes scenes from Ohrdruf.

  20. Testimonies

    Contains copies of notorized confirmations (witness statements) about Nyssya Milman's presence in the Luchinets Ghetto in the Ukraine.