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  1. Helena Manaster memoirs

    Testimony, three versions (questionnaire, typed, and handwritten, all photocopied), from Manaster, originally of Lesko, Poland, described her experiences.

  2. Oral history interview with Eva Salier

  3. "My Sisters, My Brothers"

    Testimony, 444 pages, typescript, titled "My Sisters, My Brothers," by Seren Bernstein (Tuvel), with Louise Loots Thornton, of Aptos, CA, in 1980. Thornton, after learning of Bernstein's experiences through her son, started interviewing her and wrote this manuscript as a novelized form of memoir based on those interviews. Includes detailed descriptions of Bernstein's childhood in a village in Transylvania, forced labor in Budapest, death march, and deportation to Ravensbrück. The manuscript was subsequently published as "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival," by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (Putnam...

  4. Memoirs relating to experiences in Dzhuzim

    Testimony, two manuscripts, each 3 pages, describing experiences of Nyusya and Jakov Furman, in Ukraine (near Vinnitsa) during German occupation.

  5. Maria Ungar Haas memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, one page, titled "My Story" by Maria Ungar Haas. Briefly describes live in Slovakia, Hungarian and then German occupation, arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, and later Stutthof, then liberation, life as DP, and immigration to U.S.

  6. Records from Romanian State Archives

    Photocopied documents from various Romanian military officers relating to the case of David Margulies of Iasi.

  7. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda film (part)

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts.

  8. Memoirs of Dezider Grunberger in Hungarian and Ukrainian labor camps, and of Marta Grunberger in Auschwitz and Muhldorf.

    Contains memoirs relating to Dezider Grunberger's experiences in Hungarian and Ukrainian labor camps, and Marta Grunberger's experiences in Auschwitz and Muhldorf.

  9. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine during the Holocaust

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 7 pages, written by Fay Nobel (nee Fay Grinblatt) in 1989. Describes German occupation of her hometown in eastern Poland (present day Ukraine), persecution by Ukrainian forces, transfer to ghetto (both village and ghetto unnamed), conditions there, survival, and liberation.

  11. Belzec - Oboz zagłady

    Typescript (photocopy), of "Belzec Oboc Zaglady," by Zdzisław Spaczynski, two versions.

  12. Frank H. Nowaczek collection

    Contains photocopies of negatives and U.S. Army reports regarding conditions in concentration and POW camps, and a biography of Frank H. Nowaczek, Sr.

  13. Oscar Lichtenstern memoir

    Testimony, typescript, titled "My Struggle for Survival" by Oscar Lichtenstern. Appears to have originally been written in another language (German or Dutch) shortly after the war, and the present version translated by his granddaughter, Ruth Lichtenstern Fishman, in 1992. Detailed account of occupation of Netherlands, life in ghetto, deportation first to Westerbork, then Theresienstadt.

  14. Name Lists of Jews in the Łódź and Lwów ghettos circa 1944-1945

    Mimeographed names lists, of Jews in Łódź ghetto in 1944, compiled by Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, and another of survivors registered in Łódź in July 1945, from Jewish Immigrant Aid Society in Canada, and similar list from Lwow, 1945 (partial). Also contains clipping from a high school newspaper in Fort Worth (1953), TX, about student Frieda Weisblatt, a Holocaust survivor; a title page from a Hebrew book ("Sefer Gabris'") published in Warsaw, but dealing with Piotrkow Trybunalski, in 1904; and a postcard and letter, both from 1942, written from an internee (Marek) to his parents from Dra...

  15. Richard A. Ruppert collection

    The Richard A. Ruppert collection consists of biographical, photographic, and printed materials and subject files documenting Ruppert’s role as a court reporter in postwar Germany and Austria for War Crimes Investigation Team (WCIT) 6826 of the Judge Advocate General’s Corp of the U.S. Army, which investigated war crimes primarily in the areas around Welzheim, Germany. Biographical materials consist of a resume and notification of promotion for Richard Ruppert, draft correspondence including descriptions of Ruppert’s postwar activities related to war crimes investigations and prosecutions, ...

  16. Ruben Braten memoir

    Testimony, six pages, photocopy of typescript, addressed to Yad Vashem, account of Ruben Braten, or Rudka Poland, and his experiences during Holocaust. Describes first the Soviet, then German occupation, and experiences as farm laborer and then in hiding.

  17. Photographs of Hitler and of prisoners of war

    Photographs (3), only caption is on one of Hitler riding in a car, with date of March 1936 and caption of "Pauluskirche" then an illegible word. One of soldiers in open rail car, one of women wrapped in shawls.

  18. David Kirsh collection

    Contains documents relating to donor's membership in the Belgian resistance and the Comite de Defense des Juifs de Charleroi.

  19. Yelena Shvartsman memoir and news article

    Testimony, eight pages, handwritten in Russian (with English summary), describing Shvartsman's experiences during German occupation of her hometown of Minsk, as well as copy of news clipping from "Minkskaya Pravda" by E. Joffe, about Maly Trostinets.

  20. Oral history interview with Alberto Soulema