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  1. Two speeches by Rabbi Stephen Wise

    One audiotape containing two speeches by Stephen Wise.

  2. Liquidation by Germans of Jews in Jaslo and environs in 1942

    Contains a memoir in Polish, entitled "Likwidacja Zydow w Jasle i okolicy w 1942 r., przez Niemcow" [Liquidation by Germans of Jews in Jaslo and Environs in 1942] by Professor Jan Raczka of Krakow, Poland.

  3. Testimony: "Life under three flags, or, the story of a survivor,"

    Testimony, 27 pages, typescript, titled "Life under three flags, or, the story of a survivor," by Dov Eshel of Netanya, Israel. Account of life in small town in eastern Poland/western Ukraine, occupation, partisan, fighting with Red Army and Polish forces.

  4. Memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, written by Rudy Cohn (Bal Harbour, FL, 1995), describing how his wife's aunt, Flora Einson, returned to Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1936 with goal of helping as many family members as possible immigrate to the United States, and how Cohn and his wife accompanied her to the United States on her trip back.

  5. Robert E. Herzstein collection

    Consists of a paper entitled "The American Media, the Survivors and the Establishment of the State of Israel 1945-1948: An Analysis of 'Time,' 'Life,' and 'The New York Times'," by Dr. Robert Edwin Herzstein. The paper, 47 pages, was presented at an international conference entitled "The Jewish People at the End of World War II," held at Yad Vashem on October 10, 1995.

  6. Selma Pickman papers

    Photographs, letter, and articles relating to Holocaust survivors, displaced persons, and the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  7. Walter Pachulec papers

    Letter from the Polish Red Cross, copies from an unidentified publication, and memorial in Polish.

  8. Walter and Gerda Steinfurth family papers

    Photocopies of correspondence and documents related to Gerda Steinfurth and her parents, Wilhelm and Klara Busse. Gerda was imprisoned by Nazis in 1944 for refusal to bear arms, and was released by Allies after liberation in 1945. Items include documentation attesting to her imprisonment under Nazis, correspondence with authorities in Soviet occupied zone and then GDR concerning her father, who died in the 1950s, as well as documents from East German authorities withdrawing Steinfurth's status as a political prisoner during Nazi era (she lived in West Berlin during 1960s, when this status w...

  9. A memoir

    Contains a memoir relating to the donor's father's experiences in Thessalonike (Greece), Auschwitz (Poland), and Dora (Germany).

  10. Ben Abraham memoir

    Consists of testimony given by Ben Abraham to the Claims Conference regarding his Holocaust experiences in the Auschwitz and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps.

  11. Scott Levine collection

    Correspondence and family documents, pertaining to Mr. and Mrs. Karl Oberndorf, of Darmstadt, and emigration from Germany in 1936; earlier documents about wedding, death of father (1925), and other family matters.

  12. Memoir

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, describes time in eastern Poland (Bolechow), invasion of Soviets and then Germans, time in ghetto and as forced laborer.

  13. Samuel Finkelstein collection

    Consists of one memoir, 5 pages, in English, written by Samuel Finkelstein, originally of Rzeszów, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Finkelstein describes his family's pre-war life in Rzeszów, being forced into the ghetto, and how many struggled to get identity cards designating them as necessary labor. In 1943, Mr. Finkelstein was deported to Płaszów and from there, to Mauthausen. He was sent to the subcamp of Linz, where he worked in the underground tunnels before his liberation in May 1945. He traveled to Italy and lived in the UNRRA camps in Ancona and Roma before immigrating to Palestine in 1...

  14. Postcard

    The postcard was written by Hugo Koenig [donor's sister's father-in-law] in Birkenau concentration camp ("bei Neu-Berlin ober Schlesien") and sent to Kremsier (Kromeríz), Czech Republic.

  15. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy) 2 pages, titled "Supplement," about the town of Vinkovtsky (author's hometown) and events that happened there during German occupation.

  16. Fred Friedman collection

    Contains a photocopied article, 25 pages plus notes and lists, titled "No Time to Waste: The Unitarian Service Committee's Activities on Behalf of Victims of Nazism," along with a cover letter to an unspecified magazine (dated 1989) by Fred Friedman, the author of this article and archivist of the U.S.C. records at Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard University.

  17. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers

    The Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht. Documents include passports, registration cards, correspondence with the Consulate General, and other documents obtained in both families’ pursuit of a visa, first to China and later to the United States. Also included are copies of the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle (Shanghai Echo), a German newspaper published for Jewish refugees in China. The Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers contain primarily documents obtained b...

  18. Moses and Miriyam Goldshmidt collection

    Testimony, circa 60 pages, typescript, titled "From the Abyss to Freedom: The Story of a Survivor of the Death Camps, 1939-1945," by Moshe Goldschmidt, composed in Hebrew. Describes pre-war life in Bialystok, invasion and occupation by Soviets, then Germans; life in Bialystok ghetto, then a succession of camps (Belzec, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen). Accompanying account of Miriam Goldschmidt (95 pages, handwritten, in notebook) is also in Hebrew. Miriam describes family's life in eastern Slovakia, then Hungary, followed by German occupation, deportation to camps including Stutthof. Also a c...

  19. War in the East [original title Krieg im Osten]

    This documentary in the style of a Wochenschau [weekly newsreel] depicts the 'irresistible' military advance of the German army on the Eastern front of WWII, its reception as 'liberators' by the respective populations, & the scorched earth left behind by the retreating Soviet troops. Scenes show the German-Finnish border & the polar circle the German army crossed in summer 1941 as they advanced toward the Soviet Union. German troops & Waffen-SS enter Lithuania from Eastern Prussia and cross the Memel River, advancing & taking the capital Kovno on June 24, 1941. In Daugavils ...

  20. Margaret Iglauer collection

    Relates to the life of Margaret and Ernest Iglauer, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938. The collection details the couple's sojourns in England, the Netherlands, Belgium,and France during World War II, their stay in refugee camps in Switzerland, and their subsequent emigration to the United States.