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  1. Bella Rotner memoir

    Testimony, photocopied, unpaginated, recounting the experiences of Bella Bornstein Rotner, originally of Olkusz, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  2. Records of the Military History Archives of the Military Historical Institute in Prague

    Copied documents (microfiche, photograph copy prints, photocopies) of plans for design and building of a prisoner-of-war camp at Auschwitz, October 1942, from the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS, Auschwitz. Copied from Military Historical Institute Archive, Prague.

  3. Max Edelman papers

    Testimony, typescript, four pages, titled "Liberation Day of a Blind Survivor" by Edelman, written in 1995. Recounts experiences in camps (Flossenbürg), how he was blinded after a severe beating by a guard in 1944, and protected by other prisoners who masked his blindness so he wouldn't be killed. Also contains two copyprint photos of Flossenbürg, as well as a separate copied publication, "Guide to the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp" by Peter Heigl, 29 pages.

  4. Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger correspondence relating to the rescue of Manfred Loewin

    Contains information about the efforts of Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger to rescue members of the Loewin and Neumann families of Berlin, Germany.

  5. Oral history interview with Walter Pauk

  6. Frankel Rubin Ortner Memoirs, From Terror to Triumph A Family's Story of Survival Through the Holocaust

    Testimony. Typescript, 39 pages compiled in 1990, entitled "Frankel Rubin Ortner Memoirs, From Terror to Triumph: A Family's Story of Survival Through the Holocaust," by Alexander Ortner.

  7. Publications relating to the Holocaust experiences

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 6 pages with timeline, about Leo Grunwald (Lee Garvin) and his family, originally of Berlin. Also contains photocopies from publications about various teachers who accompanied their pupils to death camps, including Martin Gerson and Clara Grunwald.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz, and the US after 1947

    Testimony, circa 70 pages, typescript. Most appears to be about Novak's life in U.S. after war, not about what her family experienced during it.

  9. Alice Herman papers

    Photocopied documents, from wartime Poland, for Henryk and Jadwiga Ziembinski.

  10. Holocaust in Croatia Stradanja Zidova u Hrvatskoj Holocaust

    Contains files and name lists of Yugoslavian Jews persecuted and murdered during World War II. The dossier on each victim includes details of each person’s life and place of death.

  11. Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp

    Contains the edited typescript of "Auschwitz: Anatomy of a Death Camp," co-authored by Michael Berenbaum and Yisrael Gutman.

  12. John Steinberg papers

    Photocopies of various postcards and letters to and from interned Jews in Swiss internment camps, as well as other locations (e.g., Theresienstadt), with typed notes at bottom of page, likely from donor.

  13. Oral history interview with Rose Abrams

  14. Perel Faust memoir

    Testimony, 30 pages, photocopy of typescript, on cover notes that it was written by Perel Faust (nee Reiner). Account of German occupation of town in Poland, translated from Hebrew.

  15. Zdzislaw Ryn papers

    Writings, typescript and photocopies of published articles, by Ryn, many relating to Holocaust survivors and "survivor syndrome," circa 1979-1990.

  16. Testimony

    Consists of a transcript of an oral history interview conducted with Gerald S. Adler about his Holocaust experiences. The interview was conducted by the Holocaust Memorial Foundation in Skokie, IL prior to 1995.

  17. Memoir relating to experiences in hiding in the Netherlands

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript, in form of interview questions and answers, from interview conducted with Theresia Rodrigues Pereira in Syosset, NY, 1994, about her experiences in occupied Netherlands during the war, and as a Sephardic Jew in hiding there.

  18. Robert W. Tighe papers

    Contains an honorable discharge document issued to Robert W. Tighe from the United States Army; correspondence from Tighe to his parents in Roxbury, MA, while he was stationed in Europe during WWII; correspondence from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1986) regarding his oral history; letters from school students thanking Mr. Tighe for a presentation at their class in 1995; news clippings; an illustrated German magazine from 1941, likely picked up by Tighe after war; and laminated pages from April 22, 1945 issues of "Yank" magazine, with cover, containing an article about General Creight...

  19. Ausweis, certification for Buchenwald

    Photocopied identification card for Lucjan Radzik (originally of Sosnowiec), postwar, attesting that he had been a prisoner at Buchenwald.

  20. Photographs relating to Buchenwald

    Photographs (copyprints) of corpses at liberated camp, along with photocopy of sleeve photos were originally housed in.