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  1. Fela Grynbaum-Fonti collection

    News clippings from 1990s, and other documents from same era, about Fela Grynbaum and her work with Australian journalist to investigate story of Auschwitz inmate Rosa Robota.

  2. Jerome Gitelson memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 6 pages, describing Oskar Glick, a Jew from Austria who came to Lithuania, where the author (Jerome Gitelson) met him in Vilnius. Notes activities of Glick that helped save numerous Jews.

  3. A memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten, about experiences in Brno, Czechoslovakia, escape to Poland after annexation, and then Soviet Union after start of war, at which point Soviets deported him and brother to Gulag camps (Kolyma, Magadan) until Germans invade SU, then are released and fight alongside Red Army in a Czech battalion.

  4. Herschkowitz family papers

    The Herschkowitz family papers contain primarily Holocaust-era documents related to Bezales Herschkowitz, a furrier in Paris who was imprisoned by the Nazis at Dachau, and his family. The documents relate mostly to his internment, and include political deportee cards, certificates, and repatriation cards. Also included are Bezales’ military documents, medical diagnosis, and documents concerning compensation and pension. A brief memoir written by Bezales’ daughter, Brenda, details more fully their family’s story. The Herschkowitz family papers contain records primarily relating Bezales Hersc...

  5. Memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, sent to Claims Conference in response to request for information. About Guralnik's experiences in Rovno, Ukraine during the occupation.

  6. Andrew Theodore collection

    Testimony, 1 page, handwritten, about Andrew Theodore's role in U.S. Army as a liberator of Buchenwald. Includes three specimens of Buchenwald scrip.

  7. Max Mermelstein papers

    Testimony, typescript, 17 pages, "Surviving the Forest," by Max Mermelstein, translated from Yiddish, originally appeared in Skala Memorial Book (1978), recalling events in Borshchov ghetto and in Skala, circa 1943-1944. File also contains photocopied archival documents about the Jewish communities of these towns.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences to Pechora and Mogilyov-Podolski ghettos

    Testimony, handwritten, 10 pages, regarding experiences in village near Mogilev-Podolsky, in Pechora camp, and Mogilev-Podolsky ghetto.

  9. Georgina Vlcko papers

    Testimony, handwritten, 21 pages, by Katarina Gruenstein, Slovakia, 1984, discussing experiences during WWII, first in hometown of Senice, later in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was forced laborer and subject of medical experiments (English volunteer translation provided). Also includes photocopies of ID cards for Anna Georgina Vlckova (donor) from 1944 and afterwards, and death certificate for Joseph Polansky, Prague, 1954.

  10. Benjamin Lia collection

    Contains a document and and photograph relating to the murder of Solomon Iancu by the Iron Guard on December 19, 1940, in Romania.

  11. Mikhail Bershadskiy memoir

    Testimony, four pages, typescript; five pages manuscript. Describes German invasion and occupation of unnamed town in Ukraine (in vicinity of Vinnitsa).

  12. Abram Katmanowies letter to Trygve Lie

    The mass-produced form letter is addressed to "Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations" from Abram Katmanowies, a displaced person in Wasseralfingen, Germany. The letter asks the Secretary General to present before the meeting of the United Nations that said inmate is living "among my enemies - the murderers of my family" 21 months after liberation and to grant him permission to leave the United States occupation zone in Germany for Palestine.

  13. Fella Allon collection

    Consists of one memoir, 148 pages, written by Dr. Ada Rudi-Gershem, entitled "Conch."

  14. Swedish protection documents issued in Budapest

    Photocopy of "Schutzpass" for Laszlo Tibor, as well as copy of his Swedish-issued work permit, both from Budapest, 1944.

  15. Oral history interview with Blanche Stern

  16. Songbook attributed to Sachsenhausen

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

  17. Germans push through Luxembourg

    CU, pushing down tank barrier. MCU, armored vehicle passing through gate crossing bridge. CU, pan bridge with dead Allied troops. CU, attending wounded. CU, German troops loading motor tackle into boat, destroyed bridge in BG. MCU, paddling rubber boat, Allied troops disembarking from rubber boat going up bank on side of river. CU, prisoners marching down street of town. CU, Panzer division on move through Luxembourg, barbed wire entanglement in FG. CU, bicycle troops hide in ditch on side of road. CU, German troops crossing river on foot bridge. CU, German troops jump, board rubber boat, c...

  18. Violin, bow, and case used by a prisoner while interned in a camp run by Oskar Schindler

    Violin crafted in 1890 by Guadagnini, a master Italian instrument maker in Turin. Henry Rosner bought it in Vienna in 1928. It was his constant companion for 66 years, excepting a brief separation near the end of the war. Rosner played the violin professionally in well-known cafes, hotels and resorts all over Europe until Poland fell to the Nazis in 1939. Three years later, Rosner, his wife Manci -- their young son Alexander, and Rosner's two brothers, were sent to the Płaszów forced labor camp. There, Henry and his brother Poldek, an accordianist, were required to play for the camp's comma...

  19. Letter relating to the Holocaust in the Ukraine

    Contains a typescript letter in the form of a memoir, which relates to Semyon Bondar's experiences during the Holocaust in the Ukraine.

  20. Oral history interview with Morris Stark