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  1. Oral history interview with Claire Uricchio

  2. Charlotte Koopmann collection

    duplicate copy from donor part of One Generation After/Boston, duplicate destroyed.

  3. Notes for a speech in the form of a memoir

    Testimony, typescript, delivered in form of a speech at an unspecified Yom HaShoah event, April 1985. Describes the author's experiences of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia.

  4. Tamara Freitag memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, typewritten, by Tamara Freitag, of Bronx, NY, written in 1994. Describes German occupation of her hometown in Poland, her time as forced laborer in Starachowice, then Auschwitz, death march to Ravensbrueck, liberation.

  5. Documents relating to the Exodus 47 incident

    One leaflet, printed in French, Hebrew, and likely Yiddish, expressing readiness of French government to allow passengers of Exodus 47 to disembark on French territory if they wish. Also is photocopy of an article about Exodus from Washington Jewish Week, 1988.

  6. Gustav Spitzer letters

    The Gustav Spitzer letters contain correspondence sent to Gustav Spitzer while he was living in Chicago from 1938-1939. The letters come from Vienna and Prague, all from Jewish citizens with the same surname of Spitzer. Though they have no relation to Gustav, they are requesting that he assist them in granting them affidavits so they may immigrate to the United States. The letters show the desperation and discrimination that Jews were facing at this time in Austria and Czechoslovakia, that they would explore any possibility to escape their conditions.

  7. German Weeks Review

    CU, Hitler Youth applauding. LS, Heinrich Himmler enters hall, youth stand and salute him. CUs, faces of HJ. MCU, Himmler handing out medals. MSs, two boys pinning medals on. LS, Goebbels speaking (not heard). CUs, audience. LS, flags. CU, German soldiers and machine guns in foxholes. CU, machine gun fired. LS, explosions. German soldiers retreating. German engineers standing in depression. German soldiers on pontoon, drinking. LS, snow-covered mountains. CU, German mountain soldier climbing up mountain. LS, German soldiers descending from mountain. MS, men peeling potatoes. CU, German offi...

  8. Hersz Fischel identification card

    The identification card was issued by the Arbeitsamt-Getto to Hersz Fischel (donor's uncle) to authorize his labor exchange in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland.

  9. Hans Oppenheimer letter

    The Hans Oppenheimer letter is a letter written by Hans Oppenheimer (1901-1945), a German Jewish bank official who was detained in Westerbork transit camp and later perished in Bergen-Belsen. The collection is comprised of a single letter written by Hans from Westerbork in 1943 to Dr. K. Prager, a non-Jewish friend and business associate in Amsterdam. In the letter, Hans discusses his wife and children and a little about life in the camp.

  10. Oral history interview with Trudie Rosenthal

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in the Minsk ghetto and as a partisan

    Testimony, one page, typescript, circa 1990s. Describes family and life in Minsk, German invasion and internment in ghetto in Minsk, escape from ghetto in September 1943 and joining partisans.

  12. A letter from a Protective Custody Inmate at Auschwitz #129866, April 8, 1944

    Letter, photocopied, from prisoner (unidentified) at Auschwitz to woman in Warsaw, April 1944.

  13. Oral history interview with Felix Horn

  14. Memoir

    Testimony, 18 pages, typescript, titled "My Experience in Nazi Times," written as letter to family in 1989. Describes childhood in Darmstadt during 1930s, persecutions of Jews, and family's immigration to U.S. (Los Angeles).

  15. A memoir and deportation list

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopied typescript, titled "As my father told me," with quotes from author's father, who was at Auschwitz. Enclosed is copy of Hungarian names list.

  16. Jeanette Wohlhendler identification card

    Identification card, 1947, attesting that Jeanette Wohlhendler (nee Jeckel) had been a prisoner at Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.

  17. A memoir relating to the experiences of the Sass family in Poland during the Holocaust

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, in outline form, about experiences of donor's family in eastern Poland under Soviet and German occupation. Describes surviving a Nazi "Aktion" by hiding in attic then fleeing to the forest to live with partisans through duration of occupation.

  18. August Schultheis memoir

    Letter, one page, from August Schultheis of Vincennes, IN, addressed to USHMM in 1995, accompanying photos and explaining his own role as U.S. soldier in liberation of Landsberg camp.

  19. Saul Cohn papers

    Photocopy of correspondence between Lila Perl and Harry Stein, director of the archives at the Buchenwald Memorial, seeking information in their records about Ozjasz (Saul) Cohn. Cohn had worked assembling parts for V-1 and V2 rockets at Stassfurt, and saw his father briefly while imprisoned at Buchenwald. Cohn asked Perl for help in tracking information about his father, Nutta Cohn.

  20. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departamenty Edukacji, Pracy, Pomocy Społecznej, Skarbu, Komunikacji, Robót Publicznych i Rekonstrukcji, Likwidacji Konsekwencji Wojny, Narodowej Obrony (Sygn.202/VII-XIII)

    Contains information about the establishment, administration, financial management, and activities of several Delegacy of Government departments including the departments of Education, Labor and Welfare, Treasury, Communication, Public Works and Reconstruction, Liquidation of the Consequences of War, and National Defense during the German occcupation. Also contains information about economic conditions in Warsaw during the German occupation.