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  1. Aktoriaus I.Kamajaus portretas

  2. Aktoriaus J. L. Krymskio portretas

  3. Aktoriaus L. Poliačeko portretas

  4. Aktoriaus Leibos Kuznecovo portretas

  5. Aktoriaus M. Zelverio portretas

  6. Aktoriaus Marko Šadovskio portretas

  7. Aktoriaus Michailo Kaco portretas

  8. Aktoriaus P.M. Goldbergo-Amatino portretas

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  12. Aktorius Pamocnik

  13. Al and Joseph B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al and Joseph B., who were born in Proszowice, Poland. They discuss people who collaborated with the Germans; the tragedy of Jews deported from France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, whom they viewed as not "coping" well in the camps; and executions and humiliation in Graz and Jawischowitz. Joseph B. describes a trip with his son to Poland in the early 1980s.

  14. Al B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al B., who was born in Proszowice, Poland in 1918. He describes a pleasant life in Proszowice; working in a textile factory in ?o?dz?; visiting his parents in September 1939; an unsuccessful escape attempt with his father after the outbreak of war; later fleeing to Lemberg (L'viv); brief arrest by the Soviets in Przemys?l while smuggling themselves back; returning to Proszowice in 1941; forced labor in the Krako?w ghetto in 1942; his parents and brother joining him; hiding with his family on a nearby farm; returning to the ghetto; his family's deportation during the g...

  15. Al Gordon collection

    Consists of a postcard of the MS Batory, an ocean liner which was part of the Polish merchant fleet, and a postwar photograph of Al Gordon standing in uniform in front of a building marked "Nurnberg Military Post."

  16. Al H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al H., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1941. He recounts serving in the 104th Infantry Division; landing on Utah beach; fighting as they progressed through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands into Germany; liberating Nordhausen in 1945; the pervasive stench and corpses strewn about; his uncontrollable sobbing; observing General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction; taking photographs; ordering local Germans to bury the dead; their denial of any knowledge of the camp; assisting Jewish women prisoners who had been hiding nearby; leaving after two or three days; ...

  17. Al Kooper collection

    The collection consists of money, 3 scrip notes and 2 coins, from the ghetto in Łódź, Poland

  18. Al Sommer, Jr. letter relating to Ohrdruf

    Contains a typescript photocopy of a letter from Al Sommer Jr., while in the United States Army during World War II, to his parents relating to his experience at the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  19. Ala D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ala D., who was born in Będzin, Poland in approximately 1931, one of eight children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; German invasion; her brother's deportation in 1940; one sister never returning when she went to the bakery; another sister's deportation in 1941; arrest when she went to get food for her family; deportation to Sosnowiec, then another labor camp; slave labor in a weaving factory and on railways; losing three teeth when beaten by a guard; being injured when a train hit her work group (almost all were killed); transfer to Gross-Rosen, then Parschnit...

  20. Aladár K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aladár K., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Podskalka, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926. He recalls attending school until age nine; working for a hatmaker, then on a farm; a pleasant life where everyone worked, everything was clean, and stories were told at the fireside; persecution of Jews and Romanies when the Slovak state was established; being beaten by Hlinka guards; deportation of the Jews and some Romanies; hiding in the forests; being shot in the foot by Germans; living in Porúbka; attempting to enlist in the military (his brother had already);...