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  1. Sally K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally K., who was born in 1927 in Pabianice, Poland, one of ten children. She recounts German invasion; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; separation from her parents and youngest siblings during a round-up (she never saw them again); deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto with her sisters; starvation; forced labor; voluntary transfer to an ammunition factory with one sister; separation from her sister; transfer to Ravensbru?ck; failing health; being placed on a pile of corpses; a friend removing and feeding her; transfer to Burgau; finding one sister; their transfer to a...

  2. Sally K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally K., who was born in Poland in 1927 and grew up in ?o?dz?. She recalls her happy youth as the eldest of six children; German invasion; a public hanging; transport with her father and siblings to Krako?w; smuggling themselves back to ?o?dz? to rejoin Mrs. K.'s mother; ghettoization; hiding during deportations; deportation with her family to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and youngest siblings; hearing her father was alive; transfer twelve days later with two sister to Stutthof; frequent deaths including one sister's; a death march in February...

  3. Sally Meyer and Theo Seyock letters

    Consists of three letters, one written by Sally Meyer and two written by Theo Seyock. The Sally Meyer letter describes the decaying situation for him and his family in Germany. That letter was entrusted to Theo Seyock, who promised to deliver it to relatives of Meyer in the United States. The two letters from Seyock describe his attempts to fulfill that promise. The 14 January 1948 letter from Seyock also describes his supervision of a Wehrmacht vehicle repair depot, where he became acquainted with Sally Meyer. He states that he was in charge of about 80 Jewish laborers from the concentrati...

  4. Sally Muschel collection

    The Sally Muschel collection consists of photographs of school children and teachers at the Ainring displaced persons camp; baggage tags used in her immigration to the United States; two certificates issued by the World ORT Union 5th Area H.Q. Vocational School in Lechfeld, Germany; a telegram; and a letter.

  5. Sally P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally P., who was born in approximately 1920 and raised in P?on?sk, Poland. She recalls her large, extended family; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her parents fleeing to Warsaw; selling their goods to support her brothers; her mother's return; ghettoization; public hangings; emotional devastation from observing her family's suffering, particularly hunger; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family (she never saw them again); transfer to Budy, then back to Auschwitz/Birkenau; finding her friends; slave labor clearing bombing rubble and in a...

  6. Sally Pitluk memoir

    Testimony, four pages, handwritten. From Plonsk, Poland, describes life there, German invasion, creation of ghetto, and deportation to Auschwitz.

  7. Sally R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923, one of six sisters. She recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; expropriation of her father's business; his death; one sister's deportation; communications from her from Gru?nberg; marriage in 1943; ghettoization; living with her husband's family and one sister; forced factory labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; deportation of her mother, other sisters, and sister's child (they did not survive); arranging to join her sister in Gru?nberg; transfer with her husband and sister to the Sosnowiec g...

  8. Sally S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally S., who was born in Przemys?lany, Poland in 1923. She describes her close and large immediate and extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat organizing forced labor; mass killing of men, including her father and uncle; incarceration in a forced labor camp; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to return to the ghetto; her mother's death; hiding with her brothers in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation in May 1943; escaping with them to the woods; building bunkers; assistance from her sister who wa...

  9. Sally Suss papers

    The papers consist of five postcards written to Sara Nudelman (later Sally Suss) in Hansdorf (Ławice), Poland, from various friends and family members in Sosnowiec, Poland, and two photographs of a Jewish school class in Sosnowitz in 1939.

  10. Sally Wasserman collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Sally Wasserman. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Sally Woelkers collection

    Collection contains correspondence regarding the dismissal of Jonas Ekstein in 1938, and his letter inquiring for employment in the United States.

  12. Salm family papers

    The Salm family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration records, and restitution papers documenting the Salm family of Cologne, Germany and their immigration to the United States. The papers primarily consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration records of Kurt and Meta Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1937, and Kurt’s parents David and Anna Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical materials include birth, marriage and death certificates; identification papers; military papers of David Salm, includi...

  13. Salmuth, Hans von (Generaloberst)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Salmuth, Hans von (29.11.1888 - 31.12.1961) Generaloberst geb.: 29.11.1888 in Metz gest.: 31.12.1961 in Wiesbaden 19.9.1907 Eintritt in die Preußische Armee als Freiwilliger; Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 3 18.5.1908 Fähnrich 27.1.1909 Leutnant 24.12.1914 Oberleutnant 18.8.1916 Hauptmann 9.9.1916 Generalstab XIV. Reservekorps 1.1.1917 Generalstab 35. Reserve-Division 1.4.1917 Generalstab Garde-Kavallerie-Division 1.8.1917 Generalstab Generalkommando 66 Sept. 1917 Generalstab k.u.k. Heeresgruppe Erzherzog Josef 13.12.1917 Generalstab Heeresgruppe Linsingen 1.10...

  14. Salo F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salo F., who was born in Poland in 1919. He recalls attending a yeshiva; German invasion; ghettoization; public hangings to discourage escapes; arrest following a failed escape (he never saw his parents or siblings again); incarceration in Auschwitz and Flossenbu?rg; a beating which resulted in permanent back injuries; transfer to Dachau; liberation two days later; living in Munich; assistance from the Joint and UNRRA; marriage to an Auschwitz survivor; living in Bayreuth; his son's birth in 1947; his strong desire to leave Germany; and emigrating to Bolivia in 1953. ...

  15. Salo Fiszgrund collection Spuścizna Salo Fiszgrunda (Sygn. 331)

    Contains papers of Salo Fiszgrund (1893-1971), a Bund activist in Krakὀw in the1920s. Includes correspondence with Szymon Zachariasz, testimonies relating to the trial of Lieber Gotlob, in which Salo Fiszgrund was a witness, newspaper clippings, an issue of a „Biuletyn Komisji Historycznej przy Komitecie Centralnym Bundu” (“Bulletin of the Historical Commission at the Central Committee of Bund”) of 1946, as well as fragments of notes other publications.

  16. Salo P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salo P., who was born in 1904 in an Austrian town which became Polish after World War I. He recalls joining an older brother in Germany in 1921; increasing antisemitism after Hitler's rise to power in 1933; moving to Katowice, Poland; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Kolomyi?a?; German invasion; ghettoization; refusing to join the Judenrat; hiding with his family from a mass killing; selling clothing to obtain food; escaping from a train transport; returning to the ghetto; forced labor; and beatings resulting in a hearing loss in one ear. Mr. P. recounts tr...

  17. Salomea G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomea G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933, the youngest of three sisters. She recalls attending a Jewish kindergarten; being terrified in the streets; her parents' separation in 1936; her father's institutionalization for mental illness; her mother seeking sponsorship for emigration from her brother in Australia; her oldest sister's emigration in 1938; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald after release from the asylum; her mother obtaining his release providing he left for Shanghai; his four-week stay with them during which she felt safe and surrounded b...

  18. Salomea Herszenberg Kape family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Roza Herszenberg Kape and Anna Toronczyk and their family in Łódź, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust, Anna's experiences as a midwife in displaced persons camps, and the family's immigration to the United States in the 1950-60s. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Salomon and Berg families collection

    The collection consists of a chess set, a harmonica, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Alfred Berg in Austria and Marianne Salomon Berg in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  20. Salomon and Dora Levy Saltiel collection

    The collection consists of a dress, documents, identification cards, newspaper clippings, a CD of two diaries, family photographs, and a family tree related to the experiences of Dora Levy and her family in Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece, during the German occupation during which they lived in the ghetto, performed forced labor, then went into hiding; it also consists of documents relating to the experiences of Salomon Saltiel who was a member of the Greek military and spent the war in Italian and German POW camps.