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  1. A memoir relating to experiences in Czernowitz

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, of survivor from Bukovina.

  2. A memoir relating to experiences in France during the Holocaust

    Testimony in the form of a letter, from Bindefeld (nee Regina Westreich), in which she very briefly describes family's escape from Germany (Leipzig) after Kristallnacht, survival in occupied France (she worked for an Orthodox rabbi, Schneerson, who was sheltering children in southern France), and eventual immigration to U.S. Letter asks questions of USHMM staff about fate of family members who were in Poland.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Germany and USSR during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 6 pages, handwritten, about experiences of two sisters, from Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg) Germany, whose family went to the Soviet Union in the late 1930s on a "prisoner exchange," and after arrival in Armenia, were arrested and sent to Siberia.

  4. A memoir relating to experiences in Hungary and the U.S

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, of Marika (Marianne) Spizz, born in Hungary in 1947 to survivor parents. Describes her experience as child of survivors in U.S. (Bellmore, NY).

  5. A memoir relating to Experiences in Hungary, Poland and Germany

    Testimony, 1 page, typewritten, 1994. Describes Klein's experiences in Hungary, 1944, with deportation to Auschwitz and then march to Melk (Austria) and Gunskirchen.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Kosice, Bor, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau, and Muehldorf

    Testimony, on questionnaire form then 4 pages from legal pad as supplemental narrative, describing pre-war life in Uzhgorod, time as forced laborer at Auschwitz and elsewhere, and immediate postwar period as DP in Czechoslovakia.

  7. A memoir relating to experiences in Kraków

    Testimony and one photograph describing Rosa Shoshana Taubamn Budick’s (later Shoshana Budick) family and childhood in Kraków as well as life in the Kraków ghetto.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences in Kraków, Płaszów, and Auschwitz

    Consists of one memoir, 1 page, in English, by Ernest Abraham, who lived in Łódź and Krakow before the war. In the testimony, he writes about the deportation of his parents and sister to Belzec, his own forced labor in Płaszów, where he worked in a shoe factory, his deportatation to Starachowice, to Buna-Monowitz, and his eventual liberation from Buchenwald. Mr. Abraham also briefly describes his post-war family life.

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Kretshnyf and Ukraine

    Testimony, typescript, 15 pages. Describes experiences of Haya Moskovitz (nee Katz), originally from a village (Kretschnyf) near Sighet, Transylvania. Describes life in Kretshnyf, deportation to Stanislaw (Ukraine), some relatives sent to Kamenets-Podolski, and eventually Auschwitz.

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald

    Contains a testimony, typescript, 4 pages, likely created for restitution case in 1956, when author (Weintraub) lived in Norfolk, VA. Composed under oath and notarized, account describes Weintraub's experiences in Łódź ghetto during occupation.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, and Woebbelin

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 18 pages, about the donor's life in Poland prior to and during occupation, time at Auschwitz, as forced laborer in Braunschweig, and as a displaced person after the war.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Neustadt

    Consists of a typed copy of one memoir, in English, written by Flora Herzberger in Rodewisch, Germany, in June 1945. In the memoir, Mrs. Herzberger describes the family's deportation from Germany into Poland to the Łódź ghetto in 1941, her husband's death in the ghetto, the deportation of the children of Łódź, and her deportation to Auschwitz with her son and daughter. She describes life in Auschwitz and being sent, with her daughter, to forced laber at the Sackisch subcamp of Gross-Rosen in an airplane factory. She thanks the American military and all who have been so kind to her after...

  13. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Małogość, Skarżysko Kamienna, and Czeştochowa

    Testimony, typescript, 5 pages. Describers author's childhood in Chlewice, Poland, German invasion and occupation, forced labor in Malagosc, concentration camp in Skarżysko, and then forced labor in Czestochowa, before liberation.

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in Luxembourg, Belgium, and France during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, photocopy.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences in Lvov, Warszawa, and Berlin

    Testimony, five pages, handwritten, of author's experiences in Lwow, Ukrainian pogrom after occupation, interment at Janowska camp, escape, travel to Poland with Polish (non-Jewish) identification, times as forced laborer near Warsaw and in Breslau and Berlin-Neukoelln (Krupp), liberation.

  16. A memoir relating to experiences in Minsk and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages (with typed English translation), circa 1990s. Describes experiences in Minsk ghetto.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Odessa and Domanyovka ghettos

    Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, about family's experience in Odessa and Domanevka under German occupation.

  18. A memoir relating to experiences in Palemonas and Stutthof

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, about author's experiences in German occupied Lithuania, in unnamed town/ghetto as laborer, deportation to Stutthof.

  19. A memoir relating to experiences in Podolsk and Pechora

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopy of handwritten text. Describes German occupation in Mogilev-Podolsk.

  20. A Memoir relating to experiences in Poland and Germany during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, relating experiences of donor, originally of Kalisz, Poland, in pre-war times, German occupation, and her own time as forced laborer at Neusalz (sub-camp of Gross Rosen) and Flossenbürg.