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1. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…"Survival in the Lion's Den"…
2. Joseph Berger papers
1994.A.0187 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0187
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1990
… older daughter were killed, but his younger daughter was smuggled out and survived the Holocaust in hiding under the name Mary. Joseph escaped in 1943…
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 …, surviving the Holocaust under a false identity, and immigrating to the United States. Languages: English, German, Polish, French Administrative Information…
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3. Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers
1997.44 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.44
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2000
bulk: 1938-1949
…, Poland. She had survived the war in hiding in Modolycze, and lived at the Jäger Kaserne displaced persons camp until immigrating to the United States in…
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 … Harbor, and two report cards issued to Edmund Glotzer in 1938 and 1939. Jack Glotzer’s memoir, I Survived the German Holocaust Against All Odds: A…
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4. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… the Hongkew ghetto. John became a camp guard, and Hermann died of dysentery. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and…
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 …. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and became American citizens in 1952. John’s father committed suicide before…
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5. Dorit B. Whiteman papers
2009.294.1 Box 11 Folder 6 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2009.294.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2009
bulk: 1987-1993
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 … material to the books Escape via Siberia: A Jewish Child’s Odyssey of Survival (Hereinafter: Escape via Siberia) and Lonek’s Journey: The True Story of a Boy…
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6. Transcripts of oral histories of Ukrainian Jews from the project "Jewish Fates-Ukraine-20th Century"
Document | Accession Number: 2004.14 | RG Number: RG-31.027
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… survival through pre-war pogroms, and survival during the Holocaust and after World War II.…
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 … activities, family life, education, and survival through pre-war pogroms, and survival during the Holocaust and after World War II. System of Arrangement This…
7. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Kurt…
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 … the Naumann family in Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt…
8. Sophie Billys collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.22
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
…, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Billys, with her husband Henryk and daughter Milanka, survived the war by posing as Polish Gentiles and assisted whomever they…
9. Alexander Gleis papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.567.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1933-1998
… survived the Polish front, and he and his wife survived the Stanisławów ghetto, but their newborn daughter was killed during an Aktion in the spring of 1942…
10. Charles Kotkowsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.045
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1985
… plight of children in the ghettos and camps. Also included is “Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor,” a testimony of Holocaust survival by Charles Kotkowsky…
11. Miriam and Aaron Gopman papers
2017.635.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.635.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-2017
… 1944 Miriam returned to Tarashcha and was eventually reunited with her brother Aleksander, her only surviving family member. Miriam studied to become a…
12. Joe Gelber collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0252 | RG Number: RG-02.153
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1980
…'s liberation by Seymour Zipper; his reunion with his wife and other surviving family members and their experiences at the Feldafing displaced persons camp; and…
13. Poetry and songs relating to German and Stalinist camps
Document | Accession Number: 1988.022 | RG Number: RG-04.001.01.01
Date:
1930-1950
… accounts of eight Holocaust survivors which describe what role music and poetry played in their daily life and their struggle for survival. Also included are…
14. Primo Levi manuscript collection
Primo Levi manuscript Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.78.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1947
… paint factory outside of Turin, Levi began writing what would become "If This Is a Man," which was titled "Survival in Auschwitz" in later English…
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 … This Is a Man], which recounted his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz, and was later published as Survival in Auschwitz. Contains handwritten…
15. Joseph G. Fogg letter and obituary
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0135 | RG Number: RG-09.039
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1992
… liberation including health conditions of and care given to the camp's surviving inmates, the camp's sanitary conditions, and the fate of some of the camp's SS…
16. Joel Citron collection of family materials
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0102 | RG Number: RG-10.114
Date:
1940-1990
… Itka Radoszynska (dated 4 Dec 1945) describes how only she, out of all her family from Siedlce, Poland, survived by throwing herself off a train destined…
17. Archivo personal de Francisco Wichter
Document | Accession Number: 2017.329.1 | RG Number: RG-72.029
Date:
inclusive: 1947-2015
inclusive: 1947-2015
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Francisco Wichter
… clippings, certificates, and photographs related to his post-war experiences. He survived several ghettos, concentration and forced labor camps, including…
18. Gina Gotfryd collection
1995.A.0170 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0170
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1994
…’s barracks, where they continued to perform hard labor. Against all odds, Gina and her mother survived, and after the Russians liberated the camp, eventually…
19. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… concentration camp, where Amalia perished upon arrival. Ilona and Eta survived the initial selection and were sent for forced labor in munitions factories. The…
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 … the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Amalia perished upon arrival. Ilona and Eta survived the…
20. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers
2012.351.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2012.351.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-2003
…, hiding with her brother, liberation, and marrying her husband. Rut Burak’s Encounters with the Decent: Helpers in Survival, Search and Reunion, describes…
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 … the Decent: Helpers in Survival, Search and Reunion, describes how she survived the Holocaust under a false identity in Germany, how she traced her…