…The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Felicia Bryn (born Felicja Braun) who survived the war as a hidden child. Included are…

…The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edward Haven (born Edward Rechtszafen), who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child in…

…; being transferred to Auschwitz and then to Dachau; surviving the war; living in Munich, Germany and France after the end of the war; and immigrating and…

…; surviving a death train in 1945; liberation by American forces in Tutzing, Germany in 1945; returning to Neutitschein after the war; his marriage and return…

…; conditions at Flossenbürg; his feelings that he owes his survival to his friend Jan Shienitski and to the power of prayer; and his immigration to the United…

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… has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. Q: So they survived? A: They survived and that’s one family. We received later there from Palestine and…

… escape through the sewers; her deportation to Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Birkeanu; being ill with typhoid fever; surviving the death march; escaping and…

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… destruction of Majdanek in 1943. TAPE II 4.05 The role of youth movement education in her survival. 4.18 1st day in Birkenau, describes accommodations and work…

… manufacturing factory; working as a housekeeper to survive; her time in Otwock Poland working as a chambermaid in summer 1944 at a convent; her escape to…

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…: Yes, helping [indecipherable] Q: Did you have enough food? A: Yes, yes. We were comfortable, and we had jewelry which later on we’re selling to survive…

… beginning of 1942 and being sent on a transport to Treblinka (she did not survive); Germans arriving in the ghettos with tanks; staying in basement bunkers…

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… bad and many people were starving; In beginning of 1942, his youngest sister was arrested and sent on transport to Treblinka, she did not survive…

… conditions; his ongoing belief in his own survival; the reasons that people could not escape from labor camps or from Auschwitz; his arrival at Auschwitz in…

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… camps, he details difficult work conditions but mentions ongoing belief in his own survival. He discusses reasons that people could not escape from labor…

… by some peasants, but managed to escape. They went back to the Łukawski farm, but were unable to remain there long, and survived in the woods until…

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… consists of a diary kept by Esther Born (née Wittlin), originally of Żółkiew, Poland (present-day Zhovkva, Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust in hiding…

… Holocaust experiences of his wife Janina Tauba Szamir and daughter Romana (later Romana Laks Kaplan), including their survival of the Warsaw ghetto, Janina…

…. Debora hid the diary and told her friend Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein, a fellow underground fighter, where to find it should she not survive. Debora was…

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…. Debora hid the diary and told her friend Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein, a fellow underground fighter, where to find it should she not survive. Debora was…

…. Regina and her daughter Irena were deported to Mauthausen and were both liberated in May 1945. Irena Kołomańska also survived the Holocaust. Feliks…

… basement shelter. A bomb hit their building, and all four stories above them collapsed. Halina survived, temporarily pinned against a wall, but her employer…

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… women survived the war under the false identities of Polish non-Jews Jadwiga and Halina Orlowska. Documents of Halina Goldwag include wartime documents…

… and training in scouting helped him survive the war; the “Volksdeutsche”; Polish citizens who felt as if they were German and the “Herrfolke”; how his…

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… family; how his advanced proficiency in the German language and training in scouting helped him survive the war; the “Volksdeutsche,” Polish citizens who…

…Jack Spiegel, born on March 17, 1918, discusses his childhood in Łódź, Poland; his reaction to being the only surviving family member after the…

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…,360 --> 00:06:23,180 You have survived. 146 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:26,760 What happened to the others? 147 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,800 My father was sick in…

… prisoners; her decision to hide in the ghetto; witnessing roundups and mass murders committed by German soldiers; surviving various pogroms; roundups of Jews…

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… shot the next day; states that, notwithstanding this, people wanted to join the partisans because it was hard to survive on one’s own in the forest, and…

…Zofia Hockin, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1947, describes her parents, Leon Nadel and Estella Lipshitz, who were both born Jewish but survived the…

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…. Zofia's parents, Leon Nadel and Estella Lipshitz, were both born Jewish but survived the Holocaust by passing as non-Jews. After the war, the couple…

… 1939 and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto; life and actions in the Warsaw ghetto; his sisters' survival on the streets; actions in the ghetto…

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…’ survival on the streets. 5.25 ‘Work groups’ [Plasuwka], and buying and selling food for other Jews in hiding. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…

…-in-law survived the war.…