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81. "Growing Up in Nazi Germany"
Document | Accession Number: 2009.406.1
… met Alex, a Polish Jew. After returning to Germany, she describes receiving leaflets from die Weiße Rose (White Rose). In 1949, she immigrated to the…
82. "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression"
Document | Accession Number: 2012.193.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2010
… entering the concentration camp system in 1935, where he was imprisoned both as a Jew and a Communist in the Esterwegen, Sachsenhausen, Dachau, and…
83. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… describes the invasion and occupation of Budapest and what she saw and heard of the war. She also writes extensively about the persecution of the Jews…
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 … constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. She also references a young boy and his aunt…
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84. Anna Koppich letters
1995.A.0229 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0229
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… community among the Jews there, their transport to Auschwitz in cattle cars, her separation from her son upon arrival at the camp, and her various duties…
85. "Surviving the Holocaust with Chutzpah"
Document | Accession Number: 2011.325.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2006
… escape the camp and volunteered for labor in Germany, posing as a non-Jew. He was arrested after trying to escape into Switzerland and was imprisoned in…
86. "The Struggle for Life"
Document | Accession Number: 2015.277.1
Date:
creation: 2014
… to free Jews from ghettos; a raid in Miadel (Myadel); the daily life of his unit; a raid on the Lida airport; and finally encountering the Red Army…
87. Joan Diamond collection
2010.119.1 Box 1 Image 2 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2010.119.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… US Army during WWII. The first entry from July 1934 mentions seeing Storm Troopers at the train station in Berlin and books condemning the Jews.…
88. Eva Mándlová Roubíčková papers
1996.A.0383 Book Enclosure 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… they could bring, and a letter from the Relief Committee of Jews stating that Eva received a food parcel. The collection also includes originals and…
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 … mother, pamphlets notifying Eva’s family that they have to leave their home and what they could bring, and a letter from the Relief Committee of Jews…
89. Ross Baker collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2005
bulk: 1933-1938
… stripping Jews of their rights as citizens, including the right to vote. Ross filmed the widespread defacement and boycotting of Jewish businesses. There were…
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 … living in Austria and documents the Anschluss in 1938, the treatment of Jews, and the family’s experiences as a non-Jewish American family living in Vienna…
90. Frederick Weinstein papers
2008.321.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.321.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1999
bulk: 1944-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Fryderyk Winnykamien papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Fryderyk Winnykamien, a Polish born Jew who escaped the Warsaw ghetto…
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 … Fryderyk Winnykamien papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Fryderyk Winnykamien, a Polish born Jew who escaped the Warsaw ghetto and lived in…
91. Płk. Wincentego Bąkiewicza (Kol.138)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.311 | RG Number: RG-59.051
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1959
Alternate Title:
Col. Wincenty Bąkiewicz collection
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, it commanded the largest underground army of the war, the Armia Krajowa (the Polish Home Army). In 1942, reports about the mass murder of Jews in…
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 … about the mass murder of Jews in Poland reached London; at that point, the Polish government-in-exile made several public declarations on the subject, and…
92. "Zug Bist Ahtzen"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.154.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2012-2012
… his attempted escape to Łomża, Poland, in the fall of 1942. Almost immediately upon his arrival, the Jews of Lomza were marched to Zambrów , and, six…
93. Anonymous diaries from Hungarian woman
2014.465.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2014.465.2
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… in Subotica (Szabadka), Serbia; the worsening situation for Jews in the spring of 1944; her arrest and transport to camps at Bácsalmás (Hungary) and…
94. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. The collection includes correspondence with personal friends and the World Federation of Krakow Jews. Photographs depict Zyga Butler with his son in…
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 … in 1943. The collection includes correspondence with personal friends and the World Federation of Krakow Jews. Photographs depict Zyga Butler with his…
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95. Bojdman family papers
2017.545.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.545.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1968
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Photographs; some found after the mass murder in Łuck ghetto on August 19-23, 1942 in Hirka Polanka, during which 18,000 Jews were murdered, among…
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 …, prepared by Estera, of Germans and Ukrainians who tortured and murdered Jews in the Łuck ghetto, and documents found by Estera in 1944 in attic of her mother…
96. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-Jewish, and his mother Betty was forced into the Liepaja ghetto. James saw his mother for the last time on 14 December 1941. The following day, the Jews of…
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 …, titled "James Georg Lau (1927-2011): The Fate of a German Jew from Latvia," in which he traces his family history and describes the family's experiences…
97. Maurice Rinde collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0419
Date:
creation: 1994
…Maurice Rinde was born in 1902 in Przemyśl, Poland, and was the youngest of seven children born to Orthodox Jews, Joseph and Amalia Rinde. His wife…
98. Kolekcja Hersza Wassera
Document | Accession Number: 2010.202 | RG Number: RG-15.143
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
Alternate Title:
Hersch Wasser collection
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… councils (Judenrats). The materials pertain to Jewish communities, ghettos, labor camps and to Jews living illegally on the "Aryan side." Materials on the…
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 … and to Jews living illegally on the "Aryan side". Materials on the Warsaw Ghetto include a manuscript diary and other notes by Emanuel Ringelblum…
99. Simon Silver collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.316.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2011
… Silver in Chelm, including an image of Simon with his brother Hirsch holding a memorial tombstone and a photograph of a group memorializing the Jews of…
100. Gerhard (Gershon) Hoffman correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2013.189.1
Date:
creation: 1945
… to Herbert Mosheim in the United Kingdom in 1945, describes in great detail Gerhard's experiences during the war, beginning with the round-up of Jews…