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Letter regarding the fate of a woman's family including the burning to death of some members in Odessa and shooting to death of others in the Berezovka area, 12 January-09 February 1942, letter written on 24 July 1944

File Number : 1437

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Amelia Berko, regarding her childhood in Chust before the war and her deportation to Auschwitz and to other camps in Germany until her liberation at Bergen-Belsen camp

Memoirs of Amelia Berko, regarding her childhood in Chust before the war and her deportation to Auschwitz and to other camps in Germany until her liberation at Bergen-Belsen camp Her life in Chust before the war; Hungarian occupation of Chust; deportation to Auschwitz camp in March 1944; Auschwitz camp life and living conditions; relations between the female inmates; transfer to Breslau camp; labor in a weapons factory; death march, and travel between camps in Germany during February-March 1945; Bergen-Belsen camp life and living conditions during the last month before the liberation; liberation of...

File Number : 2597

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 2515

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Dutch

Memoirs of Hela Kleiman-Markfeld, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in Tomaszow-Mazowiecki and in camps

Memoirs of Hela Kleiman-Markfeld, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in Tomaszow-Mazowiecki and in camps German occupation of the city [Tomaszow-Mazowiecki]; decrees and nationalization of property; deportation to the ghetto; deportation of her family members to Treblinka camp in November 1942; meetings with her brother, who is living on the Aryan side as a Christian; deportation to a camp [Bilizino] [?]; camp life, living conditions and labor; transfer to Auschwitz camp; Auschwitz camp life and living conditions; transfer to a labor camp in Scharfstein near the city of Chemnitz;...

File Number : 2505

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Translation from Yiddish to Hebrew of memoirs written by Chaim Levkovitz immediately after the liberation in Brussels in May 1945, regarding the death march to Buna, Gleiwitz and other camps in January 1945 and the escape from Zwieberge camp in April 1945 Death march from Buna camp to Gleiwitz camp; life, living conditions, starvation and labor in the camp; travel in railroad cars to Buchenwald camp via Czechoslovakia; Buchenwald camp life and living conditions, and transfer to Zwieberge camp; Zwieberge camp life, living conditions, starvation and labor; escape, and capture by the Germans; additional...

File Number : 2311

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Michael Miklosh Schwartz regarding the experiences of his family in Vámospércs, the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Mühldorf, and Waldlager camps, the Wolfratshausen displaced persons camp, and immigration to the United States Memoirs of Michael Miklosh Schwartz, born in Vámospércs, 1928, regarding the experiences of his family during the Holocaust, written by Michael in the United States, 02 May 2006-08 November 2011: His parents were Peter and Gizella (Grosz) Schwartz; His brother and sister were Tibor and Magda (nickname: Gyongyike); attendance at a Jewish school; drafting of Peter into the...

File Number : 10271

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Shoshana Rosa (Engelberg-Brenner) Neuman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, on a forced march in the Bessarabia area and Ukraine, and in the Bershad Ghetto - Memoirs of Shoshana Rosa (Engelberg-Brenner) Neuman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences during the war, 1941-1944, written in her book, "Childhood in the Kingdom of Death, the Transnistria Holocaust: Memoirs in Writing and in Drawing", including sketches, drawings, remarks, letters, confirmations and more: Life in Tauteni before the war during the 1930s;...

File Number : 9675

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, List of Jewish Children, Brochure, Drawing, List of Murdered Jews, Draft, Memoirs, Poem/song, Certification, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, Romanian, German

Diaries by the Holocaust survivor and writer Israel Kaplan, born in Volozhin, Poland in 1902, written after the liberation during 1945-1946, including his experiences during the Holocaust period and afterwards Title, "I shall not die, but live, and declare ..." (quote from the Book of Psalms); First diary, written during 02-13/05/1945: First days in Dachau camp in sub-camp XI: labor for the purpose of concealing the traces of what was done in the camp; rumors regarding the approaching liberation; attempts by inmates to equip themselves with clothing and supplies before the liberation; arrival to the...

File Number : 9833

Type of Material : Diary, Letter

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Bernard Dov Koshorovski, born in Lodz, Poland in 1919, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, in the Lodz Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and other camps

Memoirs of Bernard Dov Koshorovski, born in Lodz, Poland in 1919, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, in the Lodz Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and other camps Escape from his parents' home in Lodz to Warsaw in September 1939;; life in Warsaw on Rosh Hashana; surrender by Poland on Simchat Torah [October] 1939; German Army occupation of Warsaw; transfer to forced labor; escape back to Lodz while disguised as a woman; he is identified when his beard is seen through his kerchief, and he is arrested in Brzezin on suspicion of spying; his rescue following help and intervention by a Polish friend; escape...

File Number : 9357

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English, German, Yiddish

Documents related to Holocaust orphans Helena Anni Esther van der Horst, born on 26/06/1939, and her sister Eva Rosa van der Horst, born on 14/10/1942, the daughters of Herman Jeremia van der Horst and his wife Francisca Marie (Beerenborg) van der Horst, and the child Yitzhak van der Horst, born on 01/09/1936, all of them born in The Hague, the Netherlands; documents dated, 1916-1968 Correspondence by Eleazar Ernst van der Horst and his wife Johanna van der Horst with various organizations, including the Commissie voor Oorlogspleegkinderen (Committee for the Fostering of War Orphans) and with the Christian...

File Number : 1131

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Correspondence, Letter, Diploma, Will, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Record of Persecuted Persons, Deportation List, Announcement, Identity Card

Language : Dutch

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