Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Bukovina and Transnistria area, 1941-1942
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Letters sent by inmates in camps in the Bukovina area to their family members in Cernauti, regarding life in the camps, 1941;
 - Regulation of Sadagura camp, regarding inmates in the area of northern Bukovina;
 - Report prepared by commander Chelmeniti, ...

There is an index in the National Archives' database, NAD: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/sutYFecRrH6d0G02H087k3

"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"-- First Scribner hardcover edition. 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

With extensive examples from both historical and social science literature, this book is a practical guide to methods of recording oral history. The author provides suggestions on a range of techniques from developing a written interview guide and using tape recorders to asking probing questions during in-depth interviews and editing transcriptions. She also covers the ethical and legal issues involved ...

VS, market square in Krakow, fruit and flower vendors hawk their wares. LS of a row of covered market stalls. VS of buildings in the city. A group of young women on a tour of one of the buildings. All are in uniform. LS of the courtyard of an ornately designed building that may be an art school, according to Julien Bryan's original shot lists. At 01:13:07:15 the scene in Krakow ends, followed by 18 ...

"The story of a soldier is the moving account of Edward Mehosky, the author's father and an extraordinary man who lived through the Great Depression and three historic wars. During his three decades in the military, he served with distinction in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment with the 101st Airborne Division. As a leader of men, he guided his platoon through all phases of military life: training; ...

Franticek (Frantzi) Stein is the sister of Steffi (Stein) Guttmann. Frantzi and his wife Mitzi did not survive the Holocaust, Zuzanna (Suzi) Guttmannova was born on August 4, 1925. She lived in Prague at Vězeňská 9 and was deported to Terezin on May 7, 1942. She was transported to Sobibor on Transport AAi on June 13, 1942 and murdered. Sylvie Guttmannova was born on April 7, 1929. She lived in Prague ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Irene Weiner

David Markovic was born in Rosvegovo, Czechoslovakia (present day Rosvegovo, Ukraine) on 3 May 1920. He was the youngest son in a family of eight children, and his father was a cattle dealer. In 1940, when the portion of Slovakia in which they lived was annexed to Hungary, Markovic was conscripted into a forced labor battalion, and sent to Romania and Yugoslavia, working in a number of locations, including ...

Sally Chase (1928-2017) was born Sala Silberstein to Daniel (1885/87-1942) and Estera (nee Hochberg, 1890-1942) Silberstein in Radom, Poland. She had seven siblings: Abraham (?-1942), Jakob (known as Jack, 1909-1989), Moses (1912-1943), Joshua (1915-1943), Pinchas (?-1944), Hadassa (later Helen Kaluski, 1922-1981), and Rosa (later Eisenberg, b. 1924). The family lived in a nice, three-room apartment, ...

This collection includes records and frontline images of Richard Dannemann's service, family life in the interbellum years; of Ulrich's adolescence and intellectual life in the German-Jewish emigré community in Brazil and matters pertaining to his orchestra string career and restitution proceedings after the war. 

Consists of one notebook entitled "The Nursing Log of our Son, 1942-1946-[1948]", by Mrs. Imre Sugár. Mr. and Mrs. Imre Sugár's son, Peter, was born on July 26, 1942, while his father was serving in a Hungarian labor battalion on the Eastern front, where he would perish in 1943. Mrs. Sugár kept this journal hoping for the return of her husband, and planned to give him a full account of the first months ...

The Sheindel Trebits Sussman papers include a diary, ID card, and photographs relating to Sheindel “Bella” Trebits Sussman’s experiences during the war. The diary begins on July 8, 1945 and relates Sheindel's memories of her hometown of Bácskossuthfalva, Serbia, the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, her deportation to the Bácsalmás ghetto and Auschwitz, working in a munitions factory, and liberation ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Miriam F. Morris

Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars (1900-1961) was born November 19, 1900 in Vienna to Moseh Baruch Steinhardt and Rosa Schneider. She married her first husband, Salomon David Heijlbron (1885-1930), in 1929 in Vienna and her second husband, Johannes Welvaars (1893-1949), in 1940 in Nieuwer Amstel (Amstelveen). She survived the Holocaust in Amsterdam, immigrated to Argentina after the war, and died in Rio ...

Print of a portrait drawing by Esther Lurie of a young woman in checked dress with two Star of David patches. It is print 19 of 20 and is signed the artist. This print is a version of the drawing, Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges, which Lurie did in the Kovno ghetto and for which she was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in 1946 in Palestine. In 1934, Esther and her family emigrated from Latvia ...

The Joseph Berger papers consist of a brief memoir, identification papers, ration tickets, business permits, immigration documents, restitution paperwork, and a photograph documenting Joseph Berger and his family, the Lwów ghetto, surviving the Holocaust under a false identity, and immigrating to the United States. The brief memoir describes the Lwów ghetto, the murder of Berger’s first wife and older ...

Eugenia Hochberg Lanceter, her parents Bernard and Diana Harmelin Hochberg, and her brother, Sigmund lived in Brody, Poland (Brody, Ukraine) until the Nazi occupation in June 1941. Bernard Hochberg was deported to a labor camp in Zborów, Poland (Zboriv, Ukraine), where he remained for five months until his wife purchased his freedom. The Hochberg's went to the Brody ghetto on May 21, 1943. Eugenia ...

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Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were ...

Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, ...

P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection
 
 Professor Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa (Sheinla) Sonenson in the village of Ejszyszki, Poland (in Yiddish: Eyshishok; today Eišiškės, Lithuania) in 1935. Nazi Germany occupied the village in June 1941. Within two days in late September, almost all 3,500 Jews of the village were murdered in the local cemetery by Einsatzgruppe A. Yaffa escaped to a hiding place ...

An account of the Holocaust experiences of Jankiel (Jack) Klajman, who was born in Warsaw in 1931. Describes life in the ghetto, where his parents died. A brother and sister were deported to Treblinka and perished; another brother, hiding on the "Aryan side", was denounced and killed. Klajman, with his non-Jewish appearance, snuck in and out of the ghetto, smuggling food; he also was a messenger for ...