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Itzhak Katzenelson was born in 1886 in Karelichy near Minsk. He grew up in Łódź, Poland where he worked as a teacher, founding a school, and as a dramatist in both Yiddish and Hebrew, starting a theatre group which toured Poland and Lithuania. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he and his family fled to Warsaw, where they got trapped in the Ghetto. There he ran an underground school ...

The diary of Mary Berg (b. 1924), an American citizen, describing life in the Warsaw ghetto from October 1939 until January 1943 when she was transferred to the camp in Vittel, France, and later liberated together with other American nationals in exchange for German nationals. Describes privations and persecutions in the ghetto, and second-hand reports on resistance and the ghetto's liquidation. "Norbert ...

A historical survey of the transfer in July 1944 of 222 Jews, some of them Palestinian nationals, to Palestine in exchange for Germans interned by the British in Palestine. Among the 222 were Oppenheim's relatives. Discusses briefly the fate of Dutch Jews during the Nazi period, the Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen, where most of the internees selected for the exchange were billeted. There ...