The Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers contain correspondence, forms and other records pertaining to the Holocaust-era restitution claims of Jack Heisler and Sylvia Stern Heisler, filed against the West German government between 1958 and 1970, and related to their internment as forced laborers at Auschwitz, Sömmerda, and other camps. Jack Heisler’s earliest compensation claims in these files date from ...

Photocopy of questionnaire submitted by Magier for a restitution claim, includes narrative account of his time as a forced laborer in Annaberg and Bedzin.

The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek and her family during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and of Raszka when she lived under an assumed identity and was sent as a forced laborer to Germany, as well as after the war when Rose lived in a displaced placed persons camp in Germany until her emigration ...

(Munich 41) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. LSs, rear views, courtroom as German attorney questions Erhard Milch (in German). Milch confirms that the German Luftwaffe had not been prepared in 1939, no cooperation or agreements (ROE, command structure) existed with other parts of the Wehrmacht, at least he did not know of any and he should have been informed. Cooperation within ...

Andras Galambos and fellow laborer Ladislaus Radnai documented their Jewish forced labor battalion's efforts with still and motion picture cameras. This film shows an official visit of politicians and military officers to Hajduhadhaz labor camp, likely for an exhibition of the laborers' photographs. Several high-ranking officials are probably pictured, including Defense Minister Karoly Beregffy, General ...

Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942
 
 The Collection includes an appeal by the Jewish community to the municipal administration asking to install a sewer system in the main synagogue; an appeal by the person in charge of the Polish cemetery to the municipal administration regarding the payment of salaries to Jewish workers; permit granted by the mayor of Grodno to have ...

Documentation of the municipal administration of Brest, 1941-1944
 
 Personal forms completed by Jews from Brest in order to receive identity cards, November 1941-October 1942; documentation regarding tax payments by the Jews, 1941-1942; orders and directives issued by the municipal administration commander regarding Jewish forced laborers, and prohibitions and limitations pertaining to Jews; ...

Testimony, 8 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "My Story" by Nathan Greenstein, of Nanuet, NY. Account of author's time as forced laborer in Hungary and then Auschwitz, liberation, life as DP.

Documentation of the Gebietskommissar (district governor) in Zwiahel, 1942-1943
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Instructions regarding arrests and executions, and correspondence with Police agents;
 - Instructions and directives regarding the collection of taxes from the local population;
 - Documentation regarding local residents who were deported to forced labor ...

Consists of one letter written by Lili Kovacs Abraham to the Claims Conference in February 1993. In the letter, Mrs. Abraham describes the invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia and her deportation from Remetske Hamre, Czechoslovakia, to the Uzhorod ghetto in 1944. She was deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944 and describes life in the camp until she was sent for forced labor in Altenburg, ...

Testimony, 10 pages, handwritten in Yiddish, with English translation/summary. Describes experiences of donor's family in German occupied Poland, deportation to Auschwitz, work as forced laborer in Hindenburg, Germany (Silesia), deportation to Bergen Belsen.

Documentation of the Koydanovo District administration, 1941
 
 The Collection includes documentation of the Dzerzhinsk District administration regarding the confiscation of Jewish property; orders regarding the manner in which Jewish property is being confiscated; instructions regarding working principles of physicians in the Koydanovo area regarding Jews; documentation regarding Jewish ...

The collection includes three diaries written between 1942 and 1945 by an unidentified Jewish woman, originally from Brno, Czechoslovakia, but living in Budapest and Subotica. She was arrested by the Hungarian and German occupation forces in Serbia, where she sought refuge, and was sent to a succession of concentration camps and forced labor sites between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945. ...

Testimony, 3 pages, typewritten, by Tamara Freitag, of Bronx, NY, written in 1994. Describes German occupation of her hometown in Poland, her time as forced laborer in Starachowice, then Auschwitz, death march to Ravensbrueck, liberation.

The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Rose Galek, originally from Poland, who was a forced laborer for Germany during the Holocaust.

The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket and two stones relating to the experiences of Julian Noga, a Polish Catholic sent to Austria as a forced laborer and later imprisoned in Flossenburg and Mauthausen concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, written as a letter to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum asking to be added to the Survivors Registry. Briefly describes experience in Hungary under the Horthy regime, deportation to Auschwitz, time as forced laborer there, in Krakow, and at Bergen Belsen, and post-liberation life in Germany and immigration to U.S

The collection consists of drawings created by Peretz Chorshati in the 1990s about his experiences as a soldier, forced laborer, and refugee in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Poland during the Holocaust, and his voyage to and detention in Palestine after the Holocaust.

Testimony, three pages, manuscript, recounting experiences in Lugansk, Ukraine, and Kiev, after German invasion, including murder of his family, mobilization in Red Army, capture, passing himself as Muslim rather than Jew, work as forced agricultural laborer. Written in 1993.

Contains a memoir, 212 pages, entitled "I Never Left Janowska," written by Christine Kaplan in 1987. The memoir, which is a typed manuscript with handwritten corrections, describes her life in Boryslaw under Russian occupation, living in the Lwow ghetto, forced labor in Janowska and Drohobycz. Using papers identifying her as a non-Jewish Pole, Ms. Kaplan escaped the ghetto in Lwow and traveled to Oberammergau, ...

The collection consists of correspondence and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Béla Ingber, originally from Munkács, Hungary (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) as a forced-laborer in Hungary during World War II and as a Jewish refugee in Italy from 1945-1947. Correspondence includes postcards to Béla while he was a forced-laborer from his father Kálmán Ingber in Munkács, and post-war ...

Testimony, typescript copy, one page. Describes experiences of Vladimir Rayzman, from the German invasion of his hometown of Brest (Poland/Belarus) to his time as a forced laborer in "Keln-Doits," which is the city of Deutz, across the river from Cologne (Koeln).

Traces the development and organization of the Nazi concentration camp system through its several phases. From 1942, with the arrival of mass transports of Jews, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek became mainly extermination camps for Jews, whereas other camps became reservoirs of forced labor mostly for non-Jews. In April 1944, because of the exigencies of war production, Hitler ordered that concentration ...

Documentation of the Kreishauptmann (district governor) in Lemberg, 1941-1944
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Circular of the Generalgouvernement propaganda department in the Galicia area, regarding statistical data concerning the area's residents;
 - Correspondence of the Generalgouvernement office, regarding the Jews;
 - List of Jews from Mosciska who were transferred ...