The collection consists of a leather satchel, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chana Pergerycht Wandersman in Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, and in Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

Rose Kaplovitz was born Rózia Zaks (Saks) on September 6, 1930 in Sosnowiec, Poland, to Mendel and Hindel (Helen) Zaks. Her parents owned a grocery store, and Rose had six siblings: Regina (later Rosenman), Cesia (later Kaiser), Tola (later Gilbert), Romek, Mania (Maria, Malka, later Ullman), and Cyma (Cymusia). The children attended the Jewish public school on Ostrogórska Street in Sosnowiec. When ...

Every year, for the Passover holiday, Ornstein wrote a story relating one of her experiences during the Holocaust. This is a compilation of some of those stories. She was born in 1927 in Szendro, Hungary. Ornstein's high school studies in Debrecen were interrupted by the German occupation in March 1944. Her two brothers were recruited for forced labor. In June 1944 she and her parents were deported ...

Zosia Putersznyt, now Mortenfeld, was born on September 10, 1925, in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. Zosia remained in Dabrowa until December 1941, at which time she was deported to Ober Altstadt concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. She was imprisoned there for three years, transferred to Parschnitz concentration camp for one year, and then returned again to Ober Altstadt.

Contains a memoir written in 1995 about life before the Holocaust in Salgótarján and Budapest (Hungary). At the age of 18 Olga Kovacs was deported from the Salgótarján ghetto to Auschwitz. In August 1944 she was taken to the Parschnitz camp, near Breslau/Wroclaw, to work in an AEG plant. She was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on May 8, 1945. Following the liberation she stayed for a while in ...

Anna Brunn (later Ornstein, b. 1927) was born on January 27, 1927 in Szendrő, Hungary to Wilmos (1883-1944) and Zsofi (née Furth, 1898-1961) Brunn and had two older brothers, Paul (b. 1922) and Endre (b. 1924). Wilmos owned a building materials and hardware store. The family was Orthodox Zionists but spoke Hungarian at home. Anna attended elementary school in a one room Jewish school attached to the ...

The photographs depict Mordechai (Motek) Weinryb [donor] and his friends during their years of organizing illegal emigration to Palestine and later during his internment in Cyprus. The images consist of studio portraits of the donor and friends as well as one informal group photograph.