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Memoir, 150 pages, "Family Saga" detailing the life of Joseph Ripp, from his birth in Bochum, Germany, childhood in Nazi Germany, escape to the United States, experiences in the United States Army, and adult life through 2000.
Testimony, typescript, two pages, English, describing Vaynberg's (Weinberg) experiences in Moldova, then in Mogilev Podolsk, Pechora camp, and liberation.
Testimony, photocopied, unpaginated, recounting the experiences of Bella Bornstein Rotner, originally of Olkusz, Poland, during the Holocaust.
The Memoir collection of the Leo Baeck Institute holds thousands of mostly unpublished autobiographical accounts and memoirs. Around a quarter of them were written by women. Searching the Center for Jewish History database, we find that the descriptions of a few dozens of memoirs contain the words such as “Belgium”, “Brussels”, “Antwerp” etc. The memoirs relevant for this guide contain descriptions ...
The Arthur Grossman memoir is a 3-page handwritten memoir in which Arthur Grossman describes his experiences as a slave laborer in Stopnica and Skarzysko, Poland and in Rehmsdorf concentration camp; on a death march from Rehmsdorf to Terezin concentration camp; and his postwar life in the United States.
Testimony, four pages, typescript; five pages manuscript. Describes German invasion and occupation of unnamed town in Ukraine (in vicinity of Vinnitsa).
Testimony, typescript, 1 page. Yefim Shvartsman, describes experiences of he and his mother in Djurin ghetto, Vinnitsa district, Ukraine, 1941-1944.
Contains a testimony, typescript, 16 pages, recounting the invasion and occupation of the author's hometown in Poland from 1939 onward.
Testimony, typescript, one page with handwritten annotations. Describes Shvartsman's experiences in Odessa, the Ahmechetska concentration camp, and Domanevka during occupation.
Contains a testimony, 142 pages, photocopy of typescript, describing the author's account of being a woman in a concentration camp in Vienna for four months. In the preface, written in 1939, she says events are true but she changed names to protect people who may still be imprisoned. Includes an article from a U.S. newspaper describing Max Niedermeier and his daughter Maria, and alludes to his unnamed ...