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Consists of one memoir, 56 pages, entitled "Guilty of Being a Jew," by Michael Zysman, originally of Radom, Poland. Mr. Zysman recounts the German invasion of Poland, his internment in the Glinice and Szwarlikowska ghettos, and his transfer to the Szkolna labor camp, which later became the Radom concentration camp. Mr. Zysman describes his experiences in the Radom, Vaihingen, Unteriexingen, and Dachau ...

Consists of one memoir, 54 pages, entitled "A Memoir", by Richard Mayer, originally of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. The memoir, which was edited by Mr. Mayer's grandson, Ron Gery, describes the experiences of Richard and Hella Weiskopf Mayer who escaped, with their young daughter, Astrid Miriam Mayer (later Miriam Gery), from Yugoslavia to Palestine during the Holocaust. Mr. Mayer describes his memories of ...

In his memoir Benjamin Klotz (1901-1974) describes the German invasion of Poland and his life during the occupation of Łódź, Poland; his escape to and life in Soviet-occupied Lʹviv, Poland (now Ukraine); his subsequent escape from German-occupied Lʹviv; the fates of members of his family; life in the concentration camps of Bierzanow-Płaszów, Buchenwald, and Bautzen; liberation by the Soviets; life ...

The 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union ("Operation Barbarossa") significantly altered the lives of the civilians in occupied Russian territories, yet these individuals' stories are overlooked by most scholarly treatments of the attack and its aftermath. This study, drawing on oral-history interviews and a broad range of archival sources, provides a fascinating and detailed account of the everyday ...

Johann (Hans) Oppenheimer (1901-1945) was a Jewish bank official who was living in Berlin during the time when the Nazis came to power. As a result of the increasing persecution of Jews, Hans’ wife Friederike Frust Oppenheimer (1902-1945) and their children, Paul (1928-2007), and Rudi (1931-), went to live with family in London, England, where a third child, Eve (1936-) was born. Hans, who was not ...

This handwritten and transcribed oral testimony completed in 1947 at the Warsaw Archive contains information on the Zalkind Family; Germany's invasion of Vilna in 1941; killing of the grandmother, father and uncle of Aron Einat [donor]; life in Vilna Ghetto and concentration camp with donor's mother and brother; liquidation of the camp; hiding during a children's action; being sent to Łódź where ...

Contains a photocopy of Toiba Shulimovna Shtern's memoir describing life in Izyaslavl, Ukraine following the German invasion in May 1941; her escape with her mother shortly thereafter to Moscow, Russia; and her 5-day visit to Izyaslavl in 1979 during which she went to see the area of the former Yzyaslavl ghetto and several sites of mass shootings of Jews, and spoke with former neighbors and friends ...

Consists of one collection of stories, 95 pages, entitled "The Planet and other stories," by Eva Kronenberg Zysman, originally of Łódź, Poland. After the German invasion in 1939, her family relocated to Radom. She was deported to Auschwitz from the Radom ghetto and liberated from Bergen-Belsen. After liberation, she immigrated to the United States. The book contains short stories of her experiences ...

Contains two copies of an undated personal narrative written by donor’s father, Felix Joseph Kasprzak, an American born in New Jersey who moved to Poland in 1933 with his Polish-born mother so he could attend school. Living in Pabianice, after the German invasion of Poland, Felix fled to Warsaw and then back to Pabianice. He was eventually arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps and, according ...