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Consists of correspondence from and regarding Bertha and Johanna (Hansel) Kahn. As Jewish life became difficult in Germany, the mother and daughter moved to Amsterdam. When the Nazi invasion occurred, they went into hiding until their finances ran out. The Dutch Underground offered to take Hansel in, as she did not look Jewish and was good with languages, but she refused to leave her mother. The two ...

Louis Suskin was born on 25 August 1909 in Pilzno, Poland. His family had immigrated to the United States, but returned to Poland shortly before his birth. Shortly following his birth, however, the family moved once again, this time to Antwerp, Belgium. Following the outbreak of World War I, and the German invasion of Belgium, his family fled to Holland, where Suskin spent his childhood and youth, ...

Photocopies of two declarations made by the donor’s parents, Joseph and Celina de Jong, originally of Amsterdam, at the Rijksinstitut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (present-day NIOD), describing their experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and their arrest and deportation to concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Donation includes English translations ...

05:00:06 Interrogation of fighter pilots, somewhere in England, June 6, 1944. (English) 05:05:53 Rome, June 6, 1944. (silent) Stationary and pan shots, Scotch bagpipers play and parade in Piazza Venezia. Crowds of Italian civilians throng paraders. MLS, Piazza as US and British soldiers in convoy move through crowd. VS, throngs in Piazza listen to announcement by OWI proclaiming the beginning of the ...

The collection consists of a prewar photograph of Yankiel Bram and his extended family in Łomża, Poland, 1939. Included is an annotated list identifying everyone in the photograph and listing their fate. It is believed that all but two family members were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland.

Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Reuven Taibel, originally of Vilkemeer, Lithuania. During the German invasion on June 22, 1941, Reuven and his father were separated from his mother and siblings while attempting to flee east. His mother and siblings were taken to the Paryuena forest, shot, and buried in a mass grave. Reuven and his father escaped to Kusnotchik, ...

Testimony, 54 pages, typescript, titled "Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor," by Feldman. Describes childhood in Stoczek, Poland (SE of Warsaw), invasion in 1939, flight to Soviet Union (after time in Bialystok), time as laborer in Magnitogorsk, Arkhangelsk, and in Uzbekistan, post war life as DP, immigration to Israel then to U.S.

This paper examines Australian attitudes and decisions which undermined East Timorese self-determination between 1973 and 1979 - beginning before the Indonesian invasion in 1975 and ending in Februari 1979 at the commencement of Australian-Indonesian maritime boundary negotiations.

Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 19 pages. Discusses German invasion and occupation of hometown of Radom, Poland; life in ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz, and then to other locations in Germany as forced laborer.