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Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust" by Dr. Ilse Leeser, originally of Cologne, Germany. In the memoir, she describes her memories of Kristallnacht, the arrest of her father and uncles, and being sent, with her sister, to live with family friends in the Netherlands in 1939. Her parents later joined them and she describes the occupation of the Netherlands and going into ...

Elizabeth Reif lived in Vienna, Austria, with her mother before being deported to the Łódź ghetto in 1941. Her mother was deported to Theresienstadt and Elizabeth was deported to Auschwitz. After libertion Reif returned to Vienna and was reunited with her mother. She later immigrated to the United States. In New York City, she learned English at the Committee for Refugee Education.

Lilly Geringer Drukker was born in Vienna on 13 January 1927. Her parents were Sophie (nee Karpel) and Josef Geringer, and her maternal grandparents immigrated from Sniatyn, Poland in 1894. Her father came from a family of musicians who had lived in various locations in the Balkans, eventually settling in Piraeus, Greece. When Josef was an adolescent, his father brought him to Vienna to further his ...

The diary was written by Dora Apsan immediately following her liberation from Weisswasser, an I.G. Farben forced labor factory. In the diary, Dora recounts her family's final days in the ghetto in Sighet (Sighetu Marmației), Romania; their deportation and arrival in Auschwitz; and her liberation.

Contains letters and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences and post-war life of Eva Indyk, originally of Poland. Eva's older sister, Telma (Tillie), had immigrated to the United States as a teenager, and tried to convince her parents to allow her siblings to join her in America before the war. After the war, Tillie found out that only Eva had survived and had been in Auschwitz. The collection ...

Claire Welch (née Weinberg) was born on 21 December 1934 in Brake, Germany. Her parents, Berthold Weinberg and Friedericke Gramms married on 21 May 1933. Claire and her family were arrested in Brake during Kristallnacht. Claire and her mother were released after a few hours, and her grandfather after a few days. Her father was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and released on 14 December 1938. The Weinberg ...

The Marie Warschawsky manuscript consists of one bound copy of handwritten testimony and copies of personal documents and photographs relating to the life of Marie Warschawsky (Maroussia, 1881-1964). It relates Warschawsky’s upbringing in Russia among the Jewish upper middle class close to the Tsar’s court, her travel in France and interest in fashion, and her creation of a workshop in Saint Petersbourg ...

The collection consists of photographs depicting Eleonora Haasova, originally of Bytča, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), and her brother Ivan Haas, who perished at Auschwitz. Included a pre-war photograph of Ivan, a photograph of Eleonora in 1944 around the time of her high school graduation, and a post-war high school reunion.

Dagmar Lieblová was born on 19 May 1929 in Kutná Hora, Czechoslovakia, the daughter of Dr. Julius Fantl, a medical doctor, and Irena (nee Reitman) Fantlová. In addition to Dagmar, the Fantls had one other daughter, Rita. Following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Fantl's medical license was revoked, and gradually other restrictions were placed on the Jews of Kutná Hora, until the population ...

Bluma Krzepicka was born Blima Kawałek on March 15, 1927 in Zduńska Wola, Poland. Her father, Szaja Mojsze Kawałek, owned a butcher shop and her mother, Iska Markowicz, took care of the children. Krzepicka had a younger brother, Zalman Josef (b. 1930) and a younger sister, Chaja (b. 1934). The family was forced into the Zduńska Wola ghetto, and in July 1942 Krzepicka was deported to the Łódź ghetto. ...