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Relates to Dana Alvi's experiences as a child in Warsaw, Poland during World War II; her family's involvement in protecting and hiding Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto; the activities of her uncle, Wladyslaw Wisniewski, in helping Warsaw's Jewish population; the events of the Warsaw Uprising; the Soviet occupation of Warsaw; postwar internment in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany.

Consists of a transcript of the dictated memoir of Violet Dattner, originally of Transylvania. She studied in Paris in the 1930s and met and married her husband, Willy, in Belgium in 1938. They lived in Antwerp until May 1940 when they escaped into France. They were temporarily arrested in 1940, attempted to escape through Spain, but were turned back to Belgium. In 1940, they were able to escape to ...

Memoir relating to the Holocaust in Dvinsk (presently Daugavpils, Latvia; known in German as Dunaberg).

226 p. : ill., portr. ; 22 cm

Consists of one unedited memoir, in Italian, entitled "Note Antifasciste," by Sergio DeBenedetti (approximately 520 pages) 1941, and the edited version of "Note Antifasciste," retitled "Between Fascism and Freedom: The Education of Sergio DeBenedetti," edited by Vera DeBenedetti Bonnet, in English, (approximately 100 pages), 2003. In this memoir, Sergio DeBenedetti recounts his experiences as a Jewish ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-353) and index. xiii, 366 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contains one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Ein Amerikaner: Anecdotes from the Life of Harry Ettlinger," written by Harry L. Ettlinger, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2002. In his memoir, Mr. Ettlinger describes his childhood in Germany, his family's immigration to the United States in 1938, his experiences as a soldier in World War II, and his post-war life. Includes copies of family photogra ...

Consists of a memoir, 15 pages, relating Sam Silberberg's memories of a death march, between the Blechhammer concentration camp and the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, that took place in late January 1945. Mr. Silberberg managed to escape the death march after one week and reunited with his mother, who was hiding in Neisse, Germany (Nysa, Poland), as an Aryan. His father, who was also on the march ...