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Consists of typed testimony of the Holocaust experiences of Sara Weingram, as written by Sondra Greenberg. The testimony describes Sara's childhood in Pułtusk, Poland, the German invasion, and her family's forced evacuation east to Russia. The family was briefly split, but reunited near Orsha, in Belarus. After the German invasion in June 1941, Sara was separated from her family during a German bombing ...

"Der Bestsellerautor Guido Knopp schildert, wie auf verbrecherischen Krieg neues Untrecht folgt, wie Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs durch den Einmarschder Roten Armee Millionen deutsche Zivilisten aus den ehemaligen deutschen Ostgebieten vertrieben werden. Er erzählt von Überlebenskampf und menschlichem Leid, von Hunger, Krankheit und Tod, sucht nach Spuren und durchleuchtet die Hintergründe und Zusammenhänge ...

A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75 Reel 1: Masses of children wandering in war-ravaged cities begging, stealing, and scavenging for food. CUs mental and physically retarded children. Portraits of the "next generation", comparisons to fascist leaders of WWII. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice massacre at gravesite. Nazi footage ...

Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Imré and Borbala Wirth Goldschmeid and their daughter Veronika Goldschmeid. Included are pre-war images and documents such as birth certificates and report cards for Imré and Borbala, and post-war documents concerning Veronika, Borbala, and Borbala's mother Julianna who were together in Budapest until 1944 at which time Vera ...

Contains an English translation of a memoir originally written by Eisig Ornstein from Skole, Poland, in Yiddish during the Holocaust while he was in hiding in Ricske, Hungary and later in Budapest; translated into English with preface, images, and maps by his son Morris Ornstein. In his writings, Eisig describes life, hunger and death in Skole and the Stryj ghetto in Poland and surrounding areas; the ...

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 ...

Contains a letter, dated August 17, 1941, written by Shmul Munia Taborinsky (Anna Mednik’s great grandfather) who in June 1941, after the German invasion of the USSR, volunteered to serve in the Soviet Army at the age of 57. In his letter he described his duties in the transport company and expressed his deep feelings of love for his wife Berta and children: Ida, Sonia and Lisa, all residing in Leningrad. ...

A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75 Reel 2: European children roaming among debris, hunger lines and mobs contrasted with peaceful suburbs in the US and loss of US soldiers abroad: "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it." UNRRA supplies are loaded on ships in the US and later distributed to orphans in Europe and Asia. Emphasis on international teamwork to ...

Brought up on a tea plantation in Java in the 1930s, Ernest Hillen and his brother Jerry had a magical and exotic boyhood, until the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942. The following three and a half years were spent in Japanese prisoner of war camps, where Ernest experienced hunger, squalor, cruelty, despair and sickness. Originally published: Canada : Viking, 1993. 200 pages : illustrations ...

Scenes from the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the town of Schneeberg. SA men on horseback carry banners with the town's symbol on it. Close-ups on a parade float show a caricature of a Jew paying wages to a German citizen. In the other hand the "Jew" holds a bill of huge denomination. A caption along the bottom of the float states: The Jew led the nation into hunger, poverty, ...