Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center. Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts. No results match this search term. Check spelling and try again. Sidney Willig, born in New York City, NY in , describes being raised in an Orthodox family; attending public school and training as a soccer player and boxer; antisemitism in the US in the s and s, including discrimination while searching for employment; being rejected from the Navy; antisemitic incidents in the Air Force; being a navigator in the Air Force during World War II; being shot down over the Netherlands; receiving from Dutch families and the Dutch underground from November to April ; his decision to continue wearing his dog tags, which displayed the Ten Commandments, until his liberation; his thoughts on the vast network of Nazi influence, because on his return to New York the Vichy consular officer in Washington, DC requested from him the names of those who had helped him in Holland; returning to New York and continuing his college studies at St.
Marian Filar, born in in Warsaw, Poland, describes being a member of a musical and religious Jewish family; being a child prodigy and a noted concert pianist and teacher; his father, who was a manufacturer; his grandfather, who was a rabbi; studying at the Warsaw and Lemberg conservatories and graduating from Gymnasium in Warsaw; fleeing to Lemberg L'viv, Ukraine in September following the German invasion; graduating from the Lemberg Conservatory in December and joining his family in the Warsaw Ghetto; working with a labor group taken outside the ghetto to a railroad workplace in Warsaw West; the severe beatings by S.
Kuchatay found the family and threatened to sue unless Bernice converted legally; her family fleeing to Bytom, Poland with the help of Bernice's uncle who was in the Russian Army; the Kielce pogrom after they left; being smuggled into Czechoslovakia; going to a displaced persons camp near Stuttgart, Germany; attending a school for Jewish children where classes were conducted in Hebrew; her father obtaining an apartment in a house owned by a former member of the Nazi party; the different behavior of Poles, Russians, Czechs, and Germans toward Jews; and her family immigrating to the United States in , sponsored by Bernice's cousin who was an American citizen.
Sicherheitsdienst German Security Service ; immigrating with his younger brother and mother to the US in ; how his older brother, who was crippled since birth, had been placed in a Catholic home for crippled children and there is some evidence he was killed in a Nazi euthanasia program; working in a CCC program in Berlin, NH until he was suspected of being a German spy; reuniting with his family in Philadelphia, PA; getting married and having two children; and becoming a successful businessman.
Steffi Birnbaum Schwarcz, born March 17, in Berlin, Germany, describes being sent to England on March 15, as part of the Kindertransport with her younger sister and 11 other children; the group being sponsored by Dr. Holocaust Memorial Council. Samuel Sherron, born March 27, in Skuodas, Lithuania, describes living in Schweksna; his father, who was a merchant; being educated in both public school and a Cheder; life under the Russian occupation from until the German invasion; the roundup and torture of local Jews by SS troops and Lithuanians; the eyewitness accounts of the murder of all remaining Jews, mostly women and children; being taken with his father to a labor camp in Heydekrug, Germany Silute, Lithuania in ; experiencing beatings, atrocities, and frequent selections; the shooting of selected inmates; being sent in at the age of 11 to Auschwitz-Birkenau; surviving the initial selection; inmates being forced to build tracks so transports could go directly to the crematoria; conditions at Auschwitz, the Appels roll calls , the constant hunger, and an encounter he had with Dr.
