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Agnes Mandl Adachi. Describes rescue activity on the banks of the Danube River and the role of Raoul Wallenberg	Abraham Bomba. Describes gassing operations at Treblinka	Abraham Lewent. Describes conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
Beno Helmer. Describes conditions in the Lodz ghetto	Benjamin (Ben) Meed. Describes Warsaw shortly after the German occupation in 1939, and his first experience of antisemitism	Benjamin (Ben) Meed. Describes the burning of the Warsaw ghetto during the 1943 ghetto uprising
Chaim Engel. Recalls the Sobibor uprising and his escape	Chaim Engel. Describes plans for the Sobibor uprising. Chaim refers to [Gustav] Wagner, Sobibor's deputy commandant	Charlene Schiff. Describes a clandestine school for children in the Horochow ghetto
Esther Raab. Describes planning for the uprising in Sobibor	Emanuel Tanay. Describes the establishment of the Miechow ghetto	Fritzie Weiss Fritzshall. Describes selection process in Auschwitz
Franz Wohlfahrt. Describes imprisonment in Graz	Gerda Weissmann Klein. Describes liberation in Czechoslovakia by U.S. soldier	Gerda Blachmann Wilchfort. Describes the mood of passengers on the "St. Louis" after they were denied entry into Cuba
Hanne Hirsch Liebmann. Describes harassment and anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany	Hessy Levinsons Taft. Describes father's attempts to obtain visas for the family to emigrate from Nice, in the south of France	John Komski. Describes Krakow after the outbreak of World War II
Johanna Gerechter Neumann. Describes Kristallnacht in Hamburg	Joseph Stanley Wardzala. Describes the badge Poles had to wear in forced-labor camps in Germany	Leif Donde. Describes his family's escape from Denmark to Sweden
Lucine Horn. Describes the German occupation of Lublin	Lilly Appelbaum Malnik. Describes death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen	Leo Schneiderman. Describes arrival at Auschwitz, selection, and separation from his family
Murray Pantirer. Describes antisemitic climate in postwar Krakow	Miso (Michael) Vogel. Describes arrival at Auschwitz	Niels Bamberger. Describes German invasion of Denmark in 1940
Norbert Wollheim. Describes forced labor at the Buna works	Preben Munch-Nielsen. Describes a fishing boat used to carry Jews to safety in Sweden	Rochelle Blackman Slivka. Describes the formation of the Vilna ghetto
Sarah (Sheila) Peretz Etons. Describes experiences as a child in hiding	Samuel Gruber. Describes a German girl's reaction to learning that he was Jewish	Siegfried Halbreich. Describes conditions and forced labor in the Gross-Rosen camp
Steven Springfield. Describes conditions in the Stutthof concentration camp	Tove Schoenbaum Bamberger. Describes trip to and arrival in Sweden	Tomasz (Toivi) Blatt. Describes gassing operations in the Sobibor extermination camp
Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed. Describes the deportation of her mother and brother from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka	Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed. Describes her reaction to the burning of the Warsaw ghetto as she watched from a building outside the ghetto	William (Welek) Luksenburg. Describes the first night of the German invasion of Poland
Walter Meyer. Describes activities of members of the Edelweiss Pirates in Duesseldorf, Germany	Wallace Witkowski. Describes harsh living conditions for non-Jews in Poland	Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman. Describes joining the Nekama (Revenge) Jewish partisan unit led by Josef Glazman in the Naroch Forest
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman. Describes partisan activities	Kurt Klein. Describes some of the difficulties involved in emigrating from Germany	Hanne Hirsch Liebmann. Describes a Children's Aid Society (OSE) visit and life in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
Julian Noga. Describes conditions in Flossenbürg	Bart Stern. Describes deportation to Auschwitz	Thomas Buergenthal. Describes the liberation of the Sachsenhausen camp
Edward Adler. Describes arrest and imprisonment in prewar Germany for his relationship with a non-Jewish woman	Johanna Gerechter Neumann. Describes anti-Jewish measures in Hamburg, Germany

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