![]() ![]() ![]() Lighting candles in remembrance at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, during Days of Remembrance, 2014. The papers document sites significant to Bert Lewyn’s life in Berlin, Germany, such as the Jewish Orphan’s home he lived at as a child, the Gustav Genschow and Co., Weapons factory, and various monuments and memorials. The Bert and Esther Lewyn papers include correspondence, photographs, speeches and other materials that document Bert Lewyn’s experience as a Jewish person on the run in Nazi Berlin. Note: the Emory University Center for Research in Social Change Witness to the Holocaust project files have been digitized and made available by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Center for Research in Social Change, Witness to the Holocaust project files, 1939-2005 (bulk 1978-1983) Records from Emory University’s Center for Research in Social Change Witness to the Holocaust project (1978-1982) primarily consist of recorded interviews and their associated transcripts of World War II concentration camp liberators and survivors, many of them residents of Atlanta, Georgia. Specific collections in Rose Library include the following:Įmory University. In the Rose Library, there are traces of the Holocaust in many collections, searchable through Emory Finding Aids, Oral Histories, or the Emory Libraries Catalog. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book LibraryĪrchival collections provide intimate access to individual stories of holocaust survivors, helping us reach across generations and cultures to learn from the past. zone reports, War office memos, Exodus Camp records, Displaced Persons Assembly Centre weekly reports, and more. Post-War Europe Series I: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 : Contains documents from British government files and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Units concerning lives of survivors - Jewish and non-Jewish - of the Holocaust and World War II. Toscano visited and took portraits of more than 400 Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi persecution in the U.S., Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Belarus, Austria, and the Netherlands. Lest We Forget Photo Exhibition : Lest We Forget is a photo exhibition featuring victims of Nazi persecution, conceived by the German photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano, and in partnership with Austria, Germany, the European Union and the World Jewish Congress. Meet Holocaust Survivors : Personal histories shared by volunteers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Requires registration with the VHA/Shoah Foundation.) Visual History Archive, Shoah Foundation : Contains audio-visual interviews with genocide survivors and witnesses, from the European Holocaust through the Central African Republic Conflict, and Contemporary Anti-Semitism collections. Testaments to the Holocaust : Collections of personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany along with photographs, propaganda materials, serials, and other publications from 1933 to after the war. ![]() Resources: Archives and Narratives of Holocaust Survivors Below is a selection of library resources that you can use to reflect and familiarize yourself with the history of the Holocaust. Part of this effort is that we read and remember these stories. Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of more than 6,000 people from Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces, is a day of international mourning for the suffering of the millions of victims of the Holocaust, but also a day for all of us to reflect on how we can push back against the ideologies of hatred. ![]() On January 27, we honor those whose lives were forever changed by Nazism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ![]()
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