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<strong>Language</strong>s: <strong>English</strong>, German 1936–1941<br />

3 linear inches<br />

Source of Acquisition: Erica Levy<br />

Finding aid: Summary inven<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

RG-02.210 --- The Family of Aryeh-Leyb Fingerhut (Leo Gerut)<br />

USHMM, <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>Holocaust</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> � 140<br />

This memoir, compiled by Rosalie Gerut, describes the experiences of her father, Aryeh-<br />

Leyb (Leybl) Fingerhut, in Lithuania and the Ukraine; his interest in music and the<br />

Yiddish language; his work as a researcher <strong>for</strong> YIVO (Institute <strong>for</strong> Jewish Research) in<br />

Vilnius, Lithuania; his memories of the German invasion of Lithuania in 1941; his life in<br />

the Shavl (Siauliai) ghet<strong>to</strong>; his experiences as a <strong>for</strong>ced laborer; his transfer <strong>to</strong> Stutthof<br />

concentration camp in 1944 and then <strong>to</strong> ―Lager 10‖ of Utting, a sub-camp of Dachau<br />

concentration camp, where he was elected head of his barracks; his experiences during a<br />

death march from Dachau in<strong>to</strong> the Tyrol Mountains from April 24 <strong>to</strong> May 2, 1945; his<br />

transfer after liberation <strong>to</strong> Feldafing displaced persons camp where he organized a choir<br />

and a Yiddish theater group and met his future wife, Hanka Warszawska, a fellow<br />

concentration camp survivor; and his emigration <strong>to</strong> the United States in 1949 where he<br />

lived until his death in September 1989.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>: <strong>English</strong> 1993<br />

.15 linear inches<br />

Source of Acquisition: Rosalie Gerut<br />

NOTE: See also Art and Artifact Branch Accession 1998.81—The Shari and George Fine<br />

Collection<br />

RG-20.006 --- Case of Guy von Dardel and Sven Hagstromer vs. Union of Soviet Socialist<br />

Republics<br />

This collection contains copies of the proceedings of a 1984 lawsuit filed by Guy von<br />

Dardel and Sven Hagstromer against the Soviet Union <strong>for</strong> the unlawful seizure and<br />

imprisonment of Raoul Wallenberg.<br />

Biographical/his<strong>to</strong>rical note: Agnes Adachi assisted Raoul Wallenberg at the Swedish<br />

Embassy in 1943 by distributing passports. She is responsible <strong>for</strong> saving several Jews<br />

from death during an escape ef<strong>for</strong>t on the Danube River.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: Russian, <strong>English</strong> 1945–1984<br />

0.5 linear inches<br />

Source of Acquisition: Agnes Adachi via Linda Kuzmack<br />

NOTE: For additional material relating <strong>to</strong> Wallenberg, see also RG-66—Accession<br />

1999.A.0237—Selected Records from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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