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RG-02.146 ―If My Heart Didn‘t Break Then‖ by Jean Beller, 1993
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 192
This memoir describes Jean Beller‘s childhood and adolescence in Poland, her
experiences as an elementary school student in Tel Aviv, her return to Poland before the
outbreak of World War II, conditions inside the Łódź ghetto, her experiences with Chaim
Rumkowski, her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage in the
ghetto, her attempts to hide when the ghetto was evacuated, the death of her parents and a
brother, her deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps, and her life in the
United States after the war.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Sheila Beller, Jean Beller‘s daughter.
Languages: English
2 microfiche cards
Restrictions: Fair use only
RG-02.147 Simon Fuks Collection, 1941–1993
This collection contains legal documents, letters, newspaper articles, and a memoir
describing the experiences of Simon Fuks, a rabbi of Agen, France. Fuks‘ memoir,
―Souvenir de Guerre,‖ describes the German occupation of France, his service in the
French military, his capture and subsequent release by the Germans, how he and other
rabbis resisted the Nazis and assisted some Jews, activities undertaken by the Union
Générale des Israélites de France, conditions inside the Drancy and Rivesaltes camps, and
his escape to Switzerland.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Simon Fuks.
Languages: French, English, and German
2 microfiche cards
Restrictions: Fair use only
RG-02.152 ―A Void in My Heart‖ by Regina Godinger Hoffman, 1989
In her memoir, Regina Godinger Hoffman describes her deportation from
Czechoslovakia to Poland; the deaths of her family members; her psychological trauma;
her internment in the Khust ghetto; her incarceration in Auschwitz; her transfer to camps
in Nuremberg, Germany, and Holeshovitz, Czechoslovakia; her liberation; and her
immigration to and life in the United States.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Regina Godinger Hoffman.
Languages: English