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USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 24
This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, one blue
pajama shirt, and a white lab coat pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Hana and
Charles Bruml in Terezin, Auschwitz, and various other camps.
Languages: Czech, German, English Ca. 1885–1980
2 boxes
Source of Acquisition: Ruth Kramer
RG-02.093 --- ―Memories of the Years 1939–1945‖ by David Gerst
This memoir describes the experiences of David Gerst, a Polish Jew, who was
imprisoned in four ghettos (among them Warsaw and Terezin), a labor camp, and
Buchenwald and Flossenbürg. Information about his liberation in May 1945 is also
included.
Language: English 1950
1 bound volume
Source of Acquisition: David Gerst
RG-02.054 --- Mina Perlberger Papers
This collection contains a typescript of Buried Alive: A Diary by Mina Glücksmann
Perlberger. In it Perlberger describes her experiences as a young Polish Jew during the
Holocaust. She and her sister escaped from the Rzeszow ghetto, and spent almost two
years hiding in a bunker near a Polish farmhouse. Also included is a compilation of eight
poems by Perlberger relating to her Holocaust experiences and a list of family members
deported and/or murdered during the Holocaust.
Provenance: The diary of Mina Perlberger was begun in Polish about March 1943, after
she and her sister escaped from the Rzeszow ghetto. The English-language typescript of
the diary was completed in 1984.
Language: English 1943–1984
3 linear inches
Source of Acquisition: Mina Glücksmann Perlberger
Restrictions: Protected under 1984 copyright
RG-20.014 --- Miklos Szalay Papers
These papers contains information about Miklos Szalay and the role he and his family
played in hiding and protecting a downed Jewish-American airman and a Jewish escapee
from a labor camp in Hungary.