Maine as a haven for Shoah survivors

Artists And Holocaust

• The Dilemma of Memory : Maine Artists and the Holocaust 2014 (Augusta)

Augusta Family Traces Holocaust Experience

• The tracks of their ancestors - Augusta Family Travels into its Past pg. 1 8/22/1998 (Augusta)

Augusta Family Traces Holocaust Experience A2

• The tracks of their ancestors - Augusta Family Travels into its Past pg. 3 8/22/1998 (Augusta)

Church Appeals

• Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland at Auschwitz date not known (Auschwitz)

Displaced Person Center

• Postcard of Jewish DP Center Landsberg (?) 1946 (Germany)
• Jewish Plan to Establish Training Center for DPs in U.S. Supported by Truman 17 Aug 1947 (Eastport )
• U.S. Immigration Dept. Gets Formal Petition for DP Transit Visas to Quoddy Village 24 Aug 1947 (Eastport)
• Jaclyn Gronau “The Quoddy Village Proposal: A Community of Jewish Displaced Persons in Eastport, Maine” April 2011 (Waterville)

Education

• Kurt Messerschmidt, Echoes and Reflections, A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust date not known (Portland)
• Holocaust survivor: ‘It's what you give' that defines you Kurt Messerschmidt lived through incarceration at Auschwitz, served as cantor at Temple Beth El in Portland, and at age 100, still finds purpose in helping people. December 7, 2015 (Portland)

Escaping The Holocaust / Family In Paris France

• Elisabeth Russakoff Golden Family History 1968 (Skowhegan)

Escaping The Holocaust To Family In Maine

• Fugitives From Lithuania Bring Stories of Oppression, Portland Evening Express, Dec. 15, 1939 Dec. 15, 1939 (Portland)

Interview

• Baade, Ragnhild - Shoah Eye Witness, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Blackwell, Warren - Shoah Liberator, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Messerschmidt, Sonya -Shoah Survivor, DVD audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)

Lithuania Oppression

• Fugitives From Lithuania Bring Stories of Oppression, Portland Evening Express, Dec. 15, 1939 Dec. 15, 1939 (Portland)

Love Story

• Death and Love in the Holocaust : The Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt 2013 (Portland)

Memorial Headstone

• Holocaust Memorial at Temple Beth El date not known (Portland)

No Link

• The tracks of their ancestors - Augusta Family Travels into its Past pg. 2 8/22/1998 (Augusta)

Obituary

• Henry Friedlander, Holocaust Scholar, Dies at 82 : Researched Hitler's Extermination of Disabled and Gypies 10/23/2013 (to be determined)

Poetry And Survival

• For the Children Anita Graber addressng her feelings of survival by reading a poem each year 2011 (New York City)

Shoah

• Holocaust Memorial - Mt Abraham Cemetery, Auburn date not known
• Program for Holocaust Remembrance 4/10/1994 (Bangor)

Survival Account

• A Collection of 203 articles from the Bath Independent date not known (Bath)
• “Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust” - collection of videos date not known (Augusta )
• Baade, Ragnhild - Shoah Eye Witness, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (New Jersey)
• Bardach, Maja - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Benedikt, Ed - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Blackwell, Warren - Shoah Liberator, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Blumenthal, Harry - Shoah Liberator, DVD audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Blumenthal, Harry - Shoah Liberator, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Blumenthal, Harry - Shoah Liberator, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Bokros, Paul - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Cerf, Steven - 2nd Generation Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Cheney, Bernard - Shoah Liberator, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Ciembroniewicz, Julius - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Ciembronowicz, Dr. Julius - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• DeTroy, Christine - Shoah Eye Witness, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Feinberg, Tama - Shoah Survivor, DVD audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Fineberg, Tama - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Fineberg, Tama - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Haas, Dr. Rudy - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Haas, Gerda - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Haas, Gerda - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Haas, Rudy - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Hochstadt, Steve - 2nd Generation Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Hochstadt, Steven - 2nd Generation Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Augusta)
• Isaacson, Judith - Shoah Survivor, DVD/VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Lewiston-Auburn)
• Isaacson, Judith - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Lewiston-Auburn)
• Isaacson, Judith - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Auburn)
• Jacobsohn, Ulrich Berthold - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Kalau, Betsy - Shoah Eye Witness, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Kalau, Betsy - Shoah Eye Witness, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (New Jersey)
• Kelman, Manfred - Shoah Survivor, DVD/VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Kelman, Manfred - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Kelman, Manfred - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Landau, Emil - Shoah Survivor, DVD/VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Landau, Emil - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Landau, Emil - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Messerschmidt, Kurt - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Messerschmidt, Kurt - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Messerschmidt, Sonja - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Messerschmidt, Sonya - Shoah Survivor, VHS/DVD audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Millar, Bill - Shoah Liberator, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Mizner, John - Refugee/Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Mizner, John - Refugee/Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Rotmil, Charles - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Rotmil, Charles - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Sawtelle, Helga -, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Shulman, Louis - Shoah Survivor, DVD/VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Shulman, Louis - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Shulman, Louis - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Skalina, Julia - Shoah Survivor, DVD/VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Skalina, Julia - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Skalina, Julia - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Slabotsky, Max - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Slivka, Jerry - Shoah Survivor, DVD audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Slivka, Jerry - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Slivka, Rochell & Jerry - Shoah Survivors, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Slivka, Rochelle - Shoah Survivor, DVD audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Slivka, Rochelle - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Sneider, Golda - Refugee/Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Sneider, Golda - Refugee/Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Trotzki, Evelyn - Refugee/Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Trotzki, Evelyn - Refugee/Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (Portland)
• Waecker, Hans - Swing Kid, Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Wainberg, Alan - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Wainberg, Alan - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Walnberg, Alan - Shoah Survivor, DVD/VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Wanning, Keith - Shoah Liberator, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Wanning, Keith - Shoah Liberator, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (New Jersey)
• Wiesel, Elie - Shoah Survivor, VHS/DVD audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (New York City)
• Wilde, Alex - Shoah Survivor, DVD/VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Wilde, Alex - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Ziffer, Walter - Shoah Survivor, DVD /VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Ziffer, Walter - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Ziffer, Walter - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Zifferblatt, Ava - Shoah Survivor, oral interview transcript 1987-2010
• Zifferblatt, Ava - Shoah Survivor, VHS audio/visual interview 1987-2010 (to be determined)
• Cantor Kurt Messerschmidt - USC Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony 24 June 1997 (Portland)
• Judge George Singal Recounts His Family Survival from Eastern Poland March 27, 2011 (Portland)

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