Shainfarber, Yehoshua George (d. 2004)

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A sizable collection of Holocaust commemoration related newspaper articles, featuring many notable activists and Jewish community leaders. Clippings from: Hartford Courant, Jewish Ledger, New York Times, and Journal Inquiry. Also, photocopies of newspaper clippings.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The files in the "Survivors series" contain witness accounts from survivors of the Holocaust/WWII that are located in Connecticut, the United States, and overseas. These accounts are mostly found in newspaper clippings from various presses like; the Jewish Ledger, the Hartford Courant, and The New York Times. Some of these accounts are briefly written in a biography/letter format. An account by Bronia Hacker (international) gives her account on escaping a concentration camp with the help of...