The speech,"Subjective Reflections on the post holocaust years" was written by Nina Kaleska and delivered by her at the Cornell University, Sage Chapel Convocation, on 05 Nov. 1978. Kaleska donated a copy of the speech transcript and a copy of a German-language poem to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives at the time of her interview with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History department in Jan. 1989.