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  1. Gouverneur des Distrikts Radom records (Sygn.158)

    Contains correspondence, reports, criminal case records, and various other documents relating to water management in Radom, Poland; economic matters in the Radom district; the military and political situation in Radom; the defense of Lublin; regulation of work time for General Gouvernement offices; the criminal case of Wladyslaw Stefanski; police protection of prisons; and leaflets prepared by the German Army to entice Poles to fight the "Jewish Bolsheviks."

  3. George Blau collection

    The collection includes Blau's certificate of discharge from Les Milles (dated 18 September 1939); a photograph of Blau taken at an unknown time; a letter from the police of Marseille vouching to Blau's good conduct; a document from the consulate general of Siam granting Blau permission to emigrate to Siam (dated 28 Sep 1940); a document from a Dr. Monteux that stated Blau was medically ineligible for military service; and documents granting Blau permission to emigrate to the Dominican Republic if the United States did not allow him to enter (dated 30 May 1941). The collection also includes...

  4. Abwehra Lublin records (Sygn.182)

    This collection contains counter-intelligence investigation protocols of arrests, agents' reports, correspondence, instructions for agents issued to units with the code names "Einheit Lichtenstein" and "Meldekopf Spesser," and agents' notes. Subjects include Polish underground movements, the attitudes of the Ukrainian population, the Red Army on the Eastern Front, arrests and investigations of members of partisan groups and parachute groups in the Lublin area, Soviet espionage in the Lublin area, and arrests and investigations of Soviet agents.

  7. Inscribed postcard expressing contempt for Jews

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    The text uses the name “Kleine Cohn” (sometimes “Kleinen Cohn” or “Kohn”) meaning Little Cohn, which was a pejorative term for Jews used in Germany around the turn of the twentieth century. The term is thought to have originated in an 1893 German military pamphlet. It was popularized after German humorist Guido Thielscher sang a satirical song about the character in 1902, and quickly became ubiquitous in Germany. The term, often accompanied by antisemitic images of Jews, was featured on postcards and other ephemera throughout the first decades of the twentieth century. This postcard is one ...

  10. Oral history interview with Kurt Klein

    1. Testimony oral history collection

  11. Oral history interview with Harry Alexander

    1. Testimony oral history collection

  13. Nazis parade in Berlin

    Parade of Nazi soldiers marching on Unter den Linden in Berlin. Crowds line the streets waving Nazi flags. They stop in front of the Neue Wache building. 01:01:22 Dignitaries arrive and walk from right to left (perhaps including high Nazi officials). Wreath-laying ceremony (possibly February 25, 1934/5 for National Mourning Day or Heroes Day).

  18. Sigmund Neuberger papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Sigmund Neuberger of Hainstadt, Germany as a soldier during World War I and his immigration to the United States from Zurich in 1940. Included are identification documents, a document stating that he was neither a communist nor a fascist in Zurich, immigration papers, German Army papers from World War I, German passports, and photographs. Also included are German military documents from his brother in law, Moritz Rosenbaum, also a World War I veteran.

  19. Aleksandr O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandr O., who was born in Kopaygorod, Ukraine in 1933. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; a family chuppah; celebrating holidays at home; German invasion in 1941; his father being beaten and forced to work; administration by Romanians; ghettoization; Ukrainian women trading food for their possessions at the fence; arrival of Romanian Jews from other cities; frequent deportations; hiding his grandmother in their basement (she died there in 1942); starvation; a typhus epidemic; becoming more hopeful after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad; liberation by Soviet troops...

  20. Zygmunt G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmunt G., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1911. He recounts hardships during World War I; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; draft into the Soviet military in 1941 (he never saw his family again); German invasion; fleeing toward Russia with other soldiers; incarceration in labor camps in the Urals; learning in 1945 that his entire family had been killed; being allowed to return to Wroc?aw, Poland in 1946; traveling illegally to Vienna to escape antisemitism; living in a displaced persons camp, then Linz; emigrating to the United Sta...