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  1. Paul and Judith Schneiderman collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Paul and Judith Schneiderman (donor's parents) in the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp immediately following the Holocaust. Both survived multiple concentration camps, and they met and married while in Landsberg.

  2. Imre Gross memoir

    Memoir, typescript, 129 page, written by Imre Gross (Emery Robert), describing his childhood and youth in Hungary, his conscription into a forced labor battalion between 1942-1944, his imprisonment by the Arrow Cross and subsequent escape and hiding in Budapest, liberation, and return to his hometown in 1945. Also described are his experiences in the immediate postwar years, including reunion with his father and sister, university studies, and emigration from Hungary in 1946, life as a displaced person in Germany for three years, and immigration to the United States in 1949.

  3. Oral history interview with José Moskovits

  4. Collection of posters, announcements and leaflets Zbiór afiszów, plakatów i druków ulotnych (Sygn. 206)

    This collection includes ordinances from the Labor Office of Radom in Poland during the German occupation, as well as notices of identity cards for Jews, creation of a ghetto for the Jews of Radom, notices for registration for Jewish labor, antisemitic posters, and declarations of assets.

  5. Selected records of the City of Otwock Akta Miasta Otwocka (Sygn.1)

    This collection contains minutes of sessions of the town government and council, as well as records relating to taxes, matters concerning the Jewish community and Jews in general, all aspects of economic and cultural life, health care and schooling, registers, lists of electors, budget, permissions for house construction, e.g. technical project of edifices, and reports of the town government and council activity.

  6. Handmade American flag created by former concentration camp inmates and given to a U.S. liberator

    Handmade American flag given to U.S. Sergeant Donald Hall following the liberation of the Langenstein concentration camp in the spring of 1945. The flag was hand painted on a simple weave cloth, and given to Donald by grateful prisoners of the camp. Hall was drafted in August 1943 and served as a supply truck driver for the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. In the weeks following the D-Day invasion in June 1944, the 83rd landed at Omaha Beach and fought in the Battle of the Bulge that December. In March 1945, they crossed Germany’s Rhine River and proceeded t...

  7. Ring hidden by a Polish Jewish girl while in a concentration camp

    Engagement ring given to fourteen-year-old Sala Silberstein (now Sally Chase) by her mother, Estera, when they were interned in the Radom ghetto in Poland in 1942. Sala was given the ring to use as money, and managed to hide it throughout her imprisonment in concentration camps. Sally, her parents, her five brothers, and two sisters were forced into one of Radom’s two ghettos in April 1941 by the occupying German administration. Two of Sala’s brothers walked east, but after becoming separated, one of them returned to Radom. The other found work in a town near the Soviet border where he was ...

  8. Sondergericht. Staatsanwaltschaft bei dem Sondergericht in Radom Sad Specjalny w Radomiu. Prokuratura przy Sadzie Specjalnym w Radomiu (Sygn.399)

    This collection includes files of particular cases, including criminal cases (assaults, thefts, murders, document forgery, injuries); as well as administrative cases, which included cases related to the charges of illegal trade, espionage, the hiding of Jews, receiving correspondence from abroad, the refusal to turn in radio sets, or listening to foreign broadcasts, among others. Most of the defendants in the administrative cases are Poles and Jews. The files of the German Court and Higher German Court in Radom include the civil cases of the people of German origin.

  9. Hildegard Vicktor papers

    The Hildegard Vicktor papers consist of family trees; correspondence tracing Hilde’s aunt Berthilde Kern Kohler; a history of the Jewish community of Landau in der Pfalz; photocopies of birth, marriage, and death certificates for Karl and Hilde Vicktor and Isabella Kern; two photographs of the Vicktor, Kern, and Michel families; an article about Kristallnacht in Landau; an article about Hilde’s cousin Werner Michel; memorial remarks by the mayor of Landau in 1987; and Hilde’s brief account of her return visits to Germany.

  10. Shirt worn by a Hungarian Jewish child in hiding

    Offwhite button-down shirt that was worn by Gyorge Bence, in 1944 when he was a young child living in hiding in Budapest and in the countryside.

  11. Mirjam Zelwer Papers

    The Marie Zelwer papers include a diary, autograph book, and post-war documents relating to Marie Zelwer’s post-war experiences aboard the SS Exodus in 1947 and her life in Germany at the Bad Aibling IRO Children's Village, an International Refugee Organization (IRO) camp. The collection also includes an English translation of "And the Ram Was Not Caught in the Thicket: The Life of Avraham 1939-1944." In her diary Marie writes about her experiences aboard the SS Exodus in 1947 and her return to Germany and eventual immigration to the United States. The diary includes several poems and song ...

  12. Norman Winiker papers

    The Norman Winiker papers primarily contain letters from Norman Winiker of the 65th Infantry Division of the United States Army to his parents and two sisters in Brooklyn, New York. The letters were written from different locations in Germany and Austria, and span March 25-August 9, 1945. Topics include fighting at Saarlautern, Germany (now Saarlouis), attitudes of Germans, rounding up German soldiers in Austria, Germany’s surrender, General Patton, prisoners of war, guard duty in Linz, Austria, descriptions of Mauthausen concentration camp and other camps, daily life, and getting an injury...

  13. Rose Hudak correspondence

    Contains a letter, four pages, dated June 7, 1945, addressed to Mrs. Rose Hudak (donor's mother) from Sgt. Chas. F. Kovacich, while he was serving with Co. C, 13th Infantry of the US Army in Wilhemhousen, Germany. In the letter, he writes about liberation of an unnamed concentration camp, reburial of the victims, and the forced confrontation of atrocities by local residents; Wilhemhousen, Germany; in English. Includes the envelope in which the letter was mailed.

  14. Szilard Diamant papers

    The collection documents the unsuccessful efforts of Szilard and Hella Diamant to emigrate from Berlin, Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence and other documents regarding his attempts to secure visas, affidavits and money through the efforts of family in the United States and the Hilfsverein Der Juden in Deutschland [Aid Association of German Jews].

  15. Jewish communities in province of Poznań Gminy żydowskie Prowincji Poznańskiej (Sygn.116)

    Records of Jewish communities from the province of Poznań: Includes registers of marriages, births, divorces and deaths, budget and financial documents, documents concerning schools, minutes and resolutions of community boards, correspondence, materials related to synagogues, graveyards, baths and ritual slaughter, last wills, regulations governing synagogues, and collections of songs.

  16. Levi and Frank families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, copy prints and photographs relating to the Levi and Frank families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust, including their immigration to the United States, correspondence with and attempts to assist family who remained in Germany, and receipt of restitution.

  17. Selected redords of the Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite crimes in Rawa Mazowiecka Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich (KBZH) w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1029)

    Protocols of witnesses’ investigation of 1971-1984 concerning the crimes committed against Jews and the ghetto of Biała Rawska, a questionnaire concerning the crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in 1939, a register of places and facts of crimes committed in the area of Rawa Mazowiecka county, lists of those killed beyond the county boundaries, list of those murdered in camps, lists of those murdered on unidentified places.

  18. Eisenstadt family papers

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of the Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post-war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and Israel. There is also a letter regarding her visa application to the United States from Canada, 1957.

  19. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Żyrardów Sąd Grodzki w Żyrardowie (Sygn.1746)

    Court civil and criminal cases related to repayment of debt, beatings, insulting public officials, embezzlement, theft and other matters. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Żyrardów. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  20. Werner Krumme collection

    Cntains a copy of a three page letter, dated August 1945, written by Werner Krumme, a Polish man who was arrested and interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. Krumme's wife, Ruth, perished in the camp, and Werner worked in a clerical position in the camp until July 1944.