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  1. Public humiliation for violation of racial laws in Silesia, 1941

    Public humiliation of a young couple guilty of "Rassenschande" [racial shame or racial defilement] in Steinsdorf [present day Scinawa Nyska, Poland] in Silesia. Sexual relations between Germans and non-Aryans were forbidden and punishable by law in Nazi Germany. Bronia, a 16 year old Polish slave laborer, had been working with Gerhard Greschok (Krzeszczok), a 19 year old German, at the Adler family farm in Steinsdorf in the summer of 1941 when their forbidden affair was reported to the Gestapo. The film was discovered in an attic in Sturov, Slovakia in 1946. 01:00:00 Bronia and Gerhard are ...

  2. Rabbi David Bergstein collection

    Consists of correspondence to the United States from yeshivas in Wolozyn and Jałówka, Poland, in the 1920s-1930s. Also includes correspondence related to the Vaad Hahatzala and extensive notes related to relief money and packages sent to individual Jews in Poland between 1942-1943, organized by date, and notes related to relief money sent to individuals in the immediate post-war years.

  3. Zoltan Mathe collection

    Consists of one photograph of Zoltan Mathe at age 13 in Budapest, Hungary, wearing a Magen David. The photograph is dated August 10, 1944. Also includes an essay entitled, "Toward the Precipice" by Mr. Mathe, in which he describes the German invasion of Hungary, his bar mitzvah in April 1944, and watching his father and older brother be taken away for forced labor. When the Arrow Cross took control of Budapest, Zoltan, his mother and sister were rounded up, but released due to the intervention of Jewish friends posing as soldiers. The family assumed the identities of Christian refugees from...

  4. John Regnier collection

    Consists of photocopies of photographs taken by John Regnier after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, as Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton toured the camp, as well as one original photograph of soldiers viewing corpses. Also includes a panoramic photograph of the town of Ebensee, Austria, the typed text of a letter written by Regnier from Austria on May 6, 1945, and an essay entitled "My Visit to a German Concentration Camp" which Mr. Regnier wrote as a term paper in 1946 after returning to the United States. In the essay, he describes what he saw at Ohrdruf and the operations ...

  5. "An Eyewitness to the Holocaust"

    Consists of one DVD containing a short documentary entitled "An Eyewitness to the Holocaust" created by Sean Van Domelen. The documentary, which includes historical imagery and footage, describes the experiences of John Regnier, a member of the 182nd Medical battalion. Using footage from a 2012 interview with Mr. Regnier, the documentary includes his testimony related to the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  6. Sergeant Donald Blanchard photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs, which depict piles of corpses and crematorium ovens, were taken by Donald Harry Blanchard, a Staff Sergeant in the 399rd Field Artillery Battalion of the 8th Armored Division. The photographs are described on the front of the images.

  7. John Shaheen photographs

    Consists of 24 photographs taken in the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity in Gardelegen, Germany. The photographs, which depict American soldiers, burned corpses, and the burial of the victims, were taken by John Shaheen, a member of the United States Army. Some of the photographs are described on the verso. Also includes an envelope in which Mr. Shaheen kept the photographs, on which he wrote, "Burned Bodies."

  8. John Stix collection

    Consists of 34 photographs taken at the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps by John Stix, who was part of the 166th Signal Photo Corps in the United States Army. The photographs depict images of the camp grounds, of survivors, of corpses, and includes portraits of several survivors. Some of the photographs have descriptions on the verso and some are mounted on black paper.

  9. Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Lublin = Jewish Council in Lublin Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Lublin (Sygn. 253)

    Contains various documents related to the ghetto dwellers in Lublin and small ghettos in the Lublin province area, such as: ordinances concerning identity cards (Ausweis), letters of prisoners of war of the camp 7 Lipowa St. in Lublin, card files of people who died in the ghetto (Nov.– Dec. 1941), correspondence of the Jewish Council, various certificates, receipts, work cards, private documents, a name list of people who died in various places in 1940, and an alphabetical index of Lublin dwellers (date unknown).

  10. Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Jewish Council Łęczyca Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Rada Żydowska w Łęczycy (Sygn. 252)

    Contains card files of 90 applications for identity cards (Ausweis) of the ghetto dwellers in Łęczyca. Each application includes: a photo, signature, fingerprints, Ausweis number, first name, last name, birth date, birth place, address, marital status, a year and place of concluding marriage, religion, occupation, name of a spouse, parents’ first names, information about military service and military rank.

  11. Jewish Council Modliborzyce (Sygn. 256)

    Contains records of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) of Modliborzyce including: an alphabetic index of Jews of 1940-1942, alphabetic list of Jews (first and last name, age, acquired profession and practiced occupation) of 1942 and a Book of finances (incomes and expenditures) from January-September 1942.

  12. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Building Department Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce. Wydział Budowlany (Sygn. 303/X)

    Contains records of the Building Department (known also as a Department of Engineering and Construction) of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP), which was established on March 1,1946. The most valuable part of this collection is the materials documenting the search for the Underground Archive of The Warsaw Ghetto (The Ringelblum Archive) (1949-1950) in the ruins of the estate located at 34 Świętojerska Street. The collection contains the following subject files: Minutes and reports (1 file); Archives of dr. E. Ringelblum (2 files), Edifices, ...

  13. Legacy of Gershon Dua-Bogen Spuścizna Gerszona Dua-Bogena (Sygn. 329)

    The collection contains the papers of Gershon Dua-Bogen (1892-1948), an eminent activist of the socialist and communist parties. The papers includes personal documents from Gershon Dua-Bogen and his son, Jerzy Bogen, correspondence, notes, fragment of memoirs, press-cuttings, invitations, photographs, an index of the Dua-Bogen’s works, a resume, a collection of Jewish songs: Mir zingen. Lider zamlung, and miscellaneous.

  14. Legacy of family Feldhorn Spuścizna rodziny Feldhorn (Sygn. 368)

    Consists of various personal documents, correspondence, notes and other mementos of a Jewish family from the circles of the assimilated intelligentsia. The collection is divided into four series. The first series contains literary works, mainly by Juliusz Feldhorn, the poetry of Stella Landy and memoirs of Maria Krawczyk which contains information about the family’s fate, and photographs. The second series, which is the largest, contains personal documents of the Feldhorn family’s members: Mojżesz, Michał, Juliusz, Stella, Maria and Cecylia, as well as Maria Krawczyk, Marcel Schauer, and Ma...

  15. "Stefan Sebastian Lazarus Salomon Frank"

    Consists of one memoir, 57 pages, entitled "Stefan Sebastian Lazarus Salomon Frank," written by Stefan Frank, who was born in Regensburg, Germany and raised in Regenstauf. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in the 1920s and early 1930s, his early education, and the family's decision to move to Schweinfurt when Stefan and his brother, Michael, were about to enter secondary school. Mr. Frank describes antisemitic persecution in Schweinfurt in the 1930s; Michael was sent to Palestine in 1936 while Stefan, still a young teenager, began to work as an apprentice cook as career training wit...

  16. Congregation Shaarey Tikvah Kristallnacht commemoration collection

    Consists of one booklet and DVD produced by Congregation Shaarey Tikvah in Beachwood, Ohio, as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The booklet explains the program of the November 9, 2008, remembrance service and includes readings, the history of the event, and prayers. Also includes a DVD of the remembrance service, which featured witnesses to Kristallnacht and readings from personal testimonies.

  17. Henri Moskow collection

    Consists of pre-war and post-war (1930's-1950's) documents, photographs, a photograph album, and correspondence pertaining to Henri Moskow and his family. The collection includes pre-war family photographs, documents, and correspondence attesting to his resistance activities in France.

  18. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945 by an unknown member of the American Army. Includes images of corpses immediately after liberation, of preparing, transporting, and burying these corpses, and of a pyre on which corpses were burned.

  19. Jan Sisson photograph collection

    Collection of 20 photographic prints documenting an American soldier's journey thorugh Germany, including Karlsfeld and Bad Aibling, and ultimately ending up at the Dachau concentration camp; some photographs have handwritten captions on verso; in English; dated April-May 1945.

  20. Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to one inmate by another inmate in Liebenau

    Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to 15 year old Eva Lasch by Evelyn Anderson when both women were imprisoned in Liebenau internment camp in Nazi Germany circa 1943-1944. Liebenau chiefly held noncombatant civilian and diplomatic enemy nationals, chiefly female and from the United States and Great Britain, classified as prisoners of war. Eva was originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia, which was occupied by Germany in March 1939. In February 1945, she arrived in the US on the Gripsholm with her mother Anna. Her father, who was Jewish, had escaped there earlier. Evelyn, who was ...