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  1. Sven Nordström collection

    Consists of documents related to Sven Nordström's claims for restitution as a subject of medical experimentation in Buchenwald and Dachau and his claims for recognition for his post-war role as a Nazi hunter and as a person who discovered Nazi treasure. Nordström petitioned various levels of American government for this recognition and the collection includes his supporting biographical statements.

  2. 166th Signal Corps liberation images

    Consists of paper cards with printed photographs of images of concentration camp liberation which were taken by the 166th Signal Corps company. Includes the burial of slave laborers killed near Nurnberg and near Wetterfeld and Schwarzenfeld as well as images of corpses discovered at the Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Hergenheim concentration camps.

  3. Irving and Ennis Rosenberg photograph album

    Consists of five pages from a photograph album owned by Irving and Ennis (Chumley) Rosenberg, who worked on the cruise ship USS Leviathan, and through that visited Bremen and Hamburg, Germany, in 1932. Includes postcards of Adolf Hitler and candid photographs of Hitler, of a Nazi parade and rally, and of local architecture. Ennis Rosenberg annotated the album pages, questioning the future of Germany with Hitler as potential leader.

  4. Borowczyk family photographs

    Consists of a copyprint image of Jozef Borowczyk, who was a Polish prisoner of war who was imprisoned in Germany from 1939 until he was killed at the end of March 1945. Also includes a photograph of Maria Borowczyk, Jozef's wife, who raised their four children. The family finally learned of Jozef's death in July 2010.

  5. Landsberg liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Landsberg concentration camp. Includes photographs of members of the United States military examining corpses. The photographs were taken by Michael Vikertosky.

  6. Lea Freund Goldbrenner correspondence

    Contains letters and postcards written in 1940-1941 by Lea Freund Goldbrenner (donor's grandmother) in Berlin, Germany to her children in Paris and Nancy, France, updating them on events in Berlin and the fate of family members, and thanking them for news of their lives in France.

  7. Lowenbein family photographs

    Contains three photographs (2 copies and one original) dated 1946, showing Hana Lowenbein (donor) and her mother, Piri Lowenbein. Hana Lowenbein was born in Freiburg, a subcamp of Flossenbürg.

  8. Gunczberger family papers

    The collection consists of photographs of the families of Manya Reichman and Maurice Gunczberger including pictures of siblings and extended family members, dated c. 1930s-1940s, documents: from Slovakia, dated early 1930s, and correspondence written by loved ones in Slovakia to family in the United States, dated early 1940s. Also includes passenger list from the Cunard White Star Line for Maurice's voyage.

  9. Anita Etzyon photographs

    Contains five photographs of the donor's family, originally from Borysław, Poland (now Borylslav, Ukraine), where the donor was born in 1941, and was hidden during the war disguised as a Christian. Photographs may depict period of her family's time in hiding.

  10. Forced burial of death march and concentration camp victims by German civilians; DP camp

    (LIB 6492) Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommerin, Germany (now the site of the Hagenow Memorial to the Wöbbelin Camp Victims). LS of German civilians digging rows of graves. Closer shots showing white-sheeted corpses beside each grave. American soldiers wander among the rows, watching the Germans. 02:26:50 German civilians unload large white crosses (grave markers) from a wagon. Three former prisoners, still wearing striped uniforms, walk toward the camera bearing a large wreath. They lay the wreath on the graves. CUs of corpses. 02:27:13 A group of American soldiers, some of them chaplains, and...

  11. Drimmer and Gruber families papers

    The collection primarily consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Drimmer and Gruber families of Drohobycz, Poland (Drohobych, Ukraine). Included are childhood photographs of Marcel and his sister Irena, along with their parents Jakob and Laura (née Gruber) Drimmer, and relatives in the Drimmer and Gruber families in pre-war Drohobycz and post-war Walbrzych, Poland. Also included are photographs of Rywka Gruber who was killed in Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) in 1941, and depictions of Jan and Sofia Sawinski, who hid members of the Drimmer and Gruber families in their barn in Mlynk...

  12. Morris Rosen collection

    Contains three photographs and one calling card. One family photo has inscription on back, in French, to Rubin, dated in Brussels, 1927. Another photo shows a family walking down a street, and has an inscription in Polish in the verso, from Leon Sztajnberg (?) in Czestowchowa, 1932. Also contains a calling card from a bottling (beer, carbonated beverages) factory, of I.I. Sliwka, in Brussels.

  13. Americans visit Horodok, Poland and Germany

    Amateur footage taken by an American Jew, Joseph Shapiro, during a visit to relatives in Horodok, a Polish shtetl ocated between Minsk and Vilna. American travelers dressed in expensive clothes shake hands with villagers. The camera pans the landscape showing horse-drawn wagons, farms, trains resting on tracks, and local businesses (beer house "Piwiarnia"). 14:16:52 Children present flowers to visitors. A large procession of children (some in gymnasium hats) walk in pairs, as teachers organize the group. 14:18:56 The children rush towards a bus labeled "98 Iwieniec..." traveling from a town...

  14. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam (with prologue, added historic footage, and text)

    Film with prologue and text. Introduction and intertitles. Image rolls at 01:42:37 with two women crossing a canal bridge in the city of Amsterdam. The streets are mostly empty. View of houses, bridges and canals, pedestrians, cars, a statue of Johann Rudolph Thorbecke (nineteenth century Dutch politician), businesses, the club Alcazar, a street sign showing "Thorbeckeplein Centrum" [Thorbecke Square Center], the apartment address number "5", more shop windows for the Alcazar club, and the signs "Für Wehrmacht verboten" ["Prohibited for Army"] and "Joodsche Gasten niet gewenscht" ["Jewish g...

  15. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...

  16. Arnstein family collection

    Collection consists of documents relating to Arnold Arnstein, who was arrested on Kristallnacht in Stuttgart, Germany, and imprisoned for three weeks in Dachau. Also includes identity documentation, including a German passport for Elizabeth (Nelly) Arnstein, which was also used for her children, Georg (now George) and Susanne, which was stamped with a "J" and issued on November 9, 1938 in Stuttgart. The family emigrated to the United States in December 1938. Includes a series of articles and chapters written by George Arnstein, in English, about his family's experiences.

  17. Vollweiler family collection

    The Vollweiler family collection consists of identity documents, family history materials, and correspondence related to the Vollweiler family, originally of Heidenheim, Germany. Justin Vollweiler was arrested on Kristallnacht in 1938 and imprisoned in the Dachua concentration camp. He was able to immigrate to the United States after his release. His wife, Else and daughter Inge were able to join him in May 1939. His son Jack was born in the United States in 1940. Includes identity and education information, a postcard sent to Justin while he was imprisoned in Dachau, and extensive correspo...

  18. Records of compensation in Hungary (MOL XIX-20-L-o)

    Correspondence between Hungarian and West German authorities, organizations, and companies; documents supporting Hungarian claims; minutes of various Hungarian bodies; surveys and statistics; laws, decrees, circular letters; internal correspondence and notes of the Department of Compensation; documentation regarding distributions; claim sheets (recording name and type of claim) submitted by the Hungarian General Exchange Bank on behalf of individuals; BRüG (Germany Federal Restitution Law) case files with correspondence, financial papers, administrative documents, claimant authorizations fo...

  19. Records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies (MOL Z)

    Selected records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies: how they implemented anti-Jewish regulations during the Horthy regime, personnel practices, confiscation of assets, responses to claims of Jewish customers. Postwar files focus on claims filed by customers whose assets were seized or employees who had lost their jobs.

  20. Selected records of the National Land Mortgage Bank of Hungary (MOL Z)

    Documents from various offices of the National Land Mortgage Bank of Hungary (Országos Földhitelintézet) : Economic/Business (reports on fisheries, land leases); Estate Policy, 1911‒1947 (maps, legal documents); Executive Council, 1899‒1947 (minutes, correspondence); Personnel; Executive (correspondence); Legal (sentencing records, correspondence, records of loans, legal fees, court requests, affidavits, etcetera). Documents of the National Central Credit Union (Országos Központi Hitelszövetkezet), including the department of Internal Investigation (personnel files, correspondence about fin...