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  1. "The Silent Story of Those Children"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "The Silent Story of Those Children" by Rosette Kleinmann Lissek, who was born in Paris in 1940 and survived the war in hiding in various places. Rosette's father was interned in a number of French internment camps, while Rosette, her mother, and her younger sister Jeanine (born 1942) hid in France and Belgium with the help of OSE. After the war, the family immigrated briefly to Israel, then back to Europe before leaving for Bolivia, and ultimately, to Argentina in 1951. Also includes copies of family photographs and documents. Copies of the memoir exist in Eng...

  2. Selected records from the Bologna State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Bologna, 1938-46 relating to the 1938 racial laws and their implementation in Bologna, as well as the deportation of the Jews of Bologna and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. This collection also includes 2,000 individual files with personal data.

  3. Selected records from the Perguia Regional State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Perugia, 1938-46 relating to the racial laws of 1938 and their implementation in Perugia, the deportation of the Jews of Perugia and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. Also included are 200 files containing personal materials on individuals. The collection also contains records from the province of Perugia and include records from smaller cities, such as Assisi documenting their reaction to the racial laws.

  4. Frederick B. Lea collection

    Consists of material related to the experiences of Frederick B. Lea, Company Commander of the 46th Armored Medical Battalion, Fourth Armored Division of the United States Army, who participated in the liberations of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps in April 1945. Includes Mr. Lea's written testimony, entitled "Recollections of a Liberator," photographic prints and slides taken at Ohrdruf and at Buchenwald, which Mr. Lea described, a copy of a map of the movement of the Fourth Armored Division, and photocopies of the photographs taken by Mr. Lea.

  5. Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Jewish Council Łachwa Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Rada Żydowska w Łachwie (Sygn. 216)

    Contains a single document dated on August 25, 1941. Its content relates to confirmation of delivery of the Jewish workers by the Judenrat to Łachwa authorities.

  6. "Die Fahne Hoch!...Wesen werden und Wirken des Dritten Reiches"

    Consists of a copy of the original typed manuscript of "Die Fahne Hoch!..Wesen werden und Wirken des Dritten Reiches" by Fritz Ginszberg. The manuscript, which was offered to publishers, includes images tucked or pasted into the text and was published in 1946.

  7. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes one photograph of a room filled with corpses, and one photograph of two American soldiers looking at corpses in an open railcar.

  8. George Feger letters

    The George Feger letters consist of letters send to George Feger of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from members of the Feger family of Vienna, Austria in 1938. The letters request assistance and support in the form of affidavits for immigration from Austria. The family was unsure whether they were related to George Feger, but hoped he would assist them based on sympathy and the potential family connection.

  9. Oral history interview with Irene Austern Schopp

  10. "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis"

    Consists of one manuscript, 104 pages, entitled "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis," with a copy in French, by Giacomo Nunez, originally of Tunis. In the manuscript, Mr. Nunez describes the history of the Jewish community in Italy, Spain, and Tunis throughout history, focusing specifically on the experiences of the Nunez family. He also describes his own childhood in Tunis and memories of World War II as a Jewish boy in North Africa, including his memories of bombings and forced labor.

  11. Selected records from the National Archives of Malta

    This collection contains records relating to the Jewish Community of Malta, such as birth and marriage certificates, applications for passports and permission to travel, immigration to Malta, internment, and travel from Palestine.

  12. "From Rue Vieille du Temple to Limoux"

    Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, entitled "From Rue Vieille du Temple to Limoux" by Perla Hauszwalb Nunez, who survived the Holocaust in Limoux, France. Mrs. Nunez escaped to Limoux as a teenager after the deportation of her mother and siblings during the Vel d'Hiv round-up in Paris in July 1942. Includes copies of family photographs, correspondence with people who helped her, and information about the fates of the members of the Hauszwalb family.

  13. "Living Surgical History, or Sisyphus at the Water Fountain"

    Consists of two chapters of a memoir entitled "Living Surgical History, or Sisyphus at the Water Fountain" by Dr. Henry Gans, originally of Zevenaar, the Netherlands. In these chapters, Dr. Gans describes his memories of his schooling in Arnhem under the German occupation of the Netherlands, learning his father was selected for deportation to Westerbork, and the decision for his family to go into hiding. Dr. Gans, a teenager at the time, spent thirty months in hiding with his brother at a farm in Angelo, a small village in the Netherlands. The family was reunited after the Allied liberation...

  14. "Süssholz Siblings: The War"

    Consists of one memoir, 50 pages, entitled "Süssholz Siblings: The War" by Friedl Süssholz-Wolfstein, originally of Trier, Germany. She describes her childhood, her father and brother's deportation from Germany as stateless persons in 1938, and her own escape as a child into Belgium, where her family was slowly reunited. After various attempts to escape after the outbreak of war, Friedl and her brothers were arrested in France, and Friedl was deported to Auschwitz, where she worked sorting victim belongings in the "Canada" section of the camp. After Auschwitz was evacuated, Friedl was sent ...

  15. Gestapo Headquarter Vienna : Daily Reports Gestapo Leitstelle Wien : Tagesrapporte

    Contains the daily arrest reports of the Gestapo Vienna, the originals of which are held by the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) and the Bundesarchiv Berlin.

  16. Records from the National Jewish Community, Rome (Unione delle comunita ebraiche Italiane)

    Contains records relating to the situation of Italian Jews across Italy, with a larger section focusing on Rome and depicting the response of the Italian Jewish communities to both the racial laws and the deportations.

  17. Post-war French youth group correspondence

    Consists of a collection of correspondence from the directors of French youth groups (primarily HaChalutz and the Gordonia movement) written to the Jewish Agency Youth and Pioneer Department in Jerusalem from 1949-1950. Includes 1948 activity reports, requests for assistance, and copies of letters written by the Youth and Pioneer Department in response to these requests.

  18. Hersch Wasser collection Kolekcja Hersza Wassera

    The collection consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts, testimonies, essays, official and underground publications, documents from the Jewish councils (Judenrats). The materials pertain to Jewish communities, ghettos, labor camps and to Jews living illegally on the "Aryan side." Materials on the Warsaw Ghetto include a manuscript diary and other notes by Emanuel Ringelblum. Essays by other members of the Oneg Shabat group on topics related to conditions in the ghetto, such as: black market, street trade, smuggling, working, performing arts, child beggars, ghetto folklore, sanitary conditio...

  19. The Filderman collection

    Contains the personal papers of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, a leader of the Romanian Jewish community who was active in the rescue of his country's Jews during the Holocaust. Includes Dr. Filderman’s memoirs and book, as well as articles, reports, appeals, newspaper clippings, and correspondence relating to the persecution of Jews during the fascist regime, prewar and postwar Jewish organizations in Romania, and the situation of Romanian Jewry after the war.

  20. "A Survivor's Connections: Yesterday into Today"

    Consists of one typed testimony, 14 pages, entitled "A Survivor's Connections: Yesterday into Today" by Judith Sherman, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. In the testimony, she describes the various elements of daily life that remind her of her Holocaust experiences and includes poetry that she has written about her memories.