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  1. "Reise zum Planeten der Nazis: Langenstein-Zwieberge 1944-1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 118 pages, in German, entitled "Reise zum Planeten der Nazis: Langenstein-Zwieberge 1944-1945" by Alberto Berti, an Italian partisan. In the memoir, he describes his experiences in the Langenstein-Zwieberg concentration camp. The final chapter, entitled "Dreitausend auf dem Todesmarch," has been translated into English. The translation is included with the text.

  2. "We Will Always Remember"

    Consists of one document, six pages, entitled 'We Will Always Remember," commemorating the life of Eddie H. Willner (Hellmutt Willner), a Holocaust survivor from Germany. The tribute describes Mr. Willner's Holocaust experiences and his friendship with Maurits Swaab, a Dutch man who was transported to various camps with him. Mr. Willner and Mr. Swaab managed to escape from a death march from Langenstein and were liberated by the American Army. They were both able to immigrate to the United States, where they joined the American military.

  3. "A Voice for the Silenced"

  4. "Les condamnées des Sections Spéciales incarcérées à la Maison Centrale de Rennes Déportées les 5 avril, 2 mai, et 16 mai 1944"

    Consists of one manuscript, entitled "Les condamnées des Sections Spéciales incarcérées à la Maison Centrale de Rennes Déportées les 5 avril, 2 mai, et 16 mai 1944," by Yves Boivin. The manuscript contains research concerning women deported from Rennes in the département of the Ille -et-Vilaine, many of whom were non-Jews and were not members of the resistance. The CD contains name lists, testimonies, and statistical analyses.

  5. "A Christmas Memoir"

    Consists of one document, 6 pages, entitled "A Christmas Memoir," by Anne L. Knox, which describes her memories of life in a German concentration camp in Belgium (possibly Mecheln/Mechelen) in the winter of 1943. In the testimony, she describes the strange celebration of Christmas in the camp. Also includes eight photographs of Mechelen taken in 1990 on the site of the memorial at the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (located at the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen).

  6. World War I soldiers and families travel to Wesel for an SA march and celebration

    Decorated title in German: "Vereinsfilm aufgenommen durch Fr. Jasper Text von H. Vosskamp" followed by the main title card: "Kameradschaft Duisburg der ehem. Angehoerigen des 3 Oberelsäss. Inftr.-Regiments 172 FAHRT INS BLAUE mit dem Salondampfer 'Deutschland' am Sonntag, dem 13 August 1933 vorm 7:10 Uhr ab Mühlenweide, Ruhrort". Another title card indicating the program, whereby guests will depart from Muehlenweide at 7:30 AM on a "Journey into the Blue" and debark for a march of SA men to the fortifications [in Wesel]. Comic illustration of an early rise from bed at 5 AM. Man opens apartm...

  7. Selected records from the National Library of Morocco

    Contains mostly regulations, correspondence, reports and the like, compiled by French authorities in Morocco. Main topics are: legislation related to Jews; Moroccan and Algerian laws concerning Jews; professions prohibited to Jews (1941-1942 records); records on taxes levied on the Jewish community (1940-1945); decrees concerning nationality and citizenship of Jews; 1930-1935 tax matters related to the Jewish community; Jewish cemeteries; Jewish life in Fez; German activity in Morocco before and during the war including notes of the DAP (Deutsche Arbeitspartei); activities in the Spanish zo...

  8. Oral history interview with Lloyd Crothers

  9. "Les déportés de France internés su l'île d'Aurigny"

    Consists of one manuscript, entitled "Les déportés de France internés sur l'île d'Aurigny", a master's thesis by Benoît Luc. The manuscript contains information about the Aurigny/Alderney internment camp for Jews, Spaniards, and resistance fighters located on the Channel Islands.

  10. Selected records of the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews (Ο.Π.Α.Ι.Ε.)

    Consists of several thematically arranged sections. Included are property restitution files, correspondence, inheritance documentation, files on individuals, and the like.

  11. Personal archives of Esdras Moissis related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa in Greece

    Contains Esdras Moissis’s personal archives, which include various records, correspondence, and publications related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa.

  12. Selected records of the Central Board of Jewish Communities (KIS) Athens, Greece

    Consists mainly of files of correspondence between various Greek Jewish communities, with Greek governmental authorities concerning the restitution of the property of Greek Jews, and with international Jewish organizations concerning remembrance. Also included is correspondence with various other, but primarily German, organizations and authorities concerning reparations.

  13. Otto and Hilde Egener collection

    Consists of documentation related to the lives of Otto and Hilde Rahmer Egener, German-Jewish refugees who escaped to Shanghai in 1939. Includes Otto Egener's Reisepass, marriage and immunization documentation, and a letter sent to Otto in 1942 from a friend just prior to his deportation to a concentration camp.

  14. Archives of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki

    Consists of historical records reflecting the history of the Jewish community from 1943 to the 1990s. Included are property and financial assets declarations demanded by the German authorities in 1943, certificates issued to the surviving members of the community reclaiming property of their families, applications for German reparations, copies of German payments from the late 1950s and 1960s, certificates verifying membership in the community and relationship to the murdered, correspondence among Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Greece and abroad, correspondence with local an...

  15. Selected records from the Archives of the Département of the Creuse

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn37059
    • English
    • 1937-1945
    • 24,633 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm 1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm 4 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 24 pages of photocopies,

    Materials of the Cabinet du Préfet, the Service du Travail Obligatoire (office sending French workers to Germany), and summer camps for city children; documents on the surveillance and internment of foreigners, including prewar German, Austrian, and Polish political refugees; documentation of the activities of the French gendarmerie and of the 1943 deportations.

  16. Records of Hungarian General Credit Bank Co. Personnel and Organizational Departments Magyar Általános Hitelbank Rt. Személyzeti és szervezési osztály (MOL Z 53)

    Records related to the “aryanization” of the staff at one of the largest financial institution in Hungary, Magyar Általános Hitelbank Rt. (Hungarian General Credit Bank Co.) following the first anti-Jewish law in 1938, mostly contains personal dossiers of employees. Includes the private correspondence relating to Georges Vajda (Vajda, was one of the towering figures of Jewish Studies in this century. Born in Budapest on November 18, 1908, he died in Paris on October 7,1981).

  17. Oral history interview with Jadwiga Zoszak

  18. Edmond Phillips collection

    Consists of one letter, 9 pages, written by Edmond Phillips on June 12, 1945, describing his experiences touring the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the letter, he quotes excerpts from the confession of an unnamed SS officer, likely Commandant Franz Ziereis.

  19. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Lot

    The collection contains pre-war and wartime lists of German Jewish refugees, of foreigners directed toward the internment camp of Argelès for enemy aliens and foreign Jews in 1940, and of the children’s home at Roumegoux; lists of French and foreign Jews residing in the département; forms declaring that the signatory is not Jewish; forms that the signatory is not a freemason; local application of antisemitic legislation; and Masonic lodges in Cahors and elsewhere in the area.

  20. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Ardèche

    Contains documents concerning the creation of “centers” and camps to intern foreigners at thermal springs and/or tourist sites in the department (Vals-les-Bains et Chomérac); statistics concerning the presence of foreigners, name lists by country, and lists of groups of organized forced labor (GTE); all aspects of the persecution of Jews under German occupation including lists of Jews living in the département, foreign and French Jews living under house arrest, Aryanization of property with those named to take over Jewish businesses, and offers to purchase Jewish belongings (real and person...