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  1. Silberman and Seelenfreund family photographs

    Consists of nine pre-war and wartime copyprints of photographs of the family of Yosek and Salka Silberman. Includes photographs of Yosek and Salka; their children Chana, Benek, and Daniel; Salka's parents, Laura and Ludwig Seelenfreund; as well as photographs of Sala and Gimbel Silberman and Ota (Othkar) and Emanuel Seelenfreund. The original photographs were taken between 1928-1942.

  2. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs which were taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of piles of corpses stacked outside of the crematoria, photographs of buildings, and of a Hitler dummy hanged in effigy.

  3. Nammering Massacre collection

    Consists of one report, dated May 16, 1945, by Robert Schoenfeld, a member of the 5th Infantry Division, regarding the Nazi massacre of transported prisoners in Nammering, Germany, from April 19 to April 23, 1945. Also includes five photographs of the mass grave of the Nammering victims, including two photographs of the citizens of Nammering visiting the site.

  4. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs depict a pile of corpses and a pile of bones behind a gallows. The photographs are from the collection of Emmet Stevens, who was a member of the United States Army.

  5. Rob Knight research collection regarding Jehovah's Witnesses

    Consists of four books of articles, clippings, and information compiled by Rob Knight entitled, "The History of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the History of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust." The books include articles about Jehovah's Witness Holocaust survivors, the stories of Jewish survivors and Nazi soldiers who converted to become Witnesses after the war, and information regarding the Museum's holdings on the topic of Jehovah's Witnesses. Also includes one original Jehovah's Witness tract, published in 1941, entitled "End of the Axis Powers: Comfort All tha...

  6. Schenkelbach and Feldbau family collection

    Contains documents, passports, correspondence, and photographs related to the wartime experiences of the families of Otto Schenkelbach and of Margaret (Gretl) Feldbau, both originally of Vienna. Includes Otto's correspondence from his imprisonment in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1938-1939, Gretl's correspondence regarding her 1938 immigration to the United States and her attempts to support the immigration efforts of both her parents and of Otto, and correspondence between Otto and Gretl. The couple married in New York in 1940. Also includes Otto's pre-war, wartime, and ...

  7. Konrad Bieber collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, clippings, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences of Konrad Bieber. Includes information about his parents, Hugo and Lucy Bieber, who escaped France with emergency visas in 1940, and information regarding Konrad Bieber's wartime experiences. He was imprisoned in Montreuil-Bellay, France in 1940, escaped on Yom Kippur and worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Montauban, France from 1940-1942. In 1942, he went into hiding and remained in hiding, working for the French Resistance, until liberation in 1944. After the war,...

  8. Selected records from collections of the Bacău branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains selected records, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Includes records from the Jewish communities of the following localities: Bacău (from 1935 to 1950), and Moineşti, and Tg. Ocna (from prewar to 1945). Records include memos, inventories of assets, budgets, donations, local Jewish newspapers, publications, school correspondence, a census of Jewish children, health correspondence, the Jewish theater, aid to the poor, aid to the sick, aid to students, aid for pesach, a history of the Jewish community written in 1942, the situation of...

  9. Reuven Taibel memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Reuven Taibel, originally of Vilkemeer, Lithuania. During the German invasion on June 22, 1941, Reuven and his father were separated from his mother and siblings while attempting to flee east. His mother and siblings were taken to the Paryuena forest, shot, and buried in a mass grave. Reuven and his father escaped to Kusnotchik, where his father joined the Lithuanian army and Reuven lived in a children's home. His father remarried in 1944, and after the war ended, Reuven's new stepmother found Reuven in a children's hom...

  10. Illegal immigration to Palestine (RG 17)

    Contains deportation orders of illegal immigrants, 1938-1946. Records include memoranda of personal data (political), confidential questionnaires of the Palestine Police Force with portrait photographs that provide biographical data on illegal immigrants to Palestine from Nazi occupied Europe. Questionnaires also include biographical data and photographs of Jews from Vienna and Bratislava who were subsequently deported to a holding camp on Mauritius.

  11. Court records of the Reichsjustizministerium (R 3001)

    This collection contains files on thousands of investigations and court cases from 1933 to 1945. Among the charges were Rassenschande (“race shame”), treason, arson on synagogues, and attacks on German Jews. The accused included communists, social democrats, and members of the clergy. Defendants included both Jews and Gentiles.

  12. Henryk and Dorota Francuz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of both of the donors in the Łódź ghetto, their imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and later in other camps. Also includes one manuscript in which Henryk described his experiences in the ghetto, camps and his survival from the "Cap Arcona" catastrophe.

  13. Simon Goldman photographs

    The Simon Goldman photographs include 17 photographs of Simon Goldmand and his friends at the Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp in Austria. The collection also inclues a floppy disc.

  14. Beth and Lou Jacoby photograph collection

    Collection consists of four photographs depicting life in the ghetto during the Holocaust. The image of the boy and man fighting over a piece of bread was taken in the Warsaw ghetto. It is believed that the other three images (two of children standing in the street and another of someone laying on the sidewalk) were also taken in the Warsaw ghetto. Lou Jacoby's father's friend Janek Celnick survived the war as a photographer and gave these to the donor's father while they were living in the Neu Freimann DP camp.

  15. Zehava Epstein collection

    Collection photographs and identification cards documenting the experience of Zehava and Jehoshua Epstein [donor and husband] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The collection includes identification cards issued to them in Poppendorf Displaced Persons camp stating that they were on board the Exodus 1947 and forced to return to Germany from Haifa. Identification photos of each, post-war photographs with friends and family dated 1946-1947 and a photo of Zehava Epstein taken in Łódź, Poland, dated 1941. The couple met while on board the Exodus.

  16. Estate of Colonel Sidney S. Rubenstein collection

    Collection consists of ten U. S. Army Signal Corps photographs following liberation; some captioned on verso; dated 1945; in English. The photographs were acquired by Col. Sidney S. Rubenstein, USAF, who served as Deputy Director of the War Crimes Office, circa 1944-1946.

  17. Ehrenreich family papers

    Consists of family photographs, correspondence, official documentation, programs, and articles related to Dr. Nathan and Mrs. Frieda Rosenstein Ehrenreich and their son, Helmut (Henry) Ehrenreich, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Nathan was a composer and the musical director of a prestigious Jewish choir in Frankfurt and one of the founders of the Jewish Kulturbund before the family's 1939 emigration to the United States. After arriving in the United States, Dr. Ehrenreich continued his career in music in Buffalo, NY. The collection includes documents related to the education of e...

  18. Samuel Sack letter

    The Samuel Sack letter consists of one typewritten letter, sent from Samuel Sack, a member of the XV Corps of the American Army, Sydney Dutton (later Sydney Bortner). The letter was written by Sack in Salzburg, Austria on May 26, 1945 and describes his wartime experiences in the spring of 1945. The letter describes battles in which his battalion participated and Sack’s experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp as part of the Seventh Army. The letter was written on the stationery of the regional leader of the Nazi Party of Salzburg (der Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter in Sa...

  19. Displaced Persons Center Vöcklabruck

    Contains records pertaining to the Displaced Persons Center Vöcklabruck. Records include names lists, military reports, statistics, and other administrative records.

  20. Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

    Contains documents and photographs relating to pseudoscientific racial studies performed by Josef Wastl and team of anthropologists at the Natural History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and POWs in various Stalags. Contains also more than four-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939, and over a one thousand color slides taken of POWs as part of examinations that took ...