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  1. Munich phone booth photograph

    Consists of photograph of a sign on a telephone book in Munich, 1943. The sign reads that Jews are forbidden to use the phone booth.

  2. Rachel Ejber Birnbaum photographs

    The Rachel Ejber Birnbaum photographs document her Ejber and Rajs relatives of Włodawa, Poland in the Włodawa ghetto in 1942 and after returning home in 1945. Individuals depicted include Rachel and Isaac Ejber and Jacob, Ester, Sheindel, Hana, Gedale, and Isaac Rajs. The collection also includes an image of the Włodawa synagogue being used as a granary by the German authorities during World War II.

  3. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of five photographs of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation in 1945; includes photographs of barracks, of the entrance to the camp, and of the digging of burial ditches. The photographs were taken by Roy (Lee) Mackey, a soldier in the United States Army.

  4. Liberation photographs

    Consists of photographs of the survivors of an unknown concentration camp. The photographs were taken by Army Signal Corps photographer Col. Wayne Larabee.

  5. Bukspan family photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs relating to the experiences of Shmariyaho Charles Bukspan who survived the Holocaust in hiding in Belgium.

  6. Goldberger family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war and wartime photographs from the collection of Gustav (Gus) Goldberger. The Goldberger family emigrated to Denmark in 1935, where Jeno Goldberger was the chief cantor in Copenhagen. The photographs include kindergarten pictures, piano recital pictures, and other pictures that demonstrate the daily life of the family in pre-war and wartime Denmark. The family escaped to Sweden in 1943, but returned to Denmark after the war.

  7. Edith Kahn collection

    Contains of correspondence, clippings, and photographs regarding the pre-war experiences of the Baer family, the Schneider family, the Eugen Wolf family, Lina and Margot Levy, the Faber family,and Ludwig and Emma Kahn, all of Germany. Most of the correspondence was written by people who later perished in the Holocaust, and details the Jewish life in pre-war Germany.

  8. Ahren family photographs

    Consists of ten pre-war photographs of the Ahren family, originally of Radzanowo, Poland. Nathan Ahren [donor] has described each photograph.

  9. Jakubowicz family photographs

    Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Jakubowicz family, originally of Wieluń, Poland. Of the seven siblings in the Jakubowicz family, three perished, two survived in hiding, one survived Auschwitz, and Mania Jakubowicz Gryniewicz, the donor, fled with her husband to the Urals. Each photograph has been described by the donor.

  10. Firma Paul I. Landmann collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war documentation, photographs, printing samples, and correspondence regarding the printing firm of Paul I. Landmann, which was located in Mannheim-Neckarau, Germany.

  11. Johanna Jakobs papers

    The papers consist of correspondence and photographs concerning Johanna Jakobs [donor's paternal aunt] and her experiences during World War II, including her deportation from Germany with her husband and her internment and persecution in Theresienstadt concentration camp where her husband perished. She survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to Chicago, Ill.

  12. Office of the German commandant of the Kerch harbor (Fond p 1465)

    Contains records of the German commandant of the Kerch harbor, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  13. Administration of the city of Kerch during the Nazi occupation (Fond p1457)

    Contains records of the local administration, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  14. Administration of the city of Feodosiya during the Nazi occupation (Fond p 1458)

    Contains records of the city of Feodosiya, Ukraine, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  15. Papers of Dimităr Iosifov Pes̆ev (Fond 1335)

    Selected records from the personal papers of Dimităr Pes̆ev, a prominent politician, who played a crucial role in preventing the deportation of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust.

  16. Dotsch family papers

    The papers contain correspondence, documents and photographs concerning the Dotsch family during the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. The papers primarily pertain to Carla Levinsohn-Dotsch, youngest of three daughters, all placed in hiding, who was denounced and transported to Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt concentration camps. In Theresienstadt she was adopted by the Boas family, with whom she was liberated, but was later reunited with her birth family. Also includes photographs documenting the Dotsch family in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  17. Victor Aronstein commemorative paper

    Consists of an article commemorating what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Victor Aronstein. The authors, Thomas Friedrich, Daniela Fuch, and Christa Hubner, give an extensive biography of Dr. Aronstein, including the hardships he faced from pre-war antisemitism and his experiences in the Łódź ghetto, where he probably perished in 1944, along with his wife and assistant, Lotte Korn.

  18. Collections of Jewish records and old books (Fond 1568)

    Includes records of the Jewish community of Bulgaria, records related to Jewish labor detachments, Jewish public organizations, Jewish folklore, declarations of the Bulgarian Jews regarding material compensation for the damages caused by the antisemitic legislation of the Fascist government of Bulgaria, and records of the Jewish Scientific Institute.

  19. Records of the partisan movement in various localities of Bulgaria

    Records of 12 operative zones of the partisan detachments reporting to the staff of the zone of operation. Includes orders, appeals, lists of partisans, war diaries, activity reports etc. Also contains post-WWII memoirs by veteran Bulgarian communist partisans.

  20. "Report on inspection of German concentration camp at Buckenwald"

    Consists of one document, 5 pages, entitled, "Report on Inspection of German Concentration Camp at Buckenwald" [sic] by Brig. Gen. Eric F. Wood, Lt. Col. Chas H. Ott, and CWO S.M. Dye on April 16, 1945. The document describes the history of the camp, the then-current makeup of prisoners and the health issues they faced, and a summary of the daily activities of the Buchenwald concentration camp under the Nazis.