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  3. Dr. Alain Goldschläger collection

    Consists of three photograph albums and a memoir collected by Dr. Alain Goldschlager. Includes a photograph album of copyprints of liberation photographs, including those from the Strasbourg University Anatomical Institute, and a photograph album of images of commemorative structures at the location of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Also includes a photograph album containing photographs and captions of a female youth Reichsarbeitdienst camp in Bernstein am Wald, Germany, between 1938-1939, as well as a memoir written from 1958-1981 in German shorthand by Ludwig Link, who spen...

  4. Bulgarian labor camp photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken in Bulgarian labor camps of groups of workers. Isaac Varsano is one of the workers depicted in the photographs.

  5. Photograph of crematorium at Dachau

    Consists of one photograph depicting American soldiers standing outside the crematorium in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. The soldiers are examining a pile of corpses.

  8. Robert Greene collection

    Consists of postcards sent to Robert Greene of Utica, NY, by members of the Grünbaum family of Radzanów, Poland, between 1940-1941, as well as individual postcards written by Wolf Aronowicz and Aron Gottlieb, also of Radzanów. Includes a holiday card sent from the Lechfeld displaced persons camp in 1947, post-war restitution documentation and requests for information related to Mayer Greene, Myrel Grynbaum Lipscyc, Hersch Grynbaum (Grünbaum), and Faiga Grynbaum (Grünbaum).

  9. Helena Rubinstein affidavit

    Consists of one typed affidavit, in English, dated May 27, 1941, attesting that Helena Rubinstein (born Helena Gourielli), president of the cosmetics company Helena Rubinstein, Inc., was submitting the affidavit in support of the immigration of Rubin and Dina Lewinson, who where then in Cannes, France. The affidavit lists other refugees sponsored by Ms. Rubinstein and describes her means to support them should they be given American visas. The Lewinsons did not ultimately immigrate to the United States, though they did survive the war.

  10. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection

    The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, who was born in 1902 near Leipzig, Germany, and was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. Schilling was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, where he died in November 1939, supposedly of natural causes. Copies include pre-war Schilling family information, copies of letters Schilling wrote from Sachsenhausen, and post-war material memorializing his life and resistance work. Collection compiled and biography written by Schillin...

  11. Selected records from the National Archives of Ireland

    Contains selected records from the National Archives of Ireland including records of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary's Office, Department of Justice, and the Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister). These records include reports of the German Legations in Berlin and Rome, and the High Commissioners Office in London, regarding immigration and refugees, the situation in Germany and Italy, lists of visas, visa applications, and the Irish Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees.

  12. Simone Bowers memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, written by a friend of Simone Bowers, originally of Benfeld, France, based on notes of conversations about Simone's Holocaust experiences. The memoir describes Simone's childhood and the early days of the German occupation of Benfeld. In 1944, her parents were deported, first to Drancy and then to Auschwitz, where they perished. Simone and her siblings were taken in by families in the town who baptized them in order to say that there were no Jewish children in the town. Includes information about her sensory memories of life in hiding, as well as about life...

  13. Istner family photographs

    Collection of photographs depicting Filip and Zofia Istner (donor’s parents) and their families before the war in Lvov and Zloczow, Poland; during the war in the USSR; and after the war in Poland and in displaced persons camps in Germany.

  14. Bea Caro collection

    Contains photographs and correspondence of the Raboy family in Rowno, USSR addressed to family in New York.

  15. "Dinnertime Survivor Tale"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "Dinnertime Survivor Tale," by Harvy Simkovits, originally of Kassa (Kosice). In the memoir, Mr. Simkovits describes his mother describing her Holocaust experiences over dinner and how she survived the war as a Slovak-Hungarian Jew. In 1944, when Germany invaded Hungary, the family moved from Kassa to Budapest, using false papers and posing as non-Jews. She described learning of the deportation of the Jews of Kassa, who were sent to Auschwitz in May 1944. She also described life in Budapest at the end of the war and returning to Kassa (Kosice).

  16. Tova Gamzo photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs owned by Tova (Tonka) Gamzo, who was part of a group of women who worked as forced laborers in the Ober Alstadt concentration camp, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. The photographs are portraits of Germans (an unknown male and female) who helped the female forced laborers working in the factories.

  17. French National Railway (SNCF) records

    Contains the wartime records of the French National Railway (SNCF). The records relate to relations with the German and Allied authorities, wartime operation of the company, statutory texts produced and decisions made by the Board of Directors between 1939-1945. The records contains minutes, meeting notes, agendas of the Board of Directors, company annual reports, correspondence of the Secretariat of the Board of Directors, and Executive Committee records. Includes also military records relating to mobilisation of staff, prisoners of war, secondment to the Deutsche Reichsbahn, demarcation o...

  18. Ruth Tsotsis collection

    Consists of two memoirs written by Ruth Scheuer Tsotsis, originally of Mainz am Rhein, Germany. The first, entitled "My Personal History," 3 pages written in 2012, describes Ruth's childhood, attending a Jewish school after 1936, her memories of Kristallnacht, and of the family's emigration to Mexico City in 1940. She also describes the fate of members of her extended family. In "When I was Ten--A Travelogue," 7 pages written in 1990, Ruth describes in detail her family's experiences leaving Germany in 1940, crossing through the Soviet Union, arriving in Japan, and emigrating by boat to Sou...

  19. "My Account: The Honest Truth"

    Consists of one memoir, 65 pages, entitled "My Account: The Honest Truth" by Magda Klein Dorman, originally of Kecskemét, Hungary. She describes persecution after the German invasion of Hungary and the memory of her father being taken for forced labor in April 1944. After a brief attempt to be assigned labor outside the city, Magda was forced to return to Kecskemét, where she was interned in the ghetto and then at the brick factory outside of town. She was deported to Auschwitz in June 1944, where her mother was killed upon arrival. She describes life in Auschwitz, being quarantined with sc...

  20. Arnold Loeb letter

    Consists of one letter written in July 1934 by Arnold Loeb, of Vallendar, Germany, to J.L Simpson, of Veblen, South Dakota. In the letter, Mr. Loeb updates Mr. Simpson on his family's life since they last saw each other during the post-World War I American occupation of Germany, and describes how Nazi persecution has affected his family since they are Jewish. He describes his desire to emigrate from Germany to Palestine or to the United States. Arnold Loeb ultimately managed to flee Germany and settle in Australia.