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  1. Lea Derszowicz memoirs

    The collection consists of two handwritten memoirs written by Lea Derszowicz (née Eberstark) describing her experiences in Poland, primarily in Dzików, Tarnobrzeg, the Dębica ghetto, and the Pustków concentration camp. Her writings chronicle some of her personal background and her family’s experiences during the early years of World War II including life in the Dębica ghetto, forced-labor, relatives searching for family after being separated, dressing as a boy to sneak out of Dębica with the aid of others to procure food to smuggle back in, deportation to Pustków, her brother getting shot f...

  2. Anton Kozlowski photograph collection

    Consists of photographs of Buchenwald at liberation, a photograph of Ohrdruf at liberation, and a photograph of a German soldier standing among casualties on the Eastern Front. The collection is attributed to Anton Kozlowski (1924-2002) who served in the European Theater after enlisting with the U.S. Army in 1943.

  3. Visiting Berlin

    Hans Lindemann stands by the garden in front of The Reichstag in Berlin. Berliner Dom. Altes Museum. A man speaks from the passenger seat of a car. The Preußisches Staatstheater in Gendarmenmarkt. “Markgrafen Str.” Busy streets of Berlin. Trolleys and cars drive past. Double-decker bus. The corner building, “HACIFA.” A man standing near factory. “PATHEX”

  4. Hans Fischböck papers

    The Hans Fischböck papers consist of correspondence, official documentation, biographical materials, and photographs, documenting Fischböck's National Socialist career which involved the systematic expropriation and Aryanization of Jewish properties and assets in Nazi-annexed Austria and the Nazi-occupied Netherlands; Fischböck's flight to Argentina after the war; his life and work in Latin America; and his eventual return to Germany and Austria. It contains official certificates of promotion and commendations issued to Hans Fischböck by high-ranking Nazi officials including Adolf Hitler, H...

  5. German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND): Records related to War Crime Trials, German Federal Archives Koblenz (BND B 206)

    Consists of documents collected by the German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) after 1945. 10 files are on the identification of Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie.

  6. Entartete Kunst leaflet

    Advertising leaflet for the "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibition in Munich 1937. The text of the flyer invites the public to visit the exhibition and "to judge for himself" the quality of the art, describing the artwork as "pathologic, sick and spiritually rotten, torturing the fabric" of German society. The flyer describes the exhibition as free to enter, but "forbidden to youth."

  7. Selected files from the UK National Archives

    Selected files from the UK National Archives relating to the British investigation and prosecution of war crimes immediately after World War II (WO 309: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group (North West Europe) and predecessors: Registered Files (BAOR and other series) & WO 311: Judge Advocate General's Office, Military Deputy's Department, and War Office, Directorates of Army Legal Services and Personal Services: War Crimes Files (MO/JAG/FS and other series) and WO 310: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, War Crimes Group (Sout...

  8. Gombosi family papers

    The Gombosi family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs relating to János, Magda, and Eva Gombosi’s experiences during the war. The collection includes an identity card from the Allied Expeditionary Force, a medical card, and a Läkarkort (doctor’s brief) for Magda, a post-war letter detailing what happened to János during war, and a handwritten contract handing guardianship of Eva to her grandfather, Lajos, if her parents did not return. The collection also includes correspondence from János, Magda, and Eva, and notes with postal information for János’ fo...

  9. Selected records of the City Pabianice Akta miasta Pabianice (Sygn.2074) : Wybrane materiały

    Records related to the Jewish population of Pabianice: records of the Jewish religious community, civil registry files, education, participation in the City Council, economic activity, sport, philanthropic activity. Includes also numerous lists of real estates, Jewish property plans for renovations, building permits or reconstruction, certificates from the rabbinate about birth certificates, 1936-1937, as well as other various certificates, census of Pabianice, 1889-1932, voter lists, personal files, lists of elections to the Sejm in 1935, certificates issued by the rabbi, excerpts from rec...

  10. Presentation by Ed Silverberg

  11. Elena Fleischnerova papers

    The collection consists of letters received by Elena Fleischnerova, formerly of Prague, after she fled Czechoslovakia for France in 1939 and then immigrated to the United States with her husband Eugene and daughter Danielle in 1940. The bulk of the letters, 1939-1941, are from her mother Emilie Wohryzek prior to her deportation with her husband Moritz to Theresienstadt in 1942. Other letters are from friends and family.

  12. Only a soap bubble Caricature of a Jew whispering to Stalin while he blows bubbles

    Anti-Jewish, anti-Communist caricature depicting a Jewish man whispering to Joseph Stalin. This cartoon was likely distributed by anti-Soviet partisans in Soviet-controlled Lithuania in approximately 1947. The image depicts a Jewish man with stereotypical features behind Stalin who is in a military uniform and blows soap bubbles full of anti-Communist slogans. The inclusion of the Jew reinforces war-time propaganda that emphasized the Soviet Union’s role as an aggressor advancing the Jewish-Bolshevik agenda. In June 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, and one year later was occupied ...

  13. Collection of photo albums Zbiór albumów fotograficznych (Sygn. 1624)

    Two German albums: The first album consists of 140 photos taken in Warsaw, the photographs are documenting the activity of German officials, public celebrations of German events, 1942-1943. The second album contains 50 photographs taken in Warsaw in 1939-1944. It was donated by a citizen of the GDR in 1972, Hermana Nickel from Schoenebeck.

  14. Accounts, memories and materials of soldiers from the Peasant Battalions Relacje, wspomnienia i materiały żołnierzy Batalionów Chłopskich

    Reports, memories and other materials relating to peasant underground movement, labor camps, prisons and concentration camps, such as lists of the dead, organizational structures of the Peasant Battalions (BCH), reports of BCH members' meetings, correspondence, copies of secret messages written in the camp, speeches, descriptions, surveys and others concerning the territories of occupied Poland.

  15. Drawing

    Drawing sent by Janos Gombosi to Magda Rona

  16. Selected records of the Amtsgericht Zichanau Sąd Obwodowy w Ciechanowie (Sygn. 653) : Wybrane materialy

    Two criminal cases of Poles and Jews accused of illegal trade. They were sentenced to fines and prison.

  17. Richard Sheppard collection

    Collection of photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp following liberation. Images include piles of corpses of outside the crematorium and uniforms and clothing that was disinfected prior to the liberation of the camp; images were taken by US Army soldier Richard Sheppard, who sent them home in a letter, wrapped in a piece of paper labeled "Photos of / Dachau / concentration camp / Read letter before / opening." Although the letter was destroyed, the paper wrapping is included as part of this collection.

  18. Protectorate Police Batallion "Mähren" Prapor protektorátní policie Morava (B 303)

    Consists of the Kriegstagebuch (war diary) of the Protektoratspolizei-Batallion "Mähren," May 11, 1943 to January 29, 1944 and the Arrestbuch (prison log book) of the Protektoratspolizei-Batallion "Mähren," March 8, 1943 to February 6, 1944.

  19. Amtsgericht Praschnitz Sąd Obwodowy w Przasnyszu (Sygn. 649/III) : Wybrane materialy

    A criminal case of Poles and Jews accused of illegal trade. They were sentenced to fines and prison.

  20. Nicole Denier Long papers

    The Nicole Denier Long papers include a family book, divorce papers, marriage permissions, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting the family of Nicole Denier Long in Paris before, during, and after the Holocaust and her marriage to American serviceman John Vanderford Long. Nicole’s photocopied seven-page personal narrative remembering her brother describes their childhood and their survival in France during World War II. The photographs depict Nicole in France and Switzerland, her husband’s return trip to France, and their marriage.