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  1. Personal papers of F. Th. Dijckmeester

    The personal archive of Frans Theodoor Dijckmeester (1917-2003). The collection consists of documents concerning the "Kersten" matters: the report, correspondence and newspaper clippings about Dr. F. Kersten. It also includes a report by Kersten about his network in the occupied Netherlands, and a German translation of an article by Prof. L. de Jong about Dr. F. Kersten, and corresponding letters. Felix Kersten (1898-1960) was before and during WWII a personal physical therapist of Heinrich Himmler. Kersten used his contacts with Himmler to help people persecuted by Nazi Germany. He played ...

  2. Mathilde Möller Bing collection

    Collection of documents and correspondence relating to Dr. Mathilde Möller Bing, who survived in Switzerland during WWII.

  3. "Die Vormerkung fuer die Einzahlungen in das Sonderkonto I..."

    Document from the Haavara, "Die Vormerkung fuer die Einzahlungen in das Sonderkonto I der Bank der Tempelgesellschaft," undated

  4. William Harris Pysher collection

    Photographs taken by American serviceman, William Harris Pysher, shortly after the liberation of Buchenwald.

  5. John Davis collection

    Contains photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Images show corpses of concentration camp inmates piled on the ground and in open trucks. Also pictured are bodies of German soldiers, possibly camp guards.

  6. Bulgarian funeral photograph album

    Photograph album consisting of six large photographs documenting a Jewish funeral procession in Sofia, Bulgaria circa 1942. The album depicts images of two men with Star of David armbands on their coats walking along the procession, the coffin draped with cloth with Star of David, women and children carrying wreaths at the head of the procession, and Chief Rabbis of Sofia Rabbi Asher Yitzchak Chananel and Rabbi Daniel Zion.The cover has "Album hand printed across it and features a circular portrait of a man presumed to be the deceased in the upper left corner.

  7. Minnie and William Fuchs papers

    Contains a copy of a report to be presented to the United States Congress on the investigation and conditions of concentration camps discovered in former Nazi occupied Germany as detailed by Dwight Eisenhower; dated April 20, 1945; in English.

  8. Oral history interview with Robert Schubach

  9. Babamusta family collection

    Testimonies, photographs, newspaper article, and CD, among other items, documenting the history of the Babamusta family, of Kavaja, Albania, and their role in sheltering and rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution in Albania in 1943. Includes the essay “Acts of Courage and Heroism” and “The contribution of the Babamusta family in the rescue of 178 Jews in Kavaja, Albania;” photographs, including copy prints of vintage photographs, of the Babamusta family; a print out of an article about Neki Babamusta, from the Albanian newspaper “Sot,” August 2013, along with an English translation ...

  10. Memories and diaries Wspomnienia i pamietniki (Sygn. IZ. Doc II)

    Diaries, memoirs, narratives, questionnaires, correspondence and letters of various individuals, articles, and press clippings. Records relate to experiences of Poles and Jews during the WWII. Included are records relating to German provocations before WWII, the course of the September campaign of 1939, German settlement action and treatment of Poles, forced labor, armed resistance of Poles, intensive germanization, displacement and round-ups, executions of Poles in Mosina and Szamotuły district, working conditions in labor camps, secret teaching, terror and murders of the Poles carried out...

  11. Envelope

    First day cover with canceled stamp issued in Bonn on May 17, 1979 in honor of what would have been Anne Frank's 50th birthday. Cachet features 3-color embossed rendering of Anne Frank and diary. Round postmark: "Bonn 1; 50.Geburtstag Anne Frank; Erstaus 17.5.1979 Gabetag; 5300."

  12. Central Bank of China one cent scrip

  13. Louis Rubin photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by Louis Rubin (donor's late husband) of Bergen Belsen and elsewhere in Germany during his military service in Europe.

  14. Fragebogen

    Fragebogen (questionnaire); completed by Jakub Wajnsztok, in Warsaw, Poland, dated 1941. The questionnaire, dated June 9, states that Jakub is a dental technician, born February 18, 1888 in Warsaw. Questionnaire bears photographs and stamped at top center “[Star of David] JUDE [Star of David]." German and Polish printed form and Polish inscriptions.

  15. Jean Nordmann papers Nachlass Jean Nordmann (1908-1986)

    Private papers of Jean Nordmann, president of the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund, SIG (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities). The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, speeches related to Nordmann's activities in the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, the Swiss Jewish Christian Community, and the Jewish Community of Freiburg. Also included are papers of Nordrmann's father, son and daughter.

  16. Ridnik family photographs

    Collection of photographs of the donor during the war in hiding, including with her mother; also includes photos of her father, who was a prisoner of war in a Stalag in Germany.

  17. American OSE Committee (RG 494)

    Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...

  18. Jacqueline Frenkel Lewicki papers

    Consists of a French birth certificate and period copy of an identity card issued to Jacqueline Frenkel, as well as a photograph of Jacqueline Frenkel as a child. The collection also includes a false identity document under the name 'Lucienne Geffroy' used by Ruchla Frenkel while in hiding.

  19. Foster Adams collection

    Contains a bound volume of documents, photocopies, reports, memos, transcripts, as well as loose papers and reports prepared by Foster Adams as part of The United States of America vs. Alfried Krupp court proceedings (Subsequent Nuremberg proceedings 10, known as the Krupp Case). The defendants were arraigned on November 17, 1947. The trial began December 8, 1947 and judgement was returned on July 31, 1948. Foster Adams (1899-1987) served as counsel and economic adviser for the Krupp Case. After the war he worked as the Director of Progress Reports and Statistics in the Office of the US Sec...

  20. Sightseeing in Bavaria and the Rhine district in 1937

    "Peasants in the Fields" Farmers. "Rothenburg on the Tauber" (color) Bavarian district. Medieval buildings with lush plants. "Dinkelsbuhl" Facades of businesses with flowers, hotel, local civilians, street scenes. 01:04:02 (switches to black and white) Street views in Dinkelsbuehl. CU, entryway with memorial plaque. Schoolgirls in white walk in the road. 01:04:58 "Heidelberg" (color). Scenic views of castle in Heidelberg, river, bridge, and buildings. 01:07:06 "On the Rhine" Small group of musicians play instruments on the street. HAS, Autobahn with passing truck, overpass. "Coca-Cola" refr...