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  1. Liebermann family correspondence

    Consists of correspondence between members of the family of Adolf and Bettina Liebermann, originally of Vienna. The correspondence, which dates between 1938-1941, covers the period in which the Liebermann's children, Hedi and Hans, were able to emigrate to Great Britain (Hedi in 1938 and Hans in 1939). Adolf and Bettina Liebermann, who escaped to Prague in 1939, were unable to join their children, and perished during the Holocaust. Much of the correspondence, which largely relates to efforts regarding emigration, has been translated. Also includes the name plate for Adolf Liebermann's impor...

  2. Eric Otto Sonneman collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to Eric Otto Sonneman, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes documents for application for a U.S. visa: his resume, school records, letters of recommendation for his work as a pharmacist’s apprentice and for his role as leader of the Jewish youth group Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend, character references, and forms prior to his emigration to the United States in 1939. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Sonneman and family, as well as testimony written by his father, Kurt Sonnemann, describing the circuitous journey th...

  3. Deligdisch family collection

    Consists of six photographs of the Deligdisch family, originally of Cernauti, Romania (present day Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Includes a photograph of Siegfried Deligdisch in a Romanian reserve military uniform; photographs of his son, Otto Deligdisch, as a young teenager; and post-war photographs of Greta Deligdisch Beer with her husband, Simon Beer, in Italy. Also includes a letter, three pages, dated May 2, 2013, from Stuart Eizenstat to Greta Beer, expressing his deep appreciation for the pivotal role she played in alerting the United States government to the issue of Jewish-owned Swiss bank...

  4. Lloyd Adler photograph collection

    Photographic prints: black and white images which document the Nordhausen concentration camp after liberation; includes images of victims, reburial and forced confrontation of atrocities; some American soldiers visible in background of photos; inscribed on verso by Sgt. Lloyd Adler; dated April 1945.

  5. Market and Jewish quarter of Krakow

    In Krakow, various adults and children in the lively Jewish quarter. A street sign in Hebrew letters is visible, men sleep sitting on the threshold of a building. A uniformed carriage driver talks to the camera. A throng of people crowd around a man dressed in a hat and coat, putting their hands out as though asking for something. Men carry heavy loads through the street on their backs. A crowded open-air street market. A younger man plays a joke on an elderly woman, covering her eyes with her kerchief. Good shots of Jews, market vendors, and children. Inside, a woman washes her hands in fr...

  6. Prosecution of Nazi criminals Stíhání nacistických válečných zločinců (325)

    Records from various archives relating to investigation on Nazi crimes. Consists of testimonies of witnesses in trials against the guards of concentration camps: Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Sachsenhausen. Also includes photographs of Nazi criminals and their victims, children’s photographs from Lidice, and other photographs of Nazi crimes.

  7. "See you Soon Caroline!"

    Consists of one manuscript entitled, "See you soon Caroline!" by Bernard Wilson. The manuscript is a fictionalized account of a family researching the history of a grandfather, who was born at Rivesaltes and later adopted. The manuscript highlights the work of the American Friends Service Committee in southern France, particularly the work of Irish Quaker Mary Elmes (referred to in the manuscript as Marion Oakes).

  8. Julius Hirsch family papers

    Manuscript drafts of song and poetry texts, mostly written for Jewish holidays, and used by various members of the family of Julius Hirsch, originally of Hamburg, Germany, circa 1935-1940. Some of the poetry may have been written while Hirsch was interned as an enemy alien in Great Britain in 1940-1941 at the Hutchinson camp on the Isle of Man, but much of it dates from earlier years. Collection also includes a printed sheet with lyrics and music of the "Hutchinson Camp Song," written by internees at the Hutchinson camp, 1940, as well as newspaper clippings from British newspapers, circa ea...

  9. Auschwitz concentration camp scrip 1 Reichsmark, in 2 pieces, received by an inmate

    Auschwitz scrip, valued at 1 Reichsmark, received by Morris Sobo when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp. The scrip is torn into 2 pieces. Scrip was issued in the camps as a means of improving worker productivity.

  10. ICRC, Spanish Civil War Guerre d'Espagne (C ESCI)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain, in particular its work to identify prisoners and missing persons, facilitate prisoner exchanges, reunite families, and convey personal messages. Contains...

  11. Brandes family correspondence

    Correspondence from Keila and Anna (Hanna) Brandes in Vienna to their son and brother Richard Brandes (donor's grandfather), who following his emigration from Austria and the outbreak of World War II, was classified by the British government as an "enemy alien" and interned in a camp in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. File contains a letter of reference from Richard Brandes' employer in Vienna in 1934, and six letters sent to him by his mother and sister in Vienna, between December 1939 and May 1941. One on of the last letters, Richard Brandes wrote a reply, intending to send it back to them. K...

  12. Court of the First Instance in Częstochowa II Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie II (Sygn. 626)

    This collection contains records related to the civil cases investigated by the court, i.e.: cases related to estates, various kinds of dues, inheritance, recognition of debts, files of cases transferred to the Courts of Conciliation, and the like. This collection provides information on Jewish life during the wartime period.

  13. Photograph of Chaim Rumkowski with Łódź ghetto residents

    Consists of an undated photograph of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski posing with Jewish residents of the Łódź ghetto. Those, including men, women, and children, all appear to be wearing Magen Davids.

  14. Brig. Gen. Harry J. Huff, II photograph collection

    Collection of photographs (17) taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation and annotated by Harry J. Huff, II (donor's father) who served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot with the 107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. He flew 47 missons.

  15. Factory with women sewing; rubble; family poses for camera

    INT women sewing seated at a table. Men working with sewing machines too. EXT two men standing on a street, looking at the camera. Camera tilts down towards their feet. They stand and talk. A woman talks to one of the men. The other man walks away, looking at the camera while eating something. INT men shovel at rubble inside of what appears to be a church. Women help with the rubble as well. EXT man shoveling dirt into wagon. A man walks with a horse rotating a wheel. Dark shot of a man wearing a hat, and clouds in the back above a dark horizon line. INT of a home. Two men, two women, and o...

  16. Henry M. Heinrichs photographs

    Consists of 20 copyprints from the collection of Private First Class Henry M. Heinrichs documenting his experiences as an American soldier, mainly as an ambulance driver, during World War II, particularly his experiences witnessing the Dachau concentration camp. Includes portraits, Heinrichs posing with his ambulance, piles of corpses at Dachau, the corpse of a guard dog, and liberated prisoners riding in a military jeep with a banner thanking the Allies.

  17. Dachau liberation photographs and narrative "Remembering the Holocaust"

    Consists of enlarged prints, photographs, and photographic negatives of images taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, including a print showing the headline of the 45th Division News when the war ended, prints of images of survivors, perpetrators being arrested, and of the Dachau death train. Also includes one narrative entitled "Remembering the Holocaust" by Marilyn Spencer, describing the experiences of a Jewish intelligence officer (unnamed in the text, but identified as Chester Kaplan) who participated in the liberation of Dachau.

  18. Daniel Jacobson papers

    Letter, with envelope written by Sgt. Daniel Jacobson, of Baltimore, Maryland, while serving with the US Army's 179th Infantry, 45th Division in Munich, Germany, to his wife Julia Jacobson, 6 May 1945. The letter written on Hitler's personal stationery, describes the irony of being Jewish and using Hitler's stationery, and how he acquired it during a visit with other American soldiers to the ruins of Hitler's home in Berchtesgaden. He also describes a porcelain figurine that he took as a souvenir, and other impressions of Munich, where he was stationed at the time. Also included are three p...

  19. Michael Kay collection

    Consists of postwar papers and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Michael Kay, originally of Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania. In 1933, Michael moved to Paris, then relocated to Bourbon-L'Archambault, France, and, in 1942, fled across the Spanish border and joined the British Army, participating in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Includes photographs of Kay's parents, his "Autobiographical Sketch," documents related to his immigration and naturalization, as well as a copy of the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine of April 3, 1983, containing an article written by Joan Kay about...

  20. Larry Berke photograph collection

    Contains 23 wartime photographs of German soldiers, destroyed synagogues in Austria, and printed photographs of Adolf Hitler.