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  1. Harland Schuler copyprints

    Consists of two copyprints of photographs of corpses at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The original photographs were taken by Harland Schuler, who was a member of the Third Army and participated in the liberation of the camp.

  2. Frank Elkins collection

    Contains a booklet entitled "These 21," written by Allan Dreyfuss and published by Stars and Stripes, based on Dreyfuss's assigned coverage of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in December 1945. Each of the 21 Nazi defendants' positions within the Third Reich is detailed as well as the crimes of which they are accused. The defendant’s original signatures are taped in the booklet in the chapter in which they are included by Frank Elkins, a United States military police officer who worked at the IMT. Also included are two handwritten notes, from defendants Fritz Sauckel and Han...

  3. Frieder family in Manila

    Jane Frieder swims in a pool, probably in Manila (note servant in white and plant vegetation in next shot), while Peggy floats in an inner tube. Jane practices diving. Scenes of life in the Philippines. 00:03:34 Housekeeper wearing white walks Peggy down the stairs. Jane and Peggy pose for the camera outside in the garden of their family estate. 00:03:56 Jane and Peggy swim in a pool, large cargo ships are visible in the distance. 00:04:42 INT, dark shots of a nanny helping the girls with their meal. 00:05:22 Jane and Peggy pose in white linen outfits at the Frieder family's Manila villa. 0...

  4. Selected records from the State Archive of Ferrara

    This collection contains records from the Police in Ferrara and Prefecture Cabinet Series of Ferrara relating to personal files of Jews, questionnaire on the status of Jews in the province of Ferrara, racial laws, arrests of Jews, Jewish property and Jewish schools, and discrimination against Jewish residents.

  5. Tela Zasloff research collection related to Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille

    Consists of notes, photocopies, photographs, interview transcripts, book excerpts, and other research material created and collected by Tela Zasloff for the preparation of her book, "A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France." Includes correspondence and interviews with those who knew Toureille; copies of documents from the World Council of Churches in Geneva; photographs of the places he lived and worked; copies of his articles and sermons; minutes of the Committee of Nimes; and correspondence regarding his recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.

  6. Jozefine Markstein and Georg Spitz papers

    Photographs and correspondence concerning the experiences of Jozefine Markstein and George Spitz (donor’s parents). Includes correspondence from American soldiers, Don Reagan and Sergeant Cletus King, to Jozefine’s relatives stating she had survived, as well as photographic prints of the wedding of Jozefine and Georg in 1940 and a postwar image of Jozefine with her son John (donor) in 1946. Also included are portrait photographs of Jozefine taken before her 1944 deportation. Jozefine survived multiple camps and reunited with George after World War II.

  7. Newspaper announcing the death of President Roosevelt

    Consists of the front page of the Philadelphia edition of the "Jewish Daily Forward" from April 13, 1945, announcing the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  8. Maria Madi diaries

    Consists of seventeen bound volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non-Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between December 1941 and September 1945. In the diaries, which are handwritten in English, Dr. Madi describes what she is hearing about the war, about propaganda in Hungary, and about missing her daughter, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 and started a family. After the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, Dr. Madi describes constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. S...

  9. Abraham Bohrer photograph album

    Contains a WWII photo album from the US Army 45th Signal Corps.

  10. Oral history interview with Helen Mincberg and Ann Beckerman

  11. Izak Fridman biography

    The Izak Fridman biography is an internet printout, in Hebrew, about Izak Fridman, originally of Włodawa, Poland. Fridman was born in 1925 and served as a partisan during the Holocaust. He died in 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence. The biography includes wartime photographs and copies of postcards.

  12. Kürschner family photograph collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting the Kürschner family in Vienna, Austria, 1932 to 1948, photographs depicting life in the Leipheim DP camp, meeting her future husband, Benjamin Segal, and his brother Jehuda from Satu-Mare, and later in Israel.

  13. Selected records from the Office of the State Prosecutor = Дъержавно Обвинителство Derzhavno Obvinitelstvo (Fond 233k)

    Contains correspondence with the Military-Field Court and appeal records for the criminal investigation of Joseph Herbst. Joseph Herbst was a Jewish renowned journalist, the first director of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.

  14. Feuerlicht and Grussgott family papers

    Contains photographs (70), letters, passports, and other documents illustrating the experiences of Abraham Grussgott and Nelly Feuerlicht (donor). Abraham (b. 1924 in Bardekov, Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia), survived in the woods of Czechoslovakia, running and on false papers; Nelly (b. Berlin Germany) fled with her mother Yetti Friedman [Feuerlicht] and father to Belgium, from where Nelly and Yetti were able to depart for the United States. Collection documents their unsuccessful efforts to get Ignatz [Nelly's father] a visa to enter the United States in 1942. He was deported and p...

  15. Officers oversee training and exercises at a Hitler Youth camp

    In Groedig, Austria, the Hitler Youth camp's site manager gives commands to the organized troop. He has a death's head emblem on his cap. A HJ member with SS patch practices giving orders. The troops run drills. A senior Hitler Youth officer with glasses reviews the men and gives orders. He wears a Hitler Youth uniform, with the rank of Obergebietsfuehrer, as well as an infantry assault badge and the ribbon for the Iron Cross, Second Class. 01:01:07 SS Oberscharfuehrer at left. The officer, second from left (shorter man), is an army Unteroffizier (roughly a corporal). He wears a buttonhole ...

  16. Nazi propaganda film on eugenics

    Part of a Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Nazi Party's Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. German mental hospitals and its patients including Jews. Text discusses "causes" and possible "solutions." Uses intertitles and graphics to discuss genetics of idiocy, unfair burden German people must bear to pay costs, and danger of ever increasing numbers of mentally ill. Patients supposedly live in luxury while many "normal" hardworking Germans live in substandard conditions.

  17. Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families in Nasielsk, Poland before the war, and after the war in several displaced persons campsin Germany, including Rosenheim. Faiga Milchberg Tick and her husband Shmuel Tick fled their hometown Nasielsk to Bialystok in the Soviet zone. In July 1940 the Soviets deported them to Vologda forced labor camp. They were able to return to Nasielsk, where their daughter Malka was born in September 1945. Soon after, they left Poland for a DP camp in Germany and immigrated to Canada in September 1948. The collection also includes photog...

  18. Board of the Jewish Community, Wilno (Fond 1232)

    Records of the Council of the Vilnius Jewish Community in Lithuania, reflecting the inter war period and beginning of World War II. The collection includes correspondence with local and government authorities, the Bureau of the Rabbi, the Chief of Police of the City of Vilnius, the Jewish Community Committee for Refugees, and Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budgets and tax collection. Also includes reports, statistics, budget proposals, salaries of Jewish community officials, minutes, and certificates of war refugees.

  19. Morris and Rachel Zeif documents

    The collection includes post-war identity documents issued to Morris and Rachel Zeif (Mordka and Ruchla Zaif) in Bielawa, Poland and in a displaced persons camp in Italy.

  20. Albert Craig Levinson collection

    Consists of one typed testimony, three pages, dictated by Dr. Kurt Grunwald, a Czech physician, related to his Holocaust experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf. The testimony was typed by Albert Craig Levinson, a member of the 8th Infantry Division, after the liberation of Ohrdruf. Dr. Grunwald later reunited with his surviving son, Misa (Frank), whom he mourns in the testimony, believing Misa to have been killed at Auschwitz. Also includes a copyprint photograph of Albert Craig Levinson.