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  1. Samuel Comis letter

    Letter, five pages, written by Samuel J. Comisaroff (donors' father), enlisted American Army soldier, to his family in the United States describing his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp on April 20, 1945.

  2. Unidentified home movies: Palestine

    Home movies probably shot in 1934 of Palestine. Scenes may include street scenes, a synagogue interior, and rural Palestine.

  3. Abend and Getter families papers

    The collection consists of photographs primarily depicting the prewar and wartime lives of the Abend and Getter families, originally of Przemyśl, Austrian Galicia (Przemyśl, Poland) and Złoczów, Austrian Galicia (Zolochiv, Ukraine), who were all in Paris, France during the Holocaust. Included are prewar family photographs depicting Joachim and Chaya Getter, their daughter Floine Getter, Salomon Abend and his wife Perla Rosiner in Przemyśl, Thonon-les-Bains, France, and Paris, France. Also included are a small amount of wartime photographs taken in Beaune-La-Roland transit camp where Salomon...

  4. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution

    PDF of an expanded version of Alexander Silbiger's memoir, Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution, 1942-1943 (2020), 73 pages. Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands, describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original version of this memoir was previously accessioned as 2006.27

  5. Lt Colonel Bruce Hinson photograph album

    The collection consists of an annotated photograph album documenting Bruce Rateliff Hinson, MD’s experiences as an army surgeon during World War II. The album covers his entire military career from 1942-1945. It includes depictions of his family; training at Sioux Falls and Atlanta; and overseas posts in England, Brittany (France), Luxembourg, and Germany (Nuremberg, Bamberg, Passau). There are six photographs taken at Buchenwald the day after liberation primarily documenting piles of corpses and building structures.

  6. Cecile Melvegier Winter papers

    Affidavit of support & notifications about what happened to the donor's parents

  7. Prewar Zborow

    Zborow in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften.

  8. Prewar Zborow

    Zborow in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften. (3:32) Still photo of committee for the Soup Kitchen: seated left to right: Amalia Nissenbaum (great-grandmother of Eric Silberman), Yenta Kronisch, Helena Lechowicz, Benjamin Reiss, Shmuel Schwebel, Nita Halpern, Mendel Sigal. St...

  9. Family visits Panavesz

    Home movie coverage of a trip to Poland taken by Walter Wiener in 1934. Scenes cover the farewell in New York, on board the ship, arriving in England, touring through France, greeting family members in Panevesz, Poland, a synagogue sponsored by Americans, the market, meeting relatives in Kovno, Lithuania, and returning to the United States. The film includes Yiddish intertitles.

  10. Prewar Suchostaw

    Suchostaw (Suchastov) in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften.

  11. Lob family papers

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Marcel Pierre Lob, originally of Paris, Frace, including his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz II-Birkenau and return to Paris after liberation. It also includes documents related to the experiences of his wife Helene Lob (née Bybelezer), a survivor of Drancy, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen, and tracing documents regarding the Holocaust fates of his mother Lucie Levy Lob, sister Stephanie Carrance, her husband Ernest Carrance, and their daughter Jacqueline Carrance, all of who perished at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. ...

  12. Oral history interview with Martin H. Spiegel

  13. Emil Schattner papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Emil Schattner and his family, primarily in Bobowa, Poland and Vienna, Austria. Included are photographs, birth and marriage certificates, documents regarding Emil’s Austrian pension, report cards, and Emil’s memoir “The Summer of ‘38.” Photographs include pre-war depictions of Emil, his parents Mina and Nathan Schattner, his sister Mary Schattner, Mina’s brothers Shimon and Israel Baldinger, and Nathan’s sister Jente or Jetti Schattner. Also included is a photograph of the Schattner family aboard the SS Batory on their way to the Un...

  14. Eugene Mielcarek photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of people and their belongings loaded onto open trucks; caption typed verso: "17 / All set to move. / Note the luggage and pots in the total scene. Mass movement"

  15. Dachau liberation photos

    Dachau liberation photos. The donor's father was at Dachau after liberation.

  16. Gitta Simon papers

    The collection consists of a memoir documenting the Holocaust experiences of Gitta Simon (née Kohn), originally of Moson, Hungary, including her deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944, transfer to Altenburg subcamp of Buchenwald. While on a death march, Simon was liberated by the United States Army. The memoir is in Hungarian and was written post-war while she and her husband, Laszlo Simon, were living in Shanghai (1947-1949). A digital English translation of the memoir is also available at the USHMM (DS135.H93 S5968 2000). Also included are a small number of documents including marriage and...

  17. Joseph Kanarek papers

    Photos, documents, Rosh Hashana card, Yom Kippur card from Mittelbau

  18. Kaufmann family papers

    German Passports and documents issued to Betti Neckarsulmer Kaufmann and her husband, Ernst Kaufmann who were Jewish and forced to flee Nazi Germany.

  19. Fodor family papers

    Documents of Charles S. (Karoly Sandor) Fodor, his father József Fodor, and photographs of Charles, József, his mother, Mathilde Weiler Fodor, and members of the extended family.

  20. Correspondence addressed to Adolf Hitler offering him honorary citizenship to communities across Germany

    Consists of a single folder of correspondence addressed to Adolf Hitler authored by local officials throughout Germany. The content of the letter primarily concerns offers of honorary citizenship and requests for local acknowledgement and visits by Hitler.