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  1. Max Eichhorn collection

    The Max Eichhorn papers include correspondence, photographs, subject files, and writings documenting Eichhorn’s World War II service as a Jewish chaplain. Eichhorn was one of the first Jewish chaplains to enter the Dachau concentration camp after liberation, and he led the first religious service in the camp. Correspondence includes letters between Max Eichhorn, his family, the families of servicemen, military authorities, and American Jewish organizations during World War II. Photographs depict Max Eichhorn in uniform and conducting religious services at Camp Croft and in the field in Euro...

  2. Friedrich and Paula Haas papers

    Consists of documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Friedrich and Paula (nee Klawir) Haas, who were born in Vienna and fled to Ireland before immigrating to the United States. Includes materials related to their affidavits of support prepared by Lawrence Schnadig of Chicago, IL, who was not related to them. The collection also illustrates Friedrich's imprisonment in Buchenwald and Dachau after the Kristallnacht pogroms, including letters from the camps.

  3. Oral history interview with Leon Schagrin

  5. Oral history interview with Egon Wolsner

  6. Research files of a Swedish author Staffan Thorsell relating to Nazi war crimes in Poland

    Research files of a Swedish author, Staffan Thorsell, who wrote the book "the Warsaw Swedes." The records relate to the work of Swedish businessmen based in Warsaw, including: Sven Norrman, who was head of the Swedish engineering company ASEA in Warsaw. Norman and a group of Swedes worked for corporations that would later become Swedish Match and Ericsson. Norman took thousands of the photos in the Warsaw Ghetto and smuggled out documents detailing the murder of 700,000 Jews by Germans, inlcuding 2,000 photo negatives of German war crimes in Poland, including photographs he took himself in ...

  8. Jewish Provincial Committee in Przemyśl Wojewódzki Komitet Żydów w Przemyślu (Sygn.367)

    Minutes of the committee meetings, reports, correspondence, lists of Jewish survivors, committee statutes, circulars, appeals and communications, budgets, lists of people using assistance, personal data of committee staff and some other documents..

  9. Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler collection

    Collection of copy prints, passport, certificates, documents, identity documents documenting the experiences of Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler (donors’ parents) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Also includes pre-war photo album documenting family and friends, and a scrapbook compiled on the occasion of Ernest Hubler’s Bar Mitzvah in 1933 that contains loose and adhered calling cards, postcards, letters and telegrams. Both Edith and Ernest were originally from Vienna. Edith left via Belgium, arriving in the US with her younger brother Herbert in May 1939. Ernest immigrated to the ...

  10. Oral history interview with Rina Diamand

  11. Fluss and Lipow families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Lipow and Fluss families of Berlin, Germany, including their immigration to the United States. Biographical material includes William and Bertha Lipow’s ketubah, immigration documents, correspondence, restitution paperwork, and photographs. Material related to the Fluss family includes identification documents and postcards.

  12. Oral history interview with Norman Gleiss

  13. Janika's Sunday (May 1940)

    Kodak safety film logo. Hungarian titles throughout. Title card with drawing of a child on a rocking horse “Ez a kis film abba a boldog világla visz” “vissza bennünket, amikor még nem vultak… Title card with sketch of an angry man with his hands over his ears and “sem gondjaink”. Stylized picture of a man sitting next to a woman with “sem szenvedélyeink” “a történet nem kitalált mese, hanem megtörtént valúság. Címe” “Janika vasárnapja” “a főszerepben:” János smiles at the camera. “Fotografálta és összevágta: Pető György.” “Történik:” “1940” (trick shots) “Május 26 Vasárnap” Small clock indi...

  14. Oral history interview with Maurice Levis

  15. The Furman family visits London en route to relatives in Poland

    The ocean. A man on a ship deck walks towards the camera several times, a big smile on his face. Ocean waves. A child runs around on the ship deck. A woman runs with her. They continue playing, holding hands. Small waves in the ocean. A ship with two funnels moves past, its deck crowded with people. Another large liner. A seagull flies. A man struggles with a large rod. People walk through city streets in London, officers, buses, and officers on horseback for annual The Lord Mayor's Show on November 9 to introduce the city to it's new Lord Mayor. The filmmaker stands opposite The Royal Cour...

  16. Senate Commission for the Affairs of Religious Associations 363-3 Senatskommission für die Angelegenheiten der Religionsverbände

    Selected records of the Senatskommission für die Angelegenheiten der Religionsverbände (Senate Commission for the Affairs of Religious Associations) related to administration and burial places in Hamburg area. Includes individual acts of the relationship between church and state, such as property, personal, personnel, legal and construction issues, etc. Consists mainly of materials on relations between the Christian non-Lutheran and Jewish communities, and boycotts against Jews.

  17. Walter Laqueur collection

    Articles, manuscripts, correspondence and other research materials compiled by Walter Laqueur (donor's late husband).

  18. Oral history interview with Pierina

  20. Ernest Wallach photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs in the possession of Ernest Wallach, a Jewish German immigrant who served overseas during World War II as one of the “Ritchie Boys.” The photographs depict Buchenwald after liberation, German soldiers, Nazi flags, general war and militiary scenes, and Nazi personnel including Baldur von Schirach and Eva Braun.