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  1. Selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Poland in London. Office for War Crimes Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie. Biuro ds. Zbrodni Wojennych (Sygn. GK 159)

    This collection contains materials related to the research and investigation of perpetrators of war crimes such as: witness testimonies after the invasion of Germany in September 1939, reports of crimes committed against Poles on Polish territory and in Germany, lists of local German officials, Gestapo chief officers, guards of concentration camps, data related to concentration camps, German police authorities, accounts of Polish refugees about the conditions of life in Poland and crimes committed against civilians by the occupation authorities and Wehrmacht in the initial period of occupat...

  2. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Kaunas office (Fond 1236)

    The collection contains financial records of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Kaunas and its branch offices across Lithuania.

  3. Dienemann family collection

    Photo album and loose photographs depicting the Dienemann family from Breslau and Waldenburg, Germany, sent to Lilo Dienemann (donor's mother) who left Germany on a Kindertransport to Sweden; photographs showing Lilo in Sweden. Includes a partial envelope in which the photo album was sent to Sweden. Documents include original and copies of birth certificate for George Dienemann (donor's maternal grandfather) (b. Boguszyce on 10/29/1895); birth certificate of Liselotte Dienemann (b. 10/3/1929 in Breslau); marriage certificate of George and Emma Johnsan Dieneman, married on 3/18/1926 in Walde...

  4. Licco Haim and friends on a late winter ski trip

    AGFA 8 1939. Title in Bulgarian with 1941 date, "Spring Snow on Maliovitsa" (a peak in the Rila mountains). A photo of the group of friends posing in ski clothing with names and the dates 22-25 March, Anny, Vasko, Shatsi, Licco, Ruska, Maria. Cross-country and downhill skiing on a mountain. Beautiful scenery. 01:11:20 Title with the group of named friends with the dates 5-7 April, Ruska, Vasko, Shatsi, and others. Additional skiing shots and mountain vistas, including the Rila monastery at 01:12:41. AGFA 8 1939 [8 distinguishes the film gauge of 8mm].

  5. Selected records of applications for distinctions for SS and police officers in the General Government Zbiór wniosków na odznaczenia dla funkcjonariuszy SS i Policji w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (Sygn. GK 107),

    This collection contains legal regulations concerning the granting of distinctions and applications of SS and police chief officers of various ranks submitted to superior authorities in order to decorate subordinating officers with: crosses and war medals, the Iron Cross, distinctions for “courage,” “gallantry," and “fighting bandits.” Also included is correspondence related to the confirmation or rejection of applications. The applications for distinctions contain the following data: last and first names of the officer to be distinguished; date and place of birth; service attachment (home ...

  6. Selected redords of the Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite crimes in Rawa Mazowiecka Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich (KBZH) w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1029)

    Protocols of witnesses’ investigation of 1971-1984 concerning the crimes committed against Jews and the ghetto of Biała Rawska, a questionnaire concerning the crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in 1939, a register of places and facts of crimes committed in the area of Rawa Mazowiecka county, lists of those killed beyond the county boundaries, list of those murdered in camps, lists of those murdered on unidentified places.

  7. Eisenstadt family papers

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of the Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post-war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and Israel. There is also a letter regarding her visa application to the United States from Canada, 1957.

  8. Ludwig Stern narrative about Theresienstadt

    One mimeographed typescript narrative, 16 pages, by Ludwig Stern, of Giessen, Germany, describing his experiences of being deported and interned at Theresienstadt from 1942-1945, as well as other experiences of persecution as a Jew in Germany prior to that. Written circa 1945. Stern describes various facets of life in Theresienstadt and of his own experiences there, including the conditions of lodging, the division and separation of families, the census of November 1943, visits to the camp by various delegations, including the visit of the Danish Red Cross, poor sanitary conditions, hospita...

  9. Selected records of the City Grodzisk Mazowiecki Akta Miasta Grodziska Mazowieckiego (Sygn. 36), 1869-1950

    Consists of ordinances of German authorities, registers of physicians and Jews obligated for forced labor; files of the Commissioner’s Administration of Jewish Properties, the resettlement of Jews to the "Jewish Housing Quarter”, and personal files of Jewish municipal workers, including Bernard Kampelmacher, who later was a member of “Oneg Szabat” (The Ringelblum Archives).

  10. Rabbi David Eliach collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the "Teheran Children," a group of approximately seventy observant children out of a group of 861 Jewish orphans, who were placed in the "Motza" children's agricultural colony under the leadership of David Eliach.

  11. Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, and transcripts concerning the experiences of Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin (donor's great aunt), who served as a stenographer and court reporter for the US Army during the Dachau War Crimes Trials following WWII.

  12. Bernard Beckerman photograph collection

    Contains a hand-made photo album and six loose photographs, assembled by Bernard Beckerman (donor’s father), who served in the 45th "Thunderbird" Infantry Division. Includes comments from Sergeant Beckerman about what he witnessed upon the liberation of Dachau in April 1945.

  13. Andrássy family collection

    Consists of correspondence, agreements, meeting minutes, and notes related to the ownership and management of the Friss Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1940-1944, and the purchase of the Kincses Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1941-1944. Many of the documents relate to the sale of the Friss Ujság from the Zolnay family (who were Jewish) to Count Imre Andrássy, and Andrássy's payments to Lászlo Zolnay. Also includes documents, 1943-1944, related to the newspaper's purchase of extensive amounts of wine to serve as a future distraction to Russian troops; family history about Count and ...

  14. Selected records of the district of Skierniewice Starostwo Powiatowe w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 877)

    Reports relating to warfare, devastation and atrocities, the deportation of Jews, and persecution on the dwellers in different localities during World War II; correspondence and registers of minorities; confirmation of citizenship and residence, registers of people changing names.

  15. 51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp

    Daily life of the 51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp, possibly in the US or in England. Captain Beatrice Wachter (the donor's grandmother) enlisted in June 1943 and departed from Europe on February 26, 1944. A group of men in military uniform and women uniformed as nurses laugh and joke around for the camera. The man with a moustache wears the eagle pin on his cap and the caduceus insignia on his collar, indicating that he is a colonel in a medical corps. Several people in a small boat cross a pond. Two women and two young girls walk and pose for the camera by a large stone wa...

  16. Textile with embroidered names

    Burlap patch embroidered with a series of names and the dates 1940-1946.

  17. Third Term - Third Reich campaign button

  18. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  19. Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie 1940 presidential campaign button

    Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie campaign button for the 1940 Presidential Election. Several variations of this button were manufactured at a rapid pace. Some had different background colors, while others had different text size and font styles. The campaign button was used to build awareness, and encourage positive word of mouth for the Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie, while simultaneously discouraging support for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). FDR was running for an unprecedented third term, which was a major factor the Republicans pressed during the campaign...

  20. Dictators don't debate campaign button