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  1. Sia Hertsberg photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sia Izrailewitsch Hertsberg, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes photographs of Sia as a child with her parents and younger sister, Margo, photographs of pre-war life in Riga, photographs of Jewish women convalescing at a hospital in Koloma after their liberation from Stutthof, and photographs of Sia Hertsberg's post-war life and family.

  2. Hungary Werfen ("Gold") Train and other selected U.S. documents related to Hungary

    Contains documents from various U.S. government agencies about the “Gold Train” or “Werfen Train,” which members of the Arrow Cross Party and officials of the Hungarian National Bank packed with looted Jewish valuables (mostly from Miskilc, Pecs, and Gyor) and sent across the border into Austria in March 1945. (This was not the only such train.) Although some items were pilfered en route, the U.S. Armed Forces captured most and stored them in a warehouse in Austria. U.S. personnel and agencies pilfered (or “borrowed” without returning) further property, and the remainder has been the subjec...

  3. Selected documents related to Hungary from the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA)

    This collection focuses on US government documents as represented in NARA holdings, which were related to activities of the US Armed Forces and the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in the Hungarian and Austrian areas just before the end of the war and after the end of the war. It includes documents concerning the work of American OSS operative Martin Himmler, who supervised a series of interrogations of a group of Hungarians detained by US forces in Austria after the war, but it does not include the protocols of the interrogations themselves; these protocols were not found at NARA. It als...

  4. Brian Coleman collection

    Consists of correspondence related to Brian Coleman's project as a high school student to contact and correspond with Holocaust survivors about their experiences. Includes of letters written to Brian by survivors describing their Holocaust experiences, as well as articles and photographs he received and collected.

  5. Criminal police records on homosexuals

    Contains records of the Kripoleitstelle (Criminal Police) on gays and lesbians. Includes 948 files of investigations on individuals for "suspicion of homosexual activity" and other crimes under Nazi law such as Rassenschande ("race defilement"). These records were originally archived as “General Prisoners,” but mostly concern gays and lesbians. Part of a larger series of Kripoleitstelle records concerning investigation and persecution of various minority groups (see RG-14.094).

  6. Simon and Francesca Krausz collection

    Consists of the English-language translations of letters written between 1929 - 1944 by Simon and Francesca Krausz of Pecs, Hungary, to their son, Laszlo Krausz, a musician and conductor living in Switzerland. The letters, originally written in Hungarian, describe life in Hungary and the Krausz's experiences during the war until they were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. The original letters are housed in the Laszlo and Susan Krausz collection at Case Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.

  7. Criminal police records on Jews, and on Sinti and Roma (A Pr. Br. Rep. 030-02-02/03)

    Contains the records of the Criminal Police Berlin (Kripoleitstelle) concerning Jews, Roma, and Sinti.

  8. Selected records from the city of Liège, Belgium and Environs

    The documents concern the Jews of Liège and contain their records as pre-war immigrants, the files on wartime refugees with press clippings giving the temporary wartime addresses of those who fled Belgium to the non-occupied zone in France, the aryanization of businesses, the Jews sent to the Dannes-Cammier internment camp, and correspondence with the elected head of the city government, the bourgmestre, during the war.

  9. Madame Odile Boissonnat collection

    Consists of a memoir written by Madame Odile Boissonnat, entitled "Une Famille Parisienne sous L'Occupation Allemande, 1940-1945," her family history, entitled "Une Famille Parisienne du Consulat a la IV Republique, 179-1945," and a copy of a speech given by Yves Meyer upon the presentation to the Légion d'Honneur to Madame Odile Boissonnat. Madame Boissonnat (then Acker) was known as "Marie Madeleine," a member of a resistance network. She was to be married to Marc Gervais in May 1944, but he was arrested in late April or early May. The German commandant of the camp allowed the pair to mar...

  10. San Donato Val di Comino, Italy collection

    Consists of correspondence and newspaper and magazine articles related to the resistance and rescue efforts of the citizens of San Donato Val di Comino, Italy. Includes a copy of "Newton" [MA] magazine, which includes a feature article about the town, Italian newspaper articles with English translations, and correspondence with family members of those who saved Jews.

  11. Helen Lewi Martel collection

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "My Story," by Helen Lewi (later Helen Martel), originally of Sosnowiec, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her childhood, the invasion of Poland, the 1942 deportations, life in the ghetto, her deportation (without her family) to a labor camp in Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf in 1943, deportation to an unknown concentration camp in 1944, and deportation to the Gablonz concentration camp in 1945. She was liberated there by the Red Army; she returned to Sosnowiec and discovered that almost her entire family had perished, except for her brother and a cousi...

  12. "A Trip to Bessarabia (A Return to the Past)"

    Consists of a 27-page narrative entitled "A Trip to Bessarabia (A Return to the Past)" by Eugénie Bérézin, as well as large color photographs of present-day Bessarabia, including the Moldova and Kishinev (now Chișinău) areas, taken by Sophie Bergogne. The narrative describes the history of Jewish life in the region (depicted in the photographs) and descriptions of the images.

  13. Behiç Erkin memoir

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the unpublished memoir, 589 pages, in Turkish, of Ambassador Behiç Erkin, who was the Turkish ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Also includes a photocopy of a February 20, 1944 report from Laurence Steinhardt in Ankara to the War Refugee Board in Washington, DC, regarding rescue efforts in Turkey.

  14. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records : Records ZC

    Files collected by the former East German Ministry of State Security Service (Stasi), including Nazi prosecutions for "Rassenschande" (racial defilement), "Hochverrat" (high treason), "Verstoß gegen das Heimtückegesetz"(violation of the "treachery law) and other political infractions. Files ZC 10859-ZC 12137 contains the missing part to the record group of the Reichs Ministry of Justice at the Federal Archive Berlin. The overall number of pages of this sub-collection ZC of the "Nazi"-collections of the former Head Division [HA] IX/11 of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) of the GDR is a...

  15. Philip W. Porter collection

    Consists of articles and clippings from various newspapers and periodicals, in German, which were discovered at the German Propaganda Ministry in July 1945. The clippings, collected from American and British print sources, have handwritten annotations and were organized alphabetically by subject, generally related to Jewish themes. Also includes one bound book entitled "High Life de Belgique," published in 1937 and consists of names and addresses of the Belgian upper class, with handwritten annotations, seemingly identifying those sympathetic to the German cause. The materials were collecte...

  16. Oral history interview with Frank Wallis

  17. Rita and Jacob Berger collection

    Consists of an extensive description of a collection of correspondence related to the wartime experiences of Jacob (Jakob or Kubus) and Henryka (Rita) Both Berger. Includes a chronological description of each piece of correspondence with listed historical events providing context. The correspondence, lasting from 1936-1976, begins when the Bergers were living in Vienna, and includes information about their immigration to London in 1939 and the United States in 1940. The original correspondence is part of the Zygmunt William Birnbaum collection at the University of Washington Library. Also i...

  18. Nuremberg Military Tribunal booklets

    Consists of the booklets issued for Nuremberg Military Tribunals no. 7 (the "Hostages Trial", or "The United States vs. Wilhelm List, et. al.") and Military Tribunal no. 9 (the "Einsatzgruppen Trial" or "The United States vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et. al"). The booklets list the defendants and the charges against them. These documents were originally the properly of Michale Hauptman (Michael Wakefield), who received them from his father, Kurt Hauptman.

  19. Hava Tsour memoir

    Consist of one memoir, 69 pages, written in 2001 by Hava Tsour, born Eva Sidis in Athens, Greece in August 1936. In her memoir, she describes the occupation of Greece. During the war, Eva, her parents, and siblings moved throughout Greece to escape deportation. Her father was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, but the family later heard that he was shot and killed before arrival. After the liberation of Greece, Eva, her mother, and siblings moved to Israel.

  20. "Broken Birds"

    Consists of one manuscript, in paper copy and on CD, entitled "Broken Birds," by Jeannette Katzir. In the manuscript, she describes the Holocaust experiences of her parents, Channa Perschowski Poltzer, originally of Baranavichy, Poland, and Nathan Polczer (Poltzer), originally of Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia. Channa spent the war as a partisan in the Polish forests, while Nathan was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and transferred to different camps before being liberated in Germany in 1945. They both immigrated to New York, where they met and married in 1950. The majority of the manuscript is ded...