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  1. Oral history interview with Joseph Finkelstein

  2. Ajke family collection

    Contains photocopies of legal documents and genealogical information for Marek and Susana Ajke, copies of 27 black and white photographs of prisoners in Camp Beaune-la-Rolande in France, soldiers in the French army, and a memoir written by Marek Ajke entitled, "Memorias De La Rebelion En El Ghetto De Varsovia Y Del Holocausto."

  3. Testimonies of Zaglembia Survivors Original Polish-Language Documents with English Translations

    The collection contains reproductions and translations of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Zaglembia (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie region of Poland). The testimonies are in two volumes and describe experiences in camps and ghettos, Jews in hiding, resistance efforts, death marches, and pre-war Jewish life. Additionally, there are pictures of Albrecht Schmelt and the “Schmelt Organization” who were responsible for administration of the ghettos, deportations, and concentration camps in the area. The collection was assembled by Amalie Mary Robinson and Pawel Brunon Dorman. Volume I contains test...

  4. Ervin Fischlovits postcard

    Contains one postcard written by Ferenc Fischlovits to his wife Judit Fischlovits in Budapest while he is serving with a labor battalion in Russia asking for warm clothing.

  5. Guttentag family papers

    Contains one diary written by Dr. Adolf Guttentag in Berlin, Germany in 1942. In the diary, Dr. Guttentag described his experiences as a Jew in Berlin, anticipated his deportation to Theresienstadt, and addressed his son Otto, who had been able to emigrate to the United States, instructing Otto how to remember his parents. At the end of the diary, which is written in German, Dr. Guttentag wrote goodbye to his son and chronicled the date on which he and his wife committed suicide. Includes an English translation of the diary as well as four black and white photographs of Adolf and Helene Gut...

  6. Andrew Kapochunas collection

    Contains an air mail envelope written while Kaunas was under occupation; five original Vilna Ghetto arrest documents; and an original signed receipt for 18,837 Litai received from the American Joint Distribution Committee, Vilnius, intended for "the Jewish Section for War-Sufferers, Lithuanian Red Cross."

  7. Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká and Alexander Wrchovszky papers

    The Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká and Alexander Wrchovszky papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, and subject files documenting the effects of anti‐Semitic laws on the Wrchovszky family in occupied Czechoslovakia, Alexander Wrchovszky’s internment at a camp for Jews of mixed parentage at Bystřice, the deportation of Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká to Theresienstadt, and her death at Auschwitz. Most of the records are accompanied by annotated translations created by Alexander Wrchovszky. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates, identity papers, guardi...

  8. Max and Pearl Obstbaum papers

    Contains six black-and-white photographs from the Landsberg Displaced persons camp and a memoir that describes the Holocaust experiences of Pearl Spiegel Obstbaum.

  9. Remembering Shanghai: A Jewish Journey

    Consists of one article, 12 pages, entitled "Remembering Shanghai: A Jewish Journey," by journalist Fredericka R. Maister. In the article, the author describes the history of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, the memories of refugees she interviewed for the article, and the reunion gatherings of Shanghai refugees.

  10. Ida Szczygiel Yasterbelski Boisson memoir

    Contains a memoir, seven pages, about Ida Szczygiel Yasterbelski Boisson's experiences surviving in France with the aid of false identification papers.

  11. George Howard Tellier collection

    The George Howard Tellier collection includes a photograph album titled “SS Standarte ‘Westland’: Erinnerungen and die SS” documenting one of the regiments of the Wiking division of the Waffen-SS, which was composed primary of Dutch volunteers under German command and stationed in Munich. The album includes picture postcards and photographs of the mountains near Oberau, Germany, the Berghof (Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden), Hitler and Goering, mountain scenes, the SS-Kaserne Standarte “Deutschland” in Munich, Krakow, war damage, and SS-men at...

  12. Indersdorf Monastery ground plans

    Contains copies of ground plans for the Indersdorf Monastery.

  13. Verrill D. Long photographs

    Contains 16 photographs taken by a member of the 8th Army Air Corps at the liberation of a concentration camp.

  14. Sterba Arnost postcards

    Contains two picture postcards of Karlovy Vary in 1945 and Edvard Benes, the President of Czechoslovakia prior to the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938.

  15. Zofia Herbach's report cards

    The collection contains two report cards belonging to Zofia Herbach of Grybów, Nowy Sącz County, Poland. Zofia likely perished during the Holocaust around 1942.

  16. Albert Ernst Schrader Jr. papers

    Contains letters and documents pertaining to his role as an interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials.

  17. Doctor and Gestapo prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution, introducing witness Dr. Franz Blaha. Dodd reads Dr. Blaha's signed affidavit telling of his career as head of a hospital in Czechoslovakia and his experiences as a Gestapo prisoner. The affidavit reveals that the Germans used healthy prisoners for various medical experiments. If the prisoners did not die in the experiments they were later killed. Additional trial footage missing from NARA original documentation: (Lieutenant Breshnen?) Prosecutor (from behind) reads an affidavit of someone de...

  18. Soviet Prosecutor Rudenko addressing Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 545) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 8, 1946. Rear views of Chief Russian Prosecutor Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko addressing the courtroom (in Russian). Note: There are no shots completely showing Rudenko's face.

  19. Newspaper clippings of Italian press

    Contains late post-World War II Italian press clippings on Holocaust-related topics including Italian fascism, war criminals, trials, the Italian army during World War II, death camps, Italian transit camps, and the like.

  20. Executions

    00:10:06 (Paris 502) Execution of Three German Civilians by Hanging, Bruchsal, Germany, January 12, 1946. SEQ: Death sentence is read; condemned man walks to scaffold, is executed by hanging and his body placed in a coffin. (Same sequence for each prisoner.) MS, two Russian officers who were observers, speaking to an American woman correspondent. Note: A Military Commission of the Seventh US Army found three German civilians guilty of killing two US Army men who were unarmed and prisoners of war. 00:15:14 (Paris 497) Execution of Nazi, Bruchsal, Germany, January 10, 1946. LS, gallows as hoo...