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  1. "How do you like America"

    Contains a memoir about Martin O. Stern's life in Essen, Germany, and their escape to the United States after the Nazis rise to power.

  2. Inge Schlesinger memoir

    Contains a memoir about Inge Schlesinger's childhood in Berlin, Germany, forced labor experiences at the Zeiss-Ikon factory in Berlin and in Auschwitz, experiences in Ravensbrück, Grima, Belgium, and later emigration to the United States.

  3. Rezso Kemeny papers

    Contains a letter and two postcards written by Hungarian Jewish attorney Rezso Kemeny in the Pestszenterzsebet, Hungary ghetto in June and July 1944 before his deportation to Auschwitz, where he perished. Also contains a 1944 factory worker ID card of his son, donor Miklos (Nick) Kemeny.

  4. Simone Molin collection

    Contains 22 documents pertaining to the awards granted by French, British and American authorities to Simone Molin (a.k.a. Simone Benoist, or Madame Veuve Garaud) for her activity in the French resistance and for saving airmen of the Allied Forces and Jews during World War II; related correspondence; and 4 black and white photo prints showing Simone Molin.

  5. Recollections of Martha Cooper

    Contains a written transcript of a privately conducted oral history interview with Martha Cooper, a Holocaust survivor.

  6. Calecka Perla memoir

    Contains one memoir, 18 pages, about Calecka Perla's family life in Łódź, Poland, her family's deportation to concentration camps, and her survival as a non-Jewish domestic, liberation by the Russians, and emigration to Israel.

  7. Dov Katz: chapters in his life during the years of the second world war 1939-1946

    Contains a memoir, 15 pages, about Dov Katz's childhood years in Złoczow, Poland (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), his survival on false papers purchased by his father, work in a leather and iron processing plants while surviving on false papers, life in Bucharest, Romania, and later emigration to Palestine.

  8. Hildegard Lewis papers

    The Hildegard Lewis papers include letters and postcards to Hildegard Lewis in New York and New Jersey from her parents, Lion and Selma Jordan, in Koblenz as well as photocopies of photographs of Lewis, her parents, and her brother and sister. The letters provide news about friends and family, describe the Jordans' increasingly difficult situation in Koblenz, and ask for Lewis' help with their emigration efforts.

  9. Coby and Hans Siegenthaler memoirs

    Contains two memoirs about Coby and Hans Siegenthaler, who were members of Dutch families who hid Jews during the Holocaust.

  10. Yakov Polishchuk papers

    Includes papers relating to Yakov Polishchuk life as a war prisoner in the forced labor in Germany, Austria, and in the Dachau concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.

  11. Deutsch family papers

    The Deutsch family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Stella Deutsch’s family and their immigration to the United States, her Pollitzer and Gerova relatives’ survival in Žilina and Vienna, and her parents’ deportation to Theresienstadt. Documents include Stella Deutsch’s passport, a postcard to Stella from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, her Austrian social security card, three French ten franc notes, correspondence, and black and white photographs. Correspondence includes letters from Stella Deutsch’s aunt and uncle ...

  12. Bill Vegh memoir

    Contains a memoir about Bill Vegh's childhood in Czechoslovakia and experiences in Auschwitz.

  13. Arthur F. Peternel collection

    The Arthur F. Peternel collection consists of a letter written by Lt. Arthur F. Peternel, a liberator at Dachau concentration camp, and addressed to Collette A. Peternel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The letter, dated May 2, 1945 describes Lt. Peternel's experiences at Dachau during liberation.

  14. Manuel Gewurtz Mano memoir

    Contains a memoir, 91 pages, written by Manuel Gewurtz Mano about his Holocaust experiences in Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz, Dachau, Schongau, Fohrenwald, his emigration to Chcle, and later move to Israel.

  15. Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production Reichsministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion (R 3)

    Contains records relating to the various offices held by Albert Speer. The documents contain information about all aspects of armaments and war production from planning to the acquisition of raw materials and from the use of forced labor to the deliveries of finished products.

  16. Reich Ministry of Justice Reichsjustizministerium (R 22)

    Contains the situation and public opinion reports from the Oberlandesgerichtspräsidenten and the Generalstaatsanwälte during the war period, files of the minister's and state secretaries' offices, and matters related to police and criminal law.

  17. SS Economic Administration Main Office SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (NS 3)

    Contains records relating to the organizational structure and activities of the agency including the establishment and administration of the concentration camps.

  18. Liberation (England); troops; VE Day

    GSAP strafing buildng, train and marshalling yard. Ground crewmen. Two enlisted men reading newspaper in front of 308th Bomb Group store; headlines of newspaper: GERMANY QUITS. Street scenes in London [01:34:11-01:35:33 in slow motion]. More GSAP strafing vehicles on road, trains, buildings.

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  20. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht

    Two pieces of a candelabrum from a synagogue in Mödling, Austria, destroyed by Nazi supporters during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. A large broken piece of the candelabrum was found in the backyard of Mrs. Martha Roth, who had salvaged it from the ruins of the burned synagogue. These sections of the candelabrum were given to Henry Freund, a former congregant of the Mödling synagogue, by his wife, Betty, originally from Vienna, who broke off a small piece of the candelabra and brought it to him in San Francisco when she fled Austria in 1939.