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  1. Joseph Wajsblat collection

    Contains five black and white family photographs, eleven copies of family photographs, and poems and songs written and sung in Yiddish by Yenkel Herzkowitz in the Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp.

  2. Harriet Postman correspondence

    The Harriet Postman correspondence documents Postman's unsuccessful efforts to assist Flora Hochsinger's immigration to the United States from Vienna. Letters include correspondence between Flora Hochsinger and Harriet Postman as well as between Postman and relatives, friends, and aid agencies Postman contacted for help, such as the Boston Committee for Refugees, B'nai Brith, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

  3. Samson family collection

    The Samson family collection contains correspondence between Esther Fluck, in Cheltenham, England, and her mother and sister, Amelia Samson and Marie Samson-Blik, while the latter were living in the Netherlands during the German occupation. The correspondence is mainly in the form of letters sent via the Red Cross, and cover the period between 1940 and 1944. Other correspondence includes letters from the British Foreign Office to Esther, dating from 1964-1966, and giving her instructions on how to collect reparations for the death of her mother at Bergen Belsen. The Samson family collection...

  4. Vera Nussenbaum papers

    The Vera Nussenbaum papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Vera Nussenbaum’s travel to England on a Kindertransport, her family’s efforts to emigrate, her uncle’s death in Sachsenhausen, and her mother, aunt, and grandmother’s deportation to Riga. The materials in this collection refer to Vera Lichawski, using the last name of Nusenbaum’s mother’s second husband. Biographical materials include a vaccination certificate, birth certificate, and questionnaire for the accommodation of foreign children for Vera Lichawski. The letters dating from 1938‐1940 are from V...

  5. Rosenbaum family papers

    The Rosenbaum family papers consist of correspondence and documents related to the attempts of Ernst Rosenbaum, who immigrated to England in 1936, to bring his family, one by one, from Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence with family members and immigration officials, testimony regarding Kristallnacht, and a preprinted postcard sent from Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1944 sent to one of the Rosenbaum's cousins. Also includes an autograph album with entries mainly dating 1906-1908 but also an entry written by Eva Rosenbaum prior to joining her father in England. Includes information r...

  6. Natan Pompis papers

    Contains 109 letters, 1 notarized affidavit, 3 black and white photo prints, cleared checks and money orders, C.A.R.E. food package receipts, and registered mail receipts. American citizen and California resident Kalmen Klein and his wife, Lillian helped their relative, Bergen-Belsen survivor Natan Pompis and his family to leave Europe, travel to Bolivia, and in 1953 to immigrate the United States. The letters sent by Natan Pompis, and the financial support provided by the Kleins document the story of Natan Pompis's 8-year quest to come to the United States.

  7. Saul Sorrin papers

    The Saul Sorrin papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from approximately 1945‐1950. The collection contains correspondence and photographs documenting Sorrin’s work as United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director and field supervisor of displaced persons camps in the American occupied zone of Germany from 1945 to 1950. Camps covered in the collection include Neu Freimann, Föhrenwald, and Geretsried. Sorrin's work involved traveling among the camps to discuss with UNRRA staff and camp administrators problems related to food, housing, education, health, and immig...

  8. Edmund F. Franz papers

    The Edmund F. Franz papers consist of records Franz collected while serving as the chief administrator of the U.S. Army's War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany. The records include reports and English translations of statements and interrogation interviews with German war criminals, prisoners of war, and other witnesses recorded by U.S. Army investigators in 1945 in preparation for the Nuremberg trials. Some of the English materials are accompanied by German versions. The papers also include official U.S. Army photographs depicting scenes of atrocities at Buchenwald and Nordhausen concent...

  9. Debbie Haynie collection, 1943-1944

    Contains currency from Theresienstadt and a two letters written from Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.

  10. Hitlerjugend scrapbook

    Ulrich von Fumetti's scrapbook includes photographs, postcards, letters, and newspaper articles that depict his training in the Hitler Youth or Hitlerjugend in preparation for a career in the military.

  11. Nicolas Weill papers

    The Nicolas Weill papers consist of copies of court documents, evidentiary documents, press clippings, printed materials, and research files pertaining to Maurice Papon, secretary general of the Gironde prefecture under the Vichy regime, investigations into his collaboration in the deportation of Jews from Gironde during the Holocaust, and his 1997‐1998 trial. Court documents include copies of the indictment against Papon, hearing schedules, lists of parties involved, interventions, and arguments made by attorneys for the prosecution. Evidentiary documents include photocopies of official re...

  12. Diary of Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front

    The diary was written by a unknown Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front between 23 September 1941 and 27 December 1941. In the diary the soldier provides very detailed descriptions of daily life and his experiences. On 23 September 1941 he describes witnessing Jews march down the road wearing yellow stars and on 30 September 1941 he describes arriving at an unidentified town where Jews had recently been hanged for supposedly burning a bridge. The diary includes French vocabulary practice and some brief entries in shorthand.

  13. Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov manuscript

    Contains a 187 page manuscript with information about Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov's Holocaust experiences.

  14. Memory Deportation recollections

    Contains a memoir, 69 pages, by Jules Fainzang about his deportation from Drancy, France, on August 28, 1942, to Metz, Cosel (Poland), Sacrau, Shemianowitz, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald. He was liberated on April 13, 1945.

  15. Thomas Benson collection

    Contains seven black-and-white photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. Thomas B. Benson took these photographs during World War II while serving as a Major in the United States Army assigned to the 301st Combat Engineer Battalion

  16. Treitel family papers

    Contains an identification card for Friedel Strykowski from Mauthausen and four black and white photographs of Herbert Treitel's first wife, Gerda Bass Treitel and their two children, Bela and Ralph Treitel.

  17. Julie Lando memoir

    Contains a memoir about Julie Lando's childhood experiences in Germany, changes that occurred in her life when the Nazis came to power, and Julie Lando's journey via ship on the M.S.Oakland via the Azores to Columbia, the Panama Canal, Costa Rica, Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

  18. Aaron A. Eiferman letter

    Aaron A. Eiferman, a member of the 12th Armored Division which liberated the Landsberg concentration camp, wrote this five page letter on April 27, 1945 to his wife in the U.S. about his experiences.

  19. News accounts from 1936 to 1939 of Adolph Hitler's Rise to Power and his Affect on Minority Jewish Populations of Eastern and Western Europe

    Contains two binders of articles and illustrations of news accounts from the "Boston Traveler," "Boston Post," and "The Boston Herald."

  20. Leo Cecil photograph collection

    Contains four black and white photographs, of Ohrdruf immediately following liberation and two envelopes which originally housed the photographs. The first was labeled "1945/ W.W.II" and the second labeled "Buchenwald/IIWW."