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  1. Weiss and Ross families collection

    Collection of photographs, correspondence and documents relating to the Weiss and Ross families living in Liptovská Teplá, Slovakia. The photographs depict family life; the wedding of Alexander and Blanka Weiss in June 1937; birth of Peter in 1939; and their life till their escape into hiding. The documents include two Red Cross letters from Blanka Weiss to her father, dated October 1943 and January 1944; a Czech passport; an identification card issued to the donor by the Government of the Netherlands West Indies island of Aruba; the donor's driver's license from Aruba; and a copy of a cert...

  2. Flescher family correspondence

    Correspondence sent by Kalman and Sala Flescher of Stanisławów, Poland (modern-day Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Ukraine), to their son, Joachim Flescher, who was living in Italy, during the period 1936-1942. Also includes correspondence from Flescher's sisters, Zofia Flescher Uhrman and Gusta Flescher. Joachim Flescher attended medical school in Italy and remained in close contact with his family and with his girlfriend Klara, who apparently visited him in Italy. All the plans of rescuing the family through Costa Rica didn't materialize and Dr. Flescher had to hide in Italy with the help of his futur...

  3. Ten Brink family papers

    Contains correspondence and one passport, documenting the family of Fritz (Fred) Ten Brink. Includes passport for Rosa Weinberg (nee Ten Brink), originally of Emden, Germany; a Red Cross letter from Fritz Ten Brink and his family (wife Ella and son Peter), sent from England to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ten Brink, of Berlin, October 1942, with reply from them on verso, dated January 1943; and a two postwar letters, from the Baudner family and from Kurt Seligmann, both of Berlin, reporting on the fates of various friends and family members, as well as Ten Brink's parents.

  4. Harry and Lili Topolansky photograph collection

    Collection of photographs showing the Topolanski family in Grodno and the Schwarcz family in Munkacs before the war, and Lili Schwartz and Hersz Topolanski, who were married in the Landsberg DP camp. Hersz Topolanski (later Harry Topolansky) resided in Krasnik during the German invasion. He was imprisoned in Płaszów and transferred to Leitmeritz concentration camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg, on April 8, 1944. Lili Topolanski was deported with her family to Auschwitz Birkenau on May 20, 1944. Two months later Lili was transferred to Hunsfeld, a subcamp of Gross Rosen, where she was forced to ...

  5. Eugene Mielcarek photographs

    Consists of one folder of photographs from the collection of Eugene Mielcarek, a Polish-American member of the United States Army during World War II. The photographs, the majority of which Mielcarek did not take himself, depict the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, destruction in Germany, the collection of displaced persons in Eisenach, Germany, and a hanging of three Polish citizens, dated July 1945. Includes Mielcarek's typed and handwritten commentary on the versos.

  6. Kingmark silver and red pin commemorating the Danish king's 70th birthday acquired by Louise Lawrence-Israels

    Commemorative Kingmark buttonhole pin acquired by Louise Lawrence-Israels. It was issued in honor of the 70th birthday of King Christian X of Denmark on August 21, 1940. It has the King’s initials, the years 1870-1940, and the Danish flag. Christian remained in Copenhagen during the German occupation (4/1940-5/1945) and the Kingmark became a popular symbol of Danish independence, patriotism, and solidarity. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940.

  7. Jewish Committee for Aid and Reconstruction, EKOPO (Fond 347)

    The collection consists of minutes of the meetings, financial reports, correspondence with various Polish government offices, Jewish charitable and relief organizations, Jewish libraries and cultural organizations during the years 1919-1939, and various documents relating to organization activities.

  8. Nazi Party Labor Day pin given to a US soldier by Hermann Göring

    Nazi Party Labor Day 1934 pin, likely given to Lieutenant Jack Wheelis by Herman Göring during his imprisonment at Nuremberg from 1945-1946. Labor Day (also known as May Day) takes place on May 1 to celebrate laborers and the working classes. In April 1933, after the Nazi party took control of the German government, May 1 was appropriated as the “Day of National Work,” with all celebrations organized by the government. On May 2, the Nazi party banned all independent trade-unions, bringing them under state control of the German Labor Front. Soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945,...

  9. Deutsche Strafanstalt Tschenstochau German Penalty Court in Częstochowa Niemiecki Zakład Karny w Częstochowie (Sygn. 47)

    This collection contains 3,794 personal files of prisoners. Included are arrest forms containing personal details such as the last name, first name, date and place of birth, nationality, religious denomination, occupation, education, last whereabouts, marital status, when brought before the court (date), reason of accusation (the main reason was: politics or leaving the ghetto, hiding and helping Jews, lack of arm band, theft, and the like). There is also a description of the prisoner (appearance) with such data as: age, size, posture (e.g. weak), hair (e.g. matted), hair growth (shaved, un...

  10. Hemda Gold photograph collection

    Collection of pre-war family photographs which depict the Barzyslewski and Goldin family in Poland; dated 1920s-1939; most captioned on verso in Yiddish

  11. Paula and Samuel Schäffer letters

    Consists of five letters sent by the family of Paula and Samuel Schäffer in Poprad, Slovakia, between the years 1920 and 1939, to their daughter, Bertha Wicks, who emigrated to the United States prior to World War I. Paula and Samuel died prior to deportation, after a forced march, and the four Schäffer children--Gisella, Cidi, Ethel, and Jeno--who remained in Europe all perished in the Holocaust.

  12. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of photographs taken by an unknown photographer after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Also includes photographs of the liberation of Paris, and post-war postcards of Baden-Württemberg and Schorndorf, Germany.

  13. Dr. John Karabin collection

    Consists of photographs and glass slides of images taken by Dr. John Karabin, a member of the United States Army attached to the 91st/93rd Evacuation Hospital who participated in the liberation of Dachau. The images depict the Dachau hospital, corpses, the Dachau death train, and the area surrounding the camp.

  14. William A. Spiegler collection related to Josiah E. DuBois, Jr.

    This collection contains material collected by the late historian William A. Spiegler, who was preparing to write a biography of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Though much of the collection consists of copies from various archival sources and publications, it is an excellent resource for historians studying DuBois and his work with the War Refugee Board and on the I.G. Farben trial. The collection includes original and copied drafts, with handwritten changes, corrections, and notes, of “The Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews,” “Personal Report to...

  15. District Department of Czestochowa Wydział Powiatowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 61)

    This collection contains selected records of the County Department of Częstochowa, Poland, created by the various departments. Includes minutes, resolutions of the sessions of communal councils and budget files. Contains information concerning Jews, including lists of the unemployed, the aldermen (towns Kłobuck, Krzepice and other communes), merchants, physicians and farmers. Minutes of the communal councils contain affairs of the Jewish community and the names of Jewish aldermen.

  16. Josef Hirschhorn collection

    Consists of a copyprint of a portrait of Josef Hirschhorn, originally of Oradea, Romania. Also includes a letter written by Hirschhorn on Sachsenhausen camp stationery, dated 13 August 1944, prior to his death, presumably at Sachsenhausen. It was the last letter the family received from Hirschhorn.

  17. Scrap iron business

    Men clear and shape shredded metal after the war. This scrap iron business was owned by Levie Simons and located in Pernis (Rotterdam area). Maurits Schaap worked here in 1940, and met Andre de la Porte, an aristocrat who later intervened to help Schaap during the war. Several people work at typewriters and telephones.

  18. Oral testimony of Irene Raab Epstein

  19. Kurt Kastan correspondence

    Letters written on concentration camp form stationary from Kurt Kastan to his wife Rosa (Rosel) and their daughters in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). The letters are primarily written from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, between February 1941 and February 1942.

  20. Schiller and Binder families collection

    Contains letters written by the Schiller and Binder families in Kitsman (Cotman) and Chernowitz, Romania, to their children Sara Schiller (donor's mother) and Moshe Schiller, and Shmuel Binder (donor's father) and Arie Binder in Palestine. The Schiller family from Kitsman and the Binder family from Chernowitz were deported in the fall of 1941 to Transnistria. According to testimonies, the Schiller family was thrown off the barge in the middle of the Dniestr River and drowned. The Binder family was deported to Transnistria at the same time, and no one survived.