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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Joyce Hay collection

    Contains a carbon copy of a letter, dated June 19, 1940 to “Minister Lammers” in Berlin [Hans Heinrich Lammers, head of Nazi chancellory] from the Archbishop of Freiburg and the Vicar of Rottenburg, Germany stating they have been informed that “mentally ill” are being euthanized and they request that this “procedure which is forbidden through Christian law” be stopped. Also includes a carbon copy of a letter, dated July 19, 1940 to Wilhelm Frick from Theophil Wurm, head of the protestant church in Germany and opponent of the Nazi party, in Stuttgart, in which Wurm states local population ar...

  2. Ernst Kaufmann law office 621-1/84 Ernst Kaufmann

    Records of the law office of Dr. Ernest Kaufman, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  3. Lotte Seligmann family papers

    The collection consists of biographical material and photographs primarily documenting the pre-war life of Lotte Seligmann of Marsberg, Germany, including her studies and career as a nurse in Frankfurt am Main, prior to her immigration to the United States in 1938. Also documented in the collection are relatives in the Seligmann and Weitzenkorn families, and Lotte’s husband Henry Barak and his family. Biographical material includes Lotte’s birth certificate, German passport, employment papers, report cards, and her and Henry’s naturalization certificates. Photographs consist of pre-war depi...

  4. Leaflet

    Leaflet: "I AM SO AN AMERICAN!" / YOU BET, Sonny... / No Matter What Your / Race or Religion! / FIGHT RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HATE"

  5. Touring Bremen and Berlin; parades

    Group outing (of the amateur film club?) in Germany. Outdoor sculpture (Monument to the March Dead), statue in Weimar, CUs of the group, wreath at base of statue, drinking fountain. 01:01:42 Man in suit delivers speech (microphone on stand), girls in white dresses beside him, boys with flags. Scenic shot. Dining outdoors. Brief sequence of a man with a movie camera (01:02:14). Church. “Restaurant Cafe Kugel” Small group marches in the street with flags. Gathered near Kolonialdenkmal statue of elephant in Bremen. Harbor at Bremerhaven. The tour group gathers to board a small boat. Shots of t...

  6. Oral history interview with Jozef Reich

  7. Selected records from the State District Archive in Jihlava

    Contains records from Jihlava and surrounding towns, including Brtnice, Polná, and Telč, pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish property and assets, anti-Jewish measures, town registers and lists of Jewish inhabitants, emigration and resettlement, as well as post-war trial records from the District Courts of Jihlava, Polná, and Telč.

  9. Sherman Carpenter letter

    The collection consists of a letter written by Sherman Carpenter who served with the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II. He wrote the letter to his Baptist minister back home in Louisville, KY on Adolf Hitler’s stationary which he found in an empty office in a government building in Munich. In the letter, Sherman describes what he witnessed in the Dachau concentration camp.

  10. Anthony Dotta photograph collection

    The Anthony Dotta photograh collection consists of photographs of the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. The photographs depict United States soldiers standing among corpses in the camps, the burial of victims by German civilians, the gallows of Ohrdruf, and the crematoria at Buchenwald concentration camp. It is believed that the photographer was either John Pagotto or Louis Pagotta, friends of Anthony Dotta.

  11. Jewish children at play in Reichenbach and at the beach

    Peter (age 4 or 5) plays with a set of tin soldiers and a toy castle at home in Reichenbach. Peter's younger sister, Doris, waves. She sits in a high chair, and plays with blocks of wood. She and her brother play with a wooden clown doll. Doris in a crib, she reads a picture book. INT, Doris next to a window. 01:01:38 Peter is outside digging in a sandbox (at their home in Reichenbach at Adama Mickiwicza 9 - the house still exists), he has a scooter. Doris plays in a playpen outdoors, Peter joins her and they play. Mother Else helps Doris walk by holding her hands up. Doris sits alone on a ...

  12. Landherrenschaften-National Committee Affairs 416-1/5 Landherrenschaften-Landesausschussangelegenheiten

    Records of the Landherrenschaften-Landesausschussangelegenheiten: committee's negotiations (protocols), and general affairs relating to budget, taxes and accounting, construction, housing, livestock and drainage, municipalities, schools, transport and police, as well as insurance and social affairs.

  13. Benjamin Wajl memoir

    Memoir: "Moje wapomnienia z okewau 2 wosny swiatowej..." [My calamities from the 2nd World War] by Benjamin Wajl; 58 pages. Wajl was a native of Łódź, Poland, who fled east when the war broke out, and fought with the Russian army.

  14. Internment Camp B70 plans

    Copies of plans of Internment Camp B70 (Camp Ripples) in Fredericton, New Brunswick (Canada). The donor's late father Walter Kohn, had been interned there.

  16. Adolf Eichmann memorandum

    Memorandum on the reorgnization of the Viennese Jewish community issued by Adolf Eichmann

  17. Reich Trustee of Labor 356-4 Reichstreuhänder der Arbeit

    Selected records of the Reichstreuhänder der Arbeit (Reich Trustee of Labor). Consists of regulations and correspondence.

  18. Oral history interview with Gerry Clarke

  20. Selected records from the State Archives in Bjelovar, Croatia

    Records related to history of Holocaust in Bjelovar region, a historical territory that encompassed the district authorities of Bjelovar, Čazma, Garešnica, Đurđevac, Daruvar, Livac-Zapolje, Koprivnica, Križevci, Grubišno Polje, Koprivnica, and Križevci in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945). The bulk of the collection consists of records related to confiscation of Jewish property and assets in the Bjelovar region municipalities of the region, the appointment of "trustees" overseeing former Jewish shops, arrest warrants, and reports on deportation of Jews to Jasenovac concentration ...