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Language of Description: English

  1. Oral history interview with Rina Diamand

  2. Amon Goeth trial photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken during at the trial and subsequent conviction of Amon Goeth, commandant of the Płaszów concentration camps.

  3. Jean Jones collection

    The collection consists of wooden toys, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and booklets relating to the experiences of Jean Jones in Iowa, who received them from her German pen pal, Irmgard Richter, whose parents were teachers in Berlin.

  4. Raoul Cohen-Addad collection

    The collection consists of a military cap, epaulets, an armband, a rubber stamp, a hammer head, and correspondence, documents, and a copy print relating to the experiences of Raoul Cohen-Addad in Algiers during World War II.

  5. Tana Gelfer collection

    Collection of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard issued at Theresienstadt to be used by inmates to send to relatives back home. The only space open to be filled in was Dear ______ , I thank you and am in receipt of your package of __________ (date) and signature _______.

  6. Morris Dembowitz collection

    The collection consists of a poster, documents, and photographic prints relating to the discovery of Gardelegen and Ohrdruf concentration camps in Germany and a letter attesting to the origin of the "Treblinka Song" record.

  7. Program and speech to commemorate Yom Ha-Shoah 5754

    Photocopy of a program and speech (7-page memoir) dated April 7, 1994, which relates to the donor's Holocaust-related experience in Poland and the fates of some members of his family.

  8. Selected copies of documents from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives

    Contains photocopies of selected documents concerning Jewish displaced persons in Austria and Germany for the years 1945 to 1964.

  9. Testimony

    Consists of a transcript of an oral history interview conducted with Gerald S. Adler about his Holocaust experiences. The interview was conducted by the Holocaust Memorial Foundation in Skokie, IL prior to 1995.

  10. Asya and Zakhar Mikhelman memoir

    Testimonies, four pages, handwritten, relating to experiences of Asya and Zakhar Mikhelman. Asya was from Brailov, Zakhar from Tiraspol, and both describe experiences during occupation of Moldova.

  11. Edward S. Lowenstern papers

    Photo of anti-semitic caricatures near donor's former home in Germany (1936), small leaflets with antisemitic and Nazi slogans on them (such as "Wir achten keinerlei Klasse, sondern die arische Rasse!"), and news clipping.

  12. Recollections of a combat medic

    Contains donor's recollection as a combat medic with Company "C," 82nd Armored Medical Battalion of the 12th Armored Division, serving in France and Germany, and participating in the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp.

  13. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- SS Aorangi arrives in Sydney with Jewish refugees

    63 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria arrive at Sydney harbor in the ship SS Aorangi.

  15. Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan

    Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan re anti-state utterances, AmsterdamAuthor unknown German I page 

  16. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The collection consists of a doll, luggage tags, artifacts, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Rosenfeld who was sent by her parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain in June 1939.

  17. Συλλογή Σιμόπουλος Τάκης

    • Collection Simopoulos Takis
    • Syllogi Simopoulos Takis

    Personal documents, diary, documents of the Service for the Disposal of Jewish Property.

  18. Marching out of the gates of Auschwitz

    Manuscript poem (2 pages), signed by Bertha Weg, and dated Auschwitz, 15 August 1944.

  19. 230th Field Artillery collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi flag, a Nazi Party hand stamp, and two childrens' books relating to the experiences of members of the 230th Field Artillery, 71st Division, United States Army, who captured the flag during World War II and signed it in 1992.