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  1. Hartshorne family papers

    The Hartshorne family papers primarily contain correspondence and memoirs documenting the experiences of Americans Richard and Lois Hartshorne, along with their children Marguerite and Judith, in Nazi occupied Austria during his sabbatical from 1938-1939. The correspondence consists of letters written by Richard and Lois to their families describing their experiences in Vienna, Austria, as well as letters from Jewish friends and others they were trying to help with monetary aid or visa assistance for emigration. Included are letters from Wolfgang Hoff, an Austrian chemist who spent several ...

  2. Hangings Print 14 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting two prisoners being hanged from scaffolds in front of the entire camp under the direction of the commander and SS doctor at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht an...

  3. Photographs and documents from unidentified refugees, Bavaria

    Contains 22 photographs showing unidentified displaced persons in various locations in southern Germany, includes wedding photographs, New Year's greeting photographs, funerals, and pictures of individuals and groups. Most photographs contain inscriptions on verso in Polish or Yiddish. Also includes a driver's license issued to Moses Kolin in Eichstaett, June 1948; a delegate's pass to the second national convetion of Brit Ha Zhoar, Munich, December 1947; and a program for a musical recital in Bucharest, Romania, on behalf of HaOved HaZioni, with the Orchestra Fratii Honigsberg, November 1947.

  4. Gusta Dickman collection

    Documents and photographs relating to Dr. Gusta Dickman (née Lempert), born May 20, 1904 in Żurawno, Poland. She graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Lvov University in 1927. In 1929 she married Michał Dickman, an architect, and the couple moved to Warsaw in 1935. They were forced into the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. Michał Dickman was murdered in 1942, and Gusta managed to escape from the ghetto during the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943. She obtained false documents, which allowed her to stay in Warsaw untill October 1943 at which time she moved to Milanówek near Warsaw a...

  5. Spandau prison negatives

    Consists of four strips of Minox negatives (consisting of approximately 33 images) which were taken clandestinely of Rudolf Hess while he was imprisoned at the Spandau prison in Germany in the 1960s. The photographs were supposedly taken by Col. Byrd, the warden of the prison at the time. The images depict Hess painting and in the prison's garden.

  6. Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker

    Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker: "Tod dem Marxismus. Her zu uns! The sticker depicts a man with a swastika-emblazoned hammer about to strike a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat; the bottom half of his body is that of a serpent-like creature. Red, white and red ink on paper with adhesive backing.

  7. Tepper family papers

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating Jenny and David Tepper (donor's parents) who fled Germany in 1938 for the United States. Included is correspondence received by Jenny and David in the United States from their relatives who were exiled to Sosnowiec, Poland in 1938 from Germany. Also included is the paperwork detailing their exhaustive efforts to extend their visas in the United States while waiting for citizenship, and affidavits of support made on their behalf. Also includes documentation concerning Zitta Tepper (David's sister) and Dora Tepper (David's mother), both o...

  8. Book

    Six volumes from a set of prayer books published in circa 1793 in the Netherlands and given to Emilie Mittwoch in 1934 on the occasion of her 11th birthday [as inscribed on the inside cover of each volume] by her father. The volumes were purchased by the donor, who was a former classmate of Emilie before the war. Included in the volumes are two for Passover, two for Sukkoth, one for Shavuot and one for Yom Kippur. In Hebrew, printed in the Netherlands.

  9. Rachel Zonszajn Benshaul collection

    The collection includes a diary written by Cypora Zonszajn while living in the Siedlce ghetto. The diary recounts Cypora's flight from her family home in the ghetto to an attic above the ghetto police command post with her daughter Rachel while part of the ghetto was forcibly evacuated in August 1942, including Rachel's paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Through information received by someone who escaped, Cypora writes that people are being deported to Treblinka and details the events leading to their deaths. The diary was written in Polish and entrusted to Irena Zawadzka an...

  10. Trial of David Frankfurter Prozess David Frankfurter Bestand

    Contains records of the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur, Switzerland, 1936. Includes personal documents of Frankfurter, correspondence, press articles, reports and protocols. The Jewish student David Frankfurter, shot to death the German Nazi official, NSDAP state party leader for Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, on February 4, 1936, in Davos in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. He was sentenced to a long prison term; pardoned in August 1945 and released.

  11. Nachlass Dr. h.c. Paul Schmid-Ammann Dipl. ing. agr. ETH

    Contains personal papers of Paul Schmid-Amman, a chief editor of "Volksrecht." The collection includes correspondence with public figures and representatives of the Swiss-Jewish community, publications, manuscripts, and reviews. Consists of correspondence with: Konrad Akert, Hermann Böschenstein, Robert Bratschi, Willy Bretscher, Hans Conzett Emanuel Dejung, Emil Egli, Jonas Frankel, David Frankfurter, Erich Gruner, Walter King, Ernst Laur, Leonhard Ragaz, Willy Spühler, Paul Trautvetter, Werner Weber, Hans Wildberger, and many others.

  12. Helena Kaut-Howson and Mieczyslawa Wazacz collection

    Contains four photographs, one letter, and one undated testimony describing the writer's experiences during the German occupation in Poland, and the experiences of her late husband, who died in a labor camp.

  13. Cross of Honor of the German Mother [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] medal, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross

    Cross of Honor of the German Mother [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] 3rd class order, Bronze Cross, an award instituted following a December 16, 1938, decree by Adolph Hitler to encourage German women to bear more children. It was awarded by the Nazi Party in Hitler's name, with his signature engraved on the back. A recipient could be nominated by the Party or a government official and had to be of pure German origin and good character. The medal was issued in three levels: first class, gold, for mothers with eight or more children; second class, silver, for six to seven children; third cl...

  14. Herenfeld family papers

    Correspondence: from the Herenfeld and Nisenholc families in the Warsaw ghetto to Bela Genya Yosovitz in Buffalo, NY, in Polish and in Yiddish, dated 1940 and 1941. Correspondence includes letters sent to Bela and Natan Yosovitz from David Herenfeld (brother of Bela) and from Chaim Nisenholc. Letter: addressed to Cpl. Richard Connuck (donor's father) in the US Army, from the Central Jewish Committee in Warsaw, dated March 20, 1946, notifying him that Leizer Herenfeld is not listed as a survivor; Photographs: images of of Lejzor Herenfeld in Warsaw, c. 1930 and of David Herenfeld, date unknown.

  15. Dr. Marcel Petiot photographs

    Consists of 46 enlarged copyprints related to Dr. Marcel Petiot, a French doctor and serial killer who operated in Paris, France, during World War II. Includes mugshots of Petiot and his collaborators, photographs of his victims, photographs of evidence (including human remains) found after his arrest in Paris, and phtoographs of his trial. Dr. Petiot attracted many of his victims by promising them a way to escape from the occupying forces to safety outside of France.

  16. Shulamit Goldstein photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs taken on November 9, 1938 in Oldenburg, Germany. The photographs depict the Nazis arresting Jewish men in Oldenburg as part of the Kristallnacht pogrom. The men were then taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  17. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers

    The Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers consist of biographical materials, memoirs, and photographs documenting Edward, Julia, and Abe Firestone from Kołomyja, Poland (now Kolomyia, Ukraine), the family arrangements they made after the war in order to immigrate to the United States, and their Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family members who perished during the Holocaust. Biographical materials include a postwar pass allowing Edward Feuerstein to move freely about Wrocław, a membership card for the Committee of Liberated Jews for Julia Feuerstein, a certificate in lieu of passport for Edward, ...

  18. Records of the Committee for Allocation of Land to Jewish Workers of the Presidium of the Council for Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (KOMZET) (P-7541)

    Collections consists of the records related to the activity of the KOMZET and its regional branches. It includes bylaws of the organizations, directives of the state authorities, minutes of the meetings, reports, correspondence with other Jewish and Soviet public organizations, annual plans, reference materials, various statistical information, financial and personnel records of the organization. In addition to these records, collection also includes detailed information about Jewish collective farms, their economic situation, statistical information about Jewish population and Jewish settl...

  19. Book

    Booklet, Dachau, inscribed by a US soldier, James G. Brookman, of the 6833rd Regulating Company, T.C. The pamphlet was published by the 7th Army to illustrate the atrocities committed under the Nazi regime in Dachau concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  20. Adam Lityński collection

    Collection of documents including a matriculation diploma, identity card, and health insurance book issued to Władysław Lipszyc (donor’s father), in Łódź, Poland, and a marriage certificate issued in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to Władysław Lipszyc and Lea Tiger, on October 12, 1944. Also includes a collection of family photographs of the Lipszyc family in Łódź and during vacation in Ciechocinek, Poland. The donor’s parents later changed their last name to Lityński.