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  1. Archive of the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine Archivio della Delegazione Apostolica in Gerusalemme e Palestina

    Contains records of the Archive of the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine. Includes newspaper clippings, reports and correspondence relating to the Chief Rabbis of Palestine, A.J. Kook and Isaac Herzog; His Excellency Most Reverend, Archbishop of Amsea, Rev. Gustavo Testa; Dr. Chaim Weizman, and others.

  2. Archivio della Nunziatura Apostolica in Parigi (1936-1939) Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Parigi (1936-1939)

    Contains records of the Apostolic Nuncio in Paris of Pius XI relating to foreign political affairs. Includes hanwritten notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and other materials of Mons. Valerio Valeri, Apostolic Nuncio to France in Paris.

  3. Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Vienna Archivio della Nunziatura Apostolica in Vienna

    Contains a telegram, letters and posters sent to Gaetano Cicognani, Apostolic Nuncio in Vienna (1935-1938) and to Pope XI, from Josef Moses Krumer, as well includes Krumer's three published books in Hebrew relating to his predictions of catastrophe for the Jewish people.

  4. Doris Berry collection

    Consists of letters, photographs, and propaganda pieces sent from Otti Hahn, of Chemnitz, Germany, to Doris Berry, of Washington, DC, between 1933 and 1936. Otti, a German teenager, wrote to her pen pal Doris about her life and about the activities of her BDM (Bund Deutscher Mädel) enclosing photographs of the group and pieces of Nazi propaganda. Includes a postcard commemorating the one year anniversary of January 30th, 1933, and two flyers distributed by the "Fichte Association (Fichte-Bund)" (Deutscher Fichte-Bund) entitled "Hitler's Appeal against the madness of Versailles" and "France-...

  5. "A Story: The Life of Johan and Gertrude Verloop, as written from memory, 1919-1946"

    Consists of one memoir, 65 pages, entitled "A Story: The Life of Johan and Gertrude Verloop, as written from memory, 1919-1946," which was written by Johan Verloop in 1994. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in the Netherlands, learning of the threat of Nazism, and being accepted into officer's training school in 1939. He describes the German invasion of the Netherlands and his decision to go to university, as well as describing life under the German occupation. He joined the underground resistance movement with his future wife Gertrude (Mam) and helped to hide a young Jewish boy. He...

  6. Peter Schmit photograph collection

    Consists of 20 photographs from the collection of Peter Schmit, who was a member of the United States Army during World War II. Includes photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and photos of the destruction in Germany. Some of the photos include captions.

  7. Simon Steil collection

    The Simon Steil collection consists of photographs and documents from the collection of Simon Steil, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. After being separated from his family, who were deported, Simon went into hiding, eventually living with the Henrard family in Perwez, Belgium, where he remained throughout the wartime and immediate post-war period. After the war, he went to an Orthodox children's home in Antwerp run by Jonas Tiefenbrunner. The collection includes a photo album containing photographs of groups of children at the children's home; pre-war Steil family photographs; wartime and po...

  8. David John Leslie Pihlstrand collection

    Consists of 32 photographs from the collection of David John Leslie Pihlstrand, a member of the 65th Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II, and participated in the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Includes images of Mauthausen liberation, including the quarry, of Russian soldiers, of German prisoners of war, and of damaged buildings in Austria. Also includes a postcard related to Pihlstrand's selective service, and a small group of mass produced photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald and Ohrdruf. Some of the original photographs have been capti...

  10. Selected records from the collections of the Salaj branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection contains selected records of the Mayorship of Jibou. Includes papers of the Jewish community of Jibou, records relating to the citizenship of Jews and the Jewish Democratic Committee of Sălaj District including name lists and various activity reports.

  11. Selected records from the collections of the Brăila branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains the Prefecture of the District of Brăila records related to the "religious sects," nomadic Roma, confiscation of Jewish properties, ethnic Bulgarians, repatriation from Bessarabia and Bucovina (1940) from various subdistricts in Brăila, treatment of Jews, forced labor of Jews, deportation of Jews between Siret and Prut Rivers (1941), Iron Guard, forced labor of Jews in Lacu Sărat and Baldovineşti, name lists, local Aryanization activities (CNR), expelling of Jews from various institutions, travel authorizations for Jews, Jewish detachment of forced labor for road repairs, rights ...

  12. Comitetul Democrat Evresc. Biroul I.O.V.R Records of the Jewish Democratic Committee Office of the Association of Widows and Orphans from the Iasi branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection consists of 1,350 files containing questionnaires with families of Jewish victims of the Pogrom of Iaşi, death certificates, interviews with survivors, hospital release forms, Jews in forced labor in the Iasi area, birth certificates and other family records.

  13. Esther Kerdeman photographs

    Consists of four enlarged photographs taken of members of the Jewish Brigade, likely taken in the Netherlands in 1946, and one enlarged photograph taken of the interior of an exhibit entitled "Les Juifs en France" ["The Jews in France"] described on the verso as the version of the exhibit shown in Bordeaux, France, in March 1942. The photographs were collected by Esther Kerdeman, who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in the Netherlands in 1946.

  14. Colecţia 60 (Amintiri, memorii şi însemnări ale unor personalităţi despre situaţia economico-socială şi politică din România)

    Contains records relating to Buchenwald camp and name lists of inmates at Buchenwald, Matei Gal, lists of individuals murdered in Rîbnița, various recollections about Transnistria: Vapniarka camp, Silvina Mostovoi and other ghettos, photos 1942-1944, notes about activities of Jews in Arad 1942-1944, notes of Nicolai Golberger regarding Colonel Sabin Motora (Righteous Gentile) the former last commander of Vapniarka camp, Ivan Klopotar relating to Auschwitz, and Emanoil Safir relating to Rîbnița.

  15. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Ille-et-Vilaine

    Contains records kept by the local Feldkommandantur including anti-Jewish measures, declarations of bank holdings of Jews, the aryanization of Jewish property as well as investigations, statistics, and files on Jewish businesses. Includes also records from the Rector of Education on the application of anti-Jewish measures as well as an interesting private collection belonging to the local union of medical doctors concerning the exclusion of Jews from the profession.

  16. Amelia Rosenfeld Kahn letters

    Consists of letters sent to Amelia Rosenfeld (later Kahn) (Milly Kahn) from her family, who remained in Aub, Germany, after Milly was able to emigrate to Paris, France, where she met her husband, Solly (Sol) Kahn. The letters, dated 1933-1942, are from her mother, Regina Rosenfeld; brother Heinrich; and Martha, Abraham, and Senta Kammenmacher, her sister's family. The letters describe their emigration attempts, which were ultimately unsuccessful.

  17. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of copyprints and photographic negatives depicting images taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, originally from the collection of Leo Vissas, an American soldier during World War II. The images depict prisoners assisting with the reburial of corpses; images of summary justice; and images of the Dachau death train, with "Off Limits" marked on the train cars.

  18. Buchenwald liberation photograph

    Consists of one photograph depicting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photograph, which is captioned on the verso, consists of two photographic images, one printed on the top and one printed on the bottom of the photograph. One image depicts corpses piled on a cart and the other of corpses piled in a store room.

  19. Andrew D'Alessandro photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs taken by Andrew J. D'Alessandro, who was a member of the United States Army during World War II. The photographs, which are mounted, depict D'Alessandro and members of his unit and images of American soldiers viewing corpses and speaking to survivors after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.

  20. A.C. Williams collection

    Consists of five photographs from the collection of Captain A.C. Williams of the 272th Infantry regiment of the 69th Infantry Division, United States Army. The photographs were taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, depicting the crematoria; one photo includes prisoners in uniform. Also includes one small card regarding talking too much and warning that both the enemy and the CIC (Counter-Intelligence Corps) are listening.