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  1. Henryka Wagner Goldsher papers

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, correspondence, and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Henryka Wagner (also known as Hencha/Henrica, later Henrietta Goldsher), originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes pre-war documents, postcards dated 1940, and post-war displaced persons documentation for Henryka, who survived Auschwitz and Majdanek. Also includes documentation related to Selma Goldsher and her brother Saul, who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s; Henryka was a longtime friend of Selma Goldsher and later married Saul.

  2. Selected records from the collections of the Covasna branch of the National Romanian Archives

    This collection includes records of the Jewish Democratic Committee, 1945-1950 containing various reports, proces-verba, and other statements. Within this collection are also various official documents relating to deported Jews, the administration of goods of Jews who were deported, official proof concerning deportation, death certificates of Jews who perished in Auschwitz, and various other papers relating to Jews who died in Auschwitz and their goods.

  3. Collection of indictments and transcripts of trials of war criminals and political leaders

    Contains trials of individuals accused of crimes in Transnistria and Iași (Romania); indictments of top leaders of the Antonescu administration, indictments of leaders of the National Peasant Party (adversaries of communists and not war criminals), and indictments of other anti-Communist leaders.

  4. Joffe family papers

    Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Szymon Joffe (later Paul or Sam Jaffe), originally of Łódź, Poland. In May 1938, Mr. Joffe was able to immigrate to the United States, where he joined the American Army and spent the last months of the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes wartime correspondence from family members who remained in Poland and perished during the Holocaust, documents related to his experiences in the American military, and extensive photos related to his wartime experiences and ...

  5. "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression"

    Consists of a CD containing one manuscript, 219 pages, entitled "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression," by Howard Cohn. In the manuscript, Mr. Cohn describes his the experiences of his father, August Cohn, who born in Fulda, Germany, and arrested as a Communist in April 1933. After being beaten and publicly humiliated in Oberkaufungen, he was tried and imprisoned in the Kassel and Hameln prisons before entering the concentration camp system in 1935, where he was imprisoned both as a Jew and a Communist in the Esterwegen, Sachsenhausen, Dachau, and B...

  8. Katie Miller photograph collection

    One photograph album, containing 67 prints, depicting displaced persons camps operated by UNRRA in and around Linz, Austria, 1946-1947. Also contains 25 loose snapshots depicting Holocaust memorials in Germany, concentration camp sites, aid workers, and activities to smuggle Jewish refugees out of Europe to Palestine.

  9. Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Life Magazine issue with an article with images of Marta and Franz P. Jager arriving on the Tatua Maru, a Japanese passenger ship, after fleeing Nazi ruled Vienna, Austria.

  10. Leon Goldensohn papers

    The Leon Goldensohn papers consist largely of original, typescript notes of 137 interviews conducted by Dr. Goldensohn with Nazi defendants and witnesses during the trials of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, from January to July, 1946. Goldensohn served in the United States Army as a prison psychiatrist during this period, and conducted these interviews with the aid of a translator. In addition to interview typescripts, this collection contains resumes drafted by some of the defendants, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, texts of speeches delivered by Goldensohn, as we...

  11. Archivo de Shmerke Kaczerginski

    This collection contains personal papers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), former partisan and collector of Jewish music: i.d. documents, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and secondary sources such as clippings and publications about Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's book, "Destruction of Jewish Vilna", published in New York in 1947).

  12. "Beyond Never Again: How the Holocaust Speaks to Us Today"

    Consists of one essay entitled "Beyond Never Again--How the Holocaust Speaks to Us Today," written by Edwin Goldstein after he attended a course on Chabad Lubavitch Hassidic Response to the Holocaust, which was taught by Rabbi Yisroel Mangel, whose father is a Holocaust survivor. In the essay, Mr. Goldstein reflects on the role of religious faith during the Holocaust, the Judaic tradition of challenging God, and the lessons learned from the Holocaust about the role of the individual within a community.

  13. Landslayt Fareynen, Sociedades de ex residents

    Contains records of various regional Holocaust survivor organizations in Argentina. Includes reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

  14. Ergas family collection

    Consists of one folder of correspondence sent from Albert Ergas in Thessaloniki, Greece, to his brother, Jack Ergas, in New York City, between 1945-1946. In the letters, written in Ladino, Mr. Ergas describes the family's experiences during the Holocaust which most of the family spent in hiding, the economic and emotional situation of the Jews in post-war Greece, and the family's business and property. Includes photographs of the Ergas family building and a restitution claim put forward by Jack Ergas for the family's property in Turkey which was confiscated during the war.

  15. URO Buenos Aires, United Restitution Office

    Contains records relating to the activities of the Buenos Aires office of the United Restitution Organization (URO), the legal aid society for claimants outside Germany for restitution and compensation.

  16. Selected records from the State Archive Pisa

    Contains records from the Prefecture of Pisa regarding racial laws and their implementation in Pisa, as well as a census of Italian Jews and confiscation of Jewish property.

  17. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection

    Photographs of Kaufman and Gliklich family members before the war in Łódź, Poland and after the war in the Wels DP camp. Includes photographs of Braun family members in Berlin, Germany before they immigrated to Palestine in 1937. Also includes a Polish passport issued in Sweden to Shmuel Kaufman in 1948 and a copy of the marriage certificate of the donor's parents.

  18. National Investigatory Commission Decree-Law 479/55; Commission 45: Ministry of Foreign Relations Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Decreto-Ley 479/55; Comision 45: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

    Contains dispatches and confidential reports from Argentine embassies in Europe, the Middle East and South America concerning Nazi and fascist activities and refugee matters; correspondence with the Minister of Foreign Relations Jerome Remorino and other ministers about immigration and refugee matters. Includes Jewish refugee applications and special cases; reports on an underground political group led by Ante Pavelic and Radu Ghenea in South America; a report from the Argentine Embassy in Peru on antisemitic activities of the "Lions Club International"; confidential reports from the Embass...

  19. Records of the Archbishopric Help Agency for Non-Aryan Catholics Akten der Erzbischoeflichen Hilfsstelle fuer nichtarische Katholiken

    This collection contains records of the Erzbischöfliche Hilfsstelle für nichtarische Katholiken (Archbishopric Help Agency for Non-Aryan Catholics): manuscripts, correspondence, reports, diaries, photographs, postcards, drawings, other documents. Contains manuscripts, correspondence, and various materials of Father Ludger Born (1897–1980) documenting the work of the Hilfsstelle; files of Cardinal Dr. Theodor Innitzer; personal papers of Karl Rudolf; and other materials.

  20. Raymond Lee Howley photographs

    Consists of eight photographs taken by Raymond Lee Howley, a member of the American Army during World War II, who toured the Dachau concentration camp soon after the liberation of the camp. Includes images of the crematorium, of piles of corpses, of a sign leading to the camp, and of a guard dog.