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  1. Willy van Gurp testimony

    Consist of one testimony, five pages, presumably written in 1945, by Willy van Gurp, a female member of the Dutch Underground. Ms. van Gurp was arrested in June 1944 due to her involvement in the Underground. After questioning, she was imprisoned, first in the Vught concentration camp, and at the evacuation of the camp, she was sent to Ravensbrück. She describes conditions in Ravensbrück in the fall of 1944 and her deportation to Munich, where she worked in a munitions factory connected to Dachau. As the Americans approached, she was sent on a death march toward a camp near Innsbruck and wa...

  3. Martin Weiss papers

    The Martin Weiss papers consists of identification documents collected by Martin Weiss in post-war Czechoslovakia. The documents were collected by Weiss after his release from the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp, and were intended to be used for Weiss’ immigration to the United States.

  4. Adolf Eichmann passport

    Consists of copies and enlargements of the passport issued by the Italian delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Ricard Klement, a pseudonym used by Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann used this passport to immigrate to Argentina in 1950.

  5. Albert Balassa Schutzpass

    Consists of one Swedish safe conduct pass issued to Mr. Albert Balassa in Budapest on October 22, 1944. The document, in which Mr. Balassa's name is filled in to a form, is signed by Raoul Wallenberg.

  6. Joseph Winkler memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 660 pages, untitled, by Joseph Winkler, originally born in Sambor, Galicia, in 1903. The memoir was dictated in August 1974 and transcribed. In his memoir, Mr. Winkler describes his childhood, life under Russian occupation during World War I, and seeing his town become Polish territory. He got a job at a petroleum refinery in Drohobycz in 1927, received his doctorate in chemistry, and met and married Eugenia (Genia) Weidenfeld, with whom he had a daughter, Lili. He describes the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and life under the Russian occupation. After the German...

  7. Fred Haber Signal Corps collection

    Consists of 8x10 black and white Signal Corps photographs taken during and immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of Allied conferences (including Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and Quebec), journalists visiting the concentration camps in April 1945, the capitulations of both Japan and Germany, the Nuremberg trials, Landsberg prison, members of the Signal Corps, USO shows, atrocities in the Pacific theater, the death of Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession, and the 1945 victory parade in Washington DC, as well as many other candid and posed photographs. The photo...

  8. Marie Warschawsky manuscript

    The Marie Warschawsky manuscript consists of one bound copy of handwritten testimony and copies of personal documents and photographs relating to the life of Marie Warschawsky (Maroussia, 1881-1964). It relates Warschawsky’s upbringing in Russia among the Jewish upper middle class close to the Tsar’s court, her travel in France and interest in fashion, and her creation of a workshop in Saint Petersbourg to make luxury dresses. The document outlines her nursing education and career, her conversion of the family dacha into a hospital during the Russo-Japanese War, her work at the hospital in ...

  9. "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child"

    Consists of a lecture delivered by Dr. Shmuel Kneller at the Holocaust Studies Centre in Haifa upon the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9, 2008. In the lecture, entitled "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child," Dr. Kneller describes his memories of Hitler coming to power, of pre-war antisemitism, and of his experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht. The lecture, originally given in Hebrew, was translated in English.

  10. Hugo Princz restitution case files

    Consists of documents pertaining to the restitution and indemnification case brought by Mr. Hugo Princz against the German Republic. Mr. Princz's case was represented by Washington DC attorney Steven R. Perles. Mr. Princz was one of the exceptionally few American-Jews who was liberated from a concentration camp in 1945. The case was settled for $2.1 million dollars.

  11. Gelb family collection

    The Gelb family collection consists of documents and photographs related to the family of Josef and Helena Feldmanova Gelb, originally of Vynohradiv (Sevlus), Czechoslovakia. In 1928, Mr. Gelb immigrated to the United States and managed to bring his family in January 1933. Includes photographs taken in Czechoslovakia, visa and immigration paperwork, and paperwork regarding the Gelbs' son Jacob, who fought as a member of the United States Army during World War II.

  12. War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves

    Removing bodies of victims from wreckage, mattresses, covering bodies with sheet. Pan up, body of victim hanging over wall. Civilians look at ruins and wipe eyes, mountain in far BG. CU American holds battered body of a girl. 03:00:56 (LIB 6355) May 4, 1945. View of concentration camp buildings. CU, sign, "Zugang zu den Krankenbaracken" with figurines. Barbed wire fence and guardtower surrounding Flossenbuerg slave labor camp. CU, bullet-marked and blood-smeared wall - the scene of executions in the camp. INTs, barracks/living quarters, dead prisoners. Steel grating over open pit, crematori...

  13. France occupation photograph collection

    Two vintage copy prints depicting the French surrender to Germany. The first photograph is of the French and German delegations inside the “Armistice Car.” The second photograph depicts Hitler and his generals standing in front of the memorial slab for the 1918 Armistice with Germany; Glade of the Armistice, Compiègne, France; dated June 21, 1940.

  14. Ludwigsluster Tageblatt

    Consists of the April 20, 1945 edition of the Ludwigsluster Tageblatt newspaper. Includes articles about the perceived progress of the war and an article entitled "What we are fighting for."

  15. "The Activity and Rising of the Hitlerjugend" Until the Outbreak of World War II

    Consists of one research paper entitled "The Activity and the Rising of the Hitlerjugend [Hitler Youth] until the Outbreak of World War II," by Shai Rossler. Includes information gathered from interviews with former members of the Hitler Youth and BDM (Bund Deutscher Maedel, or the League of German Girls) and a discussion of the history of the National Socialist youth movements.

  16. Marcel Confino collection

    The colelction consists of photographs acquired by Marcel Confino while living Bulgaria during WWII.

  17. "My Encounter with Eichmann"

    Consists of a memoir,16 pages, entitled "My Encounter with Eichmann" by Stephen Shields, a member of the 71st Infantry Division of the United States Army. In the memoir, Mr. Shields describes his memory of a conversation he had with a German prisoner of war, whom he believes to have been Adolf Eichmann, and his memories of the liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp. The memoir also contains information about Eichmann's role in Budapest and the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg.

  18. Michael Erlitzki memoir

    Consists of one copy of the handwritten testimony, by Mr. Michael Erlitzki. The memoir, 17 pages, in Polish, describes Mr. Erlitzki's Holocaust experiences as a teenager.

  19. Peter Albrecht passport

    Consists of an Austrian passport for Peter Albrecht, born August 25, 1921 in Vienna. The passport, issued in 1929 and renewed in 1934, shows photographs of Peter and multiple stamps from 1929-1938 for travel in Austria, Switzerland, Nazi Germany, and France.

  20. Helen Winninger Livnat collection

    Collection of photographs and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the Winninger family. Contains an identity card from the Shargorod ghetto, issued to Fabus Winninger, 39 years old, his wife Beatrice and his daughter Helen, from Gura Humorului; dated March 26, 1943 and signed by the head of the Jewish council, Dr. Meir Teich. Also includes an immigration permit issued to Helen Wininger allowing her to remain in Palestine, dated March 5, 1948; nine photographs of Helen with her parents in the Atlith detention camp, dated October-November 1947; one photograph of a group of child...