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  1. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).

  2. Charles Deibel collection

    This collection relates to an attorney with the United States military who served as a defense attorney at the Dachau War Crimes trials, which were run by the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the United States Third Army. Charles B. Deibel, Jr. served in this role between 1945-1946, spanning the trials of personnel from the Dachau, Mauthausen, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. The collection includes original photographs and photographic negatives of images taken during the trials and candid photographs of Deibel and the rest of the defense team. The collection also includes intere...

  3. Kurt Kastan correspondence

    Letters written on concentration camp form stationary from Kurt Kastan to his wife Rosa (Rosel) and their daughters in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). The letters are primarily written from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, between February 1941 and February 1942.

  4. Florence Hodel papers

    The Florence Hodel papers consists of photographic portraits, printed reports, correspondence, and clippings related to Hodel’s work as a member of the staff of the War Refugee Board and her post-war work on the International Monetary Fund. The portraits include graduation portraits of Hodel, portraits of Hodel and her sisters ca. wartime, portraits of Hodel taken in 1945, and portraits, ca. 1960, of Hodel in her office at the International Monetary Fund. The War Refugee Board materials include a transcript of a meeting between Moses Leavitt of the Joint (JDC) and John Pehle, Florence Hodel...

  5. Donald Douglas papers

    Consists of research material, commemorative material, oral history interviews, and audiocassettes produced and collected by Dr. Donald Douglas, a professor at Wichita State University, who organized Holocaust remembrance events in the Midwest beginning in the 1970s. The collection includes material related to Yom Hashoah events from 1979-2000; research materials related to the World War II letters of Harold Porter, a member of the US Army; and transcripts of oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas, which formed the basis of Douglas's manuscript, "Survivors in...

  6. United Nations War Crimes Commission records

    This collection contains the records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission including the following: charge files consisting of formal charges submitted to the Commission, lists of war criminals, suspects, and material witnesses; summary minutes of meetings; documents, reports, and related material; correspondence; reports of national military tribunals, including US military courts; transcripts of proceedings and documents of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo trials); international prosecution section documents; as well as index cards of war criminals, 1942-1...

  7. Morris and Lala Fishman papers

    The Morris and Lala Fishman papers consist of identification papers, photographs, and printed materials documenting Lala Fishman’s displaced persons status after the Holocaust, her life in the Hasenhecke and Möncheberg displaced persons camps, Morris Fishman’s work as JDC director of the displaced persons camps in the Kassel, Passau, and Regensburg regions, and their marriage. Identification papers consist of Lala Fishman’s D.P. Identification Card, War Department dependant wife identification card, temporary travel document in lieu of passport, and Israel Bureau of Immigration card, as wel...

  8. Agudas Achim Congregation photograph collection

    Photo album: containing black and white photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps. Contains a variety of images including but not limited to: the reburial of victims of Nazi persecution by German citizens in Nuremberg, food distribution, social and sporting events, behind the scenes at Nuremberg prison and the Palace of Justice, scenes from the Nuremberg Ordnance Depot, a soup kitchen for local children, Army MPs, Nazi war criminals, and visiting dignitaries; all image captioned on verso; dated 1945-1947; in English.

  9. Gertrud Oppenheimer collection

    Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received permits to move to a transit camp in Marseille. In January 1942 Leo was transferred to a forced labor camp in Augagne, and in July he came to Marseille directly to a hospital. In August 19...

  10. Identification tag found by a US soldier near Auschwitz

    Clyde W. Dooley, a member of the U.S. occupying forces, found the tag near the Auschwitz Concentration camp.

  11. Records of the commune Boguszyce of the county Rawski Akta gminy Boguszyce powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1101)

    This collection contains the registration book (Tom V) of the commune Boguszyce of the county Rawa Mazowiecka. Included is registration of Jewish and Polish inhabitants from the villages: Kaliszki, Zarzecze, Łochów, Małgorzatów, and Podkonice Duże. Two Jewish families are registered in this book: Luftman's family, and Majercholc's family.

  12. Records of the commune Stara Wies County Rawski Akta gminy Stara Wieś powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1107)

    The collection contains vital records of the region of Biała Rawska, name lists of fireman in various communes, correspondence, reports, police announcements and orders regulating contacts with Jewish people, and medical orders for Jews and Roma to delouse them for prevention of infectious diseases.

  13. Records of the commune Gortatowice County Rawski Akta gminy Gortatowice powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1102)

    General correspondence of the commune Gortatowice, includes registration of teachers, intelligentsia, firemen, Jewish inhabitants, orders of relocation of Jewish families to Nowe Miasto, and the order to Polish inhabitants prohibiting them from helping Jewish people, with the threat of punishment by death for doing so. Also includes statistics about local properties, farms, agricultural property and household goods.

  14. Records of the commune Wałowice County Rawski located in Niwna Akta gminy Wałowice powiatu Rawskigo z siedziba w Niwnej (Sygn.1106)

    General correspondence of the commune Wałowice, including the registration of Jewish inhabitants, regulations related to Jewish families deported from Germany and Warsaw, and statistics of local properties, farms, and household goods. Also includes registers of Polish people murdered and arrested.

  15. Records of the commune Marianów, County Rawski Akta gminy Marianów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1104)

    Contains correspondence, registration books and names lists from the commune of Marianów: inclues a list of inhabitants receiving government grants, a list of patients with typhoid, correspondence concerning the treatment of Jewish patients and Jewish hospitals, and registration books of population of the commune Marianów.

  16. Records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka Akta gminy Regnów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1105)

    The collection contains vital records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka. Includes reports, police announcements and orders regulating registration of people who had migrated to that region, name lists of firemen, correspondence relating to military cemeteries, and government support of Jewish families after World War II.

  17. County Department in Rawa Mazowiecka Wydział Powiatowy w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1076)

    Contains minutes of meetings related to the organization of public life after World War II in Rawa Mazowiecka. Includes documents about the selection of members of the City Council, the organization of libraries, schools and hospitals, the care of cemeteries, protection of farmers, livestock, the removal of unexploded munitions from the war, and the establishment of budgets and taxes.

  18. Eugene and Elizabeth Franklin collection

    Photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Eugen Friedmann (donor), born in Kravany, Czechoslovakia in 1921. Documents his family's pre-war life in Kravany, his forced labor in Slovakia, and eventual deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Muhldorf concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Includes a postwar identity card illustrating the experiences of Alzbeta Weiss (donor), born in Chust, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine] in 1929; card for the United Kingdom issued to Alzbeta, who survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and Berge...

  19. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  20. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.