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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Italian
Language of Description: Polish
Country: United States

  1. Henry Ford and Theodor Fritsch Leaflet

    Reprints of correspondence between H. Ford and Theodor Fritsch, German anti-Semitic writer, relating to the works of T. Fritsch.

  2. Hugo and Flora Fleisher letters

    Letters, mainly to their daughter Luise Papo in London, relating to efforts to emigrate during and just prior to World War II.

  3. L'Extermination des Juifs polonais

    Relates to the genocide carried out against Jews in German-occupied Poland during World War II. There are actually two reports in this collection. The first report was written by a young Polish Jew from Warsaw, who had been a medical student in Italy, 1937-39. He describes the ghettos of Warsaw and Lublin and the Majdanek and Belsen concentration camps after he escaped on April 15, 1943. The 24 page report was made available in Geneva on November 1, 1943. The second report contains an eyewitness account of a member of the Judenrat of the town of Kosow Huculski who escaped and composed the a...

  4. Samuel Esterowicz Memoirs

    Relates to the Jewish holocaust in Lithuania. Also includes Russian language version. Processed in collaboration with Pearl Esterowicz Good.

  5. Irma C. Erman Papers

    Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and art objects, relating to German Jewish emigre affairs, the history of antisemitism, and Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Includes two plays dramatizing the actions of Paul Gruninger, a Swiss police captain, and Mitsugi Shibata, a Japanese official, in saving the lives of Jewish refugees in Austria and China, respectively, during World War II.

  6. Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich Collection

    Protocols of meetings, bulletins, statutes, programs, statements, position papers, pamphlets, and printed matter, relating primarily to the Swiss organizations Eidgenossische Gemeinschaft and Gotthard-Bund, Swiss preparations for resistance to a possible German invasion during World War II, and proposals for political and social reform in Switzerland during and after the war. Consists primarily of duplicate issuances of the Eidgenossische Gemeinschaft and the Gotthard-Bund collected by the Archiv fur Zeitgeschichte of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich.

  7. Adolf Eichmann Trial excerpts

    Includes excerpts from the testimony of Eichmann and others, and from the closing defense statement.

  9. Cesky svaz protifasistickych bojovniku. Ustredni rehabilitacni poradna.

    Statutes, memoranda, correspondence, bulletins, and printed matter, relating to efforts to secure political rehabilitation of certain members of the resistance movement in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II.

  10. Klaus Barbie Pre-trial Records

    Trial instruction, including depositions and exhibits, in the case of Klaus Barbie before the Tribunal de grande instance de Lyon, relating to German war crimes in France during World War II.

  11. J. C. Hurewitz Papers

    Correspondence, writings, notes, government documents, pamphlets, reports, memoranda, serial issues, and statutes, relating to diplomatic relations of and domestic conditions in various countries of the Middle East and North Africa, mainly during the period 1945-1960; American and British foreign policy in the Middle East; Palestine and the Zionist movement; and the Suez Canal. Includes statutes of Afghanistan, 1931-1957, in Persian, with translations; Zionist and some anti- Zionist literature from the interwar Period and the period of formation of the Israeli state; reports of the United S...

  12. Thomas St. John Gaffney Papers

    Correspondence, writings, and printed matter, relating to international relations, the World War I war guilt question, reparations, Irish independence, American domestic politics and foreign policy, and Jews. Includes correspondence with Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile, Baron Hermann Speck von Sternberg (German ambassador to the United States), and Jules Cambon (French ambassador to Germany).

  13. Paul Lamont Hanna Correspondence

    Correspondence with British government agencies. Relates to the attitude of the British government toward the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1917.

  14. Der Bericht der Internationalen Historikerkommission

    Relates to activities of Kurt Waldheim (subsequently president of Austria and Secretary-General, United Nations, 1972-1982) as a German officer in Yugoslavia and Greece during World War II, and especially to allegations of participation in war crimes by Waldheim. Includes subsequent printed version of report.

  15. United Restiution Organization Misecellaneous Records

    Office files, correspondence, and mimeographed directives, relating to Jewish restitution claims against the West German government. Includes draft of a proposed revision of the German restitution law. The first three boxes contain a set of "URO Rundschreiben", nos. l-l500/67 dealing with indemnity regulations on the basis of health damage, loss of family, pension rights, employment discrimination, etc. The set is not complete, but missing numbers are carefully marked. The remaining three boxes contain office files, mimeo-graphed regulations and German legislative resitution proposals. The ...

  16. Kurt Werner Schächter Collection

    Photocopies of French and German government documents, relating to internment camps in Vichy France during World War II, and to deportation of Jews and other from Vichy France to German concentration camps. Includes some original government documents and some correspondence and writings of K. W. Schaechter.

  17. Russia. Departament politsii. Zagranichnaia agentura (Paris)

    Intelligence reports from agents in the field and the Paris office, dispatches, circulars, headquarters studies, correspondence of revolutionaries, and photographs, relating to activities of Russian revolutionists abroad. Includes XVIII, Revolutionary Groups of National Minorities of the Russian Empire: a) The Jewish Bund, b) The Zionist Movement, c) Jewish émigré problems for Russian security abroad, d) Activities in America: finances for Jewish movements.

  18. Ernst Rosenthal: Das Recht des Jüdischen Siedlungsgebiets Theresienstadt

    Relates to the law of the Jewish settlement area Theresienstadt. This document consists of a very detailed exposition of the legal status and rights of the inhabitants of Theresienstadt, compiled by Dr. Ernst Rosenthal, a lawyer, in July l944. The material is useful for the description of legal conditions in the ghetto, self administration through the Judenrat, and obligations to the SS commander.

  19. Friedrich Riebe

    This folder contains the personal papers of Friedrich Riebe, born in 1901, inducted into the SS in September 1944 and became a concentration camp guard in Sachsenhausen in November 1944. According to his records, he was a butcher by trade, who had been working as an auxiliary worker in a chemical factory in May 1944. The documents are interesting for the background of a concentration camp guard. Also of interest is the poor quality of the actual paper by November 1944.

  20. Radical right Collection

    Pamphlets, leaflets, newspaper and serial issues, newsletters, bulletins, circulars, and other printed and near-print material, issued by right-wing organizations and individuals in the United States, relating to anti-communist, patriotic, fundamentalist, racist, antisemitic, neo-Nazi and other right-wing political movements and concerns in the United States, primarily since World War II. Includes material relating to world government, education, mental health, fluoridation and other issues. Includes a few letters and other manuscript materials.