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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Elsa Wells Kormann collection

    Contains 2 photographs of the Dueppel Center Jewish Displaced Persons Camp in Berlin, Germany, 3 copies of the same photographs, and 11 letters written by students in the Dueppel Center Jewish Displaced Persons Camp.

  2. Dominic Gasbarri photographs

    The Dominic Gasbarri photographs consist of thirty black and white photographs of victims, survivors, and facilities at the liberated Ebensee concentration camp and one photograph of Dominic Gasbarri. Many of photographs include Gasbarri's descriptions of survivors, facilities, and daily life at the liberated camp on the verso.

  3. Schmarak and Bieler family papers

    The Schmarak and Bieler family papers consists of letters, postcards, telegrams, visas, and identification documents relating to the Schmarak and Bieler families in Switzerland and Poland during World War II.

  4. Striem family papers

    Contains a photocopy of Rolf Striem's birth certificate, the last letters he received from his parents in Germany, and copies of his obituary.

  5. Safta Marin memoir

    Contains a memoir, 5 pages, typed in Romanian, by Safta Marin (born Georghe Apostol), originally of Clejani, Romania. In the memoir, he describes his childhood as a Roma/Sinti, his experiences traveling by wagon as part of a deportation into Russia in 1942, and the starvation and deaths of members of his family. Born Georghe Apostol, after the war he named himself Safta Marin after a brother who died during the war.

  6. Moser family papers

    Contains letters and documents related to the Moser family's move from Berlin to Shanghai and lists of material items taken with them to Shanghai.

  7. Albert Wesley Barthelmes letter

    Contains a copy of a three-page letter written by Albert Wesley Barthelmes to his parents about the liberation of a concentration camp.

  8. Selected records from the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross

    Contains documents created and collected by the International Committee of the Red Cross including correspondence related to stateless individuals, information on discriminatory and expulsion measures in Bavaria, and materials related to the development and administration of the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany.

  9. Slovaquie - resistance

    Contains copies of documents from the DII collection at the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris, France. Includes copies of official documents concerning the surveillance, persecution and internment of Jews from Slovakia, including information about resistance movements.

  10. Institut d'étude des questions juives

    Records relates to the founding and activities of the Institute, including its personnel and finances, relations with German authorities, definition of who was classified as a Jew, attempts to import “racial science” from Germany, creation of the journal "La question juive en France et dans le monde," confiscation and Aryanization of Jewish property, and exhibition "Le juif et la France" at the Palais Berlitz.

  11. Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo). Selected records, France.

    Wide range of documentation of Gestapo activities in France: deportations of Jews, implementation of anti-Jewish legislation (e.g., wearing the star of David, confiscation of property), propaganda, internment camps, relations between German and French police and military authorities, relations with Italian authorities, resistance and repression, and the like.

  12. Etat-Major Allemand en France: Otages et Exécutions

    The collection documents the development and application of hostage and reprisal policies in occupied France under the military authorities and later the SS. Contains detailed prisoner and hostage lists from places such as Melun, Amiens, Laon, and Rouen, as well as reports and correspondence about prison conditions and shootings. Title of collection used is that applied by the source repository, to denote selected records they obtained after the war, which had originated from various military and SS offices in occupied France.

  13. Camp du Vernet: Fiches individuelles des internés

    Contains alphabetically arranged files on individuals interned in the Vernet camp.

  14. Organisations juives en France avant 1939

    Contains records, documents, reports, correspondence, member lists, and statistics from prewar Jewish organizations such as the Societé Française de Propagation du Travail Industriel et Agricole parmi les Juifs, Maison Israélite de Refuge pour l’enfance, Maison de Refuge Israélite de Lyon, Association Zadoc Kahn, École Normale Israélite, and Comité de Bienfaisance Israélite.

  15. Afrique du Nord. Congrès Juif Mondial. Maroc--pays étrangers.

    Contains records about the activities of the World Jewish Congress in North Africa, antisemitism in the French army, the delegation from Tunisia at the War Emergency Conference, the Cremieux Decree, the German seizure of Jewish assets, German atrocities, the postwar activities of Adolf Eichmann, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and the interrogations of the International Tribunal in Nuremberg.

  16. Archives de Nuremberg: Rosenberg

    Contains records from the archives of Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi official and the head of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR). Included is information about Rosenberg’s activities concerning cultural purification; the confiscation of books, furniture, and works of art; his ideological activities outside Germany; his policies concerning the Soviet Union; his conflicts with Himmler, Bormann, Koch, and Goebbels; and the military mobilization of native ethnic communities against the Soviet Union. The documents that comprise this collection were selected by the source repository, the Cent...

  17. Archives de Nuremberg : Juives de Riga

    Contains documentation about the German occupation authorities in Latvia, the expropriation of Jewish property, and the head of the Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete, Alfred Rosenberg. The documents that comprise this collection were selected by the source repository, the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, following the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, from documents that had been collected as potential evidence during the trial of Alfred Rosenberg.

  18. Archives de Drancy

    Contains documentation about the administration of the camp, the condition and treatment of the inmates, lists of inmates, a list of those liberated from the camp, information about provisions for Christmas 1943, memoranda from the camp commandant, personal papers of the inmates, and other information.

  19. Drancy: Notes de Service et Notes du Commandant du Camp

    The collection consists of notes de service from the Jewish camp commandants covering a period from the assumption of direct administrative control of the camp by the Germans in early July 1943 to the winding down of camp operations in August 1944.

  20. Harry Bamberger speech

    Contains a videotape of Harry Bamberger addressing a group of high school students in Ojai, California. Harry Bamberger discusses his experiences escaping from Holland during the war and his eventual linking up with the RAF in Great Britain and Mr. Bamberger's brother, Jacques, who was active in the Dutch underground and helped many Jews escape from the Nazis during the occupation.