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  1. 422nd Night Fighter Squadron collection

    Contains 12 photographs taken by a soldier in the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron stationed in Belgium. Includes images of damage to an unidentified city, and post-liberation photographs of survivors in an unidentified concentration camp.

  2. Arthur Goldberg collection

    Photographs and a document of Arthur Goldberg illustrating his experiences as an Army Medic (pharmacist) in the 139th Evacuation Hospital of the US Army. Photographs (copy prints) were taken in the Ebensee slave labor camp in Austria; document distributed likely by the US Army; photos taken by Arthur.

  3. The Eckstein family at a fair and playing in their garden

    June 1939. The children in striped jackets outdoors in their garden in Bítýška. Greenhouse. 01:01:13 Pan of the family home at Vev. Bítýška. 01:01:20 The children ride the carousel with the nanny in a checkered jacket. 01:01:54 Michael helps Antonín off the carousel. 01:02:00 The family and nanny pose for a portrait in the funhouse mirror (notice mother Toni with the camera standing at right behind her son Antonín). Very brief shot of only the couple, Toni and Michael, at 01:02:08. [These are the only images of mother Toni across the films]. Antonin and Michaela play in piles of hay in thei...

  4. Namiestnik Rzeszy w Okregu Kraju Warty w Poznaniu Selected records of the Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen (GK 62)

    Correspondence relating the employment of Poles by Germans, mattaers of NSDAP party, statistics on various nationalities, resistance movement, church matters, displacement of Poles and Jews, extermination of civilians, racial policy, and gremanization of Polish orphans in Kalisz and Kirchdorf. Includes a register book with names of Poles, Jews and Russians murdered by gendarmerie and Gestapo, 1939-1945 (Wieluń, Wieruszowa, Ostrzeszowa, Pajęczno), and a name list of prisoners from the labor camp in Wąsowo, Poland.

  5. Rabbi Louis and Margit Isaac papers

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, and writings related to Rabbi Lajos Izsak (later Louis Isaac) and Margit (Kohn) Izsak (later Margaret Isaac) who emigrated from Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary to the US in 1938. Features extensive correspondence between Rabbi Lajos Izsak and his brother Rabbi Yitzhak Izsak (Isaac) in Memphis, related to efforts to raise funds and rescue relatives and other Jews in Europe. Also includes Rabbi Lajos Izsak's letters of reference.

  6. Nazi photo album

    Photo album of Adolf Hitler with Heinrich Hoffmann photos inscribed "K. Steiger 1942"

  7. Isaac Sevi recordings

    Recording of Isaac Sevi singing traditional songs in Ladino and possibly Hebrew. The recording is on an audiocassette.

  8. Veith family photographs

    Consists of Veith family photographs depicting Julius and Marie (née Oppenheimer) Veith and their son Franz Veith. Julius and Maria resided in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and were the parents of two sons, Franz and Erwin. All four Veith family members attempted to flee from Europe and from Nazi persecution. However, while Franz and Erwin were able to immigrate to the United States and England respectively, Julius and Marie remained in Netherlands as refugees for several year before they were deported to Sobibor in July 1943.

  9. Dezsofi family photo albums

    Two photo albums of Dorotta Dezsoefi (donor) and her twin sister Ida Marianne (Mari) Dezsoefi who were born on January 31, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. Photographs in the albums document the period from 1930-1947. The twins survived the war years in a convent protected by nuns. The albums survived the war years in the family's apartment in Subotica, which was taken over by high ranking officers. All of the contents of the apartment remained intact, and it was overseen by their former maid. The family recovered the albums after returning to Subotica. The photos were taken by family members inc...

  10. George Leitmann papers

    Documents and materials related to Alexander Leitmann

  11. Gerald Rosenstein collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and a family book [Stambuch] illustrating Max and Sophie Rosenstein and their children Ernst, Hans, and Gerhard who immigrated to the Netherlands from Bensheim, Germany. Included in the collection are documents surrounding Ernst, who fled to Palestine in the 1930s and then was killed in Action while a soldier for the British. Also included are materials illustrating the experiences of Max, Sophie and Gerhard who were deported to Theresienstadt camp in the Czech Republic. Max and Gerhard were then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and its subca...

  12. Oral history interview with Leo Anspach

  13. Rebecca Knaster papers

    Documents, certificates, identification, correspondence, and restitution papers relating to Baruch and Cyla (Cila) Knaster.

  14. Ury family photographs

    One photograph of Ludwig Ury and his son Fritz Ury in Berlin in 1928 and one photograph of Ludwig and his wife Else Ury. Fritz moved to England in 1926 and later sponsored his father Ludwig, who survived by fleeing to England in 1939.

  15. Tony Carbone collection

    Photographs of a deportation action in Russia, Jewish children, Germany military activities, and a landscape.

  16. Morck and Mayer families papers

    The Morck and Mayer families papers include documents relating to the prewar life and immigration of Anneliese Morck (later Anne Martin) and the extended Morck and Mayer families from Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, Germany. Identification and immigration documents relating to Hugo, Alice, Anne, and Heinz Morck include German passports, certificates of registration for the United Kingdom, certificates of naturalization for the United States, affidavits, visa documentation, packing lists, and passenger booklets for the SS President Harding. Identification and immigration documents relating...

  17. Ruth Taub Feldman papers

    Collection comprised of documents, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and a ketubah, as well as photocopies, some of the originals are in 1995.A.0736.

  18. The Hildegard Simon Lustig and Herlinger family papers

    Consists of period correspondence and later translations pertaining to the experiences of Hildegard Simon Lustig, a survivor of the Holocaust born in Vienna, Austria who was deported from Nagykanizsa, Hungary in 1944, and her extended family. Letters in the collection were authored by and addressed to Herlinger and Lustig family members of Vienna, Austria, Prague Czechoslovakia, and Nagykanizsa, Hungary.

  19. Theodore Levite papers

    Letters that include biographical information and photographs from Theodore Levite when he entered the US Army and a news clipping about the event.

  20. Rudy Baum photograph collection

    The collection contains four photographs taken after Buchenwald's liberation in April 1945 that show American soldiers, survivors, and German civilians. All photos are stamped on verso with the name, address, and phone number of the donor as well as notes written in English that detail what is being depicted in each photograph. Includes images of victim bodies, German civiliians gathered around what is noted on verso to be a human skin lamp, and the gallows.