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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Latvian
Holding Institution: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution And Peace

  1. Dachau (Germany: Concentration Camp) miscellaneous records

    Prisoner lists, supply lists, and miscellany, relating to operations of the camp during World War II.

  3. Claremont Graduate School. Oral History Program. Transcripts of oral history interviews

    Relates to persecution of Jews in German-occupied Austria and Poland during World War II. Includes miscellaneous printed matter relating to antisemitism. Included are accounts (in Yiddish) by Josef B. Baruch dealing with American aid; account of Dr. Simon Green relating to the experiences of an Austrian Jew, emigration to Finland and conditions in Finnish camps; interview of Dr. Joseph and Marie Rebhun describing the experiences of a Polish Jew and his survival. These interviews are useful for graphic first-hand descriptions, evaluations of conditions, and particularly for knowledge about F...

  4. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz papers

    Dissertation, and photocopies of depositions and Polish government documents, relating to conditions in Poland during World War II, and especially to resistance movements, collaboration, and conditions of Jews.

  5. Glen A. Chandler Collection

    Letters, clippings, and pamphlets, relating to Gerald L. K. Smith and antisemitism in the United States. Includes pamphlets and photocopies of two letters by Smith, and microfilm of clippings about Smith assembled by the Anti-Defamation League.

  6. René de Chambrun Papers

    Depositions, correspondence, and printed matter, relating primarily to political conditions in France under the government of Marshal Philippe Petain and Premier Pierre Laval, 1940-1944. Translations of a portion of the documents are published in France during the German Occupation, 1940-1944 (Stanford, 1958). Comte Rene de Chambrun is Pierre Laval's son-in-law and has attempted together with his wife to clear Laval's name. The sections pertaining to the Jewish question are: Envelope #99: Monier, Georges, Deposition on Jewish policy of the Laval government, March l948; Envelope #ll9: Delpey...

  7. Wendy Abraham Interviews

    Sound and video recordings of interviews of Jews in China, relating to the Chinese Jewish community. Used as research material for the doctoral dissertation by Wendy Abraham, The Role of Confucian and Jewish Educational Values in the Assimilation of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng (Columbia University, 1989).

  8. Joan Abramson: A Page of Glory

    Fictionalized account of the persecution of Jews in Warsaw and elsewhere in Poland during World War II.

  9. Norman Allderdice Collection

    Pamphlets, leaflets, and other printed ephemera, issued by right-wing, left-wing, and other political organizations, and by governmental, business, labor, religious, educational and other organizations, relating to political, social, and economic conditions in the United States and abroad, and especially to right-wing and left-wing movements in the United States.

  10. American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism records

    Correspondence, speeches and writings, press releases, and printed matter, relating to Jewish-Arab relations in the Middle East.

  11. American Relief Administration: Russian Operations

    Records, 1919-1925; Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries, and photographs, relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the Soviet Union. Includes materials on interaction between the American Relief Administration and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

  12. Wladyslaw Anders Collection

    Orders, reports, card files, questionnaires, accounts, Soviet government documents and publications, photographs, microfiche, and printed matter, relating to World War II, the Polish armed forces in the Soviet Union, the Polish 2nd Army Corps in Italy, Polish citizens arrested and deported under German and Soviet occupation, Polish foreign relations, the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, and Polish Jews. Consists mainly of records of the bureau of documentation of the Polish 2nd Army Corps. Includes statements, reports, and questionnaires reflecting conditions of the Polish Jews for the...

  13. Elizabeth N. Baker Miscellaneous Papers

    Leaflets, bulletins, correspondence, and clippings, relating to American politics and government, and conservative, anti-communist, and pacifist political groups in the United States. Indexes: Preliminary inventory.

  14. Siegfried Bernfeld journals

    Literary journals of German and Austrian secondary schools. "Festschriften" of graduating German and Austrial secondary school classes, 1903-1914, and youth group journals, primarily literary, 1908-1909. Several issues are by Gerhart Eisler. Includes special journals in celebration of the "Matura" and "Kneipzeitungen." The specifically Jewish titles are: "Die Geschichte der Koenigin Esther," Prag, Bar Kochba, n.d.; "Der Neue Weg," Zionismus und Judenkultur, February l9l5; "Fuehrerzeitung des Juedischen Wanderbundes Blau-Weiss," Olmuetz, l9l2, several of the issues are in Hebrew (box l); "Ju...

  15. William W. Brickman papers

    Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, reports, syllabi, bibliographies, curricular materials, serial issues, textbooks, and other printed matter, relating to the history and philosophy of education, education in various countries, Jewish education, and Jewish history. Includes photocopies of correspondence of William C. Bagley. Indexes: Preliminary inventory.

  16. Inventory of the Charles Patrick Carroll papers

    Correspondence, notes, conference papers, and printed matter, relating to medical ethics, and to medical, legal, moral and theological aspects of euthanasia, sterilization, abortion, assisted suicide, and related issues. Includes copies of transcripts of war crime trials of Nazi doctors at Nuremberg. Indexes: Inventory.

  17. Center for Human Rights Advocacy issuances

    Manuals, newsletters, legal briefs, and affidavits, relating to the status of civil liberties in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, the incidence of antisemitism, and proposals for promoting due process of law in those countries.

  18. Chaim Weizmann, Israel and the Jewish people

    Excerpts from speeches and interviews, relating to the life of Chaim Weizmann, Zionist leader and president of Israel, and to the foundation of the Israeli state. Narrated by Abba Eban. Produced and directed by Ram Ben Efraim.

  19. Meyer David Bashein letters

    Relates to relief work by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Germany after World War II.