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Language of Description: Czech
Language of Description: English

  1. Oral history interview with Leo Weil

  2. Anni Zajac Leist collection

    The collection consists of a green skirt suit relating to the experiences of Anna Zajac (later Leist) and her family in prewar Berlin, Germany, and a 1939 letter sent from Poland by her father Wolf to Anna, who had escaped to England on a Kindertransport.

  3. Nadia Meshorer collection

    The collection consists of a Polish army uniform that belonged to Ester Leah (Lola) Szafran, nee Witkowska when she was a nurse with the Polish Army during the Holocaust. Also included are a set of dog tags, a business card and 26 black and white photographs.

  4. "Sefer Maasim Tovim" photograph

    Consists of one photograph of two girls holding a "Sefer Maasim Tovim" in Be̜drin, Poland, in the 1930s. On the right is Ester Krel and Libele Rubinsztajn is on the left.

  5. Book

    Book: "Die Grundlagen Des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts- Erste Halfte", by Houston Stewart Chamberlain; 1915; in German

  6. Margit Meissner collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Margit Meissner when she worked for the US Office of War Information and the US Army of occupation to promote re-education efforts in Germany after World War II.

  7. Arthur Szyk and the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, Inc. collection

    The collection consists of a set of four lithograph reproductions of Arthur Szyk drawings created and distributed by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, Inc., in 1944.

  8. Lobstein family collection

    Collection consisting of two armbands, a memoir written by Fritzi Lobstein, biographical information, correspondence, legal documents, and photographs pertaining to the Lobstein family's experiences in Vienna, Belgium, France, St. Cyprien, and the United States.

  9. Holocaust in the Ukraine

    Typescript of text, approximately 200 pages, by A.I. Kruglov, titled "Kholokaust na Ukraine, 1941-1944," completed by Kruglov in 1993. This text was submitted by Steffan Sella in 1994 who included a handwritten explanation in English about Kruglov's work.

  10. Adam Rogowski memoir

    Typescript memoir, bound, 264 pages, titled "Lost and Found," an English translation of Adam Rogowski's Hebrew-language memoir of his Holocaust experiences, titled "B'Akalton Yelech Adam."

  11. Landsberg, Germany

    Testimony, 5 pages, photocopied, about experience as U.S. soldier in the liberation of Landsberg, 1945.

  12. Yakov Shvartsman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, one page with handwritten annotations. Describes Shvartsman's experiences in Odessa, the Ahmechetska concentration camp, and Domanevka during occupation.

  13. Auf einen fremden planeten das lager BIIb in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript in German, with corresponding English translation, about author's experiences in "family camp" B II b at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  14. Johtje Vos colledtion

    Testimony, 217 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "From the Entrance of the Tunnel." Describes activities of author and her husband in Dutch resistance and hiding Jews during German occupation of Netherlands.

  15. Gerald Malenbaum papers

    Testimony, two pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "Ostrog, Ukraine, Summer 1941," written by Malenbaum in 1993, and copies of letters in Yiddish from parents and family members, circa 1915-1930.

  16. Fella Allon collection

    Consists of one memoir, 148 pages, written by Dr. Ada Rudi-Gershem, entitled "Conch."

  17. Morton Benson collection

    Contains information regarding his observations of corpses in striped uniforms on the side of the road in April 1945 while serving in the 11th Armored Division of the Third Army; only one date entry from a diary kept by the donor.

  18. Gerda Happ and Josef Stern collection

    Documents, photographs, manuscript of a family tree, and a prayer book illustrating Gerda Happ and her extended family and Josef Stern and his extended family. Gerda and Josef met and married in South Africa after they both fled there to escape Nazi persecution.

  20. Oral history interview with Clara Rechnitz