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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Imre Patai diaries and albums

    The collection includes 27 diaries written from 1934-1949 by Imre Patai, a Jewish Hungarian physicist, inventor, and factory owner. In his diaries Imre writes about the daily events of his life in Hungary, events of the war, the siege of Budapest, experiences in an international ghetto, Jewish homes under Swedish protection, and the struggles of living in a country occupied by the Red Army. The collection also includes albums of family photographs, mainly from the 1920s and 1930s, depicting the travels of Imre and his wife, Ági Jámbor, and Imre’s work in his factory producing electric instr...

  2. Indictment: Opening Petition for the Auschwitz Trial Antrag auf Eröffnung des Hauptverfahrens, Anklageschrift, Landgericht Frankfurt am Main

    Contains files from the opening of the main proceedings of the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.

  3. Mihaly Klein letters

    Contains two letters written in 1946 and 1947 by Mihaly Klein, the only member of the Klein family of Kaszony, Hungary (Kosyno, in present-day Ukraine), who survived the deportation in 1944. The addressee of the letters was Mihaly's cousin, Ilon Klein, sister of Herman Klein.

  4. Oral history interview with Judith Marie Lessing

  5. "Aufs Neue Beginnen"

    Testimony, typescript (249 pp.) of Heinz Umrath, titled "Aufs Neue Beginnen," about childhood, wartime years, and emigration from Germany. One section has credit ("typed and produced by") the Archive of Social Democracy at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bonn, Germany.

  6. Tell The world

    Contains one memoir, ten pages, about Morris Baker's childhood experiences in Zambrow, Poland, his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and his liberation by Americans in May 1945.

  7. Panel: Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust

    Contains interviews with prisoners and liberators, Mrs. Olga Murphy, Mr. John Regnier, and Mr. Mel Bloom.

  8. German newspaper clippings

    Contains German newspaper clippings with information about the passage of the Nuremberg Laws.

  9. Litten family documents

    Contains one Reisepass for Margarethe and Annelore Litten and two identification cards for Conrad and Margarethe Litten which document their journey from Berlin, Germany, to the United States in 1939.

  10. Stanislaw (Mundek) Steiger letter

    Contains a letter, two pages, written by Stanislaw (Mundek) Steiger to Leo Brawer in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1938 about the treatment of Jews in Germany and Austria. He describes anti-Jewish propaganda radio broadcasts and the deportation of Jewish Polish citizens out of Germany to Poland.

  11. Ruth H. Windmuller papers

    The Ruth H. Windmuller papers primarily consist of song lyrics and poems written by children at the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants children’s homes Villa Helvetia at Montmorency and Château Montintin near Château‐Chervix. The collection also includes a program for a children’s performance at Villa Helvetia, and a clipping and a flyer documenting two children Windmuller knew at Montmorency or Montintin. The lyrics and poems are set to well‐known children’s songs and use clever words and rhymes to describe staff, events, activities, work, and recreation at the children’s homes at Villa Helveti...

  12. New archive of the history of Jews in Greece

    Correspondence, population statistics, diplomatic telegrams, ethnographic maps, reports, press clippings, citizenship certificates, receipts, lists of real estate and other records of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs relating to the history of Greek Jewry. Records span years circa 1917-1960. Collection includes but is not limited to information relating to the 1917 fire of Thessaloniki, reports of the atrocities of Bulgarians against Greeks, conditions of Jews in other countries, Jewish emigration, Greek support to Jewish effort for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, discr...

  13. Robert Heuck papers

    The Robert Heuck papers contain course material from the School of Military Government; military government reports; memos describing telephone conversations, notes, and receipts; and printed materials documenting Robert Heuck’s attendance at military government school in Charlottesville in 1943 and 1944 and his service in the Provisional Military Government in Zwickau in 1945. School of Military Government course material include lectures on the history, theory, and practice of military government, the Allied governments in North Africa and Italy, economic aspects of the German occupation ...

  14. Joseph Zeller collection

    Consists of six photographs of Jewish orphans, including Joseph (Zelikovich) Zeller, who found refuge in England following the war; and one copyprint of the Zelikovich family before the war.

  15. Gerrichtsoffizier, Orpo Kommandantura, Fond R-682/1

    Contains list of the Orpo personnel who committed crimes, lists of German officers, and other documents relating to the black market activities, recruitment and education of police.

  16. A Testament of the Survivors, A Memorial to the Dead The Collection of Gross-Breesen Letters and Related Material

    Contains a series of transcribed testimonies, diaries, and newsletters in German and English which were collected by Herbert Cohn and relate to the experiences of Jewish youth who lived on the Gross-Breesen training farm. The documents, gathered into a book in 2000, was dedicated to Dr. Curt Bondy, director of Gross-Breesen.

  17. Lithuanian Sipo and SD Commander in Vilnius, Fond R-680/2

    Contains orders; educational materials; personnel files; lists of arrested persons, of Communist Party members, and of Jews working for the Sipo and SD Commander in Vilnius; telegrams about the activities of Soviet paratroopers in Poland; reports on partisan activities and lists of wanted partisans; index cards of surveyed persons; and publications.

  18. Orpo bei SSPF Litauen (Kaunas), Fond R-683/1, 2

    Contains orders; educational materials; personnel files; lists of arrested persons, of Communist Party members, and of Jews working for the Sipo and SD Commander in Vilnius; telegrams about the activities of Soviet paratroopers in Poland; reports on partisan activities and lists of wanted partisans; index cards of surveyed persons; and publications.

  19. Stadtkommandant Vilnius, Fond R-689/1,3

    Contains orders and instructions of the police chief, as well as data on personnel. The documents contain information on Communists, conscripted Jewish labor, crime, deserters, partisans, police battalions, Jewish property, and police behavior.

  20. Kaunas Lithuanian Railroad Police, Fond R-703/1

    Contains copies of orders from the Kaunas police chief.