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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Bronka Rezak papers

    The papers consist of two manuscripts written by Bronka Grynglas Rezak [donor] for her grandsons, Avi and Ronnen Gruber, and a newspaper article. In the manuscript, titled "The History of our family," she describes the history of her family in Poland before World War II, their experiences in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and various concentration camps during World War II, and their immigration to Australia after World War II. In the manuscript, titled "My experiences during the War, 1939-1945," she describes her experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, a factory in F...

  2. Harvey Gotliffe collection

    Consists of research materials (articles, transcripts, notes, clippings, correspondence,etc.) regarding Holocaust denial and advertisements of Holocaust revisionist theories and work, specifically the work of revisionist Bradley R. Smith. Dr. Gotliffe, a professor in the School of Journalism at San Jose State University, produced and collected this material from 1990 to the early 2000s. Includes copies of "The Journal of Historical Review" (1997-2001) and Smith's newsletter (1990-2004).

  3. "Memoires de Guerre: 13 Mai 1941--Aout 1945"

    Consists of one memoir, 107 pages, entitled "Memoires de Guerre: 13 Mai 1941--Aout 1945," by Paul Szigeti. He describes his arrest in France in 1941, his wartime imprisonment in Germany, and his liberation in April 1945. Also contains a German translation of the same.

  4. Bronka Hercberg Zybert papers

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, letters, and identification cards relating to the experiences of Bronka Hercberg Zybert and her family in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II.

  5. Mauthausen liberation photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken upon the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Photographs depict groups of survivors receiving food and health care as well as congregating socially.

  6. Spector family papers

    Consists of one affidavit, dated 1939, in which Mr. Hyman Spector of Brooklyn, NY, pledges to support members of the Wielodrotz family wishing to emigrate to the United States from Germany, as well as two telegrams written in 1945 by Yetta Spector requesting information on missing family members and two postcards from the American Red Cross, which was unable to locate the missing people.

  7. Selected records from the Reichstuberkuloseausschuss (R 96 II)

    Contains documents created by the Reichstuberkuloseausschuss (RTA) pertaining to the research, treatment, and containment of tuberculosis in Nazi Germany.

  8. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes Records ZUV

    Prosecutions in the Soviet-Occupied Zone of Germany (subsequently German Democratic Republic) against perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes. Victims were Jews, the mentally ill, prisoners of war, and other groups in ghettos, partisan areas, camps, and killing centers. Perpetrators were in the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, police battalions and regiments, the euthanasia program, the court system, ghetto and camp administrations, the Wehrmacht, and the latter's Field Police (Feldgendarmerie) and Secret Field Police (Geheime Feldpolizei).

  9. The World Jewish Congress Geneva Office records

    Contains correspondence of the Geneva Office of the World Jewish Congress with organizations from Switzerland and from other countries and with the International Red Cross and the United Nations; papers and speeches of the head of the Geneva Office, Gerhart Riegner; wartime reports of the Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population (RELICO); chronological files related to accounts, restitution and rehabilitation; minutes of the Geneva WJC meetings; and various periodicals and printed materials.

  10. Reichenbach photographs

    Consists of two pre-war photographs discovered by Marsha Hollander in Reichenbach, Poland, in 1946. One photograph depicts a line of Jewish men walking down a road and the other depicts two Jewish men standing next to an automobile. The captions read "Polish Jews returning home," and "Polish Jews greet us on our arrival."

  11. Dachau Trial photographs

    Consists of photographs taken at the trial of forty members of the staff of the Dachau concentration camp (the Dachau Trial) by the United States Army Europe (USAREUR) Military Court from November 15 to December 13, 1945. Also includes copyprints of photographs of Vincent and Frank Donaghue, members of the United States army. Vincent was a member of the military police and was stationed at the Dachau trial.

  12. "One Day This Will be a Film"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "One Day This Will be a Film: Childhood Memories of a Girl from the Lvov Ghetto," by Nava Ruda (originally Sheindel-Charlotte (Lunia) Kohn). Nava and her parents survived with the help of her childhood nanny, Jula Jurek, a Polish woman. This memoir is an English language translation of the the original Hebrew.

  13. Arisierungen

    Records pertaining to the confiscation of mostly Jewish-owned property by Nazi authorities in Upper Austria and Vienna, Austria. Mostly individual case files consisting of reports and correspondence between the Reichsstatthalter Oberdonau, the Vermögensverkehrsstelle Wien, and various other Nazi agencies involved in expropriation. Includes files on a few confiscated non-Jewish properties. Reel #18 of the collection also features topical files concerning Nazi expropriation laws and regulations, reports, and guidelines, such as how to proceed with the expropriation of properties owned by for...

  14. Selected records and publications of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants

    Contains documents related to the history of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) and the different homes it operated around France. Some of the personal archives and general correspondence of key figures of OSE such as Georges Garel, the founder of the "reseau Garel," a resistance network that ferried children over the French border into Switzerland, and Vivette Samuel are included. Personal files of individuals who were raised by OSE as their legal guardian are not included.

  15. Blanka Kronenberg memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs, each 2 pages, by Blanka Kronenberg, originally of Poland. In the first, she describes her memories of working in a woodworking factory run by the Germans, of the transport of Jews to the ghetto, and of a death march from Auschwitz in 1945. In the second, entitled "The Evacuation of the Jews of Wierzbwik-Starachowice," she describes the establishment of the Wierzbwik-Starachowice ghetto, life in the ghetto, and the 1942 selection and deportation of its' residents.

  16. Frank Ekstein memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 21 pages, written by Frank Ekstein, originally of Hungary. He describes his experiences at the end of the war, including his separation from his parents in October 1944, his liberation in the ghetto by the Russian army in January 1945, and his immigration to and experiences in Israel. He also discusses his philosophies on Jewish history.

  17. Bergen-Belsen liberation photographs

    Consists of eight photographs taken by Royal Canadian Air Force photographer Stan Brocklebank at the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in spring 1945. The photographs show various buildings in the camp as well as both filled in and open mass graves.

  18. Selected records from the Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei collection (R 19)

    Contains documents related to the administration of the police, including personal files of Jews in the police. Also contains files relating to the occupied countries, mainly Poland and Czechoslovakia, resettlement of the Volhynian Germans, and speeches and newspaper articles on the death of Reinhard Heydrich.

  19. Ernest Wachtel collection

    The Ernest Wachtel collection consists of 37 photographs depicting Ernest Wachtel, a Jewish Austrian refugee, and his experiences in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The photographs also include liberation photographs of the Dachau concentration camp which include images of victims’ corpses, camp survivors, a building, and survivors viewed behind a barbed wire fence. There is also a set of group photographs which likely include the three survivors from the Dachau concentration cared for by Ernest, and other soldiers. The collection also includes articles regarding Ernes...

  20. Fajwel Sendrowicz papers

    The papers consist of six photographs documenting the experiences of Fajwel Sendrowicz in Osjaków, Poland, before World War II and after his immigration to Canada in 1948. Also includes his Certificate of Identity (1952), his certificate of Canadian citizenship (1955), a copy of a confirmation letter of his status in Canada (1950), and his United States green card (1959).