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  1. Hans Garfunkel collection

    Consists of letters written to Bessie Silberman, in Chicago, IL, from Hans Garfunkel, as Hans was trying to obtain the visas and affidavits necessary to emigrate to the United States (in English and French); letters written to Hans Garfunkel from his parents in Germany (in German); report cards and other academic paperwork for Hans Garfunkel; and telegrams and consular correspondence regarding Hans Garfunkel's visa requests. Also consists of 12 pre-war and wartime photographs of the family and friends of Hans Garfunkel.

  2. Nussbaum-Koch family collection

    Consists of correspondence, passports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documentation of the Nussbaum and Koch families of Luxembourg. Includes papers and photographs related to Albert Nussbaum, who had worked with refugees in Luxembourg before working for the Transmigration Bureay of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon, then emigrating to the Dominican Republic; and to Gustav Nussbaum, Helene Kleinberg Nussbaum, Marguerite (Martha) Koch, and Rene Nussbaum.

  3. Nada Weiss papers

    The collection consists of 2 pieces of correspondence: a letter, dated August 1942, sent by Gizela and Dragutin Weiss to their daughter Nada, who was in "Merkur," a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia; a postcard, dated May 15, 1943, sent by Nada Weiss, an inmate in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, to her uncle Stjepan Magdic in Zagreb, Croatia.

  4. Shirley Gola Enselberg photographs

    The photographs depict Shirley Gola Enselberg, her parents, and rescuers in Belgium, after liberation, and during their emigration to the United States aboard the ship, "Ernie Pyle," in September 1948.

  5. Lola Kaufman papers

    The papers consist of a passport issued to Etie Stempler, the late wife of Lola Kaufman's maternal uncle, Gedalia Aschkenase, who immigrated to the United States in 1930 as well as a newspaper clipping from the New York Post, dated June 26, 1962, referring to Heinrich Peckmann, an SS sergeant in Chortkiv (Czortków), Ukraine, who was acquitted by a German court in Saarbrücken, Germany. Peckmann murdered Lola Kaufman's mother, Dwojre Rein, in 1942.

  6. Gutter family papers

    The papers consist of 20 documents relating to Elsa Gutter Deutsch and Grete Gutter Knoblich, Melissa Cutter's paternal aunts, and two photographs of Jean Gutter, Melissa Cutter's father.

  7. Blanka and Fania Eckstein papers

    The papers consist of 17 photographs and 10 documents relating to the experiences of Blanka and Fania Eckstein before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Oscar S. Johnson photograph collection

    The collection consists of 16 photographs taken by Oscar S. Johnson, a lieutenant in the United States Army, immediately following the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp.

  9. Photograph of Leon Felhendler

    The copy print is from an original photograph created in 1933 and depicts Leon Felhendler, Nicholas N. Kittrie's uncle.

  10. Oral history interview with Walter Szczesniak

  11. Selected records of the Swedish Red Cross

    Contains selected records from the Swedish Red Cross concerning the "White Buses." In 1945 "White Buses" were sent by Sweden to Germany to bring liberated camp prisoners from Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Ravensbrück, and other camps as refugees to Sweden. Collection contains a transport list of 875 prisoners, diaries of transport personnel, reports and correspondence regarding White Buses' operations, lists of French, Danish, and Norwegian liberated prisoners, and the private collection of Major Sven Frykman (Chief of Swedish Red Cross Operation). Some records relate to the food supplies to Hung...

  12. Selected records of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Contains records relating to repatriation of prisoners of war, aid to refugees including materials regarding the High Commissioner of the League of Nations, the Nansen Office, and Nansen refugee passports; proceedings and reports of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee and of the Evian Conference; help to refugees from various countries; post-war refugee help; Swedish police reports on Danish Jews in Malmö, Hälsingbor, and other towns; Swedish diplomatic correspondence on refugee questions; and press clippings of the Ossietzky affair from 1936 to 1937.

  13. Papers of Karl Schlyter, Swedish Minister of Justice

    Contains papers of a former Swedish Minister of Justice and well-known jurist, Karl Schlyter (1879-1959), including documents from the "XI: e Congres Pénal et Pénitentiaire International" in Berlin, Germany, from August 18 to 24, 1935; invitations to visit concentration camps in Germany; and some reports from those visits. Also contains the letter of resignation from James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) coming from Germany, addressed to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, on December 27, 1935, and several newspaper clippings related to the McDon...

  14. Selected records of State Aliens Commission, Swedish National Tracing Bureau

    Contains selected records from the Swedish National Tracing Bureau concerning the "White Buses" program.

  15. Prayer book

    The prayer-book was used by Teofil Glocer donor's grandfather in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, and later when he and his wife, Marta Glocer, were hiding on the Aryan side of the ghetto using false papers. In Sept. 1944 the couple were forced to leave Warsaw and travel to Opoczno, Poland

  16. Selected records of the Shanghai Municipal Archives

    Contains records from the Shanghai Municipal Government, International Settlement, Education Department, Finance Department, Public Works Department, Public Health Department, and French Concession. Topics include: Jewish schools, Jewish journal, school fees, grants to schools for foreign children, the Jewish refugee kitchen, health facilities, the Jewish cemetery, registration of Jewish aid organizations, and annual reports of aid organizations. Also contains documents relating to Polish, Czechoslovak, and other European refugees.

  17. Sirman family collection

    Collection consists of three photographs: one of a wedding portrait, and two of a man in a concentration camp uniform. The collection also contains one booklet in German, published by the Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, showing photographs and describing the history and conditions of the camps of Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, and Nordhausen.

  18. Dr. Gregore E. Gregory personal papers

    Contains a report on the attempt to arm 40,000 to 60,000 inmates of the Jewish forced labor camps against the Germans in Hungary in September and October 1944. Papers, including a transcribed version of Dr. Gregore E. Gregory's memoirs, personal documents, and letters, document the atrocities of the Holocaust.

  19. Memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs: one manuscript, in German, of the Holocaust experiences of Ludwig Frank, and two copies(one each in German and in English) of "My Children Live in Foreign Lands," by Gernot Romer. "My Children Live in Foreign Lands" details the fate of the Jews of Augsburg.

  20. Boaz Bischopswerder papers

    Includes manuscripts of traditional Jewish liturgical music created in the camps (arrangements of the music of Levandowsky) and an original composition, "Phantasia Judaica," first composed while on the ship "Dunera," for four tenor voices, as well as a diary in Yiddish. Also includes a collection of short stories, "Amol in Ger" ("Once Uon a Time in Ger"), of approximately 200 p., written in Yiddish.