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  1. Oral history interview with Jan Kupacz

  2. Paul Janish memoir

    Memoir written by Paul Janish (born Pawel Janiszewski), who survived the Warsaw ghetto. One of just three survivors of his large family, he hid on the Aryan side of Warsaw from September 21, 1942 until the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in September 1944. Memoir consists of two notebooks, manuscript, written in 1978.

  3. M2121, Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp Inmate Cards, April 1944-April 1945

    Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the inmates were assigned within the camp. American forces seized the cards when they liberated and occupied the camp in April 1945. These records are unique in form, as the Germans cut the cards t...

  4. Brian Coleman collection

    Consists of correspondence related to Brian Coleman's project as a high school student to contact and correspond with Holocaust survivors about their experiences. Includes of letters written to Brian by survivors describing their Holocaust experiences, as well as articles and photographs he received and collected.

  5. Criminal police records on homosexuals

    Contains records of the Kripoleitstelle (Criminal Police) on gays and lesbians. Includes 948 files of investigations on individuals for "suspicion of homosexual activity" and other crimes under Nazi law such as Rassenschande ("race defilement"). These records were originally archived as “General Prisoners,” but mostly concern gays and lesbians. Part of a larger series of Kripoleitstelle records concerning investigation and persecution of various minority groups (see RG-14.094).

  6. Simon and Francesca Krausz collection

    Consists of the English-language translations of letters written between 1929 - 1944 by Simon and Francesca Krausz of Pecs, Hungary, to their son, Laszlo Krausz, a musician and conductor living in Switzerland. The letters, originally written in Hungarian, describe life in Hungary and the Krausz's experiences during the war until they were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. The original letters are housed in the Laszlo and Susan Krausz collection at Case Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.

  7. Criminal police records on Jews, and on Sinti and Roma (A Pr. Br. Rep. 030-02-02/03)

    Contains the records of the Criminal Police Berlin (Kripoleitstelle) concerning Jews, Roma, and Sinti.

  8. Rabbi Dr. Enoch (Hans) Kronheim collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, sermons, and newspaper clippings related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and work of Rabbi Dr. Enoch (Hans) Kronheim. Includes material related to Rabbi Kronheim’s rabbinical work in pre-war Bielefeld, his 1938 immigration and the 1939 immigration of his family, and of his wartime work as a rabbi in Jamestown, NY.

  9. Postcard commemorating the 20th anniversary of a Jewish family’s emigration from Austria

    Postcard commissioned in 1958 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Aliyah of a group of German Jews arranged by the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization in Palestine, with the assistance of leaders of the Revisionist Organization in Vienna. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. The postcard depicts the route a group of Austrian Jews took to escape the country. The journey began in the town of Arnoldstein, located on the border of Austria and Italy. The town was a frequent waypoint for German and Austrian Jews attemptin...

  10. Nazi advance

    AGFA 8 1942. Map. Marching. Cemetery. Destruction. Boats. Tannenberg.

  11. Selected records from the city of Liège, Belgium and Environs

    The documents concern the Jews of Liège and contain their records as pre-war immigrants, the files on wartime refugees with press clippings giving the temporary wartime addresses of those who fled Belgium to the non-occupied zone in France, the aryanization of businesses, the Jews sent to the Dannes-Cammier internment camp, and correspondence with the elected head of the city government, the bourgmestre, during the war.

  12. Gluszyca names list

    Consists of a list of names and personal information of 613 Polish Jews who were resettled between 1946-1950 in Gluszyca, a small town near the Czech border. Many of those listed fled, or were shipped, east into the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war.

  13. Katia Magid and Fannie Szuster collection

    Consists of letters, documents, and official paperwork regarding the post-war immigration attempts of Katia (Katie) Magid and Fannie Szuster, both Holocaust survivors originally from Vilna (Vilnius), Poland (present day Lithuania). The papers describe the women's attempts to emigrate from Cuba into the United States to join family. Includes a letter written by Alan Markon to President Truman asking him to help his Aunt Katia and her friend Fannie immigrate.

  14. Madame Odile Boissonnat collection

    Consists of a memoir written by Madame Odile Boissonnat, entitled "Une Famille Parisienne sous L'Occupation Allemande, 1940-1945," her family history, entitled "Une Famille Parisienne du Consulat a la IV Republique, 179-1945," and a copy of a speech given by Yves Meyer upon the presentation to the Légion d'Honneur to Madame Odile Boissonnat. Madame Boissonnat (then Acker) was known as "Marie Madeleine," a member of a resistance network. She was to be married to Marc Gervais in May 1944, but he was arrested in late April or early May. The German commandant of the camp allowed the pair to mar...

  15. San Donato Val di Comino, Italy collection

    Consists of correspondence and newspaper and magazine articles related to the resistance and rescue efforts of the citizens of San Donato Val di Comino, Italy. Includes a copy of "Newton" [MA] magazine, which includes a feature article about the town, Italian newspaper articles with English translations, and correspondence with family members of those who saved Jews.

  16. Helen Lewi Martel collection

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "My Story," by Helen Lewi (later Helen Martel), originally of Sosnowiec, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her childhood, the invasion of Poland, the 1942 deportations, life in the ghetto, her deportation (without her family) to a labor camp in Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf in 1943, deportation to an unknown concentration camp in 1944, and deportation to the Gablonz concentration camp in 1945. She was liberated there by the Red Army; she returned to Sosnowiec and discovered that almost her entire family had perished, except for her brother and a cousi...

  17. "A Trip to Bessarabia (A Return to the Past)"

    Consists of a 27-page narrative entitled "A Trip to Bessarabia (A Return to the Past)" by Eugénie Bérézin, as well as large color photographs of present-day Bessarabia, including the Moldova and Kishinev (now Chișinău) areas, taken by Sophie Bergogne. The narrative describes the history of Jewish life in the region (depicted in the photographs) and descriptions of the images.

  18. Marie Warschawsky manuscript

    The Marie Warschawsky manuscript consists of one bound copy of handwritten testimony and copies of personal documents and photographs relating to the life of Marie Warschawsky (Maroussia, 1881-1964). It relates Warschawsky’s upbringing in Russia among the Jewish upper middle class close to the Tsar’s court, her travel in France and interest in fashion, and her creation of a workshop in Saint Petersbourg to make luxury dresses. The document outlines her nursing education and career, her conversion of the family dacha into a hospital during the Russo-Japanese War, her work at the hospital in ...

  19. Behiç Erkin memoir

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the unpublished memoir, 589 pages, in Turkish, of Ambassador Behiç Erkin, who was the Turkish ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Also includes a photocopy of a February 20, 1944 report from Laurence Steinhardt in Ankara to the War Refugee Board in Washington, DC, regarding rescue efforts in Turkey.

  20. Reports and investigative materials compiled by the Military Commissions of the Red (Soviet) Army related to the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during WWII

    The collection consists of the investigative materials, reports and statements compiled by the military commissions of the Red (Soviet) Army established for the investigation of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during WWII.