Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 12,021 to 12,040 of 33,600
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: French
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Quincy-sous-Senart photographs

    Collection consists of three photographs of children at the chateau at Quincy-sous-Senart, France (owned by Count Hubert de Monbrison).

  6. "A15975: Shula's Story"

    Contains one VHS videocassette of the living testimonial of Shula (Zita) Fried Kozuch, who is a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau 1943-1945. Mrs. Kozuch is a native of Viseu de Jos, Romania, and lost her parents and all of her siblings, save two sisters who were two of Mengele's twins, in the gas chambers upon arrival in Auschwitz in 1943. Mrs. Kozuch participated on a death march to Germany, where she was liberated in 1945.

  7. Holocaust remembrance speech regarding Bulgaria

    One speech, 20 pages, presented to the Federal Interagency Program on Holocaust Remembrance on May 1, 2003. Mr. Borouchoff discusses the Holocaust in Bulgaria and his own Holocaust experiences as a Bulgarian survivor.

  8. Hedwig Schwarz collection

    Collection consists of correspondence by Hedwig Schwarz in the last days of her life, from a Marian Hospital in Stuttgart. It also contains nine photographs of Mrs. Schwarz in her hospital bed and the eulogy and correspondence written after her death. Mrs. Schwarz was one of three survivors of Rexingen and spent the last years of the war through her death in 1952, at the Marian Hospital in Stuttgart.

  9. Rotszyld family collection

    Consists of eight post-war certificates for Roman Rotszyld at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including his identity card, certification from the Obschestvo Remeslenovo i. zemledelcheskovo Trouda (ORT) as an electrician, and certificate of incarceration. It also includes an International Refugee Organization (IRO) certification for Nechama Rotszyld as a dressmaker-helper.

  10. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Vienne

    Contains documents from the camps at Nexon, Saint-Paul d'Eyjeaux, Séreilhac, Saint-Germain-les-Belles, Saint Sulpice-la-Pointe, and la Meyse. Includes documents related to the organization and forced labor of foreigners in France during the Vichy regime. Also includes documents pertaining to the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, France, on June 10, 1944; the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) children's home at Chateau Montintin; and emigration to Palestine after World War II.

  11. "My Life Before and After Jan. 30, 1933"

    The collection includes two copies, one in German and one in English, of a memoir by Leo Waldbott titled "My Life Before and After January 30, 1933," in which Leo describes his own life and life in Speyer, Germany. Leo provides a brief history, with examples, of antisemitism in the region and describes the community's efforts to establish a Jewish home for the elderly, which burned down due to arson during Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938. He also describes his struggles with and eventual immigration to the United States in 1939.

  12. Oral history interview with Nadzia Goldfinger

  13. Selected records of the Parteiamtliche Prüfungskommission zum Schutze des NS.-Schrifttums

    Contains organizational documents of the Parteiamtliche Prüfungskommission zum Schutze des NS-Schrifttums (PPK) and correspondence with publishing houses and other state organizations. Includes various speeches, articles, and publications where Jews or the "Jewish question" is discussed, including speeches by Hitler, Hess, and Ley. Also includes PPK files and internal memoranda on individual publications.

  14. "Buchenwald children" collection

    Consists of one card identifying Josek Szwarcberg as a civilian internee of Buchenwald and two photographs of the Buchenwald children, who were internees in Buchenwald at the time of liberation. The Buchenwald children, including Josek Szwarcberg, were placed in the care of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Geneva, who placed them in France, England, and Switzerland. One photograph shows the younger children in Hitler Youth uniforms, as the OSE could not find enough civilian clothing.

  15. Breuner-Ekerling collection

    Consists of 19 pre-war photographs of the Breuner family of Vienna, including Alice and Bertel Breuner, the donor's mother and aunt. Also consists of photographs taken 1938-1941, immediately after the emigration of Sam Ekerling and Alice Breuner Ekerling to the United States.

  16. Jewish political parties and organizations election campaign leaflets

    Contains Jewish political parties' and organizations' election campaign leaflets, produced between 1904 and 1919.

  17. Anti-Jewish Nazi and collaborationist leaflets and announcements

    Contains Nazi and collaborationist anti-Jewish leaflets and announcements made and posted during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine (1941-1943).

  18. "Family Saga" memoir

    Memoir, 150 pages, "Family Saga" detailing the life of Joseph Ripp, from his birth in Bochum, Germany, childhood in Nazi Germany, escape to the United States, experiences in the United States Army, and adult life through 2000.

  19. Literary archives of Mikhail Yakovlevich Pinchevskiy

    Contains poetry, tales, and theatrical plays. Some of the poetry originally was written in Yiddish and translated into Russian. Most of the poetry is dedicated to the Jewish life in Bessarabia (now part of Moldova) and Ukraine (see poems: Bessarabia, Doyna and Zhok, poetry: Broha, Sidur, etc.) and to the heroism of Jewish soldiers during World War II.

  20. Literary archives of Natan Ilyich Zabara

    Contains novels, plays, and letters by Natan Ilyich Zabara.