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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: French

  1. Volary hospital photograph

    Contains one photograph showing eleven young adults, including Miriam Lieberman. The picture is described as the hospital in Volary, May 1945.

  2. Jewish affairs in Milan

    Contains a variety of documents on the Jews of Milan, including residence permits, the 1938 census of Jews, questionnaires for determination of “race,” and applications for exemption from the “race law” of 1938.

  3. Confiscation of Jewish property in Milan

    Contains a variety of official forms related to the confiscation and liquidation of property belonging to Milan’s Jews.

  4. The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series A (Central Files)

    The Central Files (1919-1971) contain the history of the World Jewish Congress (especially prior to 1940); correspondence and other materials of important World Jewish Congress leaders (Stephen S. Wise, Nahum Goldman, Israel Goldstein and Administrative/Executive directors of the New York office: Abraham S. Hyman, Monty Jacobs, Yehuda Ebstein, Greta Beigel); and minutes and other records of plenary assemblies, conferences, and committee meetings. The Executive Committee files include material from the South American, European, and Israeli Branches of the Executive. Significant subjects cove...

  5. Sightseeing in Paris; German officers

    Unsteady, shot from moving vehicle across streets, monument. Montmarte district in Paris. Camera steadies at 01:01:40. People exiting buildings. Germans in uniform on the street then across and to the top of the La Basilique du Sacre Coeur. Pan across street, encompassing bars (including one at 01:02:26 seen later in Story 4411), restaurants, shops. Civilians on the street; German officer (SS?) watching the scene turns and walks toward the camera, smiling, acknowledging the camera. Quality deteriorates at 01:02:55: darker and grainy, showing Germans walking on the street against French civi...

  6. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" leader. The film shows the various types of work performed by the patients. A man butchers a large animal (a cow or pig?) hanging from a hook and grinds up the meat in a grinder. Both women and men are shown doing ironing and sewing. Women in a kitchen prepare a meal for a large number of people - it's an institutional kitchen with large vats for cooking. Other activities include: bread baking, weaving, furniture upholstering, shoemaking, woodworking, laundry, bookbinding, A brief shot of what appears to be a nurse and a doctor shepherd a couple of patients out of a room where a...

  7. Paul Touvier trial transcripts

    Contains the 1994 French trial transcripts for the proceedings against Paul Touvier, convicted of crimes against humanity.

  8. Like a chased animal

    The manuscript relates the experiences of Artur Sznajder during the Holocaust.

  9. "My Life in Siberia" memoir

    One memoir, entitled "My Life in Siberia," by Jean Steinberg; contains poetry and prose relating to the donor's life in pre-war Poland and forced migration to Siberia. Memoir is bound, 124 pages, with a cover illustration.

  10. Selected records from Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt

    Contains a variety of records related to the fate of Jews between 1933 and 1945 in the "Volksstaat Hessen" (Land Hessen), the city of Darmstadt, Germany, and the German towns Bensheim, Büdingen, Dieburg, and Friedberg. Records from offices of various institutions of the German government including Abteilung G5 Reichsstatthalter, Abteilung G11 Innenministerium, G12A Landespolizei, Schutzpolizei and Gendarmerie, G12B Gestapo, and SD. G15 local governmental records of many towns.

  11. Selected records from Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt

    Selected records concerning the regulation, closing, and Aryanization of Jewish businesses and hotels. Includes ordinances, regulations, individual case files, petitions, and related records.

  12. The State Court of Vienna Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien

    Contains records of cases involving Jewish property, false identification papers, money smuggling, and other legal issues.

  13. Lewinski and Rubin families photographs

    The collection consists of photographs documenting Stella Yollin's (born Salutka Lewinski) family in Łódź, Poland.

  14. The Amtsgericht district court in Charlottenburg records (A Rep. 342)

    Contains individual cases involving Jewish names including: applications for withdrawal from church memberships (Kirchenaustritte); protection/custody/social welfare (Schutzaufsicht; Fürsorgeerziehung; Schutzaufsichtssachen); trusteeship (Entmündigungssachen); and estates (Nachlässe).

  15. Unzer welt = Our world

    Front-page title: "Jews, when your fathers and mothers were murdered, you should feel just like me." translated from Yiddish.

  16. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records (MfS IX/11)

    Selected records from the record group MfS IX/11 compiled by the former East German Security Service "Stasi." Materials of mixed provenance, primarily papers generated by the German Security Police and SD between 1933 and 1945. Included are routine, periodic reports of local Gestapo surveillance of suspect political, religious, or fraternal groups; records of police documents such as circular letters, memos of telephone conversations, daily reports, situation reports; and reports from or about the "Ausland" such as Austria, Yugoslavia, and the occupied Eastern territories.

  17. Survey of attitudes among Romanian students regarding the Holocaust

    Consists of a sociological survey of the attitudes of contemporary Romanian grade school students to the Holocaust along with pedagogical responses.

  18. Selected records of the Jewish community of Freiburg im Breisgau

    Contains Jewish community records of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, pertaining to the fate of German Jews.

  19. Meta Sternberg Adler collection

    Contains documents relating to the life of Meta Sternberg-Adler, including her birth certificate, family correspondence, emigration documents, naturalization papers, postcards, newspaper clippings, curriculum vitaes, and family history papers.

  20. Selected records of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany

    Contains original records and photocopies of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, Germany; name lists of Jewish families; deportation lists; correspondence; synagogue statutes; survivors' testimonies, diaries, and letters; personal papers relating to the Holocaust, to Jewish fate and emigration. Also contains photographs of events, e.g., Kristallnacht, and buildings such as synagogues, schools and other institutions.