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  1. Archiv der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen / Sammlung Maršálek

    Contains archival material from Mauthausen and its subcamps, such as Ebensee, Gusen, Gunskirchen, Wien-Saurerwerke (Vienna), Melk, St. Aegyd am Neuwalde, Wiener Neudorf, Steyr, St. Lambrecht, Wiener Neustadt, and Schwechat. Documents include death books and prisoner lists, original maps and plans, miscellaneous correspondence, drawings and artwork, and written reports and statistical compilations. Also contains documents pertaining to the brothel in Mauthausen, sick bay reports, correspondence pertaining to medical experimentation on prisoners, and numerous transcripts of interviews with su...

  2. Selected records from the Archives départementales de l'Isère

    Selected records from the préfecture, sous-préfecture, and police department in Isère, France. Includes materials related to the "Jewish question," law, general correspondence, Aryanization, Jews who were "objects of police inquiry," name lists and photos of Jews, deportee statistics, postwar memorial to victims of opression (1945 reports), Jewish organizations, the law of 3 October 1941, resistance, foreign workers, labor units, foreign Jews interned in camps, refugee directives, and the papers of Jean Batailh.

  3. Dr. Philip Solomon letter

    The three-page letter was written in Munich, Germany, and sent from Dr. Philip "Pinny" Solomon [donor's father], a physician in the U.S. Army, to his parents, Max and Dora Solomon, who lived in the United States. In the letter Pinny discusses his search for and discovery of his cousin, Jakob Ben-Zion Feinstein, who had been a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp.

  4. Passover postcard

    The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names unknown and Lea Lemchen, age 7, [2nd row on the right] were killed in the Rīga ghetto in 1941. Bluma Sandler, age 4, [donor's cousin / seated on the right] Sara Cherfas, age 3 1/2, [donor / seated in the center] and Ester Wishnevskaya, age 7 [donor's father's cousin / standing in the center] survived by escaping from Latvia to Russia with their parents.

  5. Risa Silbert papers

    The 13-page manuscript was written by Risa Silbert (née Kagan), originally of Klaipėda, Lithuania, immediately after her liberation from Stutthof concentration camp and describes her family and their experiences during the Holocaust.

  6. Board of Deputies of British Jews records

    Contains documents relating to the response of the British Jewish community during World War II, including aid for refugees, immigration and Palestine issues, reports of persecution and conditions for Jews in Europe, as well as correspondence with Jewish communities and organizations in Europe and throughout the world, and President's and Secretaries' papers. Correspondents include: Neville Laski, Adolph Brotman, Selig Brodetsky, and Barnett Janer. Also contains Aliens Committee minutes and papers, Foreign Affairs Committee minutes, and Press Committee publicity material. Also contains reco...

  7. Sztejnsznajd family collection

    Documents regarding the Sztejnsznajd family of Lutsk, Poland. Collection contains postcards, articles, forms, and documents relating to the family's life in Lutsk and also of their attempts to emigrate to the United States. The family left Poland and arrived in the United States in 1939, though many of the extended family perished in the Holocaust. The collection also contains 31 volumes in Hebrew and Polish of the children's periodical "Hakatan" from the newpaper "Olameinu" from 1936-1938 and 9 volumes of the newspaper "Olameinu" from 1938-1939 in Hebrew. Includes also one cardboard bound ...

  8. Selected records from Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (NS1)

    Contains reports, ordinances, and correspondence between the Nazi Party headquarters and its regional offices as well as officials in the occupied territories. Records include information on: Aryanization and confiscation of Jewish-, church-, and foreign-owned property; heat supply stations for various concentration camps, provisions of food and supplies to prisoner-of-war camps (Hilfszug Bayern), use of forced and slave labor, a report on the disbanding of Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and miscellaneous antisemitic newspaper clippings.

  9. Grace Miller photographs

    The images are of U.S. troops with the 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division supervising German civilians who were forced to clear corpses from the ruins of the "Boelke Kaserne" at Nordhausen concentration camp.

  10. Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg

    The 1937 Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) at Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg. Grand views of the decorated stadium with thousands of participants and spectators. Flags. Adolf Hitler greets the crowd from an open car. BDM girls in the stands, many heiling with hands outstretched. Nazis march past Hitler. Military review of airplanes and tanks.

  11. Ruth Templehof Szorecki manuscript

    Untitled World War II and post-war memoir of Ruth Templehof Szorecki, born in Łódź, Poland. The memoir tells the story of the family from 1939 to 1962. The Szorecki family worked in the Warsaw ghetto, escaping selections by hiding, until the family managed to escape to the non-Jewish sector of Warsaw, Poland, in 1942. They posed as non-Jews for the remainder of the war and in 1949 emigrated to the United States.

  12. Ohrdruf liberation photograph

    Photograph taken at Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945. Photograph shows four men with arms raised surrounded by United States Army soldiers. In the foreground is a pile of charred wood and what appears to be skulls. One camp inmate is shown talking to the soldiers on the left-hand side of the photograph. In script on the back of the photograph: "Ordroff [sic] Concentration Camp 30 min. after capture."

  13. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of Nordhausen concentration camp.

  14. American Zionist Fundraising photographs

    Photographs show American fundraising events for Jewish causes, such as the National Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German Jewish Refugees in Palestine, and the National Palestine Appeal Conference. Most of the photographs are posed publicity photographs and show the most prominent Jews of the day in the United States.

  15. Mark Mordechai Koller family collection

    Collection consists of one album of photographs depicting the life of Mark Mordechai Koller and his family from 1931-1981. The collection also includes one report card, from Czernovitz (1945/1946) and one "Certificat de Calatorie", which is a group one-way passport from Romania to Israel (1949).

  16. Ilse Garfunkel collection

    Consists of ten letters and three postcards written by Charlotte (Lotte) Berndt Wolff to her daughter, Ilse Wolff, between 1940-1944. Charlotte and her husband, Herman, emigrated to Shanghai in 1939, while Ilse was sent on a Kindertransport to Belgium and spent the war in various children's homes. Herman Wolff passed away in September 1940, and the collection also includes a copy of Charlotte's death certificate, listing that she passed away from typhus in August 1945 in Shanghai.

  17. Tetyana Kotlyarska papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs of Tetyana Kotlyarska and her family in the Soviet Union and Germany before, during, and after World War II and one school notebook used by Tetyana Kotlyarska at the Teacher's Pedagogical Institute in Bukhara (Bukhoro), Uzbekistan.

  18. Nazi funeral photographs

    The collection contains photographs of an unknown Nazi officer or official's funeral. Photographs show the parade of mourners as well as photographs of the funeral itself.

  19. Nordhausen and Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Six photographs are taken of the situation at Buchenwald and Nordhausen camps upon liberation--photographs of barracks, of lines of corpses, of piles of bone, and of an inmate showing his tattoo. Two of the photographs have the words "Buchenwald Concentration Camp--not for publication" and "Nordhausen" written on them. One photograph is of what appears to be Jewish-American soldiers being led in prayer with Nazi flags flanking them. On the back of this photograph is written "Germany."

  20. Bloeme Evers-Emden photograph

    The photograph depicts a 15 to 16-year-old Bloeme Evers-Emden with her hair pinned back and wearing glasses; on her chest is pinned a yellow star.