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  1. Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive collection

    Oral history interviews of The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive collection

  2. Grausz family papers

    The collection contains documents and passes issued to members of the Grausz family in Budapest, Hungary, August - October 1944, including Swedish protective passes (Schutz-Passe) issued to Laszlo (Ladislaus) and Felicitas Grausz, a document signed by the Swedish legation attesting that documents issued to Laszlo and Jan-Pál Grausz are legitimate and can be used as passports, and Hungarian issued documents requiring Jan-Pál Grausz to register with the police on a weekly basis, and exempting him from wearing a yellow star. The collection also includes English translations.

  3. Grave marker from the Łódź ghetto

    Grave marker of Gitla bat Shmuel Herszkowicz, who died August 4, 1940, and was buried in the Łódź ghetto cemetery in Poland. Gitla and her husband lived with her daughter and her family, Chaja and Szulem Kozienicki, and their 2 sons, Chaim and Ezra. In March 1940, they were forced into the Jewish ghetto by the Germans who had occupied Poland since September 1939. Gitla died soon after the move. Her husband died of starvation in 1941. The other family members were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where most of them perished. Her grandsons, Chaim and Ezra, both survived and were reun...

  4. Gray dress with prison number 1195 and id tag worn by a Jehovah's Witness inmate

    gray dress and ID tag with her prisoner number 1195 worn by Frieda Koschmieder while interned in Amberg prison in Germany for being a Jehovah's Witness. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God. The missionary and outreach work practiced by members was viewed as subversive activity against the Nazi regime, leading to many arrests, as well as executions.

  5. Gray wood and metal ladder used while in hiding by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Ladder used by Michael Goldmann (later Goldmann-Gilead), Chanan Ansbacher, and Eli Heilman to hide in Konrad and Regina Zimoń’s hayloft in January 1945, in Rybnik, Poland. The men had escaped from a forced march after Auschwitz concentration camp was evacuated. They hid for a week, during which time the Zimoń’s oldest daughter, Stefania, regularly brought them food. In summer 1939, fearing a German invasion, Michael’s family left Katowice, Poland, and went to stay with relatives in Bircza. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, and Bircza fell under Soviet control. ...

  6. Grazi konzulátus iratai, 1928-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, 1928-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, the capital of the federal Austrian state of Styria contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the months following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. The bulk of the material documents the efforts of Hungarian authorities to secure the assets of the Hungarian Jews living in Nazi-occupied Austria. These records include various registries and reports concerning the property of the Hungarian Jews in Styria, documents on German-Hungarian negotiations on the wealth of Hungarian Jews and other anti-Je...

  7. Great Britain and Iceland in 1937

    Statue of Queen of England, guards marcing through England, British guards marching, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, street performers, speakers and spectators, socialism, ferris wheel, tourists on beach, graveyard, farmer with horse

  8. Grece occupee

    Contains photocopies of documents form Archives du Comite International de la Croix-Rouge record group G48 relating to Greece.

  9. Greek National Resistance Medals

    The collection consists of two bronze medals in their cases awarded "by the Greek State as a token of honor to those who fought against the conquerors (Germans, Italians, Bulgarians) during the Triple Occupation of 1941-1944."

  10. Greek-American couple visits Bucharest, Istanbul, and Salonika before WWII

    Title card: “Bucherest” [sic] Relatives walk down the street in Bucharest, Romania. Group including four women, Anna Mayo is third from left (dark-haired woman in polka dot dress with white trim down the center). Another group shot with Anna Mayo still second from left and Bocko Mayo second from right. Street scenes, including the young man (appearing earlier) on a bicycle. The visitors walk arm-in-arm down the street, pose around a table. An outdoor market. The visiting men and women walking towards the camera, very nicely dressed. They walk by the waterside. They eat a meal by the water, ...

  11. Green admission ticket for an anti-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden

    Green ticket for entrance to an anti-Nazi rally titled, Mass Demonstration Against Hitler Atrocities, held by the American Jewish Congress, B'nai Brith, and the Jewish Labor Committee in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on July 21, 1942.

  12. Green family photographs

    Contains five photographs of Green family members and friends in Celle, Germany.

  13. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor

    Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced labor service and Elek was sent to a labor camp. Lilly obtained his release a few months later with black market papers. In 1943, Elek was again drafted, and not released until March 1944. On Marc...

  14. Green metal Werk Kratzau labor camp badge worn by an inmate

    Green painted identification pin impressed Werk Kratzau issued to Helen Waterford at Kratzau-Chrastava labor camp, a satellite camp of Gross Rosen concentration camp, where she was interned from October 1944 until May 1945.

  15. Green patch with a gray embroidered swastika within a diamond

    Green parch with a gray swastika to be worn by a Nazi party member or sympathizer.

  16. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Velvet tallit pouch buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. A tallit is a prayer shawl worn by Jewish males for prayer services, It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In Dece...

  17. Greenbaum family collection

    The collection consists of books, a poster, a pamphlet, documents, photographs, and letters documenting the experiences of Henry Greenbaum, his family, and his wife, Esther Stern, in Gąbin, Poland, Romania, and France, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Greenfield family papers

    The collection contains 118 black-and-white photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph Greenfield, his wife, Rachel Bunis, and his son, David S. Greenfield, after liberation in several displaced persons camps in Austria, including Braunau am Inn, Ebelsberg, Ranshofen, Bindermichl, and Münichholz, from 1945 to 1949. Among the photographs in the collection there are scenes of Joseph Greenfield and his friends from the 331st and 222nd Infantry Division and the 42nd Tank Battalion of the United States Army working in Steyr, Austria, and vicinity after liberation; the wedding of Joseph a...

  19. Greenland freed of Nazis; Warsaw Ghetto after uprising

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 359, Parts 1 and 3. Release date, 12/27/1944. Part 1 (13:00:40-13:03:00): According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Greenland Freed of Nazis" Nazi weather and radio stations in Greenland are located and destroyed by the US Coast Guard who dynamites its way through the Arctic ice fields to reach the enemy. Sleek German trawlers are destroyed or captured, and the Nazis are driven from their North Atlantic observation points. Part 3 (13:04:00-13:05:39): "The War in Poland" Review of German occupation of Poland (mostly if not all Warsaw). Footage of Wars...

  20. Greet and Rob Coopman photograph collection

    The collection consists of 42 photographs documenting the Troostwyk and Coopman families and their experiences in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.