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  3. Erich Berges: Report re experiences in concentration camps

    This report describes conditions in Buchenwald then Mauthausen for this former prisoner. The collection also includes a handwritten summary of the contents in English.

  4. Gisela Nathan collection

    Gisela Nathan: correspondence

  6. Kristallnacht: Miscellaneous extracts and articles

    This collection consists of manuscript and typescript extracts of contemporary newspaper articles about Reichskristallnacht, and unidentified letters and notes about the same. It appears to be an artificial collection.

  7. Baldur von Schirach: texts from various speeches

    Copy transcriptions of speeches dealing mainly with youth in Nazi Germany. Each speech was subsequently checked and edited by Mia Thiel Hansen in the employ of the BBC on 19 November 1945. An original certificate of authentication signed by Mia Thiel Hansen is enclosed with each speech.

  8. Letter of unidentified Holocaust survivor

    Letter written by a former resident of Prague and inmate of Theresienstadt who emigrated to Canada.

  10. List of former inhabitants of Heilbronn

    This list of former inhabitants of Heilbronn is thought to have been sent to the depositor's mother shortly after it was created. It was produced by the office of the mayor of the city of Heilbronn in August 1964. The names are listed alphabetically by country. The circumstances surrounding its creation are unknown.

  12. Eisler Family: Copy correspondence

    Copy and translated correspondence of Noah (Eisler ?) in Cracow to his children, Itzchok, Mala and Jacob, somewhere abroad, reporting routine everyday life.

  13. Comrades in struggle

  15. Antisemitism in the Middle East: reports

  18. Gertrud Wilmersdorfer: Copy personal papers

  19. Oral history interviews of the Aaron and Esther Cohen collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Aaron Cohen and Esther Cohen in Mexico City, Mexico.

  20. Gaston Schmir collection

    The collection consists of two children's books, "Mon Petit Trott" and "Contes et Légendes Du Grand Siècle," taken by Gaston Schmir from a school library in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, in Apr. 1943. Gaston Schmir left the books in Haute-Savoie, France, before crossing into Switzerland, and he returned and recovered them after World War II.