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  1. Records of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Romania

    Contains requests addressed to Maresal Ion Antonescu's office of the Presedintia Consiliului de Ministri of Romania from Jews wanting restitution for confiscated property, and requests by Jews to be considered and treated as non-Jewish Romanian citizens. Also contains records relating to Jews in forced labor in Romania and deportations of Jews from Romania, including records relating to refugees in Northern Transylvania, organization and administration of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria provinces.

  2. Ida Cohen correspondence

    Contains letters written from Suwalki, Poland to Ida Cohen in San Antonio, Texas, 1945: two letters from Kazimierz Wawrzyn, a friend of Ms. Cohen's and a resident of Krasnopol; one letter from Jadzi Bak in Krasnopol, dated November 1945; one letter from Father Jan Florek in Krasnopol, dated November 13, 1945.

  3. Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov manuscript

    Contains a 187 page manuscript with information about Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov's Holocaust experiences.

  4. Memory Deportation recollections

    Contains a memoir, 69 pages, by Jules Fainzang about his deportation from Drancy, France, on August 28, 1942, to Metz, Cosel (Poland), Sacrau, Shemianowitz, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald. He was liberated on April 13, 1945.

  5. Thomas Benson collection

    Contains seven black-and-white photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. Thomas B. Benson took these photographs during World War II while serving as a Major in the United States Army assigned to the 301st Combat Engineer Battalion

  6. Treitel family papers

    Contains an identification card for Friedel Strykowski from Mauthausen and four black and white photographs of Herbert Treitel's first wife, Gerda Bass Treitel and their two children, Bela and Ralph Treitel.

  7. Jane Ponczek photographs

    The Jane Ponczek photographs document her family before World War II in Poland. Photographs and copy prints include a wedding portrait of Holocaust victims Munisch Labiner and Sara Shajter Labiner in 1934 in Skała-Podolska, Poland; a photograph of the Shajter family in Skała-Podolska (Sara Labiner at the top left and Beila Shajter in the doorway); and a photograph of Chaim Weizmann with Holocaust survivor Jane Ponczek and other orphans in Wrocław, Poland after the war (Jane has her hand on Weizmann’s right shoulder).

  8. Julie Lando memoir

    Contains a memoir about Julie Lando's childhood experiences in Germany, changes that occurred in her life when the Nazis came to power, and Julie Lando's journey via ship on the M.S.Oakland via the Azores to Columbia, the Panama Canal, Costa Rica, Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

  9. Schwab family papers

    Contains letters written by Levi and Selma (Sara) Schwab in Büdesheim, Germany, to their children Karl and Lilly, in Chicago. Also includes documents related to Karl and Lilly's unsuccessful efforts to help their parents emigrate from Germany.

  10. Liberation papers

    Contains one booklet entitled, "Berlin," prepared under the direction of the 78th Division Special Services Office, an album of black and white picture postcards of Germany, a map of Berlin showing the location of Special Service Clubs, American Red Cross Clubs as well as other recreational facilities, and thirty-four signal corp black and white photographs.

  11. Aaron A. Eiferman letter

    Aaron A. Eiferman, a member of the 12th Armored Division which liberated the Landsberg concentration camp, wrote this five page letter on April 27, 1945 to his wife in the U.S. about his experiences.

  12. News accounts from 1936 to 1939 of Adolph Hitler's Rise to Power and his Affect on Minority Jewish Populations of Eastern and Western Europe

    Contains two binders of articles and illustrations of news accounts from the "Boston Traveler," "Boston Post," and "The Boston Herald."

  13. Shoah: an eyewitness testimony

    Consists of the testimony, 9 pages, of John E. Pfeiffer, presented at a Yom Hashoah remembrance ceremony on May 2, 1997. Mr. Pfeiffer was a part of a reconnaissance squad that discovered Dachau on April 29, 1945. He describes his memories of the conditions there and how his experiences affected him in later life.

  14. Leo Cecil photograph collection

    Contains four black and white photographs, of Ohrdruf immediately following liberation and two envelopes which originally housed the photographs. The first was labeled "1945/ W.W.II" and the second labeled "Buchenwald/IIWW."

  15. E.E. Dilworth papers, 1945-2000

    Contains a record of the statements taken from the previous commander of the concentration camp Mauthausen-Gusen, Linz, etc. SS Standartenfuehrer Ziereis.

  16. Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort

    Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot machine are Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the ...

  17. My World War II Story

    Contains a memoir about Anthony Palmowski's experiences as a Polish Catholic living in Warsaw. He was arrested and sent to Mauthausen where he spent the war as a slave laborer.

  18. George Katzman photographs

    Contains two black and white photographs from a Christmas party in Bamberg, Germany, and six black and white signal corp photographs of organized calisthenics in the Wetzlar Displaced persons camp, the 4th Armored division's area at Regensburg, Germany, and views of the Jagerskasserne in Wuerzburger Str. in Aschaffenburg, Germany. The Jagerskasserne was occupied by displaced persons in the former 313th Infantry Regiment area of the 79th Infantry division.

  19. Aenne Hertz papers

    Contains legal documents and correspondence pertaining to Aenne Hertz, a social worker in Germany from 1933 to 1941. After being fired from her public job in 1933 by the Nazis she became a social worker for Jewish organizations and enabled Jews to escape Nazi Germany.

  20. Levy family on SS Rotterdam returning to US

    "SS Rotterdam" ship at sea. The travelers took this boat back to New York (July 20-29, 1927). The family boards the boat. Emilie Jane in her father's arms. Robert and Sally, August and Hartman, and Robert and Carl play shuffleboard. Emilie Jane plays with a small sandbox on the ship deck. Robert, August, and Dora Hartman lounge in deck chairs. Emilie plays. Robert plays shuffleboard. Clara Levy reads a book. August converses with another passenger. Robert hugs his little sister, Emilie. Lou and Dora Hartman. CU, Sally Hartman reading. Passengers on deck. Emilie Jane poses inside the life pr...