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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. "Beyond the River"

    Consists of one memoir, in English, entitled "Beyond the River," by Hanna Meller-Faust. The memoir was published in Hebrew as "Me-'ever la-nahar: pirke zikhronot mi-Transnistriyah" in 1985. Hanna prepared this translation, which describes her experiences during the Holocaust in Transnistria.

  3. "My Encounter with Eichmann"

    Consists of a memoir,16 pages, entitled "My Encounter with Eichmann" by Stephen Shields, a member of the 71st Infantry Division of the United States Army. In the memoir, Mr. Shields describes his memory of a conversation he had with a German prisoner of war, whom he believes to have been Adolf Eichmann, and his memories of the liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp. The memoir also contains information about Eichmann's role in Budapest and the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg.

  4. Franz Wiener collection

    Consists of a collection of documents and photographs related to Franz Wiener, originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia, and his attempts to assist his cousin, Dr. Hans Bergmann and his wife Maria, to immigrate to Cuba or to the United States. Also includes post-war correspondence which implies that Dr. Bergmann and his wife survived the war.

  5. Records of the union of Jewish participants in the Polish War of Independence, Lwów branch office, n. d.

    The collection consists of a series of bylaws, circular letters, minutes of meetings, declarations, appeals, membership lists, annual and financial reports, and other documents related to the activities of the Union of Jews. Includes also correspondence with the organization's headquarters in Warsaw and local branches in Eastern Galicia.

  6. "Memories of World War II and the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, "Memories of World War II and the Holocaust" by Ralph W. Tews, a member of the 113th Cavalry Mechanized Reconnaissance, a unit of the Iowa National Guard. He describes his training, his experiences on D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Buchenwald. Also includes a collection of short anecdotes and stories he remembers about his wartime experiences.

  7. Records of the Association of Jewish cooperatives in Poland, Lwów branch

    The collections includes bylaws and other documents of the association, minutes of the meetings of the board of the organization, correspondence with cooperatives and Jewish organizations in Poland and abroad, financial and bank records, various reports, and records related to the activities of the agricultural coops in Eastern Galicia.

  8. Personal archives of Maximilian Goldstein, researcher and collector of Jewish art

    Consists of personal documents of Maximilian Goldstein, including birth certificate, correspondence with relatives, friends and colleagues, catalogs of art exhibits, drafts of publications, and research papers.

  9. Records of the Central Jewish Immigration Society (JEAS), Lwów branch

    Contains bylaws and other normative documents, meeting minutes, informational bulletins, and correspondence with immigration authorities. The collection consists mainly of applications and registration cards of Jews seeking to leave Eastern Galicia during the interwar period.

  10. Estelle Gerson collection

    Consists of four Jewish New Years cards; one photograph of a young woman seated at a table; two letters, the first dated August 1, 1947 and second dated October 28, 1948; and eight envelopes.

  11. Lili Scharf Deutsch collection

    The collection consists of a canvas folder and correspondence relating to the experiences of Lili Scharf Deutsch and her family in prewar and wartime Hungary, and postwar, when Lili, after liberation from Bergen Belsen concentration camp emigrated to Palestine.

  12. Serbian antisemitic poster collection

    The collection consists of antisemitic posters created in Serbia during the military occupation by Nazi Germany from 1941-1944.

  13. Sonia Manes photograph collection

    Two photographs: one of a woman and a man in uniform, the other of a man in uniform with the following inscription on the verso: "na pamiątkę dla Henka Zasyła Adam Włoszczowa 19.IV.45"

  14. Selected records of the Swedish Jewish community

    This collection consists of about 125,000 registration cards from various collections of the Swedish Jewish Community, including: registers of individuals who were rescued in 1945; registers of payments, loans, financial assistance, and scholarships; registers of refugees in Sweden; card registers of refugee children; registers of deported Jews; registers of emigrants; and registers of records for restitution.

  16. Tela Zasloff research collection related to Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille

    Consists of notes, photocopies, photographs, interview transcripts, book excerpts, and other research material created and collected by Tela Zasloff for the preparation of her book, "A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France." Includes correspondence and interviews with those who knew Toureille; copies of documents from the World Council of Churches in Geneva; photographs of the places he lived and worked; copies of his articles and sermons; minutes of the Committee of Nimes; and correspondence regarding his recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  18. Karl Fleissig collection

    Collection documenting the experiences of Karl Fleissig [donor's father] during the Holocaust. Karl Fleissig was a Jewish man from Vienna who married Josefine, a Catholic woman. He was arrested and eventually deported to the Warsaw ghetto, and then to Auschwitz where he was killed. The collection includes postcards he wrote while imprisoned in Vienna, and two death certificates which falsely stated that Karl Fleissig died of sepsis in Warsaw.

  19. Kirschbaum Family collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Chaim (born in Przemysl, Poland) and his wife Kreindl Kirschbaum (born in Jaroslav, Poland) and their children Anna, Lily, Joseph and Celia who all lived in Vienna, Austria, fled to Switzerland in 1939, and then forced to France where they were eventually sent to internment camps. Celia and Joseph were able to immigrate to the United States in 1940. The remaining family, according to documents included, state that Chaim died in a Paris hospital, too weak to tarvel, and his wife and two daughters were deported from Be...

  20. Lawrence Ferraro Collection

    Contains photographs taken by the donor's uncle, Lawrence Ferraro, shortly after the liberation of Dachau.