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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Lieselotte Feinschil family papers

    Consists of correspondence sent to Lieselotte (Lelo/Lilo) Rieder [now Lieselotte Feinschil], who emigrated with her family from Hamburg, Germany to Philadelphia, PA, in 1937. Includes letters from friends about the situation in Germany and their own attempts and emigration. Also includes copies of documents related to the emigration of the Rieder family.

  2. Gaus Mirgaulis collection

    The collection consists of pen-pal letters written by Gaus Mirgaulis in Dresden, Germany to Jeanne D. Boeing in the United States. The letters were written between January and June 1939 and also include photographs and a postcard. In several of the letters Gaus discusses his experiences with the Hitler Jugend.

  3. D.A. Weckwerth papers

    The D. A. Weckwerth papers consists of a letter written by liberator, D.A. Weckwerth, addressed to Mary Ann, written from Eisenach, Germany, June 1, 1945; three black-and white-photographs of Eisenach; one negative; and three copies of photographs from Eisenach, Germany. The letter describes Weckwerth's visit to Buchenwald concentration camp, including the descriptions of the camp and buildings, its survivors and victims, and German civilians tasked with "cleaning the place up."

  4. Herbert Loewenthal letters

    Contains one photocopy of a postcard, one photocopy of a photograph of Alex and Hermine Lowenthal, and three letters, addressed to Egon Lowenthal pertaining to his efforts to locate his father, Alex Lowenthal who was deported to Theresienstadt.

  5. The 55th anniversary of the Berdichev Tragedy

    Contains a memoir, nine pages, about the author's recollections of the murder of Jews in the Ukrainian city of Berdichev and its surrounding areas.

  6. Louis Shulman collection

    Contains black and white photographs of Louis Shulman and his family's pre-war life in Grodzisk, Poland, and post-war stay as displaced person in Salzburg, Austria. Also contains driver's licenses issued in Austria in 1947.

  7. Gustav Müller papers

    The Gustav Müller papers contain correspondence, notices, and questionnaires related to the restriction of Jewish activities in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The records document the dissolution and liquidation of Gustav Müller’s business, the relinquishment of his business license and his and his wife’s drivers’ licenses, instructions to sublet part of his apartment, rules about long-distance telephone use and the ownership of typewriters and bicycles, a Civilian Air Raid Protection ID card for his wife, and a notice that he had taken a course on anti-aircraft defense.

  8. Newspapers and other memorabilia related to the journey of Exodus La Voix Sioniste, Jidisze Cajtung, Jewish Newspaper, Unzer Welt, Dvor Exodus

    Consists of newspapers reporting about and commemorating the journey of Exodus, and photocopies of various memorabilia Isaac Willner collected in 1947.

  9. Mayer Mermelstein memoir

    The Mayer Mermelstein memoir includes a personal narrative of the Jewish transit camps in Bari, Italy titled "Jewish refugees in the UNRRA camps in Italy," and four copies of photographs depicting life in a transit camp in Bari, Italy. The Mayer Mermelstein memoir contains three copies of a personal narrative titled "Jewish refugees in the UNRRA camps in Italy," and four copies of photographs depicting a transit camp in Bari, Italy. The original memoir is in hand-written Yiddish. A photocopy of the original and an English translation are also included in this collection. The narrative descr...

  10. Eva Goldenring Zernik papers

    Contains an article written in French by Eva Goldenring Zernik about her experiences in the French detention camp of Gurs and poems in German written during her time in Spain about her Holocaust experiences.

  11. Sofia Auguston memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 14 pages, in English, written by Sofia Auguston, originally of Riga, Latvia. In the memoir, she describes life in the Riga ghetto, escaping several mass shootings, hiding her family's tallit, and being sent to Germany by boat in 1944. She witnessed the sinking of a barge of deportees, but her boat arrived in Stutthof. From there, she was forced to march to Totenhof in Sofienwald, and, in the spring of 1945, was sent on another forced march, from which she was liberated by the Russian Army. After the war, she reunited with her son, who also survived the war.

  12. John Paczkowski newspaper articles

    Contains four newspaper articles about John Paczkowski's liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.

  13. Benovitz family documents

    Contains two death certificates for Elja Faiwus and two death certificates for Rochla Biednowicz, issued in the Landsberg Displaced persons camp in 1949.

  14. "How do you like America"

    Contains a memoir about Martin O. Stern's life in Essen, Germany, and their escape to the United States after the Nazis rise to power.

  15. Inge Schlesinger memoir

    Contains a memoir about Inge Schlesinger's childhood in Berlin, Germany, forced labor experiences at the Zeiss-Ikon factory in Berlin and in Auschwitz, experiences in Ravensbrück, Grima, Belgium, and later emigration to the United States.

  16. Rezso Kemeny papers

    Contains a letter and two postcards written by Hungarian Jewish attorney Rezso Kemeny in the Pestszenterzsebet, Hungary ghetto in June and July 1944 before his deportation to Auschwitz, where he perished. Also contains a 1944 factory worker ID card of his son, donor Miklos (Nick) Kemeny.

  17. Simone Molin collection

    Contains 22 documents pertaining to the awards granted by French, British and American authorities to Simone Molin (a.k.a. Simone Benoist, or Madame Veuve Garaud) for her activity in the French resistance and for saving airmen of the Allied Forces and Jews during World War II; related correspondence; and 4 black and white photo prints showing Simone Molin.

  18. Recollections of Martha Cooper

    Contains a written transcript of a privately conducted oral history interview with Martha Cooper, a Holocaust survivor.

  19. Calecka Perla memoir

    Contains one memoir, 18 pages, about Calecka Perla's family life in Łódź, Poland, her family's deportation to concentration camps, and her survival as a non-Jewish domestic, liberation by the Russians, and emigration to Israel.

  20. Dov Katz: chapters in his life during the years of the second world war 1939-1946

    Contains a memoir, 15 pages, about Dov Katz's childhood years in Złoczow, Poland (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), his survival on false papers purchased by his father, work in a leather and iron processing plants while surviving on false papers, life in Bucharest, Romania, and later emigration to Palestine.