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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Debbie Haynie collection, 1943-1944

    Contains currency from Theresienstadt and a two letters written from Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.

  2. Hitlerjugend scrapbook

    Ulrich von Fumetti's scrapbook includes photographs, postcards, letters, and newspaper articles that depict his training in the Hitler Youth or Hitlerjugend in preparation for a career in the military.

  3. Nicolas Weill papers

    The Nicolas Weill papers consist of copies of court documents, evidentiary documents, press clippings, printed materials, and research files pertaining to Maurice Papon, secretary general of the Gironde prefecture under the Vichy regime, investigations into his collaboration in the deportation of Jews from Gironde during the Holocaust, and his 1997‐1998 trial. Court documents include copies of the indictment against Papon, hearing schedules, lists of parties involved, interventions, and arguments made by attorneys for the prosecution. Evidentiary documents include photocopies of official re...

  4. Diary of Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front

    The diary was written by a unknown Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front between 23 September 1941 and 27 December 1941. In the diary the soldier provides very detailed descriptions of daily life and his experiences. On 23 September 1941 he describes witnessing Jews march down the road wearing yellow stars and on 30 September 1941 he describes arriving at an unidentified town where Jews had recently been hanged for supposedly burning a bridge. The diary includes French vocabulary practice and some brief entries in shorthand.

  5. Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov manuscript

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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."

  12. 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."

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Erno Deutsch family papers

    Contains postcards sent by Erno Deutsch from the forced labor battalion in 1944, presumably forged Swiss schutzpass issued to Mr. and Mrs. Kellner, relatives of Erno Deutsch. A July 21, 1942, letter from the military authorities calling Erno Deutsch to return his military decorations. A July 27, 1942, registered mail receipt proving that Erno Deutsch obeyed that letter. An October 24,1944, letter written by Erno Deutsch asking the Hungarian Office of Taxation to grant extension since he is working in a labor battalion, and cannot look after his taxes. Commander of the labor company certifie...

  18. Karmann family papers

    The Karmann family papers relate to the experience of the Karmann family aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers contain Cuban immigration cards for Richard Karmann, Sidonie Karmann, and Annemarie Karmman, as well as correspondence and passenger notifications written on Hamburg-Amerika Line stationery regarding the ongoing negotiations about the ships destination after being denied entry to Cuba. Handwritten English transcriptions of the correspondence is also included.

  19. 82 Airborne Division newspaper

    Contains one edition of the 82nd Division newspaper.

  20. Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic

    The Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic contains commemorative stamps, food packaging, photographic materials, printed materials, and reports documenting the establishment of the Sosúa Jewish community in the Dominican Republic and the town’s development into a tourist destination. The commemorative stamps were created in 1960. Three depict an aerial view of the Sosúa coastline and two depict four of the original Jewish refugee children, Naomi Neumann, Caroline Papernik, Susanna Tauber, and Teresa Hirschfeld. Food packaging includes a salami wrapp...