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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (R 6)

    This collection contains files relating to the organization and functioning of the agency especially in dealing with legal matters including the competence of various agency departments, the use of foreigners in the economic exploitation of the Eastern Territories, ideological subjects (e.g., “Deutschtum” and “Fremdes Volkstum”), political matters (situation reports), and remnants of Alfred Rosenberg’s office files.

  2. Pushed to the Limit

    Contains a memoir, 77 pages, about George J. Duffree's experiences as a British soldier imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II.

  3. Rolf Preuss papers

    The Rolf Preuss papers include biographical materials, genealogical materials, notes, and business cards documenting Preuss’s childhood as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai from 1939-1947. Biographical materials include rental agreements, business contracts, a vaccination record, identity papers in lieu of passports, a receipt for the payment of a tax related to American immigration, and student records. Inquiries from the Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai document the efforts of Adolf and Frieda Preuss’s family members to escape Germany for Shanghai. Genealogi...

  4. Felix Kotek family papers

    The Felix Kotek family papers include a photograph of Felix Kotek, a 1940 letter from “Leo” and Marie Wolle in London to Sala and Moritz Kotek care of the Goldberg family in Białystok, two 1941 Soviet death certificates for Moisei Kotek, a 1941 Soviet death certificate for Sara Kotek, and a 1945 German death certificate for Felix Kotek.

  5. Bernath Sauber collection

    The collection includes two folders made by the Judenrat listing Jews in the Tîrgu Mureş ghetto in Romania, a list of about 4,598 Jews deported from Tîrgu Mureş, and an inventory of belongings of the Gersh Matias family from Praid, Romania.

  6. George Lee photographs

    Contains seventeen copies of black and white photographs of the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.

  7. Heniek Bein collection

    Contains thirty black and white photographs, one copy of Bamidbar, a photocopy of excerpts from "Fohrenwald: Das Lager fuer Heimatslos," and "Fohrenwald: The Last Jewish DP camp in Germany, 1951-1957."

  8. Autobiography of Eva Lesser Stricks

    Contains Eva Lesser Stricks' autobiography, 35 pages, about her childhood experiences in Oranienberg and Berlin, Germany, her arrival in Shanghai aboard the "Conto Rosso," and her later emigration to the United States.

  9. A Jewish Resistance network in France Groupe d'Action Coutre la deporation-En hommage a son fondateur et Chef: Joseph Bass

    Contains one memoir about Denise Siekierski's Holocaust experiences.

  10. Betty Sklow papers

    The Betty Sklow papers contain correspondence written by Betty Sklow and her daughters Charlotte Rosenthal and Helene Sklow. The letters contain detailed description of Betty Sklow’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis in 1939, her disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939. Betty Sklow’s letters written aboard the MS St. Louis...

  11. Goldstein family collection

    Contains two international certificates of inoculation and vaccination for Regina and Emil Goldstein and three other legal documents from Regina and Emil Goldstein.

  12. Dina Cohen papers

    Contains two vaccination certificates, an international certificate of vaccination against small pox, a copy of a birth certificate and an English translation, and a medical processing certificate from the International Refugee Organization (IRO), for Dina Lanceter Cohen.

  13. My Biography from September 1939 to January 1945

    Contains a memoir about Martin Travis's childhood in Warsaw, experiences in Auschwitz, Blachamor concentration camp near Berlin, Germany.

  14. Viktor Ullmann papers

    Contains twelve compositions written by Viktor Ullmann. These compositions include: "Slavische Rhapsodie," "Sechs Lieder: Nach Gedichten von Albert Steffen für Sopran und Klavier," "Six Sonnets de Louïze Labé pour Chant et Piano," "Liederbuch des Hafis Nachdichtung von Bethge," "Variationen und Doppelfuge für ein Thema von Arnold Schönberg für Klavier Op. 3a," "Der Zerbrochene Krug: Oper Nach Kleist," "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, 12 Stc̈ke aus der Dichtung Rilkes für Sprecher und Orchester oder Klavier, - Theresienstadt Juli 1944," "Kaiser von Atlantis," ...

  15. Simon Coren memoir

    Contains a memoir, three pages, written by Simon Coren about his experiences in a medical unit that arrived at the Ebensee concentration camp immediately following liberation.

  16. David E. Knott memoir

    Contains a memoir, 27 pages, about David E. Knott's experiences as a member of General Patton's Third Army liberated Mauthausen-Gusen II in Austria.

  17. Josef Reiner translations from "Folks-Sztyme"

    Contains English translations of newspaper clippings from the Polish language Jewish newspaper "Folks-Sztyme."

  18. Articles pertaining to the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Bretten, Germany

    Contains seven articles pertaining to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Bretten, Germany.

  19. Union générale des israélites de France registration records

    Contains Folder 22.3 from YIVO Record Group 210. File of about 35,000 Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) membership index cards for the occupied zone. The cards served to register and control the payments to the UGIF. Each card contains the following information: family last name; first name; date and place of birth; sex; citizenship; occupation; address; identification number; date of issuance and by whom issued; and place of registration in accordance with the ordinance of October 18, 1940, or the Law of June 2, 1941. The bottom of each card bears a UGIF serial number.

  20. Recording of Sarah Saaroni's manuscript, "Life Goes on Regardless,"

    Contains five sound cassettes of an oral history with Sarah Saaroni.