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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Refugee Assistance Fund letter

    Contains a printed announcement in letter form about the "Refugee Assistance Fund." The letter indicates that some money was raised at Albert Hall "as a result of his (Einstein's) generous and unselfish help when he spoke to the only public gathering he has ever addressed," but more money is needed for the cause.

  2. Cesare Lombroso letter

    Contains one letter written by Cesare Lombroso stating that there was "a criminal type."

  3. UNRRA list of concentration camp victims, 1947

    Contains missing persons inquiries processed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Tracing Bureau for Austria up to March 31, 1947.

  4. Rose Silberberg Skier papers

    The Rose Silberberg Skier papers include a diary, photographs, and materials related to Silberberg’s time at the Convent of the Gray Sisters in Neisse and at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp documenting the Silberberg family in Jaworzno, Poland, Silberberg’s wartime experiences in hiding, and her post‐war experiences at Zeilsheim. The diary records Silberberg’s wartime memories and her daily life in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. The photographs include copy prints of Rose Silberberg with her family and acquaintances before and during the war and original prints and copy prints o...

  5. Abraham Atsmon papers

    The Abraham Atsmon papers consist of identification papers, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his participation in a partisan brigade in the areas of Słonim and Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American occupation zone of Germany after the war, his support for the state of Israel, his emigration to Israel in 1948, and his subsequent efforts to record the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Bi...

  6. Emmie Vida collection

    Contains a copy of a memoir written by Emmie Vida entitled, "Loving Journey: Selected Short Stories."

  7. Marga Himmler diary

    The collection consists of a diary kept by Marga Himmler, the wife of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS.

  8. Baldauf and Goldstein family correspondence

    Baldauf and Goldstein family correspondence includes letters from Flora Schwartz, Carola Goldstein, and Minnie Baldauf in Augsburg, Germany, to Arthur Baldauf and his family in Kentucky requesting assistance in leaving Germany.

  9. Nussbaum family papers

    Contains an identification card belonging to Maier Nussbaum, an identification card belonging to Ernest Nussbaum, one passport for Maier Nussbaum, one notice from the German Red Cross, and three letters.

  10. Zygmunt Kaminski memoir

    Contains a memoir, 49 pages, about Zygmunt Kaminski's Holocaust experiences.

  11. Lilli Wolff papers

    The Lilli Wolff papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, playbills, and a clipping documenting Lilli Wolff’s career as a costume designer and dressmaker in Köln and Vienna, her experience hiding in Vienna with the help of her friends, and her immigration to the United States. The papers also include poems and stories dedicated to Lilli Wolff by Max Meinecke. Biographical materials include records documenting the lives of Lilli Wolff, her brother‐in‐law Walter Schiff, and her friend Mati Driessen. A birth certificate, business registration certificate, tenant regis...

  12. Rogers family postcards

    Contains three postcards from Irene Hayek addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kohl.

  13. German Archives of the Second World War Archives Allemandes de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

    Contains records relating to the persecution of Jews in the occupied zone; racial laws; persecution of Freemasons, Roma-Sinti, and German emigrants; anti-Nazi resistance; and German anti-Jewish propaganda in France. Also contains material related to the confiscation of property belonging to Jews, the administration and liquidation of Jewish owned businesses and firms, and inventories of seized bank assets belonging to Jews.

  14. Okumenische Gedenkveranstaltung anlasslich des 60. Jahrestages der Reichspogrom-Nacht 1938 am 09.11.1998 im Historischen Rathaus Mutterstadt

    Contains a booklet about the Mutterstadt Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

  15. Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS (NS 19)

    This collection contains files relating to the functions of Heinrich Himmler’s personal staff, who served as his chancellery, adjutant’s office, and transmitters of orders to the SS, Waffen-SS, and police forces. The subjects covered in this fragmentary collection include Himmler’s personal interests such as Das Ahnenerbe and the Lebensborn association, as well as population transfer issues and economic and legal/court matters. Himmler’s functions and interests in the state and military sectors are underrepresented here.

  16. The Life Story of Harry Schuster My Experience in the Ghetto

    Contains a memoir written by Harry Schuster about his Holocaust experiences.

  17. Reichssicherheitshauptamt selected records (R 58)

    Contains files relating to the surveillance and persecution of leftist political parties and their organs, and labor unions; the control of the press and literature; the combat against and the destruction of anti-Nazi organizations in the occupied and annexed territories and the treatment of prisoners of war and foreign laborers; and the persecution of Jews. Also includes documents of organizational orders and decrees relating to the Sicherheitspolizei, opinion and situation reports of the SD from 1938 to 1944, activity reports for the USSR from 1941 to 1942, and SD reports on the political...

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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...