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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Farming, church service, soccer, orchestra, theater at Camp Westerbork

    MS, horse, pasture. CU, feeding horse. Little boy sitting on horse without saddle. WS, horse running through field. CU, sheep. 02:30:11 Moving train, shot from inside, piles of bricks in open wagons. Farming: young man plowing by hand. Horse-pulled plower. Pan of group of young men and women in black uniforms preparing soil for seeds, using cylindrical wooden tool. Women with yutta bags around their necks, filled with flower bulbs, throwing bulbs into pepared holes. CU, slow motion of working with wooden rower. 02:36:02: WS, same group of people resting, laying down in meadow. Pan, people r...

  2. Ida Ney letters

    Contains correspondence sent by Ida Ney from Brno, Czechoslovakia, to her son Paul Ney, who was able to travel through Dublin and Rio de Janeiro before ultimately emigrating to the United States. The bulk of the correspondence describes Ida Ney's failed efforts to obtain a visa first to the United States and then to Cuba.

  3. Fira Zhornitskaya memoir

    Contains a memoir about Fira Zhornitskaya's Holocaust experiences.

  4. Selma Engel papers

    The Selma Engel papers consist of a diary, biographical materials, and photographs. The diary (1943-1944) was written by Selma while hiding on a farm in German occupied Poland. It describes Selma’s arrival at Sobibór, the uprising and her escape with Chaim, the farming couple hiding them (Adam and Stefka Nowak), conditions of the farm, and Chaim and Selma’s health issues and Selma’s pregnancy. The diary also includes handwritten dictionary pages translating German into Polish, messages to Selma from Chaim, and sketches of the Hotel Wijnberg in Zwolle. Biographical materials include repatria...

  5. Halina Hershkowitz papers

    Contains two Bescheinigung, one black and white photograph from Foehrenwald, and one copy of a Ketubah.

  6. Diary of Hans Frank

    Contains the diary (day book) of Hans Frank, governor of occupied Poland during World War II. The journal is in typed format, in chronological order, covering all aspect of Generalgouvernment (GG) administration from its seat in the royal Wawel castle in Krakau (Kraków). The entries reflect careful, thoughtful consideration of administrative matters, rather than the spontaneous thoughts or feelings usually found in a diary.

  7. Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police Einsatzgruppen reports

    Contains the complete Einsatzgruppen reports ("Erignismeldung UdSSR" and "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten") dating from 23 June 1941 to 1944. Copies of reels 233, 234, 235, and 236, from NARA microfilm publication T175. Virtually complete; only number 158, 21 January 1942 is missing.

  8. Written testimony of a Viennese Jew

    Contains a written testimony, 123 pages, of an unidentified Jewish man in Vienna about the events surrounding his arrest and imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp.

  9. Hannah E. Ohr family collection

    Correspondence, legal documents and photographs relating to Hannah E. Ohr and her family; mother, Emma Kruger; father, Julius Kruger; and sister, Annemarie Heimbach.

  10. Balan family papers

    Balan family papers pertaining to the family's Holocaust experiences from 1904-1999. Contains two booklets entitled, "The Frankl Family: How It All Began," and "The Braun Family," seventeen legal documents, one letter. and two photographs pertaining to the Braun family's Holocaust expereinces.

  11. Arnold D. Kerr photograph collection

    Contains twelve black and white photographs depicting Arnold Kerr's post-Holocaust experiences in Eschwege and Berlin, Germany.

  12. Weisman family letters

    Contains five letters that were sent to Sadye Weismann from his relatives in Poland.

  13. Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families papers

    The Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families papers measure 1.3 linear feet and date from 1755 to 1959. They are comprised of biographical materials, immigration records, and ancestral records. The collection documents the lives of Fritz and Gertrude Rosenwald, their Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag relatives, the families’ efforts to immigrate to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, and the Kupferschlag ancestors. Biographical materials date from 1876-1959 and primarily document the pre-war lives of Fritz and Gertrude Rosenwald and the early lives of Fritz’s parents, Bendix a...

  14. "I Recall"

    Contains a memoir, 40 pages, about Kayla Gitla Skop's Holocaust experiences.

  15. William Steiner papers

    Collection includes identification documents of William Steiner, one photograph of members of the Vienna Maccabi Sportsclub with William Steiner's sister, and one photograph of William Steiner and his sister. The identification documents contain: one Schuelerausweiskarte, issued in Vienna on October 25, 1933, one Deutsches Reich Reispass, issued in Vienna on August. 25, 1938; one Deutches Reich Kennkarte, issued on January 30, 1939; and one Ausschliessungsschein, issued in Vienna, on August 5, 1939.

  16. Lubov Shtipelman collection

    Includes three letters and two photographs relating to the life in the Soviet Union - Belarus, in the beginning of the Second World War.

  17. Marianna Kohl document

    Contains the Red Cross document issued on February 2, 1941, for Marianna Kohl from London , with the information sent to her daughter, Elsa Mangold from Vienna (received on March 4, 1941).

  18. Mosheim and Marx families papers

    The Mosheim and Marx families papers measure 1.0 linear foot and date from 1914‐1952, 1988, 1994, and 1999. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence files and translations, Inge Moss’s early life story, photographs, clippings, and research files documenting Herbert and Inge Moss’ immigrations to the United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened to them. Biographical materials document the education and immigration of Inge Marx and Herbert Mosheim. Materials inclu...

  19. Simon Drucker memoir

    The Simon Drucker memoir consist of a single typed page relating Drucker’s arrest during the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup; his internment, escape, and re-internment in nearly a dozen prisons and concentration camps in France, Poland, and Germany; liberation; fighting in the first Arab-Israeli war; and beginning his life again in Paris.

  20. Penner family collection

    Contains 26 letters, six legal documents, three Canadian Pacific cards, and one menu from the Canadian Pacific pertaining to the experiences of Ilona Penner and her twin brother, Kurt Penner on a Kindertransport.