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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Fabian Gerson memoirs

    Consists of the memoirs of Professor Fabian Gerson, originally of Łódź, Poland. The memoirs are written in two parts. In part I, titled "The Road to Annihilation," 13 pages, Professor Gerson describes his childhood in Łódź, pre-war antisemitism, and the German invasion. In December 1939, Fabian's mother, Dora (neé Kon) and sister Franciszka moved to Czestochowa; Fabian and his father, Pinkus, escaped the ghetto to join them in October 1940. On September 22, 1942, Fabian was separated from his family during the liquidation of Czestochowa and taken to forced labor at an armament plant owned b...

  2. Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity, including photographs of corpses carried on stretchers in preparation for burial. Also includes one letter, dated July 28, 1945, written by Daniel J. McCue, Jr. in Bad Aibling, Germany, to his father, Daniel J. McCue, Sr. In the letter, McCue writes that he is enclosing photographs taken "at a concentration camp..snapped by one of our boys." The photographs are marked "Dachau" on the verso, but depict Gardelegen.

  3. Elimelech Weinmann family tree

    Consists of the family tree of Elimelech Weinmann, born in Poland most likely in the early 1800s. The family, which now has Argentinean, Israeli, and Australian branches, lost members in the Holocaust.

  4. "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944"

    "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944" is a 23 page memoir written by Ruth Katz Leiser. The memoir recalls the Holocaust experiences of the Katz family of Godulin, near Maišiagala, Poland.

  5. Simon Ruder photographs

    Consists of seven post-war photographs from the collection of Simon Ruder, originally of Obertyn, Poland. Mr. Ruder was deported to Loncki prison in 1941, where he spent two years sewing Nazi uniforms before being sent to Auschwitz, Dachau, and then the Mühldorf subcamp, from which he was liberated in 1945. The photographs, taken at an unknown displaced persons camp, depict Mr. Ruder, his brother Mendel, and other newly released prisoners. Includes a photograph of what appears to be a remembrance ceremony, and a group picture in which some of the men appear to be wearing prisoner uniforms.

  6. Selected records from the collection of the police of Ploieşti in the Prahova Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Police of Ploieşti, including documents related to various religious groups.

  7. Selected records from the "Nedic Archives" of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia

    Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia related to the activities of the puppet government of the Prime-Minister Milan Nedic during the Nazi occupation. This collection includes correspondence of the various Government authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, members of the antifascist movement, communists and the civilian population.

  8. Fondo Documental Secretaría Técnica, Primera y Segunda Presidencia del Teniente General Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955), Sección: Migraciones y Colonización

    Administrative records, declarations, testimonies, declartations, decrees, name lists pertaining to Argentine migration and colonization policies and legislation, including Jewish migration in Europe and South America after the end of the Second World War.

  9. Nazi Criminals Criminales Nazis

    This collection includes newspaper clippings and a few original documents pertaining to the search and whereabouts of Nazi war criminals believed to be hiding in Argentina and other countries in South America.

  10. Max Borg correspondence

    Contains a letter, 3 pages, typed, addressed to Mr. Seder in Worcester, MA from Max Borg in Paris, France. In the letter, Mr. Borg thanks Mr. Seder for his kindness and asks for monthly food parcels. He goes on to write about his family's history, businesses in Danzig, finances, the fate of his family, his whereabouts and experiences during WWII

  11. Legal authorities beyond the area of the Federal Republic of Germany – cadre camp Sosnowitz Justizbehörden außerhalb des Gebietes der Bundesrepublik - Stammlager Sosnowitz (BA R137V)

    The collection contains registry and registration books with arrival and departure of prisoners; also contains various documents concerning food rations, rules, regulations and policies issued to camp guards. Contains information on incarcerated prisoners under Polish punishment regulations ("Polenstrafrecht") at the "Stammleger" Sosnowitz (region Kattowitz).

  12. Selected records from the Archives départementales de Vaucluse

    Contains various records on foreign refugees, including Jewish refugees; documents on the internment camp Saint-Cyprien and the prison Sainte-Anne, 1940; files on Jewish and French Freemasons (Masons); summary of prefecture reports for the non-occupied part of France, 1941-1943; registers and personal dossiers of internees.

  13. Vsesoyuznoe Obshestvo po zemelnomu ustroystvu trudyashikhsya evreev Society for Settling Working Jews on the Land (OZET)

    The collection contains documents pertaining to organization and work at all administrative levels; notes from the meetings of the governing bodies of the Society for the Settlement of Working Jews on the Land (OZET); collectivization plans and directives concerning resettlement; correspondence between the Central Soviet of OZET and Jewish organizations abroad; industrial and agricultural records; propaganda materials such as newspaper articles and film scripts; information bulletins; financial records of OZET; and the proceedings of the liquidation committee. Also contains documents pertai...

  14. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague

    Contains records generated in the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) by the German occupiers and by dependent Czech agencies dealing with “internal security” and “racial policy.” It also contains case files from the Comité d'Assistance aux Réfugiés (Committee for Refugee Assistance) in Paris, 1933-1940 (probably captured there, taken to Germany, and evacuated to the Protectorate), including cases for refugees from Czechoslovakia, Austria, and other countries. Many documents derive from puppet ministries and agencies, including materials on deport...

  15. Records of the Jewish Community of Salonika, Greece (RG 207)

    The collection contains registration books containing records of vital statistics, 1920-1939; lists of Salonika Jews, circa 1939; records of the Rabbinical Court, 1920-1938; correspondence with the Salonika Jewish Community from individuals and institutions pertaining to housing, administration of Jewish quarters, and the production and distribution of matzo; records and correspondence of the Jewish Communal Council of Salonika, the Commission of Education, Salonica-Palestine, S. A., and the Banque Union; as well miscellaneous documents relating to Jewish life in Greece, circa 1912-1936.

  16. Nachman Zonabend collection

    The collection documents life inside the Łódź Jewish ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It consists predominantly of the records of the Eldest of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, and of his administration. Included are original correspondence, announcements, circulars, charts, publications, reports, essays, albums and photographs.

  17. David Tsory collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the members of the kibbutz hachshara in Wyskow, Poland, as well as photographs of the Hehalutz Hatzair youth group in Zoludek, Poland. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Izrael Cirolnicki and Rachel Sandrowska.

  18. Military Entry Permit

    Consists of a military entry permit for S. Wallace Kagan to move freely around the British, French, and American occupied zones of Germany, dated December 1946.

  19. Jacqueline Mendels Birn collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, baby books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ellen and Frits Mendels, and their children, Franklin, Jacqueline, and Manuela, before and during the Holocaust in France when the family lived in hiding. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Walter Absil collection

    Consists of one DVD entitled "A Witness to History: A message of tolerance and respect from Holocaust survivor Walter Absil" and a folder of copies of wartime documents related to Mr. Absil's Holocaust experiences. On the DVD, Mr. Absil, who was born Walter Bondy, describes his life in pre-war Vienna, his family's immigration to Belgium after the Anschluss, and their attempts to gain Belgian citizenship (including attempts to marry Walter's teenage sister to a Belgian citizen and Walter's adoption into the Belgian Absil family). The family went into hiding and were later separated; Walter's...