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Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Hava Tsour memoir

    Consist of one memoir, 69 pages, written in 2001 by Hava Tsour, born Eva Sidis in Athens, Greece in August 1936. In her memoir, she describes the occupation of Greece. During the war, Eva, her parents, and siblings moved throughout Greece to escape deportation. Her father was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, but the family later heard that he was shot and killed before arrival. After the liberation of Greece, Eva, her mother, and siblings moved to Israel.

  2. "Broken Birds"

    Consists of one manuscript, in paper copy and on CD, entitled "Broken Birds," by Jeannette Katzir. In the manuscript, she describes the Holocaust experiences of her parents, Channa Perschowski Poltzer, originally of Baranavichy, Poland, and Nathan Polczer (Poltzer), originally of Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia. Channa spent the war as a partisan in the Polish forests, while Nathan was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and transferred to different camps before being liberated in Germany in 1945. They both immigrated to New York, where they met and married in 1950. The majority of the manuscript is ded...

  3. Registration cards issued at Jewish Committees in Łódź and Gliwice (Sygn. 303/V/428)

    Contains 8209 registration cards issued to Jewish survivors in Łódź and Gliwice by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP).

  4. Olympic Games 1936; parade

    Olympic Games of 1936, Infantry regiment 66 on maneuver and parade

  5. Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania

    Contains sixteen-page family questionnaires distributed by the World Jewish Congress in Arad, Birlad, Botoşani, Brăila, Bucharest, Burdujeni, Carei, Cluj, Constanţa, Galaţi, Iasį, Oradea, Rădăuţi, Roman, Timişoara, and Vaslui. Forms include name, address, date and place of birth, occupation/profession, education, and details of persecution under the Antonescu regime (as well as deportations from Transylvania to German-occupied Poland).

  6. Torah breastplate

    Breast plate: silver, 19th century, for a Torah scroll entrusted to Lucie Sternberg Rosenberg by her father Manfred Sternberg. Manfred Sternberg was born in 1892 in Slavonska Pozega in the former Yugoslavia. The breast plate was likely carried from Zagreb, Croatia from where the family fled in 1941 to the United States [through Europe] and then entrusted to Lucie.

  8. Laiser Ajchenrand papers Nachlass Lajser Ajchenrand (1911-1985)

    Private papers of Lajser Ajchenrand (1911-1985), a Holocaust survivor and author. The collection consists of personal documents, photos, press articles, the vernissage in the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland, correspondence with Max Brod, Marc Chagall, Max Frisch, Hermann Hesse, Abraham Karpinovitch, Jo Mihaly, Carl Seelig, Nelly Sachs, Abraham Sutzkever, et al., poems various texts and reviews relating to Holocaust experiences and his intelectual life and literary work.

  9. Oral history interview with Tilly Meyer

  10. Occupation of Norway

    Western Campaign, Fieseler Storch, care for war prisoners, Luftwaffe, captured weapons

  11. Esther Vardi collection

    The collection consists of a watch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Vardi and her family in Hungary before, during, and after World War II, and of Esther's arrest and imprisonment in several concentration camps for her resistance activities during the Holocaust.

  13. Seth Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of a program for a Nazi propaganda film and three periodicals relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  14. Gelb family collection

    The Gelb family collection consists of documents and photographs related to the family of Josef and Helena Feldmanova Gelb, originally of Vynohradiv (Sevlus), Czechoslovakia. In 1928, Mr. Gelb immigrated to the United States and managed to bring his family in January 1933. Includes photographs taken in Czechoslovakia, visa and immigration paperwork, and paperwork regarding the Gelbs' son Jacob, who fought as a member of the United States Army during World War II.

  15. Ceslovas Daukantas collection

    Consists of a copy of a letter to Congressman John F. Kennedy on 3 October 1949, from Ceslovas Daukantas regarding his brother Adolph, a displaced person living in a sanatorium during his recovery from tuberculosis. Mr. Daukantas sought Kennedy's help to have him transferred to a hospital in the American Zone. Also includes a copy of Kennedy's 14 October 1949, response in which he states that he has forwarded the information to the International Refugee Committee (IRC).

  16. Dr. Jesse Hofer collection

    Consists of eight color copyprints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of camp buildings, survivors, corpses, and the bodies of SS officers killed after liberation. Also includes six chapters (approximately 100 pages) of the memoir of Dr. Jesse Hofer, PhD, MD, entitled "From Behind Those Fences." In the memoir, Dr. Hofer describes what he witnessed upon the liberation of Buchenwald and his reflections on what he saw there.

  17. "Neve Diventeremo"

    Consists of one DVD produced by the Italian band "7grani," featuring Mauro, Flavio, and Fabrizio Settegrani. The DVD, entitled "Neve Diventeremo," directed by Luca Tossani, includes an oral history interview with former partisan and Buchenwald survivor Rado Zuccon, as well as a video of the band performing a tribute song, which was shot partially on the grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 88 -- Direct examination of the accused; decision on Sassen document

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 88. Eichmann, under direct examination, answers the question posed by Servatius about whether he talked to Theo Grell of the Foreign Office about the number of Jews being exterminated. Servatius asks Eichmann to comment on Grell's recollection that Eichmann said he had six million deaths on his conscience. Eichmann says that he was not referring to Jews at all but to the American and Russian bomber fleets. This is duplicate footage that also appears on Tape 2117 (at 00:59:17 to 01:07:26) and Tape 2120 (at 00:00:25), where it is more complete than ...

  19. Irwin Magad collection

    Consists of one postcard sent by Icek Wajntraub in Dombrowa to Hanna Sara Wajntraub, who was interned in a women's work camp in Grinberg. The postcard is dated March 18, 1942.

  20. Selected records from the State Archives of the Vinnytsia Region related to the history of the Jewish communities before WWII

    Contains a variety of records of the Soviet governmental and Communist Party regional administration on Jewish communities of the Vinnytsia region. Included are statistical information, family lists, documents about schools and reading rooms, the promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws of Jewish religious communities, files on Jews who appealed for the reinstatement of their electoral rights, files of Jewish owners of businesses, and inventories of synagogues and prayer houses. The collection also includes records of the Jewish Community Committee (Evobshestkom) for the relief...