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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Helenowek, Poland, Jewish Orphanage photographs

    Consists of thirteen photographs showing the donor, his brother and other Jewish orphans in the Jewish orphanage in Helenowek, Poland.

  2. "To my Grandchildren: David, Marnie, Rachel, and Tobias"

    Contains a memoir entitled "To my Grandchildren: David, Marnie, Rachel, and Tobias." The memoir is written by Johanna Schaal Glück, originally of Mährisch-Ostrow, Czechoslovakia, and is written in letter form. She describes her childhood, the German occupation, and watching her entire extended family be deported to Theresienstadt and then to their deaths at various camps. Her family was not deported, but hid in Paskau when their turn came for deportation. Copies of the memoir are in German and in English.

  3. Sefer Zakorrem Book of Memory Suffering of Jews That Died During the Nazi Occupation History of Polonnoye Jews

    Contains a memory book of Jews from Polonnoye, Ukraine.

  4. Schneiderman family photographs

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Schneiderman family, including pre-war depictions of Paul Schneiderman's family in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, post-war life in the Landsberg displaced persons camp, and aboard the SS Ernie Pyle enroute to the United States in 1947.

  5. Ministry of Defense Archives records

    Contains name lists, correspondence, diaries, reports, and trial documents. Documents concern the Soviet prisoners of war, including Soviet Jews, kept in Finnish camps during World War II; the organization of the Office of Prisoners of War within the Home Front headquarters of the Finnish Army; the personal diary of Walter Horn, Finnish military attaché in Berlin, from September 1940 to October 1944; and the trial records (1947 and 1948) of Arno Anthoni, wartime head of the Valpo, Finnish Security Police (Etsivä keskuspoliisi; later Valtiollinem poliisi, Valpo).

  6. Zdenko Bergl collection

    Consists of two false documents issued to Zdenko Bergl and his mother in Mirabella Eclano, Italy, in September 1943; four documents issued to Zdenko Bergl in the Cinecitta displaced persons camp near Rome, Italy, in 1946 and 1947; a photocopy of a certificate issued to Zdenko Bergl's father in 1940 in his hometown of St. Ivan Zabno in Croatia; a photograph of Zdenko Bergl and two friends in the Cinecitta DP camp in 1947; and a circa 1932 photograph of a brick factory, which belonged to Zdenko Bergl's father.

  7. Edward Haven collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edward Haven (born Edward Rechtszafen), who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland. Included are pre-war and wartime photographs of the donor’s family; postcards depicting images of Warsaw, circa 1956; the donor’s 6th grade school notebook, 1946; correspondence between the donor and his father, who was in Los Angeles, CA, 1946; and correspondence, 1946, including with the Machaczeks, who had hidden the donor during the war, relating to arranging for Edward to immigrate travel to the United States in ord...

  8. Mandil family photograph collection

    Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all of Yugoslavia, as well as the Veseli family of Krujë, Albania. The photographs of the Mandil family include photographs of Gavra and Irena Mandil used as advertisement for the family’s photograph studio including a photograph of the Jewish children standing in front of a Christmas tree. The photographs also include images of the Italian controlled prison in Pristina, Kosovo, 1942; a photocopy of the document which allowed for the release of the ...

  9. Sonya Lishansky collection

    Consists of one photographic print showing a group of eleven boys and girls seated together in two rows for a class picture, Gomel', Belarus.

  10. War Cabinet and Cabinet: the situation in Palestine

    Contains selected files from British Public Records Office fond CAB 27 and CAB 95. The collection consists of records and correspondence of the War Cabinet regarding Arab-Jewish unrest in Palestine rising out of the influx of new Jewish immigrants, and correspondence related to Jewish agency requests for increases in immigration limits. Also contains policy-oriented documents related to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

  11. Smoliarka and Bronna-Gura forest photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs take in forests near Bereza Kartuska, Poland (Biaroza, Belarus). The photographs depict the Smoliarka forest, located 7-8 kilometers from Bereza Kartuska, that was the site of an execution of 1800-2000 Jews in 15-16 October 1942, and a house and trees near Bronna Góra, where at least 50,000 Jews were murdered in 1942.

  12. State Commission to investigate crimes committed by the occupiers and their collaborators (AJ 110)

    Contains correspondence and other records concerning facts and evidence on war crimes committed by German, Italian, Croatian, and Bulgarian occupiers; individual cases, indictments, and trials; and the search for missing individuals sought in connection with war crimes.

  13. Leva Borshcher collection

    Consists of a photograph of the donor at age 15, shaking hands with his brother.

  14. War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, and Directorate of Military Intelligence; Ministry of Defense

    The collection consists of military intelligence documents from the War Office related to the final days and death of Adolf Hitler, together with documents related to allegations that Hitler was still alive. Also contains documents from the War Office related to war crimes committed by German officers.

  15. Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office; Legal Division: Trial of Fritz Erich Lewinski von Manstein

    The collection consists of the court files and case registers for the war crimes trial of Fritz Erich Lewinski von Manstein, accused of crimes against humanity in connection with extermination of Jews during the war.

  16. Foreign Office: Confidential correspondence

    The collection consists of correspondence and reports of the British Foreign Office concerning the situation for Jews in the Balkans. Also contains a file concerning the investigation of Nazi medical experiments on human beings.

  17. Suszek-Peczenik family photographs

    Collection of eight photographic images of members of the Suszek and Peczenik families in Sosnowiec, Poland.

  18. Simon Mamberg collection

    Collection of three photographs of members of the Mamberg family before the Holocaust.

  19. Hilde Robbins photograph collection

    Consists of 35 photographs from Shanghai.

  20. Edith Kaufler letters

    Contains letters from Edith Kaufler who escaped from a concentration camp and settled in Prague, Czechoslovakia.