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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Joseph Rosen papers

    The Joseph Rosen papers consists of photographs, mostly of concentration camps after liberation with captions in French on verso. Most of the images are copies of widely-published press photos. Also included are two documents in French relating to Joseph Rosen: the first one recognizes him as former concentration camp internee, originally from Czechoslovakia but who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald; the second is a certificate of repatriation stating that he was originally from Munkacs, and that his parents were Maurice and Therese (nee Bercovici) Rosen.

  2. Vincent Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vincent Z., who served with the United States Army in World War II. He recounts speaking fluent Polish; deployment to London; working in a press unit publishing Polish newspapers; contacts with the Polish government-in-exile and Polish resistants; transfer to Paris, then to Germany; visiting Dachau in November 1945; observing the gas chambers and crematorium; speaking with a Catholic priest and other liberated prisoners; working with UNRRA in Bad Nauheim to publish newspapers for the displaced persons camps; and assisting with displaced persons camp education programs...

  3. George M. Kren manuscript

    The collection consists of an unpublished manuscript written by Dr. George M. Kren, a professor of history at the University of Kansas. In the manuscript, George gives an overview of the history of the Holocaust and includes the historiography of various events, including the rise of antisemitism, the Holocaust in various countries, and the operation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Also included is an extensive bibliographic essay.

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  5. Selected records of the County Office of Iłża in Starachowice-Wierzbnik Starostwo Powiatowe Iłżeckie w Starachowicach-Wierzbniku (Sygn. 2680)

    Monthly and quarterly situational reports, correspondence, circulars and lists of abandoned Jewish properties. Includes reports related to activities of the Komunistyczna Partia Polski (Polish Communist Party) and Jewish organizations in Iłża region, and registers of Jewish properties.

  6. M.1.PF - War time Jewish Folklore Collection

    M.1.PF - Documantation on Jewish folklore during the second world war This collection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (M.1). The CHC collected much material from the Holocaust survivors, including testimonies, documentary material in their possession and more. When the CHC was disbanded, the CHC archive was transferred to Yad Vashem. There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during th...

  7. Savska banovina, odjeljak upravnog odjeljenja za državnu zaštitu

    • The Sava County, state security administration unit

    The collection contains reports on the monitoring of prominent political figures (V. Maček, I. Pernar, M. Radic, M. Šuflaj, A. Trumbić); reports of district city police; information on the political situation and events listings of separatist-oriented state and self-government officials, information on the assassination of King Alexander I, the writings about the founding and the combat of illicit organizations of former Croatian Farmers Party members, writings on liquidation of estates and districts bordering with Hungary, inspection of arms and ammunition, the data on foreign citizens, em...

  8. Photographs of post-war Jewish community in Dzierżoniów, Poland (Reichenbach, Silesia)

    The photograph collection consists of photographs from the post-war Jewish community of Dzierżoniów, Poland (formerly Reichenbach, Lower Silesia, Germany). The images depict a gathering in memory of the murdered Jews of Biala (circa 1946), a New Year's greeting from the committee of survivors from Biala, and various unidentified family photographs. Following the end of the war, some Jews who had survived nearby concentration camps, such as Gross-Rosen, tried to re-establish an autonomous communal settlement in Dzierżoniów, under the leadership of Jakub Egit, a Jewish soldier in the Red ...

  9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  10. Berliner and Jacobs families collection

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of the Berliner and Jacobs families during the Holocaust. Contains photographs (136), with some pre-war, but majority dating from 1945-1947 and showing Holocaust survivors living in or near displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria (Bergen Belsen, Mittenwald, Berchtesgaden, and Salzburg). Also contains a displaced persons identification card and certificate issued to Aranka Berliner, with the latter showing that she worked as a liaison officer with the Allied authorities at the Belsen camp, post-liberation, 1945; a Rom...

  11. Cahul County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Cahul
    • Кагульский уездный трибунал
    • Kagul'skiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Reports of the Cahul district prefecture and the police of the city of Cahul on the moral integrity of the residents; correspondence with gendarme posts and other institutions of the county about the verification of persons suspected of committing various crimes; cases of inventory of the property of individuals repressed by the Soviet authorities

  12. Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Chicago (A.59)

    Contains documents related to emigration of Jews, anti-Jewish speeches of students in Poland, newspaper clippings, memos, studies, reports, lectures, correspondence, translations, maps, and the like. Also included is a report from the review of the Jewish press in the USA, as well as publications in English, including: "The Jews in Poland: Their History, Their Tragedy, Their Future" published by The American Committee for the Relief of Jews in Poland, NY, 1936; and twenty four annual reports of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, 1932.

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  14. Shlomo H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo H., who was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1922. He recounts his family's emigration to Paris in 1929; their orthodoxy (his father was a Hasidic shoh?et); fleeing south during the German invasion; his parents' return with some of the children; working for the Jewish community in Moissac; not communicating with his family, fearing exposure; obtaining false papers; joining the de Gaulle Resistance; many actions against the Germans; liberating Paris; reunion with his family (his mother had perished when she was deported); emigration to Israel; marriage to an American; ...

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  17. Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945

    • Refugee Database 1933-1945
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • files of 8.160 refugees

    Database has files of 8.160 refugees: 1) political and Jewish refugees, some of which stayed for a shorter or a longer period of time in Denmark, 2) refugees who have been rejected at the border, 3) person who sought asylum in vain either from abroad or from family and friends.

  18. Ernst Graf papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Ernst Graf, originally of Berlin, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his training at Camp Ritchie, and service with the United States Army during World War II. Included are passports; birth, death, and marriage certificates, military records, and restitution paperwork.

  19. Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, April 17, 1945. LHSs, concentration camp area with internees and visitors walking about. MLS, soldiers entering camp area. MSs, picture of Joseph Stalin on camp building. In FG, arms are raised in Communist salute. Head-on-shot, Red Cross trucks with "Switzerland" on bumpers enter camp grounds. MLS, group of young inmates marching from the camp. Many of them wearing the striped prison uniform. MSs, CUs, two former inmates remove bodies from hand truck, place them upon a pile of bodies near building. CU, Pan, dead bodies in a long pile. ECUs, faces of ...

  20. Max L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max L., who was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1921, the younger of two children. He recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; antisemitic harassment; participating in a Jewish scout group; anti-Jewish boycotts and restrictions; his bar mitzvah in 1934, the last time his extended family was together; his sister's emigration to the United States in 1936; his emigration in 1937; his parents' arrival in 1938; military draft in 1942; training as a dental technician; marriage; and the births of two children. Mr. L. discusses planning a ten-day visit to Germany in 1987; ...