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  1. Milton Ramoy photograph collection Postwar Germany

    The forty photographs depict Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation in April 1945, corpses at Neunburg vorm Wald, Germany, and German civilians viewing a mass burial site in Tittling, Germany, in 1945.

  2. Miriam Pomerantz Weissman Photographs, ca. 1926-1946.

    The photographs depict the funeral for Miriam Weissman's grandfather in Konstantynów, Poland, in 1926; her mother, four brothers, and sister in 1920; and Miriam Weissman with her cousin, Dr. I. Goldberg, and other Holocaust survivors at a wedding at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in 1946.

  3. Bernard Schwarzkopf photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs depicting corpses at Ohrdruf concentration camp at liberation in 1945 and one photograph of a Jewish synagogue in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where Bernard Schwarzkopf [donor] attended services during Rosh Hashanah in 1945.

  4. Ellen Gale photograph collection

    Contains 37 photographs depicting the Gallewski family and other refugees on board the ship "IBERIA," en route to Cuba in 1939, their daily life in Havana, Cuba, and on board a ship en route to Miami, Florida, in 1940.

  5. Emmy Rosenstock Dornhelm papers, ca. 1925-1939.

    Contains a postcard addressed to Mrs. Hermine Rothmüller in Vienna, Austria and sent by Franz Otto Rothmüller in the Dachau concentration camp. In the postcard, Franz asks his mother to go to the authorities to get him released, 1938 December The papers also include an envelope addressed to Justin Rosenstock in New York, sent by Friedl Rosenstock, the sister of Justin Rosenstock and and Emmy Dornhelm in Schweinfurt, Germany, a Deutsches Reich Reisepass belonging to Franz Otto Rothmüller (1939), and a Heimatschein for Franz Otto Rothmüller issued in Vienna in 1925.

  6. Ursula Traugott papers

    Contains one postcard dated May 27, 1939, written and sent from Fritz Marcus to his niece, Ursula Traugott, from aboard the MS St. Louis; and two postcards, dated June 22 and July 22, 1939 sent to Ursula and Wolfgang Traugott in Providence, RI, from Fritz Marcus after he arrived in London, England.

  7. William Fuller photographs

    The papers consist of ten photographs of corpses at Dachau concentration camp during liberation on April 29, 1945 and one piece of paper stating that the photographs are bona fide gifts from a member of the armed forces of the United States, Arthur Can.

  8. Anne Blaustein photograph collection

    The collection consists of studio portraits of the family of David Liss, originally of Poland, including his wife Julia, son Henryk, and daughter Niusienka, all of whom perished at Auschwitz in 1944. Also included an identification photograph of David used for his post-war American passport.

  9. Supplement to World Press Review

    Report issued by the British Parliament includes description of the physical layout of Buchenwald concentration camp, approximate numbers and nationalities of inmates, estimates of total numbers of individuals who were killed, and the conditions found there. The report was submitted by ten members of the Official British Parliamentary Delegation of the Members of the Parliment from the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

  10. Martin Tillmanns photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Helene Gotthold, a Jehovah's Witness, in 1918 and a photograph of Gotthold and her two children, Gerd and Gisela, on June 25, 1936.

  11. John McMichael photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, at the time of liberation in 1945. The photographs were taken by Bob McMichael.

  12. Robert Hofmekler papers

    The Robert Hofmekler papers consist of photographs and printed materials documenting the Hofmekler family of Lithuania. Photographs depict members of the Hofmekler family before, during, and after World War II and members of the Kovno Ghetto Orchestra including Michael and Motel Hofmekler, Avraam Abramson, Elia and Mordecai Borstein, Boris Koriski, Michael Lin, and Boris and Shmaya (Alexander) Stupel. Printed materials include programs and clippings documenting Leo Hofmekleris, the Ballet de Monte Carlo, and the Lithuanian National Ballet. A September 1948 issue of From the Last Exterminati...

  13. Lester Burg letter

    The letter was written to Evelyn Burg by her husband, Lester Burg, while he was serving with the American military in France during World War II. The letter, dated September 28, 1944, describes his experiences as a Jewish soldier in France, his knowledge of the ongoing Holocaust, and preparation for 1944 Yom Kippur services.

  14. Ilse Dahl letter

    The mimeographed copy of a letter was written by Ilse Dahl (former roommate of donor's aunt) in France to Charlotte Hackett (donor's aunt) in England and describes the journey of the ship, "Flandre," to Cuba. It is entitled, "Die Cuba-Reise der 'Flandre,' am 16. Mai 1939."

  15. William Herskovic papers

    The William Herskovic papers include two postcards written by Ezryl Anielewicz at the Jawischowitz concentration camp to his wife Mirele in Belgium, a photocopy of an attestation confirming William Herskovic’s report of his escape from the Peiskretscham labor camp, Suzanne Herskovic Ponder’s account of her father’s escape from Peiskretscham, and a requisition order confiscating Herskovic’s photography studio.

  16. Two men on a motorcycle

    The photograph depicts Jan van den Berg and Koos Lammers sitting on a motorcycle outside of a house. Jan van den Berg was persecuted in the Netherlands by the Nazis because he was a Jehovah's Witness.

  17. Zbąszyń photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs of Jewish refugees from Germany on the Polish-German border in Zbąszyń, Poland. On the verso, stamped by Roman Vishniac.

  18. Emergency Rescue Committee collection

    The Emergency Rescue Committee collection documents the efforts of Varian Fry in assisting three of the more than 1,500 refugees he helped escape while living in France from 1940-1941. As a member of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry was sent to Marseille, France, to assist in the escape of prominent intellectuals and artists who were living in recently German-occupied France. The correspondence and cables concern Max Ernst, Elena Frank, and Wilhelm Herzog, in addition to a list of clients for the Emergency Rescue Committee that were living in various countries in 1943. The Emergency Resc...

  19. Joseph A. Wyant papers

    The papers consist of a six-page letter written by Joseph A. Wyant, an American soldier, describing the liberation of Dachau concentration camp to his father in the United States. Also included are thirteen annotated photographs depicting Dachau after liberation in May 1945. Joseph and his brother William Wyant appear in some of the photographs.

  20. Letty C. Fernandez photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs of rows of corpses laid out on a field with American soldiers in the background.