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  1. Albert Steiner: Extracts from Terezin diary

    Excerpts of a diary kept by Albert Steiner during his time at Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto (1667/1) and family photograph (1667/2).

  2. Josef (Sepp) Dietrich and Michael Lippert: Copy Trial verdict

    Josef (Sepp) Dietrich and Michael Lippert: Copy trial verdict 

  3. Otto Gross collection

    Paperts re World War One experience

  4. Miscellaneous eyewitness testimonies

    This set of testimonies was discovered amongst the papers of the Wiener Library. Part of them (listed at 1619/21) are duplicates of testimonies already catalogued in Testaments to the Holocaust. The remainder (1619/1-20) were for some inexplicable reason left out of the original collection. Whilst they have been allocated reference numbers the catalogue frontispiece is absent and there is no evidence that the content has been authenticated.

  5. Gossels family: Copy correspondence

    Collection of correspondence between members of the Gossels family who emigrated to Holland during the Second World War and certificates of incarceration at Auschwitz concentration camp for the parents Sally and Malchen Gossels (1662/1).

  6. German Post World War Two Radio broadcast transcripts

    German Post World War Two Radio broadcast transcripts 

  7. Lola and Menachem Mozes collection

    THe collection consists of photographs, documents and blankets illustrating the experiences of Lola Rewitz, born in Katowice, Poland and Menachem Mozes, born in Goworowo, Poland. Lola was deported from Bochnia in 1943 with her mother and sent to Plaszow, Auschwitz, marched on foot and then transferred by train to Ravensbrueck then Malhoff. On a death march from Malhoff, they were liberated by Russian soldiers and transferred back to Łódź, Poland. In 1940, Menachem's family was deported to Archangelsk in Russia. They were then free to travel to Kutaisi, Georgia where they remained until 1945...

  8. Segen family collection

    The Segen family collection consist of biographical materials, resettlement and immigration papers, restitution papers, correspondence, photographs, childrens clothing and artifacts documenting the experiences of Berta and Moses Segen in the Borszczów and Radom, Poland ghettos; their time in resettlement camps in Germany; and their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  9. Esquire magazines

    A collection of four issues of Esquire magazine: one from February, 1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 53 titled "The New Orderlies"; the second magazine from March,1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 71 titled "The Map Maker"; the third magazine from April, 1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 59 titled "Detour on the Glory Road"; and the fourth from May, 1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 56 titled "Some Necks...?."

  10. Antiques USA collection

    The collection consists of three issues of Life magazine, dated November 21, 1938; September 18, 1939; and September 25, 1939.

  11. Mandel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Yehuda and Ella Mandel and their son Emanuel [Manny]. Collection documents their lives in Riga, Latvia where Manny was born in 1936, and their move to Hungary, where Yehuda was Chief Cantor of the Rombach Street Synagoge in Budapest until 1944, their flight from Budapest on a transport of 1600 Jewish Hungarians [arranged by Rudolph Kastner and the Aid and Rescue Committee] to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and general materials illustrating Yehuda's post-war Cantorial career in the United Stat...

  12. Anna Cheszes collection

    Contains photographs and documents pertaining to Anna Cheszes' experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust

  13. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a trunk, typewriter with lid, and child's skirt, bonnet, ribbon, and dress. The collection also includes documents, photographs, and correspondence, as well as drawings created by the donor as a child.

  14. Elysa Camozzo collection

    The collection consists of three books titled: "Die Juden," "Liturgie fuer die Einfsegnungsfeier in der Juedische Reform=Gemeinde," and "The University of Chicago Round Table: A Radio Discussion of the Jews."

  15. Shlomo Solly Perel collection

    Collection of black and white photographs, textbook, postcard and copies of letters and an article. Textbook from the Hitler Youth Academy title, "Die Stimme der Ahnen" (The Voice of the Ancestors), 59 pages, hardbound cover with paper book jacket dated 1937; in German; Berlin, Germany. Collection of 224 pictures showing the history of the Nazi Party with descriptive text on verso, dated circa 1933; in German. Personal correspondence between Solly Perel (donor) and Henriette von Shirach, one postcard, copies of three letters and newspaper article, dated circa 1991; in German and English.

  16. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The collection consists of a doll, luggage tags, artifacts, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Rosenfeld who was sent by her parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain in June 1939.

  17. Adler family collection

    The collection consists of sets of tefillin and Jewish prayer books, relating to the experiences of Otto Adler and his parents, Serena Fell Adler and Mihail Adler, in Romania and Poland during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Arzt family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photograph albums, family histories and genealogies, notebooks, a wallet, textile-covered box, small bottle, and souvenirs relating to the experiences of the Arzt family who fled Berlin, Germany for the Dominican Republic.

  19. Gerda Happ and Josef Stern collection

    Documents, photographs, manuscript of a family tree, and a prayer book illustrating Gerda Happ and her extended family and Josef Stern and his extended family. Gerda and Josef met and married in South Africa after they both fled there to escape Nazi persecution.

  20. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    I’M AN AMERICAN premiered in 1940 on the eve of WWII. The NBC radio broadcast was spearheaded by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Labor to foster a “deeper consciousness of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship and more tolerance for fellow american of all birthplaces”. The weekly program featured distinguished foreign-born citizens discussing their naturalization process, the meaning of “democracy” and reminding all Americans of the value/privilege of U.S. citizenship. Sound recordings of I’M AN AMERICAN are available from the NBC Radio Coll...