Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 29,721 to 29,740 of 33,295
Language of Description: English
  1. Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS (NS 19)

    This collection contains files relating to the functions of Heinrich Himmler’s personal staff, who served as his chancellery, adjutant’s office, and transmitters of orders to the SS, Waffen-SS, and police forces. The subjects covered in this fragmentary collection include Himmler’s personal interests such as Das Ahnenerbe and the Lebensborn association, as well as population transfer issues and economic and legal/court matters. Himmler’s functions and interests in the state and military sectors are underrepresented here.

  2. The Life Story of Harry Schuster My Experience in the Ghetto

    Contains a memoir written by Harry Schuster about his Holocaust experiences.

  3. Reichssicherheitshauptamt selected records (R 58)

    Contains files relating to the surveillance and persecution of leftist political parties and their organs, and labor unions; the control of the press and literature; the combat against and the destruction of anti-Nazi organizations in the occupied and annexed territories and the treatment of prisoners of war and foreign laborers; and the persecution of Jews. Also includes documents of organizational orders and decrees relating to the Sicherheitspolizei, opinion and situation reports of the SD from 1938 to 1944, activity reports for the USSR from 1941 to 1942, and SD reports on the political...

  4. Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (R 6)

    This collection contains files relating to the organization and functioning of the agency especially in dealing with legal matters including the competence of various agency departments, the use of foreigners in the economic exploitation of the Eastern Territories, ideological subjects (e.g., “Deutschtum” and “Fremdes Volkstum”), political matters (situation reports), and remnants of Alfred Rosenberg’s office files.

  5. Pushed to the Limit

    Contains a memoir, 77 pages, about George J. Duffree's experiences as a British soldier imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II.

  6. Rolf Preuss papers

    The Rolf Preuss papers include biographical materials, genealogical materials, notes, and business cards documenting Preuss’s childhood as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai from 1939-1947. Biographical materials include rental agreements, business contracts, a vaccination record, identity papers in lieu of passports, a receipt for the payment of a tax related to American immigration, and student records. Inquiries from the Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai document the efforts of Adolf and Frieda Preuss’s family members to escape Germany for Shanghai. Genealogi...

  7. Girls push miniature baby carriages; Hanna plays with a doll

    Children, more heavily dressed, are at some paved area with wooden beams in the background (a playground?). They play with baby carriages, racing them and attempting to chase down a preteen girl (maybe cousin Magda). Hanna plays with baby dolls indoors.

  8. Felix Kotek family papers

    The Felix Kotek family papers include a photograph of Felix Kotek, a 1940 letter from “Leo” and Marie Wolle in London to Sala and Moritz Kotek care of the Goldberg family in Białystok, two 1941 Soviet death certificates for Moisei Kotek, a 1941 Soviet death certificate for Sara Kotek, and a 1945 German death certificate for Felix Kotek.

  9. Bernath Sauber collection

    The collection includes two folders made by the Judenrat listing Jews in the Tîrgu Mureş ghetto in Romania, a list of about 4,598 Jews deported from Tîrgu Mureş, and an inventory of belongings of the Gersh Matias family from Praid, Romania.

  10. George Lee photographs

    Contains seventeen copies of black and white photographs of the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.

  11. Heniek Bein collection

    Contains thirty black and white photographs, one copy of Bamidbar, a photocopy of excerpts from "Fohrenwald: Das Lager fuer Heimatslos," and "Fohrenwald: The Last Jewish DP camp in Germany, 1951-1957."

  12. Autobiography of Eva Lesser Stricks

    Contains Eva Lesser Stricks' autobiography, 35 pages, about her childhood experiences in Oranienberg and Berlin, Germany, her arrival in Shanghai aboard the "Conto Rosso," and her later emigration to the United States.

  13. A Jewish Resistance network in France Groupe d'Action Coutre la deporation-En hommage a son fondateur et Chef: Joseph Bass

    Contains one memoir about Denise Siekierski's Holocaust experiences.

  14. Betty Sklow papers

    The Betty Sklow papers contain correspondence written by Betty Sklow and her daughters Charlotte Rosenthal and Helene Sklow. The letters contain detailed description of Betty Sklow’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis in 1939, her disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939. Betty Sklow’s letters written aboard the MS St. Louis...

  15. Goldstein family collection

    Contains two international certificates of inoculation and vaccination for Regina and Emil Goldstein and three other legal documents from Regina and Emil Goldstein.

  16. Dina Cohen papers

    Contains two vaccination certificates, an international certificate of vaccination against small pox, a copy of a birth certificate and an English translation, and a medical processing certificate from the International Refugee Organization (IRO), for Dina Lanceter Cohen.

  17. My Biography from September 1939 to January 1945

    Contains a memoir about Martin Travis's childhood in Warsaw, experiences in Auschwitz, Blachamor concentration camp near Berlin, Germany.

  18. Viktor Ullmann papers

    Contains twelve compositions written by Viktor Ullmann. These compositions include: "Slavische Rhapsodie," "Sechs Lieder: Nach Gedichten von Albert Steffen für Sopran und Klavier," "Six Sonnets de Louïze Labé pour Chant et Piano," "Liederbuch des Hafis Nachdichtung von Bethge," "Variationen und Doppelfuge für ein Thema von Arnold Schönberg für Klavier Op. 3a," "Der Zerbrochene Krug: Oper Nach Kleist," "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, 12 Stc̈ke aus der Dichtung Rilkes für Sprecher und Orchester oder Klavier, - Theresienstadt Juli 1944," "Kaiser von Atlantis," ...

  19. Simon Coren memoir

    Contains a memoir, three pages, written by Simon Coren about his experiences in a medical unit that arrived at the Ebensee concentration camp immediately following liberation.

  20. David E. Knott memoir

    Contains a memoir, 27 pages, about David E. Knott's experiences as a member of General Patton's Third Army liberated Mauthausen-Gusen II in Austria.