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Language of Description: English

  1. Children play on a teeter-totter

    Hanna with braids on teeter-totter. Hanna, Thomas, and Babeta play on it.

  2. Address by Leo Laufer to his liberators at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association

    Consists of a speech given by Leo Laufer at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association on Sept. 20, 1986. Leo Laufer was was liberated from Ohrdruf concentration camp by the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion.

  3. Centralny Zarzad Budowlany Oddzialow Wojskowych i Policji w Lublinie

    Contains files 61 and 99 from the record group 22, Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS und Polizei in Lublin, dating from 1940 to 1944.

  4. Selected records from the State Archives of the Republic of Cyprus related to the Jewish emigration

    Selected records of the British colonial administration of Cyprus related to the Jewish legal and illegal emigration to Cyprus, internment camps for Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy as well as other matters related to Jews, Polish and other refugees in Cyprus before, during and immediately after WWII. Includes passenger’s lists divided by particular SS ships (1934); a list of illegal Jewish emigrants on board of the Bulgarian SS Rudnichar (1940); registers and correspondence relating to acquisition of properties in Cypru...

  5. Rachelle Silberman Goldstein collection

    Contains a yellow star; two Belgian identity cards issued to Rachelle Silberman Goldstein's mother, Sabina Silberman, a false identity in the name of Alice Jeanne Van Dam and a postwar identity card; and a booklet containing a list of passengers on the S.S. Washington, September 1-2, 1950, which includes the names of the Silberman family members immigrating to the United States. The photographs contain images taken in hiding of Jacques and Rachelle Silberman and family photographs taken before and after World War II.

  6. Eric S. Marmorek collection

    Contains a copy of the music score of "Buchenwaelder Marsch," composed by Hermann Leopoldi, with a handwritten dedication to Dr. Gerhardt Wollner, dated 1939, saying the score is "my last composition in Vienna;" typed copies of the lyrics in German and English; a letter of release, in German with English translation, dated January 27, 1939, stating that from June 3, 1938, to January 27, 1939, Erich Marmorek had been retained in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps and was now released to Vienna; and a sound cassette recording of the march sung in German by William Federer, a Dachau con...

  7. Okręgowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Bialymstoku (Sygn.87)

    Contains a registry and records relating to real estate “abandoned” by Jews in Białystok.

  8. Meinberg family collection

    Contains a photograph of Walter Meinberg (donor's father) in the German Army during World War I, dated 1915; a driver's license issued to Walter Meinberg February 15, 1921, in Braunschweig, German; and a document dated November 9, 1938 from the German Oberfinanzpraesident to the customs office allowing the Meinbergs to take belongings abroad.

  9. Centrala Przesiedleńcza Policji Bezpieczeństwa, Ekspozytura w Zamościu (Sygn. 43)

    Contains files 1 through 72 from the record group 513, records of the Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Umwandererzentralle Posen, Zweigstelle Zamosc, dating from 1942 to 1944.

  10. David Trocki-Musnicki postcard collection

    The collections includes postcards sent to Mr. and Mrs. David Trocki-Musnicki, from friends and relatives in Brussels, when the couple was interned at Caserne Dossin (Malines), February through April 1944 as well as a family photographs.

  11. Records of the United States Mission to the Polish Government in Exile in London

    Contains information about relations between the United States and the Polish government in exile in London. Subjects include underground activities in Poland, relations between Poland and the Soviet Union, and relations between the London and Moscow Polish leadership.

  12. Trial against Josef Bühler Proces Josefa Bühlera (Sygn. GK 196)

    This collection contains investigative materials, evidence, and court documents relating to the trial of Josef Bühler, in relation to his role as deputy-governor of the Krakow district of the Generalgouvernement during the German occupation of Poland. Includes trial protocols, interrogations of witnesses, preliminary hearings and presentation of evidence against war criminals.

  13. Eisenhower visiting concentration camp at liberation

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Brief footage of a former prisoner (survivor) with scarf speaking to soldiers in a liberated camp. Eisenhower visiting the camp (probably Ohrdruf). Pile of corpses in doorway of barracks.

  14. Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau. Kennkartenlisten Starosta Miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 450). Wykazy dowὀdow osobistych (Kennkartenlisten) wydanych Żydom

    Contains questionnaires of Jews who applied for personal I.D. cards from circa 1940 -1941.

  15. Edmund F. Franz papers

    The Edmund F. Franz papers consist of records Franz collected while serving as the chief administrator of the U.S. Army's War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany. The records include reports and English translations of statements and interrogation interviews with German war criminals, prisoners of war, and other witnesses recorded by U.S. Army investigators in 1945 in preparation for the Nuremberg trials. Some of the English materials are accompanied by German versions. The papers also include official U.S. Army photographs depicting scenes of atrocities at Buchenwald and Nordhausen concent...

  16. Drawings and documents of the children of Izieu Dessins et documents, des enfants d'Izieu

    Contains documents related to the operation of the children's hostel/orphanage in Izieu, France. Also contains artwork and writings of the children housed there.

  17. Wallach family papers

    Contains photographs, documents, and photocopies related to the Holocaust experiences of the Wallach family, originally of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Centering on Zwi Hermann Wallach, the collection includes family photographs, post-liberation photographs, and documents and photographs regarding the building of a Holocaust remembrance monument in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

  18. Records of the Vilnius Ghetto (Fond 1421)

    Contains records of various ghetto organizations and agencies. Included are orders and regulations of the Jewish council and police, as well as correspondence between departments and subordinate offices. There are also personal documents and documents on the ghetto health and social security offices.

  19. Henry L. Goldsmith papers

    Contains Henry L. Goldsmith's memoir, a copy of an article entitled, "The Big Test," published in two weekly issues of the New York Forward, a chapter entitled "Buchenwald," and pages 309 and 310 our of Henry L. Goldsmith's chapter 11 "D-Day."

  20. Debbie Haynie collection, 1943-1944

    Contains currency from Theresienstadt and a two letters written from Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.