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  1. Bergman family photograph collection

    Contains a photograph album which belonged to Harry Bergman (donor's father), who was born in Kraschen, Germany (today Krosnice, Poland) on March 1, 1909. He lived in Berlin and was married to Alice Simon; he was an athlete and hoped to compete in the 1936 Olympics. They moved to Brussels, Belgium to escape persecution, but on September 12, 1942 they were both deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau; Harry survived Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. After the war, Harry married Bronia Abramowicz and the two lived in New York.

  2. Waffen-SS recruiting poster

    Waffen-SS recruiting poster designed by Mjolnir.

  3. Hank Freedman collection

    The collection includes a color copy of a journal written by Hank Freedman while a POW in Germany, first at Stalag IXB in Bad Orb and then Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain. In the journal Hank keeps lists of foods to eat, things to do after liberation, names and addresses, and notes about his experiences as a Prisoner of War. The collection also includes two copy prints of Hank Freedman taken during his military service with the US Army during WWII, serving with the 106th Infantry Division.

  4. Oral history interview with Morris Stark

  5. Oral history interview with Harold Thomas

  6. Oral history interview with Irving Lebo

  7. Karl Koch diary

    Consists of one digital file of color scans of the World War I (1917-1918) diary of Karl Koch, while he was serving as a soldier in the German military.

  8. Stanley Sarnack letter

    The Stanley Sarnack letter consists of one handwritten letter from Stanley Sarnack, to Stella Wells of Utica, New York, dated May 2nd, 1945, and written from "somewhere in Germany." In the letter, Sarnack, a member of the 102th Infantry Division of the Ninth Army, mentions German atrocities he had witnessed, including a building where bodies were burned alive [likely the Gardelegen atrocities].

  9. Oral history interview with Isaac Kraicer

  10. Oral history interviews by Vivian Tucker

  12. Hulda Cassel correspondence collection

    Contains five letters written by Holocaust survivor Hulda Cassel after her liberation from Theresienstadt. She wrote the letters from a refugee camp in Switzerland to her family in Manila between July and December 1945.

  13. Kokocinski, Rozenberg and Rusak families collection

    Collection of correspondence and related documentation; from Rubin Kokocinski to his brother Markus Kokocinski [later Marcus Cook (donor's grandfather)]; Frymcia Kokocinski, Rubin's daughter in law to her uncle in the US; from Fiszel Rozenberg (Marcus Cook's brother in law) and Heniek Rozenberg (his nephew); the letters were written in Polish and Yiddish, dated 1946-1954.

  14. Brig. Gen. Harry J. Huff, II photograph collection

    Collection of photographs (17) taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation and annotated by Harry J. Huff, II (donor's father) who served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot with the 107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. He flew 47 missons.

  16. Gavel used to close postwar Nordhausen war crimes trial

    Gavel used by Lieutenant Colonel David H. Thomas to close the Dachau and Nordhausen war crimes trials in 1947. Col. Thomas was one of seven officers designated by the Headquarters of the European Command to constitute the court for the Kurt Andrae case. He was also a lawyer for the Judge Advocate General during the Dora war crimes trials.

  17. Israel Beider collection

    Correspondence, poetry and writings of Israel Beider, in Hebrew and Yiddish. Handwritten or published in the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Poland before the war.

  18. Verpflichtungsschein issued to Paul Swienty

    Verpflichtungsschein (obligation note) issued to Paul Swienty, who has been released from German captivity on condition that he will perform the work assigned to him by the Labor Office and will not leave that job without permission from the office or the police under penalty of arrest. Black and white photo of Swienty affixed at bottom left with red "J" stamped at top left of photo; issued in Stalag VI-D, Dortmund, Germany. Dated October 21, 1940.

  19. Rotter family collection

    Photographs illustrating the experiences of Zbiegnew [Samuel/Steven] Rotter, born in Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1917 and interned in multiple concentration camps, including Mauthausen and its subcamp Gusen in Austria, and Aida Weinberg [alias Eugenia Domanska] born in Miedryzec, Poland in 1921 on false papers and their child Marian, born in the Degerlach displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany in 1946; images primarily postwar.

  20. Ladenheim family collection

    Correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Julius and Yetta Ladenheim and their children Marcel and Henry in France and the United Kingdom before, during, and after the Holocaust. Contains pre-war, wartime and postwar images including image of Marcel in hiding with Olga Masoli, who along with her sister Esther hid him in Paris and cared for him until 1948. Includes letters from Marcel to his mother and to his rescuers, Olga and Ester Masoli, around 1948 after he was removed from their home by a maternal aunt and her husband and brought to the United Kingdom. His father d...