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  3. Katie Miller photograph collection

    One photograph album, containing 67 prints, depicting displaced persons camps operated by UNRRA in and around Linz, Austria, 1946-1947. Also contains 25 loose snapshots depicting Holocaust memorials in Germany, concentration camp sites, aid workers, and activities to smuggle Jewish refugees out of Europe to Palestine.

  4. Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Life Magazine issue with an article with images of Marta and Franz P. Jager arriving on the Tatua Maru, a Japanese passenger ship, after fleeing Nazi ruled Vienna, Austria.

  5. Leon Goldensohn papers

    The Leon Goldensohn papers consist largely of original, typescript notes of 137 interviews conducted by Dr. Goldensohn with Nazi defendants and witnesses during the trials of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, from January to July, 1946. Goldensohn served in the United States Army as a prison psychiatrist during this period, and conducted these interviews with the aid of a translator. In addition to interview typescripts, this collection contains resumes drafted by some of the defendants, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, texts of speeches delivered by Goldensohn, as we...

  6. Archivo de Shmerke Kaczerginski

    This collection contains personal papers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), former partisan and collector of Jewish music: i.d. documents, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and secondary sources such as clippings and publications about Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's book, "Destruction of Jewish Vilna", published in New York in 1947).

  7. "Beyond Never Again: How the Holocaust Speaks to Us Today"

    Consists of one essay entitled "Beyond Never Again--How the Holocaust Speaks to Us Today," written by Edwin Goldstein after he attended a course on Chabad Lubavitch Hassidic Response to the Holocaust, which was taught by Rabbi Yisroel Mangel, whose father is a Holocaust survivor. In the essay, Mr. Goldstein reflects on the role of religious faith during the Holocaust, the Judaic tradition of challenging God, and the lessons learned from the Holocaust about the role of the individual within a community.

  8. Landslayt Fareynen, Sociedades de ex residents

    Contains records of various regional Holocaust survivor organizations in Argentina. Includes reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

  9. Ergas family collection

    Consists of one folder of correspondence sent from Albert Ergas in Thessaloniki, Greece, to his brother, Jack Ergas, in New York City, between 1945-1946. In the letters, written in Ladino, Mr. Ergas describes the family's experiences during the Holocaust which most of the family spent in hiding, the economic and emotional situation of the Jews in post-war Greece, and the family's business and property. Includes photographs of the Ergas family building and a restitution claim put forward by Jack Ergas for the family's property in Turkey which was confiscated during the war.

  10. URO Buenos Aires, United Restitution Office

    Contains records relating to the activities of the Buenos Aires office of the United Restitution Organization (URO), the legal aid society for claimants outside Germany for restitution and compensation.

  11. Selected records from the State Archive Pisa

    Contains records from the Prefecture of Pisa regarding racial laws and their implementation in Pisa, as well as a census of Italian Jews and confiscation of Jewish property.

  12. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection

    Photographs of Kaufman and Gliklich family members before the war in Łódź, Poland and after the war in the Wels DP camp. Includes photographs of Braun family members in Berlin, Germany before they immigrated to Palestine in 1937. Also includes a Polish passport issued in Sweden to Shmuel Kaufman in 1948 and a copy of the marriage certificate of the donor's parents.

  13. National Investigatory Commission Decree-Law 479/55; Commission 45: Ministry of Foreign Relations Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Decreto-Ley 479/55; Comision 45: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

    Contains dispatches and confidential reports from Argentine embassies in Europe, the Middle East and South America concerning Nazi and fascist activities and refugee matters; correspondence with the Minister of Foreign Relations Jerome Remorino and other ministers about immigration and refugee matters. Includes Jewish refugee applications and special cases; reports on an underground political group led by Ante Pavelic and Radu Ghenea in South America; a report from the Argentine Embassy in Peru on antisemitic activities of the "Lions Club International"; confidential reports from the Embass...

  14. Records of the Archbishopric Help Agency for Non-Aryan Catholics Akten der Erzbischoeflichen Hilfsstelle fuer nichtarische Katholiken

    This collection contains records of the Erzbischöfliche Hilfsstelle für nichtarische Katholiken (Archbishopric Help Agency for Non-Aryan Catholics): manuscripts, correspondence, reports, diaries, photographs, postcards, drawings, other documents. Contains manuscripts, correspondence, and various materials of Father Ludger Born (1897–1980) documenting the work of the Hilfsstelle; files of Cardinal Dr. Theodor Innitzer; personal papers of Karl Rudolf; and other materials.

  15. Raymond Lee Howley photographs

    Consists of eight photographs taken by Raymond Lee Howley, a member of the American Army during World War II, who toured the Dachau concentration camp soon after the liberation of the camp. Includes images of the crematorium, of piles of corpses, of a sign leading to the camp, and of a guard dog.

  16. Rechtmann family photographs and documents

    Photographs (57), predominantly pre-war, of Wolf (Vladislav) and Serena Rechtmann, originally of Slovakia; and post-war identification, repatriation, and immigration documents.

  17. Carolyn Henneforth collection of letters from Otto Frank

    Consists of one letter, with envelope, sent to Carolyn Jones [now Carolyn Henneforth] from Otto Frank, dated April 14, 1958. In his letter, he addresses the inspiration she received from Anne's diary and his feelings regarding the current state of persecution in the world. Also includes one card, with envelope from Otto Frank's offices, dated 1957, letting her know that the Franks are traveling and Mr. Frank would respond to her letter upon his return.

  18. Vilma Grunwald letter

    Consists of one letter written by Vilma Grunwald to her husband, Dr. Kurt Grunwald, on July 11, 1944, while she was imprisoned in the Czech family camp at Auschwitz. The letter was written shortly before Vilma and her 16 year old son, John, were taken on trucks to the gas chambers. In the letter, she describes that she is aware of her impending fate, that she is calm, and thinking about him and about their son, Misa [later Frank Grunwald]. Also includes the blank piece of paper in which the letter was wrapped.

  19. Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Rzeszowie (SOR), (Sygn. GK 283)

    Selected records from trials at the district court in Rzeszὀw, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  20. Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Częstochowie (SOCz), (Sygn. GK 236)

    Selected records of trials at the district court in Czestochowa, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.