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  1. Selected records of the Holocaust collection: Postwar testimonies and Jewish Social Mutual files (RG VII-123)

    Contains approximately 922 survivor testimonies of Holocaust survivors collected by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Bucharest, Romania immediately after WWII, in April or early May 1945, and original files of the Zespół Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe; Jewish Social Mutual Assistance), related to the Jewish communities in Poland: Bobowa, Bychawa, Busko, Cyców, Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Ropczyce, Rudnik, and Uniejów.

  2. DP camp collection (RG VII-126)

    Contains rare posters, flyers, communications, and reports originating from various DP camps, mostly in Austria. Examples include reports from the DP camp Bergen-Belsen, 1946; flyers and reports from the Hashomer Hatzair Austria, 1947; election materials for DP camp leadership, Austria; writings and illustrations created by children survivors from Łódź on their way to Palestine.

  3. Dan Mihailovici and Gers Meirovici collection

    Consists of a notarized document from the Library of the Academy of Romania attesting that Dan Mihailovici and Gers Meirovici were in forced labor in the village of Fierbinti when, in 1942, they were arrested for distributing Communist propaganda. They were sentenced to death and executed in March 1942. Also includes a copy of the final letter sent by Dan Michailovici to his family.

  4. Elsie Deeks collection

    Consists of photographs, correspondence, and documents from the collection of Elsie Deeks, originally of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ms. Deeks worked with the St. John's Ambulance Brigade of Canada as part of the 29th British General Hospital and was stationed at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between May and July 1945. Includes handwritten letters about life in the hospital, personal photographs, documents related to her wartime service and copyprints of official photographs taken upon the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

  5. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP).The Presidium and Secretariat Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Prezydium i Sekretariat (Sygn. 303/I)

    Contains reports, name lists, minutes of sessions, domestic and foreign correspondence, e.g. with the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) and World Jewish Congress, personal files of the staff and others, records relating to pogroms of Jewish people in Kielce and other places, religious matters, graveyards, and exhumations, newspaper clippings, and documentation of various commissions of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP): the Centralna Komisja Międzypartyjna, Centralna Komisja Mieszana, Komisja Mieszkaniowa, Centralna Frakcja Polskiej Partii Robotniczej (PPR), Polska Zjed...

  6. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Legal Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Prawny (Sygn.303/XVI)

    Contains financial records of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), as well as correspondence and files related to Jewish property in Poland and other countries, war crime trials (Rudolf Höss), personal files and the files of several dozen regional offices. Includes correspondence of the Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski we Wrocławiu relating to Jews–German citizens who stayed in Poland after the war, as well correspondence relating to aid rendered to Poles who helped Jews during the war, denouncements of people who collaborated with Germans during the occupation, requests for interventio...

  7. Historical Archive of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Women's Organisations (BSJF) Bund Schweizerischer Jüdischer Frauenorganisationen (BSJF) (gegr. 1924) Historisches Archiv

    The collection consists of the complete working papers of the Bund Schweizerischer Jüdischer Frauenorganisationen (BSJF), including minutes, reports, correspondence, publications, etc.

  8. Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth

    Contains personal papers and photographs of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth, a nurse for the Swiss Red Cross and in various internment camps in France during World War II. Papers consist of biographical materials and documentation on the Elsa Lüthi-Ruth activities. The main part of the collection consists of six personal albums that document her youth and studies, as well as her work during the war.

  9. Personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann Nachlass Erich A. Hausmann

    Contains personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann, the Swiss-Jewish educator and pedagogue. Papers consist of his biographical materials and documentation on helping Jewish refugee children and youth during and after the war. Erich A. Hausmann worked with many organizations as the Schweizer Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder (SHEK), Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen (VSJF), Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), Jüdisches Lehrerseminar Basel, and the Jüdische Schule Zürich (JSZ).

  11. Freud familie (Sig.19)

    Contains correspondence, reports, autobiographical writings, genealogical material, certificates and awards, financial, legal, and business records pertaining to the Freud family. Includes a photocopy of the 1938 registration of the property of Alexander Freud (April 19, 1866– April 23, 1943).

  12. Records of Sigmund Freud pertaining to his University Studies and Professorship Freud dokumente studienzeit/professur (Sig. 23)

    Contains correspondence, reports, autobiographical writings, genealogical material, and certificates and awards pertaining to the university studies and professorship of Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939).

  13. Nachlaß Harry Freud (Sig. 68)

    Contains correspondence, reports, autobiographical writings, genealogical material, certificates and awards, financial, legal, and business records pertaining to Harry Freud (1909-1968), son of Alexander Freud. Features correspondence from, to, and among Alexander Freud, W. Ernest Freud, Anna Freud, Esther Freud, Marie Freud, Sophie Freud, and other Freud family members; photographs of Alexander Freud and Anna Freud, among others; various newspaper clippings about mostly Sigmund Freud, the establishment of the Freud Museum in Vienna, and Anna Freud; also features photo albums containing pho...

  14. Alexander Freud restitution records (Sig. 71)

    Contains legal correspondence pertaining to Holocaust restitution and reparation claims of Alexander Freud, Harry Freud, and Sophie Freud.

  16. Public humiliation for violation of racial laws in Silesia, 1941

    Public humiliation of a young couple guilty of "Rassenschande" [racial shame or racial defilement] in Steinsdorf [present day Scinawa Nyska, Poland] in Silesia. Sexual relations between Germans and non-Aryans were forbidden and punishable by law in Nazi Germany. Bronia, a 16 year old Polish slave laborer, had been working with Gerhard Greschok (Krzeszczok), a 19 year old German, at the Adler family farm in Steinsdorf in the summer of 1941 when their forbidden affair was reported to the Gestapo. The film was discovered in an attic in Sturov, Slovakia in 1946. 01:00:00 Bronia and Gerhard are ...

  17. Rabbi David Bergstein collection

    Consists of correspondence to the United States from yeshivas in Wolozyn and Jałówka, Poland, in the 1920s-1930s. Also includes correspondence related to the Vaad Hahatzala and extensive notes related to relief money and packages sent to individual Jews in Poland between 1942-1943, organized by date, and notes related to relief money sent to individuals in the immediate post-war years.

  18. Zoltan Mathe collection

    Consists of one photograph of Zoltan Mathe at age 13 in Budapest, Hungary, wearing a Magen David. The photograph is dated August 10, 1944. Also includes an essay entitled, "Toward the Precipice" by Mr. Mathe, in which he describes the German invasion of Hungary, his bar mitzvah in April 1944, and watching his father and older brother be taken away for forced labor. When the Arrow Cross took control of Budapest, Zoltan, his mother and sister were rounded up, but released due to the intervention of Jewish friends posing as soldiers. The family assumed the identities of Christian refugees from...

  19. John Regnier collection

    Consists of photocopies of photographs taken by John Regnier after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, as Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton toured the camp, as well as one original photograph of soldiers viewing corpses. Also includes a panoramic photograph of the town of Ebensee, Austria, the typed text of a letter written by Regnier from Austria on May 6, 1945, and an essay entitled "My Visit to a German Concentration Camp" which Mr. Regnier wrote as a term paper in 1946 after returning to the United States. In the essay, he describes what he saw at Ohrdruf and the operations ...

  20. "An Eyewitness to the Holocaust"

    Consists of one DVD containing a short documentary entitled "An Eyewitness to the Holocaust" created by Sean Van Domelen. The documentary, which includes historical imagery and footage, describes the experiences of John Regnier, a member of the 182nd Medical battalion. Using footage from a 2012 interview with Mr. Regnier, the documentary includes his testimony related to the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.