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  1. Selected records from the collections of the Alba branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Regional Inspectorate of the Police Alba Iulia and includes records relating to: surveillance of the Iron Guard, travel permits for Jews, forced labor of Jews, lists of Jews deported fromTeius and Aiud sent to Alba Iulia. Surveillance of ethnic Germans, communists, surveillance of interned Jews. Also includes records from the Police of the municipality of Alba Iulia relating to surveillance of the Iron Guards, National Christian Party (PNC), the loss of citizenship of Jews, surveillance of antisemitic movements, Jews and Zionists, as well as correspondence relating...

  2. "In His Hand"

    Consists of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "In His Hand" by Josephine Guarnieri, as told to Lisa Hnath. In the memoir, Mrs. Guarnieri describes her childhood in Settefrati Frosinone, Italy and her memories of being unable to join her father and brother in the United States because of the outbreak of war. She also describes the Allied bombings and going hiding to escape from the bombing and the German occupying troops. She credits God for her family's survival.

  3. "Robert's World"

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "Robert's World", by Robert Tartaul, written in 1996 and describing his life from 1915-1967. In the memoir, he describes growing up near San Francisco and his experiences as a training officer in the United States Army from 1940-1944. In January 1945, he was shipped to France and was assigned to the 564th Tactical Artillery Battalion, with whom he participated in the liberation of concentration camp survivors on a death march near Ried, Germany.

  4. Egon Weiss papers

    The Egon Weiss papers consist of a diary written by Egon Weiss describing his 1940 voyage on the SS Milos, the explosion of the SS Patria, his internment in the Atlit detainee camp, and the following years in Jerusalem as well as a scrapbook containing biographical material and photographs relating to the Weiss family from approximately 1890 to 2009. The collection also includes correspondence between the family and information relating to the SS Patria and prisoners of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Egon Weiss began his diary after he arrived in Palestine in 1940 and the last entry was ...

  5. Henry Sharp collection

    The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation.

  6. Sam and Susan Weiss collection

    The Sam and Susan Weiss collection consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war and post-war lives of Salomon (Sam) Weiss and Zuzana Lehrmanova (later Susan Weiss), both originally of Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia. The collection includes citizenship documents, identification documents, and immigration documents. The photographs include members of the Weiss family and the Lehrmanova family, most of whom did not survive the Holocaust.

  7. George Jellinek collection

    Consists of one photograph taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp of the American military and Holocaust survivors looking upon the bodies of SS officers who were killed as part of summary justice after the liberation of the camp. Includes a note on the verso explaining the photograph written by Lt. George Jellinek, who was part of the liberating forces. Also includes a copy of a 1943 photograph of Lt. Jellinek.

  8. Arnold and Bianca Kraus letters

    Consists of a CD-ROM containing scans of letters, most of which were written by Arnold and Bianca Kraus, and their children in the United States, František Petr and Alice (later Alice Stránský) originally of Náchod, Czechoslovakia, between 1939 and 1943. Arnold perished in Theresienstadt (Terezin), while Bianca perished upon arrive in Auschwitz concentration camp. The originals of these letters and documents are preserved and accessible at the Jewish Museum in Prague. Also contains a folder of a detailed family history explaining the context of the letters.

  9. "Piles of Pine Needles"

    Consists of one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Piles of Pine Needles" written in 2005 by Abraham Shavit (born Strikovsky), originally of Skępe, Poland. In his memoir, Mr. Shavit describes his deportation to the Szczechowo ghetto, life in hiding on a farm near Osowo, and post-war life in the Feldafing displaced persons camps. Mr. Shavit also describes his immigration to Uruguay and from there, to Israel. The memoir, which was translated into English by Mr. Shavit's son.

  10. Council of Ministers Conseil des Ministres

    Contains minutes of meetings of Belgian Ministers and other records relating to the persecution of Jews under German occupation.

  12. Gertrud Mainzer oral history transcript

    Consists of one oral history transcript, 217 pages, of an interview with Gertrud (Traute) Sinzheimer Mainzer, born in 1914 in Frankfurt, Germany. In the interview, which was conducted in pieces between 1984 and 1988, Gertrud describes her father, Hugo Sinzheimer, a famous lawyer, the family's emigration to the Netherlands in 1938, her memories of Anne and Margot Frank (both in the Netherlands and reuniting in Bergen-Belsen), the birth of her children, and separating from her children so they could all go into hiding in July 1942. In late 1943, after discovering her children had been betraye...

  13. Jiři Eisenstein letter

    The Jiři Eisenstein letter consists of one letter dated 1942, 6 pages of text written in English to Peter Kussi. Though unsigned, the letter was written by Mr. Kussi's uncle, Jiri Eisenstein, who explained his life from 1939-1942 in Prague under the Nazi regime in very poetic, exact terms. The letter was smuggled out of Prague and sent to New York, where Mr. Kussi received it in 1944. In January 1944, Jiri Eisenstein was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. His wife, Mimi, was killed in Auschwitz in March 1944.

  14. Kurt Goldstein collection

    Consists of a postcard sent to Kurt Goldstein from his father, who was in L'viv, Poland, in 1940. The postcard is dated May 20, 1940. Also includes an envelope sent by Mr. Goldstein to Kurt, who lived in New York, in July 1940. Mr. Goldstein was deported and perished in the Holocaust.

  15. "The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor"

    Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor" written by Yuri Prizov, with copies in English and Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Prizov describes his childhood, initially in Zaysan, Kazakhstan, and later near the Polish border, as well as his memories of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the family's escape east, to the region of Karachay-Cherkassia, in the Caucasus, as well as the massacre of Bogdanovka (near Stavropol), where his mother's family lived; posing as non-Jews, and life in Grozny after the war. In the memoir, he described the way...

  16. Oral history interview with Phila Zion

  17. "Hear Us Speak: Voices of the Second and Third Generations"

    Consists of one folder containing essays by Holocaust survivor Judith Sherman, her daughter, Dr. Ora Gelb, and granddaughter Ilana Gelb. Most of the essays were written for an October 2010 program entitled "Hear Us Speak: Voices of the Second and Third Generations", held at the Monroe Township Public Library and sponsored by the Henry Ricklis Holocaust Memorial Committee. The essays describe the author's personal experiences regarding the family's Holocaust history. Also includes a presentation written by Judith Sherman entitled "My Reflections on God and the Holocaust. God we missed You. D...

  18. Palestine Government. Custodian of Enemy Property

    Contains 34 registers of enemy debts, 1941-1946, and case files of claims to property in the year 1947 in enemy or enemy occupied countries, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Hungary, etc.

  19. Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Registration and Statistics Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki (Sygn. 303/V)

    Minutes, reports, briefs, correspondence, personnel files, and statistics on the Jewish communities throughout Poland; the central index books and registration forms for Jewish survivors in Poland (approximately 280,000 cards); portions of the Lublin, Łódź, Gliwice, and Bielsko-Biała card files; a card file created by the Warsaw committee of the CKŻP; and a file on people sent from Lvov to Poland during the population exchange with Ukraine. Accretion of records consists of two important files: #595 and 596, the so-called Lublin Registry Books-the earliest list of Polish Jews who survived th...

  20. Records of the Oberreichsanwalt beim Reichsgericht Leipzig (R 3003)

    Contain approximately 600 files (30,000 pages) of the chief prosecutor at the German supreme court during the Reichstag Fire prosecutions; over 300 additional files on the ensuing repression of the Social Democratic and Communist Parties. The Reichstag fire trial held before the Supreme court of the German Reich began September 21, 1933; the accused being Marinus van der Lubbe, Ernst Torgler, Georgi Dimitrov, Blagoi Popov and Vasil Tanev. The concluding day of the trial, December 23, 1933, presiding Justice Wilhelm Bünger pronounced the verdict guilty against van der Lubbe for high treason...