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  2. Don Tague testimony

    Consists of handwritten testimony, two pages, written by Don Tague, a member of A Company of the 261st Infantry, 65th Division, who participated in the liberation of prisoners on a death march from the Mauthausen concentration camp on May 4, 1945. He describes his company's movement and a story he heard when the reserve troops tried to get bread from a local bakery for the newly liberated prisoners.

  3. Georges Zeraia Ayache collection

    Consists of a folder of copies of webpages, a copyprint, and a letter describing the life and Holocaust experiences of Georges Zeraia Ayache, originally of Algiers. In April 1944, Mr. Ayache was picked up in Paris and deported to Drancy, and then in May, deported to Kovno, where he was interned in the Ninth Fort. Mr. Ayache perished in the Holocaust. Includes a copyprint of Mr. Ayache and photocopies of webpages annotated with additional information.

  4. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "My Story," written in 2005 by Eva Biro Slott, originally of Szentes, Hungary. She describes her childhood in Hungary, the deaths of her parents in 1931, and living with various relatives. In 1944, she was living in Budapest and writes about the German invasion of Hungary. She was sent to forced labor but was soon released, returned to Budapest, and described life in wartime Budapest. After the war ended, she made her way to the American zone of Germany, reconnected with her brother, who had immigrated to the United States previously and was a memb...

  5. Nelson Akagi collection

    Consists of photocopies of an album compiled by Nelson Akagi, a Japanese-American member of the 442nd combat regiment of the 552nd Field Artillery, who participated in the liberation of the survivors of a death march near the Dachau concentration camp. The album includes Dr. Akagi's handwritten memories and information regarding Larry Lubetzky, a Lithuanian Jew who was liberated and then employed by the regiment as a translator. In 1994, Dr. Akagi reunited with Mr. Lubetzky, and the folder includes Mr. Lubetzky's memories of his experiences and documentation regarding their 1990s reunion.

  6. Weiner family collection

    Consists of photographs and identification, emigration, and passports related to the wartime experiences of Heinrich (Henry) and Eugenia (Jenny) Weiner, originally of Vienna, Austria. A few months after the German annexation of Austria, Heinrich fled to Italy and got papers for Eugenia to join him. Collection includes their passports and a copy and translation of their wedding certificate. They emigrated to Equador in 1939 and from there to the United States, where Henry joined the United States Army in 1941. Includes naturalization paperwork, family photographs, and an article about the bi...

  7. Knopf family collection

    The Knopf family collection consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Oswald, Frieda, and Jeanette Knopf, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes Oswald and Frieda Knopf's pre-war papers, including the marriage certificate for Frieda's parents, Jeanette Winter and Solomon Wolfer (1901), Oswald's pre-World War I military papers, schooling papers, their ketubah, and a copy of their Viennese marriage certificate. Also includes immigration paperwork, Oswald and Frieda Knopf's 1938-1939 Reisepasses, a health certification for boat travel, a 1939 immigration card for their dau...

  8. Presentation by Cecilia Bitter Federman

  9. Werner Kleeman collection

    Consists of material collected by Werner Kleeman, originally of Wurzburg, Germany, who immigrated to the United States and was a member of the 4th Infantry Division and participated in the liberation of a subcamp of Dachau. The collection includes a typed copy of the diary of Col. Norborne P. Gatling about his experiences in the American Army, including a tour of Ohrdruf; information about wartime Wurzburg; copies of Mr. Kleeman's postwar correspondence from Wurzburg; correspondence with Ulrich Strauss and Leila Levinson; restitution paperwork for Mr. Kleeman's father, Louis Kleeman; and an...

  10. Wajnberg family collection

    The Wajnberg family collection consists of original and copied documentation related to the wartime and post-war lives of Saul, Chaja, and their daughter, Lusia Wajnberg, originally of Demblin, Poland. Includes Saul Wajnberg's identity card as a survivor of Buchenwald, and narrative information about the experiences of Chaja and Lusia, who spent the war in various ghettos and concentration camps in and around Demblin. Includes documentation regarding Lusia's post-war psychological problems conducted by the Anna Freud clinic, Saul and Chaja's medical problems, and restitution documentation f...

  11. Max Kurt Mühlfelder document

    Consists of a work document for Max Kurt Mühlfelder, issued by the Gewestelijk Arbeidsbureau of Zwolle, the Netherlands, dated 2 September 1942.

  12. Michael and Rita Green collection

    Consists of original identity documentation related to Michael and Ryssel (later Rita) Grün (later Green), originally of Vienna, Austria, and legal documentation related to his post-war restitution claims. Mr. Green was arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in Dachau from November 1938 to February 1939 when he was released prior to his immigration, first to Belgium and then to the United States in 1940.

  13. Ronald Cohen collection

    Consists of the bound program for the 1938 music festival in Salzburg, Austria, which includes artwork, informational essays, and Nazi propaganda in the wake of the recent Anschluss. Also includes a broadside of anti-Nazi propaganda inviting the bearer to Hitler's funeral. The broadside, which is undated, was issued by the French Resistance.

  14. Bergen-Belsen machzor

    Consists of a machzor (Rosh Hashanah prayer book), which was discovered by Sergeant John Waholek outside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after the camp was liberated in April 1945. The machzor was published in Warsaw, Poland, in 1940. Sergeant Waholek, a member of the American Army, was sent to Bergen-Belsen to deliver supplies to the British forces that liberated the camp.

  16. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Vosges

    Contains documents concerning “Jewish Affairs,” arrests and round-ups on March 6, 1943 and March 14, 1944, the transfer of Jews to the Ecrouves internment camp near Nancy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Aryanization and later restitution of Jewish property and belongings, foreigners, the loss of French citizenship concerning the deputy to the National Assembly, Camille Picard, registers showing entries to the Epinal prison, documents concerning accounts held by Jews at the local branch of the Banque de France, lists of Alsatian-Lorrain refugees, and list of prisoners released from the prison...

  17. Solomon Baicovitz collection

    Consists of typed testimony, 10 pages, written by Solomon Zalman Baicovitz, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. He describes pre-war antisemitism, the establishment of the Kovno ghetto, and life in the ghetto, including witnessing several aktions. He created a hiding place and managed to hide his mother and daughter from an aktion in March 1944 before successfully placing his daughter in hiding outside the ghetto in May 1944. In July 1944, he was deported to Dachau. In April 1945, he was sent on a death march from which he escaped, and was liberated on April 29, 1945. He reunited with ...

  18. Selected records of the Romanian Ministry of Interior, Cabinet of the Minister (Cabinetul ministrului)

    Contains excerpts from records concerning Iron Guard activities, surveillance of Jews, interment of Jews in camps, deportation of Romanies and Jews to Transnistria, notes concerning the ghettos in Transnistria, and forced labor in Ragat. It also includes postwar documents on the confiscation of property and on war criminals.

  19. Selected records of the Romanian Ministry of Cults and Arts (Inv. 2720)

    Contains records relating to the status of various Jewish communities from the old kingdom (Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania, and Banat); correspondence of these communities with the Ministry; damages to synagogues and other religious property; the Iron Guard rebellion, conversion of Jews to Christianity including to Catholicism; and name lists of converts. Also contains records of the Ministry of Cults and Arts, including correspondence regarding the freedom of Catholics, Baptists and Jews, and sending of priests to Transnistria.

  20. Selected records from collections of the Constanţa branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains wartime records of the Prefecture, the Regional Inspectorate of Police, the Police HQ, the Legion of Jandarmerie, and other organizations, and postwar records of the local Jewish Democratic Committee (Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc, CDE), including activity reports, personal files, and other reports (1946-1952).