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  1. Maier family papers

    The Maier family papers contain identification documents, passports, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Maier family’s experience aboard the MS St. Louis. Two photographs show Bertha Ackerman, Freya Maier, and Ludwig Maier boarding the MS St. Louis, and Sonja Maier attending a child’s birthday party aboard the ship. Also included is a donation registry list detailing donations collected for the funeral expenses of Mortiz Weiler who died while aboard the MS St. Louis. The registry records the name, room number and amount donated to the donation fund by passengers on the MS St. L...

  2. Notes of U.S. occupation days in Germany

    The diary describes the experiences of Chester E. Beaman in Germany from 1946 to 1947 when he was Chief of Job Classification and Wage Administration for the U.S. Army. Included are descriptions of a visit to the former Dachau concentration camp as well as viewing part of the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials.

  3. Michal Fiscman papers

    The papers consist of a postcard sent from A. Fischman [donor's father] in Radom, Poland, to Simon Fischman [donor's uncle] in Buenos Aires, Argentina; a provisional identification card for a civilian internee of Mauthausen concentration camp issued to Michal Fiszman [donor]; a German identification card issued to Michal Fiszman; a document issued by the police of Montevideo, Uruguay, certifying the identity of Michal Fiszman so he could obtain identification papers; and a passport questionnaire completed by Michal Fiszman.

  4. Letter from Margarete Jacobson to Susan Taube

    The letter, addressed to Susan Tabue, was written in Hamburg, Germany by Margarete Jacobson. The letter reveals the fate of Susan Taube’s mother and sister, Bertha and Hilde Strauss.

  5. Laufer and Zwarenstein family papers

    The papers consist of documents, postcards, letters, and a memoir written by Ignatz Willem Laufer in 1983 relating to the experiences of the Laufer and Zwarenstein families during World War II.

  6. Edith Moses Mayer correspondence

    The Edith Moses Mayer correspondence primarily consists of postwar letters Ludwig Moses addressed from Germany to his daughter Edith and other relatives in the United States. The correspondence also includes a 1942 letter Edith wrote from Baltimore to her parents in the Gurs concentration camp in France and a 1944 letter to Edith from a maternal relative in New Jersey. Edith’s 1942 letter was returned to her, likely because it did not reach Gurs before her parents were deported to Auschwitz.

  7. Adam Peiperl papers

    The papers consist of identification cards, photographs, and a document relating to the experiences of Adam Peiperl after World War II and in Camp Wegscheid near Linz, Austria, and photographs of the Peiperl family before World War II in Poland.

  8. Marvin Burdett Manning collection

    Consists of photographs taken upon the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, a hand-drawn map of the camp, lists and a photograph of the members of the 3542 Ordnance unit of the United States Army, a certificate of recognition for Marvin Manning, and a copy of the Jun. 22, 1945 "Pawnee PA Herald" in which a letter from Marvin Burdett Manning is printed describing his experiences visiting Dachau. Also includes photographs depicting SS officers who had been killed. Also includes one folder containing the unit history of the 3542 Ordnance M.A.M Company in Europe. Written in 1986, the fo...

  9. Dr. Fred Flatau papers

    Consists of materials related to the wartime experiences of the Flatau family, who escaped from Germany to Italy in 1940 living first in the Ferramonte camp and then in Rome, Italy. In 1944, they came to the United States as part of a refugee group living at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. Includes a 1941 certificate of good citizenship, baptismal certificates and identity cards for Dr. Ernest Flatau and Anna Maria (Anny) Goldschmidt, a photo of Ernest and Anna with their two sons, Fred and Rolf, 13 tourist photographic postcards of the Collegio S. Leone Magno in Rome, and Alfred Flatau's...

  10. Adam and Irena Gilert photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of friends and family of Adam and Irena Gilert from Warsaw, Poland, and photographs documenting the Gilerts' escape from German-occupied Poland. The photographs also depict memorial services commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising and Jewish members of a Communist youth organization called the "Young Pioneers."

  11. Karl Akiva and Ella Huppert Schwarz papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Karl Akiva Schwarz of Vienna, Austria and his wife Ella Huppert Schwarz of Bielsko-Biała, Poland, including their escape from Nazi-occupied Europe aboard the S.S. Pentcho, internments on Rhodes and in the Ferramonti concentration camp, and their immigration to Palestine. The collection includes biographical materials such as birth, marriage, and death certificates; documents from Ferramonti and Palestine; and wartime letters from family members in Poland. Photographs include depictions of the S.S. Pentcho; Ferramonti; Haifa, Israel; and ...

  12. Johanna and Max Liebmann papers

    The papers consist of documents and correspondence relating to the experiences of Johanna and Max Liebmann in France and Switzerland during and immediately following World War II.

  13. Abraham S. Kay photographs

    Consists of five photographs (circa 1950) of Abraham S. Kay with Ambassador James Grover McDonald and other associates.

  14. Lola Kaufman Eisenberg photographs

    Consists of five pre-war photographs of the Kaufman family, originally of Be̜dzin, Poland. Includes photographs of David, Adela, Billia (Bala), Moses, Lea (Lola), and Simcha Kaufman, as well as of Selek Brediu and Vera and Fela Pfeffer.

  15. Sigmund Faye photographs

    Consists of photographs taken by Captain Sigmund Faye in Jun. and Jul. 1945, in the liberated Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Photographs show Capt. Faye posing with survivors of the camp, and also include two official photographs taken by the "LAPI" of corpses. Also includes a photocopy of a "Beachhead News" newspaper article mentioning Capt. Faye's heroism on a rescue mission during the war. Additional "LAPI" photograph found in Photo Archives binders.

  16. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Loire-Atlantique

    Consists of a variety of files pertaining to the civil administration of the Loire-Atlantique, a department in France, together with documents related to the administration of the camps housed there, anti-Jewish legislation, and documents related to the assassination of Lt. Col. Hotz (Feldkommandant of Nantes) and subsequent German reprisals.

  17. Jakub Müller papers

    The papers consist of two photographs of images of Jakub Müller's cousins in Nowy Sad, Poland, and two newspapers that relate to Müller's life before and after the Holocaust.

  18. Selected records of the Etz-Haim Jewish religious community in Strasbourg

    Contains records related to the Etz-Haim Jewish religious community in Strasbourg, France, including membership lists, protocols of leadership, administrative documents, correspondence with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and other organizations, financial records, and cemetery records.

  19. Forrest J. Robinson photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs taken by Forrest J. Robinson in Tannenberg, Germany, and Nordhausen concentration camp immediately following liberation and one newspaper clipping regarding the liberation of Nordhausen concentration camp.

  20. Rund family papers

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and documents related to the family of Sigismund Salo Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany. Contains affidavits and passports used by the family and photographs of the family home and of family life in the United States during and after the war. Also includes an extensive family tree created in 1933.