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Language of Description: English

  2. Moshe Leshem collection

    Consists of documents forged by Moshe Lesehm [donor] in order to demonstrate a false Aryan identity. Mr. Leshem obtained existing and blank documents and altered them to read the name "Limbersky," a false identity. Collection includes forged report cards, diplomas, an "ancestor's" birth certificate, and his "parents'" wedding certificate. Due to age, the places where the documents have been altered is evident.

  3. "Memories from my childhood, 1930-1944"

    Consists of one memoir, "Memories from my Childhood, 1930-1944" written by Vered-Roos Lazar relating the family history and childhood experiences of her father, Israel (Laszlo) Lazar, originally of Oradea, Romania. Includes copies of photographs, documents, and family trees. Contains an appendix, entitled "Extended Family Tree for the Australian Part of the Braun/Grünstein Family," which contains copies of photographs and narration regarding the family's World War II and post-war experiences. Also includes photographs and photocopies of registry forms for the children of the family who per...

  4. Literary archives of Matvey Talalaievsḱyi

    Collection includes a biography of Matvey Talalaevskiy (up to 1946) in Ukrainian; the libretto of a musical comedy written in 1937; and a play "Cantonists," 1938. It also includes poetry, reports and essays written by M. Talalaevskiy and Z. Katz, pieces that were published in the newspaper "Stalinskoe Znamya" (including an article about Auschwitz and Jewish children hidden during the war in the Western Ukraine); poetry in Yiddish, 1930-1940; and letters sent by Talalaevskiy to his wife and daughter from the front, 1941-1942.

  5. Esther Berkensztadt Sendrowicz articles

    Consists of articles written by Esther Berkensztadt Sendrowicz containing her account of her experiences during the Holocaust. The articles are entitled, "Finding Kindness in Auschwitz," "It's Hard to be Alone Here," "I was Thinking She Would Kill Me", "I was by the Gallows," "Hess and Hessler Selected from over 1000, 137 to go Back to the Barracks," "Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz," "My American Liberators were like Angels," "Holocaust Child Survivor," and "I Will Not Forget Them." Also includes articles, written about Esther Sendrowicz's experiences, which have been published in various newspap...

  6. Selected records of the Lehr- und Forschungsgemeinschaft- Ahnenerbe (NS-21)

    Contains documents related to the operations of the Lehr- und Forschungsgemeinschaft- Ahnenerbe, a Himmler-created organization that sought to promulgate the notion of German cultural superiority through pseudo-scientific and pseudo-archaeological 'discoveries.'

  7. Transcripts of oral histories of Ukrainian Jews from the project "Jewish Fates-Ukraine-20th Century"

    The collection includes the oral history transcripts of Ukrainian Jews who were born between 1894 and 1949, recorded by the staff of the Judaica Institute of Kiev, Ukraine, for their project. Transcripts have detailed information about the daily life, religious activities, family life, education, and survival through pre-war pogroms, and survival during the Holocaust and after World War II.

  8. "From Bessarabian Jews to the 'Justs' of Creuse"

    Consists of one memoir, "From Bessarabian Jews to the 'Justs' of Creuse," written by Assia Mèlamed in June 2000. She writes about the current atmosphere in Romania and Moldova in regard to the Holocaust and also describes her own experiences as a hidden child in France, highlighting the French citizens who rescued her and her parents, the Dufour and Fournier families.

  9. Irgun Brit Zion photographs

    Consists of 31 photographs originally gathered by Hana Zippora Trozki, a member of the Irgun Brit Zion, a Zionist youth organization in the Kovno ghetto, which took part in resistance activities. She pasted these photographs of her family and friends before the war and in the ghetto in her journals, which she then hid. Hana was killed in an aktion on July 8, 1944. When her sister, Sara Trozki Koper was liberated from the Stutthof concentration camp, she discovered these journals and removed the pictures, burning the journals for fear of being discovered with them.

  10. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of photographs taken upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The photographs were taken by Thaddeus Gutkowski, a member of the 89th Infantry Division, which participated in the liberation. Also contains a CD-ROM of the scanned images.

  11. Brad Skala photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographic postcards depicting a death train at Dachau concentration camp. Captions in English on the verso were written by the [donor's mother].

  12. Maurice Lisiak photograph collection

    The collection consists of 2 photographs: a portrait of Maurice Lisiak, a survivor who was interned in Blechammer, posing in a concentration camp uniform, dated 1945 and an image of a group of men, some dressed in Nazi uniforms and others dressed in civilian clothing, labled "Wloclawek 1941 After the liquidation de the Jewish ghetto."

  13. Frank family photographs

    Consists of copyprints of two photographs of the Frank and Kahn families, taken at social gatherings. One photograph depicts four young girls: Anne and Margot Frank, Gabrielle Kahn, and Ellen Weinberger; this photograph was taken in Amsterdam, around 1934. The photograph of the adults includes Otto and Edith Frank and family and friends of the Kahn family; this photograph was taken in the Kahn family's home in Mannheim, Germany, around 1933.

  14. Selected records from the Hauptstaatsarchiv NSDAP (NS 26)

    Contains a variety of administrative documents created by the NSDAP, including procedural guidelines, SA reports, speeches, correspondence, personnel files, minutes of meetings, and information on groups deemed inimical to Nazi ideology.

  15. Lev Aronson collection

    Contains of one copyprint of Lev Aronson playing the cello as a young man and numerous articles about Mr. Aronson's career as a cellist and experiences during the Holocaust. He was born in Munich Germany, and raised in Riga, Latvia, where he became the principal cellist of the Riga Symphony before World War II. Mr. Aronson spent four years in various German and Soviet concentration camps before emigrating to the United States in 1948 and settling in Dallas, Texas.

  16. Jadwiga Dzido Hassa letter

    Contains of one letter from Gusta, a young girl in Haifa, to her friend, Jadwiga Dzido (later Hassa), in Poland, encouraging Jadwiga to come to Palestine. During the war, Jadwiga, a Polish Catholic, became a member of the Polish underground and was imprisoned from 1941-1945 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She later testified in the Nuremberg Doctors Trial. Also includes one photograph of Rozia Zylberajch, who is mentioned in the letter.

  18. Morris and Mania Schwartz Parnes collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to Mania Schwartz [donor] and her husband, Morris Parnes, documenting their experiences immediately following the Holocaust. Included in the collection: photographs from the Leipheim DP camp, the Ketubah and photographs from the Parnes' wedding day, documents from the ORT school issued to Morris Parnes, and papers relating to their immigration to Canada.

  19. Capt. Guthrie J. Smith liberation collection

    The collection consists of 15 photographs, taken by Capt. Guthrie J. Smith, of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, as well as photographs of his fellow soldiers in the United States Army. Also included is a copy of his memoir, entitled "Dachau Concentration Camp," by Capt. Smith, in which he details a brief history of the camp and his experiences in the United States Army and as a liberator. The memoir contains copies of documents and photographs.

  20. Goldstein/Gimpel genealogical information

    Consists of family trees and genealogical information regarding the Goldstein and Gimpel/Enis families of Lwow, Poland, from 1586 to the present day. Includes photocopies of government registries in which the names of family members appear. Mr. Maximillian Goldstein, who perished with his family in the Janowska concentration camp in 1942, was a renowned collector of Judaica and the owner of the "Goldstein Collection."