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  1. Selected records from the Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei collection (R 19)

    Contains documents related to the administration of the police, including personal files of Jews in the police. Also contains files relating to the occupied countries, mainly Poland and Czechoslovakia, resettlement of the Volhynian Germans, and speeches and newspaper articles on the death of Reinhard Heydrich.

  2. Ernest Wachtel collection

    The Ernest Wachtel collection consists of 37 photographs depicting Ernest Wachtel, a Jewish Austrian refugee, and his experiences in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The photographs also include liberation photographs of the Dachau concentration camp which include images of victims’ corpses, camp survivors, a building, and survivors viewed behind a barbed wire fence. There is also a set of group photographs which likely include the three survivors from the Dachau concentration cared for by Ernest, and other soldiers. The collection also includes articles regarding Ernes...

  3. Fajwel Sendrowicz papers

    The papers consist of six photographs documenting the experiences of Fajwel Sendrowicz in Osjaków, Poland, before World War II and after his immigration to Canada in 1948. Also includes his Certificate of Identity (1952), his certificate of Canadian citizenship (1955), a copy of a confirmation letter of his status in Canada (1950), and his United States green card (1959).

  4. Greet and Rob Coopman photograph collection

    The collection consists of 42 photographs documenting the Troostwyk and Coopman families and their experiences in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  5. Abraham-Avrum Sperber papers

    The papers consist of a manuscript and photographs relating to the experiences of Abraham-Avrum Sperber and his family before, during, and after World War II. The hand-written manuscript was purportedly transcribed after World War II in a composition notebook from original notes kept by Abraham-Avrum Sperber while living under Nazi-occupation in Kolomyi︠a︡, Poland (now Ukraine). He describes events that occured between March 3, 1941, and July 7, 1942. The photographs depict the pre- and post-World War II life of Sperber and his family in Ukraine, Romania, and Israel.

  6. Jeanette Orbach collection

    Consists of two post-war photographs of Jeanette Orbach, originally of Ichenhausen, Germany, and an obituary, 1971, for Mrs. Orbach, describing her pre-war emigration to the United States to escape the Holocaust.

  7. Eva Biro Slott collection

    Consists of one memoir, written by Eva Biro Slott, describing her experiences in the ghetto and in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, during the Holocaust. Includes letters written to Eva by Jozsef, Sari, and Judit Biro, family members who did not survive the war, describing life in the Mindszent ghetto and preparations for their deportation. Also includes material regarding Arie Kadar, cousin of Eva Slott, including a metal tag from Stalag XVIII A and military papers describing him as a prisoner of war, as well as an affidavit attesting to the role of Endre Szervanszky in Eva Slott's survival an...

  8. "My Life Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "My Life Story," by Tsilya Bryson, originally of Minsk, Soviet Union. She describes her childhood, experiences in the Minsk ghetto, escape from the ghetto in August 1943, and life with Jewish partisans until they were liberated by the Soviet Army in 1944.

  9. Manes Weizman identification card

    Consists of one identification card, dated April 30, 1945, identifying Manes Weizman, originally of Pionki, Poland, as a civilian internee of Buchenwald.

  10. Andrew Hausman collection

    Consists of post-war papers, drawings, photographs, and clippings related to the Holocaust experiences of Andrew Hausman, originally of Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Includes forms and medical records for Mr. Hausman's sister Rose, also a survivor, who suffered from mental health problems after liberation. Includes Mr. Hausman's tefilin.

  11. Thomas Macklin photograph collection

    The collection consists of 13 photographs adhered to two photograph album pages and one loose photograph. The images depict groups of German soldiers informally posing, scenic views, and views of Tarnów, Poland, and its Jewish inhabitants bearing identifiable markings such as Star of David armbands. All pages are labeled in German.

  12. Stanisław Rogulski papers

    The Stanisław Rogulski papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Rogulski’s academic and diplomatic career until his dismissal during the antisemitic repression of the Polish 1968 political crisis. The collection also includes a handful of records documenting his stepmother Helena Molenda’s survival in hiding during the Holocaust.

  13. Antisemitic postcard

    Consists of one postcard, undated, with a black-and-white photograph of Hitler greeting a little girl on the front. Both sender and recipient are unidentified on the postcard; it reads that the Jewish press in America are spreading lies about events in Hitler's Germany.

  14. War crimes investigation and trial records from the Archives of the Service for National Security of the Republic of Uzbekistan

    This collection contains 64 cases, 85 volumes of documents from the criminal investigation files and trial records mostly of the residents of German colonies in the former Soviet Union. They were accused of wartime crimes. Most of them served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) unit as soldiers, between 1944 and 1945, were captured by the American Army and sent to POW camps, and in 1946, were repatriated to the Soviet Union, where they were convicted of treason for participation in the enemy's military formations against the Soviet Union. Files also contain testimonies of the convicted members of the...

  15. Friedman family papers

    The papers consist of letters, Red Cross forms, an American naturalization certificate, and an autograph album relating to the experiences of the Friedman family, their flight from Salzburg, Austria, to Switzerland, France, and Portugal, and their eventual immigration to the United States in 1941.

  16. Regina Goldberg Lomm Halpern papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Regina Goldberg Lomm Halpern donor's wife and her first husband, Berek Lomm, during and after the Holocaust and her claims for restitution after World War II. Also included in the papers is a book of poems about the Holocaust, "I Cannot Forget," by Henriette Kermisch, a friend of Regina Goldberg Lomm Halpern.

  17. Michael Librach photograph collection

    The collection consists of 14 photographs depicting Mieczyslaw Librach [donor] in Stalag XVII B, a prisoner of war camp in Traunstein, Germany.

  18. Ruth Margolinsky letter

    The letter and accompanying envelope are addressed to Mrs. Sylvia Rockoff [donor's mother] in Brooklyn, N.Y., from Ruth Margolinsky in Long Island, N.Y. The letter concerns money that was collected by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS) to assist Hans-Erwin Teller with his escape from Czechoslovakia during World War II.

  19. Rachel Slagter papers

    The papers consist of one photograph of the van der Veer family who hid Rachel Slagter between 1943 and 1945 and one evacuation card issued by the Dutch Red Cross to "D.M.F. Willemsen," the false name used by Rachel at the time.

  20. Angèle Gelbard papers

    The papers consist of 17 postcards and 8 letters written to Angèle Gelbard in Paris, France, from her family in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.