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  1. Selected records from the Archives of the Military History Institute for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro

    Contains documents created by the Italian occupation authorities, regarding arrests and persecution of, and reprisals against, Jews, members of antifascist movements, communists, and the general population.

  2. "Memories"

    Consists of one manuscript, 95 pages, entitled "Memories," by Simon Juan Lichtig, originally born Szymon (Szymek) Lichtig, of Tarnów, Poland. He describes his childhood in Tarnów, his escape to Lwów using false papers, hiding as a Polish Catholic in Kiev, Soviet Union, and in Saarbrúcken, Germany, and his experiences as a translator for the United States Army.

  3. Karl Engel deportation account

    Consists of one undated four-page account, written by Karl Engel, of a January 11, 1942 deportation of Jews from Vienna, Austria to the Riga concentration camp.

  4. Selected records from Romanian diplomatic missions

    Contains reports, correspondence, and reportage sent before and during World War II to Bucharest, Romania, from the Romanian diplomatic missions in Rome (Italy), Moscow (Soviet Union), Washington (U.S.A.), Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Istanbul (Turkey), Prague (Czechoslovakia), Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), The Hague (Netherlands), Bern (Switzerland), the Vatican, Cairo (Egypt), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Paris (France). The Washington records show the concern of American Jews about the treatment of Jews in Romani...

  5. Card index of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC /JDC)

    Contains the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee card index of the Emigration Service in Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Barcelona, Spain.

  6. Selected records from Hauptamt für Erzieher/Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Lehrerbundes (NSLB) (NS 12)

    Contains selected records from the Hauptamt für Erzieher/Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Lehrerbundes (NSLB) (Reichs Administration of the National Socialist Teachers Union) - including materials related to the education of teachers; correspondence between the leaders and departments of the NSLB; correspondence between the NSLB and publishers, authors, etc., concerning various books, brochures, tracts, newspapers, plays, and other published materials, some of which concern Jews; activity reports; memoranda; reports; individual problem cases; "idea papers;" records relating to the...

  7. Selected records from the Reichministerium der Justiz (R 3001)

    Contains records related to the laws against Jews, including case files concerning Jews, death penalties, and looting of Jewish assets.

  8. Selected records of the SS-und Polizeigerichtsbarkeit (NS 7)

    Contains records related to various SS orders, decrees, and regulations concerning Jews. Includes the jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht court; former Jewish dwellings in Odessa; death sentences in various locations and situations; partisan war in Croatia and death sentences for suspected partisans there; criminal statistics comparing the SS and the Wehrmacht; treatment of SS men assigned to KL Buchenwald who were alcoholics; and records of local courts.

  9. Records of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission to investigate crimes committed by Nazis and their collaborators on the territory of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic during WWII (Fond 1026)

    Contains records about victims, crimes against persons, and perpetrators as well as information about damage and material losses to personal and government properties ( houses, clubs, theatres, museums, libraries etc), industry and agriculture, caused by the occupation. Including name lists of victims, evacuees, protocols of interrogations of eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, inventories of the destroyed property and signed depositions summarizing what the commission learned. Also includes photos, diagrams, and maps showing the location of atrocities or graves.

  10. Zamojre/Eckstein family collection

    Consists of 1pre-war photographs of the Zamojre and Eckstein families, originally of Germany; one photograph of the interior of the synagogue in Bad Nauheim, Germany, taken in 1946; and pre and post-war documents and photographs related to the education of Joseph Zamojre (now Zamora).

  11. Markon family photographs

    Consists of three photographs: one wedding photograph of Raya Magid Markon, dated 1937 in Paris, France; one wedding photograph of Raya Magid and Alexander Markon; and one photograph of a group of French army soldiers, including Alexander Markon.

  12. Ebensee displaced persons camp photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken at the displaced persons camp, and former concentration camp, of Ebensee in Ebensee, Austria. Included are photographs of displaced persons within the camp and leaving the camp, as well as photographs of camp buildings and structures.

  13. Prejzerowicz family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Prejzerowicz, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Included is a postcard sent from Niche Prejzerowicz in Częstochowa, Poland, in 1940 to her brother, Josek Prejzerowicz, in Milan, Italy; photographic postcards depicting Berisch, Rachel, Niche, and Sara Prejzerowicz, and other relatives who perished during the Holocaust; and a family book ("Deutsches Einheits Familien Stammbuch") issued to Josek and Erna Prejzerowicz in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

  14. Eva Goldberg autograph album

    The autograph album belonged to Eva Goldberg Judd and contains autographs, signatures, photographs, and drawings. Inscriptions from friends and family include Anne Frank and Susanne "Sanne" Ledermann. The contents of the autograph book were collected by Eva Goldberg prior to her emigration from Germany to the United States via the Netherlands and Great Britain. According to the Anne Frank House, Otto Frank wrote the caption "July 1936" underneath the photo of Anne Frank, Eva Goldberg, and Susanne Ledermann. This photo was taken by Otto Frank, and his shadow can be seen in the lower right co...

  15. Wilfrid J. Michaud photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs taken post-liberation at Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, in 1945. The images depict a temporary monument erected immediately following liberation honoring those who perished in the camp and a mound of ashes and bones of those whose remains were cremated.

  16. Van Geuns family papers

    The papers document the Holocaust-era experiences of the van Geun family, originally of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Included are passports, identification cards, photographs, and a baby album. The baby album documents Marianne van Geuns' childhood and was compiled by her mother, Rozia Vreede van Geuns. The other photographs in the collection depict Marianne’s parents Rozia and Simon van Guens at the time of their wedding, Marianne’s birth, and various extended family members, most of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  17. Cecile Rojer Jeruchim photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Cecile Rojer Jeruchim's experiences as a hidden child in Belgium during the Holocaust. Included are depictions of Cecile, her siblings Anny and Charles, and parents Abraham and Geshewa before World War II, the children's home of "Hirondelles," a meeting with Sister Clotilde in 1946, and post-war trips to London, England, and Rochefort, France.

  18. Eva Rindner papers

    The collection consists of documents, a personal narrative, and photographs primarily documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Eva Rindner (née Schultzmann) and her mother Lola Blonder (previously Lola Zipser and Lola Schutzmann), including Eva’s treatment for tuberculosis as a child, her father’s death in 1937, and the family’s emigration from Vienna, Austria to Haifa, Palestine (Haifa, Israel) in 1938. Included are documents related to Lola’s work as a volunteer nurse during World War I, financial documents, and letters. The letters were addressed to Eva from her parents, and were rec...

  19. Herbert Krogman photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Herbert Krogman’s life in Copenhagen, Denmark prior to World War II; his flight to Sweden with his parents, Herman and Frieda Krogman, in 1943; and his service in the Danish Army in 1945.

  20. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Communalpolitic (NS 25)

    Contains records related to municipal regulation of taxes and to culture, finance, and social welfare throughout Germany. Also contains records related to Jewish apartments and lodgings, Jewish cemeteries, the expropriation of Jewish assets, and judicial procedures related to Jewish issues.