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  1. Eva Metzger Brown collection

    The Eva Metzger Brown collection contains three primary records. The first two are affidavits for her parents, Ernst and Doris Metzger. These affidavits were required for the Metzger family to immigrate into the United States. Also included in the collection are two copies of Eva’s memoir, titled “Healing from the Traumas of the Holocaust and the Years Thereafter.” They recount the early years of Eva’s life, as well as her parent’s background. The memoir also details Eva’s experiences growing up in the United States as a young child.

  2. Deutsch family papers

    Contains correspondence between Alexander Hoffmann and his sister Roszi Hoffmann Deutsch. Roszi Hoffmann immigrated to the United States in 1921 and married Eugene Deutsch, while Alexander Hoffmann remained in Cluj, Romania (which became Kolozsvar, Hungary in 1940). Letters include references to Alexander's experiences on the "Kasztner Train" from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen, then to Switzerland; requests from immigration assistance to the United States from Montreaux; and mentions meeting Reszo Kastner in Switzerland.

  3. Signal Corps liberation photographs

    Consists of 17 black and white images taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in April and May 1945 during the liberation of concentration camps.

  4. Relocation of displaced persons

    INT, processing center for IRO (International Relief Organization). Families line up at desks where young men and women review their identity papers, create new documents, and arrange for them to emigrate to North America (Canada, United States), and various countries in South America. They are fingerprinted as well. VS, CUs of the refugees talking to the IRO workers. Expressions on the faces of refugees range from terrified to elated. 01:03:23:28 CU of a set of identity papers being created for a young woman, and her fingerprints being imprinted on the back of the paper. The same action is...

  5. Susy Raful photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs relating to the experiences of Edith, Mary, and Zsuzsi Taubner [donor] in Hungary before and during World War II.

  6. Bleiweis family papers

    Contains correspondence, documents and photographs related to the family of Hermann (Juda-Hersz) and Nesie (born Schwalb) Bleiweis, who lived in Gladbeck, Germany, in the 1920s and 1930s. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1937 and from there, to the United States. Includes pre-war photographs and documents of life in Gladbeck, as well as Schwalb family correspondence sent from Rozhnyatov, Poland, to the Bleiweis family in the United States from 1938-1941. Included in the correspondence is testimony of the events surrounding the expulsion of Polish-born Jews living in Germany back to Poland.

  7. A. Fokker films: von Richthofen, Goering, WWI flying aces, Fokker

    Various locations and dates, probably Northern France near St Quentin and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's "Flying Circus"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head: "RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 1. Teil" German military men on roof of train during World War I, stationary, moving along curved t...

  8. Stan Ostern documents

    Contains a notarized copy of the birth certificate of the Stan Ostern [donor] (born March 22, 1935, Poland) under Russian occupation and an identity card from the Feldafing Displaced persons' camp.

  9. Inge Spitz papers

    Contains information about Inge Spitz's experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust: two photoprints; one identity card; and one membership card for Makkabi Hazair.

  10. Nursery

    Nurses with babies. Medicine, taking care of children.

  11. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark

    1 Reichsmark coupon of the type issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Six...

  12. Irene Engelman correspondence

    The Irene Engelman correspondence includes letters to Engelman and her husband in New York from her parents, sister and brother-in-law, and grandfather documenting her family members' lives in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos and their emigration efforts. Additional letters from a family friend describe her grandfather's death, her parents' transport to Auschwitz, and her sister and brother-in-law's unknown fates.

  13. Haas family photographs

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Eleonora Haasova, originally of Bytča, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), and her brother Ivan Haas, who perished at Auschwitz. Included a pre-war photograph of Ivan, a photograph of Eleonora in 1944 around the time of her high school graduation, and a post-war high school reunion.

  14. Dr. Joachim Neander collection

    Contains 'Vestorbene entlassene Uberstellte oder geflohene reichsdeutsche haftlinge des KL Auschwitz I 19 Januar bis 19 August 1942," "Reichsdeutsche im Transport von 1500 Judischen Haftlingen von Auschwitz nach Dachau, als Zugange unter dem 10. Oktober 1944 registriert," by Joachim Neander," Reference to all Reichsdeutsch Auschwitz Prisoners (incl. Jews and Roma) mentioned in USHMM Archives RG-06.005.07M-US Case Files-Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943-1947; Ordered by Nationality and within it alphabetically," by Joachim Neander, correspondence between Joachim Neander and Erich Scholz, Jan...

  15. Morris Shuster document

    Contains donor's Hakoach membership card.

  16. Oral history interview with Rita Joa

  17. Rufa Kotlyarskaya photograph collection

    One photograph is a family portrait of the grandparents of Rufa Kotlyarskaya and their children, including her mother. The other photograph depicts a memorial to the murdered Jews in Starokonstantinov, Soviet Union (now Starokostiantyniv, Ukraine).

  18. Grigory Kotlyarski photograph collection

    The photographs depict Grigory Kotlyarski and his older brother, Chaim Misha, as children and during their military service in the Soviet Army.

  19. Wiktor Poznanski papers

    The papers consist of Wiktor Poznanski's provisional identification card from Mauthausen, a copy of his diploma from Uniwersytet Warszawski, his certificate of incarceration from the International Red Cross, and other documents relating to the experiences of Wiktor Poznanski before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Ruth Fiedler papers

    Contains documents and photographs pertaining to Ruth Fielder's attempts to obtain visas for her parents, Fedor Zernik and Hedwig Tichauer Zernik, her own escape from Germany to England on a Kindertransport (1939), and leaving England for Australia (February 1939).