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Language of Description: English

  1. Like a chased animal

    The manuscript relates the experiences of Artur Sznajder during the Holocaust.

  2. "My Life in Siberia" memoir

    One memoir, entitled "My Life in Siberia," by Jean Steinberg; contains poetry and prose relating to the donor's life in pre-war Poland and forced migration to Siberia. Memoir is bound, 124 pages, with a cover illustration.

  3. Selected records from Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt

    Contains a variety of records related to the fate of Jews between 1933 and 1945 in the "Volksstaat Hessen" (Land Hessen), the city of Darmstadt, Germany, and the German towns Bensheim, Büdingen, Dieburg, and Friedberg. Records from offices of various institutions of the German government including Abteilung G5 Reichsstatthalter, Abteilung G11 Innenministerium, G12A Landespolizei, Schutzpolizei and Gendarmerie, G12B Gestapo, and SD. G15 local governmental records of many towns.

  4. Selected records from Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt

    Selected records concerning the regulation, closing, and Aryanization of Jewish businesses and hotels. Includes ordinances, regulations, individual case files, petitions, and related records.

  5. The State Court of Vienna Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien

    Contains records of cases involving Jewish property, false identification papers, money smuggling, and other legal issues.

  6. Lewinski and Rubin families photographs

    The collection consists of photographs documenting Stella Yollin's (born Salutka Lewinski) family in Łódź, Poland.

  7. The Amtsgericht district court in Charlottenburg records (A Rep. 342)

    Contains individual cases involving Jewish names including: applications for withdrawal from church memberships (Kirchenaustritte); protection/custody/social welfare (Schutzaufsicht; Fürsorgeerziehung; Schutzaufsichtssachen); trusteeship (Entmündigungssachen); and estates (Nachlässe).

  8. Unzer welt = Our world

    Front-page title: "Jews, when your fathers and mothers were murdered, you should feel just like me." translated from Yiddish.

  9. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records (MfS IX/11)

    Selected records from the record group MfS IX/11 compiled by the former East German Security Service "Stasi." Materials of mixed provenance, primarily papers generated by the German Security Police and SD between 1933 and 1945. Included are routine, periodic reports of local Gestapo surveillance of suspect political, religious, or fraternal groups; records of police documents such as circular letters, memos of telephone conversations, daily reports, situation reports; and reports from or about the "Ausland" such as Austria, Yugoslavia, and the occupied Eastern territories.

  10. Survey of attitudes among Romanian students regarding the Holocaust

    Consists of a sociological survey of the attitudes of contemporary Romanian grade school students to the Holocaust along with pedagogical responses.

  11. Selected records of the Jewish community of Freiburg im Breisgau

    Contains Jewish community records of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, pertaining to the fate of German Jews.

  12. Meta Sternberg Adler collection

    Contains documents relating to the life of Meta Sternberg-Adler, including her birth certificate, family correspondence, emigration documents, naturalization papers, postcards, newspaper clippings, curriculum vitaes, and family history papers.

  13. Selected records of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany

    Contains original records and photocopies of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, Germany; name lists of Jewish families; deportation lists; correspondence; synagogue statutes; survivors' testimonies, diaries, and letters; personal papers relating to the Holocaust, to Jewish fate and emigration. Also contains photographs of events, e.g., Kristallnacht, and buildings such as synagogues, schools and other institutions.

  14. Jan Valenta collection

    The Jan Valenta collection contains documents regarding the detention and execution of Jan Valenta, a Colonel in the Czech army and active participant in the Czech resistance organization, Obrana Národa (“Defense of the Nation”). Comprised in this collection are three pieces of correspondence written by Jan during his incarceration. This includes a postcard to his children dispensing parental advice, a postcard to his brother requesting a toothbrush, soap, and toothpaste, and a letter written to his children on the day of his execution, which was reportedly smuggled out of the prison and de...

  15. Map of Vilna ghetto

    Rectangular form; black and white drawing of the ghetto in Vilna, Poland, (now Vilnius, Lithuania) with a overlaying graph; place names in Yiddish.

  16. Sulamita Simenauer Konar collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Sulamita Simenauer Konar’s mother Chana Pomerancblum Simenauer and grandmother Mina Zalcman Pomerancblum, both of whom survived in hiding under false identities in Jeleśnia, Poland. Included are a registration form (Meldebestaetigung) issued to Chana under her false identity of Maria Kolodziejczyk, and two occupancy registration forms (anmeldung) issued to Mina under her false identity of Luzie Wilczynska. The form issued to Maria Kolodziejczyk stated that Maria, maiden name Szczepan, was born on June 20, 1918 in Skala, in the Lvov regi...

  17. William Howard photographs

    The collection consists of 13 photographs taken by William Howard shortly after the liberation of a concentration camp.

  18. The World Jewish Congress Stockholm office records

    Contains correspondence and other records from the Stockholm office of the World Jewish Congress.

  19. Rivka Lozansky-Bogomolnaya collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and photograph albums relating to the life of people in the shtetl Butrimantz (Butrimonys), Lithuania, before 1941. It also contains a manuscript written by Riva Lozansky that describe the destruction of Butrimantz; the book, "If I Forget Thee..the destruction of the shtetl Butrimantaz," is based upon the manuscript.