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  1. Selected records of the Swedish Red Cross

    Contains selected records from the Swedish Red Cross concerning the "White Buses." In 1945 "White Buses" were sent by Sweden to Germany to bring liberated camp prisoners from Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Ravensbrück, and other camps as refugees to Sweden. Collection contains a transport list of 875 prisoners, diaries of transport personnel, reports and correspondence regarding White Buses' operations, lists of French, Danish, and Norwegian liberated prisoners, and the private collection of Major Sven Frykman (Chief of Swedish Red Cross Operation). Some records relate to the food supplies to Hung...

  2. Selected records of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Contains records relating to repatriation of prisoners of war, aid to refugees including materials regarding the High Commissioner of the League of Nations, the Nansen Office, and Nansen refugee passports; proceedings and reports of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee and of the Evian Conference; help to refugees from various countries; post-war refugee help; Swedish police reports on Danish Jews in Malmö, Hälsingbor, and other towns; Swedish diplomatic correspondence on refugee questions; and press clippings of the Ossietzky affair from 1936 to 1937.

  3. Papers of Karl Schlyter, Swedish Minister of Justice

    Contains papers of a former Swedish Minister of Justice and well-known jurist, Karl Schlyter (1879-1959), including documents from the "XI: e Congres Pénal et Pénitentiaire International" in Berlin, Germany, from August 18 to 24, 1935; invitations to visit concentration camps in Germany; and some reports from those visits. Also contains the letter of resignation from James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) coming from Germany, addressed to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, on December 27, 1935, and several newspaper clippings related to the McDon...

  4. Selected records of State Aliens Commission, Swedish National Tracing Bureau

    Contains selected records from the Swedish National Tracing Bureau concerning the "White Buses" program.

  5. Prayer book

    The prayer-book was used by Teofil Glocer donor's grandfather in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, and later when he and his wife, Marta Glocer, were hiding on the Aryan side of the ghetto using false papers. In Sept. 1944 the couple were forced to leave Warsaw and travel to Opoczno, Poland

  6. Selected records of the Shanghai Municipal Archives

    Contains records from the Shanghai Municipal Government, International Settlement, Education Department, Finance Department, Public Works Department, Public Health Department, and French Concession. Topics include: Jewish schools, Jewish journal, school fees, grants to schools for foreign children, the Jewish refugee kitchen, health facilities, the Jewish cemetery, registration of Jewish aid organizations, and annual reports of aid organizations. Also contains documents relating to Polish, Czechoslovak, and other European refugees.

  7. Sirman family collection

    Collection consists of three photographs: one of a wedding portrait, and two of a man in a concentration camp uniform. The collection also contains one booklet in German, published by the Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, showing photographs and describing the history and conditions of the camps of Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, and Nordhausen.

  8. Dr. Gregore E. Gregory personal papers

    Contains a report on the attempt to arm 40,000 to 60,000 inmates of the Jewish forced labor camps against the Germans in Hungary in September and October 1944. Papers, including a transcribed version of Dr. Gregore E. Gregory's memoirs, personal documents, and letters, document the atrocities of the Holocaust.

  9. Memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs: one manuscript, in German, of the Holocaust experiences of Ludwig Frank, and two copies(one each in German and in English) of "My Children Live in Foreign Lands," by Gernot Romer. "My Children Live in Foreign Lands" details the fate of the Jews of Augsburg.

  10. Boaz Bischopswerder papers

    Includes manuscripts of traditional Jewish liturgical music created in the camps (arrangements of the music of Levandowsky) and an original composition, "Phantasia Judaica," first composed while on the ship "Dunera," for four tenor voices, as well as a diary in Yiddish. Also includes a collection of short stories, "Amol in Ger" ("Once Uon a Time in Ger"), of approximately 200 p., written in Yiddish.

  11. Quincy-sous-Senart photographs

    Collection consists of three photographs of children at the chateau at Quincy-sous-Senart, France (owned by Count Hubert de Monbrison).

  12. "A15975: Shula's Story"

    Contains one VHS videocassette of the living testimonial of Shula (Zita) Fried Kozuch, who is a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau 1943-1945. Mrs. Kozuch is a native of Viseu de Jos, Romania, and lost her parents and all of her siblings, save two sisters who were two of Mengele's twins, in the gas chambers upon arrival in Auschwitz in 1943. Mrs. Kozuch participated on a death march to Germany, where she was liberated in 1945.

  13. Holocaust remembrance speech regarding Bulgaria

    One speech, 20 pages, presented to the Federal Interagency Program on Holocaust Remembrance on May 1, 2003. Mr. Borouchoff discusses the Holocaust in Bulgaria and his own Holocaust experiences as a Bulgarian survivor.

  14. Hedwig Schwarz collection

    Collection consists of correspondence by Hedwig Schwarz in the last days of her life, from a Marian Hospital in Stuttgart. It also contains nine photographs of Mrs. Schwarz in her hospital bed and the eulogy and correspondence written after her death. Mrs. Schwarz was one of three survivors of Rexingen and spent the last years of the war through her death in 1952, at the Marian Hospital in Stuttgart.

  15. Rotszyld family collection

    Consists of eight post-war certificates for Roman Rotszyld at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including his identity card, certification from the Obschestvo Remeslenovo i. zemledelcheskovo Trouda (ORT) as an electrician, and certificate of incarceration. It also includes an International Refugee Organization (IRO) certification for Nechama Rotszyld as a dressmaker-helper.

  16. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Vienne

    Contains documents from the camps at Nexon, Saint-Paul d'Eyjeaux, Séreilhac, Saint-Germain-les-Belles, Saint Sulpice-la-Pointe, and la Meyse. Includes documents related to the organization and forced labor of foreigners in France during the Vichy regime. Also includes documents pertaining to the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, France, on June 10, 1944; the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) children's home at Chateau Montintin; and emigration to Palestine after World War II.

  17. "My Life Before and After Jan. 30, 1933"

    The collection includes two copies, one in German and one in English, of a memoir by Leo Waldbott titled "My Life Before and After January 30, 1933," in which Leo describes his own life and life in Speyer, Germany. Leo provides a brief history, with examples, of antisemitism in the region and describes the community's efforts to establish a Jewish home for the elderly, which burned down due to arson during Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938. He also describes his struggles with and eventual immigration to the United States in 1939.

  18. Oral history interview with Nadzia Goldfinger

  19. Selected records of the Parteiamtliche Prüfungskommission zum Schutze des NS.-Schrifttums

    Contains organizational documents of the Parteiamtliche Prüfungskommission zum Schutze des NS-Schrifttums (PPK) and correspondence with publishing houses and other state organizations. Includes various speeches, articles, and publications where Jews or the "Jewish question" is discussed, including speeches by Hitler, Hess, and Ley. Also includes PPK files and internal memoranda on individual publications.

  20. "Buchenwald children" collection

    Consists of one card identifying Josek Szwarcberg as a civilian internee of Buchenwald and two photographs of the Buchenwald children, who were internees in Buchenwald at the time of liberation. The Buchenwald children, including Josek Szwarcberg, were placed in the care of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Geneva, who placed them in France, England, and Switzerland. One photograph shows the younger children in Hitler Youth uniforms, as the OSE could not find enough civilian clothing.