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  1. Breuner-Ekerling collection

    Consists of 19 pre-war photographs of the Breuner family of Vienna, including Alice and Bertel Breuner, the donor's mother and aunt. Also consists of photographs taken 1938-1941, immediately after the emigration of Sam Ekerling and Alice Breuner Ekerling to the United States.

  2. Jewish political parties and organizations election campaign leaflets

    Contains Jewish political parties' and organizations' election campaign leaflets, produced between 1904 and 1919.

  3. Anti-Jewish Nazi and collaborationist leaflets and announcements

    Contains Nazi and collaborationist anti-Jewish leaflets and announcements made and posted during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine (1941-1943).

  4. "Family Saga" memoir

    Memoir, 150 pages, "Family Saga" detailing the life of Joseph Ripp, from his birth in Bochum, Germany, childhood in Nazi Germany, escape to the United States, experiences in the United States Army, and adult life through 2000.

  5. Literary archives of Mikhail Yakovlevich Pinchevskiy

    Contains poetry, tales, and theatrical plays. Some of the poetry originally was written in Yiddish and translated into Russian. Most of the poetry is dedicated to the Jewish life in Bessarabia (now part of Moldova) and Ukraine (see poems: Bessarabia, Doyna and Zhok, poetry: Broha, Sidur, etc.) and to the heroism of Jewish soldiers during World War II.

  6. Literary archives of Natan Ilyich Zabara

    Contains novels, plays, and letters by Natan Ilyich Zabara.

  7. Literary archives of Shloyma Borisovich Chernyavskiy

    Contains poetry written by Shloyma Borisovich Chernyavskiy.

  8. Evangelical religious community in Württemberg Evangelische Bekenntnisgemeinschaft in Württemberg (D 31)

    Contains records related to Protestant theologians in the German state of Württemberg during the Nazi era. Includes materials published after World War II.

  9. Heinrich Fausel papers (D 33)

    Contains the papers of Heinrich Fausel, Protestant theologian in Württemberg, Germany. Includes manuscripts, speeches, sermons, correspondence, and publications of other Protestant theologians.

  10. Selected records from former Archives of the Communist Party of Ukraine

    This collection contains records of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. They describe conditions in Nazi-occupied territories of Ukraine; secret reports to Nikita Khrushchev, the head of the Ukrainian Communist Party, about the political and economic situation in the areas liberated from Nazi occupation; activities of various groups of Ukrainian nationalists; and antisemitism. Documents also address repatriation of groups deported to Germany (Fond 1). From the Special Commission for the history of the Great Patriotic War, a body established by the Ukrainian SSR Academy ...

  11. Crimean Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes (Fond p 1289)

    Contains records related to the Crimean Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi crimes for the territory of Crimea during World War II.

  12. Geza Kornis memoir

    The 11-page memoir relates Geza Kornis' experiences in the Romanian work camp "Wapniarka," and in the ghetto in Olgopol, Ukraine. Mr. Kornis was a communist and includes information about the power of the (communist) inmate leadership within the camp and describes a hunger strike undertaken by the inmates.

  13. "From Darkness to Light" memoir

    Memoir, 13 pages, relates the experiences of Barbara (Borka) Klima nee Rozsa, who hid from the Nazis in Slovakia, in many different houses and situations, while also trying to protect her young daughter Eva, who was hidden in a Christian orphanage. The memoir also details their immediate post-war experiences and emigration to the United States in 1949.

  14. "When God Looked Down and Wept" Alex Sharf oral testimony

  15. Selected records of the Slovak Armed Forces during World War II

    Contains selected documents relating to labor projects for Jews and Romanies; correspondence and press clippings relating to Alexander Mach, Jozef Tiso, Tuka, the Slovak National Uprising, war crimes trials, and cooperation between the Slovak and German armies; announcements, government ordinances regarding Jews and Romanies including files on Jewish property, partisans, anti-partisan activities, and various Jewish labor camps (Liptovský Svätý Peter, Novǎky, and Topol̕čany).

  16. Staged (comic) sequence in a central Polish village

    Man in a furry bear costume, feigning an attack on a young peasant girl walking along the road, repeated from earlier in this reel.

  17. Selected records related to forced labor camps in Slovakia during World War II

    Contains lists of names of internees in Slovak forced labor camps during World War II, approximately 3000 names, mainly of Jewish doctors, medical staff, and other Jewish intelligentsia from the Trnava region in Slovakia.

  18. William Bank collection

    Consists of one small laminated copy of the US Army discharge papers of William Bank, liberation photographs described as Dachau and Buchenwald, and miscellaneous photographs taken by United States Army soldiers crossing Germany in the spring of 1945.

  19. Rachel Fradkin Holocaust testimony

    Consists of testimony regarding the Holocaust experiences of Rachel Fradkin. The testimony is used in an undergraduate paper for JST 373 at SUNY Albany entitled "The Jews in France During World War II," by Arlene Fradkin.

  20. "My Survival" memoir

    Memoir, 7 pages, relates the story of Traute Hirschmann, born in Breslau, Germany, in 1927. She was sent to various labor camps from 1942-1945 and survived along with both her parents, though they were separated during the war years. She emigrated to the United States in 1948.