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Language of Description: English

  1. Ministry of Education (Fond 177)

    Contains a confidential letter regarding a search for Jews and an investigation about teachers who were Communist Party members.

  2. Papers of Georgiy Dimitrov (Fond 146)

    Contains notebooks from jail regarding "Mein Kampf" and studies of history and foreign languages. Also includes a part of Georgiy Dimitrov's diary, personal documents, letters, correspondence, and other records related to involvement with activities of the Communist Party.

  3. VE Day in Paris

    Scenes of massive VE day celebration. French civilians. American soldiers and WACs parading in the streets, riding on military vehicles. Wounded soldiers at the 48th General Hospital, upon hearing the news, dancing with nurses and joining in the parade. Crowds of people around Arc de Triomphe, Rue de la Paix, Place de la Concorde, and Place de l'Opera, where Gen. Charles DeGaulle made the victory announcement. Blind man playing accordion.

  4. Souvenirs de ces temps-là: 1935-1945

    Contains a memoir, 109 pages, entitled "Souvenirs de ces temps-là: 1935-1945," by Gustave Peiser.

  5. Henry Rosen collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Henry Rosen, originally of Buczacz, Poland (Buchach, Ukraine). The photographs depict Henry Rosen in a Polish army uniform in Krakow, Poland; his brothers Samuel and Yechiel; and Samuel’s wife Helena Rosen.

  6. New York Herald Tribune (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

    New York Herald Tribune Magazine, dated March 19, 1933, with cover illustration by J. Scott Williams and an article by Lion Feuchtwanger titled "Hitler's War on Culture"

  7. Life magazine advertisement

    Magazine advertisement from the inside front cover of Life Magazine, September 14, 1942. Multi-color image of a young girl reading a book with the caption, "These are the things we are fighting for: That a little girl may read the books her mother lived- not what a dictator decreed"

  8. Time (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Time Magazine, October 21, 1940, with a cover illustration of the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, Wendell Willkie. Willkie made a statement about the Nazi book burning

  9. Time (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Time magazine, dated March 15, 1943, with a drawing on the cover of Elmer Davis, director of OWI (Office of War Information), with a quote, "A free people has a right to know..."

  10. News-Week (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    News-Week magazine, dated May 27, 1933, with a photograph on the cover showing the May 10 Berlin book burning by the German Student Association

  11. Book

    The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells (#1091) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians

  12. Book

    Selected Short Stories by Thomas Mann (#L-28) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians.

  13. Book

    The Seventh Cross, a novel by Anna Seghers (#Q-33) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians

  14. Book

    Martin Eden, a novel by Jack London (#N-28) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians

  15. Lucja Frey Gottesman collection

    Consists of material regarding the life and legacy of Dr. Lucja Frey Gottesman, a Jewish female neurologist who probably perished in the Lvov ghetto in 1943. Also contains offical Russian post-war documents as well as issues of the "Gazeta Lwowska" from 1942-1943, and flyers which were posted in Lvov announcing the establishment of the ghetto.

  16. The Saturday Review of Literature [Magazine]

    The Saturday Review of Literature, November 7, 1942 with an article, "The P.E.N. hears a Report from the W.W.B." with four sketches of the meeting. In October 1942, the P.E.N. American Center held a dinner to celebrate "solidarity among intellectuals in times of strife and disorder."

  17. The Saturday Review of Literature [Magazine]

    The Saturday Review of Literature, May 8, 1943 with an article "They Burned the Books..." by Stephen Vincent Benet. There is an illustration on the cover of a Nazi bayonet stabbed through two books

  18. Book

  19. Book

    Hard cover copy of the book, One World, by Wendell L. Willkie published 1943. In August 1942, former Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie began a 31,000-mile journey in a Liberator bomber to see what he could of the world at war, its battlefronts, its leaders and its people. One World, an accounting of the journey, made a case for a strong United Nations

  20. American Memoir [Book]

    Hard cover copy of the book, American Memoir, by Henry Seidel Canby published 1947. Henry Seidel Canby, the American delegate to the P.E.N. congress, recalled in his American Memoir the atmosphere surrounding the confrontation. Canby was involved with the book-battles of the twenties and thirties between antagonistic literary ideologies and against the censorship stranglers.