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  1. Records of the Consistoire Israélite, Luxembourg

    Relate to deportations, the confiscation of property, emigration, finances, the press, the mood of the population, and orders in German-occupied Luxembourg. Included is information about Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Terezin (Theresienstadt), the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, elderly Jewish people, questionnaires for Jews, the German authorities, and Jewish demographics.

  2. Records relating to investigations and trials of war criminals (Criminels de Guerre), Luxembourg

    Contains the investigation and trial records of persons who committed war crimes in Luxembourg.

  3. Records of the Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Luxembourg

    Contains records relating to the purchases of Gauleiters, the finances of Marzell Nopperey, the plundering of Jewish assets and property, Jewish financial administration, Jewish leases, the foreign policy of Luxembourg prior to German occupation, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in Berlin, and the press in Luxembourg.

  4. Norbert Wollheim papers

    The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, the World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Series 1, Life in Europe, primarily documents Norbert Wollheim’s l...

  5. A Void in My Heart The Memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman A Jewish Holocaust Survivor (1927-)

    Contains a memoir about Regina Godinger Hoffman's move from Cleveland, Ohio, to Sinovoir Szinervarlja?, Hungary, her life in the Chust ghetto in Poland, Regina's experiences in Auschwitz, and her later return to Cleveland, Ohio, after the Holocaust.

  6. To survive in the hell Between two ghettos Radzyn, Podlasky, and Mezerich

    Contains the first chapter of a memoir about Yehoshua Ron's experiences in Radzyn, Podlasky, and Mezerich during the Holocaust.

  7. Benjamin Mintz collection

    Contains a collection of documents from Rabbi Benjamin Mintz (later Benjamin Minister), including notes in 1943 and 1945 regarding a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen; a Union of Czechoslovakia certificate indicating that a refugee is in Hungary; a February 1944 postcard from a refugee in Iran confirming the receipt of a food package from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint); a message from a Budapest survivor sent through HICEM to family members in May 1946; a certificate for a displaced Jewish person traveling to Lithuania in August 1944; and a Red Cross leaflet about trac...

  8. COHASCO collection

    Contains six documents that include an arrest order from the Vilna Ghetto for a thirty-eight year old woman, printed in German on back of a Lithuanian under Nazi occupation form, a1943 Hebrew booklet produced by the Palestine Rescue Committee about mass extermination news received from refuges who were able to escape to Palestine entitled, "Stand By-Save-Rescue," and four Hebrew letters dealing with aid to survivors of Greece and Poland.

  9. Gross Rosen documents

    Contains six documents that include a Dachau lettersheet assuring parents of their child's good health, a postcard from Theresienstadt with a stamped admonishment that writing must be in German, three different Holocaust memorial covers, a Gross Rosen letter sheet, two censorship stamps postmarked on address-leaf and stamped with swastika, "Gross Rosen" with assurance of good health and request for letters and packages.

  10. Concentration camp documents

    Contains a partly printed Polish postcard from "Majdanek Konzentrationslager Waffen SS Lublin," a prison thank you for food parcels, and three Holocaust memorial covers.

  11. Zionist pamphlet

    Contains an illustrated four page booklet published by the first Zionist Congress held after World War II.

  12. Refugee Assistance Fund letter

    Contains a printed announcement in letter form about the "Refugee Assistance Fund." The letter indicates that some money was raised at Albert Hall "as a result of his (Einstein's) generous and unselfish help when he spoke to the only public gathering he has ever addressed," but more money is needed for the cause.

  13. Cesare Lombroso letter

    Contains one letter written by Cesare Lombroso stating that there was "a criminal type."

  14. UNRRA list of concentration camp victims, 1947

    Contains missing persons inquiries processed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Tracing Bureau for Austria up to March 31, 1947.

  15. Rose Silberberg Skier papers

    The Rose Silberberg Skier papers include a diary, photographs, and materials related to Silberberg’s time at the Convent of the Gray Sisters in Neisse and at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp documenting the Silberberg family in Jaworzno, Poland, Silberberg’s wartime experiences in hiding, and her post‐war experiences at Zeilsheim. The diary records Silberberg’s wartime memories and her daily life in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. The photographs include copy prints of Rose Silberberg with her family and acquaintances before and during the war and original prints and copy prints o...

  16. Abraham Atsmon papers

    The Abraham Atsmon papers consist of identification papers, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his participation in a partisan brigade in the areas of Słonim and Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American occupation zone of Germany after the war, his support for the state of Israel, his emigration to Israel in 1948, and his subsequent efforts to record the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Bi...

  17. Emmie Vida collection

    Contains a copy of a memoir written by Emmie Vida entitled, "Loving Journey: Selected Short Stories."

  18. Marga Himmler diary

    The collection consists of a diary kept by Marga Himmler, the wife of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS.

  19. Baldauf and Goldstein family correspondence

    Baldauf and Goldstein family correspondence includes letters from Flora Schwartz, Carola Goldstein, and Minnie Baldauf in Augsburg, Germany, to Arthur Baldauf and his family in Kentucky requesting assistance in leaving Germany.

  20. Nussbaum family papers

    Contains an identification card belonging to Maier Nussbaum, an identification card belonging to Ernest Nussbaum, one passport for Maier Nussbaum, one notice from the German Red Cross, and three letters.