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  1. Zygmunt Kaminski memoir

    Contains a memoir, 49 pages, about Zygmunt Kaminski's Holocaust experiences.

  2. Lilli Wolff papers

    The Lilli Wolff papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, playbills, and a clipping documenting Lilli Wolff’s career as a costume designer and dressmaker in Köln and Vienna, her experience hiding in Vienna with the help of her friends, and her immigration to the United States. The papers also include poems and stories dedicated to Lilli Wolff by Max Meinecke. Biographical materials include records documenting the lives of Lilli Wolff, her brother‐in‐law Walter Schiff, and her friend Mati Driessen. A birth certificate, business registration certificate, tenant regis...

  3. Rogers family postcards

    Contains three postcards from Irene Hayek addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kohl.

  4. German Archives of the Second World War Archives Allemandes de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

    Contains records relating to the persecution of Jews in the occupied zone; racial laws; persecution of Freemasons, Roma-Sinti, and German emigrants; anti-Nazi resistance; and German anti-Jewish propaganda in France. Also contains material related to the confiscation of property belonging to Jews, the administration and liquidation of Jewish owned businesses and firms, and inventories of seized bank assets belonging to Jews.

  5. Okumenische Gedenkveranstaltung anlasslich des 60. Jahrestages der Reichspogrom-Nacht 1938 am 09.11.1998 im Historischen Rathaus Mutterstadt

    Contains a booklet about the Mutterstadt Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

  6. Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS (NS 19)

    This collection contains files relating to the functions of Heinrich Himmler’s personal staff, who served as his chancellery, adjutant’s office, and transmitters of orders to the SS, Waffen-SS, and police forces. The subjects covered in this fragmentary collection include Himmler’s personal interests such as Das Ahnenerbe and the Lebensborn association, as well as population transfer issues and economic and legal/court matters. Himmler’s functions and interests in the state and military sectors are underrepresented here.

  7. The Life Story of Harry Schuster My Experience in the Ghetto

    Contains a memoir written by Harry Schuster about his Holocaust experiences.

  8. Reichssicherheitshauptamt selected records (R 58)

    Contains files relating to the surveillance and persecution of leftist political parties and their organs, and labor unions; the control of the press and literature; the combat against and the destruction of anti-Nazi organizations in the occupied and annexed territories and the treatment of prisoners of war and foreign laborers; and the persecution of Jews. Also includes documents of organizational orders and decrees relating to the Sicherheitspolizei, opinion and situation reports of the SD from 1938 to 1944, activity reports for the USSR from 1941 to 1942, and SD reports on the political...

  9. Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (R 6)

    This collection contains files relating to the organization and functioning of the agency especially in dealing with legal matters including the competence of various agency departments, the use of foreigners in the economic exploitation of the Eastern Territories, ideological subjects (e.g., “Deutschtum” and “Fremdes Volkstum”), political matters (situation reports), and remnants of Alfred Rosenberg’s office files.

  10. Pushed to the Limit

    Contains a memoir, 77 pages, about George J. Duffree's experiences as a British soldier imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II.

  11. Rolf Preuss papers

    The Rolf Preuss papers include biographical materials, genealogical materials, notes, and business cards documenting Preuss’s childhood as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai from 1939-1947. Biographical materials include rental agreements, business contracts, a vaccination record, identity papers in lieu of passports, a receipt for the payment of a tax related to American immigration, and student records. Inquiries from the Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai document the efforts of Adolf and Frieda Preuss’s family members to escape Germany for Shanghai. Genealogi...

  12. Felix Kotek family papers

    The Felix Kotek family papers include a photograph of Felix Kotek, a 1940 letter from “Leo” and Marie Wolle in London to Sala and Moritz Kotek care of the Goldberg family in Białystok, two 1941 Soviet death certificates for Moisei Kotek, a 1941 Soviet death certificate for Sara Kotek, and a 1945 German death certificate for Felix Kotek.

  13. Bernath Sauber collection

    The collection includes two folders made by the Judenrat listing Jews in the Tîrgu Mureş ghetto in Romania, a list of about 4,598 Jews deported from Tîrgu Mureş, and an inventory of belongings of the Gersh Matias family from Praid, Romania.

  14. George Lee photographs

    Contains seventeen copies of black and white photographs of the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.

  15. Heniek Bein collection

    Contains thirty black and white photographs, one copy of Bamidbar, a photocopy of excerpts from "Fohrenwald: Das Lager fuer Heimatslos," and "Fohrenwald: The Last Jewish DP camp in Germany, 1951-1957."

  16. Autobiography of Eva Lesser Stricks

    Contains Eva Lesser Stricks' autobiography, 35 pages, about her childhood experiences in Oranienberg and Berlin, Germany, her arrival in Shanghai aboard the "Conto Rosso," and her later emigration to the United States.

  17. A Jewish Resistance network in France Groupe d'Action Coutre la deporation-En hommage a son fondateur et Chef: Joseph Bass

    Contains one memoir about Denise Siekierski's Holocaust experiences.

  18. Betty Sklow papers

    The Betty Sklow papers contain correspondence written by Betty Sklow and her daughters Charlotte Rosenthal and Helene Sklow. The letters contain detailed description of Betty Sklow’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis in 1939, her disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939. Betty Sklow’s letters written aboard the MS St. Louis...

  19. Goldstein family collection

    Contains two international certificates of inoculation and vaccination for Regina and Emil Goldstein and three other legal documents from Regina and Emil Goldstein.

  20. Dina Cohen papers

    Contains two vaccination certificates, an international certificate of vaccination against small pox, a copy of a birth certificate and an English translation, and a medical processing certificate from the International Refugee Organization (IRO), for Dina Lanceter Cohen.