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  1. Bulgarian Peoples Bank in Kavala (Fond 1226)

    Contains dossiers on Jewish accounts from the bank in Kavala.

  2. Rosa Scholder letter

    Contains one letter written by Rosa Scholder asking whether Herbert Scholder and his parents, Julius and Lotte Scholder, had arrived in the United States, and about her own hope to leave Vienna and come to the United States.

  3. Gedal Rozental memoir

    Contains a 47-page autobiography of Gedal’s time during World War II and the Holocaust. It details his youth in Briceni, Bessarabia (present-day Moldova), and the outbreak of World War II. The autobiography lends specific details into the life in Jewish ghettos in Eastern Europe, and the harsh treatment by the Romanian forces. Gedal also describes his experience in the Soviet army, as well as life after the war and immigration.

  4. Ladislas Brod Speiser memoir

    Contains a memoir about Ladislas Brod Speiser's experiences in Auschwitz.

  5. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir

    The Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir include a black and white photograph of Gerda Buchheim Haas with her son Henry in Shanghai in 1941 and a 1996 memoir describing her experiences growing up in Berlin, fleeing to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and eventually to Shanghai via Italy and France in 1939, living in the Jewish ghetto under the Japanese occupation, and immigrating to the United States in 1947.

  6. Hans Weiner memoir

    Contains a memoir about Hans Weiner's escape from the Nazis and his tenure in the 608th Company of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, a corps made up of male volunteers who had enlisted in the British Army in Mandatory Palestine.

  7. Hans Rosenthal memoir

    Contains a memoir, 42 pages, about Hans Rosenthal's escape from Germany to Holland in 1939 and eventual arrival in Australia on October 3, 1939.

  8. Fishman family papers

    Contains eight black and white photoprints of displaced persons in Landsberg displaced persons camp, one copyprint of a newspaper clipping concerning the Fishman family, and one one memoir written by Max Fishman.

  9. A Short Biography

    Contains a biography about Joseph Lebovic's Holocaust experiences.

  10. A Journey From Germany The Memoirs of Curt Nussbaum, From Birth, Through the Holocaust, To America (1912-1946)

    Contains a memoir about Curt Nussbaum's Holocaust experiences.

  11. Oral history interview with Robert C. Pomeranky

  12. Bernard Steinlauf papers

    Contains four letters written to Ellis Schuman's grandfather, Bernard Steinlauf. One of the four letters was written by Yentl (Mrs. Abraham Imgberge) who was the only child from grandfather Steinlauf's early first marriage. Two letters are from Chaim Hersh Brand, Bernard Steinlauf's nephew. Also included is one picture postcard addressed to Bernard Steinlauf, n.d.

  13. Karoly Deme von Zadorgalva diary

    The Karoly Deme von Zadorgalva diary includes typed excerpts from a diary Karoly kept from May to November 1942 while in Hungary and on the Eastern Front as a surgeon with the Royal Hungarian Army 20th Division. In his diary, Karoly describes his experiences and expresses his thoughts about the ongoing war. The diary also includes photographs from his time in the military as well as pressed flower petals.

  14. Yaakov Zakon collection

    Contains one videocassette, two brochures, three copies of articles, four copies of legal documents, and one copy of a handwritten letter pertaining to Estonian cultural life.

  15. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Sygn. 210)

    Contains mainly correspondence of the AJDC Committees in Warsaw and Krakow with Jewish communities across Polish territory during German occupation (approximately 500 communities). Includes information about the committee’s administration, budgets and finance, activities of Jewish Councils in particular regions, Warsaw ghetto, emigration, charities. Included are name indexes of Jews asking families in USA and other countries for emigration papers; as well other name lists of distribution of help.

  16. Lotte R. Peters memoir

    Contains a memoir, 32 pages, entitled "The Flight," about Lotte R. Peters' Holocaust experiences.

  17. William Battaglia collection

    Consists of annotated photograph album pages with photographs taken of the architecture, labor facilities, and survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Includes images of survivors who assisted the 131st Evacuation Field Hospital, a photograph of a portrait of William Batttaglia by survivor Janusz "John" Rybaltowski, a letter to Battaglia from Rybaltowski dated 1946, a copy of the confession of Mauthausen commandant Franz Ziereis, and two newspaper articles about liberation.

  18. The Dutch Village of the Widows The Story of the Hostages and God Will Dry the Tears

    Contains a memoir, 320 pages, about the Holocaust in the Dutch village of Putten.

  19. Souvenirs of a 17-Year Old Jewish High School Pupil in Bucharest, 1943

    Contains a speech delivered in Berlin during a meeting on the Holocaust in Romania, organized by the Zentrum fur Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universitaet. The speech was delivered in German.

  20. Selected records from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Division Assistance Spéciale

    Series B SEC DAS pertains to the institutional and administrative history of the International Committee of the Red Cross. It concerns relief provided to civilians of all nationalities imprisoned or deported by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Viewed from this angle, the archives of the DAS can inform the public of the significance of the humanitarian actions implemented under difficult political circumstances and aimed at people completely deprived of judicial and ethical protection. Series B SEC DAS includes general files, accounting and administrative records, receipt acknowl...