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  1. Selected records from Fonds Diamant (CMXXV-CMXXVI)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by David Erlich (a.k.a. David Diamant), a French-Jewish Resistance fighter, concerning his own activities in the Resistance and his life before and after the War. Also contains news articles and essays, assembled by Erlich, concerning his writings about the French-Jewish Resistance.

  2. Selected Records from Fonds Diamant (CMXXVIII-CMXLII)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by David Erlich (a.k.a. David Diamant), a French-Jewish Resistance fighter, concerning the French-Jewish Resistance.

  3. Selected records, list of deportees from Malines (CCIX)

    Contains name lists of people deported from Malines and press clippings and propaganda concerning Belgian occupation and resistance.

  4. List of Slovakian Jews who died in Ravensbrück concentration camp

    Contains a typewritten list of Slovakian Jews who died in Ravensbrück.

  5. Lillyan Rosenberg papers

    The papers consist of correspondence pertaining to Lillyan Rosenberg's escape from Germany on a Kindertransport to England and the deaths of her parents in Auschwitz.

  6. Poster

    Poster: multi-color image of two German soldiers in the field with a Nazi ensignia in the top left corner and text in green and red on the bottom, "Die Polizei Im Fronteinsatz Tag Der Deutschen Polizei." The poster is signed on the right edge, "F. Albrecht 1941." The poster has been folded and has tears on the edges

  7. Remembering George

    Contains a four-page memoir entitled, "Remembering George," written by Christine Friedlander about her husband, George Friedlander's experiences as a student in Berlin prior to the Nazis coming to power, his mother's deportation to Riga, Latvia, and his life in wartime England working as a welder and steelworker in various factories.

  8. Nazi Party banner bearing signatures of American soldiers

  9. Nazi atrocities; interrogation

    Opening credit: Service Cinema Armee Francaise. Barbed wire at Hadamar. Survivors - Poles and Russians. Lice. Americans tour camps. Piles of victims. Local civilians forced to enter hut with bodies. CUs, captured German. Various shots of corpses, ashes, bone, open graves. 3 men in gas masks lift buried corpses from grave. Americans, doctor in white coat, military start autopsy, examination. Interrogation. Poison bottle. HAS, graves.

  10. David Granat papers

    The David Granat papers consists of materials relating to a May 1946 performance by members of the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra in Nuremberg, Germany. The Orchestra was composed of survivors of the Kovno ghetto and various Nazi camps, and the event was produced for a special concert for the war crimes prosecutors and staff. Also included is a photograph of what appears to be the orchestra in street clothes, as well as a photograph of the orchestra performing onstage dressed in striped prison uniforms. The front of the stage is lined with which is inscribed "Am Israel Hai" ("The Is...

  11. Pamphlet

    Anti-Nazi writings by exiled members of the German Social Democratic Party living in Paris. "Germany/Monthly Reports by the Executive Committee of the Socialist Democratic Party of Germany/Vol. 5/No.2/English Version of Vol. /No.10"

  12. George and Shari Fine collection

    Contains pre-war photographs of the Fingerhut family (George Fine's family) from Siauliai, Lithuania, and of the Marmor family (Shari Fine's family) of Bistrita, Romania. Includes postwar identification cards issued to the donors and immigration paperwork documenting Shari Marmor's immigration to Canada. Also includes playbills, posters, songbooks, and other materials documenting Yiddish theatrical productions in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, in which Shari Marmor performed. Some materials, including a Passover Haggadah, are from the Foehrenwald DP Camp.

  13. Dachau war crime trial ticket

    Pre-printed ticket for entrance to the Dachau War Crime Trial. Handwritten notation in ink, "220- Mr.Singleton or Capt. Hardly, Air Traffic Service, 5th ACS Wing" with graphite notations on verso.

  15. Hitler and Mussolini; German-Japan pact

    Title: "1942" Title: "A Gift to Hitler February 1942" Title: "Axis Plans at Berchtesgaden 29 April 1942" Hitler and Mussolini confer at Berchtesgaden (1942). Title: "Japanese Submarine Welcomed in German Harbor 30 September 1942" A Japanese submarine is welcomed at a German port. Title: "1943" Title: "Signing of German-Japanese Economic Pact 20 January 1943" Ribbentrop signs pact. Title: "Arrival of Mussolini after his "Liberation" 10 October 1943" Mussolini visits Germany after his rescue from US captors.

  16. Fritzler family papers

    The Fritzler family papers consists of biographical materials and emigration and immigration files documenting Walter, Agnes, and Geoffrey Fritzers education and work experiences in anticipation of their emigration. The collection also includes photographic material of Walter, Agnes, and Geoffrey. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Geoffrey, marriage certificate for Walter and Agnes, and a death certificate for Agnes. This series also includes a Declaration of Inheritance from Geoffrey Fritzler. Emigration and immigration files include education and work papers Walter an...

  17. "By the Skin of Our Teeth"

    Contains a memoir, 129 pages, entitled "By the Skin of Our Teeth," by Harry Nissimov. Mr. Nissimov writes about his experiences in a Jewish labor brigade in Bulgaria during World War II.

  18. OSE home for Jewish boys

    OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home for Jewish boys in Ecouis, France. The teenage boys had been liberated from Buchenwald just three months prior. The boys dance. 00:02:46 The boy carrying a suitcase is Israel Meir Lau. The teenage boys engage in sports, visit the city and some board a bus and wave goodbye, perhaps emigrating to Palestine or other places. A memorial service/parade and display of models the boys made in a woodworking class. They socialize with girls and build a fire.

  19. Lorraine Glendinning collection

    The Lorraine Glendinning collection consists of items sent from Lorraine Pressler (later Lorraine Glendinning) in Nuremberg, Germany, to her parents in Missouri, August 1946, including a map of the seating arrangement of the courtroom for the International Military Tribunal (IMT); a visitor pass to the Tribunal (session 390); a letter from Lorraine with envelope; and a newspaper with front page article about the International Military Tribunal entitled "Das Nurnberg Urteil" [The Nuremberg Judgement], with images of defendants, their judgement and sentence.

  20. Hasten Hebrew Academy collection

    Consists of one adhesive stamp with logo from office of Reichskanzlei; three postcards from Zambrów, Poland (dated 1946), written in Yiddish and addressed to George Sampson of Indianapolis, Indiana; and a letter written by Sy Schenkman, a U.S. soldier writing home to his wife in Indianapolis, describing the scene at site of a concentration camp in Nammering (near Bayreuth), Germany, including German civilians being forced to bury bodies of camp victims, and former SS guard being beat up by American troops.