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  1. Fela Zajac collection

    Contains a bread ration card from the Łódź Ghetto, an Identification card issued by the Czech government in Prague, an identification card issued by the Czech government stating that Fela Zajac has no identification papers, an identification card from the Altotting Displaced Persons Camp, and a baggage claim ticket for arrival in New York. Fela (also known as Fayla Okraaly Zajac/Zajacs and Phila Zion) immigrated to the United States in 1947 with her husband, with whom she reunited after the war.

  2. "Needle in a Haystack"

    Contains Paula Agauas's written memoir, 30 pages, pertaining to her childhood in Poland, hiding with a Polish Catholic family during the Holocaust, and moving to Detroit, Michigan in 1949.

  3. Robert E. Cone collection

    The Robert E. Cone collecton consists of two letters from First Sergeant Joseph Cone, 260th Antitank Division, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps, to his wife, Ruth Cone, about liberation.

  4. Selected records of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS) in Zagreb

    Lists of Jews in Zagreb; statistics on Jews in the Kupari, Đakovo, and Lobor-Grad concentration camps.

  5. Directorate of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS), Jewish section

    Disposition of formerly Jewish-owned property, establishment of superior “Aryan” rights, exemptions from the requirement to wear the star of David, lists of Jews deported to camps.

  6. Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS), Jewish section

    Questionnaires completed by Jews: name, date and place of birth, citizenship, profession, employment history, data on children, property, memberships; records (e.g., receipts for supplies) of the Đakovo camp.

  7. Ustaša Supervisory Office—Đakovo Concentration Camp

    Materials on the operation of the Đakovo concentration camp.

  8. Ustaša Supervisory Office—Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, Gornja Rijeka, Kruščica, and Kupari Concentration Camps

    Materials on operation of several camps (Kupari was in the Italian-occupied zone).

  9. Ustaša Supervisory Office - Lists of Murdered Jews

    Various lists with more than 7,000 Jews murdered in the Independent State of Croatia.

  10. State Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the Occupiers and their Supporters in the People's Republic of Croatia (ZKRZ)

    Materials related to antisemitic persecution and murders, legal regulations, the disposition of formerly Jewish-owned property, and the experience of Jewish children. Lists of Jews killed in the Jadovno, Jasenovac, Kraljevica, Lobor-Grad, Pag, Rab, and Stara Gradiška camps, as well as of Croatian Jews murdered in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. Some materials on non-Jewish victims.

  11. Ministry of Health and Social Services. Welfare and Social Services Division

    Contains records relating to the regulation of Jewish pension rights, work permits for Jews in Našice, the expropriation of Jewish property in Ilok, and related matters.

  12. Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia

    Documents on the Jews in the Ustaša state, including papers of German police official Hans Helm and of German military units. Subjects include the changing of Jewish surnames, the designation of Jews and Jewish-owned businesses, the prohibition of Jews in public places, the prohibition of work by Jews in “Aryan” households, the compulsory labor of Jews, the emigration of Jews to Palestine in 1943, Jews arrested in the Daruvar district in 1942, records of the Kraljevice camp from 1942, and further regulations against Jews and “Mischlinge” in 1943.

  13. Ustaša Supervisory Office for the City and District of Koprivnica

    Contains instructions for restricting the movement of Jews, removing telephones from Jewish residences, and delivering the Star of David insignia to the Danica camp. Included are lists of Jews held in Danica camp, applications for release from the camp, and lists of shops and factories operated by Jews.

  14. Public Prosecutor's Office

    Contains the bill of indictment requesting the extradition of Ante Pavelić and Andrija Artuković, including materials relating to the operation of the Đakovo, Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, and Slavonski Brod camps. There are also lists of inmates and those murdered in the camps.

  15. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property (Ministarstvo Državne Riznice. Ured za Podržavljeni imetak)

    This collection is from the Croatian State Treasury’s Office for Nationalized Property. It contains card files for confiscated Jewish property in the city of Zagreb. Each file is two pages long and contains, in addition to the name and surname of the Jewish victim whose property was confiscated, the following information: a) page 1: address, religion, race, marital status together with the race of the spouse, the number of children under 21, and occupation; and, b) page 2: information about confiscated property (real estate, cash, etc).

  16. Jan Istvan memoir

    The Jan Istvan memoir consists of information about the experiences of Roma Holocaust survivor Jan Istvan in various concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dora, and his personal philosophy about racism.

  17. Daryl Ratzlaff letters

    The Daryl Ratzlaff letters consists of two two letters written by Sergeant Daryl Ratzlaff from Linz, Austria to Mrs. Lysle G. Danger in Moscow, Iowa regarding his participation in the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp and his recent visit to liberated Paris, France.

  18. Jacobsberg family collection

    Contains 19 photographs, a Shanghai census certificate, a passenger list for the Lloyd Triestino, Shanghai refugee papers, a marriage certificate, a death certificate, two pieces of Deutsches Reich Reisepass, two International Certificates of Inoculation and Vaccination, and two Shanghai Resident Certificates pertaining to the experiences of the Jacobsberg family in Shanghai.

  19. Outlaw under the German boot in France

    Contains a diary written by David Kipnis that includes his early autobiographical notes, a description of David Kipnis and his wife's experiences in occupied France, and their attempts to survive in France and Switzerland until liberation.

  20. Pete Emminger collection

    This collection contains four journals which include information about Pete Emminger's enlistment in the United States Army, his reactions to being stationed in Dachau, photographs from Dachau, and legal documents related to his military service.