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Language of Description: English

  1. Remembrances of the Holocaust from then to now the personal stories of members of Agudas Achim Congregation: A project of the Men's Club of Agudas Achim Congregation Alexandria, Virginia

    Contains a compilation of memoirs by survivors, members of the second generation, and others responses to the Holocaust.

  2. Rachel Ilana Sheena collection

    Contains a four-page memoir containing Rachel Ilana Sheena's description of the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust and her own grandfather's experiences in the Neuengamme concentration camp.

  3. Manfred Wildmann family letters

    The Wildmann family letters consist of correspondence among Heinrich, Rebecca, Manfred, Hannelore, Margot, and Hugo Wildmann. The letters describe camp conditions, health and sanitary concerns, and food availability at the concentration camps at Rivesaltes and Le Barcarès, Heinrich’s situation at a hospital in Perpignan, Manfred’s situation at the children’s home in Grammont, and the family’s efforts to find better arrangements for each of them. The collection is accompanied by transcriptions and annotated translations created by Manfred and Sylvia Wildmann.

  4. Max and Mathilde Maier family papers

    The Max and Mathilde Maier family papers measure 1.5 linear feet, date from 1866‐1998, and include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting Max Maier’s World War I military service and the couple’s education, marriage, and emigration to Rolândia, Brazil. The papers also include a copy of an autobiography by Hans Maier and a copy of Gertrud Mainzer’s description of her time in Bergen‐Belsen. Biographical materials include records documenting the lives of Max and Mathilde Maier as well as Cäcilie, Hans, Heinrich, Hermann, and Margarete M...

  5. Days of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust: a proclamation, 1994 Mar. 14

    Contains a proclamation for the City of Troy's Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust with signatures of members of the City Council of Troy, Michigan.

  6. Dachau by Elmer Joachim

    Dachau by Elmer Joachim is a five page memoir about the reactions of a United States soldier, Elmer Joachim, to his arrival in the Dachau concentration camp on May 3, 1945.

  7. German Air Force collection

    Consists of interrogation reports, target assessments, and translations of training manuals collected by American military intelligence, specifically the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), in 1945-1946. The reports contain information regarding medical issues related to the German Air Force [GAF or Luftwaffe], including equipment manuals and interrogations of doctors. Report 3A details the cold water experiments conducted by Dr. Sigmund Rascher in the Dachau concentration camp.

  8. Andrej Hartmann documents

    Contains a Czech passport issued for Andrej Hartmann, a certificate of native domicile, and a report card.

  9. Maurice Schellekes memoir

    Contains a 1981 memoir with information about Maurice Schellekes's experiences in Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps as well as the fates of his family members during the Holocaust.

  10. Vivien Putty Spitz collection

    Contains a videotaped speech by Vivien Putty Spitz entitled, "Reporting the Medical Case of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1946-1947," and two transcripts of the interrogation of Admiral Karl Doenitz by Judge Michael J. Mussmano. Also includes photographs taken at the Nuremberg Medical Case (Doctor's) Trials as well as mugshots of the defendents in the High Command Case.

  11. Felber family correspondence

    The Felber family correspondence consists primarily of letters from Eta Birnbaum in Leipzig to her sister Erna and her children Lilli and Norbert in Belgium and France in 1940 and 1941. These letters describe her loneliness and unease, her worries about her imprisoned husband Markus Felber, and her reactions to plans to send her children to relatives in the United States. Most of the correspondence is original, but some letters are photocopies.

  12. The Honig/Hoenig family of Kirchenbirk, Falkenau and Karlsbad, Bohemia

    Contains a genealogical sketch about the Honig family and names of Honig family members who perished during the Holocaust.

  13. That We Remember and Never Forget

    Contains a memoir about Dina Freilach Bolimovsky's experiences before World War II, Dina Freilach Bolimovsky's life in a labor camp in Czechoslovakia, and later emigration to Israel; information about how Winston Churchill negotiated with Germany for the release of Leah Frumer and her three young sons.

  14. Verzeichnis von Ghettos, Zwangsarbeitslagern und Konzentrationslagern Vorgelegt nach Beschluss der Vertreter der obersten Wiedergutmachungsbehoerden ...

    Contains an alphabetical list of ghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps administrated by the Nazis during World War II.

  15. Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre

    Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists, statistics, reports, questioners, correspondence, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp documentation, witness reports and testimonies about living conditions, 1945-1965; lists of survivors, reports of special commissions after liberation, excerpts of the journal of war orphans, corres...

  16. Michel Kleinsinger collection

    Contains reviews of Michel Kleinsinger's compositions, photocopied newspaper articles about the composer and his life, and a memoir entitled "On Wings," which describes his childhood experiences, life in the Lublin concentration camp, hiding as a Catholic, and later emigration to Brazil.

  17. Hans Maier autobiography

    The Hans Maier autobiography is a photocopy of a typed and annotated translation of Maier’s original autobiography, which he wrote in German and mailed to his children just before his suicide in December 1937. Maier describes growing up in Frankfurt, his university education in law and economics, his marriage, the beginnings of his career in social work, his membership in the German Democratic Party and the German Social Democratic Party, the political turmoil in Germany following World War I, his work leading welfare services in Saxony, the economic depression, the rise of the Nazi party, ...

  18. Karl Fritzsch documents

    The collection contains eleven legal documents regarding honors and awards given to SS Obersturmfuehrer, Karl Fritzsch. Among the signatures is Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

  19. A Miracle in the Flames

    Contains a memoir, 125 pages, about the survival of a Hassidic Rabbi's family during the Holocaust.

  20. Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights letters

    Consists of sets of identical mass-produced letters which were sent to members and prospective members of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, which was founded in New York in 1933. The letters discuss upcoming events, transmit publications (not included with the collection) and thank donors for funds raised.