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  1. Klopstock family papers

    The Klopstock family papers include biographical material, emigration and immigration material, correspondence, publications, and photographs documenting Johanna Klaus and Norbert, Hilda, Ruth, and Liselotte Klopstock’s immigration to the United States from Berlin in 1940. The collection also includes documents and correspondence from Norbert Klopstock while imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and the Kitchener internment camp in Richborough, Kent. Biographical materials include a copy of Hilda Klopstock’s birth certificate and a German passport and identity card for J...

  2. Fringed leather jacket with beaded design worn by a Jewish refugee child in Shanghai

    Received by Eva Ungar Grudin from American Jewish Charity (probably HIAS). The leather jacket was made in the United States by Native Americans and worn by Eva in Shanghai, China.

  3. The Jewish Conspiracy Word of the Week Nazi propaganda poster exposing the Jewish conspiracy links to the Allied Nations

    German propaganda poster issued during the week of December 10 to December 16, 1941, from the Parole der Woche (Word of the Week) series. The poster contains a diagram that maps out the alleged power structure and key Jewish figures that controlled the Nazi’s enemies. The accompanying text elaborates on the diagram. It gives brief backgrounds of the key figures, and shows their interconnectedness as well as their familial relationships with world leaders. The antisemitic myth that Jews use their power and influence to manipulate and control world governments is one of the most prevalent and...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in France and Amsterdam

    667 J: At the "Comite Francais d'Assistance aux Refugees," branch of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Paris. The Committee provides legal and juridicial advice, to help the refugees stay in France and prepare their definitive settlement in some country. LS, relief (money) provided to Austrian refugee. CU, refugee signing receipt. LS, crowd refugees waiting in line. LS, refugees waiting in the lobby of the "Comite d'Assistance," and showing papers to officials of the Committee. MS, table where refugees show their identification papers to employee. Same, another angle. 02:52:34 LS...

  5. Earlean McCarrick collection

    The Earlean McCarrick collection consists of research files documenting cases of denaturalization, deportation, and extradition of accused Nazi criminals and collaborators in the United States and the role of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in those cases. Denaturalization files document denaturalization proceedings against accused Nazi criminals and collaborators in US District Courts, Circuit Courts, Immigration Courts, and the Supreme Court. Records include OSI digests of cases, court records, notes, Westlaw case digests, Lexis‐Nexis court records, printed materials, drafts of...

  6. Hans R. Fliegel memoir

    The Hans R. Fliegel memoir, "The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel", describes Fliegel’s childhood in Vienna, the Anschluss, Isidore Lipschutz’s help securing Belgian visas for the Fliegel family, their year spent in Antwerp, immigration to the United States, and difficulties in starting a new life and establishing a career in New York. The memoir includes recollections by Fliegel’s brother Fred (Fritz), biographical sketches of family members, family trees, and photocopies of Austrian, Belgian, and American records documenting Fliegel’s story.

  7. Auschwitz-Prozess 1. Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess: 20.12-1963-20.08.1965: 183 Verhandlungstage : Schwurgericht beim Landgericht Frankfurt am Main

    Contains photocopies of articles from Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, newspapers dated December 12, 1963, to August 20, 1965, concerning Auschwitz-related legal proceedings. Lists of the accused, their sentences, and officers of the courts and maps of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps are included.

  8. Leon and Sara Fajgenbaum collection

    Contains "Struggle & Sacrifice, The Oral History of Leon & Sara Fajgenbaum," copyright1995, an English-language edited oral history based on the Spanish-language oral testimony given by Leon and Sara Fajgenbaum; a translated oral history transcript from the Spanish language oral testimony of Leon and Sara Fajgenbaum; and a copyprint of Noam Lupu's grandparents and uncle taken in 1948 in Ulm (Germany).

  9. Eva Frank collection

    Contains letters about Jewish emigration to the Dominican Republic 1938-1939.

  10. How I cheated the angel of death

    Holocaust related experiences as a political prisoner.

  11. Otto and Susanne Perl papers

    The Otto and Susanne Perl papers consist of identification papers and emigration and immigration paperwork for Otto and Susanne Perl, military papers for Otto Perl, and a death certificate and burial records for Martha Perl.

  12. Egon Hamlet collection

    Travel document belonging to Egon Hamlet.

  13. Sala Tajchner letter

    Consists of a letter in Polish from Sala Tajchner, Aron Tajchner's (donor) sister, in October 1944 stating she was in Bedzin and that their parents perished during the Holocaust. Aron was in a Soviet labor camp during the war.

  14. David Tennenbaum papers

    The David Tennenbaum papers consist of false identification papers for David and Fanny Tennenbaum and photographs of David and Fanny Tennenbaum and Fanny Tennenbaum’s father, Nachman Gruber. The false identification papers include two forged birth and baptismal certificates under the names Teresa and Franciszka Wieczorkowska, and an authentic identification card and change of address registration form using the same false names. Photographs include a tintype of Fanny Tennenbaum with her father and twelve prints of Fanny and David Tennenbaum documenting prewar family vacations in Poland and ...

  15. Richard Poston collection

    Certificates issued by Le Secretaire General de la Commission de Gouvernement du Territoire de la Sarre, reports, affidavit, etc. Donor picked them up in an area north of Nurenberg.They relate to Jews named Neumark and Cahnmann, who at one time resided in Bischweiler and Frankfurt am Main. It appears they emigrated to France in 1934. There are blank Nazi forms associated with this collection.

  16. The Binning P. Chambers papers

    Documents, newspaper clippings, and a letter relating to Mauthausen concentration camp and Franz Ziereis.

  17. Lamp unto my feet, change my name to life

    Script telling story of European Jewry before, during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Edward Anders papers

    The Edward Anders paper consists of a Latvian identification card issued to Edward Anders (then known as Edwards Alperovics) in 1941; his mother, Erika Alperovics’ Latvian passport, issued in 1942; documents and related correspondence, including his draft notice for the Waffen-SS, in German and Latvian, circa 1943; a pamphlet, in German and English, entitled "Baltic War Criminals, Witnesses Urgently Required Again the Persons Mentioned Overleaf!," published by a Group of Baltic Survivors in Great Britain and addressed to surviving Jews and non-Jews in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; documen...

  19. Jonathan Scott Guyer collection

    Letter written by John Correll to his sister Elizabeth Thompson. Describes the Gestapo headquarters and Dachau.

  20. A wish for a prayer A memoir

    Holocaust experiences in Hungary: forced labor camp; interrogation.