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  1. How the Jews should combat the situation in Germany?

    Contains information regarding how to win American Gentile support in order to help save German Jews from being mistreated by the Nazis; written in August 1933.

  2. Juedische auswanderung: korrespondenzblatt fuer auswanderungs- und siedlungswesen, 1936-1938

    Publications: "Juedische Auswanderung," two publications, dated September 1936 and Summer 1938, subtitled "Korrespondenzblatt fuer Auswanderungs- und Siedlungswesen," published by the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland.

  3. Ruth Blecher collection

    Contents of postcard are in Polish; according to donor the contents state that the Lakner family and other Jews were taken into the forest of Nowy Targ in August 1942 and killed.

  4. "Diary of Robert Lichtblau"

    The "Diary of Robert Lichtblau" consists of a typed copy, with English translation, of the memoir of Robert Lichtblau, written in 1945. The text, which is entitled "The Diary of Robert Lichtblau" (though it seems to have been written as a narrative) contains information about the Lichtblau family before the war; the expansion of the family's pipe-making business; life in Vienna after the Anschluss; and their immigration to England.

  5. Otto Leib collection

    Collection contains a newspaper article entitled "Civilian Internment Camps in Switzerland and Censored Mail" and a letter to Regina Rothschild (in German) from the Turnverein Konstanz, Verein fuer Turnen, Sport, Spiel, und Wandern, dated April 27, 1933, regarding termination of membership.

  6. Wolfgang Kurtz collection

    Collection contains Opfer Des Faschismus issued to the donor and newspaper articles and 3 SHAEF newspapers.

  7. The autobiography of a fearless fighter in Nazi Germany and Shanghai exile

    Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.

  8. Zinochka Craevitsky collection

    Contains photocopies of handwritten letter, in Russian, from a friend of Aron Craevitsky, Zinochka's father who was killed at the front in 1943, to Aron's mother, and of a photograph of Zinochka Craevitsky; and a handwritten memoir by the donor regarding the fates of Zinochka and her mother in the Minsk (Soviet Union) ghetto.

  9. Motl Beker collection

    Contains a black-and-white photograph and a brief biographical sketch of the donor's uncle, Motl Beker, a Lithuanian Jew, who along with his entire family and the rest of the Jewish population of Janova, was shot in June 1941.

  10. Alfred Neil Kramer collection

    Contains genealogical information regarding the donor's family, the Kramlats and the Gelbers.

  11. "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment"

    Contains a copy of a booklet entitled "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment" by Kurt Lewinski. The booklet, which is a typed English translation of the original German, describes Lewinski's experiences in an internment camp for enemy aliens in England; life on the HMT Dunera ship, which transported him to Australia in 1940; and life in the Hay, New South Wales and in the Tatura internment camps. The text is written in the form of daily diary entries, and includes two epilogues written in 1942 and 1945 which reveal that Mr. Lewinski joined the Australian military.

  12. Selected records from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)

    Contains records relating to the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to1945; persecution of Jews in the Netherlands; looting of Jewish property; activities of the SS and Gestapo in the Netherlands during the German occupation; anti-Jewish measures in Dutch society after the German invasion; Jewish refugees; and German concentration camps and work camps in the Netherlands during World War II.

  13. Copy of the diary of Felix Landau, Vienna

    Contains information regarding Felix Landau, who was employed by the Gestapo and was assigned to secure Jewish property, volunteered to report to an Einsatzkommando in the area of Milnicle. Descriptions of executions, taking of property from prisoners and corpses. Diary covers the month of July 1941.

  14. Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe Jewish Social Mutual Assistance Zespoł Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Sygn. 211)

    Contains correspondence between the head office in Kraków and the local branches in the General Government relating to the organization’s activities and relations with the German and Polish authorities. Records include financial and organizational materials, personal files of the staff, correspondence, post war copies. The index of names and places is included in finding aid.

  15. Esther Sonheim collection

    Collection contains correspondence, in Yiddish, and official documents issued to Esther Sonheim [donor] including a Polish passport; a green card issued by the U.S. Immigration Agency; and receipts for food packages which were sent by the donor and her aunt from Chicago, IL to family members in Warsaw.

  16. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942

    Contains a 28 page memoir by Saul M. Bergman. Written in 1997, this memoir relates the author's experiences as an adolescent during the German invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the author's escape to Switzerland, where he was reunited with his mother and sister in Geneva in 1942.

  17. Romanian State Archives records

    New documents related to the confiscation of Romanian archives by the Military Allied Commission added on July 23, 1998 Fond: Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Sanatescu, Radescu. Contains additional photocopied materials to RG-25.002M: requests made by Jews to Presidency of Consule of Ministers; specific case of Sally Solomon Karmitz. This folder is in Archivele Statului, Inventar 300, Presedentia Consiliuluide Ministrii, 1941, dosar 641.

  18. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst collection

    Contains essay by the donor who is on the staff of the Institut fuer Afrikanistik,Universitaet zu Koeln, entitled "'Der schwarze Stern' Vom Schicksal deutscher Afrikaner im Nationalsozialismus;" an editorial concerning blacks in Nazi Germany excerpted from a book by Paulette Reed-Anderson entitled "Eine Geschichte von mehr als 100 Jahren: Die Anfaenge der Afrikanischen Diaspora in Berlin;" and copies from the Bundesarchiv of Wehrmacht, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Eingeborenen kunde, and NSDAP correspondence and reports which include name lists, dated 1938-1941, relating to individuals of Afr...

  19. Celia Rothstein Elbaum collection

    Contains a handwritten memoir (apparently written by the donor's niece whose name is unknown) and handwritten interview notes describing the experiences of Celia (Cesia) Rothstein Elbaum in the ghetto in Lask, Poland, until it was liquidated; her transfer to the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, where she stayed from 1941 to August 1944; her transfer, along with her sisters and brother, first to Birkenau concentration camp, where one sister was selected for extermination, and then with her surviving sisters and brother to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they volunteered for work in hopes of...

  20. Betsy Lalich collection

    Contains a memoir written by the donor in the form of a letter which gives a brief biography of her grandfather, Stojan Knezevich, a Serbian farmer living in Mutilich (Yugoslavia) who was killed by Croatian Ustashi in 1944; and copies of photographs, circa 1935-1936, showing Jovan Knezevich, brother of Stojan Knezevich, at the dedication of a monument to King Alexander of Yugoslavia, who had been killed by Croatian Ustaša (Ustashi) in France in 1934.