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  1. Registration cards for Jews from Lviv ghetto and a register of the Jewish cemetery in Lviv

    Contains alphabetically ordered index cards from a file of those L’viv ghetto inhabitants who went to places of work in the city each day. Included are the name of each Jew, some biographical data, and addresses of workplaces. Also included is a register of burials in the Jewish cemetery in L’viv from 1941 to 1942. This collection is part of the Fond 701, RG -31.033M, Jewish religious community in Lwów, Poland records.

  2. Charles Burns collection

    The Charles Burns collections contains two drafts of Douglas Kelley’s book, 22 Cells in Nuremberg. The book describes the psychological profiles of high ranking members of the Nazi party, who eventually stood trial at the Nuremberg War Trials. Douglas Kelley who was in charge of evaluating the defendants, writes of his experiences with the individuals. The drafts are heavily edited by Kelley’s editor, Charles Burns. Also included in this collection are some notes made by Charles Burns, a letter to other editors about the book, and some news clippings concerning notorious Nazi members. The C...

  3. Trude Stern Binder memoir

    Contains Trude Stern Binder's memoir which describes her escape from Austria to Zagreb,Yugoslavia, life in an Italian refugee camp, experiences in Auschwitz, and reunion with her sisters in New York in 1946.

  4. Morris family collection

    Contains Danielle Alix Morris's personal memoir and a photocopy of her mother's arrestrecord. Danielle Alix Morris's memoir describes her move closer to the Swiss border after Germany annexed Alsace and hiding in the countryside of France. This collection also includes excerpts from her mother's memoir which describe Gestapo interrogation, experiences in Drancy, deportations to Auschwitz, and her father's escape to Switzerland.

  5. Laure Grandmaison Najman collection

    Contains seven documents relating to Laure Grandmaison Najman's work to hide Jews in her guest house in Brussels, Belgium, during World War II. Included are three requests to Laure Grandmaison from internees at Kaserne Dossin (Malines), who she had previously sheltered at her hostel, asking her to send foodstuffs and clothing to them in the camp, 1942-1943. Also included is a receipt from the "Aide aux Israelites Victims de la Guerre, Sectino Enfance," 1946, showing the receipt of payment of 500 francs for the housing of Marion Adler in the month of March-April 1946; and an oath signed by L...

  6. Postcard

    The postcard was written by R. Sara Scajneman from the ghetto in Dombrowa, Poland, to Chana Sender (b. Chana Wajntraub) in a labor camp at Gruenberg, Germany, on August 24, 1942.

  7. Witold Siodmiak letters from Dachau concentration camp

    Contains two letters written by Dachau prisoner Witold Siodmiak, one dated August 2, 1942, and one dated August 8, 1943.

  8. Masha Bruskinska collection

    Contains clippings, articles, letters, and testimonies (some originals and some photocopies) relating to Masha Bruskinska.

  9. Records relating to the killing of Jews in Lithuania during World War II

    Contains name lists, documents of statistics and a photograph of a memorial relating to Jews killed in Lithuania during World War II.

  10. Feliks Sinalevich memoir

    Memoir, 44 pages, of wartime survival entitled "From the Cemetery" (translated from the Yiddish) written by Feliks (Feivel) Sinalevich in 1997.

  11. Records relating to postcards from Jewish ghettos in Poland

    Contains photocopies of postcards from various ghettos during the Holocaust. Morris Rosen prepared the English captions.

  12. Rosemarie Koczy papers

    The Rosemarie Koczy papers consists of a biographical sketch of artist Rosemarie Koczy, a transcript of an oral history interview of Koczy, and an advertisement for an art exhibition at her house in New York. The oral history transcript relates Koczy's experiences as a child during and after the Holocaust.

  13. Sylvan Katz papers about John Henry Weidner

    Contains correspondence, memoirs, and newspaper clippings about John Henry Weidner's efforts to assist and rescue Dutch Jews during World War II.

  14. Ministry of Polish Armed Forces records relating to Dawid Berencwajg and Baruch Steinberg

    Contain various photocopies of documents and photographs relating to the deaths of Dawid Berencwajg and Baruch Steinberg in Katyn.

  15. Moritz Schranf postcard

    Contains one postcard to Mr. Eckstein from a priest named Moritz Schranf at St. Ottilen who stated that he helped to save Mr. Kleiner and his friends during the Holocaust.

  16. The Hungarian Holocaust

    Contains a photocopy of "The Hungarian Holocaust," five pages, written by Alexander Cohen in 1997.

  17. Jan Willem Slotboom letter

    Contains a photocopy of an eight page 1945 letter written by Jan Willem Slotboom, in which he describes his internment in "Heinkel Werken," a "commando" of the main camp Sachsenhausen where he met Wieb Dop. Slotboom describes camp life and friendship with Wieb, but does not know what happened to him.

  18. S. Z. Kantor collection

    Contains two copies of "Public Status of the International Red Cross Committee under International Law and Publicity of its Activities and Reports"; a copy of a transcribed letter from S.Z. Kantor to Cordell Hull, July 28, 1943; copy of a transcribed letter from S. Z. Kantor to Norman H. Davis, March 6, 1944; five photographs from Ohrdruf following Liberation taken by a friend of Gideon Kantor; and one photocopied article about S.Z. Kantor, former president of the Vienna Bar Association.

  19. Oral history interview with Daniel Ripp

  20. Aus meinem Lebenslauf: Aus der faschistischen Hoelle in sibirische Verbannung

    Contains a memoir about Albert Kretschmer's deportation from Mannheim, Germany, and life in various labor camps in Siberia.