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Language of Description: English

  1. Bijvoegsel van de Nederlandse Staatscourant van Donderdag

    Contains supplements to the publication "Nederlanse Staatscourant," consisting of lists compiled by the Dutch Ministry of Justice accounting for missing Dutch residents and their likely or recorded fates after arrest and deportation during German occupation.

  2. Maps of Ukraine, Transnistria, and Rumania

    Contains copies of wartime maps of Ukraine, Transnistria, and Rumania [sic], reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress.

  3. Photo album and memorabilia

    Contains an album of photographs, military patches, badges, and other memorabilia, compiled by a woman who served in some capacity in the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division during WWII. Most photographs appear to be in Belgium or the Netherlands, and many concern a pharmacy where she may have worked.

  4. Miscellaneous programs relating to the Holocaust

    Contains audio tapes on the following programs: "Euthanasia"; "Survivors of the Holocaust"; "Elie Wiesel at the National Press Club"; "Japanese Americans: The Redress Effort"; "Neo-Nazis in America"; "Women in the Holocaust" and "Children of Nazis."

  5. The Gyula Trebitsch papers

    Contains photocopies of three documents pertaining to Julius Trebitsch, 1945-1947. The first two relate to the organizations for liberated Jews/political prisoners in Holstein, 1945, the third is a Hungarian document from 1947, attesting to the treatment Trebitsch had received from Germans during imprisonment and work on forced labor battalion, 1942-1944.

  6. Robert McKeever papers

    Contains documents and photographs relating to Robert McKeever's service as a member of the Judge Advocate Division of the U.S. Army, and his involvement in investigating of German nationals , who committed atrocities at Dachau, Dachau-Allach, Landsberg, and Terezin concentration camps.

  7. Refugee soldier of World War II

    Testimony: Photocopy of typescript, 76 pages plus copy, titled "Refugee Soldier of World War II," describing experiences of Jack Hochwald, who fled from Austria as a 14 year old with his family in 1938, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, and assigned to an "Austrian Battalion."

  8. Hitler

    Typescript of text, read by a woman at a garden club in rural Ohio in 1933, concerning the rise of Adolf Hitler and persecution of Jews in Germany.

  9. Jacqueline K. Holland papers

    Contains a photocopied journal, written by Francois Montel, about events in Compiegne, France, from April to June 1942. Also includes photographs, a postcard, and an explanatory note from the donor.

  10. Jacob Avni papers

    Consist of photocopies of a memoir, news article, names lists of survivors, and other miscellaneous charts, correspondence, etc, in Hungarian, Hebrew, and/or Yiddish, written and compiled by Jacob Avni (born Gyoergy Steiner) in 1993.

  11. Ferenc Klopfer papers

    Consists of photocopied documents from Dr. Ferenc Klopfer, including a handwritten memoir of Klopfer's experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt, written in the latter location after liberation in May 1945. A separate text describes in more detail events during the death march from Buchenwald to Theresienstadt in early 1945. Also included is a photocopy of the surviving portion of a list of patients treated by Klopfer in the hospital at Buchenwald, with names of patients, including their birthdates and places of birth, dates of their deaths, as well as diagnoses and causes of...

  12. Harry Kranz collection

    Contains photographs (33) and copy of typescript text (6 pages), describing a visit made by the donor to his parents' ancestral village in Poland in 1985 to seek traces of the Jewish cemetery and other buildings.

  13. Brian Wolfson collection

    Contains two bound volumes sent to the donor's family in 1950 by Judge Michael Musmanno of Pittsburgh, PA, who had served as a judge at the Einsatzgruppen Trial (part of the subsequent Nuremberg trials) in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1948. The first volume is his concurring opinion in the case of "United States vs. Oswald Pohl, et.al.," the second is "Opinion and Judgment of the Tribunal," Case No. 9, 8 April 1948, at which Musmanno was presiding judge. Also contains two letters from Musmanno to Emanuel Wolfson, which were enclosed with each volume when mailed in 1950.

  14. Memoir

    Contains a photocopy of typescript text, unpaginated (approximately 50-60 pages), titled "Escape from Gestapo and S.S." by K. Elsberg.

  15. Hans Fassler testimony

    Interview with Hans Fassler, legislator from Switzerland, relating to the saving of Jews by a Mr. Grueninger during World War II.

  16. Sidney Etkin collection

    The Sidney Etkin collection contains documents obtained by Etkin during his time treating prisoners from the recently liberated Mauthausen-Gusen camp in June, 1945. The documents contain statements made by Franz Zeireis, the commandant of the camp. He details the camp conditions, specific torture done to prisoners, numbers of prisoners killed, and other facts regarding the management of the concentration camp. Also included are photographs of the prisoners and camp, taken by Etkin, as well as a newspaper clipping summarizing the role Zeireis played in the management of Mauthausen.

  17. Holiday memories from my childhood in Muelheim

    Testimony: photocopy of typescript, 12 pages, titled "Holiday Memories from my Childhood in Muellheim," 1995.

  18. The studio

    Contains a typescript (photocopy), 632 pages, of a fictionalized account of Jews in London prior to World War II, titled "The Studio."

  19. Poems by Esther Olmer Rutstein

    Poems in Hebrew and Polish in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

  20. Jane Keibel memoir

    Contains a testimony, typescript, four pages, about the experiences of Jane Keibel (born Inge Goldschmidt), originally from Duesseldorf, Germany. Describes the family's journey on the MS. St. Louis, return to Europe, how her family sent her to be sheltered by OSE, and how the family emigrated to U.S. later in 1939.