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  1. Julius Schellenberg papers

    The Julius Schellenberg papers consist of biographical and genealogical materials, correspondence, and restitution files documenting Schellenberg’s family, his immigration to the United States, communications with friends and family who remained in Germany or also immigrated to America, and his efforts to receive restitution for the confiscation or forced sale of his parents’ property. Biographical and genealogical materials include Schellenberg’s birth certificate, genealogical research, and a family tree. Correspondence files consist of letters and postcard between Schellenberg and his fa...

  2. Hans and Johanna Hirschfeldt collection

    Certificates relating to emigration, first to Britain in March 1939, and then to the United States in 1947.

  3. Eva Mándlová Roubíčková papers

    The Eva Mändlová Roubíčková papers include a diary, documents, and photographs relating to the wartime experiences of Eva Mändlová while imprisoned in Theresienstadt. The diary was written by Eva in Gabelsberger shorthand from 1943-1944 while in Theresienstadt. In her diary Eva writes about her family’s deportation, life in the ghetto, the fear of being transported, and her relationships and interactions with other people. The collection also includes a Red Cross telegram between Eva’s husband, Richard, and his mother, pamphlets notifying Eva’s family that they have to leave their home...

  4. Curtis Sloan papers

    The Curtis Sloan papers consists of a "Report On Camp At Auschwitz," 10/12/1944; "Notes About The Camp of Civilian Prisoners at Ravensbruck;" 10/12/1944; and United States Army Signal Corps photographs of survivors and victims at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and the Volary Death March. Photographers include unidentified photographs, as well as J.R. Bradley and Howard E. James.

  5. Norman A. Sinowitz collection

    Four color photographs; certificate in Hebrew; postcards and letters in Russian and Yiddish.

  6. Gary J. Greenberg collection

    Documents and photographs taken from pouches of German soldier. Documents relating to the immigration/naturalization of donor's family. Identity card for Berthold Podhaicer. Correspondence. Documents regarding Bert Podhaicer's military career, etc.

  7. Selected Records from the Archive of the Foreign Ministry of Spain

    Contains information relating to European refugees (including Jews) in Spain during the Holocaust.

  8. Siegelmann collection

    "Survival of children in the Holocaust" by Hanna Siegelmann. "The Jewish community in Fulda" by Michal Siegelmann.

  9. The Revier (hospital) in the concentration camp Dachau, a report

    Report on inhuman Nazi treatment and methods used on inmates in the station for experimentation, Block 7 - Mental Illness Dept., and the overall hospital at Dachau.

  10. Bruno and Elsa Lewin collection

    Documents relating to Bruno Lewin and his emigration from Nazi-occupied Berlin.

  11. Chaim Piotrkowski collection

    The Chaim Piotrkowski collection consists of a photocopy of Piotrkowski's personal narrative about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Lieberose, written in English; a photocopy of Hercko Ciesluk's personal narrative about his experiences in the Bialystok ghetto, Bliżyn labor camp, Lieberose, Gross Rosen, and Mauthausen, written in Yiddish in 1947; and Piotrkowski’s English translation of Ciesluk's personal narrative.

  12. Military government concentration camp questionaire with photograph

    Photocopy of Arnold Wachtel's postwar Concentration Camp Inmate Questionaire with his photograph.

  13. Marek Jannusz collection

    Contains audio tapes, programs and brochures, etc. of Requiem and Sh'ma dated April 27, 1996, and a Boston University Conference on "Rescue and Resistance WWII and the Present."

  14. U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, 82nd Congress, 1st Session (RG 233)

    Includes reports, evidence documents, investigation results, and other materials relating to the committee’s investigation on the Katyṅ Forest Massacre,1940 (Murder of the Polish officers and Polish intelligentsia).

  15. Selected records of the Nikolaev Oblast Archives II from Yad Vashem

    Contains primarily documents from the Romanian occupation government’s Prefecture of the Golta region in Transnistria. Roll 1 contains historical and geographical information on the Golta region, correspondence regarding the use of Jews for work, and a 1943 list of Jews in the Golta ghetto. Roll 2 contains military orders and reports about the fight against Soviet activists and Communists, correspondence of the prefect of Golta, correspondence regarding the use of police for disposal of victims’ possessions and the use of prisoners of war for work (1941–1942), and 1943 orders of the 2nd Dep...

  16. Die Grosse Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbun Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau 1935-1943

    Consists of an article entitled "Die Grosse Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbung: Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau 1935-1943" [The Big Negro Drum of Promoting Colonialism: the German Afrika-Show], by Elisa Forgey, which was originally published in Werkstatt Geschichte in 1994. The article describes the ways in which black performers were humiliated and abused during the Nazi era.

  17. Charles Winter collection

    Consists of copies of directives (captured German records) from the Reich Chief of Police and Ministry of the Interior signature blocks by Daluege and Himmler, NSDAP directives, other Police and Nazi Party Officials, etc. Some have handwritten signatures and annotations. These documents mainly relate to Nazi policies and they give some information pertaining to religious intolerance during the Holocaust.

  18. Sue Yarnelli collection

    Consists of 10 black-and-white photographs of Ebensee and survivors and victims thereof issued by the United States Army.

  19. Certificate of incarceration

    Certifification of donor's incarceration in Stutthof and Dachau concentration camps.

  20. Selected Records Relating to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau)

    Photocopies of records related to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau), a tour in Germany organized by the NSDAP to promote German racist ideology and support for colonialism in Africa.