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  1. Oral history interview with Robert Tighe

  2. Oral history interview with Irene Shur

  3. KXTV oral history interview

  4. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection

    The Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection contains correspondence between Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr., various members of the Schiffman and Marx families living in Germany, and United States government officials. The correspondence relates to the families’ requests for assistance in immigrating to the United States from Nazi Germany in the form of signed affidavits of support and financial assistance. The personal correspondence from the families in Germany provide a sense of growing desperation to leave Germany. Also included are Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr.’s papers relating his activity wi...

  5. Chernivtsi Jewish Survivors Organization affidavits

    The collection consists of 901 affidavits, solicited by the Chernivtsi (Ukraine) Jewish Survivors Organization. The organization collected the affidavits in order to press the Soviet government for stipendiary pensions in restitution for the atrocities the survivors suffered during World War II. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the organization continued to receive the affidavits. Presumably, the survivors hoped that a successor government would honor the request. Though the entirety of the affidavits originate from the Chernivtsi region, the majority relate to events that occurred in ar...

  6. Oral history interview with Edith Pagelson

  7. Margaret Iglauer collection

    Relates to the life of Margaret and Ernest Iglauer, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938. The collection details the couple's sojourns in England, the Netherlands, Belgium,and France during World War II, their stay in refugee camps in Switzerland, and their subsequent emigration to the United States.

  8. Russian News (1944, No. E)

    On the liberation of Vilna, Latvia. Tanks and infantry move down a dirt road past cottages. "Road sign: Litovskaia SSR" [Road sign reads Lithuanian SSR]. Field guns and mortars are loaded and fired. Infantry runs past dead Germans. Soldiers advance from house to house. Flames pour from windows. Tanks pass through the streets. Machine guns are fired from rubble. Telephone wire is strung. Germans leave shattered buildings and surrender; long columns of them are marched to the rear. Troops march past two road signs indicating path to Grodno, Kaunas; and Kaunas Keningsberg. Victorious Russians ...

  9. Morris Kiel collection

    Contains handwritten and typescript miscellaneous correspondence, photocopies of cover pages of antisemitic publications and a photograph showing a front view of the offices of the newspaper Der Stuermer in Nuremberg. The collection includes but is not limited to the following: certificates, license, a postcard, Thereseienstadt scrip, and slips of paper with the original signatures of some Nuremberg Trial defendants.

  10. Oral history interview with Morris Jacobs

  11. Postcard

    The postcard was written by Hugo Koenig [donor's sister's father-in-law] in Birkenau concentration camp ("bei Neu-Berlin ober Schlesien") and sent to Kremsier (Kromeríz), Czech Republic.

  12. Marianne Scialli papers

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Liselotte Seligmann [donor's mother], her daughter, Marianne [donor], and her son, Ernst Max [donor's brother] in Düsseldorf, Germany; a vaccination certificate ("Impfschein") issued to Marianne Seligmann [donor] for her passport; and a report card from a private Jewish school in Düsseldorf issued to Marianne Seligmann.

  13. Helen Drazen papers

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Hella Sichel [donor] in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; a classroom photograph of German schoolchildren including Hella Sichel; an American alien registration certificate of identification issued to Friederike Elbau [donor's grandmother]; a vaccination certificate ("Impfschein") issued to Hella Sichel om Frankfurt am Main, and a photocopy of an American affidavit of support entered by Max Hirsch on behalf of Freidel Elbau [donor's grandmother].

  14. Elwin P. Ware letter

    The letter was written by Elwin P. Ware, representative for the United States at the Nuremberg Trials, to his wife and office staff describing what he saw during a post-liberation tour of Buchenwald concentration camp.

  15. Kenneth Oppenheimer papers

    The papers consist of a passport ("Reisepass") issued to Alfred Siegfried Oppenheimer donor's father by the Chief of Police in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, a German military draft notice ("Benachrichtigung") issued to Alfred Oppenheimer, a marriage certificate ("Heiratsurkunde") issued to Ernst Rosenbaum and Paula Mathias [donor's maternal grandparents] in Hofgeismar, Germany, and two photographic postcards of Yvonne and Helga Kaufmann [donor's cousins], both of whom died in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  16. Katz family papers

    The papers consist of documents and materials relating to H.W. Katz, his wife Friedel (née Kramer), and their daughter, Eve. Includes identity papers, demobilization papers, receipts, letters of recommendation, safe conduct passes, visa information, and correspondence related to the family's escape from Paris to Marseilles, life in Marseilles, and escape in 1941 to Lisbon to await the ship that took them to the United States.

  17. Thomas Baruch papers

    The papers consist of correspondence from Edward Remey [family friend] and the Westchester Committee for Refugees, Inc. to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baruch [donor's parents] confirming the deaths of Marianne Ziegler [donor's aunt], Thekla Baruch Ehermann [donor's aunt], and Gerda and Fritz Hammerstein during the Holocaust. The papers also include a postcard from Marianne Ziegler to her brother, Richard Baruch, informing him of her impending deportation from Berlin, Germany, to Poland.

  18. Book

  19. Ernest Fisch papers

    The papers consist of four diplomas issued in Hungary and France to Maurus Fisch [donor's brother], Jacobus Fisch [donor's brother], Martin Lebovits [donor's brother-in-law], and Adrian Andre before the Holocaust; one letter written collectively by the family of Jacobus Fisch just before their deportation from Hungary and given to Ernest Fisch while he was in hiding; one letter written by Maurus Fisch while he was serving in the military in World War I on the occasion of Ernest's Bar Mitzvah; and seven photographs of members of the Fisch family.

  20. Abraham Kaner Identification card

    The provisional identification card ("Ausweis") was issued after liberation to former Mauthausen internee Abraham Kaner.