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  1. Joseph H. Robbins collection

    Photographs, from Nordhausen, after liberation. With photocopied text from the book, "History of the 104th Infantry Division."

  2. Zdzislaw Ryn papers

    Writings, typescript and photocopies of published articles, by Ryn, many relating to Holocaust survivors and "survivor syndrome," circa 1979-1990.

  3. Henry and Grete Salomon collection

    The Henry and Grete Salomon collection contains primarily identification documents for both Henry Salomon and Grete Nathan Salomon. Both escaped Germany in 1939, and later married in England. Grete worked odd jobs while Henry enlisted in the British Army. Documents include identification papers such as certificates concerning parents, travel documents, certificate of good conduct, household goods directory, registration identity cards, and various other items. Other documents include newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reparations information. The Henry and Grete Salomon collection con...

  4. Testimony

    Photocopy of document, notarized in Israel, of statement by Moritz Zauderer, who was interned with the donor's father (David Rostholder) in Buchenwald, and assumed that Rostholder was killed there. Document dated 1956.

  5. Sybil Milton collection

    The collection consists of photocopies of archival records dealing with the immigration of Jews to the Philippine Islands or with the treatment of those within the Third Reich the Nazis deemed "non-Aryan." Also includes copies of documents pertaining to the mentally infirm and to the Red Army ambulance corps.

  6. Jacoby family papers

    Documents, post-war, relating to Otto and Regina Jacoby. Includes letter from Ministry of Social Welfare in Prague, 1947, informing him of fates of several family members who were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Poland in 1942, and French identification documents for Regina (nee Karpel) Jacoby. Also, one handwritten letter in German, sent to Jacoby by Harry Noll, in Prague, Sept. 1945, providing information about family members.

  7. Justin Held papers

    Photocopied correspondence and news clipping, appears to be from police file, documenting allegations against Jewish attorney Justin Held in Nuremberg, who was accused of fraud, and who fled to Paris, and then Palestine. Dated 1933-1935.

  8. Letter relating to the expropriation of Jewish property and deportations to Terezin

    Photocopied document, unknown provenance, from Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, giving instructions for evacuation from Bamberg, August 1942.

  9. Winkler family papers

    Contains photocopied documents concerning Mikulas Winkler, originally of Berehowo, Czechoslovakia, and his experiences as a displaced person (DP) after WWII in Germany and his immigration to the United States.

  10. Personal karte from Buchenwald

    Photocopies of prisoner ID cards for Jozsef and Dezso Zelig, Buchenwald.

  11. Gerard M. Gert collection

    Correspondence. Two unrelated German letters. One is from office of Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin, addressed to residence of Samuel Gutstein in Berlin, regarding a charge against Gutstein from the corresponding office in Koenigsberg, which is being lifted since Gutstein has been in America since 1938 and is unlikely to return to Berlin. The other letter is from Rudolf von Malzahn, a German diplomat in Belgrade, writing to Alfred Rosenberg to advise him to read a recently published book from the World Jewish Congress, as well as informing him of a popular Italian exhibit in Belgrade that the G...

  12. Stanley Lewan collection

    Photocopies of postcards from family in Poland to Sam Laurie in Chicago, 1941.

  13. Selected Nazi records relating to the Jewish Question in the Netherlands and Dutch resistance

    Photocopies of documents from German occupation authorities in the Netherlands, unknown provenance. Typescript of "Etty Hillesum: Kierkegaard's Poet of Existence," by Sixtus Scholtens; other assorted items.

  14. Eric Kahn papers

    Photocopied documents pertaining to Erich Kahn and his family, including copy of form excluding Kahn from work in his native Cologne, Germany, since he was Jewish (1940), and telegrams and correspondence between family members, 1940-1942, regarding emigration and transport to camps.

  15. Arnold Kramish papers

    Photocopied material sent to Arnold Kramish, an American historian of the Cold War and wartime intelligence, from a French colleague in 1984. Correspondence consists of material from and about Paul Rosbaud, an Austrian who worked as a spy for the Allies during WWII, and about Kramish's efforts to have him recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem.

  16. Sándor Grünfeld postcard

    Photocopies of a postcard from Sándor Grünfeld to Lipót Grünfeld in the Nagyvárad ghetto (now Oradea, Romania). The postcard coincided with the beginning of deportations from the ghetto to Auschwitz. The postcard was returned as undeliverable with a stamp indicating that the Jewish addressee had been relocated and the postcard could not be forwarded.

  17. Scott Levine collection

    Correspondence and family documents, pertaining to Mr. and Mrs. Karl Oberndorf, of Darmstadt, and emigration from Germany in 1936; earlier documents about wedding, death of father (1925), and other family matters.

  18. Theodore and Martha Burian papers

    The Theodore and Martha Burian papers contain primarily identification documents, which the family used for verification purposes as they immigrated to the United States. Contained in the collections are birth and marriage certificates, citizenship papers, passports, and police registration documents. Also included are boarding passes for the Nyassa passenger ship, and residency certificates for the town of Pohořelice in the Czech Republic.

  19. Letters from Mauthausen and Dachau

    One letter, sent from Eugenie Walter (Odern) to Arnold Adolf, in Mauthausen, November 1944. Also two empty envelopes--one presumably for this letter, another sent to Dachau (no letter for that one).

  20. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers

    The Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht. Documents include passports, registration cards, correspondence with the Consulate General, and other documents obtained in both families’ pursuit of a visa, first to China and later to the United States. Also included are copies of the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle (Shanghai Echo), a German newspaper published for Jewish refugees in China. The Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers contain primarily documents obtained b...