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Language of Description: English

  1. Postcard

    Postcard circa 1943 from unidentified person in Sosnowitz to Chaja Cara Bartkowski, an inmate in Landshut.

  2. Ernst Puttkammer letter to Jens Paulsen

    Photocopy of letter, 3 pages, unsigned, addressed to Paulesen (of Kiel, Germany), March 20, 1933, in which Puttkamer responds to Paulsen's enthusiasm for rise of Hitler by disagreeing with him, and citing recent removal of Bruno Walter as conductor of Leipzig Philharmonic.

  3. Photocopies of documents relating to a German Jew's attempt to verify American citizenship and emigrate to the United States

    Photocopies of letters from Rebecca Gotthelf relating to her attempts to escape Germany in 1935.

  4. Laura Rasch family papers

    Photocopies of documents relating the the Mayer and Mane families.

  5. Photocopies of Auschwitz documents

    Photocopied documents, from State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, dated 1989, detailing fates of various members of Reich family at that camp.

  6. Jews and Judaism in post-war Amsterdam manuscript

    The Jews and Judaism in postwar Amsterdam manuscript was written by Dr. Malcolm D. Rivkin in 1954 while on a Fullbright Scholarship in the Netherlands. The report studies the Jewish community in Amsterdam in the postwar period and pays particular attention to the history of the Jewish community in Amsterdam, attitudes of the Dutch non-Jewish population toward the Jewish population, and includes questionnaires filled out by over 125 Holocaust survivors. The manuscript titled "Jews and Judaism in postwar Amsterdam" is comprised of the original typescript of the manuscript and a photocopy. The...

  7. Adam Rogowski memoir

    Typescript memoir, bound, 264 pages, titled "Lost and Found," an English translation of Adam Rogowski's Hebrew-language memoir of his Holocaust experiences, titled "B'Akalton Yelech Adam."

  8. Popielarz family papers

    Original documents relating to emigration attempts by the Benno Popielarz family, originally of Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Include photostat of a letter of recommendation from the Reichsbund juedischer Frontsoldaten, attesting to the good character of Benno Popielarz (1939); a carbon copy typescript list of the belongings that the Popielarz family had to declare prior to emigration, listing the monetary value of each item (1939); a document authorizing the transfer of 15 shillings to a family member in England, to enable the Popielarz family to obtain a Chinese visa (1939); and a l...

  9. Documents relating to Anne Frank

    Contains one letter to Janice Rush from Otto Frank, dated 1967, responding to a letter Rush, of Herington, Kansas, had sent to him expressing admiration for "Diary of a Young Girl." Also includes a holiday card from Otto Frank, December 1970, and a letter from Miep Gies, 1989, after Rush wrote to her, also.

  10. Arthur Tannenbaum papers

    Photocopies of documents relating to the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann.

  11. Samuel and Helen Taub papers

    Photographs and copies of articles in Yiddish.

  12. "Bearing Witness: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, April 11-12-13, 1983"

    Consists of one manuscript, 105 pages, entitled "Bearing Witness: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, April 11-12-13, 1983" by Thomas (Tom) Teicholz. In the manuscript, Mr. Teicholz described the conference in detail, as well as the Holocaust experiences of his parents and those he met at the conference.

  13. "Vienna: Revisited"

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, 254 pages, titled "Vienna: Revisited," which appears to be a history of the experiences of the author's family (the Ulmans and Werths) in Austria during the occupation and emigration.

  14. Two postcards relating to deportation to Theresienstadt

    Includes two postcards from the Ticho family, informing Albert Steiner of their deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942 with an accompanying letter from Kurt Thomas (born Kurt Ticho) explaining context of postcards.

  15. Gergette Donnier and Susan Tribbitt papers

    Testimony. Typescript, 15 pages in French, and 13 pages in English translation. Recollections of Gergette Donnier, who was married to a doctor who tried to treat internees at Les Milles, and who helped Tribbitt's grandparents (the Fischbachs) leave Les Milles and ultimately immigrate to the U.S.

  16. "To Calm My Dreams"

    Testimony. Typescript, 24 pages, titled "To Calm My Dreams" by Kazimierz Tyminski, translated from Polish by Maria Tyminska-Marx.

  17. Memoir relating to the Holocaust in Hungary and incarceration in Nazi concentration camps

    Testimony. Typescript, two pages, describing experiences in hometown (Koloszvar/Cluj) and at Auschwitz. Also includes a one-page photocopy of a police registration document in postwar Dresden, confirming that she had been imprisoned at Auschwitz.

  18. "Children of Night"

    Testimony. Typescript, 21 pages, titled "Children of Night," by Susan Seiler Vigorito, dated 1989. Recounts her experiences as a child at Auschwitz, where she and her twin sister were subjects of medical experimentation by Josef Mengele.

  19. Peter O. Vlcko papers

    Arcticles and clippings relating to Peter Vlcko's actions as a rescuer. Also contains photos of Vlcko and his wife.

  20. Arthur Schaller collection

    Typescript (photocopied) of "One Hundred Cigarettes and a Bottle of Vodka," by Arthur Schaller, an account of his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto. This version appears to have been written in 1964, and includes copies of documents from ZIH that corroborate his story.