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  1. Benjamin Schepsman collection

    Documents (3), two from post-liberation Dachau camp, one from International Refugee Organization, all three attesting to the imprisonment of Benjamin Schepsman (Szepsman) at Dachau, and prior to that, at Natzweiler.

  2. Jonah B. Wise letter

    Consists of an original fundraising letter sent from Rabbi Jonah Wise to Rabbi Charles Rubel of Long Island, dated May 18, 1933. In the letter, Rabbi Wise explains that he recently returned from Germany where Jews are being persecuted by the German government, and asking for a contribution to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

  3. Zina Schreibman collection

    Photocopy of typescript text (4 pages), titled "An Episode in my Life That Will Forever Be Etched in My Memory," by Zina Schreibman. Also includes photocopy of 11 pages of Yiddish text.

  4. Metzl family papers

    The Metzl family papers consists almost entirely of correspondence written to Leo and Josephine Metzlova from members of Josephine’s family in 1942. The majority of the letters are from Josephine’s mother, Martha Fleischner. Three letters in this collection are written by Fini to Leo and her parents. Other correspondents include the couple’s young daughter, Alenka and Fini’s aunt, Josephine Orlik. Also comprised is a school report card for Alenka, and identification cards issued to Fini, one of which entitled her to free public transportation in the city of Prague due to her illness. All of...

  5. Shalom Sechvi papers

    Testimony, typescript, unpaginated, and film slides. Typed text describes various events in (unnamed) author's life, during WWII, in camps/death marches, and then in Israel during war of independence. Slides (19) in plastic box may be matched to various sections of this text.

  6. Letter about experiences in Buchenwald

    Consists of a copy of a letter relating to Buchenwald, 27 May 1945.

  7. Why the Jews?

    Essay, typescript, 6 pages, titled "Concerning the Holocaust: Why the Jews?" Consists of a conspiracy theory that Americans permitted Holocaust to happen as a way to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, so that American and British oil interests could have better (unfettered) access to Middle Eastern oil. 1994.

  8. Fanny Auerbach papers

    The Fanny Auerbach papers contain primarily correspondence between Fanny, a German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany prior to her emigration. Malchen was subsequently deported to the Warsaw ghetto, where in her correspondence to Fanny, she describes the hardships of her life there before her letters abruptly end. Also included are correspondence with Theresa Wallach, the administrator from the orphanage where Fanny had worked, photographs, a poem from another orphan, and a newspape...

  9. Vitale family papers

    Correspondence (8 letters) from Gemma Vitale Servadio, written to friends, family and an attorney, June 1944. Servadio sent these letters from the Fossoli internment camp, after she and her mother, Nina Levi Vitale, were arrested, and prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Collection also contains the text of a lecture given by Servadio’s brother, Col. Massimo Adolfo Vitale, in 1947, after he observed the trial of Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Hoess in Warsaw, and subsequently visited the camp.

  10. Gustav Spitzer letters

    The Gustav Spitzer letters contain correspondence sent to Gustav Spitzer while he was living in Chicago from 1938-1939. The letters come from Vienna and Prague, all from Jewish citizens with the same surname of Spitzer. Though they have no relation to Gustav, they are requesting that he assist them in granting them affidavits so they may immigrate to the United States. The letters show the desperation and discrimination that Jews were facing at this time in Austria and Czechoslovakia, that they would explore any possibility to escape their conditions.

  11. Testimonies relating to the persecution and killing of Jews in Lithuania during the Holocaust

    Photocopies from the Clerk of Court, St. Landry Parish, Opelousas, Louisiana.

  12. A collection of stories about the Holocaust

    Testimony, typescript (presumably unpublished), of interviews conducted by Silberman, primarily in Riga in the mid-1960s with Holocaust survivors living there at that time. A manuscript compilation of some of these from 1988 is included.

  13. The Choice

    Testimony, typescript, titled "The Choice" by Magda Sugar Simon, 217 pages, written in the form of a novel, about a young woman in an Austrian forced labor camp that is liberated by Americans.

  14. Heinrich Stern collection

    The Heinrich Stern collection contains primarily immigration documents related to Heinrich and Charlotte Stern. Heinrich was a lawyer who was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald. He was released after his wife obtained travel permits, and the couple immigrated to Bolivia, where they lived until they moved to the United States in 1944. Documents include visa applications, identity cards, police documents, letters of recommendation, and other documents needed to immigrate. Other various items include the certificate Heinrich obtained to be a notary and practice law, his disbarmen...

  15. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence

    The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence contains monthly reports and biographical briefs on the residents of the displaced persons camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The administration of these camps were run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was set up in 1913 in order to assist Jewish communities overseas. The collection centers around the documentation created by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee as it administered the camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The camp names near Ulm were Sedan-Kaserne, Hindenburg-Kaserne...

  16. Soep family papers

    Primarily identification papers for Harry Soep, including passport, post-war IDs, pre-war letters of reference from past employers, youth hostel membership card, repatriation papers, and summons to serve as witness in post war trial.

  17. Bamidar

    Contains an issue of "Bamidar," a postwar publication in Yiddish for displaced persons, dated April 15, 1946.

  18. Letter relating to the tracing of missing Jews

    Photocopy of a letter dated 26 Sep. 1945 from Ida Solwan and Eva Richter.

  19. Al Sommer, Jr. letter relating to Ohrdruf

    Contains a typescript photocopy of a letter from Al Sommer Jr., while in the United States Army during World War II, to his parents relating to his experience at the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  20. Never again

    Contains a book titled "Never again," about the Holocaust experiences of Heddy Spitz in her birthplace, Muncachevo, Czechoslovakia, and the Auschwitz concentration camp.