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Language of Description: English

  1. Ferenc Hamori family papers

    Photocopies of documents related to Ference (Franz) Hamori, during and after German occupation of Hungary. Includes copy of his Swedish "Schutzpass," and postwar documentation attesting to what had happened to Hamori while in hiding in Budapest, as well as the fate of his wife, who was deported and died of dysentery at Ravensbrück. Hungarian with English translations.

  2. Letter about the liberation of Hersbruck by the 65th U.S. Army Infantry Division

    Testimony, in form of letter to USHMM from Leo Serian, 1994, describing his experiences in the U.S. Army in the liberation of a sub-camp of Flossenbürg.

  3. "The Brown Terror"

    Consists of one memoir, 99 pages, entitled "The Brown Terror," by Dr. Otto Schorrman, originally of Tarnopol, Poland. He describes the arrival of the German army and the first Tarnopol pogrom, life in the Tarnopol ghetto, and life in hiding.

  4. International Military Tribunal publications and an atrocity photograph

    Photocopies of floor plan of the Nuremberg courtroom for the International Military Tribunal. Also includes list of the defendants; instructions to the press camp; and a photographic print of man being tortured at unidentified location.

  5. Martin M. Rieger family collection

    Various documents about extended Rieger family, including one file regarding settlement of estate of Levi Riess with Emilie Rieger as beneficiary; studies of Max Martin Nathan as architecture student at Technical University of Stuttgart, including correspondence from German student union questioning his plans to make a trip abroad to study architecture; a summons from the Gestapo in Stuttgart (1938); correspondence (via Red Cross) between Max, after his arrival in St. Louis, and his father, N.M. Nathan, first in Hamburg, then in Theresienstadt; and between Max Nathan and other family member...

  6. Andrew Sipos collection

    Testimony (authored by donor, about his parents), photographs of family members, identification card for donor's father, letterhead and sample pattern from father's factory.

  7. Fishman and Wikiel collection

    Testimony, photocopied, two pages, of Lonia Fishman's experiences during occupation of Poland, along with correspondence from U.S. embassy of Poland, Archdiocese of Boston, and Yad Vashem, in response to Fishman's efforts to recognize the Polish couple who saved him, Maria and Jan Wikiel. Including is documentation from Yad Vashem concerning the naming of the Wikiels as Righteous Among the Nations, and photographs from an event held at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw in 1979 honoring the Wikiels.

  8. NSDAP brochure

    Contains the NSDAP brochure. entitled : The Jew is Always Your Enemy.

  9. Russell Kowalyshyn papers

    The Russell Kowalyshyn papers document Kowalyshyn’s army service in Germany following World War II. The collection primarily consists of German and American printed materials documenting Nazi Germany, the Allied victory, Dachau concentration camp, and the war crimes trials in Nuremberg. The collection also includes Kowalyshyn’s Dachau pass and obituary, blank letterhead from the Mayor of Dachau and an unknown coat of arms, signed letters from Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg thanking the Mayor of Dachau for making them honorary citizens, a Hitler Youth sports award signed by Hitler, a s...

  10. Norman Zylber and family papers

    Photocopies of Polish passport, family photos, and identification card for former internee of Buchenwald, all related to Naftali Zylber.

  11. Mieczyslaw-Mitchell Tukaj testimony

    Testimony. Typescript, 5 pages, written in 1991, recounting author's experiences in his hometown of Czestochowa, Poland, and his arrest and imprisonment in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen due to resistance activities in occupied Poland, 1941-1945, including photocopy of his Auschwitz mug shot.

  12. Walter and Gerda Steinfurth family papers

    Photocopies of correspondence and documents related to Gerda Steinfurth and her parents, Wilhelm and Klara Busse. Gerda was imprisoned by Nazis in 1944 for refusal to bear arms, and was released by Allies after liberation in 1945. Items include documentation attesting to her imprisonment under Nazis, correspondence with authorities in Soviet occupied zone and then GDR concerning her father, who died in the 1950s, as well as documents from East German authorities withdrawing Steinfurth's status as a political prisoner during Nazi era (she lived in West Berlin during 1960s, when this status w...

  13. Harry C. Saunders collection

    Contains photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence, publications and photographs which relate to the 1st Platoon, Troop D, 41st Cavalry Recon Squadron Mech., 11th Army Armored Division, liberating Mauthausen, and Harry C. Saunders' recollections of Mauthausen.

  14. Edward Kaluski collection

    Typewritten (unattributed) report about Dachau; passport size photos of Edward Kaluski, including one in a metal frame stamped "Post of Dachau, Official Pass No. 485"; pass from UNRRA administration allowing Kaluski to leave camp (August 1945); CIC receipt showing that Kaluski turned in his military ID at Dachau in May 1946; and printed programs and similar ephemera relating to one-year anniversary commemorations of liberation of Dachau, 1946.

  15. Marching to a forced labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust

    Relates to donor's experience in labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  16. Jack Schneider collection

    Typescript, 13 pages, of an oral history interview of Schneider, who participated in liberation of Dachau. Also contains photocopies of correspondence from that period, and other copied documents from Schneider.

  17. Mania Knobloch family papers

    Photographs of family, identification pass (from Schleissheim DP camp) for Mania Warschauer, notes.

  18. Isidoro Berger Safiano papers

    The collection consists of photocopies of documents and articles related to Isidoro Berger Safiano, a wealthy businessman in Bucharest, Romania, who intervened to help save the lives of 16 teenage members of Hasomer Hatzair who were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences during World War II. Included are copies of Romanian documents regarding Isidoro’s efforts to help the teenagers, articles, and post-war letters regarding his actions.

  19. Lena Gitter collection

    Correspondence. Two letters and one postcard, from various members of a family prior to and during emigration from Austria.

  20. Frank and Shirley Krigel papers

    Contains photographs showing a concentration camp shortly after liberation. Includes a handwritten brief bio of Frank Krigel, the American solder who acquired the images in 1945.