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Displaying items 17,521 to 17,540 of 33,375
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  1. Hans Weil papers

    The Hans Weil papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting German educator Hans Weil, his relocation to Italy following his dismissal from teaching at Goethe University, and the school, Schule am Mittelmeer, that he established for German emigrant children in Recco, Italy.

  2. Pete House letter

    One letter, from Pete House, a former American POW who was held at Stalag IX-B in 1944-1945, and who wrote to the USHMM after visiting the museum in April 1994. Describes the mistreatment of Allied POWs, including soldiers of African descent.

  3. Arkady Aleksandrovsky memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a handwritten memoir which relates to Arkady Aleksandrovsky's experiences in the Bershad Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  4. Klara Strazhnik memoir

    Klara Strazhnik's memoir describes the Holocaust in the ghetto in Zhmerynka, Ukraine.

  5. Eve Rider collection

    Testimony: 4 pages, typescript, dated 1994, plus correspondence with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum staff.

  6. Ludwik Krzywonowski letter

    Photocopy of a letter, apparently written in Zborów, Poland, July 1943, but then later sent (with annotations) from Ludwik Krzywonowski from Zborów in 1947, to Wilek Heilmann in Palestine.

  7. Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp

    Contains the edited typescript of "Auschwitz: Anatomy of a Death Camp," co-authored by Michael Berenbaum and Yisrael Gutman.

  8. In memoriam Margarete Volinsky

    Obituary. Photocopy of typescript, one page, memorial to Volinsky (1891-1978), with annotations from her daughter, Helena.

  9. Barbara MacArthur papers

    Memorial commemoration: News clipping and program for an interfaith Holocaust memorial commemoration at Temple B'nai Israel in Petoskey, Michigan, 1994.

  10. Zeev Schuss memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 10 pages, titled "My Glorious Journey," by Zeev Schuss, describing wartime experiences of his childhood, which led him from his native Krakow, to Lwow, Bukhara, Tehran, and finally Jerusalem. Also contains Hebrew and Polish versions of the memoir.

  11. Eugen Heydt papers

    Contains correspondence, statements of payments from the German office of retirement and aid service payments to a Charlotte Heyd, living in Miami, Florida for the year 1978, and to Eugen Heydt and his child Gisela Heydt who applied for naturalization in 1951. The Heydts left Germany in 1938, to go to Johannesburg in South Africa.

  12. Photographs of Mauthausen

    Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp depicting the reburial of corpses.

  13. Experiences of my French Jewish family under German occupation

    Contains a typescript copy of a memoir which relates to Thomas J. Schwab's French family's experiences during the Holocaust.

  14. John Warren collection

    Mixture of miscellaneous items. Snapshots and negatives from liberated camp (Buchenwald). Inflationary million-mark bank note from Germany, 1923. Complete edition of May 8, 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes" with "Victory" headline. Postcards of Hitler with children. Poster (insert to magazine "Junge Heimat") of Hitler, greeting children at Christmas. Military order to John Weintraub authorizing him to requisition two truckloads of beds to be delivered to "town of Weimar and vicinity," likely for liberated prisoners from Buchenwald, April 1945.

  15. Official photos A Pictorial History

    Contains a photocopy of a photo album that includes battle scenes of World War II, but mostly includes scenes from Ohrdruf.

  16. John Kafka collection

    The John Kafka collection mainly consists of correspondence, printed material, and articles relating to Dr. John S. Kafka and Gertrude Kren’s (née Bloch) refutation of Rudolph Binion's (1927-2011) psychoanalytic theories on the origins of the Holocaust and correspondence related to the return of postcards and other items written by Adolf Hitler to Dr. Eduard Bloch. The collection also includes biographical material and articles written by Eduard Bloch as well as biographical material, photographs, and family research relating to the Bloch and Kafka families. Biographical material includes o...

  17. Jules Barrash letter

    The Jules Barrash letter consists of a typed testimony, written as a letter to family, by Jules Barrash, a Jewish-American liberator of the Buchenwald concentration camp, April 16, 1945. In the testimony, he describes the camp physically, his impressions taking a tour from a newly liberated French prisoner, and the hospital before bringing the other soldiers in his outfit in for a tour. He wrote that what he saw at Buchenwald showed him the reason they were fighting the war.

  18. Elias Trybuch papers

    Photographs, of donor as partisan in Belarus during WWII, and of memorial to murdered Jews in donor's hometown (Staipitz), along with letter from Neal Sher of OSI thanking Trybuch for assistance in prosecution of John Avdzej, which led to his expulsion/deportation from USA in 1984 for his role in collaborating with Germans as mayor of Staipitz during occupation.

  19. Kulturschande Selberlebnisse aus verschiedenen K.Z. Lagern

    Contains a memoir about Gertrude S. Stanchfield's experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Leitmeritz.

  20. Deutsches Reich Kennkarte for Henry Strauss

    One document, "Kennkarte" for Heinrich Sigmund Strauss, 1939.