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Language of Description: English

  1. A memoir relating to experiences in Luxembourg, Belgium, and France during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, photocopy.

  2. Paula Balkin correspondence

    Paula Balkin correspondence is comprised of letters between Balkin and her family and friends. Letters and postcards document the lives of Paula Balkin; her parents Abraham (Otto) and Gertrude (Trude) Grünbaum and her sister Edith; Balkin’s grandmother Rose Schmulewitz; Balkin’s uncle and aunt Leo and Eva Schmulewitz; Balkin’s uncle and aunt Abraham (Adolf) and Clara (Clärchen) Koppold and their children Harold, Siegmar, and Zilla; Balkin’s aunt Yette Ribetzki Pietrkowski and her daughter Vera; and family friends Marjane Mitdank and Johanna (Hanni or Hans) Wagner in Leipzig. Most of the cor...

  3. Alice Herman papers

    Photocopied documents, from wartime Poland, for Henryk and Jadwiga Ziembinski.

  4. Zalman Lubocki memoir

    The memoir of Zalman Lubocki of Kaunas, Lithuania is his eyewitness account of the German invasion in June 1941, life in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, imprisonment at Stutthof, hard labor, liberation, and his arrival as a displaced person at Landsberg, Germany. The collection is comprised of the original copy of the 100 page memoir written in Yiddish in 1945 when Zalman was living in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  5. Ruth Taub Feldman papers

    The Ruth Taub Feldman papers consists of photographs of the Taub family, biographical materials documenting the Taub family, Ruth’s brief memoir, letters to Ruth from her father and Gilbert Kraus, an autograph book inscribed by Ruth’s parents and friends, clippings, and a newsletter. The papers document Ruth Taub’s immigration as one of the "50 children" in the spring of 1939, and the immigration of her parents, Markus and Jeanette, from Vienna to the United States in March 1940. The papers also include a copy of Brith Sholom's July 1939 newsletter, "The Royal Recorder," featuring an articl...

  6. Arnold H. Einhorn papers

    Photocopied identity documents for Arnold Einhorn including a Spanish immigration document, French documents attesting to Einhorn's service in the Jewish Brigade, and documentation that he was enrolled at University of Montpellier, in France.

  7. Letter relating to the liberation of Wöbbelin

    Letter, dated March 1945, to "Don," written in Omaha, likely letter from wife/girlfriend of soldier to soldier, on back of letter is list of places in Germany and Austria where soldier apparently was between January and June 1945.

  8. Memories of war

    Testimony, printed, approximately 15 pages, about Barratt's military service, including liberation of Dachau, as compiled by his daughter, Ruthye Payne, along with copies of photos and documents.

  9. Peter Eban Leitner collection

    Contains the thesis entitled "Resolution of Black" and miscellaneous news clips by and about Isabella Leitner.

  10. The manuscript of a novel entitled "Yehova's Curse,"

    Contains the manuscript of a novel entitled "Yehova's Curse," which asks the question, "Where Was God?"

  11. Frank Klein and family papers

    Photocopied documents related to post-war experience of Frantisek (Franz, Ferenc, Frank) Klein, of Slovakia, including immigration and restitution documents, affidavits, including description of wartime internment in forced labor camps.

  12. German Military and Para-Military Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe

    Contains several different types of records, including finding aids for the records of numerous German units (e.g., SS-Artillerie Ersatz-Regiment, München; SS-Artillerie Ausbildungs- und Ersatz-Regiment, Prag), held by the Czech Military Historical Institute. Included are individual documents from various files, such as monthly reports and faxes, German personnel reassignment name lists (Veränderungsmeldungen), and brief Czech-language outline descriptions of various camps.

  13. Otto Wolf and Felicitas Garda papers

    The Otto Wolf and Felicitas Garda papers consist primarily of four volumes describing the lives and activities of the Wolf family from the time they entered hiding in 1942 to escape the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia until their liberation in 1945. The first three volumes are written by Otto Wolf. Otto’s entries describe meals, weather conditions, the state of the family’s shelter, prayer, interactions with rescuers, dramatic developments, and occasional news of the war. After Otto’s arrest, Felicitas took it upon herself to carry on the diary entries. Her entries imitate Otto’s reporting styl...

  14. Documents relating to the Jewish community of Guben

    Photocopies of news clippings (from local paper, "Lausitzer Rundschau," 1990s) and older documents (copies), pertaining to Jewish community of Guben (eastern Germany, on Oder River).

  15. Regina Tigel papers

    Photocopy of Soviet document, attesting that donor (Regina Blufstein) fought as a partisan during war, and tear sheet from a Russian-language Israeli newspaper (1991), with an article telling Blufstein's (Tigel's) story, as well as two copy print photos of her.

  16. Arthur Kleinman and family papers

    Testimony, oral history transcript, 48 pages, typescript, titled "Interview of Blanche Stern, by Carol Oster and Art Kleinman." Describes childhood in Munkacs, Hungary (Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia), deportation to Auschwitz.

  17. Karima Cristella collection

    Contains papers relating to refugee relief work of the Rev. Peter Abraham Azar.

  18. "Memoirs of Violet Dattner"

    Consists of a transcript of the dictated memoir of Violet Dattner, originally of Transylvania. She studied in Paris in the 1930s and met and married her husband, Willy, in Belgium in 1938. They lived in Antwerp until May 1940 when they escaped into France. They were temporarily arrested in 1940, attempted to escape through Spain, but were turned back to Belgium. In 1940, they were able to escape to Havana, Cuba. She also describes her experiences trying to help other family emigrate and in the post-war years, to obtain restitution and information regarding family who perished, as well as he...

  19. Place called Dachau

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopy of typescript, account by American soldier titled "Place Called Dachau" about liberation of that camp by Allied soldiers.

  20. Roman Ziegler and family papers

    Copy of letter to Roman Ziegler, 1981, from Council of Jewish Communities in CSSR, concerning Ziegler's search for the grave of his sister, Bala. Also, copy of article from Czech newspaper (undated) describing Ziegler's search for information about his sisters' fate, as well as a translation of the same, along with a photo of the gravesite.