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  1. Oral testimony of Julian Noga during his visit to the Flossenbürg memorial camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn501175
    • English
    • 1995
    • overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) 1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

    Amateur footage of Julian Noga and his daughter at the Flossenbürg memorial camp

  2. Letter written from Gurs concentration camp

    Consists of a letter from Arthur Adler, who lived in Karlsruhe, Germany prior to the Holocaust, composed in the Gurs internment camp prior to his murder at Auschwitz in 1942. The letter, dated 15 November 1940, was likely sent to his cousin, Justin Adler, who immigrated to the United States in 1938. Also included is an envelope for a letter addressed to Arthur from the United States that could not be delivered because he had already been deported.

  3. Stanford J. Shaw collection

    The Stanford J. Shaw collection consists of photocopied archival documents assembled by Shaw during the research he conducted for his book "Turkey and the Holocaust." Shaw located most of these documents in what he described as the “uncataloged archive” of the Turkish Consulate-General and the Turkish Embassy, both in Paris, France. The documents that he copied were primarily case files and related documentation about Turkish Jewish individuals and families who resided in France during the German occupation (1940-1944), and who sought assistance from Turkish diplomats to prevent their arres...

  4. Adela Roser collection

    Testimonies (2), one written by and about Adela Roser, and the other written by Roser about her late husband, Grigory, describing both of their experiences during Holocaust. Also includes Roser's poetry about the Warsaw Ghetto, and two broadsides, color, in Hebrew, about a Holocaust commemoration.

  5. Michael Roth papers

    Photocopies of documents and photographs, and one original document, from U.S. occupation authorities, attesting that Roth was a prisoner at Flossenbürg during Nazi era, 1945.

  6. Selected records relating to war criminals

    Copies of documents sent to USHMM from NARA, after declassification review and redaction of contents. Documents were from Headquarters, European Command, Intelligence Division, dating from 1951, and appear to deal with extradition of Nazi war criminals.

  7. Ernest Goldberg collection

    One letter, mimeographed, sent by Ernst Goldberger of Vienna, to Alex Goldberger of New York, August 1938, appealing to latter to assist him and his wife Hertha with emigration from Austria.

  8. Poem

    Poem, typescript, unpaginated, appears to have been written in 1940s, titled "Behold the Jew," by Ada Jackson, and dedicated to Walter and Anni Landau, and notation that it was the "Greenwood Prize Poem."

  9. Yefim Gorelik and family papers

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, Russian, with English translation, about experiences of Gorelik, originally of Parich, near Bobruisk, Belarus. Names list of villagers from Parich who were deported and/or killed by Germans, photographs of Gorelik's family. Typescript list appears to have been compiled from handwritten list in folder, that was compiled in Parich in August 1944, immediately following liberation.

  10. The destruction of Klimontow

    Testimony, 7 pages, titled "Destruction of Klimontow," by Mordechai (Motel) Penczyner, describes experiences in shtetl of Klimontow, in Kielce district, Poland, during German occupation. At end of typescript, states that came from testimony given to "historical committee" in Stuttgart in 1947.

  11. Fella Allon collection

    Consists of one memoir, 148 pages, written by Dr. Ada Rudi-Gershem, entitled "Conch."

  12. Cass R. Lewart papers

    Testimony, 19 pages, typescript, titled "My War Years." Also contains envelope in which donor's uncle, Roman Ryterband, sent a letter to his parents in Nowy Sacz, Poland in 1942, only to receive the envelope and letter back, with stamps on the envelope noting that the addressees had been deported.

  13. A family history

    Photocopied typescripts compiled by various members of the extended Marmorek family, documenting their emigration from Austria during the Nazi era. Compiled in 1991.

  14. Memoirs of Irene Arnold

    The Memoirs of Irene Arnold consist of a 71 page testimony in which she describes her childhood and upbringing in New York, work with the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) as part of a team sent to Lisbon under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM) in 1942, and postwar work with UNRRA in Europe.

  15. Document

    The Jewish Communities of Shanghai collection comprises photocopies of a sample of archival materials about the Jewish communities of Shanghai from archival and private sources in Taipei, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Materials include records from the Kuomintang Archives and Shanghai Municipal Archives and from individuals Regina Strubreiter, Annemarie Pordes, and Tess Johnston. Records from the Kuomintang Archives include catalogs, foreign ministry records, Shanghai city government announcements, Shanghai Kuomintang Party records, newspapers, and clippings. Records from the Shanghai Municipal ...

  16. Photographs of mass grave sites at Dora-Mittelbau

    Photographs of mass graves at Dora-Mittelbau being viewed by local German residents of Nordhausen.

  17. Robert E. Herzstein collection

    Consists of a paper entitled "The American Media, the Survivors and the Establishment of the State of Israel 1945-1948: An Analysis of 'Time,' 'Life,' and 'The New York Times'," by Dr. Robert Edwin Herzstein. The paper, 47 pages, was presented at an international conference entitled "The Jewish People at the End of World War II," held at Yad Vashem on October 10, 1995.

  18. Thekla Samuel papers

    The Thekla Samuel papers contain documents relating to Thekla Samuel, a Jewish nurse from Cologne, Germany who sought refuge from Nazi persecution in Belgian Congo in 1938. At the time of increasing hostility towards Jews, Thekla fled Germany by marrying her pen pal, German born watchmaker, Erich Samuel who lived in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo. Included among her papers is correspondence from friends and family in Germany, primarily from her father, Moritz Bamberger, and papers documenting her travel preparations including a fiancée visa request filed by Erich, her ship passage informatio...

  19. Alfred Meyer papers

    Death certificate for Alfred Meyer, who died at Buchenwald in November 1938, and receipts for expenses of his burial at Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt am Main; letter from camp announcing his death to his widow, Mrs. Erna Meyer; and later correspondence (post-war) as she sought to trace fates of other family members.

  20. Edward S. Lowenstern papers

    Photo of anti-semitic caricatures near donor's former home in Germany (1936), small leaflets with antisemitic and Nazi slogans on them (such as "Wir achten keinerlei Klasse, sondern die arische Rasse!"), and news clipping.