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  1. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Information and Press Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy (Sygn. 202/III/1-116)

    Contains information on the activities of the Department of Information and Press; monitoring of Nazi terrorism; monitoring of resistance movements; monitoring of radio broadcasts in Poland; surveys of underground press; and surveys of foreign press. Also contains information on Majdanek and other concentration camps, file # 202/III-12.

  2. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Sprawiedliwości, Przemysłu, Handlu i Rolnictwa (Sygn.202/IV-VI)

    Contains information about laws and legislation; conditions in industry (especially petroleum and electronics); financial and economic situations; and the agricultural situation during the German occupation of Poland.

  3. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departamenty Edukacji, Pracy, Pomocy Społecznej, Skarbu, Komunikacji, Robót Publicznych i Rekonstrukcji, Likwidacji Konsekwencji Wojny, Narodowej Obrony (Sygn.202/VII-XIII)

    Contains information about the establishment, administration, financial management, and activities of several Delegacy of Government departments including the departments of Education, Labor and Welfare, Treasury, Communication, Public Works and Reconstruction, Liquidation of the Consequences of War, and National Defense during the German occcupation. Also contains information about economic conditions in Warsaw during the German occupation.

  4. Nazi propaganda: war in the Balkans

    This "Sonderbericht der Deutschen Wochenschau" [Special report of the German weekly newsreel] starts on April 4, 1941 with footage of Goebbels addressing the German people via radio and von Ribbentrop delivering diplomatic letters to the ambassadors of Yugoslavia and Greece. Then soldiers, armored personal carriers, and tanks cross the Yugoslav border into Croatia from Styria, thus opening the Southeastern front of WWII after an alleged 'new provocation by the British.' German Stukas [dive fighters] and Italian warplanes fly over Greek mountains. Serbian fortresses and bunkers are captured,...

  5. Odessa Oblast Archive records from the collections of Yad Vashem

    Contains documentation of the Romanian occupation of Transnistria and the fate of the Jews on that territory. Subjects include the evacuation of Jews from Odessa; Aryanization; the activities of the gendarmerie; the forced labor of Jews, including physicians, pharmacists, and dentists; transports to ghettos, with name lists; support for Jews in Transnistria from the Jewish community in Bucharest; and public health matters.

  6. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda film (part)

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts.

  7. Oral history interview with Freda Silberberg Wineman

  8. Memories revisited

    Testimony, typescript, 13 pages, "Memories Revisited" by Fred Rosenbaum, 1995. Recounts feelings and experiences in returning to his childhood home in Vienna fifty years after his family fled the Nazis.

  9. Photocopies of documents, letters and publications relating to the persecution of Jews and Jewish resistance in Belgium during the Holocaust

    Photocopies of documents, letters and publications relating to the persecution of Jews and Jewish resistance in Belgium during the Holocaust.

  10. Arthur Klein and Rudolf Huber memoirs

    Contains testimonies by Arthur Klein and Rudolf Huber about the Jewish communities in Nove Mesto and Zarosice, Czechoslovakia during German occupation. Includes translations of the texts created by Fred and Leon Deutsch.

  11. Rampart "Szaniec"

    Szaniec (Rampart) was a weekly newsletter devoted to Poles in captivity. This collection contains articles about forced labor, the massacre of Polish intellectuals, resettlement, news from the front, and the German occupation of other countries.

  12. "Outpost" "Placówka"

    Contains copies of Placówka, a weekly newspaper for “the Polish village” published clandestinely in Warsaw in 1940. Topics include discussions of the war in general including war news in other theaters and U.S. efforts to build a war machine larger than Germany’s; the need for Polish farmers to retain their land at all costs; the efforts of the occupiers to substitute German and Soviet culture for Polish culture; Soviet deportations of Poles; a speech by the Pope; and plans for the postwar period (assuming the defeat of Germany), specifically that Poland should use German lands to solve agr...

  13. Der Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes in Frankreich records (Sygn. 350)

    Contains records from the commander-in-chief of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in France. Included are organization and personal files on Frenchmen and Germans; financial and economic records on matters such as salaries, taxes, and pay lists; files on the Catholic church; material about youth organizations; orders and correspondence of the SD; and documents regarding the resistance.

  14. "Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors"

    Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors, formerly entitled "Legacy: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors" was a project began by Evvy Eisen in 1992, which sought to photograph Holocaust survivors and accompany their portraits with a biography of their life during the Holocaust. The portraits are taken in black and white silver gelatin prints. While most of the portraits are 11"x14", some of the later portraits are 8"x11." The biographies are generally several pages long, and tell the stories of each individual’s story through the Holocaust. The United States Holoc...

  15. Norbert and Gloria Lachman collection

    Documents relate to the tenuous situation for Norbert Lachman and his family as Jews in Danzig the late 1930s; his subsequent experiences as a student at an ORT school in Berlin; his return to Danzig in 1939 and his memories of the situation for Jews at that time; and immigration with his family to New York by way of Berlin, Ostend, and London.

  16. Morris Rosen collection

    Photograph negatives of grave sites of female victims of a death march from Ravensbrück and Gruenberg camps to Volary, Czechoslovakia; information relating to survivors and victims of Volary, Czechoslovakia, Dombrowa ghetto, and an unidentified labor camp in Breslau; photographs of acquaintances who were Holocaust survivors and photocopies of postcards to Gruenberg, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen; questionnaires for Rawa Ruska and Yakub Kalpern.

  17. Susan Warsinger papers

    The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...

  18. Mixed media sculpture representing a rescued Torah scroll

    Mixed media sculpture created by Alice Lok Cahana, 1989-1990, Houston, Texas and received by Shaike Weinberg as a gift from the artist.

  19. German occupation of Poland

    MCU, Polish war posters. CU, Polish officers leaving building. HAS, captured Polish soldiers. HAS, German soldiers marching through streets of Poland, Polish citizens in BG. MS, German color guards and German band. MCU, Hitler. MS, German color guard goose-stepping. MS, massed troops marching down the street, being reviewed by Hitler. HA, MLS, troops as they pass the reviewing stand. CU, Hitler saluting Sieg Heil. MCU, bell ringing.

  20. Liquidation by Germans of Jews in Jaslo and environs in 1942

    Contains a memoir in Polish, entitled "Likwidacja Zydow w Jasle i okolicy w 1942 r., przez Niemcow" [Liquidation by Germans of Jews in Jaslo and Environs in 1942] by Professor Jan Raczka of Krakow, Poland.