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Language of Description: English

  1. Peter Clapham collection

    The collection consists of photocopies of hand written personal letters, prison documents, and memorabilia relating to accused Nazi war criminals for crimes committed at Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps as well as to other major war criminals in the British zone who were imprisoned, tried, and/or hanged at Lüneburg, Hameln Zuchthaus, and Werl Zuchthaus and Allied National Prison.

  2. Joseph Crane collection

    The material relates to Joseph Crane's experiences and relationships with people he met at Civilian Internment Camp #5. The collection consists of photographs of SS personnel, a statement given by an internee of Civilian Internment Camp #5, a letter of protest from some internees regarding the delay in their release, two poems, a report about war criminals and war crimes trials, and an arrest report.

  3. Helmut Eschwege collection

    Contains copies of documents relating to the confiscation of property from Dr. Albert Einstein, Kurt Grossmann, and two German Jews who fled Nazi Germany. Also includes records from a synagogue in Leipzig, Germany.

  4. "Nur die toten durften bleiben"

    Martina Baudis' memoir describes why she felt the Nazis wanted to exterminate Jews and the result of Nazi racial policies.

  5. Records relating to Jews in Ober-Ramstadt

    Contains photocopies of documents regarding Ober Ramstadt, Germany during the Nazi era, including a list of Jews living in the town in 1933; local NSDAP election results; documents regarding the seizure of Jewish apartments for Germans; and local government memos regarding Jewish persecution and taxation for Kristallnacht destruction.

  6. Diary of experiences at Terezín

    Contains photocopies of pages of Eugenie Singer's diary as the pages appeared in the original diary and a copy of the transcription located at Beit Theresienstadt.

  7. Helping Jews during World War II My reminiscences

    Contains a typescript testimony, 2 pages, about the author's experiences in occupied Lwów during war.

  8. Edit Molnar collection

    Consists of an untitled chapter of a memoir, 22 pages, written by Klara Molnar, regarding her experiences at Auschwitz. She describes her memories of the reaction of neighbors to being rounded up and taken to the brick factory at Budakalász, Hungary, in July 1944, and her experiences on the train to Auschwitz. The chapter ends as she arrives at the camp. Also includes a poem by Klara Molnar about the Holocaust and a photocopy of a four-page essay entitled "The Punishment" about the beating of prisoners at Auschwitz in September 1944. Klara's daughter, Edit, translated the material.

  9. The story of my tragic life

    Testimony, photocopy of Yiddish manuscript (104 p) and English translation (168 pages), titled "The Story of My Tragic Life" by Sonya Papper, translated by Morris Nimovitz. Describes Papper's experiences in German-occupied Ukraine.

  10. Irving Ganz letter

    Contains a photocopy of a letter, 8 pages, written by Chaplain Irving Ganz to his parents in the U.S., sent from Frankfurt in January 1946 (although mistakenly dated 1945), describing his work with displaced persons (DPs) at Zeilsheim and elsewhere.

  11. People's Court Trial records of July 1944 against members of Germany's armed forces who had tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler

    The collection relates to the People's Court Trial of July 1944 which tried members of the Germany military who had plotted against and had tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Contains interrogations, narratives, and photographs of the trial's participants.

  12. Max Hertz correspondence

    Consist of two letters relating to the affidavit requests, and two photographs of members of the Hertz family.

  13. Rudolf Hess deposition

    The deposition of Rudolf Hess, taken 30 August 1947, relating to the activities of war cimes. The interview was conducted by Robert Donihi.

  14. Melanie Marinkovic collection

    Relates to Holocaust experiences in in Yugoslavia.

  15. Helen Otley collection

    Memoir, typescript, 78 pages, titled "Meine Lebensgeschichte bis Ende des Krieges im Jahr 1945," by Helen Otley, as well as an English translation of the same, titled "The Story of My Life," as well as copies of documents relating to her imprisonment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and two newspaper articles about her life story, from 1994. The memoir describes her childhood in Vienna and Zagreb, her family's history, Vienna during the 1930s, her political activism as a Social Democrat during her university years, her search for work in Germany following the annexation of Austria, and her employment...

  16. Martha Bernstein collection

    The Martha Bernstein collection includes photocopies of material originally created in the 1940s relating to the wartime experiences of the Bernstein and Heumann families. Included in the collection is correspondence from Therese Heumann, Martha Bernstein's oldest sister, letters between the Bernstein and Blakenstein families, poems written by Benjamin Blankenstein, a fourteen-page diary written by Helene Blumenfeld, and documents issued in Westerbork and Theresienstadt.

  17. Joseph Levy collection

    Containts testimony and correspondence describing Jeseph Levy's experiences in Cologne, Germany; his deportation to Riga and then a succession of camps; his liberation in Kiel; and settlement in Sweden as a displaced person, where he met his wife, a Polish-born DP. Include materials related to his story, such as copy of verdict in post-trial against Nazis who administered Riga ghetto, and a typescript copy of a memoir titled "Mensch unter Menschen," by Werner Sauer, written in Berlin in 1948, which also describes life in Riga ghetto, 278 pages.

  18. Hannelore Marx collection

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, describing author's experience of deportation from Germany to Riga ghetto and subsequent years in nearby concentration camps (Kaiserwald and Jungfernhof) before eventual liberation.

  19. Michael Mautner and Irene Horvath collection

    Photographs, typescript, and Yad Vashem certificate.

  20. Nicholas Reitter collection

    Contains photocopies of a letter and newspaper article, both dated 1993, regarding the reburial of Admiral Horthy in Hungary.