Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 1 to 20 of 26,867
Language of Description: English
Country: United States
  1. The Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

    This collection of mixed media contains manuscripts, photographs, publications, artifacts and works of art collected and owned by Georg and Max Bredig. The collection documents Georg Bredig's scientific training and rise to prominence as a gifted physical chemist in pre-World War II Germany. In contrast, the scope of the collection takes a dramatic shift after the Nazi rise to power in 1933. As a result of Bredig's Jewish descent, his scientific career and very way of life was brought to an abrupt halt. These documents describe the Bredig family's struggle to survive the horrors of Nazi-occ...

  2. Oral history interviews of the Marcia Horn collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, veterans, a rescuer, a witness, and the child of a Holocaust survivor produced by Dr. Marcia Horn.

  3. George Birman collection

    The collection consists of a belt, hunting knife, pliers, wristwatch, agenda planners, documents, and photographic materials relating to the experiences of George Birman and his father Abel before World War II in Lithuania, during the war when they were interned in Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto and Kedahnen (Kedainiai) labor camp, and after the war as displaced persons, including George's postwar education and work with displaced persons in Vienna, Austria.

  4. Henry F. Kahn collection

    The collection consists of an MS St Louis demitasse spoon, envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials collected between approximately 1945 and 1985 by Henry F. Kahn, who fled Nazi Germany in January 1939 for the United States.

  5. Ava Kadishson Schieber collection

    The collection consists of ten drawings and two paintings created by Ava Hegedish while living in hiding near Belgrade, Yugoslave, during the Holocaust.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection

    Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection, created in the late 1970s during the Ehrlichs' research for the book "Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust," about the fate of the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Holocaust era. Contents include interviews related to key figures in the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Nazi era, including Benjamin Murmelstein, rabbi and member of the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt and Josef Löwenherz, leader of the Jewish Community of Vienna under Nazi rule and subsequently the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt. Other intervie...

  7. United We Win poster collection

    The collection consists of two United We Win posters produced by the United States during World War II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front.

  8. Eddie Mills Murphy collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, original photographs, and photographic negatives relating to the experiences of Eddie Mills Murphy, during and after World War II, when he served as a soldier in the United States Army, 3264th Signal Photo Battalion, and was assigned as a photographer at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg War Crimes trials from 1945-1946.

  9. Mathilde Schwarz Rosenblatt collection

    The collection consists of burnt page fragments from Hebrew books, a Pentatuch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mathilde Schwarz Rosenblatt before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria.

  10. Imre Amos collection

    The collection consists of a set of prints of linocuts, Zsido Unnepek [Jewish Holidays] created by Imre Amos, a Hungarian Jewish artist, and published during the Holocaust during which he perished in Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany.

  11. Baer family collection

    The collection consists of two multi-volume sets of Jewish prayer books and a photograph relating to the experiences of Lore Baer, her parents Hellmuth and Hedwig, and her brother Max in Germany, France, Shanghai, Britain, and Australia before and during the Holocaust.

  12. US Anti-Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of three postcards, two posters, a flier, and a pamphlet produced in America, protesting the Nazi regime in Germany.

  13. Leo Vogel collection

    The collection consists of a hand stamp, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leo Vogel in prewar Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as postwar correspondence between the attorneys and Mr. Vogel's daughter, Marlies Levenger, concerning his restitution claim.

  14. Edward J. Diehm collection

    The collection consists of a German coin, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edward J. Diehm while a sergeant in the United States Army during World War II.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Davide Ivaldi collection

    Oral history interviews with former residents of Sualki, Poland who endured WWII in Siberia and elsewhere.

  16. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a coat, vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David and Lisa Eizenberg before and after the war in Germany when David worked with the Joint Distribution Committee and HIAS assisting displaced persons in Germany and Palestine.

  17. Morris Dembowitz collection

    The collection consists of a poster, documents, and photographic prints relating to the discovery of Gardelegen and Ohrdruf concentration camps in Germany and a letter attesting to the origin of the "Treblinka Song" record.

  18. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute lantern slide collection

    The collection of lantern slides and boxes is from the holdings of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. This Institute for anthropology and genetics was one of many centers used for the study of eugenics during the Third Reich. Aside from ordering sterilization and other eugenic "procedures," medical experiments originating in euthenasia killing centers and concentration camps were also evaluated at the Institute. Such names as Von Verschuer, Fischer, and Mengele are associated with the Institute. The slides contained in the boxes were probably used for teaching purposes. The slid...

  19. Lester D. Edelstein collection

    Consists of an original photocopy of a letter writen by a soldier in the 11th Armored division regarding the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The soldier, whose name is unknown, described what they witnessed when they entered the camp and what they learned from prisoners with whom they spoke. Also includes a speech, on audio CD, with Lester D. Edelstein, who was a captain in the 11th Armored Division (63rd Armored Infantry Battalion), in which he describes his memories of Mauthausen, including how the camp smelled and his impressions of how people managed to survive.

  20. Denker and Kleiner family collection

    The collection consists of a doctor's bag relating to the experiences of Josef Kleiner before and during the Holocaust in Poland which he, his wife Jocheved, and their son Adolf (later Al) survived by living in hiding and also photographs relating to the experiences of the Denker and Kleiner families in Budzanoff, Poland, before and after the war.