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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Robert Weinel photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of sign reading, “This Area is being retained as a shrine to the 238,000 individuals who were cremated here / Please don’t destroy.” With urns and cross hanging on the wall behind it; inscription on verso: “Dachau / April 1946.” Brought home from WWII by Cpl Robert Weinel (donor’s father) who was stationed with the US Army in Germany during this time.

  2. Marian and Moscuna families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Marian family of Cîmpulung and Suceava, Romania and the Moscuna family of Bucharest, Romania. Included is wartime family correspondence, immigration documents, and a document regarding stolen family valuables after they were deported from Cîmpulung to Transnistiria in 1941. There is also a donor-provided family history, and documents of Octav Moscuna regarding his forced-labor in Bucharest.

  3. Bernard S. Barr photographs

    The Bernard S. Barr photographs include two photographs of Barr during World War II; photographic negatives of the liberation of Dachau, including images of Barr at the camp, along with corresponding prints; and stereoscopic photographs from the 1937 “Reichsparteitag der Arbeit” Nazi propaganda series. The propaganda photographs are numbered 38, 55- 56, 58-61, 64-72, 74, 77, 96, 98-100. They were part of a compilation issued by Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein with photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann and text by Pitter Gern.

  4. US Certificate of Citizenship holder

    Holder for Hans Rosenbaum's Certificate of Naturalization, dated May 18, 1944.

  5. Selected Documents from the Monastery of the of Notre-Dame de Sion, Paris (Archives of the Fathers and Brothers)

    This collection is from the archives of the men’s’ religious order of Notre-Dame de Sion (NDS) in Paris and documents the monastery’s efforts in saving European Jews, especially children, during the rise of Nazism and the period of the German Occupation during World War II. It consists of printed publications by the order in French, handwritten ledgers keeping track of children entrusted to NDS during World War II and who sometimes remained with Catholic families after the war, diaries of the priests and brothers, and a history of the congregation composed by one of its members, Father Cols...

  6. Margolius family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs surrounding the experiences of the Margolius family during the Holocaust.

  7. Goldfeld and Rauchbach families papers

    Letters, documents, and photos related to Beate Rocker (nee Goldfeld), her parents Israel & Dora Goldfeld (nee Heitner) and her brother, Albert Goldfield (originally Goldfeld). Also includes a book of congratulatory telegrams for the marriage of Marie Brandstetter and Hermann Rauchbach as well as photos and a document related to their son Otto Rauchbach (later Rocker). Also includes Kurth Rauchbach (later Rocker)'s 1945 account of his wartime experience.

  8. Jerome Balmuth collection

    Collection of Jerome Balmuth related to his military service including: US Army documents, two "Letters on Record," and photographs. Also included are photographs of Jerome Balmuth as a child with his parents, his graduation photo from Amherst and a program from his graduation, and a photograph of Prof. Balmuth teaching at Colgate in 1975.

  9. Selected records from the Regional State Archive in Litoměřice

    Features administrative records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets and the enactment of anti-Jewish measures in Litoměřice and surrounding regions of the Czech Republic; Nazi prosecutorial records; and post-war Czech Extraordinary People's Court and Public Prosecutor records. This is ongoing duplication project. Individual collection titles and record groups with archival signatures are as follows: a. Administrative records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets and the enactment of anti-Jewish measures in Litoměřice and surrounding regi...

  10. Edith Hahn-Beer collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Hahn-Beer, originally of Vienna, Austria, including forced-labor in Osterburg and Aschersleben, Germany, living in Munich and Brandenburg an der Havel under the false-identity of Margarete Denner, and marriage to German Nazi officer Werner Vetter. The bulk of the collection consists of wartime correspondence between Edith and her fiancé Joseph Rosenfeld, along with family correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs.

  11. Zaiband family collection

    Oral history interview with Morris Zaiband. Oral history interview with Ruth Finder Zaiband and Morris Zaiband.

  14. Cardarelli family collection

    Oral history interviews with Silvana (Cardarelli) Fabrizi and Maria (Cardarelli) Puzzanghero, an annotated transcript, and original photos from San Donato Val di Comino, Italy

  15. Levisson family collection

    The collection consists of sketchbooks with hand-colored drawings, correspondence, documents, identity papers, and geneological materials relating to the experiences of the Levisson family, particularly Benno M. Levisson, while living in the Netherlands, a portion of the time in hiding, and Curaçao before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  16. Cornelia Heise collection

    The collection consists of a banknote and papers documenting the experiences of Cornelia Heise during her service with UNRRA child services in Germany after World War II (1939-1945).

  17. Ze’ev Raveh Werba collection

    The Ze’ev Raveh Werba collections consist of a tablecloth, documents, awards, certificates, manuscripts, and photographs documenting Ze’ev Raveh Werba in prewar Maniewicze, Poland (Manevychi, Ukraine), as a partisan during the war, and after the war in the Adriatic displaced persons camp in Italy and then in Israel. Documents recognize Werba for his participation as a partisan and in the Israeli Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel. The manuscripts describe Werba’s experiences during and after the Holocaust. Photographs depict the Werba family in Maniewicze before the war; Werba as a partisan ...

  20. Muller family collection

    Oral history interviews with Louis and Eva Muller