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  1. Steven Paskuly papers

    Contains Steven Paskuly's editorial work on "Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz."

  2. John Stanley Grauel papers

    The John Stanley Grauel papers consist of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Grauel's experiences as a crew member on the Exodus 1947, his support for the creation of the State of Israel, and his lifelong career speaking about the Exodus and fighting anti‐ Semitism. Correspondence includes a handful of postcards, letters, and telegrams from around the time of the Exodus 1947’s journey, later correspondence remembering the voyage, correspondence about related book projects, advocacy correspondence, and letters of thanks for presentations made by Gra...

  3. Frieda and Max Reinach diary

    Contains a handwritten diary by Frieda (née Schwarzschild, 1887–1942) and Marcus (Max, 1878–1942) Reinach. Frieda and Max Reinach kept a diary in Berlin from September 1, 1939 to October 24, 1942. On October 26, 1942, they were deported to Riga, and later Kaiserwald concentration camp where they were murdered. The diary describes their life under the Nazi occupation. The collection also includes an English translation, a short history of how the diary reached the United States, and three photographs of the Reinach family members: Ilana Schwartz with her mother, Ilana Schwartz with her fathe...

  4. COHASCO collection

    Contains six documents that include a letter of "representation of Polish Jews," regarding Dr. Emil Reich of Oświęcim, a Hapoel Hamizrahi rescue letter for a Czech Jewess refugee in Hungary, a small broadside to donate funds to 150 rabbinic refugee families who escaped from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, a letter to a committee for Polish affairs from a Polish war invalid in Israel, an International Red Cross letter regarding a missing mother and aunt, and a UJA-JNF tree card with a portrait of Theodore Herzl.

  5. Heini Halberstam collection

    Consists of correspondence from Judith Halberstam, originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia, to her son, Heini Halberstam, who left on a Kindertransport to England in April 1939. The correspondence, which was diverted through family in Belgium, New York, and Zurich, was sent prior to Judith's deportation on June 10, 1942 as part of a reprisal for the death of Reinhard Heydrich. Includes identification documents for Heini and a pre-war black and white photograph of Judith.

  6. David Berger papers

    The papers consist of a letter in Yiddish written by Charles Fechtenbaum in 1988, a translation of the letter into English, and a clipping from "Jewish Currents", November 1999, relating to Ania Francos' life and to the Holocaust experiences of the Fechtenbaum family.

  7. Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers

    The Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers consist of correspondence, copied documents, interview transcripts, trial transcripts, notes, typescript texts, and other similar materials compiled during the research and writing of a book to be titled “Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust,” an examination of the leadership of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Congregation of Vienna, or IKG) and the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt, and in particular the roles of Benjamin Murmelstein and Josef Löwenherz, in response to Nazi persecution of the Jewish community following the annexat...

  8. German educational film: rice farming practices in Southeast Asia

    This German educational film focuses on rice farmers in an unidentified country in Southeast Asia (most likely Indonesia). The film features men and women working in the rice fields, several majestic shots of the stepped land and perfectly manicured rice paddies. Oxen are used by the men to tend to the paddies. VS of collecting the rice, men and women back in the village sorting the day's harvest. MCU of an altar with flowers and various other items. INT, MS of women separating the grains from the stalk using large sticks. CU of a young boy eating the spare grains of rice that fall to the f...

  9. Hitlerjugend scrapbook

    Ulrich von Fumetti's scrapbook includes photographs, postcards, letters, and newspaper articles that depict his training in the Hitler Youth or Hitlerjugend in preparation for a career in the military.

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 48 and 49 -- Testimony of Perla Mark and Dr. T. Lowenstein Lavi; Romanian documents

    Session 48. Testimony from Perla Mark who describes the burning of the main synagogue in Czernowitz and the murder of Jews including her husband, the town's chief rabbi. Mark gives an account of the deportation of her son and brother to Theresienstadt. She states that her brother died in Theresienstadt and that her son was sent to Auschwitz, where he was forced to play cello in the camp orchestra. Begins in the middle of testimony from Theodor Löwenstein. The witness speaks in Hebrew. Löwenstein describes the physical measures against the Jews in Romania including the pogroms in Jassy, Bess...

  11. Nicolas Weill papers

    The Nicolas Weill papers consist of copies of court documents, evidentiary documents, press clippings, printed materials, and research files pertaining to Maurice Papon, secretary general of the Gironde prefecture under the Vichy regime, investigations into his collaboration in the deportation of Jews from Gironde during the Holocaust, and his 1997‐1998 trial. Court documents include copies of the indictment against Papon, hearing schedules, lists of parties involved, interventions, and arguments made by attorneys for the prosecution. Evidentiary documents include photocopies of official re...

  12. Diary of Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front

    The diary was written by a unknown Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front between 23 September 1941 and 27 December 1941. In the diary the soldier provides very detailed descriptions of daily life and his experiences. On 23 September 1941 he describes witnessing Jews march down the road wearing yellow stars and on 30 September 1941 he describes arriving at an unidentified town where Jews had recently been hanged for supposedly burning a bridge. The diary includes French vocabulary practice and some brief entries in shorthand.

  13. Records of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Romania

    Contains requests addressed to Maresal Ion Antonescu's office of the Presedintia Consiliului de Ministri of Romania from Jews wanting restitution for confiscated property, and requests by Jews to be considered and treated as non-Jewish Romanian citizens. Also contains records relating to Jews in forced labor in Romania and deportations of Jews from Romania, including records relating to refugees in Northern Transylvania, organization and administration of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria provinces.

  14. Ida Cohen correspondence

    Contains letters written from Suwalki, Poland to Ida Cohen in San Antonio, Texas, 1945: two letters from Kazimierz Wawrzyn, a friend of Ms. Cohen's and a resident of Krasnopol; one letter from Jadzi Bak in Krasnopol, dated November 1945; one letter from Father Jan Florek in Krasnopol, dated November 13, 1945.

  15. Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov manuscript

    Contains a 187 page manuscript with information about Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov's Holocaust experiences.

  16. Memory Deportation recollections

    Contains a memoir, 69 pages, by Jules Fainzang about his deportation from Drancy, France, on August 28, 1942, to Metz, Cosel (Poland), Sacrau, Shemianowitz, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald. He was liberated on April 13, 1945.

  17. Thomas Benson collection

    Contains seven black-and-white photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. Thomas B. Benson took these photographs during World War II while serving as a Major in the United States Army assigned to the 301st Combat Engineer Battalion

  18. Treitel family papers

    Contains an identification card for Friedel Strykowski from Mauthausen and four black and white photographs of Herbert Treitel's first wife, Gerda Bass Treitel and their two children, Bela and Ralph Treitel.

  19. Jane Ponczek photographs

    The Jane Ponczek photographs document her family before World War II in Poland. Photographs and copy prints include a wedding portrait of Holocaust victims Munisch Labiner and Sara Shajter Labiner in 1934 in Skała-Podolska, Poland; a photograph of the Shajter family in Skała-Podolska (Sara Labiner at the top left and Beila Shajter in the doorway); and a photograph of Chaim Weizmann with Holocaust survivor Jane Ponczek and other orphans in Wrocław, Poland after the war (Jane has her hand on Weizmann’s right shoulder).

  20. Julie Lando memoir

    Contains a memoir about Julie Lando's childhood experiences in Germany, changes that occurred in her life when the Nazis came to power, and Julie Lando's journey via ship on the M.S.Oakland via the Azores to Columbia, the Panama Canal, Costa Rica, Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.