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  1. Schwab family papers

    Contains letters written by Levi and Selma (Sara) Schwab in Büdesheim, Germany, to their children Karl and Lilly, in Chicago. Also includes documents related to Karl and Lilly's unsuccessful efforts to help their parents emigrate from Germany.

  2. Liberation papers

    Contains one booklet entitled, "Berlin," prepared under the direction of the 78th Division Special Services Office, an album of black and white picture postcards of Germany, a map of Berlin showing the location of Special Service Clubs, American Red Cross Clubs as well as other recreational facilities, and thirty-four signal corp black and white photographs.

  3. Aaron A. Eiferman letter

    Aaron A. Eiferman, a member of the 12th Armored Division which liberated the Landsberg concentration camp, wrote this five page letter on April 27, 1945 to his wife in the U.S. about his experiences.

  4. News accounts from 1936 to 1939 of Adolph Hitler's Rise to Power and his Affect on Minority Jewish Populations of Eastern and Western Europe

    Contains two binders of articles and illustrations of news accounts from the "Boston Traveler," "Boston Post," and "The Boston Herald."

  5. Shoah: an eyewitness testimony

    Consists of the testimony, 9 pages, of John E. Pfeiffer, presented at a Yom Hashoah remembrance ceremony on May 2, 1997. Mr. Pfeiffer was a part of a reconnaissance squad that discovered Dachau on April 29, 1945. He describes his memories of the conditions there and how his experiences affected him in later life.

  6. Leo Cecil photograph collection

    Contains four black and white photographs, of Ohrdruf immediately following liberation and two envelopes which originally housed the photographs. The first was labeled "1945/ W.W.II" and the second labeled "Buchenwald/IIWW."

  7. E.E. Dilworth papers, 1945-2000

    Contains a record of the statements taken from the previous commander of the concentration camp Mauthausen-Gusen, Linz, etc. SS Standartenfuehrer Ziereis.

  8. Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort

    Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot machine are Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the ...

  9. My World War II Story

    Contains a memoir about Anthony Palmowski's experiences as a Polish Catholic living in Warsaw. He was arrested and sent to Mauthausen where he spent the war as a slave laborer.

  10. George Katzman photographs

    Contains two black and white photographs from a Christmas party in Bamberg, Germany, and six black and white signal corp photographs of organized calisthenics in the Wetzlar Displaced persons camp, the 4th Armored division's area at Regensburg, Germany, and views of the Jagerskasserne in Wuerzburger Str. in Aschaffenburg, Germany. The Jagerskasserne was occupied by displaced persons in the former 313th Infantry Regiment area of the 79th Infantry division.

  11. Aenne Hertz papers

    Contains legal documents and correspondence pertaining to Aenne Hertz, a social worker in Germany from 1933 to 1941. After being fired from her public job in 1933 by the Nazis she became a social worker for Jewish organizations and enabled Jews to escape Nazi Germany.

  12. Levy family on SS Rotterdam returning to US

    "SS Rotterdam" ship at sea. The travelers took this boat back to New York (July 20-29, 1927). The family boards the boat. Emilie Jane in her father's arms. Robert and Sally, August and Hartman, and Robert and Carl play shuffleboard. Emilie Jane plays with a small sandbox on the ship deck. Robert, August, and Dora Hartman lounge in deck chairs. Emilie plays. Robert plays shuffleboard. Clara Levy reads a book. August converses with another passenger. Robert hugs his little sister, Emilie. Lou and Dora Hartman. CU, Sally Hartman reading. Passengers on deck. Emilie Jane poses inside the life pr...

  13. Erno Deutsch family papers

    Contains postcards sent by Erno Deutsch from the forced labor battalion in 1944, presumably forged Swiss schutzpass issued to Mr. and Mrs. Kellner, relatives of Erno Deutsch. A July 21, 1942, letter from the military authorities calling Erno Deutsch to return his military decorations. A July 27, 1942, registered mail receipt proving that Erno Deutsch obeyed that letter. An October 24,1944, letter written by Erno Deutsch asking the Hungarian Office of Taxation to grant extension since he is working in a labor battalion, and cannot look after his taxes. Commander of the labor company certifie...

  14. Karmann family papers

    The Karmann family papers relate to the experience of the Karmann family aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers contain Cuban immigration cards for Richard Karmann, Sidonie Karmann, and Annemarie Karmman, as well as correspondence and passenger notifications written on Hamburg-Amerika Line stationery regarding the ongoing negotiations about the ships destination after being denied entry to Cuba. Handwritten English transcriptions of the correspondence is also included.

  15. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- SS Aorangi arrives in Sydney with Jewish refugees

    63 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria arrive at Sydney harbor in the ship SS Aorangi.

  16. Oral history interview with Hela Gersten

  17. Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Office for the State of Moravia situated in Brno Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, Dienststelle für Land Mähren in Brünn (B 251)

    Administrative records of the Brno office of the Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia. Contains material on the persecution of the local Jewish population, anti-Jewish measures and decrees, Aryanizations and expropriations of Jewish properties and assets, arrests of Czech individuals, Germanization efforts, Czech collaborators and informants, Gestapo, reports on the various Landräte, German and Czech police and gendarmerie, schools, theatre and cultural events, forced labor, and other subject matters.

  18. 82 Airborne Division newspaper

    Contains one edition of the 82nd Division newspaper.

  19. Kurt and Johanna Fish family papers

    The Kurt and Johanna Fish papers consist of correspondence, testimonies, documents, and published materials. Testimonial materials include a narrative written by Kurt Fish entitled “A Player to be Named” in which he tells his own family history and wartime experiences through a pseudonymous friend in the military named “Connie,” as well as a transcript of an oral history interview with Kurt, which was conducted by Rosemary Lawson in 1978. Kurt edited and made corrections to the transcript in 1991. The vast majority of the collection consists of correspondence between Kurt, in Vienna and lat...

  20. Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic

    The Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic contains commemorative stamps, food packaging, photographic materials, printed materials, and reports documenting the establishment of the Sosúa Jewish community in the Dominican Republic and the town’s development into a tourist destination. The commemorative stamps were created in 1960. Three depict an aerial view of the Sosúa coastline and two depict four of the original Jewish refugee children, Naomi Neumann, Caroline Papernik, Susanna Tauber, and Teresa Hirschfeld. Food packaging includes a salami wrapp...