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  1. George Salton artwork collection

    The collection consists of artwork photoreproductions created by George Salton documenting his experiences during the Holocaust. The images were produced to illustrate his memoir "The 23rd Psalm."

  2. Richard C. Geehr collection

    Contains correspondence from various individuals compiled by Richard C. Geehr. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Rattner and Breindler families collection

    The Rattner and Breindler families collection consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting the families of Beno Rattner and Edith Breindler in Vienna, the couple’s lives and marriage in England, and their parents’ unsuccessful efforts to emigrate. Biographical materials include Beno’s German passport, two of Edith’s British passports, birth and registration records, Beno’s World War II military papers, and certificates documenting the deportation of Beno’s parents. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Beno and Edith in England from their parents in Vienna. The lett...

  4. Wallach family collection

    Letters, documents, family photographs and handwritten books primarily illustrating the experiences of Margot Wallach and her mother Hildegard, and Hilde's husband Karl in Germany, Belgium and France (French internment). Also included is Leni Appel's information and her daughter Ellen's who were with Margot and Hilde in Belgium and whose husband Joseph was in internment. The collection also includes Belgian stamps with images of the Belgian royal family.

  5. Siedner family collection

    The collection consists of documents, citizenship certificates (and holders), photos, passport, family book, a Kennkarte (passport), and a phototopy of a personal testimony that documents the experiences of Kurt and Regina Siedner (donor's grandparents) and their daughters Rosemarie (donor's mother) and Ursula, from Flensburg, Germany, and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Esther and Roman Eisen collection

    Contains photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Esther and Roman Eisen. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Kornberg family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Kornberg family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Helen and Harry Berger collection

    Collection contains scrip and documents related to Helen Berger (nee Blum) and Harry Berger (aka Chaim David Berger); includes Helen's wartime documents under the name Helen Borciszewska. It also contains a cigarette case taken from the home of an SS soldier and family that Helen Blum worked as a nanny for.

  9. Samuel Schalkowsky collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Samuel Schalkowsky during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Henri Pieck collection

    The collection consists of a published folio inscribed by the artist, Henri Pieck: 7 Origineele Kleurenlitho's Van Beelden Uit Het Concentratiekamp Buchenwald, seven reproductions of sketches of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp based on his experiences as an inmate.

  11. Maljean and Totman family collection

    The collection consists of documents and artifacts documenting the experiences of Emile-Georges Maljean, Prefect of Police in Toulon and Marseille, and his family prior to and during World War II in France and Austria.

  12. Edith Steinberg collection

    THe collection consists of a letter, two page, from Werner Samuel [and others unidentified] to Edith Steinberg, donor’s aunt. The letter, dated October 18, 1945, explains the fate of Edith’s husband, Siegfried, who was liberated in April 1945, transferred to Sweden to recuperate and died and buried in Sweden on June 6, 1945. Edith and Siegfried Steiberg were deported from Hannover, Germany to Riga, Latvia. From Riga, Edith was deported to Stutthof concentration camp in Poland and was liberated in April, 1945. Wallet, tan, in which letter has been housed [unknown origin].

  13. The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto

    "The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto" Episode 756 of radio program "The Eternal Light." Originally broadcast on December 12, 1943 and rebroadcast on April 26, 1959. Script by Morton Wishengrad. Production details: C08680. Link to the script: https://archive.org/details/BattleOfTheWarsawGhetto.

  14. Mändle family collection

    The collection consist of documents related to the World War I experiences of Siegfried Mändle and the Mändle family’s 1939 immigration documents. It also consists of three publications realting to the family.

  15. Grahamstown Trial, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1934

    The "Grahamstown Trial" which took place in 1934 in Port Elizabeth (ZA) deals with several issues; a document crudely forged by Harry Victor Inch, the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion and a Jewish world conspiracy. "Die Rapport" (an anti-Semitic newspaper) published a document allegedly stolen from the Western Road Synagogue in Port Elizabeth: This fake document contains a series of antigentile writings including a vague plan of Jewish world domination. The forgery pretends to be a record of an address delivered by Abraham Levy (the Minister of the Port Elizabeth Hebrew Congregation) to th...

  16. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The collection contains the documents collected by Judge Ben-Itto during years of research for her book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The book tells the story of those who forged the Protocols, distributed it around the world and used it as an antisemitic weapon. It also pays tribute to those who exposed and disproved it; with special emphasis given to the two major trials, both initiated in 1934 by Jewish communities in Switzerland and in South Africa against local Nazi distributors of the document.

  17. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    These files are the results of research enquiries the JCIO (Jewish Center Information Office) in Amsterdam, and later the Wiener Library in London, received and compiled during the war. The material was culled from books, periodicals and press cuttings, to form reliable documentation on specialized subjects. The files have been arranged under broad subject headings.

  18. The Key to the Mystery

    The Key to the Mystery, or Clé du Mystère, was a virulently anti-Semitic pamphlet, in the shape of a 32-pages booklet, published in Canada in French and English, and distributed in several countries in Europe in the 1930s. Adrien Arcand, the leader of the fascist Canadian paramilitary organization “Blue Shirts”, edited and published the pamphlet. By quoting distorted versions of texts written by prominent Jews, the Key aimed to prove the authenticity of the theories put forward in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It accused the Jews of a worldwide domination plot and of communism. The c...

  19. KZ-Verband

    The “KZ-Verband” collection of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) consists almost entirely of applications for membership to this “Alliance of Politically Persecuted” between 1946 and 1948. The forms filled in by applicants include personal data and information on family members as well as information on the reason for their arrest and the length of imprisonment in jails, ghettos and concentration camps. Most files also contain additional copies of documents on “Schutzhaft” (protective custody), confirmation of release or CVs and letters. In many cases photos of the appli...

  20. The Ludwig Dische papers : Bukovina’s Jewish history

    The Ludwig Dische papers address the history of the Bukovina before 1918, when Czernowitz was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dr. Dische was the chairperson of the Committee for internal affairs (“Communicates Evreilor”) of the Jewish community in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in the war years from December 1941 to March 1944, when the Soviet army re-occupied the city. The collection contains letters, drafts, bulletins, pictures, prints, newspapers clips, and information about well-known Jews from Czernowitz, as well as Dr. Dische’s personal papers. Dische gathered these materials after ...