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  1. Joan Finnegan collection

    Contains materials donated by Joan Finnegan, documenting her father's experiences as an American soldier during and after the liberation of a concentration camp. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Joan Inge Maas collection

    Contains a Haggadah (Hagadah), nine pages, hand-written text in Hebrew (reproduced on page?) with drawing and explanation of seder plate. Extra page with typed text on both sides (torn in half). Cover page with hand-written text, "Maas Inge" on one side and inscription on verso dated Pessach 1941, Camp de Gurs (torn in half). Haggadah, multi-paged, hand-written text in Hebrew with drawing and explanation of seder plate. Incluced with Haggadah is singular song sheet stating verso, "Editee du Rabbinat du Rabbin Leo Ansbacher, Gurs..Nissan 5701" (April 1941). Separate page: given to Inge Maas ...

  3. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Jerzy and Nadzieja Klein, their daughter, Joanna, (from 1946, George, Nadine, and Joan Kent) and their family and friends in Warsaw, Poland, before and during the Holocaust and their immigration to and postwar life in the United States.

  4. Joan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joan L., who was born in Lu?beck, Germany in 1920. She recalls her family moving to Berlin in 1926; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions and activities from 1934 onward; expulsion from school in 1938; destruction of the synagogue across the street on Kristallnacht; a store employee who provided food prior to legal Jewish shopping hours; one sister's emigration to England in 1939; sale of the family property; and receiving emigration papers in 1940. Mrs. L. recounts traveling via Moscow, Manchuria, Korea, and Japan, where she stayed four months; continuing to New York; ...

  5. Joan Ringelheim collection

    The Joan Ringelheim collection consists of materials related to Dr. Ringelheim's scholarly work on the subject of women and the Holocaust and includes oral history interviews; writings, recorded lectures, subject files, printed materials, and correspondence documenting her research; and planning materials, correspondence, and photographs from Ringelheim's conference “Women Surviving: The Holocaust" which was held at Stern College in 1983.

  6. Joan Schwab memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 8 pages, titled "Life in England," by Joan Schwab (formerly Ingeborg Nussbaum). Describes life in Germany, desire to leave Germany after Kristallnacht, and experiences she and her brother Hans encountered on Kindertransport that took them to England in 1939, and life in Chichester during war.

  7. Joan Wolfermann collection

    Contains correspondence from M. Lichtmann dated November 1940, describing his escape from Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia.

  8. Joanna Bruzdowicz collection, 1989-1997

    Contains a copy of Joanna Bruzdowicz's score, "The song of hope and love," for cello and piano, with the composer's dedication to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum handwritten on the inside cover as well as copies of two pamphlets and of several newspaper articles concerning her career as a pianist and composer. The world performance of "The song of hope and love" took place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 22, 1997.

  9. Joanna Raplewska collection

    Consists of an autograph album kept by Joanna Raplewska from circa 1941 to 1943 in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; a tag, given to the donor’s maternal aunt, Bronka Zawadzka, by German authorities in the Łódź ghetto, September 1944, authorizing her to stay in the ghetto after its liquidation; photographs depicting the donor, her father, and her paternal uncle before the war and during the war in the Łódź ghetto; and a postcard and a letter written to Bronka Zawadzka in the Łódź ghetto.

  10. Joanna Senior Tybora collection

    Consists of photographs and documents regarding Edward and Josefa Josette Senior, originally of Moscow, including postcards and a letter written by Edward Senior from Stalags XX and XI, postcards sent from Josefa to her husband, Edward, in Stalag XX, obituaries for Henryk Senior, a birth certificate for Henryk, and family photographs. The collection also includes a book written by Stanislaw Wyspianski which includes signatures of school-friends of Dora Senior, who evidently attended a private Jewish high school in Warsaw

  11. Jochem-Ebeler family. Collection

    This photo shows the Jochem-Ebeler family, including father Jacob Jochem, mother Gertrude Ebeler and their sons Emile and Jozef Jochem

  12. Jocheved and Mordechai Ziv collection

    Collection of family photographs of the Kuczyński and Frankenstein families in Skierniewice, Poland before the war; during the war in the Rawa Mazowiecka ghetto and after the war in Skierniewice with other survivors, celebrating Passover. Photograph of Dr. Libersohn (later Ziv) as he was demobilized from the Red Army and wedding photographs of Jadzia (Jocheved) and Dr. Ziv in Skierniewice in 1946. Document issued in Skierniewice, Poland; stating that Mr. Ezriel Kuczyński owned property in Skierniewice before the war and was a respected citizen of the city.

  13. Jodenregister van Antwerpen. Collection

    The German decree of 28 October 1940 made it compulsory for all Jews from the age of 15 to register in the Jewish register of the municipality where they officially lived. The names of younger children were added to the forms of the parents (in most cases the copy of the father). Each form has room for the following information : surname, first names, date and place of birth, profession, nationality, religion, date of arrival in Belgium, the country of migration, successive addresses, date and place of registration, and the person’s signature, but also name, date and place of birth and reli...

  14. Jodl interrogated at Nuremberg Trial

    05:17:48 (Munich 216) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 7, 1946. British prosecutor G B Roberts interrogates Alfred Jodl. His answers are translated and heard in English. MS, Jodl on stand, as Roberts reads an article on Norway from document book 7. Jodl speaks about the invasion of Norway. LS, prisoners' dock showing MPs in BG and FG. 05:23:18 (Munich 221) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 10, 1946. Dr. Gustav Steinbauer, Seyss-Inquart's attorney, speaking (translated into English). MCU, Seyss-Inquart being sworn in. MS, Seyss-Inquart is questioned by Dr. Steinbauer. MS...

  15. Jodl questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. Alfred Jodl is questioned on the stand by an assistant British prosecutor. MS, Maj. Gen. William H. Gill in courtroom. MS, Jodl answering questions. LS, profile view of justices on bench. MS, US soldier and civilians in press gallery.

  16. Jodl testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 209) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 4, 1946. MSs, Prof. Franz Exner, Alfred Jodl's counsel, at stand as off-screen voice is heard interpreting Jodl's testimony into English. MS, Justices Biddle, Parker, and de Vabre. MS, US prosecutor Dodd seated in courtroom. LS, ex-General Alfred Jodl speaking with Dr. Laternser, defense lawyer for German general staff, before opening of morning session. LS, side view, judges enter court and take seats. LS, Prof. Exner questioning Jodl. Jodl talks about former Field Marshal Keitel. Pan from Jodl testifying to Keitel in prisoners' dock.

  17. Jodl testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 216) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 7, 1946. ) MS, unidentified colonel sitting at American counsel table. MLS, British prosecutor G B Roberts cross examining Alfred Jodl (Jodl not seen. Translator gives Jodl's answers in English). LS, Jodl testifying on stand.

  18. Jodl, Alfred (Generaloberst)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren 10. Mai 1890 in Würzburg, hingerichtet am 16. Oktober 1946 in Nürnberg. Generaloberst und Chef des Wehrmachtführungsstabes. Verheiratet mit: 1913 Irma Gräfin von Bullion (1885-1944), 1945 Luise Katharina von Benda (1905-1998). Zitierweise BArch N 69/...

  19. Joe D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe D., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1923. He describes vibrant Jewish life; a boycott of Jewish stores; Soviet occupation in 1939; learning plumbing at an ORT school; German invasion; mass killings; ghettoization; establishment of Jewish factories by the Judenrat under Ephraim Barash's leadership; his father's deportation in 1942; forced labor; hiding with his mother and brothers during deportations in February 1943; his mother's and younger brother's deportation in August; being jailed in Hrodna and ?omz?a with his brother; their deportation to Stutthof in D...

  20. Joe Freda papers

    Letters, envelopes, and newspaper clippings. Letters written from donor's great uncle, Joseph Freda, a United States Army soldier, from Germany and France describing his viewing of the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps. Written to his future spouse, "Birdie" Thomas in Pittsburgh, PA in May 1945.