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  1. Werner Goldsmith papers

    The collection contains photographs and documents. The first photograph was taken in Berlin, Germany, and depicts Werner Goldsmith at age 10. A few months after this photograph was taken, Werner Goldsmith departed for France with a group of Jewish children. Other papers contain copies of six black and white photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s and 12 original photographs taken in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as an affidavit from the Consulate of the United States at Marseille, France, and a telegram dated May 25, 1946, to Werner Goldsmith from his mother. The photographs depict Erfurt, ...

  2. Rachel Miller photograph collection

    The collection consists of three group portraits of Rachel Miller and other children at the orphanage at Chateau Le Mans.

  3. Henry K. Shor photograph collection

    Consists of 12 photographs of Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

  4. Miriam Harel collection

    The collection consists of a New Year card from Cyprus, made by Shlomo, and sent to Miriam Harel and her husband, as well as a photograph of the burial for a woman named Sara who died in Cyprus at the age of 22.

  5. Wallace Witkowski photograph collection

    The three photographs in the collection are studio portraits of Wallace Witkowski in 1945, Wallace Witkowski and his sister in 1946, and Wallace Witkowski's mother in 1943.

  6. Jack Belcher photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs depicting the liberation of a concentration camp at Nordheim, Germany.

  7. Semyon Menyuk papers

    Contains a memoir entitled, "Holocaust Experiences," in English and Russian, papers stating that Semyon Menyuk was a member of partisan movements in the Ukraine, awards for outstanding military service, photographs of families, and photographs of an excavation site where 7,000 people were found.

  8. Photograph of mourners at a gravesite

    The image depicts the unveiling of the gravestone of Etla Suchomicka at the Gesia Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, in 1940. Included in the picture are Etla Suchomicka's husband, her daughter, her son, and the Rabbi. All of the people in the photograph are wearing yellow badges.

  9. Photograph of refugees in Sweden, ca. 1945

    The photograph depicts Ilse Schindler (wearing a checkered kerchief) and others anxiously awaiting their first meal minutes after their arrival in Malmö, Sweden, where they were brought after liberation on May 2, 1945, from Flensburg, Germany, (Flensborg, Denmark), as part of the Count Folke Bernadotte action.

  10. Albert Martin photograph collection

    The collection consists of six propaganda photographs documenting Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Captions are printed on the verso in German.

  11. Eva Edmands papers

    The papers consist of one photograph of Eva Edmands at age eight and one identification card issued to Gabrielle Rapaport (donor's mother) in France on September 2, 1946, with a visa to enter the United States.

  12. Frederic Bernard photograph collection

    The collection consists of 12 copy portrait photographs of Frederic Bernard and his relatives.

  13. Beverly Balaz photograph collection

    Consists of six photographs of corpses at Dachau concentration camp at the time of liberation in 1945.

  14. Henry Sarna collection

    The papers consist of seven photographs of refugees at the displaced persons camp, Bad Reichenhall, and on the military transport ship, "General McCray," which was headed for the United States in October 1949, as well as release papers from the Bad Reichenhall DP camp and a Polish repatriation document.

  15. Leo Meyer passport

    The British passport permits Leo Meyer to enter Hong Kong and Macau with the Shanghai soccer team in 1947.

  16. Photograph of five girls in Gardelegen, Germany

    The photograph was taken in Gardelegen, Germany, after liberation and depicts five girls posing in matching dresses made, from sheets, by the donor.

  17. David Hersch photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs depicting a group of Jewish forced laborers wearing yellow armbands in Dej, Hungary, (now Romania) in 1943; David Hersch wearing his concentration camp uniform; and Hersch's sisters with their children in Dej in 1943.

  18. Miriam and Saul Ingber collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Saul Ingber, his wife, Miriam, and other refugees at a DP camp in Poking (Pocking), Germany, as well as a photograph of the donor and his sister before World War II. Collection also includes photographs of images from pre-World War II Hungary and Romania, the Poking (Pocking) and Bamberg displaced person (DP) camps, and the marriage of Miriam Farcus to Saul Ingber as well as an invitation from Miriam and Saul Ingber's wedding in the Poking DP camp.

  19. Malcolm D. Dixon letter about Ebensee

    Consists of one letter, six pages, written by Malcolm D. Dixon to his wife, Francis, describing what he witnessed after taking part in the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp, and how witnessing the camps changed his opinion of the Germans.

  20. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of a pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.