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  1. The All American Paraglide [Newspaper]

    Printed on Victory in Europe (VE) Day by the 82nd "All American" Airborne Division.

  2. Ursula Horn papers

    The Ursula Horn papers consist of identification papers, passports, and correspondence documenting Edgar and Gertrude Israel, their immigration from Germany to the United States with their daughter, Ursula, in 1939, and their family members who remained in Berlin and Zerbst, Germany. Biographical materials include 1939 German identification papers and passports for Edgar and Gertrude Israel. Correspondence include four letters with envelopes and an empty envelope written in December 1940 to Edgar and Gertrude Israel from relatives Gertrud Israel, Adolph and Agnes Israel, Frida Israel, and M...

  3. Sidney Peerless photographs

    The photographs depict scenes from the liberation of concentration camps. Ten of the photographs were taken by the United States Army Signal Corps.

  4. Irvin Wittwer photographs

    The collection consists of photographs depicting the Mauthausen concentration camp after liberation by the United States Army, as well as scenes from Gallneukirchen, Austria, Rodach, Germany, Bayreuth, Germany, and Cham, Germany.

  5. Leslie J. Kinney photographs

    The Leslie J. Kinney photographs depict scenes from the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. These images include piles of victims’ corpses, United States soldiers, and the buildings and gallows within the camp.

  6. Lawrence Wildermuth photographs

    Contains photographs depicting scenes of Buchenwald concentration camp at its liberation in 1945.

  7. Certificate of good conduct

    The "Führungszeugnis" was issued by the President's office, Department 2M, Berlin, Germany, and states that Herbert Israel Moses [donor] has lived in Berlin since birth, has no police record, has never transgressed against social order, has shown no mental deviance, and has never begged. The certificate was valid for purposes of emigration for 3 weeks from the date issued.

  8. Eric Korf Ausschliessungsschein Certificate

    The certificate is an "Ausschliessungsschein" (exclusion document), excluding Eric Korf from registering for military service because he is Jewish; issued by the Draft Board in Vienna, Austria, June 2, 1939.

  9. Campagna internment camp photograph

    The photograph depicts a group of internees in the Campagna internment camp in Italy.

  10. Zygmunt Gemel papers

    The papers consist of a note written by political prisoner Zygmunt Gemel to his father Franciszek Gemel and thrown from a train while Zygmunt was being deported to Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna) in 1944, and a subsequent letter Zygmunt to his father from the camp dated 23 April 1944.

  11. Jozef Reszka papers

    The papers primarily consist of correspondence between Jozef Reszka and his mother while he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz subcamps of Gleiwitz and Monowitz. There is also a "Protokol" document from 1960 stating that Jozef Reszk a was a member of Rada Pomocy Żydom (Żegota) in Poland during World War II and that he was arrested during that time.

  12. Dr. Sheldon C. Sommers papers

    The papers consist of a two-page report by Dr. Sheldon C. Sommers on conditions at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  13. Daniel Reuther papers

    Contains six photographs depicting the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  14. Goldstein family papers

    The Goldstein family papers, 1914-1982, contain photographic postcards of Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) serving as a German soldier in World War I; four photographs of Herman, Rita, and Heinz Goldstein (b. 1928) at a celebration aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939; a printed wedding invitation for Herman Goldstein and Rita Goldstein (née Grubner, 1893-1979) held on November 6, 1927 at the Lutzow Strasse Synagogue in Berlin; and a typed letter regarding the publication of the book "Voyage of the Damned," April 18, 1974. Also included are newspaper clippings and magazine articles relating to the MS ...

  15. Albert R. Sabaroff papers

    The collection consists of 2 pieces of scrip from Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, a newspaper obituary for George Silver, and a newspaper article from November 15, 1942, about George Silver.

  16. Alvin H. Beavers photographs

    The photographs depict the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  17. John Hancock papers

    The papers consist of six photographs from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps and the envelope in which the photographs were sent to the United States in 1945. Captions are printed on the back of each photograph.

  18. A. Morton Rosenfield collection

    The collection consists of 22 photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation and Kibbutz Buchenwald. Photos show corpses, conditions at the camp, and conditions at the Kibbutz.

  19. Ellen M. Fine papers

    The Ellen M. Fine papers consist of Moritz Mayer's 1939 passport, Alice Mayer's 1939 passport including Ellen, and two 1941 telegrams asking for Moritz Mayer's help with Ferdinand and Bertha Simon's emigration.

  20. Dora Pollak family correspondence

    The Dora Pollak family correspondence consists primarily of letters Dora and Richard Pollak received from family and friends in Czecholovakia, England, and Switzerland during and after the war. Wartime correspondence relates family news, documents efforts to emigrate from Czechoslovakia, describes preparations for deportation to Theresienstadt, and relays thanks for care packages delivered to Theresienstadt. Postwar correspondence summarizes wartime experiences and documents efforts to reclaim and manage family businesses and property lost during the war including the Joseph Taussig and Dan...