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  1. Mordka Knopf photograph collection

    Contains seven photographs of Knopf family members dating from 1931 to 1973. Included in the collection are images of Brana Rachel Knopf, Cypora Jedwab, Mendel Nachum Knopf, Abraham Knopf, Dorka Knopf, and Simon Knopf. Also contains a photograph of a Torah scroll on exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, N.Y. The photograph is dated 1978.

  2. Toby Stern papers

    The Toby Stern papers consists of a letter from E. Klein written on behalf of Toby (Tobi) Stern, July 4, 1945; a document from the Bayerisches Landesamt für Wiedergutmachung, dated February 23,1950 at Nuremberg, Germany, stating that Tobi Stern applied for reparations from the German government; and a letter in Yiddish written by Toby Stern's niece and postmarked October 31, 1955. In the letter, the niece recalls that Stern has a beautiful singing voice and that she used to sing during her time in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  3. Johanna Zwang Neumann letter

    The Johanna Zwang Neumann letter was written by Johanna Zwang Neumann to her husband and daughters describing life in the Gurs concentration camp, delivering news about family members, and discussing her desires to flee Europe.

  4. Military scenes at Iserlohn, Germany

    Contains five black and white copy prints of photographs taken in 1945 at Iserlohn, Germany. One of the photographs depicts German prisoners of war and concentration camp guards captured by American troops.

  5. Dachau concentration camp crematoria photographs and negatives

    The collection consists of six black and white photographs of scenes of the crematoria at Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation in 1945. According to the donor, the photoprints were taken from a captured German officer after liberation. Each photoprint has a matching photonegative. There is caption information on reverse of each photoprint provided by the donor, Rob Hendrickson.

  6. Photographs of Roman Catholic clergy, Adolf Hitler, and other Nazi officials

    The collection consists of black and white photographs of Roman Catholic bishops and clergy (including the Sigismund Waitz Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria and Wilhelm Frick) with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials. The photographs also show Nazi officials and clergy giving the Nazi salute and Nazi flags are seen in several backgrounds.

  7. Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag and Arthur I. Kessler papers

    The Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag and Arthur I. Kessler papers consists of photographs, correspondence, naturalization documents, and International Red Cross documents relating to the experiences of Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag (b. July 27, 1935, Prague, Czechoslovakia), Arthur I. Kessler (b. December 12, 1900, Szczakowa, Poland), and other Kessler family members during the Holocaust.

  8. von Halle family papers

    The von Halle family papers consists of correspondence, certificates, identification cards, and various other documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of the von Halle family in the Netherlands, including Gerd Siegmund von Halle (later Gerald von Halle), Oscar Louis von Halle, Henriette von Halle (née Cohn/Cohen), and Hans Jürgen von Halle. The papers include correspondence written by von Halle family members from the Schoorl concentration camp, Mauthausen concentration camp, and Herzogenbosch concentration camp. A manuscript entitled "Loss, Perseverance, and Triumph: The Story of Ge...

  9. Illustrierter Beobachter (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

  10. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

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

  11. Der Engel vom Westlichen Fenster [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  12. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  13. Photograph of liberated concentration camp

    Image of an allied soldier standing in front of a pile of corpses in a liberated concentration camp. Caption on verso: "May 1945, somewhere in Germany."

  14. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers looking at corpses lying on ground; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  15. Illustrierter Beobachter (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

  16. Jewish Agency for Palestine pin issued to an American rabbi

    Pin issued to Eugene Lipman after World War II when he worked for the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

  17. Book

    Medical book

  18. Youth Meeting in Thuringia

    "June 18, 1933, Youth Meeting in Thuringia." Hitler speaks before a crowd of several hundred thousand. Hitler at outdoor rally of youths, screaming his speech and stabbing the air emphatically. Re: recruitment of millions. Long, wide pans of vast crowd; "heils" and Hitler above them on an elevated platform decorated with large swastikas.

  19. John H. Farley collection

    The John H. Farley collection includes photographs, clippings, and articles related to the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Photographs include images of German soldiers near Łódź during the invasion of Poland and of Dachau following liberation. The collection also includes a letter John wrote to his wife, Mary Jane, describing his emotions and his impressions of Dachau shortly after liberation.

  20. Map of Theresienstadt drawn by an inmate while in the camp

    Map given to Max and Johanna Liebmann by Bedrich Borges, whose brother Erik drew the map while interned at Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The artist told his brother that he drew the sketch under the orders of the SS command in the camp. The sketch is marked as an air raid shelter, however, the intended use was as a gas chamber. Erik was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed in 1944.