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  1. Michael Colgan, Sr. papers

    The papers consist largely of 11 photographs depicting a concentration camp (probably Buchenwald) at the time of liberation and various anonymous members of the German military. There is also an obituary for Franz Suchy who died on December 21, 1942, in the Battle of Ploskaja, as well as an employment identification card from the German railroad for Heinrich Suchy.

  2. Wolf Percik family photograph

    The photograph depicts the family of Wolf Percik. People in photograph (from viewer's left to right): (Standing) Rosalie Percik Lubawski, Zygmunt Percik, Dora Percik, Ludwik Lew Percik, Maximilian Percik, Henry Percik; (Seated) Stanislaw Lubawski, Irena Percik Rosenkrantz, Wolf Percik, Felicia Percik (donor's mother). Of the people pictured, only Irena Percik Rosenkrantz and Stanislaw Lubawski survived the Holocaust.

  3. Ilse Salomon collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to Adolf Kaufmann's and Kurt Wolfgang Ruppel's experiences during and after the Holocaust, including a form from the Red Cross International Tracing Service, a document of exclusion from the Wehrmacht, and an identification certificate from the British Home Office.

  4. Ruth Salton photographs

    The collection consists of 13 images of children and Bricha workers, including Ruth Salton, at Bricha centers and safe houses in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). They were taken by an unknown amateur photographer from 1946 to 1948.

  5. Frank J. Morris diaries

    The collection consists of three diaries written by Frank J. Morris while on military duty in England, France, and Germany during World War II. One diary covers from 16 August 1944 until 3 October 1944, another from 3 October 1944 until 18 March 1945, and the last from 23 March 1945 until 5 June 1945.

  6. Max Neuman collection

    The collection consists of 20 photographs, a United States naturalization certificate, identification cards, and correspondence related to the life of Max Neuman donor's father born in Grzymałów, Poland, a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the United States after World War II.

  7. Archibald Edwards Spelman letter

    The letter is written by Major Archibald Edwards Spelman addressed to "Dear Es" describing the Dachau concentration camp.

  8. Richard S. Coombes photographs

    The collection consists of 50 photographs of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp by United States troops as well as landscape shots of Germany, of military actions, and of celebrity entertainers such as Bob Hope and Frances Langford.

  9. Certificate

    Certificate of liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  10. Charlotte Sonnenberg papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Charlotte Alexander (later Charlotte Sonnenberg) and her husband Herbert Alexander, and consists of a postcard written by Herbert to Charlotte during his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai.

  11. George Bresalier photograph collection

    The collection consists of twenty-eight photographs of men, women, and children from Orinin, Ukraine; a mass grave at Orinin, Ukraine; and one photograph of a group of women, many of whom were buried at Orinin.

  12. Viktor Neckarsulmer papers

    Contains a four page account of Victor Neckarsulmer's [donor's father] experiences during and after Kristallnacht in Rexingen, Germany. It also includes correspondence and photographs relating to the Neckarsulmer family's experiences during the Holocaust.

  13. Gertrude Goetz collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Helen Kopfstein, who was deported from Vienna, Austria, to Sobibor death camp in June 1942 and a letter from Dr. Schwarzschild written in 1939.

  14. Passport

    The "Schutzpass," or protection passport, was issued by the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, to Lili Katz [donor]. The passport bears the stamp of the Swedish Embassy in Budapest as well as a blue "W" in the lower left corner which is the mark of Raoul Wallenberg.

  15. Marianne Karmel collection

    The papers consist of a false identification card under the name Danielle Servouze and journal entry from Dina Moses Servouze, a letter from the Crédit Municipal de Paris informing Dina’s father Israel Moses that his property will be confiscated if he does not testify that he is not a Jew, a photograph of Dina Servouze taken circa 1938, and photographs taken in August 1944 and 1945, depicting Dina, her husband Monique Grenier, and their daughter Marianne Servouze, and American soldiers in Coupvray, France (Seine-et-Marne).

  16. Henia Ring Schiff photographs

    The photographs depict Zelek (Zeleg or Zalek) and Sarah Feige (or Sura née Watchman) Ring upon their betrothal in 1919, and with their first child, Henoch, in 1920, as well as a Ring family portrait in 1938. All of the photographs were taken in Krzepice, Poland. The group family photograph depicts the following. Front row left to right: Sarah Feige Ring, Zelek Ring, Russel Ring (Zelek’s brother), Sura Ring (Zelek’s mother), Brindel Rosen (Zelek’s sister), Deborah Ring (Zelek’s sister), Mania Ring (Henia’s cousin). Back row left to right: Henoch Ring (Zelek and Sarah’s son), Henia Ring (Zele...

  17. Fred Diament papers

    The papers consist of a photograph of three boys, a photograph of a boy in glasses, a scrapbook containing 25 pages of memorabilia and photographs related to the beginnings of Kibbutz Buchenwald, and a certificate of incarceration stating that Fredy Diament was a concentration camp prisoner. Kibbutz Buchenwald was organized in 1945 by survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp and was the first pioneer training group formed in Germany after liberation. In the summer of 1945, the founding group departed for Palestine where they eventually established their own independent settlement in 1948....

  18. The Spiegel family papers

    The Spiegel family papers consists of correspondence and photographs concerning brothers, Leo, Sam, Max, David, Isaac, and Joshua and their families’ experiences during the Holocaust and in the years immediately following. The correspondence is comprised of letters, postcards, and envelopes and was primarily sent to Sam, David, and Max in the United States by family and friends in Leipzig, Germany and the Soviet Union between 1938 and 1949. These documents largely described family member’s emigration and eventual deaths in concentration camps. The photographs depict Jewish family life in pr...

  19. James E. Tate papers

    The collection consists of two letters written by Corporal James E. Tate. One of the letters was written in Reims, France, and discusses Tate's impending return to the United States, and the other describes the condition of liberated prisoners in Germany after World War II. Also includes the envelope used to send the letters to the United States.

  20. Centraal Registratie Bureau voor Joden (Central Registry Bureau for Jews) list

    The papers consist of lists issued by the Centraal Registratie Bureau voor Joden (Central Registry Bureau for Jews) that document the destinations of prisoners liberated in the Netherlands and a list of Jews in Belgium.