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  1. Campagna internment camp photograph

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Daniel Reuther papers

    Contains six photographs depicting the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Alvin H. Beavers photographs

    The photographs depict the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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...

  13. Emanuelis Zingeris papers

    The papers consist of papers relating to the Holocaust in Lithuania and photographs depicting life in Jewish ghettos in Lithuania during World War II.

  15. Battle Front; Destruction in Riga

    Airplanes and pilots flying. Map of USSR showing Jonava, Kovno, Vilna, Riga, and other cities. Military tanks storm Riga. Views of military destruction and ruins in city streets. Men and women civilians clearing up rubble from street.

  16. Bible

    Bible printed by the Vaad Hatzala.

  17. Oral history interview with Helga Epstein

  18. Anti-Jewish Acts in Baltic States

    Shots of the INT of a synagogue, possibly Jonava. SS guard ordering Jewish men and young men coming out of a building (the synagogue?) -- a roundup. The Jews run down the street. The following scenes are disjointed. Shots of the Riga synagogue burning at night. The famous shots of forced labor of Jewish men climbing out of a ditch with shovels and digging on the roadside; one religious man is approached by soldiers and made to take off his shirt. Jews beaten in streets by locals and then forced labor of Jews cleaning the streets after bombing and destruction, lots of rubble. In Mogilev, Jew...

  19. Army talks

    Contains an issue of "Army Talks" magazine, dated November 11, 1945.

  20. Burying the dead

    Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers. Placing bodies into coffins. CU, woman mourning. CU, two young boys dead on ground. Woman with kerchief on head wailing over a dead man, wringing her hands, her wailing is audible.