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  1. Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers

    The Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers consists of correspondence, photocopies of archival documents, photographs, slides, and other ephemera collected by art historian Cynthia Jaffe McCabe in preparation for a planned exhibit regarding the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of Fry and various artists and intellectuals, including Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse, in and around Villa Air Bel, the Emergency Rescue Committee offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublish...

  2. Ukraine under Nazi occupation presentation photo package from USSR

    Contains photographs of sites in Ukraine under Nazi occupation; some photographs include descriptions.

  3. "Graves at Gunskirchen"

    Consists of "The Graves at Gunskirchen" by David Ichelson, a United States Army soldier who served with the 71st Infantry Division, documenting his eyewitness account of the conditions of the Gunskirchen concentration camp three days after abandonment by SS troops in May 1945. The testimony describes the severity of starvation among the camp inmates, the number of dead at the time the 71st Infantry Division entered the camp, and the mass burial of Gunskirchen victims at the direction of American troops. Ichelson also describes his thoughts and feelings during a return visit to the camp site...

  4. Liberation of Landsberg and other camps

    Consists of various materials relating to the liberation of Landsberg and other concentration camps. Included are copies of sworn statements by liberators; copies of articles concerning liberation; and a chronology of major events of the Holocaust.

  5. Leonhard Prager papers

    Includes information about German Jews, transports to Terezin, life in the ghettos and concentration camps, and the search for Holocaust survivors.

  6. Allied propaganda leaflets

    Contains nine propaganda leaflets produced by British and American forces. Included are quotes by Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring and information about the activities of the U.S. and British air forces over Germany from circa 1941 to circa 1944.

  7. Isaac Frankel testimony

    Includes two testimonies (one original and one photocopy) written by Isaac Frankel. Both testimonies are attached to letters that summarize Mr. Frankel's life as a Holocaust survivor. The testimonies describe Frankel's experiences of deportation, the loss of his young family, his imprisonment in ghettos and forced labor camps, his survival of several selections, and his survival of Buchenwald. The second testimony is not a copy of the first but contains similar information.

  8. Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld memoirs

    Consists of a copy of an article written by Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld concerning his family history and experiences during the Holocaust. The article includes detailed information on the dispersal of Maltiel-Gerstenfeld's relatives who eventually perished in the Lvov ghetto, his activities as a Zionist youth, his life in Romania under an assumed identity, and his emigration to Palestine at the end of World War II.

  9. Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education

    Contains information about the Committee for Refugee Education, teachers working for the committee, and survivors of the Holocaust who eventually became students in the committee's program.

  10. White Rose pamphlets

    Consists of copies of pamphlets published in Munich, Germany by the White Rose resistance group.

  11. List of French deportees killed in Mauthausen

    Cotains copies of two issues of "Hier Cauchemar Aujourd'hui Espoir: Bulletin interieur d'information et de liaison de l'Amicale des Deportes Politique de Mauthausen." The first issue, November 1945. - No. 3, contains a partial list of French deportees who perished at Mauthausen. The list is arranged in alphabetical order starting with ABADE, HENRI and ending with DENIS, ROGER. The second issue continues the alphabetical list with DENTROUX, JEAN and concludes with ZWEIBEL, ERICH. The main alphabetical list is followed by separate list of women's names. The date on the second issue is illegib...

  12. Camp log books and administrative records from the Auschwitz Memorial Museum

    Consists of copies of Auschwitz administration records and copies of log books of prisoners' names. The documents relate to general camp operations, distribution of labor, orders from the Kommandant, transfer of prisoners to and from other camps, and biographical information concerning several Auschwitz prisoners. See RG list for titles of RG-04.01301 through RG-04.01306.

  13. "Homoe-Homini: Czyli Martyrolagia Zydow w Deblinie"

    Consists of a copy of "Homoe-Homini: Czyli Martyrologia Zydow w Delinie" by Josef Edmund Lucinski and published by the Association of Friends of Dęblin in August 1987. The manuscript is based on personal accounts that describe the terror experienced by the Dęblin Jews from 1939 to 1945. Diagrams of the city designate concentration camps and mass graves in the vicinity. Also included is a layout of a "Labor camp 1" and the Stalag 307 II with lists of prisoners for each.

  14. "Buchenwald, near Weimar"

    Contains a copy of "Buchenwald, near Weimar;" music score by Patricia King and words by Joseph Langland. The song text contains Joseph Langland's reflections on his participation in the liberation of Buchenwald. The cassette recording features the piece performed by John Lemly, bass, and Sheila Jillson, soprano, accompanied by Joseph Rogers on cello and Patricia King on piano.

  15. Records relating to the Soviet Union under Nazi Occupation

    Contains public notices, maps, testimonies, letters, and reports relating to killing in Lithuania during Nazi occupation; killing in retaliation for sabotage; activities of Einsatzgruppe A from October 1941 to January 1942; mass shootings of Soviet citizens; Soviet POWs; creation of ghettos; operation “Hornung“; the annihilation of Jews in Slutsk (Minsk Oblast); killing of Soviet citizens in retaliation for partisan activities; interrogation of Kiev inhabitants concerning the massacre at Babi Yar; operation “Swamp Fever“ near Minsk; operation “Magic Flute“ in Minsk; operation “Kottbus“ in B...

  16. "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942"

    Consists of a copy of "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942" written by Roswell McClelland, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), in 1942 or 1943. The "Unpublished chapter..." is McClelland's personal account of the round-up of foreign Jews in France during 1942 under the direction of the Germans, including a deportation from the Les Milles camp in August 1942. Included in the piece are descriptions of various French concentration camps, the treatment of Jewish children, the division of age groups for depor...

  17. Articles concerning the liberation of Landsberg and Hurlach

    Consists of copies of several articles published circa 1983 concerning the liberation of Landsberg, Hurlach, and other camps in the area of Dachau concentration camp. The articles describe the conditions in Landsberg and other Dachau sub-camps at the time of liberation, lists statistics for Jews killed in the Dachau camps, and quotes the eyewitness accounts of American liberators present at the Landsberg liberation.

  18. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate

    Partial charred porcelain electrical insulator from Auschwitz concentration camp acquired postwar by Hans Braun, a German Sinti man who was imprisoned there with his family from March 1943 to May 1944. It was the type used to connect electrical wires to the concrete fence posts around the camp. In early 1940, Hans, a forced laborer, broke a machine at a factory and was accused of sabotage. The Gestapo came after him and he fled Bernau and went into hiding. Hans was arrested twice, but escaped, until March 1943, when he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was reunited with his family in the ...

  19. Large embroidered needlepoint designed by Yankel Ginzburg

    Colorful, embroidered wall hanging created by Yankel Ginzburg for the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington in 1976. The three-panel image was designed by Ginzburg and then executed in needlepoint by sixty-one artisans, 60 women and one man, between 1976 and 1986. The design is intended to symbolize the Jewish people's arduous journey to freedom.

  20. Tony Simon-Wolfskehl collection

    Plastic-bound portfolio with 11 pages containing 11 photographs of Tony Simon-Wolfskehl's charcoal sketches of people in extremis during the Holocaust, as well as nine poems, which are photocopies of typescripts.