Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 23,481 to 23,500 of 56,066
  1. Bertha and Isak Melchior family collection

    The collection consists of a brooch, document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isak and Bertha Melchior in Vienna, Austria, and their sons Norbert and Hugo who were sent for safety to Great Britain, by their parents, who did not survive.

  2. Donald Hershey collection

    The collection consists of an SS patch, correspondence, documents, and motion picture critiques of his photography relating to the experiences Donald Hershey as a Signal Corps photographer who witnessed the liberation of Dachau concentration camp during World War II.

  3. Joseph Goetz collection

    The collection consist of two wallets, documents, writings, photographs, ephemera, and photographic postcards relating to the experiences of Joseph Goetz, a Holocaust survivor, and his experiences as a displaced person in Italy following World War II.

  4. War propaganda posters and ephemera collection

    The collection consists of two posters and a full page advertisement produced in the United States during World War II.

  5. Joseph W. Eaton collection

    The collection consists of a Jewish Police armband, a Theresienstadt scrapbook, correspondence, documents, leaflets, photograph albums, discs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph W. Eaton, a German prewar émigré who served as an American soldier in the Psychological Operations Division during World War II.

  6. Michel Shadur family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Michel Schadur and his family as they escaped from Nazi Germany to Belgium, then to France, Spain, Portugal, and finally the United States during the Holocaust.

  7. Alfred Fabian collection

    The collection consists of two prisoner patches, a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Fabian during the Holocaust in Germany and Czechoslovakia and after the Holocaust in Germany.

  8. Joseph and Rosalie Holler Collection

    Contains two German children's books titled, "Die Fahrt ins Gluck" by A. Gaber and Alpentragodie written by Richard Voss, one children's game, one autograph book (Poesie), and one cardboard construction with children's theatre pasted inside along with family. Also contains papers including biographical materials, correspondence, reparation files, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Hollers' lives in Stettin, Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939.

  9. Harold Fishbein collection

    The collection consists of a Torah-style scroll, correspondence, a manuscript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Harold Fishbein, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's (UNNRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, after the war.

  10. Louis Ranciato collection

    The collection consists of a portrait painting by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), clippings, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Louis Ranciato, Staff Sergeant in the United States Army and a liberator of Dachau concentration camp in Germany during World War II.

  11. Irving Newman collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner's badge, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Irving Newman before and during the Holocaust when he was deported from Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, to Stutthof and Buchenwald concentration camps and after the war when he and his family lived in displaced persons camps in West Germany.

  12. Lucie Dattner Kopec collection

    The collection consists of handwritten sheet music by Lucie Dattner, a musician, while she was imprisoned in Cavallon, France, (near Avignon) in 1943-1944, while the French police were trying to force her to disclose the hiding place of her mother Marie Goldstein Dattner and an identification card issued by Belgian authorities to Lucie Dattner, born July 25, 1924 in Antwerp. The ID is marked with two red ink stamps which idenify her as "Jood Juif" [Jew] and registered in the Jewish community; issued December 23, 1940; in Flemish.

  13. Siegmund Raszkin collection

    Consists of photographs, post-war identity papers, and restitution papers related to Siegmund (Zygmunt) Raszkin, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. The photographs are portraits given to Siegmund by friends; the post-war identity papers consist of reissued birth certificates, identity cards, travel permits, and naturalization papers; and the restitution papers document his extensive efforts to document his experiences for the purpose of reparations. The collection also includes an oral history from 1978 at Forrest High School.

  14. Izak Rosenblat collection

    The Izak Rozenblat papers contain photographs and documents relating to Izak “Izy” Rosenblat, a Polish tailor who lived in the Radom ghetto and whose wife and child were deported to Treblinka in 1942. Izy continued to work forced labor for the Germans until his liberation in 1945. Included in the collection are photographs, identification papers, and documents related to restitution from the German government.

  15. Przedecki family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Przedecki family collection.

  16. Jadwiga and Kazimierz Dubicki collection

    The collection consists of documents and a publication relating to the experiences of Jadwiga and Kazimierz Dubicki, Roman Catholics, originally from Poland, who were slave laborers for the Nazi regime during World War II.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme collection

    Oral history interviews of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme collection

  18. Charles Phillip Sharp collection

    The majority of the Charles Phillip Sharp collections concerns the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Sharp’s records give first hand account of what he saw at the camp, and the immediate goals the British Army had in trying to save the survivors. This is further told in the Story of Belsen by Captain A. Pares, which gives the official military report on the camp. Also included are lecture notes that Sharp gave well after his time with the Army, detailing his exxperience in liberating Bergen-Belsen. Other documents include various items related to Sharp’s stay in the army, ...

  19. David and Lucinda Pollack collection

    The collection consists of American, French, Hungarian, and German propaganda, war bonds, recruitment, and election posters produced during World War II.