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  1. Lenczycki family collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Simon Lenczycki, his wife Sara Glatter Lenczycki and their son Henryk [donor] in the displaced persons camps in Feldafing and Fuerth, Germany: included are drivers licenses and identity cards for Fuerth, and an identity card issued to Simon who was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landshut and Muhldorf concentration camps. Documents illustrating the immediate post-war experiences of Mania Fiedler, Sara’s sister: included are a "civilian internee” identity card issued in post-liberation Mauthausen concentration camp as...

  2. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers: "Das Schwarze Korps" published by the SS in Berlin, Germany, dated December 8, 1938 and December 15, 1938.

  3. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute lantern slide collection

    The collection of lantern slides and boxes is from the holdings of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. This Institute for anthropology and genetics was one of many centers used for the study of eugenics during the Third Reich. Aside from ordering sterilization and other eugenic "procedures," medical experiments originating in euthenasia killing centers and concentration camps were also evaluated at the Institute. Such names as Von Verschuer, Fischer, and Mengele are associated with the Institute. The slides contained in the boxes were probably used for teaching purposes. The slid...

  4. Polish Government presentation set collection

    The collection consists of a presentation case and two spoons recovered after the war near Belzec killing center in Poland.

  5. United We Win poster collection

    The collection consists of two United We Win posters produced by the United States during World War II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front.

  6. Paul Beller family collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, documents, copy prints, and lesson books relating to the experiences of Leo and Mina Beller and their son Paul before and during World War II in Vienna, and their separate journeys to the United States during and after the war.

  7. Henry F. Kahn collection

    The collection consists of an MS St Louis demitasse spoon, envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials collected between approximately 1945 and 1985 by Henry F. Kahn, who fled Nazi Germany in January 1939 for the United States.

  8. Jewish Community in Iasi collection

    The collection consists of two plaques commemorating members of the Jewish Community of Iasi, Romania, who were killed during the Holocaust.

  9. Leo Vogel collection

    The collection consists of a hand stamp, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leo Vogel in prewar Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as postwar correspondence between the attorneys and Mr. Vogel's daughter, Marlies Levenger, concerning his restitution claim.

  10. Janina Jasinska Luterek family collection

    The collection consists of two drawings, three handkerchiefs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Janina Jakubowicz and her family before, during, and after World War II in Poland.

  12. Haim family collection

    Consists of 8mm film, photographic negatives, a wedding certificate and documents related to forced labor. The collection concerns the prewar and wartime experiences of Max Licco Haim and family in Bulgaria.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Davide Ivaldi collection

    Oral history interviews with former residents of Sualki, Poland who endured WWII in Siberia and elsewhere.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection

    Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection, created in the late 1970s during the Ehrlichs' research for the book "Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust," about the fate of the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Holocaust era. Contents include interviews related to key figures in the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Nazi era, including Benjamin Murmelstein, rabbi and member of the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt and Josef Löwenherz, leader of the Jewish Community of Vienna under Nazi rule and subsequently the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt. Other intervie...

  15. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald's work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The collection also includes a name plate for Ambassador McDonald and a bible presente...

  16. Salomon and Berg families collection

    The collection consists of a chess set, a harmonica, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Alfred Berg in Austria and Marianne Salomon Berg in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  17. Mathilde Schwarz Rosenblatt collection

    The collection consists of burnt page fragments from Hebrew books, a Pentatuch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mathilde Schwarz Rosenblatt before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria.

  18. Morris Dembowitz collection

    The collection consists of a poster, documents, and photographic prints relating to the discovery of Gardelegen and Ohrdruf concentration camps in Germany and a letter attesting to the origin of the "Treblinka Song" record.

  19. Lester D. Edelstein collection

    Consists of an original photocopy of a letter writen by a soldier in the 11th Armored division regarding the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The soldier, whose name is unknown, described what they witnessed when they entered the camp and what they learned from prisoners with whom they spoke. Also includes a speech, on audio CD, with Lester D. Edelstein, who was a captain in the 11th Armored Division (63rd Armored Infantry Battalion), in which he describes his memories of Mauthausen, including how the camp smelled and his impressions of how people managed to survive.

  20. Shmuel Rozin Collection

    Consists of two documents, described as follows: .1 Certificate: issued in Lithuania as proof of membership in Partisan movement against Nazi occupation; handwritten in black ink, black ink inscription on left side with circular black ink stamp, black ink stamp with handwritten entries in upper left, two blue ink spots at top left and top right; circa July 1944; in Russian and Lithuanian .2 Affidavit: Affidavit of good moral character issued during period of donor's participation as fighter partisan; issued in Lithuania; handwritten in blue ink, black ink inscription along left side with tr...