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  1. Edward E. Harriman report

    Edward E. Harriman's report after the liberation of Dachau (includes tipped in photos); also a photo of Harriman in uniform and another of him in a suit and tie (inscribed to the donor's grandmother).

  2. Olga Nadich Galerstein collection

    Souvenir program from presentation of We Will Never Die at the Hollywood Bowl on July 21, 1943 which belonged to Olga Nadich Galerstein (1922-1985). At the time she was studying acting at the Actors Laboratory Theatre in Hollywood, headed by Roman Bohnen (1901-1949), who was in the cast of the production.

  3. Walter Materna war diaries and personal documents

    The Walter Materna war diaries and personal documents includes Materna’s World War I diaries (four volumes); World War II and immediate post-war diaries, including inserted World War II photographs (volumes 1-3, 5-10, 13-17); and World War II and immediate post-war documents such as leaflets, telegrams, and personal documents. Materna’s World War II diaries describe events in Poland (Generalgouvernement), Ukraine (Kharkiv, Berdychiv, Donetsk, Dnipro), and Russia (Voronezh, Livny). The diaries include numerous antisemitic statements and descriptions of local Jewish populations by Materna, in...

  4. Prefettura di Pesaro Prefecture of Pesaro

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the prefecture of Pesaro, including the 1938 census and lists of foreigners, and foreign Jews in the Pesaro region. Consist of Police Headquarters monthly reports relating to political situation of the region, the visit of Duce in the province, miscellaneous records related to racial problems, assessment of race practices, list of the Jews,1939, office expenses 1939-1940, investigation files; various correspondence and circulars relating to evacuees and distraction due to Allied bombing, etc.; pres...

  5. Leonard Golub collection

    The collection consists of a letter with envelope written by Simon Wiesenthal to Leonard Golub, December 2, 1977. The letter was a response by Wiesenthal to Golub, a high school student who wrote to him as part of a research project for a course entitled “Ethnicity and the Jews.” The letter is on the letterhead of the Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime (Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Judischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes).

  6. Spieler family papers

    Papers and photographs of the Spieler family, including pre-war family documents and the military papers of Arthur Spieler who was trained at Camp Ritchie in the US.

  9. Gross and Lichtman Papers

    The Gross and Lichtman Papers include World War II Food Ration Books issued to the family of Emerick Gross and a letter to Emerick and Violette Gross from their nephew Leon Lichtman, who served in the 120th Evacuation Unit after the liberation of Buchenwald.

  10. Liberation photographs from Mauthausen

    Liberation photographs from Mauthausen. Donor's father was present post-liberation.

  11. Hohenberg and Gottschalk families papers

    Consists of approximately 150 items of correspondence pertaining to the experiences of the extended Hohenberg and Gottschalk families of Helmarshausen, Germany, Haifa, and the United States. The correspondence ranges in date from the 1940s to the 1950s.

  12. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note

  13. Visiting Panevesz and Kovno

    Home movie coverage of a trip to Poland taken by Walter Wiener in 1934. Scenes cover the farewell in New York, on board the ship, arriving in England, touring through France, greeting family members in Panevesz, Poland, a synagogue sponsored by Americans, the market, meeting relatives in Kovno, Lithuania, and returning to the United States. The film includes Yiddish intertitles.

  14. Oral history interview with Peter Rein

  15. Unidentified home movies: Palestine and North Africa

    Home movies probably shot in 1934 of Palestine and North Africa. Scenes may include street scenes, a synagogue interior, and rural Palestine.

  16. Oral history interview with Agnes Wohl

  17. Oral history interview with Jerry Jacobs

  18. Schwarz family papers

    The collection documents the Hungarian Holocaust-era experiences of the extended Schwarz family, including George and Magdolna Schwarz, their daughter Mariette, and Magdolna’s sister Klári Kovács (née Haberfeld) and her husband László Kovács. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, and photographs.

  19. Arnold Grossblatt collection

    Arnold Grossblatt (1924-1945) WWII photograph album, loose photos, letters from him to his family, draft of a letter from his mother Miriam to President Harry Truman, correspondence from the U.S. Army after he was killed in an accident in September, 1945, clippings, pamphlet

  20. Handmade flax figure

    Small handmade braided flax figure with hat and shoes; mounted onto adhesive album page with “May 2, 1945” collaged separately beneath the doll; made for Irene on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday by a Polish Jewish girl who worked with Irene in the flax factory at Merzdorf, where they were liberated on May 8, 1945.