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  1. Lawyer's certification

    Contains information about a hidden Jew.

  2. Photographs of victim of an unknown concentration camp or labor camp in Germany

    Contains a photograph of a dead inmate at unidentified camp following liberation, with a United States Army medic looking on. Written caption on back identifies medic as "Milton Baker from Michigan, 2nd Armored Division in Germany."

  3. Bendix Landau memoirs

    Consists of a copy of 40 excerpted pages from memoirs by Bendix Landau, of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, addressing the circumstances of his deportation in September 1942 and his subsequent internment in Theresienstadt. Later pages concern Bendix's mobilization during WWI and military life.

  4. History of the Jewish community in Boppard, Germany

    Manuscript article on the history of the Jewish community in Boppard, Germany, from 1074-1945.

  5. Selected records of the Umwandererzentrale Litzmannstadt/Posen (R 75)

    Contains records related to the forced expulsion of Jews and Poles from Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Poznań (Posen), Poland, and the insertion of ethnic Germans ("Volksdeutsche") in their place.

  6. John Fout collection

    Consists of photocopies of records from the Bundesarchiv and Military Archiv of Freiburg, Germany. The records, dated 1938-1944, are related to the identification and demographics of homosexuality in Germany and the work done by Oberarzt Prof. Dr. O. Wuth in Berlin dealing with homosexuals in the German military.

  7. The Morris Wollach collection

    Consists of miscellaneous correspondence circa 1944-1989 relating to the Holocaust and postwar emigration experiences of Morris Wollach.

  8. The Hugo Princz case

    Narrative about the donor's incarceration in concentration camps as an American national and his attempts to receive restitution from the German government.

  9. Matteo Pierro papers

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence and extracts from publications which relate to the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust.

  10. Irving A. Heyman memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, 4 pages, from a former U.S. soldier, describing his experiences at the Battle of the Bulge and subsequently, at Remagen and at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  11. The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection

    The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection consists of photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp, taken by Irvin Stern on May 10, 1945. The photographs show the camp following liberation and include images of survivors and victims, the mass burial of corpses, as well as buildings, fences, and the crematorium. The letters, in the form of memoirs, relate to the Irvin Stern's experiences at Mauthausen and how he came in contact with Dal Lorvic, a Yugoslavian resistance fighter and a survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp.

  12. Joseph Finkelstein papers

    Consists of death certificates, police certificate, and English translations.

  13. Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers

    The Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers include her original typescript memoirs in German and an English translation. The memoirs describer her life in Prague; her time in Theresienstadt in 1942 and 1943; her deportation to Auschwitz with her parents in December 1943; her father’s death in in 1944; her experiences in the "family camp" at Birkenau; her deportation to Stutthof with her mother in July 1944; her mother’s death in January 1945; forced labor in Praust; a typhus epidemic in Stutthof; and her eventual escape from a forced march in January 1945. The papers also include two partially-used...

  14. Ration Coupon

  15. Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee

    The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee contains a photocopy of the report written by Dr. Reszo Kasztner (Rudolf Kastner) in 1946. The report gives an eye witness account to occupation of Hungary and the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany. It details Kasztner's experience with the German invasion and occupation of Hungary, as well as the efforts made by Kasztner and the committee to move Jews into labor camps rather than concentration camps. The report contains a photocopy of the original report written in German, as well as an English transcription by Hilda Wolin.

  16. Edith Goldapper diary

    The collection consists of a bound volume containing a photocopy of a handwritten diary entitled "Diary of the Holocaust 1943-1944; Buch I" by Edith Goldapper. In the diary, Edith, originally of Vienna, Austria, writes about being sent to a children's home in Belgium in 1938, living in children's homes in France, and crossing the border into Switzerland. She also writes about living in the Ringlikon refugee camp and being transferred to girls' camps in Fribourg, Neuchatel, Lucerne, and Montreux. In 1947 Edith went to work for a Jewish refugee organization in Zurich and received an affidavit...

  17. Sigmund A. Cohn papers

    The Sigmund A. Cohn papers primarily comprise correspondence between Cohn and his wife and children and Cohn’s parents, Georg and Sophie Cohn in Breslau and date from the Sigmund Cohn family’s arrival in America in 1939 until the United States declared war on Germany at the end of 1941. The correspondence describes family life in Athens and in Breslau and focuses on unsuccessful attempt to secure visas for Georg and Sophie Cohn to immigrate to the United States. Occasional correspondence with the American Friends Service Committee, the US Department of State, the National Council of Jewish ...

  18. Karl Targownik papers

    The Karl Targownik papers consist of biographical materials and restitution files documenting Targownik’s partially successful efforts to receive compensation for damages he suffered during his internment in the Bochnia ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Biographical materials include birth certificates, tracing materials, continuing medical education documentation, and military service papers documenting Karl Targownik’s birth in Hungary, the ghettos and camps he endured during the Holocaust, continuing medical education courses he attended in the 19...

  19. Eichmann Trial -- Session 100 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The camera fades in onto Eichmann seated in the booth during recess. There is a shot of the prosecution desk with Hausner, Bach, and Assistant to the Attorney General Ya'akov Robinson seated (00:00:48) followed by various shots of the accused, the prosecution, and the courtroom. Assistant State Attorney Bar-Or enters and walks to the prosecution table (00:02:14). Servatius is shown arranging documents on his table (00:05:15). All rise as the judges enter the courtroom (00:06:45) and the attorneys bow to the judges (00:06:52). Attorney General Gideon Hausner resumes cross examination of Eich...

  20. Ernest R. Stiefel papers

    The Ernest R. Stiefel papers include photocopies of emigration and expropriation documents, Jüdische Kultusvereinigung and Jüdischer Kulturbund documents, and personal narratives describing the Nazi persecution of the Stiefel family from Frankfurt am Main; German and international barriers to German emigration; and the confiscation of money, property, and possessions of family members who emigrated from Germany and of those who stayed behind. Emigration and expropriation documents consist of photocopies of original materials documenting the processes the Nazis used to confiscate money and p...