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  1. Wilbur T. Hooven III papers

    Typescript memoir of liberation experiences at Ohrdruf. Copy of map of the 89th Infantry Division.

  2. Liturgy for Yom Hashoah and Haatzmaut Shabbat services

    Publication: Order of worship for Yom Ha-Shoah service at Temple Akiba, Culver City, CA, in the year 5742 (1982). Booklet compiled by Rabbi Allen S. Maller, printed, 48 pages.

  3. Henriette Mandel papers

    Photocopies of family papers, in French, relating to the eligibility of donor's nephew, Robert Kreidelman, for a war-orphan pension. Also contains evidence that donor's relatives were killed at Auschwitz.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees; Jewish shelter; London, England

    Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 06:01:13 and at right at 06:01:35. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 06:02:40. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 06...

  5. DAF membership fee book for Gerta Aufshnaiter

    DAF membership fee book maintained by Gerta Augshnaiter.

  6. Videotaped testimony of Livia Shacter

    Videotaped testimony of Livia Schacter, Holocaust survivor, recorded at Palos Verdes High School, California in April 1996.

  7. Radovolsky family collection

    Memoir by Ida Radovolsky; memoir by Tsilya Radovolsky; three unidentified photographs.

  8. Mariya Lazaretnik collection

    Memoir; photocopy of a certificate (with translation); photocopy of identification card (with translation); photocopy of document entitled Republican Society of Former Prisoners of Fascist Concentration Camps (with translation); photocopy of Confirmation (with translation).

  9. Alice Berger memoir

    Describes her life in Slovakia before and during the Holocaust.

  10. Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem

    Consists of records filmed at various European Archives. The collection contains material regarding several different topics. A majority of the material concerns partisan groups active in the USSR, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine. This includes reports from partisan groups to Soviet leadership, names list of partisans in the different groups, as well as postwar memoirs and interviews of partisans. The remainder of the material is primarily concerned with Jewish life under German occupation in former Soviet lands, particularly the cities of Kiev, Pinsk, and Brest. This includes German de...

  11. Bueckeberg Harvest Festival

    Vast number of people on hillside, dressed in traditional folk costumes and headdresses. Hundreds of flags and flagpoles, including good shots of very tall flagpoles with swastika flags. Vast number of people in traditional costumes on hillside. VLS, LS. CU costumed men and women in elaborate, grand clothing, many smiling for camera; men with pipes, women with enormous jeweled hats.

  12. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Diplomatic Legation in Mexico City Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Meksyku (Sygn.593)

    Notes, circulars, correspondence, memorandums, telegrams, speeches, reports, registers, newspaper clippings relating to search of the opportunities for Polish agricultural settlement and Jewish immigration in Honduras, Santo Domingo, Colombia, Venezuela; social welfare for emigrants and Polish refugees in Mexico, recruitment of Polish workers in Central America, illegal immigration, circulars concerning the forgery of passports, passport regulations of the Free City of Gdańsk, establishment in Mexico of the Committee for the Care of Polish Refugees, negotiations with the Mexican government ...

  13. Interior Ministry: General administration Selected Records from the French National Archives: F1a Ministère de l'Intérieur/Administration Générale

    The collection contains selections from the French Interior Ministry’s Delegation in the occupied zone, Department of Worship, and Interior Commission of Algiers documenting the status of Jews, religious worship, and deportations. Records include reports and circulars about the application of laws governing secret societies, the employment status of Jews, the operational status of Jewish organizations, descriptions of German-occupied France and anti-Jewish measures in occupied Europe, French attitudes towards obligatory labor service in Germany, the internment of Jews, and official French n...

  14. Hitler's death camps

    A memoir about the donor's Holocaust-related experience at Buchenwald with the 87th U.S. Infantry Division.

  15. Executive instinct: Reinhard Heydrich and the planning for the final solution: a report

    Contains an essay, typescript, 31 pages with footnotes, delivered as an address at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on December 6, 1993.

  16. Records of Hidegseg trial

    Copies of documents in the custody of the Budapest Municipal Archives from the trial of the guards of Hidegseg.

  17. Feiga Kerzner receipts

    The Feiga Kerzner receipts consist of receipts Feiga and Benzion Kerzner received from the Soviet Consulate in Tehran documenting some of their donations of large sums of money, Persian carpets, shoes, and other supplies to the Red Army as their contribution in the fight against Hitler.

  18. A statistical analysis of Soviet atrocity charges

    Russian atrocity charges for particular localities are analyzed and compared with a summary atrocity charge issued by the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission. The statistical validity of the atrocity charge is discussed.

  19. POW camp (Stalag IXB) near Bad Orb with American and Allied prisoners

    (LIB 5064) Unloading rations from a jeep. Liberated Allied prisoners, of Bad Orb POW camp, CU one with a turban scarf. Carrying boxes of rations. CU, two liberated men. Walking with wheelbarrow, white crosses for deceased along a barracks in the BG. Entering barracks in BG while men sit on a stone wall and read US newspaper with headline "Yanks invaded Ryukyu..." HAS men and liberating officers. Barracks 35. Climbing up to watchtower, removing flag and dropping it. Opening aluminum can with a dog tag necklace. Distributing cigarettes. Men with blankets over shoulders. Various shots of liber...

  20. Aaron Fleck papers

    Photocopies of certificates and correspondence, in Yiddish, of donor's relatives in Kovno (Lithuania) and Cleveland (Ohio), circa 1878-1940.