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  1. "Honor... whatever the price: a memoir"

    Discusses Holocaust experiences while living in the Netherlands. Father arrested for political reasons; mother involved in underground movements.

  2. Transcending trauma: exploring psychological mechanisms of survival and marriage council 1991-1992 annual report

    Reports relating to postwar trauma of Holocaust survivors.

  3. Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich collection

    One publicity flyer; memoir about Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich [donor], author unknown; newsclipping regarding the donor.

  4. Francine Parker collection

    Bookplate with the inscription "Ex Libris Adolf Hitler."

  5. David A. Mason collection

    Collection of 23 color photographs of Svätý Jur, Slovakia.

  6. "Symbol of survival: concentration camp money of the Nazi Holocaust"

    Discusses money used in various concentration camps.

  7. Sara Ginaite-Rubinson collection

    The Sara Ginaite-Rubinson papers contain photographs and documents relating to her family and the time she served as a partisan fighter in Lithuania during World War II. The photographs consist mainly of her family members, with some depicting Sara during her time fighting in the “Death to Occupiers” partisan group. Also included are documents concerning her relative Zlata Ginaite, photocopies of primary documents she discovered while researching the Lithuanian resistance movement, and correspondence with museums regarding her research. Additionally, in an oversized folder is a copy of the ...

  8. Selected records relating to safehaven, restitution and other related subjects

    Contains mostly information relating to Safehaven and restitution.

  9. Kate L. Lesser collection

    One letter is from donor's brother, Hermann Lesser, who is in Palestine through the efforts of Youth Aliyah. Donor went to England on a Kindertransport. Second letter is from donor's mother, Elsa Lesser, who escaped to Cuba. Last letter was written by donor to her mother one year after leaving Berlin.

  10. The Pioneer Woman

    Magazine, "The Pioneer Woman", No. 97, April 1944. Articles in English and Yiddish about women in resistance movements, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish refugees, etc.

  11. Albert Einstein

    Tower built to prove Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Costly structure with expensive laboratory equipment is built by exponents of scientist's discovery. Three shots of tower.

  12. The Ludwig Jacob papers

    Contains photocopies of transport notice and name list, labor camp call-up notice, name list from a publication, and Mauthausen death certificate, all relating to the fate of Ludwig Jacob [donor] and his family during the Holocaust.

  13. Paula Epstein collection

    Letter contains information regarding Dr. Cohn receiving a teaching position at the university of Breslau in 1932. It states that the political situation is not "agreeable."

  14. Doris Izes collection

    Documents regarding donor's attempt to obtain immigration papers for a family member.

  15. Mauthausen photographs

    Three original black-and-white photographs inscribed with "Mauthausen 8 May 1945" on the back of each photograph, as well as seven duplicates. The photographs depict piles of corpses found within the Mauthausen concentration camp, and a photograph of a man, possibly a survivor, sitting on the ground with a cart and building in the background. The photographer is unidentified.

  16. Harry Bender collection

    Six letters sent to the donor after World War II. They are from a group of people the donor came into contact with in France after their escape. The donor helped them reach Paris.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees on the move in northern France and Belgium

    Refugees in northern France and Flanders. Refugees, mostly women and children sit in the backs of trucks, looking at the camera. A group of men and women stand with bicycles and wagons in front of the awning of a bar. Horse-drawn wagons drive off. French soldiers march through a town. A few spectators watch their progress and wave at the men. People with bundles strapped to bicycles stand on the street. A group of them move off down the street, watched by other people in the street. A nice shot of people wheeling their bundle-laden bikes past several destroyed buildings. Refugees on an open...

  18. Memoirs

    Translation from English into Hebrew of biographies of donor's brother and sister. Collected at a family reunion and translated for grandchildren.

  19. "Events in the ghetto: a memoir"

    This handwritten and transcribed oral testimony completed in 1947 at the Warsaw Archive contains information on the Zalkind Family; Germany's invasion of Vilna in 1941; killing of the grandmother, father and uncle of Aron Einat [donor]; life in Vilna Ghetto and concentration camp with donor's mother and brother; liquidation of the camp; hiding during a children's action; being sent to Łódź where donor survived the Holocaust, etc.

  20. Martin H. Gordon papers

    Correspondence relating to the plight of Jews.