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Displaying items 29,841 to 29,860 of 55,777
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  1. Joseph R. Beyrle collection

    Memoir of Joseph Beyrle's [donor] wartime service; articles pertaining to donor as a POW.

  2. Siegmund Levarie collection

    Postcard addressed to Sophie Löenherz; mentions Erna Patak, first president of the Austrian section of the WIZO.

  3. "The bloody record of Nazi atrocities"

    Consists of two copies of the late 1944 publication, "The Bloody Record of Nazi Atrocities" edited by Joe Weil and published by Arco Publishing Company. The publication is split into two parts, "The Crimes," written by Burnet Hershey, and "The Punishment," written by Johannes Steel. The publication is illustrated with artwork by comic book artist A.M. Froelich and with photographs supplied from the Soviet agency SOVFOTO.

  4. Hans J. Kaufman collection

    Book and articles regarding donor's father Arthur Kaufman. One photocopy of document with Himmler's signature, 17 August 1942. One postcard with list of names of those who appear.

  5. Werner J. Lipton collection

    Consists of two texts: "Fragments of a Childhood and Youth: Autobiogrpahical Memoirs," written by the donor, and "Toward the Abyss: Cards and Letters: Mindelheim-Lublin, 1941-43," translated by the donor.

  6. Indictment in the proceedings against Koch, Ilse for murder

    Indictment, dated 10 May 1950, of Ilse Koch, widow of former Buchenwald Commandant Karl Koch.

  7. Richard Stiel collection

    Fluechtlingsausweis (refugee identification document) for Marthe Stiel.

  8. Eva Frank collection

    Contains letters about Jewish emigration to the Dominican Republic 1938-1939.

  9. My ten days in Buchenwald: a memoir

    Donor describes his Holocaust related experiences in Buchenwald.

  10. "A Time to Weep"

    A research paper documenting donor's father's journey from Germany to China to Panama and to United States. Ten black and white family photographs with notes.

  11. Lang C. Dickinson collection

    Correspondence and photographs of Holocaust scenes, German medals, foreign paper money, etc. Includes photographs of U.S. Army Air Force photographer Lang C. Dickinson, and survivors and victims at Buchenwald shortly after liberation.

  12. Joseph Gosler collection

    Family register used when Joseph Gosler [donor] lived in the underground. Poem entitled "Hidden Children, W.W. II" written by donor.

  13. How I cheated the angel of death

    Holocaust related experiences as a political prisoner.

  14. Annexation of Austria; Allies protect Czechoslovakia and further German advance

    The News Parade newsreel footage of events surrounding the German annexation of Austria in March 1938. Various shots of military fighting and smoke. Chancellor von Schuschnigg greets Austrians and speaks from a podium. German troops marching over the border and into the streets of Vienna. Crowd/parade sequences, motorcades, several shots of crowds engaged in Nazi salute. Hitler's arrival. Shop signs in BG: Kastner, Wagons-Lits / Cook, Mercedes. HAS, crowds on plaza, military planes flying above, Austrians heil in support, Nazi troops in armored vehicles. Hitler exits car to walk in street. ...

  15. Cobblestones from Chłodna Street, which separated the two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto

    Cobblestones removed from Chłodna Street in Warsaw, Poland. The street was an important east-west thoroughfare in the city of Warsaw. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto, and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate inside the 10-foot-high wall that bounded it. An approximately 650-foot-long portion of Chłodna Street was contained within the ghetto until December 1941. Afterward, it became an Aryan-only street that divided the ghetto into two sections, with the relatively elite and intell...

  16. Otto and Susanne Perl papers

    The Otto and Susanne Perl papers consist of identification papers and emigration and immigration paperwork for Otto and Susanne Perl, military papers for Otto Perl, and a death certificate and burial records for Martha Perl.

  17. The Narrow Bridge Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War

    Consists of one typed memoir, 631 pages, entitled "The Narrow Bridge: Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War," written in 2014 by Dr. Zwi Barnea (born Herbert Zwi Chameides), originally of Katowice, Poland. In the memoir, Dr. Barnea describes going into hiding under the direction of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Metropolitan's brother, Klement Sheptytsky, head of the Studite monastic order. He reflects on his childhood before the war; the family's move to Shchyrets' in 1939; life under the Soviet occupation; learning of the aktions, particularly in Lviv and S...

  18. Egon Hamlet collection

    Travel document belonging to Egon Hamlet.

  19. Sala Tajchner letter

    Consists of a letter in Polish from Sala Tajchner, Aron Tajchner's (donor) sister, in October 1944 stating she was in Bedzin and that their parents perished during the Holocaust. Aron was in a Soviet labor camp during the war.

  20. David Tennenbaum papers

    The David Tennenbaum papers consist of false identification papers for David and Fanny Tennenbaum and photographs of David and Fanny Tennenbaum and Fanny Tennenbaum’s father, Nachman Gruber. The false identification papers include two forged birth and baptismal certificates under the names Teresa and Franciszka Wieczorkowska, and an authentic identification card and change of address registration form using the same false names. Photographs include a tintype of Fanny Tennenbaum with her father and twelve prints of Fanny and David Tennenbaum documenting prewar family vacations in Poland and ...