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  1. Liz Bader collection

    Contains information regarding the donor's wartime experiences in Germany as a little girl; briefly discusses the situation of father's business; photograph is of donor and friend.

  2. Irma Gideon collection

    The Irma Gideon collection consists of a handwritten memoir in German by Irma Gideon. The memoir described her experiences during Kristallnacht in Oberlustadt, Pfalz, Germany, 1938 and her emigration to the United States. The collection also includes a photocopy of a newspaper article titled "Lustadter Synagogenbrand vor dem Richter" and a copy of a trial in the Strafkammer des Landgerichts Landau in der Pfalz in April 1948, of those people responsible for the violence on Kristallnacht. There are also biographical notes regarding the Gideon family written in English, likely created by museu...

  3. Kurt I. Lewin collection

    Consists of photographs and papers related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Kurt I. Lewin [donor]. Includes identity cards, permits to travel, work permits, documents forged while the donor was in hiding as a Studite monk, Polish army documents, entry documents into Palestine, and photographs of family members and of Studite clergy members. Also includes Mr. Lewin's handwritten 1947 memoir, "Aliti MiSpezia," as well as Polish and Hebrew typed transcripts of the same. The memoir describes his childhood, wartime, and postwar experiences.

  4. Marie Rosenberg-Swaalep collection

    Collection contains information regarding the whereabouts of the donor's family. One surviving member of the family, Marie Swaalep, was issued a displaced persons index card and travel passes to Sweden in May 1945. Collection also contains original registers of death from the Koninkrijk der Nederlanden for Marianne van Kollem, Abraham Swaalep, and Sophie Swaalep; and photocopies of statements regarding the deaths of Berta Dwinger, Alida Geertruida Kon, Juliana deGroot, and Elly Vleeschhouwer.

  5. Richard Jackson collection

    Contains photocopies of Ernst Theilman's character testimonies, with English translations. One black-and-white photograph of Mr. Theilman.

  6. Dublon family papers

    The Dublon family papers consists of a diary written in German regarding the Dublon family’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis, May-June 1939; a translation of the diary in English; photographs of the Dublon and Heimann families, circa 1933-1939; and a postcard, 1936. The photographs include a photograph of a children’s kindergarten performance in Erfurt, Germany, circa 1933. The kindergarten was operated by Frau Topf. Lore Dublon is seated second from the left and Peter Heimann is the first boy on the left. A photograph of the Dublon and Heimann families in Finowfurt, Germany in 1937. Fr...

  7. Flight from the Nazis A memoir

    Contains information regarding the Silverstein family's flight from Antwerp, Belgium, to France as seen through the eyes of Philip Silverstine [donor] at age 10. In the early part of 1941, the family was able to obtain visas, passports, and boat passes to sail to America via Spain.

  8. Nechama Tec and Daniel Weiss collection

    Contains information and research on Masha Bruskina, and to a lesser extent on Vloyda Sherbateyvich and and Kirill Trus; all were executed on October 26, 1941.

  9. Selected records from the National Archives of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

    Records relate to the Fünfbrunnen concentration camp. Included are name lists of Jews deported from Luxembourg to Poland, Sipo reports on arrested Jews and resistance members, investigation files and survivor accusation statements against Gestapo man Fritz Hartmann, and excerpts from the trial of Gestapo man Klöker and many others charged with war crimes in 1948.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Reconstruction of war-damaged properties; refugees

    Reconstruction of Czech Tunnel and Bridge (Czech Newsreel material - Lavender) Optical shots of Czech workmen standing around looking at the camera. Pan to silent factories and smokestacks. LS line of Czechs in food queue, dissolving to shots of refugees returning to their homes, on foot and in wagons. Several shots of same, dissolving to man pasting poster on wall intended to get men to work repairing war damaged properties. Other posters. Men, women, and children, carrying shovels on their shoulders go to work. LS mob of men and women over hillside, dissolve to workmen clearing up debris ...

  11. Zeev Rebhun collection

    Collection contains information regarding Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, including lists of Jews deported, maps of the camps, and official reports; videotape entitled "The final solution." The name lists are from the Sachsenhausen archives, NARA, and Yad Vashem archives.

  12. Jeffrey Cymbler collection

    Collection contains one copy of the 1943 German Census of all Jews residing in Bedzin, Poland, taken by the Gestapo; list totals 22,174 names.

  13. Howard A. Tanenbaum collection

    Collection contains original correspondence between Shirl Lea Kur and her daughter Sophiain Cordoba, Argentina (with annotations and English translations); original correspondence between Shirl Lea's brother, Cantor Schein, from New York, to Sophia in Argentina (with English translations); original family photographs.

  14. Morton Benson collection

    Contains information regarding his observations of corpses in striped uniforms on the side of the road in April 1945 while serving in the 11th Armored Division of the Third Army; only one date entry from a diary kept by the donor.

  15. Peter Laband collection

    Consists of one memoir, 71 pages, in typed and handwritten German, written by Dr. Paul Laband in 1938 after his release from the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was imprisoned for 1937-1938. In the memoir, he describes many details of daily life, and began writing the memoir almost immediately after his release, when his family emigrated to Trinidad. Includes an English language typed translation written by Dr. Laband's son, Peter Laband.

  16. Betti Weimersheimer collection

    Consists of one folder of original letters sent from Betti Wild Weimersheimer in Ichenhausen, Germany, to her son Samuel (born Siegfried) Weimersheimer in Newark, NJ, between 1940 and 1942. Also includes letters written by Fritz Weimersheimer (Samuel's brother) before immigrating from Palestine to the United States.

  17. How the Jews should combat the situation in Germany?

    Contains information regarding how to win American Gentile support in order to help save German Jews from being mistreated by the Nazis; written in August 1933.

  18. Juedische auswanderung: korrespondenzblatt fuer auswanderungs- und siedlungswesen, 1936-1938

    Publications: "Juedische Auswanderung," two publications, dated September 1936 and Summer 1938, subtitled "Korrespondenzblatt fuer Auswanderungs- und Siedlungswesen," published by the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland.

  19. Ruth Blecher collection

    Contents of postcard are in Polish; according to donor the contents state that the Lakner family and other Jews were taken into the forest of Nowy Targ in August 1942 and killed.

  20. "Diary of Robert Lichtblau"

    The "Diary of Robert Lichtblau" consists of a typed copy, with English translation, of the memoir of Robert Lichtblau, written in 1945. The text, which is entitled "The Diary of Robert Lichtblau" (though it seems to have been written as a narrative) contains information about the Lichtblau family before the war; the expansion of the family's pipe-making business; life in Vienna after the Anschluss; and their immigration to England.