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  1. Map promoting German tourism acquired by Max and Irene Bray

    Large map promoting regional tourism throughout Germany. The map was acquired by Max and Irene Bray, an American couple, in the mid 1930s. Max Bray, an optical scientist and pioneer of advanced optics, was being courted for employment in Germany at the time. The map was among other items left for the Brays in their hotel room. In later years, the Brays gifted the map to their friends and neighbors, the Connors family. Audrey Connors donated the map in the name of her teacher Paul Lowes, who drew on the map in his classroom when educating students about the period and the threat of Nazi fasc...

  2. 422nd Night Fighter Squadron collection

    Contains 12 photographs taken by a soldier in the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron stationed in Belgium. Includes images of damage to an unidentified city, and post-liberation photographs of survivors in an unidentified concentration camp.

  3. Arthur Goldberg collection

    Photographs and a document of Arthur Goldberg illustrating his experiences as an Army Medic (pharmacist) in the 139th Evacuation Hospital of the US Army. Photographs (copy prints) were taken in the Ebensee slave labor camp in Austria; document distributed likely by the US Army; photos taken by Arthur.

  4. The Eckstein family at a fair and playing in their garden

    June 1939. The children in striped jackets outdoors in their garden in Bítýška. Greenhouse. 01:01:13 Pan of the family home at Vev. Bítýška. 01:01:20 The children ride the carousel with the nanny in a checkered jacket. 01:01:54 Michael helps Antonín off the carousel. 01:02:00 The family and nanny pose for a portrait in the funhouse mirror (notice mother Toni with the camera standing at right behind her son Antonín). Very brief shot of only the couple, Toni and Michael, at 01:02:08. [These are the only images of mother Toni across the films]. Antonin and Michaela play in piles of hay in thei...

  5. Namiestnik Rzeszy w Okregu Kraju Warty w Poznaniu Selected records of the Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen (GK 62)

    Correspondence relating the employment of Poles by Germans, mattaers of NSDAP party, statistics on various nationalities, resistance movement, church matters, displacement of Poles and Jews, extermination of civilians, racial policy, and gremanization of Polish orphans in Kalisz and Kirchdorf. Includes a register book with names of Poles, Jews and Russians murdered by gendarmerie and Gestapo, 1939-1945 (Wieluń, Wieruszowa, Ostrzeszowa, Pajęczno), and a name list of prisoners from the labor camp in Wąsowo, Poland.

  6. Rabbi Louis and Margit Isaac papers

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, and writings related to Rabbi Lajos Izsak (later Louis Isaac) and Margit (Kohn) Izsak (later Margaret Isaac) who emigrated from Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary to the US in 1938. Features extensive correspondence between Rabbi Lajos Izsak and his brother Rabbi Yitzhak Izsak (Isaac) in Memphis, related to efforts to raise funds and rescue relatives and other Jews in Europe. Also includes Rabbi Lajos Izsak's letters of reference.

  7. Rosenbaum family papers

    The Rosenbaum family papers consist of identification documents, a business card, and announcements that document the experiences of Hans Rosenbaum [the donor’s uncle], his parents Theodor and Martha, and his brother Erich before, during, and after the Holocaust. Documents relating to Hans include a birth announcement, a driver’s license, and a German passport, both issued in 1927 and 1938, respectively, that bear his photos. Also included is a business card for Rodenberg & Rosenbaum, the cigar box factory that was co-operated by the family. In addition, documents chronicling their natu...

  8. Hanukkah lamp

    Hanukkah lamp which belonged to the Altman family in Germany. It was given to Theodore Levite, whose mother was Marie Altman Levite and later to the donor who was a relative by marriage.

  9. Seymour and Ethel Reiss papers

    Consists of a 10 page letter written by Seymour Reiss to Ethel Waxman, his later wife, in June 1945 relaying his experience touring Dachau in the wake of the liberation of the camp.The collection also includes a photograph of the couple at Coney Island and photographs and documents relating to Seymour's military service in the European Theater.

  10. Kurt Dreyer papers

    The collection consists of two letters written by Kurt Dreyer, a member of the Essen Reserve Police Battalion 67, to his wife and son Hans-Jürgen in Essen regarding his actions in Krasnobród, Poland. In the first letter, dated 15 November 1942, he discusses his participation in a killing operation in Krasnobród on 13 November 1942 where accused partisans were placed in a barn and burned alive. He writes that he also shot at those who tried to escape, and that they later burned down the farmer’s house and executed the family as accomplices. He then discusses the capture and execution of 3 Je...

  11. Josef Helfgott papers

    Consists of photographs, restitution-related claims, a business card, newspaper clippings, and photocopies pertaining to the experiences of Josef Helfgott, a Holocaust survivor from Tomaszow Mazowiecki. Among other items, the collection includes a photograph of Josef's wife, Dwora, that he kept with him throughout his internment at various concentration camps, including Auscwhitz. Dwora, and the couple's daughter, Chana, were deported from Tomaszow to Treblinka in 1942 where they were killed. Other documents in the collection concern Josef's extended family as several siblings had immigrate...

  12. William Rowe collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, Nazi-propaganda journal (newspaper/magazine/leaflet); correspondence between Hans and his son Kurt Seibold dating early 1940s, while Kurt is deployed with the German military under Nazi regime and Hans, also a soldier and WWI veteran, is home in Nuremberg, Germany. Letters from Hans discuss the military events occurring such as Operation Barbarossa, his vague references to current military work, and his affiliation and meetings with Nazi party members. Newspapers, magazines and leaflets included were printed under Nazi-occupied Germany.

  13. SS Presentation plate

    SS presentation plate made in the Allach porcelain factory. The plate was brought home from WWII by Dr. George Tilden Novinger, who worked in the Dachau concentration camp after liberation, and served in the US Army from February 1944 – March 1946. The Allach porcelain factory was one of the SS's first industrial enterprises, under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler. The factories were sub-camps of Dachau concentration camp, with camp inmates supplying the forced labor.

  14. Brukner and Grinberg families papers

    Consists of documents, photographs, and restitution papers related to Ester Grinberg née Brukner, her husband, Max Grinberg, her sister Irena Dlugosz née Brukner, and their families.

  15. Gestapo office Würzburg (State Archive Würzburg, Germany) Gestapostelle Würzburg (Staatsarchiv Würzburg)

    Contains 24,780 arrest files, including photos of suspects (mug shots), private photos (for the most part ID photos), and a Gestapo photo album. 3,071 of the arrest files refer to Jews. The majority of the collection consist of the personal files; organized alphabetically by the name of the respective suspects (family name; first name; birth date; birth place; profession). The letters A to G; and V are missing. The cards give a short content description of the respective file. There is only a small percentage of thematic or administrative files; concerning the pogrom 1938, the deportation o...

  16. Selected records of the Citizens' Militia Headquarters in Łódź Komenda Milicji Obywatelskiej w Łodzi (Sygn. 236)

    Reports, orders, ordinances and claims of the Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia) relating to civilians in Łódź, including Jews, in the first period of German occupation of Poland. Documents relate mainly to the robbery of Jewish enterprises, breaking into Jewish flats and theft of their property, street incidents and arrests, lists of premises, shops, workshops, enterprises, horses, motor vehicles and others, as well as lists of militia officers.

  17. 1945 news roundup

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade of the Year 1945" "Now it can be seen! British Battleship Bombed!" "Nazi U-Boat scores direct hit on HMS Barham" "Hitler’s V-2 bomb exposed by Allies" "Millions mourn the death of President Roosevelt, Truman succeeds as President" "Soviets last offensive in the heart of Berlin" "Prime Minister Churchill reviews British and Canadian troops" "American flag raised on Iwo Jima" "Atomic bomb destroys Nagasaki" "Millions of GI’s come home on ships" "Carrier Saratoga steams into San F...

  18. Gardelegen liberation photograph

    Contains a black and white photograph of three corpses of prisoners shot by the SS laying in the doorway of a barn just outside of Gardelegen; caption on verso: "March 1945 / Gardalagen [sic] / 20 miles east of Hanover Germany."

  19. Selected records of the Commune Suchedniów Akta Gminy Suchedniów (Sygn. 141) : Wybrane materialy

    Population books and registers of the Suchedniów commune, Suchedniów village, and other villages in Kielce region, Poland. Includes information related personal data about residents, payment of taxes, security and public order.

  20. Selected records of the Presidium of the Municipal Council in Szczekociny Prezydium Miejskiej Rady Narodowej w Szczekocinach (Sygn. 1808)

    Registers, correspondence, notary files, protocols related to Jewish abandoned real estate