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  1. S.L. Shneiderman papers

    Material related to the experiences of author Samuel L. Shneiderman (donor's father). Includes genealogical records and biographical information; photographs; newspaper clippings; and writings including on the Holocaust and Warsaw ghetto, Israel soon after 1948, and Arthur Szyk.

  2. Oral history interview with Cila Trus

  4. Oral history interview with David Novick

  5. Oral history interview with Jan Huldt

  6. Israel "Sol" Sokolik papers

    The collection consists of handwritten testimony of the wartime experiences of Israel "Sol" Sokolik, who survived the Holocaust in Slonim (Belarus) in the ghetto and as a partisan. The testimony was used at the 1973 trial of Gerhardt Erren and Lothar Schultz for war crimes committed in Slonim. Also included are two doucments in Polish and Russian.

  7. Oral history interview with Nelia Poliak

  8. Cukunft (Youth Union "Future") Cukunft (Związek Młodzieżowy „Przyszłość“) (Sygn. 335)

    Circulars, reports, publications, articles, correspondence, members' list of names, and financial documents.

  9. Donald Douglas papers

    Consists of research material, commemorative material, oral history interviews, and audiocassettes produced and collected by Dr. Donald Douglas, a professor at Wichita State University, who organized Holocaust remembrance events in the Midwest beginning in the 1970s. The collection includes material related to Yom Hashoah events from 1979-2000; research materials related to the World War II letters of Harold Porter, a member of the US Army; and transcripts of oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas, which formed the basis of Douglas's manuscript, "Survivors in...

  10. Chamber of Commerce 376-15 Gewerbekammer

    Selected records of the Gewerbekammer (Chamber of Commerce). The collection covers the following areas of activity of the Chamber of Commerce: internal affairs (organization, elections, reporting), involvement of the Chamber of Commerce in authorities and administrations, relations with other organizations, meetings, business development, trade and labor law, training and examination, insurance, employment, market, transportation, tax and customs, finances and credit, metrology, justice, construction, health, sports and statistics.

  11. Joyce Hay collection

    Contains a carbon copy of a letter, dated June 19, 1940 to “Minister Lammers” in Berlin [Hans Heinrich Lammers, head of Nazi chancellory] from the Archbishop of Freiburg and the Vicar of Rottenburg, Germany stating they have been informed that “mentally ill” are being euthanized and they request that this “procedure which is forbidden through Christian law” be stopped. Also includes a carbon copy of a letter, dated July 19, 1940 to Wilhelm Frick from Theophil Wurm, head of the protestant church in Germany and opponent of the Nazi party, in Stuttgart, in which Wurm states local population ar...

  12. Ernst Kaufmann law office 621-1/84 Ernst Kaufmann

    Records of the law office of Dr. Ernest Kaufman, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  13. Lotte Seligmann family papers

    The collection consists of biographical material and photographs primarily documenting the pre-war life of Lotte Seligmann of Marsberg, Germany, including her studies and career as a nurse in Frankfurt am Main, prior to her immigration to the United States in 1938. Also documented in the collection are relatives in the Seligmann and Weitzenkorn families, and Lotte’s husband Henry Barak and his family. Biographical material includes Lotte’s birth certificate, German passport, employment papers, report cards, and her and Henry’s naturalization certificates. Photographs consist of pre-war depi...

  14. Leaflet

    Leaflet: "I AM SO AN AMERICAN!" / YOU BET, Sonny... / No Matter What Your / Race or Religion! / FIGHT RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HATE"

  15. Touring Bremen and Berlin; parades

    Group outing (of the amateur film club?) in Germany. Outdoor sculpture (Monument to the March Dead), statue in Weimar, CUs of the group, wreath at base of statue, drinking fountain. 01:01:42 Man in suit delivers speech (microphone on stand), girls in white dresses beside him, boys with flags. Scenic shot. Dining outdoors. Brief sequence of a man with a movie camera (01:02:14). Church. “Restaurant Cafe Kugel” Small group marches in the street with flags. Gathered near Kolonialdenkmal statue of elephant in Bremen. Harbor at Bremerhaven. The tour group gathers to board a small boat. Shots of t...

  16. Oral history interview with Jozef Reich

  17. Selected records from the State District Archive in Jihlava

    Contains records from Jihlava and surrounding towns, including Brtnice, Polná, and Telč, pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish property and assets, anti-Jewish measures, town registers and lists of Jewish inhabitants, emigration and resettlement, as well as post-war trial records from the District Courts of Jihlava, Polná, and Telč.

  18. Oral history interview with Ignazio Meleddu

  19. Sherman Carpenter letter

    The collection consists of a letter written by Sherman Carpenter who served with the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II. He wrote the letter to his Baptist minister back home in Louisville, KY on Adolf Hitler’s stationary which he found in an empty office in a government building in Munich. In the letter, Sherman describes what he witnessed in the Dachau concentration camp.

  20. Anthony Dotta photograph collection

    The Anthony Dotta photograh collection consists of photographs of the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. The photographs depict United States soldiers standing among corpses in the camps, the burial of victims by German civilians, the gallows of Ohrdruf, and the crematoria at Buchenwald concentration camp. It is believed that the photographer was either John Pagotto or Louis Pagotta, friends of Anthony Dotta.