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  2. Neff Fremont papers

    Contains certificates, postcards, and various other documents, some from the International Refugee Organization, relating to Neff Fremont's time in several displaced persons camps in Italy after World War II.

  5. Oral history interview with Isaac Kraicer

  6. Meinhardi, Strahl, and Stolze families papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs associated with the experiences of the extended Meinhardi family (families Strahl and Stolze) under National Socialism and in postwar Germany. Also includes material related to the Meinhardi family, formerly of Germany, who immigrated to the United States at the end of the 19th century. The Meinhardis continued to correspond to their relatives in Engish throughout the period and received first hand accounts of life in Nazi Germany into the immediate postwar years.

  9. Morris Kopels papers

    Contains two copies of a songbook from the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp which were part of the publication, "zamlung fun katset un geto lider," issued in 1946 by the Central Jewish Committee, Bergen Belsen and the same collection also appeared as an edition of the DP periodical "Undzer Sztyme." The papers also include a photocopy of a note to Morris Kopels' aunt, Sonya Kusevitsky, written when Pte A. Dean Brust entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The materials date from 1945 to 1946.

  14. Gregory F. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Gregory F., a non-Jew, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1941. He relates experiences as a "displaced person" in his own country when he and his family were relocated by the Germans from Vienna to a small Austrian town.

  15. Eine Stadt im Dritten Reich

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The publication is an account of a German refugee describing the tragedy that has beset Germany in 1933. The fate of one city among 98 in Germany with a population of 50,000 or more is described. The harassment, abuse of its citizens and destruction or confiscation of property of social democrats and their facilities (printing shops, community houses, welfare institutions, libraries, and kindergartens) is described in harrowing details.

  16. Oral history interview with Oscar K. Reiss

  17. Oral history interview with Doris Kumar

  19. Oral history interview with Henny Aronson

  20. Oral history interview with Marianne Oelsner