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  1. Chad Anderson photograph collection

    The Chad Anderson collection consists of photographs taken by the donor's grandfather, Bernhardt Wilhelm Fahje, of the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp. The photographs include images of the corpses of victims, United States soldiers among the victims, the burial of camp victims by German civilians, exterior of buildings and fences at the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  2. Oral history interview with Claudio Perra

  5. Antisemitic leaflets

    Contains four leaflets, published circa 1937, calling on the citizens of Poland not to trade with Jews.

  6. Ruth Gellis photographs

    Pre-war photographs depict Ruth Gellis (born Ruth Wuhl) and her parents, Joel and Clara Wuhl, before they fled Germany and were later forced into hiding in France. The photographs also document Ruth and her friends she met while in France, including Clara Meletz.

  8. Report from Drancy concentration camp

    Three typewritten pages documenting the first stages of the Holocaust of the Jews of France and the state of affairs within the Drancy concentration camp a few months after it was established in August 1941. The letter begins with a general description of the situation outside of the camp (arrests, attempts for family members to visit) and then includes a detailed description of living conditions in the camp (sleeping on floors, food rations, punishments). The bulk of the letter is dedicated to describing protests of Jewish physicians at the camp and the order to release prisoners whose con...

  9. Waldmann family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Waldmann family, originally of Bad Windsheim, Germany. Included are German passports, family history, immigration documents, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and photographs regarding brothers Leopold, Max, and Sigmund, and their families including their mother Emma Esther Waldmann, and Max’s wife Charlotte and sons Kurt and Otto. Biographical materials include Charlotte Waldmann’s German passport which also included her sons Kurt and Otto; Emma Esther Waldmann’s German identification card and passport, packing inventory, r...

  10. Bill Carr papers

    The Bill Carr papers consists of 7 type-written pages of testimony attributed to Franz Ziereis, the former commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp. The testimony was translated into English from German by former camp inmate Charles-Heinz Pilarski. The testimony describes methods used to kill Jewish and other prisoners in the concentration camp, conditions in various camps that Ziereis worked in, a brothel for concentration camp prisoners, the execution of camp prisoners, the capture of American officers, the hiding places of various SS officers, the sexual harassment of women, the plund...

  13. Oral history interview with Marian Wroblewski

  14. Berger, Hartstein, and Marx families papers

    Consists of correspondence pertaining to the Hartstein, Berger, and Marx families of Stuttgart, Germany; Prague; and the United States.

  15. Elizabeth Grigas photograph collection

    Contains four photographs taken shortly after the liberation of the Russian camp at Mauthausen concentration camp, 1945. The photographs show suvivors and victims of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  17. Alkalay family photographs

    The Alkalay family photographs consists of two photographs of members of the Alkalay family in Bulgaria. One photograph taken in Haskovo, Bulgaria, dated July 1943, depicts Lora Alkalay with two friends, Suzi and Mali, eating bread and butter given to them by Suzi’s father who worked as a baker during the war. All three girls are wearing the Jewish Star of David badge. The second photograph depicts Nissim Alkalay with his friend, Jacques Safonov, in front a Balkan building opposite the palace of the King in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  18. Dinner reception at Pető home; snowstorm and hunting

    WIth titles in Hungarian. “I.RÉSZ” with picture of a violin and a lever-action rifle. “AMI NEM MINDENKINEK SIKERÜL”. “A78-IK SZÜLETÉSNAP” An older woman looks at the camera, smiles, and talks. “ACSALÁD” CU, 3 playing cards - a jack, a king, and (what looks to be) a joker. INT, Laszlo Pető in the middle of two men playing cards, with 1 man standing in the BG. “ÖSSZES AOLU SŬLI ULSIMO” They play cards. Women, including older sister of Gyorgy, Rózsa Pető, and Zseni Krausz, sit at a table, eating and talking. 01:48 “II. RÉSZ” “AMI NEM MINDENKINEK SIKERÜL” “A33-IK SZÜLETÉSNAP” “MEGÉRTE, MEGÍRTA…...

  19. George Rosenberg papers

    The collection consists of family letters written to George Rosenberg after he fled his family home in Offenbach am Main, Germany to Brussels, Belgium on a Kindertransport in 1938, where he lived with relatives in the Orbach family. The letters include one photocopy of a letter to George from his parents Emil and Fanny Rosenberg and sister Liesel Rosenberg in 1938. The other correspondence consists of letters and postcards to George and the Orbachs from his parents and sister Ruth in Offenbach, 1941-1942 before they were deported and killed at the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942. Also ...

  20. Dr. Leon Ginsburg collection

    Collection of photographs and a telegram depicting life in the Foehrenwald Displaced Persons camp and at an ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) school in Germany; dated 1945-1948. Also contains pre-war photographs, bearing English inscriptions, documenting Kalman and Pesia Ginsburg (donor’s parents) and their children Leon and Blume Ginsburg, with friends and school groups in Maciejów, Poland, along with a wartime photo of Leon; dated circa 1925-1944.