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  1. Albert Cohen letter

    The Albert Cohen letter was written by Albert Cohen, while he was serving in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The letter and envelope are addressed to Cohen’s mother, Estelle Cohen, in Milwaukee, April 26, 1945. The letter describes Cohen’s experiences at the Buchenwald concentration camp shorty after it was liberated.

  2. Werner Best diary

    Diary of Werner Best, from July 1, 1943-December 31, 1944. Werner Best was a German Nazi and served as civilian administrator of France and Denmark while Nazi Germany occupied those countries during World War II.

  3. Max Mittelmark painting

    Painting: created in 1959, illustrating the experiences of Max Mittelmark, born in 1906 in Strojinetz, Bukovina [present day Ukraine] and deported to Transnistria where he was confined to the Bersad ghetto and experienced horrible livingg conditions which are described in his artwork. He and his wife Fanny survived, returned to Romania and eventually came to the United States in the late 1950s.

  4. Gertrude Basinger Oppenheimer papers

    The collection consists of documents related to Gertrude Basinger Oppenheimer's emigration from Bruchsal, Germany to the United States in 1936. Included are affidavits of support, German emigration documents, an immigrant identification card, anda naturalization certificate. Also includes a handmade book illustrated and authored by her brother, Paul Basinger and sent to her in Bruchsal prior to her immigration to the United States.

  5. Public Prosecutor Office District Court of Berlin Staatsanwaltschaft beim Landgericht Berlin (B Rep. 058)

    Selected records of the Public Prosecutor at the District Court of Berlin relating to criminal cases concerning crimes against humanity, war crimes trials, and Nazi crimes against Jews, homosexuals, Sinti and Roma, the disabled, political prisoners, Jehovah’s witnesses, forced laborers, as well as documents regarding euthanasia facilities, ghettos, concentration camps and prisons. Includes interrogations, testimonies, judicial examinations of war criminals and witnesses; reports of the International Tracing Service Arolsen about concentration camps, documents on deportation of Berlin Jews t...

  6. Oral history interview with Gershon Yelin

  7. Helen Tichauer papers

    The Helen Tichauer papers consist of subject files and a photograph album of Feldafing displaced persons camp, clippings regarding Auschwitz war crimes trials in Wuppertal, Germany, and a small amount of correspondence. The photograph album was assembled by Helen Tichauer, a survivor of Auschwitz, who was deported there from Bratislava in 1942, and lived in Feldafing after the war. It depicts Helen, her husband Erwin Tischauer, and numerous friends and activities associated with the camp. Correspondence includes letters received from historian Konrad Kwiet and United States Holocaust Memori...

  8. Police Station of the Polish Police of the city of Warsaw Komisariat Policji Polskiej miasta Warszawy (Sygn 1711, XV)

    The collection contains control books of the 15th Police Station of the Polish Police to register reported crimes and record the results of investigations.

  9. Hauptgruppe Gewrbliche Wirtschaft und Verkehr in der Distriktkammer fuer die Gesamtwirtschaft in Warschau Grupa Główna Gospodarka Przemysłowa i Ruch w izbie Okregowej dla Gospodarki Ogólnej w Warszawie (Sygn. 496//II)

    Selected records of German industrial factories in the GG. Includes lists of trading companies in Warsaw, statistics on workers, numerous materials regarding the borders of the Warsaw ghetto, relocation of companies from the ghetto area, allocation of premises in the ghetto, various corespondence and reports.

  10. Koplowitz and Shlafer families papers

    Consists of pre- and postwar photographs of Michael and Dina (née Schlafer) Koplowitz and relatives, formerly of Łódź, Poland, as well as documents relating to the couple's experiences while living as displaced persons in Germany and their later immigration to Israel. Included are IRO documents, a copy of Michael Koplowitz's birth certificate, Michael and Dina's marriage certificate, a statement of witnesses attesting to the identity of Dina Koplowitz, a letter in Yiddish, and an Israeli identity document issued to Michael Koplowitz. The collection also includes a photocopy of Dina's sist...

  11. Lindemann family in Braunchsweig

    Ethel and her daughter Karin with gloves hanging from her wrists walk down an avenue. The girl smiles and waves. Ethel, Karin, and Oda walk out the front door of a house with their dog. They play, throw snow. Rows of houses with snow-covered roofs. The family dances happily. “ENDE”

  12. Elizabeth and Bernard Kasmar collection

    Collection of Alzbieta and Bernhard Kasmacher (later Kasmar) in Vienna, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Includes Reisepasses, letters, birth certificates, US naturalization certificates, and newspaper clippings documenting the couple's journey from Vienna to England before arriving in the United States in 1940.

  13. Anna and Hans Blüthe photograph

    Contains a pre-war photograph of Anna and Hans Blüthe.

  14. Felix and Flory Van Beek correspondence

    Collection of documents, correspondence, receipts and papers relating to Holocaust survivors Felix Levi and his wife Flory (later known as Felix and Flory Van Beek) in Rotterdam, Netherlands to friends and family including Felix's brother Hugo and Theo in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and New York; bound in binder; dated 1946-1948; in German, Dutch and English.

  15. Watercolor of Auschwitz painted by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn618170
    • English
    • 1955-1980
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 21.875 inches (55.563 cm)

    Watercolor painting of Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland painted by Holocaust survivor Fred Veston in Albuquerque, New Mexico after his immigration in 1955. Fred was a jeweler who lived in Kraków, Poland, with his wife and two daughters, when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. Within a week, Kraków was occupied and the Germans initiated immediate measures aimed at persecuting the Jews of the city. They took Fred’s store, the family’s apartment, and their valuables. The Germans began searching for Fred after learning he dealt in Jewish jewelry. Fred’s neighbor, a Ca...

  16. Oral history interview with Ibrahim Goga

  18. Gisela Rosenthal Tucker collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Gisela Rosenthal and her family. Includes birth certificates in German and Czech issued for Gisela Rosenthal in 1926, 1927 and 1935.; correspondence from the US Department of State to Samuel Rosenthal in London, where he fled with his wife Regina where they were awaiting US visas; a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt, dated March 21, 1945, thanking Samuel for a gift he sent; a naturalization certificate for Gisela Tucker, dated 1948; and photographs of Gisela as an baby and toddler with, potentially, her parents in Germany. Copy drawing ...

  19. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Nowogródek Urząd Wojewódzki w Nowogródku (Sygn.1184)

    Monthly reports on the state of security, national minorities, social and political life, population movement, communist movement, activities of unions and associations, includes also confidential reports relating to members of communist organizations (Komunistyczna Partia Białorusi Zachodniej, KPZB), and a monograph of Jewish political organizations operating in the Nowogródek voivodship.