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  1. Oral history interview with Dov Fettman

  2. Prolsdorfer Kramer family papers

    Contains documents, correspondence, and picture postcards pertaining to the Prolsdorfer Kramer family's lives in Gerolzholfen, Germany, and their emigration to the United States.

  3. Time (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Time magazine, dated March 15, 1943, with a drawing on the cover of Elmer Davis, director of OWI (Office of War Information), with a quote, "A free people has a right to know..."

  4. Ehrenhaft family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence relating to Oskar Ehrenhaft (donor's father) and his and his family's experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust.

  5. Kusserow family collection

    The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness prisoners in Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck concentration camps and photographs and documents related to the Kusserow family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Oral testimonies of Lilly Malnik and Nesse Godin

  7. Linda Hunt collection

    The collection consists of research files in paper and audio tape format and published books relating to Linda Hunt's study of the US government's post World War II program for the utilization of German scientists and technicians in Operation "Paperclip." Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Oral history interview with Gene Klein and Jill Klein

  9. The 55th anniversary of the Berdichev Tragedy

    Contains a memoir, nine pages, about the author's recollections of the murder of Jews in the Ukrainian city of Berdichev and its surrounding areas.

  10. Testimony relating to the atrocities discovered by the U.S. Army at Gardelegen

    Testimony. Typescript letter, 3 pages, written by Alex Weiss after visiting the USHMM in 1993, about his experiences as a soldier who encountered the Gardelegen massacre.

  11. Ernst Puttkammer letter to Jens Paulsen

    Photocopy of letter, 3 pages, unsigned, addressed to Paulesen (of Kiel, Germany), March 20, 1933, in which Puttkamer responds to Paulsen's enthusiasm for rise of Hitler by disagreeing with him, and citing recent removal of Bruno Walter as conductor of Leipzig Philharmonic.

  12. Morris and Mathilde Hasson papers

    Consists of letters written by Morris and Mathilde Hasson between 1940 to 1947 discussing the experiences and fates of members of the donor's family during the Holocaust in France.

  13. Family relations

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 24 pages. Concerns efforts of a Polish family to save Jewish neighbors during occupation. Also contains copies and tearsheets about activities of Dolza-Gronowski family during that period, as well as copy of proclamation from Yad Vashem recognizing them as Righteous Among the Nations.

  14. Robert McKeever papers

    Contains documents and photographs relating to Robert McKeever's service as a member of the Judge Advocate Division of the U.S. Army, and his involvement in investigating of German nationals , who committed atrocities at Dachau, Dachau-Allach, Landsberg, and Terezin concentration camps.

  15. Magdalena Nadler Vasadi memoir

    Consists of a typewritten account, one page, of Magdalena Nadler Vasaldi's experiences in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps and on a death march from Auschwitz.

  16. Писма и други документи по разследване на лица - чужди поданици, евреи и други за удължаване сроковете им за престой

    • Letters and other documents to investigate persons - foreign subjects and Jews

    Писма и други документи по разследване на лица - чужди поданици, евреи и други за удължаване сроковете им за престой

  17. Ernest N. Strauss collection

    Documents and photographs of Ernest N. Strauss and family from Europe, immigration to the United States and his military service as a Ritchie Boy.

  18. Copy letter from Göring to Reichsminister des Innern

    Copy letter from Göring to Reichsminister des Innern asking him to do everything to promote the emigration of Jews 

  20. [Dois membros da Cruz Vermelha]

    Dois homens de chapéu no exterior da sede da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa.