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  1. Zenon Nowak letter

    Consists of one letter, dated November 10, 1941, written by Zenon Nowak to his mother, Anastasia Nowak, and sister, who were living near Litzmannstadt (Łódź). The letter was handwritten on Dachau concentration camp stationery, and both the letter and envelope bear Nowak's prisoner number, 12183.

  2. Alexander Gleis papers

    The Alexander Gleis papers consist primarily of Gleis' firsthand accounts of his experiences surviving the Stanisławów ghetto, hiding in an underground shelter at the home of a Polish Catholic named Staszek Jackowski, being liberated, and moving to Israel. The papers also include retellings of the Jackowski story by Ruth Gruber and in clippings, biographical materials documenting Gleis and his wife, maps of Stanisławów, photographs of Gleis and his family before and after the war, and two letters to Gleis from the Bayerisches Landesentschädigungsamt.

  3. Phillip Greenglass family papers

    The collection consists of letters written to Phillip Greenglass in the United States from his family in Babruĭsk, Belarus. A select few letters in Russian also include donor-provided translations. Also included are pre-war photographs of Phillip’s family in Babruĭsk and depictions of his visit with his family in Babruĭsk in 1938.

  4. Heilpern Family Collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, passports and identity papers illustrating the experiences of Hans and Sidonie Heilpern and their three children Gertrude, Felix and Wilhelmine all of whom fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. Included is correspondence from Hans to Sidonie from concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in Germany, where Hans was interned from June 1938 to April 1939. Passport issued to Sidonie states family arrived August 1939, except Felix, who arrived separately. Also included are various documents issued to family in the United States, and pre- and postwar photographs of the...

  6. Prayer book

    Prayer book owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a child on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, known as the 50 children transport.

  7. Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus collection

    Consists of photographs, copyprints, identity paperwork, publications, and typed proceedings related to the work of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to bring 50 children (later referred to as "the 50 Children") from Vienna to the United States in 1939. Includes photographs and copies of the trip and arrival of the children, original identity paperwork (including visas and passports) for the children, and publications and typed proceedings related to the 1939 and 1940 Brith Sholom annual conference. Also includes a wartime story handwritten by Ellen Kraus (daughter of Gilbert and Eleanor) about her...

  8. Notice about forced labor requirements in Łódź Ghetto

    Announcement for display in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) ghetto about forced labor.

  10. Sylvia Malcmacher papers

    Consists of several pages of typed testimony written by Sylvia Malcmacher about her wartime experiences, including her life in the Vilnius ghetto, in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Muhldorf concentration camps, and at the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Includes a copy of the Vilna hymn, a copy of her post-war identity card which includes a photograph of Sylvia wearing her camp jacket, and a copy of a photograph of the memorial erected in Ponary.

  11. Terkeltaub and Erlich families collection

    Contains documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the Turkeltaub and Erlich families in Łódź, Poland before the war; the Łódź Ghetto during the war; and the Fohrenwald displaced persons camp. Most documents concern Marila and Suche Erlich (donor's parents).

  12. Dr. Gilbert R. DiLoreto collection

    Zamecnik report: Three page testimony written by Stanislav Zamecnik and translated into English, probably in April-May 1945 on site of the liberated Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Zamecnik described the practices of the infirmary in the camp which included "medical" experiments and other tortures. Signal Corps photographs: annotated by Gilbert R. DiLoreto, who served as surgical technician in the Medical Corps of the 116th Evacuation Hospital. He was part of the first medical team to enter the Dachau concentration camp after liberation on April 29, 1945. He was discharged from the Army in 1...

  13. Harriet Bixler scrapbook

    Consists of one scrapbook, labeled "1944-46," containing clippings, photos, letters, receipts, tickets, and assorted memorabilia collected by Harriet Bixler (Mary Harriet Bixler Naughton), while working for the War Refugee Board and the Office of War Information in Turkey, 1944-1946.

  14. Adler and Gumpert family papers

    One file of documents pertaining to the family of the donor's parents and their families, including copies of correspondence from Johanna Adler (donor's grandmother), written from Heilbronn, Germany, to the donor's father, Robert Adler, 1940-1941, after he had immigrated to the United States and shortly before her deportation to Theresienstadt. Also includes restitution paperwork for the donor's mother, Rolande (Meyerfeld) Gumpert, documenting her efforts to obtain compensation for properties belonging to her late husband's family in Heilbronn and her own family in Giessen, 1964-1966, and a...

  15. Martin C. Dean papers

    The Martin C. Dean papers consist of photocopies of case documentation prepared for Martin Dean by the German prosecuting authorities in Stuttgart, Germany, to assist him in preparing an expert witness statement for a case against Alfons Götzfrid (b. 1919 in Rastatt/Poretschje Ukraine), who served in the Security Police in Lemberg (Lviv) during World War II and who was tried in Stuttgart in 1999 on charges of accessory to murder at the Majdanek concentration camp. The files are entitled “Staatsanwaltschaft Frankenthal 9 Js 70-65 Walter Kehrer, Handakten Bd. I thru V and Sachakten Bd. I thru...

  16. Selected records from the State Archives of the Akmolinsk Region, Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR

    Selected records related to the evacuation of civilians to the Akmolinsk region, Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection also includes lists of evacuees, statistical reports, correspondence, list of evacuated communists, list of evacuated Polish citizens repatriated to Poland, and other nationalities.

  17. Salpeter family collection

    The Salpeter family collection consists of biographical and genealogical information regarding the Salpeter family of Düsseldorf, Germany. The collection includes correspondence, dated 1937-1942, sent between the Salpeter family in Germany and Poland, and Klara Salpeter, who had immigrated to the United States in 1938. Photographs of the Salpeter family include candid and studio portraits of Oskar Salpeter, Brunhilde Salpeter, Klara Salpeter, Rieka Salpeter, Dorothea Salpeter, and Charlotte Salpeter. All members of the Salpeter family, except Klara Salpeter, perished in the Holocaust.

  18. Mission to identify missing people during the German occupation (witness statements) Missie tot Opsporing van vermiste personen tijdens de bezettingstijd (getuigenverklaringen) (Fond 244)

    This collection contains documents relating the post-war Dutch mission to identify missing persons during the German occupation (witness statements). Including are records on deportation of Jews during the so-called Cosel transports (today: Koźle (Poland) into forced labor camps of Blechhammer (Auschwitz IV), Bobrek, Neukirch, Seibersdorf, Schoppinitz (Szopienice, Katowice district, Poland), Ottmuth, Niederkirch, Gross-Sarne, Laurahütte, Malapane, Tränke, Bunzlau, Anhalt, Fürstengrube, Gräditz, Langenbielau, Freiburg and Gleiwitz. The archive contains 154 statements from men who were depor...

  20. Court of the First Instance in Lipsko on Vistula Sąd Grodzki w Lipsku nad Wisłą (Sygn.1053)

    This collection contain selected so-called “Zg.” files i.e. cases of declaring a person dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet and Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring a person dead, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law determined who could be d...