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  1. Introductory text for a portfolio of 15 reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Introductory insert, in French, for a portfolio of secretly created prisoner sketches from Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, which were reproduced, engraved, and published in 1946. The originals were created by Henri Gayot and the introduction was written by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. The sketches depict daily camp life and prisoner abuse, particularly for prisoners like Gayot and LaPorte, who were marked as Nacht und Nebel (NN) [night and fog], and were meant to “vanish” in the camp. LaPorte was arrested by the German S...

  2. Justice Ministry : State Public Prosecutor's Office at the Superior State Court Vienna, Dept. 6, 1939-1945 ; Miscellaneous Matters of Penal Institutions Justizministerium : Staatsanwaltschaft beim Oberlandesgericht Wien, Abt. 6, 1939-1945; Diverse Angelegenheiten der Vollzugsanstalten-Sammelakten

    Contains reports and communication documents from various prisons, penal institutions and detention facilities in the Ostmark (Austria), Bohemia and Moravia, and the General Gouvernment including Stein an der Donau, Hirtenberg, Krems, Kaiser-Ebersdorf, Znaim (Znojmo), Oppeln (Opava), Posen (Poznań), Vienna, and others; personnel matters of various courts and prosecutor's offices, including Vienna; lists of employees of the penal system; petitions received from inmates, including Jews; reports about incidences and infractions in the various penal institutions, including escaped inmates; repo...

  3. Night and Fog Print 1 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners during a roll call between 3 am and 4 am at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. Many of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had b...

  4. Richard Markiewicz collection

    Contains one copyprint of a photograph, dating circa World War I (1914-1918), of a couple sitting in a field, surrounding by uniformed soldiers. Also includes two documents issued by the American Joint Distribution Committee, certifying that Paja Kaplans (adult) and Mosze Kaplan (child) have passed a health examination, dated 1948.

  5. Neufeld and Milgrom family papers

    Documents and photographs relating to Selig Neufeld and Mania Milgrom Neufeld (donor's parents) who were in the Buczacz ghetto and later hid in Buczacz but were discovered. Both Selig and Mania were imprisoned in concentration camps, and after liberation they went to Italy, where their son Leon was born in 1946 and their daughter Henia Helene was born in 1949. Mr. and Mrs. Neufeld immigrated to Baltimore, MD in 1950.

  6. Toddler at play before the war

    Hester (Hesje) Jas, the daughter of close family friends, plays inside and then outside on the sidewalk in various outfits. Her father Benjamin, a member of the Jewish Council in Scheveningen, is visible. Hester (b. February 15, 1938) was later killed with her mother Elisabeth Querido Jas at Sobibor on June 11, 1943. Benjamin was also killed at Sobibor on July 16, 1943, with his son Eddie Jas (b. July 1, 1925).

  7. Felix Librach papers

    The Felix Librach papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, diaries and notes, emigration and immigration records, and kibbutz records documenting Felix, Martin, and Sophie Librach's emigration from Germany and Poland to Palestine in the 1930s, their lives in Palestine and Israel, their parents' experiences in Łódź, and Felix’s involvement with the kibbutz in Hulata. Biographical materials include identification papers for Felix Librach and obituaries for Martin Librach. Correspondence files primarily consist of letters and postcards from Martin Librach in Germany, Poland, P...

  8. Ilse Auerbach collection

    Contains correspondence, immigration documents, news clippings, certificates, and naturalization papers related to the life and immigration of Ilse Auerbach and her mother, Anna, originally of Berlin, to the United States in 1941. They arrived in new York on June 21, 1941, aboard the ship Villa de Madrid.

  9. Letter to Max Wolff, from the Reichsmusikkammer, March 1937

    One letter, addressed to the German Jewish composer Max Wolff, sent from Peter Raabe, president of the Reichsmusikkammer, effectively banning Wolff from exercising his profession in Germany, March 31, 1937.

  10. David "Chim" Seymour photograph collection

    Contains 18 photographs taken by photographer David Seymour for the Magnum Press Agency, in the mid to late 1940s, in Poland and Israel. Photographs depict children in schools and orphanages in post-war Poland, as well as newly-arrived immigrants in Israel after 1948.

  11. Kaufman family collection

    Contains photographs, four notebooks (in Yiddish), identification documents, certificates, and correspondence, related to the wartime experiences in France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both men in resistance activities during the occupation of France, their imprisonment by the Germans, and Finkielsztejn's deportation from Pithiviers and his presumed death. The notebooks contain a memoir written by Kopel Charles Kaufman in 1945-1946 describing in detail his experiences in Auschwitz...

  12. Margaret House letter

    Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.

  13. Dachau photographic negatives

    Consists of photographic negatives of Dachau liberation photos, which were widely published and distributed to American soldiers in the spring of 1945. These images are from the collection of the Racimora family, who were imprisoned during the war and spent time in displaced persons camps after the war.

  14. Dorothea Minskoff photographs

    Three photographic prints documenting the prosecutors and witnesses during the I.G. Farben trial in Nuremberg: 1) image of prosecution team member Dorothea Grater Minskoff standing at the podium, 2) members of the prosecution team, including Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. (Chief Prosecutor and Deputy Chief of Counsel) and Ruth Benedicta Kempner (third from the left), standing in the courtroom in front of a map of the I.G. Farben factories at Auschwitz, and 3) image of a group of British POWs who testified as witnesses for the prosecution at the trial standing in front of the same map.

  15. News of armistice received in Paris

    In Paris, people gather to hear news of the armistice. Loudspeakers in a square relay live "hard but not dishonorable conditions". "The German government solemnly declares that it does not intend to use for its own purposes of war the French [naval] units in the control ports, apart from coastguard and minesweeping vessels". CUs, of the listening crowd, including some individuals who appear Jewish, a black man in a suit, women, people talking to each other, and one wiping away a tear.

  16. Sold family correspondence

    Contains letters written by Szymon and Hinda Sold in Lwow, Poland, to their daughter Regina Sold Bauer and son-in-law, Dr. Artur Bauer in Palestine. In 1941 they left Lwow and moved to Stryj to avoid deportation to Siberia. The last communication was dated July 3, 1942 and was sent via Red Cross to Dr. Artur Bauer in Petah Tikva, Palestine.

  17. Max Austein photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs taken during the Krupp Trial (the United States vs. Alfred Krupp, et al.), which was held before United States military courts in Nuremberg between December 1947 and July 1948. Max Austein was one of the translators present at the trial and is pictured in several of the photographs.

  18. Large red Nazi garrison swastika banner signed by soldiers of the 80th Infantry

    Very large red Nazi swastika banner taken by 19 year old Paul Mercer, a US soldier, at the end of the four day battle to capture Kassel, Germany, on April 4, 1945. Paul and his unit, the 318th Machine Gun Squad, 80th Infantry Division, Third Army, faced stiff opposition at Kassel, which had a still operating Tiger Tank factory. At 12:30am, April 4, General Major Erxleben surrendered with about 400 troops. He wanted to present the garrison banner to the American commander but it could not be found. Paul had slipped behind the troops and removed the flag without anyone's noticing. The banner ...

  19. Cohen-Paraira family in the city before the war

    Ellis and her brother Abraham pose in front of blooming tree, probably in Scheveningen in 1938. Deer grazing at a park in the Hague. David with Ellis and Marian Viskoop, a family friend later killed at Sobibor. 01:10:33 A pier close to the family home on Maastrichtsestraat in Scheveningen, "SCH" on the boats. 01:10:37 Good shots of David, Abraham, and Ellis walking hand-in-hand in town. Clock and illegible signs ("... Theater") at left. Another view of Ellis, in a different jacket, holding a book and walking toward the camera in town.

  20. Jocheved and Mordechai Ziv collection

    Collection of family photographs of the Kuczyński and Frankenstein families in Skierniewice, Poland before the war; during the war in the Rawa Mazowiecka ghetto and after the war in Skierniewice with other survivors, celebrating Passover. Photograph of Dr. Libersohn (later Ziv) as he was demobilized from the Red Army and wedding photographs of Jadzia (Jocheved) and Dr. Ziv in Skierniewice in 1946. Document issued in Skierniewice, Poland; stating that Mr. Ezriel Kuczyński owned property in Skierniewice before the war and was a respected citizen of the city.