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  1. Don Baldwin collection

    Consists of three documents from the collection of Don Baldwin. Includes a personal letter, 2 pages, in English, dated 29 Oct.1933, from Mildred and Carl Soule. The letter, written in Berlin, describes life at Berlin University, the new anti-Jewish regulations, and their feelings on the influence of Nazi propaganda. The letter was written on the verso of a form given to students attesting to their Aryan ancestry, which the authors have translated for Mr. Baldwin. Also includes one advertisement for a lottery.

  2. "Banatski Nemci i Jevreji"

    Consists of one article, entitled "Banatski Nemci Jevreji," by Dr. Teodor Kovac. The article, in Serbian, 56 pages, describes Jews and Germans in the Banat during the Holocaust.

  3. Peter Ornstein memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In his memoir, he describes wartime Vienna, being entrusted to neighbors as his mother and future stepfather had immigrated to China (with the intention that Peter and his two sisters would follow), and in 1939, to a convent when it became too dangerous. In 1942, they were relocated to a building used to collect potential deportees, but were released because their paternity (and thus degree of Jewishness) was questioned. In February 1944, Peter was ...

  4. Charles "Bud" Norris photographs

    Consists of 25 photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The images show victims of the Dachau death train, piles of corpses, members of the United States Army, and various buildings around the camp. The photographs were taken by an unknown member of the 283d Field Artillery Battalion and given to Charles (Bud) Norris, a member of the same battalion, who annotated the photographs on the verso and dated them 25-26 May 1945.

  5. Dr. Zvi Richter memoir

    Consists of one memoir, referred to in the text as a CV or Vitae, by Dr. Zvi Richter, who was born Budapest, Hungary and raised in Berehovo. In the memoir, Dr. Richter describes life in Berehovo, the Jewish and Zionist community, establishing his own law firm, and his memory of the Hungarian occupation in 1938. He served in the Horthy army for a brief period in 1940, but was recalled after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. As a Jewish soldier, he witnessed the effects of the massacres and deportations of Jews in the areas in which he served until 1943, when he was captured and impris...

  6. Selected records from the collection of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, Berlin

    Contains photocopies of 50 documents about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a German physician, sex researcher, and early homosexual rights advocate. It includes documents concerning allegations of homosexual behavior, and information about organizations connected with Dr. Hirschfeld, including the Institute for Sexual Knowledge, Berlin; the Magnus Hirschfeld Stiftung; and the Scientific Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftliche-humanitäres Komitee). There are also a few documents concerning Ernst Röhm.

  7. Leo Komar memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 140 pages, entitled "Memoirs," by Dr. Leo Komar, which he wrote in Israel in 1995. The memoir describes Dr. Komar's experiences growing up in Poland between the wars, his extended family, his schooling, his immigration to England in 1933, and his memories of attending medical school in Glasgow. He finished medical school and joined the British Merchant Navy, serving all over the world until 1946. He resumed his medical work in Canada, living in Vancouver from 1955-1992. The memoir also describes Dr. Komar's thoughts about Israel and a history of his family's experience...

  8. Sara Weber Schwimmer memoir

    Consists of a bound copy of a memoir, handwritten by Sara Weber Schwimmer, originally of Czechoslovakia. The memoir, addressed to her children and grandchildren, describes her childhood, memories of her siblings, and her memories of chores and recipes. She describes how various countries occupied her area, and her memories of moving to Budapest. She spent most of the war in Budapest, and remembers life in Hungary in 1944, enduring antisemitic persecution. She was ordered to perform forced labor and describes witnessing a mass shooting. She was then turned over to the Germans and deported, f...

  9. Ella Landenberg collection

    Consists of a folder of documents, correspondence, and articles regarding Ella Landenberg, who lived on false papers in Belgium during World War II and was an active member of the Resistance. Includes copies of wartime correspondence, in English and Hebrew, written to Ella as "Leonie" about her wartime espionage.

  10. Bayard L. Cabe papers

    The Bayard L. Cabe papers consists of a letter written by Bayard L. Cabe, a member of the 6th Armored Division, on 23 April 1945, regarding the liberation of Buchenwald. In the letter, he describes the tour he took with English-speaking former prisoners and summarizes their experiences. The letter is missing the final page(s). The papers also include photocopies of military records and photographs from his service.

  11. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of six small copy prints depicting the liberation of Dachau. The images, which are fuzzy and were mass produced, are labeled on the verso "Dachau, Germany, '45-'46." The photographs were taken in April 1945.

  12. Signal Corps photographs

    Consists of 23 enlarged copyprints of images taken by the United States Army Signal Corps. Includes images of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Nuremberg trials, President Harry Truman in Europe, the ruins of the city of Nuremberg, and the discovery and reburial of corpses found in the snow.

  13. John W. Schafer collection

    Consists of eleven photographs taken of the Gusen concentration camp after liberation. The photographs depict survivors, the quarries, the crematoria, and the burial of victims. John William Schafer acquired the photographs while he was a member of the United States Army during World War II.

  14. Fran Laufer collection

    Consists of post-war candid photographs of Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, and David Ben-Gurion. Also includes a group photograph of German soldiers and two photographs of the execution by hanging of an SS officer.

  15. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau on 27 April 1945. The photographs, which are identified on the verso, show corpses on a train, an SS officer beaten to death after liberation, and a photograph of an American soldier holding a Nazi flag in Schwabmunchen, Germany.

  16. Oral history interview with Mendel Halberstam

  17. Moritz Deutsch collection

    Consists of a letter written by Moritz Deutsch in Vienna on 7 October 1939, to his brother, William (Wilhelm) Deutsch, in New York City. In the letter, Moritz asks for William's help to procure visas for Moritz and his wife to immigrate to the United States. Also includes a World War I era photograph of Moritz Deutsch as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

  18. Meir Eldar memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs, entitled "KZ Spaichingen and the march to...liberty" and "The Voyage of the Olim of the 'Biria,'" written by Meir Eldar, originally of Biala-Bielsko, Poland. In the "KZ Spaichingen" memoir, Mr. Eldar describes the forced march from the Spaichingen concentration camp to Steingaden, Germany from 17-27 April 1945. He includes articles and correspondence with historians and with other survivors of this march. In the "Voyage of the Olim" memoir, Mr. Eldar includes maps, photographs, and his memories of his illegal immigration to Palestine and the voyages of the ships Bir...

  19. Peter Mittler memoir

    Consists of the first chapter, entitled "Childhood," of the memoir of Peter Mittler, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, 27 pages, Dr. Mittler describes his memories of the Anschluss. Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Vienna, and his experiences as an eight-year-old on a Kindertransport to England, leaving 11 January 1939. He reunited with his parents in England in the spring of 1939, and describes their efforts to become Anglicized. He also records biographical narratives of his parents, Gustav and Gertrude Mittler, and of other family members, some who passed away before World War ...

  20. Robert Guttman transcript

    Consists of one interview transcript, 97 pages, entitled "Recollections and Reminiscences" with Robert Guttman, originally of Germany. In the transcript (compiled by Lisa Greaves and based on interviews conducted in 2005 by Hannah Neuschwander) Mr. Guttmann, whose parents divorced when he was a child, immigrated with his father and sister to England in 1934. He describes returning to Germany to visit his mother in the 1930s, his father's internment in the Isle of Man, and his family's immigration to the United States in 1940. The transcript also includes information about his schooling, exp...