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  1. Selected records from various archives of Romania concerning Roma

    This collection documents deportations of 25,000 Roma to Transnistria in 1942: contains lists of Roma to be deported; police reports concerning alleged criminal activities; petitions of deportees for repatriation; “Romanianization” of Romas’ property; requests from local officials for clarification of deportation orders; internal correspondence concerning the effect of deportations on the remaining population; decisions regarding Roma refugees from Northern (Hungarian) Transylvania; and other topics such as typhus outbreaks, “vagabondism,” “concubinism,” and mixed marriages.

  2. M2121, Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp Inmate Cards, April 1944-April 1945

    Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the inmates were assigned within the camp. American forces seized the cards when they liberated and occupied the camp in April 1945. These records are unique in form, as the Germans cut the cards t...

  3. Rabbi Dr. Enoch (Hans) Kronheim collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, sermons, and newspaper clippings related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and work of Rabbi Dr. Enoch (Hans) Kronheim. Includes material related to Rabbi Kronheim’s rabbinical work in pre-war Bielefeld, his 1938 immigration and the 1939 immigration of his family, and of his wartime work as a rabbi in Jamestown, NY.

  4. Gluszyca names list

    Consists of a list of names and personal information of 613 Polish Jews who were resettled between 1946-1950 in Gluszyca, a small town near the Czech border. Many of those listed fled, or were shipped, east into the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war.

  5. Katia Magid and Fannie Szuster collection

    Consists of letters, documents, and official paperwork regarding the post-war immigration attempts of Katia (Katie) Magid and Fannie Szuster, both Holocaust survivors originally from Vilna (Vilnius), Poland (present day Lithuania). The papers describe the women's attempts to emigrate from Cuba into the United States to join family. Includes a letter written by Alan Markon to President Truman asking him to help his Aunt Katia and her friend Fannie immigrate.

  6. Selected records of the Archives départementales de l'Eure-et-Loir

    This collection contains documents from the prefect’s office; the administration of the Voves camps, where most persons identified as Communists were sent, often transferred from other camps; the Chartres prison; and private families and notaries. Documents include a register of Jews interned at the Chartres prison (1055W); several collections in the J Series (from private sources); the papers of the family of the deported doctor Goldberg; and records concerning compensation made to victims of spoliation by the Vichy regime and the German occupying forces.

  7. Jewish Registry of Antwerp

    Contains a name list of an estimated 11, 250 names of the Antwerp Jewish Community.

  8. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary

    The collection includes biographical material, restitution files, and photographs primarily documenting Jacob and Rita Litman’s experiences at the displaced persons camp at Bayerisch Gmain, Germany, from 1946 to 1949, their immigration to the United States, and efforts to obtain restitutions as well as extensive post-war correspondence from Tadeusz Jankiewicz, who helped Jacob escape, and other Poles who knew and helped Jacob during the war. The collection also includes the diary of Samuel Golfard, which was written during Samuel's internment as a Jewish forced laborer in and around Przemys...

  9. Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO), Sektion für Rasse-und Volkstumforschung, Interviews

    Contains interviews with Polish survivors of the research program conducted by the Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO).

  10. Alois J. Liethen collection

    Consists of 35mm negative film and positive prints taken by Alois J. Liethen after the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps and at the residence of Fritz Sauckel in Weimar. Mr. Liethen acted as a translator for General Eisenhower on his 12 April 1945, tour of Ohrdruf; the collection includes images of Eisenhower. Some photographs are captioned. Also includes two CDs, one containing scanned images of the photographs and the other containing scanned images of a letter written by Alois Liethen on 13 April 1945.

  11. Edna Aridor collection

    Consists of three photographs of members of the Royal Army Service Corps between 1941-1943. Depicted are Shmuel Ben Zvi, who was born in the Ukraine, and Shimon Madursky, who was killed on March 15, 1943.

  12. Olympic City of Berlin Poster with maps of Berlin and the 1936 Berlin Olympics stadiums

    Poster featuring 5 maps of districts of the city of Berlin with the 1936 Olympic stadium venues highlighted for spectators of the games.

  13. Stuart Cohn collection

    Consists of one handwritten manuscript, in Yiddish, of the Holocaust testimony of Jack Greenspan. Also includes one photocopy of a prewar postcard sent by Mendel Kane to his son, Jake Cohn. Mr. Kane perished in the Holocaust.

  14. Records of the Mayor of Budapest (BFL IV. 1402-1429)

    Collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, applications, decisions, letters of denunciation, and other documents. Topics include the military, commerce, public health, and transport; the Jewish community and Zionist organizations; citizenship and residence questions; appointments, dismissals, and retirements; disciplinary actions; charitable work; and the confiscation and redistribution of Jewish property.

  15. Steinberger family collection

    Contains passports issued by the Hungarian Consulate in Berlin to Salomon Steinberger and to his wife Regina Sicherman Steinberger (donor's parents) in July 1938; a driver’s license issued to Inez Steinberger in December 1937 in Frankfurt; an international driver’s license issued to Inez Steinberger in Frankfurt; vaccination certificates; documents issued to Salomon Steinberger during WWI; a letter from a moving company regarding transport of furniture from Frankfurt to London dated January 1939; and a manuscript written by Salomon Steinberger describing family history.

  16. Times Square

    Times Square in New York city. Traffic, pedestrians. Criterion building. Neon signs: Chevrolet, Whelan, Nedick's, Coca-Cola, Palace Theater, Hotel Astor. Marquee: "Pat Franco, Give Me Your Heart" Football poster: "Sunday, October 18, Giants vs. Cardinals"

  17. Roma Becher collection

    Collection of postcards and photographs documenting the experiences of Baruch Hershstyn (donor's step father). Includes postcards written by Chana Hershstyn (Baruch's wife) from the town of Kransnytav (near Lublin) to Baruch, who had been sent to Sverdovskaya Oblast for forced labor. He survived the war, but his wife and children perished.

  18. Eric Frisch collection

    Collection of materials relating to Eric Frisch (donor's father) who was a torch runner in the 1936 Olympic Torch Run and was a coach of the Austrian women's track team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Eric Frisch was a Jewish athlete in Austria and a well known and respected runner. He was asked to oversee the runners in the fourth stage of the torch relay through Austria, was the final runner of that group. He fled Europe in November 1938 and immigrated to the United States. Includes several newspaper articles: "Track Star Jesse Owens, U.S. Hero In Berlin Olympics, Dies of Cancer" by Bob...

  19. Betty Trebitsch passport

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Betty “Sara” Trebitsch; stamped with red ink J on first page; includes American immigration visa issued in October 1939; passport issued August 26, 1939, Breslau, Germany.

  20. Trench warfare; German surrender in WWI; captured Germans

    View of World War I warfare from the trench, smoke rising from bombings in the field. Soldiers charge forward in grassy fields. 01:18:07 "Kamerad" (slate with Donald C. Thompson inscription) German troops surrender to Americans, taken into trenches. 01:18:51 "And still they come" More enemies are captured. 01:19:22 "Removing buttons to prevent escape" Cutting suspenders out of pants. Captured men behind barbed wire enclosure. 01:19:57 "Searching German officer" U.S. military inspect a German's notebook. 01:20:20 "Germans forced to abandon ammunition" MS, weapons abandoned in a field. 01:20:...