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  1. Print 6, Szron, trees in a hoarfrost

    Print 6 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  2. "Ancestors and Descendants"

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the text of a book, 1736 pages, entitled "Ancestors and Descendants," by Leopold Hoenig. The book is subtitled "The Descendants of Related Jewish Families from Bassenheim, Burgbrohl, Euskirchen, Flamersheim, Gappenach, Mertloch, Merzbach, Münstermaifeld, Niederzissen, Ochtendung, Pillig, Polch, Schweinheim, Sinzig, Wierschem, and Neighboring Towns in Germany and in Meerssen, the Netherlands." Includes an extensive family tree of the families and a names index.

  3. Buchenwald liberation photograph

    Consists of one photograph, almost certainly of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, of two piles of corpses.

  4. Stalag XI-B liberation photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken upon the liberation of the prisoners of war camp Stalag XI-B, which was located near the towns of Fallingbostel and Soltau in Germany. Includes photographs of British prisoners of war.

  5. Leizer Ran collection

    Consists of two booklets from the collection of historian and author Leizer Ran; one, a songbook entitled "Jidische Melodier af Ch. Ritterband Kobenhavn" in Yiddish, published in Vilna in 1935, and the other, entitled "Lest You Forget," a description and history of the Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre in Paris, in English, published in 1949.

  6. Thea Lange Spiegel collection

    Consists of materials related to the experiences of Thea Lange Spiegel, originally of Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland). Includes wartime letters from Thea, who went to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to her mother and sisters, who were interned in Mauritius after a failed attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1940; post-war letters to Thea from her mother and sisters in Israel; two copies of "Diskretion..Ehrensache!", published by the Jakob Lange (Thea's father) publishing house. Also includes a copy of a memoir entitled "A Free World? No Concentration Camp, but Behind Prison Walls" by ...

  7. Esther Shudmak collection

    Contains photographs and oral history transcripts related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Julius Shudmak (1913-1992) and his wife Esther Shudmak (born Eva Bittman, 1927-2020). Includes one large pre-war photograph of the Shudmak family, originally of Poland; most of the family perished in the Holocaust. Also contains copyprints of photographs of the Bittman family, originally of Rakhiv, Czechoslovakia (Rakhiv, Ukraine). The photographs include descriptions on verso provided by the donor. Also included are transcripts of oral history interviews with Julius and Esther Shudmak as par...

  8. Richard Mandelik collection

    Consists of letters to and from Richard (Rico) Mandelik, while he was imprisoned in the German auxiliary jail in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 1939-1940 and letters, on concentration camp stationery, from Sachsenhausen and Oranienburg from 1941-1942. Mr. Mandelik most likely perished in Oranienburg. The collection also includes several clandestine letters written by Mr. Mandelik in 1939 by pushing a pin through the paper to form letters, as well as pre-war photoprints of the Mandelik family, originally of Hroubovice, Czechoslovakia.

  9. Paul Reisman collection

    Collection constists of 5 photographs, 2 postcards, 1 memoir and 1 transcript documenting the experiences of Livia (Lilly) and Nicholas (Miki) Reisman [donor's parents] and their experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The memoir was in two parts and the second part "After the War" arrived incomplete. The third part of the transcript "Family Histories" is listed on the custody receipt. A copy of the postcards and translations of the postcards listed on the custody receipt are in the donor file.

  10. Bozenna Gilbride collection

    Contains one copy of a drawing entitled "Hanging in Szczekow, January 14, 1942," depicting the hanging of twenty Polish men and one Jewish man in Szczekow; the names of the men are included. Also includes a partial list of names of Polish citizens sentenced to death in Auschwitz in 1942; the list includes the name, prisoner number, and birthdate of the victim.

  11. Helena Piasecka collection

    The collection contains photocopies of documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Helena Piasecka, a Roman Catholic woman originally of Żuromin, Poland, who was imprisoned at Ravensbrück, and was a victim of medical experimentation.

  12. Kvutsat Chizek -- Book of Meetings Hashomer Hazaier, Ken Staszov, Poland

    Consists of a photocopy of a booklet assembled by Rosalie Avery documenting the participation of her mother, Sima Rosen Avery, in the Hashomer Hatzair group in Staszow, Poland in 1928-1929. The booklet includes a photograph of young women, a map of Poland, a list of members, and English translations of recorded descriptions of meetings.

  13. Kerkhoven family collection

    Consists of papers related to the wartime experiences of Dr. CLM Kerkhoven and his family, originally of the Hague in the Netherlands. Includes identification paperwork, ration stamps and ration books, a travel permit, a British propaganda leaflet addressed to the German people, Dr. Kerkhoven's request for exemption from post-war military duty, and a copy of the May 5, 1945, edition of "De Margriet", an underground paper, celebrating the end of the war.

  14. Baer family papers

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of the Blum family, originally of Roxheim, Germany. Ernest Blum, his wife, Rosy, and daughter Helga, immigrated first to Italy, then to Cuba, and finally arrived in the United States in 1940. The collection contains immigration documentation, Ernest and Rosy's ketubah and family photographs, reparation documents, wartime letters from Germany, and post-war letters from France.

  15. Michael Salwen photographs

    Consists of more than 70 post-war photographs from the collection of Michael Salwen (Moniek Szmulewicz), originally of Sulejów, Poland. The photographs depict Michael and fellow survivors in Buchenwald and in a displaced persons camp in Switzerland, where he and other young survivors ("Buchenwald boys") were sent to recover after liberation. Also includes Michael's post-war identity card identifying him as a civilian internee of Buchenwald, and a newspaper article from the June 6, 1947 issue of the Göteborgs-Posten including a photograph of Michael Salwen.

  16. "The Crossing"

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "The Crossing," by Ilona Ricardo Kinzer, originally of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, Ilona was staying with relatives in the coastal town of Ymuiden. After the Dutch surrender, Ilona helped her uncle and the other employees of the Blast Furnace plant blow up the complex rather than let it fall into Nazi control. She describes her spontaneous decision to escape to England with a one-legged Englishman, Mr. Judd, across the English channel in a rowboat with only a small motor, and her memories of...

  17. Klara Salamon papers

    The Klara Salamon papers comprised documents created primarily by Salamon while she was held in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 1943-1945. These papers include a diary made of toilet paper sewn together by Salamon, as well as notes and a birthday card passed between her and a friend, Nina, while both were interned in the camp. In her diary, Klara muses, in four different languages, about her friends and a particular boy named Alek in an adjacent camp whom she was attracted to. During her internment, Klara wrote love notes to Alek, which she passed to him through a friend. Ultimate...

  18. Heinz Sprung collection

    Consists of documents related to the pre-war, wartime, and immediate post-war experiences of Heinz Adolf Sprung, originally of Leipzig, Germany. Heinz was arrested in 1939 and was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Collection includes letters and postcards, on Sachsenhausen stationery, which Heinz sent to his mother and uncles from 1939-1942, as well as mail he received from them. In 1942, Heinz was sent to Auschwitz and worked in Buna until January 1945, when he was sent on a death march back to Germany, where he was liberated. After the war, Heinz wrote down his experiences in ...

  19. Illuminated manuscript presented to Adolf Hitler from Hinrich Lohse, Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein

    Consists of one illuminated, calligraphic, manuscript, bound in brown leather, presented to Adolf Hitler from Hinrich Lohse, the Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein, on January 30, 1943 in Kiel. The manuscript was presented on the occasion of the ten year anniversary of Hitler's assumption of power. The letters are penned by Professor Th. Riebicke of Kiel, and are red, yellow, and blue. The leather binding of the book has a gold eagle, and the book itself is preserved in a brown leather box.

  20. Allied bombings of Dresden collection

    Consists of six photographs of the aftermath of the Allied bombings of Dresden, Germany, in February 1945, specifically the mass burning of victims of the bombings, as well as one official Nazi report, one page, dated March 22, 1945, describing the bombings and giving the number of bombs, the number of victims, and the damage done to the city. Also includes one handwritten poem, in English. The collection presumably belonged to Robert Lunow, a native German and the bookbinder of the Folger Shakespeare Library from 1948 until his death in 1971. These items were found in the bindery in May 1972.