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  1. Klubski family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Klubski (Klubsky) family, originally of Paris, France via Łódź, Poland. Herman (Hercko/Hertz) Klubski and his wife, Bella Shapshak, had three children, twins Marie (later Marie Benson) and Henri (Aron/Ari) and daughter Lily (later Lily Nathan). Henri, a soldier in the French army (who received the Croix de Guerre and the Bronze Star), was arrested in Paris in 1941, interned in Drancy, and deported to Auschwitz on September 23, 1942, where he perished on September 28, 1942. Lily's husband...

  2. Hirschfeld family collection

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust and immigration experiences of the family of Isac and Lydia Hirschfeld, originally of Liebau, Latvia. Isac Hirscheld passed away before the war, and once the war began, Lydia and her daughters Fanny, Frida, and Marie were interned, first in the Riga ghetto, and later in a forced labor camp. The collection includes a wartime address book, Fanny's diary, kept while in forced labor, and wartime correspondence. In 1944, Fanny volunteered to accompany a cousin on a transfer to Stutthof, where she perished. Lydia, Frida, and Marie survived the war and s...

  3. Pauline Widder Fabri memoir

    Consists of an English-language, typed translation of Pauline Widder Fabri's memoir, which she wrote immediately after the war, in Budapest, Hungary. She describes her experiences between March 1944 and the end of the war, focusing particularly on the dates between November 16, 1944 and January 18, 1945, as she took detailed notes of her activities between those dates. She describes the anti-Jewish ordinances established after the German invasion, her move into the area of Budapest protected by Raoul Wallenberg and the Swedish embassy, her daily activities in the winter of 1944- 1945, and h...

  4. Transcript of oral history interview with Charlotte Gellar Brown

  5. "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau"

    Consists of a portfolio of artwork entitled "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau: By John Wiernicki, Polish Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Number 150302." Mr. Wiernicki, who is not Jewish, was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau from September 1943 - December 1944, and in Ohrdruf from December 1944 until the liberation of the camp. The collection contains an introduction explaining Mr. Wiernicki's experiences and 20 watercolor and ink drawings of events he witnessed, both at Auschwitz and in Ohrdruf. Also includes a CD-ROM containing scanned copies of the images.

  6. Pruzhana photographs

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs of the Levitas family of Pruzhana, Poland (Pruzhany, Belarus). The family perished during the Holocaust.

  7. "My War Years"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, written by Cass Lewart, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mr. Lewart describes his family and life before the war, his memories of the German invasion, during which the family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. After witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, Mr. Lewart's father decided to move the family back to Warsaw, and managed to obtain false Aryan papers for them. The family lived outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mr. Lewart and his mother were released and established a new false i...

  8. "My Life--Memoirs by Sophie Weiss"

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, written by Sophie Ritterband Lewartowicz Weiss, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Weiss describes her family, childhood, and marriage to Zygmunt Lewartowicz. When the Germans invaded Poland, Mrs. Weiss (then Mrs. Lewartowicz) and her family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. In Decemeber 1939, after witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, the family returned to Warsaw and went into hiding as Catholics. The family lived as Aryans outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mrs. Weiss and her ...

  9. "An Absence of Closure"

    Consists of one memoir, 114 pages, entitled "An Absence of Closure," by Gustav (Gus) Schonfeld, originally of Munkacevo, Czechoslovakia. He describes his childhood in Munkacevo (Munkacs), his family lineage, and the takeover of Munkacevo, first by the Hungarians in 1939 and later by the Germans in 1944. After the German invasion, Gus's father, Dr. Alexander Schonfeld, a physician, was assigned to the village of Barkaszo, so the family moved, but were deported to Auschwitz shortly thereafter. After a few weeks in Auschwitz, Gus, his father, and some of the male members of his familiy were se...

  10. 1939 Deutsche Automobilclub map of Germany

    Consists of one large folded color map of Germany, entitled "Strassenzustandskarte von Deutschland," published by the Deutsche Automobil club in Munich in 1939. Includes areas which had been incorporated into or were controlled by Germany. The map is stamped as having been owned by Major John Hinkel (later Colonel), a paratrooper who fought in the Italian campaign during World War II.

  11. "The Diary of Jenö Klein"

    Consists of a photocopy of the handwritten diary of Jenö Klein, originally of Makó, Hungary, written between March 1, 1944 and July 2, 1945. Mr. Klein was deported from Makó to Strasshof, Austria, and from there to Neumuhl to work in a quarry and a forest, then to Gmund to work in a potato processing factory. Mr. Klein became a "Jupo" (Juden Polizei) of the group and was in charge of the distribution of items. In April, the group was transferred to Theresienstadt (Terezin). Mr. Klein was liberated on May 7th by the Red Army. Also includes a typed translation of the Hungarian diary into G...

  12. Elizabeth Kardos Langfelder Kux collection

    The collection consists of correspondence and documents related to Elizabeth Kardos Langfelder Kux's restitution claims. The papers include information about Mrs. Kux's Holocaust experiences, including the arrest and death of her first husband, Jakob Langfelder, her own imprisonment in the concentration camps of Sered (Czechoslovakia), Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Bad Kudowa labor camp, Mauthausen, and the Klein-Schönau labor camp. Also includes information about the death of her oldest son, Stephen, who froze to death as a toddler on a transport to Mauthausen, and the birth of her son Charles i...

  13. Roman Ryterband letters

    Consists of a collection of letters written to Roman Ryterband by members of his family in Poland between 1938 and 1943. Mr. Ryterband spent the war in Switzerland, and received letters from his parents, Abram and Golda Riterband (Ryterband), who were deported from Łódź in 1939, imprisoned in the Nowy Sacz ghetto and deported to a death camp in 1942. Also includes letters from other members of his extended and immediate family from the Warsaw and Łódź ghettos, including his brother Stasiek Ryterband and wife Luba from the Warsaw ghetto, who were murdered towards the end of 1942. Some le...

  14. Book

    Book: "Der Hitlerjunge Quex", by Karl Schenzinger; 1935; in German

  15. Book

    Book: "Horst Wessel", by Hanns Heinz Ewers; 1934; in German

  16. Book

    Book: "Die Grundlagen Des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts- Erste Halfte", by Houston Stewart Chamberlain; 1915; in German

  17. Book

    Book: "Die Grundlagen Des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts- Zweite Halfte", by Houston Stewart Chamberlain; 1915; in German

  18. Beatrice Cahn collection

    Collection consists of Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Beate May, (now Beatrice Cahn, donor) in Berlin, April 12, 1939. Beate left for the United States with a transport on the MS Hamburg on May 18, 1939.

  19. "A Jewish Brezover Merchant: Reb. Chaim Leib Diller"

    Consists of one article, 4 pages, entitled "A Jewish Brezover Merchant: Reb. Chaim Leib Diller", by Chaim Bank, written in 1983. Mr. Bank relates a biography of and stories about Reb. Chaim Leb Diller of Brzozow, Poland. Reb. Diller perished in the Holocaust.

  20. "The United States Army's War Crimes Trials Program in Post-World War II Germany and Austria"

    "The United States Army's War Crimes Trials Program in Post-World War II Germany and Austria" is an unpublished manuscript written by Scott McKay Wallace as an independent study project in 1976-1977. The manuscript describes the administrative and legal aspects of the American war crimes trials, which took place almost exclusively at the former Dachau concentration camp, as well as a history of the trials themselves. The manuscript also includes appendices with photographs and documents regarding the executions of the convicted war criminals.