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  1. Records of the Arrow-Cross Party, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary (MOL K 775)

    Executive Office documents on a variety of subjects, some classified "confidential": evacuations, closure of organizations close to the prime minister, personnel issues, procurements, arms, the nobility, legal aliens, repatriation, culture, air raids, the fire control service, passports, the police, Jews, refugees, and others.

  2. Documents related to the history of the so-called Hungarian Jewish Gold Train

    Records generated by the Hungarian, German, Austrian, USA, and French individuals and authorities. Contains memorandums, telegrams, inventories and reports related to the stolen valuables from Hungarian Jews during the WWII, and transported out from Hungary in 1944 by the so-called Hungarian Gold Train.

  3. Helen Kulka Fanta collection

    The Helen Kulka Fanta collection contains material related to Helen Kulka Fanta, a Jewish secretary from Prague who was deported to Theresienstadt by the German authorities in 1942. She was later imprisoned at Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen before being liberated in 1945. The collection consists primarily of identification forms, references, and other forms of verification documenting Helen Kulka as a refugee and concentration camp survivor. A diary written during her time at Bergen-Belsen is included as well. Other material includes poems collected and written, notes, and music s...

  4. Frank Osborn papers

    Collection consisting of correspondence, photographs, and documents surrounding the Oschitzki and Hermann families in Germany and Shanghai, China where donor's parents (who were Jewish) fled to escape persecution during the Holocaust.

  5. Print 1, Swierk w Sloncu w Goscieradzu, depicts spruce trees

    Print 2 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  6. Sign for Dachau concentration camp acquired by a US soldier

    Sign lettered Dachau taken by James Vasilopoulos, a US soldier, upon his arrival at Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, the day of its liberation by American troops. He took the sign from the main gate and detached it by sliding it out of a slot. He and another infantryman were point men for their company and opened one of the gates at Dachau. It was not locked. He said once they were inside the "pandemonium and happiness of the prisoners was beyond description." Vasilopoulos, 25, was a member of K Company, 157th Infantry Regimnetm, 45th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion, a Thunderb...

  7. George Lubinski collection

    Collection consists of documents and postcards concerning Charlotte Wertheimer, the donor's grandmother; two postcards written from Drancy transit camp to her children in Paris, just before her transport to Auschwitz, dated 1942. Includes postwar documents confirming that "Charlotte Friedl Wertheirmer" of "Troppau, Silesia" was a resident of Paris and was interned in Drancy from October 5-November 10, 1942, and that she died in Auschwitz the 16th of November 1942.

  8. Photographs of Jews in Lithuania

    Consists of 42 photographs identified as "Ghetto in Kainer, August 42," likely in Lithuania. Includes images of Jews wearing badges in the shape of Stars of David.

  9. Agnes Vertes collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the Weisz family [donor's husband's family] in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence between Imre Weisz [donor's husband's father] and his wife, Dora, and son Miklos [donor's husband], while he was in a forced labor battlion from which he did not return and was presumed killed in 1943. Also included are safe conduct passes issued by the Swiss government for Miklos, Dora, and her mother, as well as documents concerning efforts of relatives in Cleveland, Ohio, to apply for affidavits of support for...

  10. Emil Hischler collection

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Emil Hischler and Margarethe Broeder (Bruder), who fled Nazi-occupied Slovakia (Emil) and Vienna (Margarethe) via Rhodes (on board the "Pentcho," which sank off the coard of Kamila Nisi, Rhodes in 1940) and the Ferramonti camp in Italy.

  11. Communists in prison; Germans rush to join the Nazi party

    Onscreen title: "The head ringleader of the red arsonists is arrested. As one can see, he is doing quite well." A policeman patrols outside the prison at the Rossplatzkaserne in Halle. Two SA men stand before the door. Prisoners walk in columns in the courtyard of the prison. One of the prisoners carries a chair on his back. The prisoners mill around the prison yard. One smokes a pipe. An SA man walks through what is described in the Bundesarchiv record as the sleeping quarters of the prison. Shot of some kind of game on a table (? the interior shot is dark). Prisoners carry large buckets o...

  12. French occupation of the Ruhr

    Graphic of a boot coming down on a Ruhr skyline, followed by a quotation from William Tell. A map shows the Ruhr area and the towns that are occupied by the French. A title onscreen asks why the French occupied the Ruhr in the first place, followed by shots of the bustling coal industry. Shots of French troops on the streets. Panning shot of stationary rail cars filled with coal.

  13. Tallit with dark blue stripes on each end buried for safekeeping

    Tallit or prayer shawl buried for safekeeping by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. The tallit was worn by her husband, Bernhard, during religious services. Bernhard died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In December 1944, a few months after the liberation of Belgium, Johanna...

  14. Ludmila Monastyrska memoir

    Contains one memoir, 12 pages, about Ludmila Monastyrska's experiences during the Holocaust hiding with neighbors, her father helping Jewish families to escape into the forest, and the fate of her family during the Holocaust.

  15. Ettore A. Peretti, PhD, pamphlets

    Contains thirty-one pamphlets, most of which had been distributed on the streets in Nazi Germany; copies of "Das Jahr im Bild," "Der Stürmer," "Berliner Zeitung," "Berliner Tageblatt"; a speech delivered in the Reichstag by Adolf Hitler; "Dr. Goebbels auf dem Reichsparteitag 1935: Kommunismus ohne Maske"; "Max Schmelings Sieg-ein deutscher Sieg"; and "RAK." The material was collected by Ettore Peretti, an American student living in Germany in 1935-1936. Some of the leaflets were also published in English to show English-speaking visitors examples of what was being published in Nazi Germany.

  16. Parade in Pancevo town square

    German soldiers, ethnic German civilians, Bund deutscher Maedel and Hitler Youth members in the town square in Pancevo. The BDM girls carry Nazi flags and the civilians give the Hitler salute. A band plays "Deutschland ueber Alles." The BDM girls parade by, followed by women in ethnic costume and children. Members of the Infanterieregiment Grossdeutschland march through town. Footage becomes color at 01:18:23.

  17. Joseph Zeller photographs

    Contains six black and white photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Joseph Zeller, originally of Czerneardova, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine). Includes a photograph of a United Jewish Partisans gathering and two photographs of a sports team.

  18. Samuel Sigman papers

    The Samuel Sigman papers consist of correspondence between Samuel Sigman and his paternal aunt Brajna Izrael in Małoryta, Poland (now Malaryta, Belarus). Letters from Brajna and Leibl, Mina, and Izak Grinberg (probably grandchildren of Brajna) address Samuel Sigman as “Sioma,” are dated circa 1936-1938, and convey gratitude for money sent and Rosh Hashanah greetings. Samuel Sigman’s letters to his aunt and to the JDC document his search for his family in Soviet occupied Poland circa 1939-1940. The papers also include photographs of Leibl, Mina, and Izak Grinberg in Małoryta in August 1938 a...

  19. Harry Levitt collection

    Collections consists of seven postcards and a letter the Grudka family in Siedlce, Poland mailed to Sarah and Abraham Levitt in New York before World War II and during the Nazi occupation and one post war postcard from Bytom, Poland.

  20. Klara Süss papers

    The collection includes a journal and accounting book kept by Klara Süss. Klara began her journal in 1941 while aboard the SS Navemar, waiting to immigrate to the United States. In the journal she recounts her experiences being forced from her home and sent to Camp de Gurs, living in Marseilles, and the process of obtaining visas. The collection also includes a translation of the journal, a German passport issued to Klara, American citizenship papers issued to Klara and her husband David Süss, and the leather wallet the certificates were housed in.