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  1. Selected records from the collections of the Timiş branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Includes records, mostly from the war years, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. They include selected records from the prefecture of Timiş-Torontal, the Legion of Gendarmerie of the Severin district, the regional police inspectorate and Chief of the municipal police of Timişoara, the police headquarters of Oraşului Lugoj, and the Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc Timisoara.

  2. Selected records from collections of the Sabin Manuila Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records related to the fate of Roma in Romania as well as to forced labor of Jews.

  3. Buchenwald war crimes trial collection

    Consists of documents related to the Buchenwald war crimes trial (the United States of America vs. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al.), which took place in Dachau, Germany, in 1947. Includes the official case booklet, photographs of the grounds of the Dachau camp, an album of newspaper clippings related to the trial, and copies of the charge sheet, sentencing transcripts, signatures of the defendants, and reports of the investigative team.

  4. Paryzer family photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight black and white photographs documenting the Dr. Morton Paryzer and his wife, Genia Paryzer, and their families' experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  5. Riva Furman photograph collection

    The collection consists of two black and white photographs: an image of four children; verso: faded blue ink inscriptions, "Riva/Bekker" [donor] handwritten in black ink; dated 1947; Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine, and an image of a baby seated on chair, boy standing next to chair with one hand on baby's back, purple ink inscription, "Riva/Bekker" [donor], handwritten in black ink; dated June 1937; Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine. The photographer is unknown.

  6. Mary Hrabowska papers

    The papers consist of a false identification card ("Kennkarte") (two of three parts) issued to "Maria Szmigielska" [donor] from Zegota while she was in hiding. The Kennkarte was issued by the German police office in occupied Warsaw, Poland, and the donor received it through Zegota after escaping the Warsaw ghetto. The papers also include a photograph of Kolo Studentow Zycie (Circle of Jewish Students) in 1948 in Warsaw.

  7. Selected records from collections of the Mureş branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Includes records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Contains orders to arrest war criminals, investigations into alleged war criminals, surveillance of nomadic Romanies, reports on deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, military taxes owed by Jews, surveillance of the Iron Guards, confiscation of Jewish property, treatment of arrested British and American POWs, and correspondence concerning the "Jewish problem." The collection contains selected records from the Legion of Gendarmes of Mures̜, the Mayoralty of Tirgu-Mures̜, the Prefecture of Mures di...

  8. Ticho family papers

    The Ticho family papers include a hand-delivered letter from Adela and Vilem Ticho delivered by hand to their friend Anna Weinrebová describing events transpiring during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. The papers also include two death notices printed after World War II for Vilem Ticho and for Rudy and Pepik (sons of Vilem and Adela Ticho) who perished in the Holocaust.

  9. Olczak family photograph collection

    The Olczak family collection consists of twenty-three black and white photographs and one photographic postcard depicting Ludwik Olczak's family in Zamość, Poland before World War II, and after the war in Bielawa, Poland and Israel.

  10. Selected records from collections of the Iaşi branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records relating to aryanization, authorization for Jews to travel, authorizations for Jews to engage in commerce, statistics, lists of Jewish persons who were evacuated to Transnistria, wartime and postwar censuses of Jews, confiscation of Jewish property, forced labor of Jews, citizenship issues, and surveillance of the Iron Guard by the government. Includes selected files from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Iaşi; Prefecture of Police of Iaşi; five territorial police districts of Iaşi; the Prefecture of Iasi district; the mayorship of Iaşi; and the Royal District of th...

  11. Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg collection

    Consists of reports, identification, documents, photographs, and clippings regarding Rolf Wartenberg's experiences during the Nuremberg war crimes trials in which he served as the lead interrogator on the Einsatzgruppen trials. Also includes notes, clippings, and correspondence regarding lectures given by both Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg about their pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences, highlighting their work on the war crimes trials.

  12. Selected records from collections of the Galați branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. The collection includes selected records from the mayors' offices of Galați and of Tecuci; the prefectures of Covurlui district and of Tecuci district; the police headquarters of Galați; the Gendarmerie of Covurlui and of Tecuci districts; the Covurlui district office of the Centrala Evreilor; the Jewish Democratic Committees of Galați and Tecuci; and the Centrala Evreilor office in Galați. Also included are postwar records of the Jewish Democratic Committees of Galați and of Tecuci.

  13. Charles Blythe papers

    The papers consist of captioned United States Army Signal Corps photographic prints of concentration camps taken immediately following liberation as well as a card with a photograph of Charles T. Blythe and the caption: "Born: May 13, 1924 / Last Wishes: July 11, 2001"; "Look out for one another."

  14. Diane Lewis papers

    The papers relate to Ella Deutsch, daughter of Moritz Deutsch and Eugenie Deutsch of Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), who were Holocaust victims, and her filing of a claim for property confiscated from her parents by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Ella Deutsch was Diane Lewis's husband's late wife who fled to the United States during World War II.

  15. Werner and Rosa Sallisohn papers

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of Werner and Rosa Sallisohn, originally of Berlin, Germany, who lived as refugees in Shanghai, China from 1939-1947 before immigrating to the United States. Included are birth certificates, Chinese identification papers, immigration documents, business documents regarding a potential job opportunity in Argentina for Werner, and correspondence. Some of the correspondence is from Werner's half-sister Hildegard, who perished during the Holocaust.

  16. Mania Schoffer photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph depicting a group of twelve men and women posed in front of a sign that reads "Time is money / English lesson / Please do not trouble" at the Schlactensee displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany, and a photograph depicting members of the Schlactensee camp administration. Captions on the verso are in Yiddish and English.

  17. Oral history interview with Magda Katz Sternberg

  18. Wertheimer family papers

    The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Samuel and Frajdla Wertheimer and their families in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; and Nowy Sącz, Poland.

  19. Jehuda Widawski photograph collection

    The collection consists of 16 photographs depicting all aspects of life in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, dated 1940-1943. Also included in the collection are five copy photographs of images from an album made by Arie Ben-Menachem in the Łódź ghetto.

  20. Photograph of the Rejers holding their infant daughter

    The image taken in Łódź, Poland, depicts Mordechai and Sara Leder Rejer holding their daughter, Lucia Rejer [donor].