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  1. Frieda Szpigner Aharonson collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, and a transcript related to the Holocaust experiences of Frieda (Fryda) Szpigner Aharonson, originally of Stanislawów, Poland. Her family perished in Treblinka, but Frieda was saved by Aleksandra Gawrych, who hid her in her house in Stanislawów, and a nun, Marjanna Reszko, the mother superior of a convent in Ignacow. Includes copies of family photographs as well as a photograph of Mother Superior Reszko and a photograph of a memorial to Mrs. Gawrych's husband, Jan Gawrych, who was executed in 1943. Also includes the translation (in Hebrew) of an oral hi...

  2. Lilly Felddegen papers

    This collection contains primarily correspondence with some documents and pamphlets pertaining to Lily Felddegen’s rescue of the Belgian children of La Hille and efforts to bring them to the United States with the assistance of HIAS and several other wartime rescue organizations. Series 1, Refugee Project: general information, contains letters, newspaper clippings, and booklets requesting assistance for children in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. Series 2, Refugee assistance: Names of Child Refugees and of Organizations Providing Assistance, contains files with the names of refugee ...

  3. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Includes photographs of corpses as well as survivors.

  4. "Sefer Maasim Tovim" photograph

    Consists of one photograph of two girls holding a "Sefer Maasim Tovim" in Be̜drin, Poland, in the 1930s. On the right is Ester Krel and Libele Rubinsztajn is on the left.

  5. Warsaw liquidation photographs

    Consists of nine photographs from a photograph album used as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. The photographs depict the German liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. Also contains one large photograph of soldiers working inside a mass grave.

  6. Janet Moskowitz photographs

    Consists of six photographs from the collection of Jadzia Zuchter (now Janet Moskowitz), originally of Be̜dzin, Poland. Includes pre-war photographs of Jadzia and of family and friends, many of whom perished in the Holocaust, as well as a photograph of Jadzia and her husband, Mosze in a displaced persons camp in Germany.

  7. Jeffrey Cymbler photographs

    Consists of family photographs from the collection of Jeffrey Cymbler. Includes photographs of the Cymbler family in pre-war Be̜dzin, photographs of the Leizorek family, who immigrated from Be̜dzin to Buenos Aires in 1940, and photographs of war-torn Be̜dzin. Please also see 1997.A.0119 for more information on the Cymbler family.

  9. Lev Dumer collection

    Consists of copies of articles from the American newspaper "Kcmamu," which is published in Russian, regarding the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, focusing on the Holocaust in Odessa. Also includes one videocassette, on which Mr. Lev Dumer explains the story of an "Odessan Anne Frank," a girl named Lusya Kaliska, who spent the war in hiding.

  10. Lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp

    The collection contains lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp; 1940-1947 Miranda was the central camp in Spain for foreign prisoners. This camp was used for several kinds of prisoners. The three main categories were: international brigadiers (captured during the Civil War); male prisoners who illegally crossed the border (women were not held in military camps, but provincial prisons); and German military personnel and German collaborators interned in the so-called Campo Aleman. Some of the inmates were Jews. The photocopied lists include the name plus nationality of inmates. The el...

  11. Records concerning Jewish owned real property in the Trieste region

    Consists of an inventory of Jewish-owned real estate in the Trieste and Adriatic regions. The census was taken during the war to facilitate expropriation. Also included are records about the confiscation of Jewish property in the city of Trieste and the Adriatic coastal towns of Gorizia, Fiume, and Pola.

  12. Records from the Jewish community in Iraq

    Consists of photocopies of documents from the Jewish community in Iraq, including marriage records, property records, and death records for Jews living in Iraq from 1934-2000.

  13. Kahn/Bauer family collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to Alfred and Trude Kahn and their daughter, Annemarie, originally of Stuttgart, Germany. In the 1930s, the family fled from Germany to Holland, where they lived until their deportation to Theresienstadt on April 21,1943. The family perished in Auschwitz. The collection consists of Alfred and Trude's honeymoon album, an engraved cigarette case from the wedding, a book of Annemarie's baby photographs, and a letter sent by the Kahns the day before their deportation. Also includes a copy of "Pilgrimage to the Past" by James Bauer, a book of the Bau...

  14. David Rosenberg papers

    Series 1-4 of the David Rosenberg papers include documents, correspondence, clippings, videotapes, and photographs related to the work of David Rosenberg and the Committee for Appropriate Acknowledgment (CAA). Dr. Rosenberg and the CAA, working within Pittsburgh, PA, sought to research and document Bayer AG's corporate culpability during the Holocaust and pushed for corporate acknowledgment and atonement. Papers include research files, correspondence, event information, information regarding the CBG (Coordination against Bayer Dangers), a German group, and newspaper clippings regarding the ...

  15. Harold Floyd photograph collection

    The Harold Floyd photograph collection consists of thirteen photographs of the Dachau Concentration in March 1946. The photographs include images of various buildings within the camp, the crematoriums, gallows, a tree used for hangings, a mass grave, and the headquarters of the Dachau War Crimes Group. Captain Harold Floyd was assigned to the Publications and Microfilm division of the Field Information Agency Technical, which copied documents of interest to the Allies.

  16. Diaries by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum concerning the journey of Jewish emigrants from Bratislava (Slovakia) via Haifa (Palestine) to Mauritius

    Contain a diary by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum. He traveled on December 1, 1939 from Prague to Bratislava, embarked on September 3, 1940 on the steamship "Helios," transferred in Tulcea, Romania onto the ship "Atlantic" and traveled to Haifa, Palestine where the British authorities arrested the Jewish refugees and deported them to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The diaries consist of various contributions by different authors and artists who were on the refugee transport, such as reports, poems, caricatures and illustrations, hand-drawn maps, and photographs that chronicle the voyage...

  17. French antisemitic literature

    Consists of one book, title unknown, published in France in 1944. The book consists of antisemitic propaganda attesting to a vast Jewish conspiracy to assert negative influence in politics, finance, morality, the arts, education, and warfare.

  18. Zernik/Kaplan family collection

    Consists of copies of birth and death certificates for members of the Zernik and Kaplan families, originally of Berlin-Charlottenberg, Germany. Hans, his wife Lilly Kaplan, and daughter Ursula Zernik, emigrated from Germany in the late 1930s to Santo Domingo. From there, they spent a few years in China before immigrating to the United States after the war. Includes copies of documents needed for citizenship and immigration.

  19. Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers

    The Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers include biographical material, immigration material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to the life of Leonore and her husband, Ernst Goldschmidt, in Berlin, Germany and Folkestone, England before and during WWII, as well as Leonore’s professional career as an educator. The collection also includes documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the establishment, development, and operations of the Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt Schule, a private Jewish school originally located in Berlin, Germany. Biographical materials include a birt...

  20. General State Prosecutors Office of the State Court of Berlin records (Fond A Rep. 358)

    Contains the trial records of over 150,000 criminal cases processed in the vicinity of Berlin during the Nazi era. It includes many “routine” types of ordinary crime, as well as cases where the crime involves being Jewish, homosexual, or “asocial.”