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  1. Selected records from the Reichministerium der Justiz (R 3001)

    Contains records related to the laws against Jews, including case files concerning Jews, death penalties, and looting of Jewish assets.

  2. Selected records of the SS-und Polizeigerichtsbarkeit (NS 7)

    Contains records related to various SS orders, decrees, and regulations concerning Jews. Includes the jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht court; former Jewish dwellings in Odessa; death sentences in various locations and situations; partisan war in Croatia and death sentences for suspected partisans there; criminal statistics comparing the SS and the Wehrmacht; treatment of SS men assigned to KL Buchenwald who were alcoholics; and records of local courts.

  3. Records of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission to investigate crimes committed by Nazis and their collaborators on the territory of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic during WWII (Fond 1026)

    Contains records about victims, crimes against persons, and perpetrators as well as information about damage and material losses to personal and government properties ( houses, clubs, theatres, museums, libraries etc), industry and agriculture, caused by the occupation. Including name lists of victims, evacuees, protocols of interrogations of eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, inventories of the destroyed property and signed depositions summarizing what the commission learned. Also includes photos, diagrams, and maps showing the location of atrocities or graves.

  4. Zamojre/Eckstein family collection

    Consists of 1pre-war photographs of the Zamojre and Eckstein families, originally of Germany; one photograph of the interior of the synagogue in Bad Nauheim, Germany, taken in 1946; and pre and post-war documents and photographs related to the education of Joseph Zamojre (now Zamora).

  5. Markon family photographs

    Consists of three photographs: one wedding photograph of Raya Magid Markon, dated 1937 in Paris, France; one wedding photograph of Raya Magid and Alexander Markon; and one photograph of a group of French army soldiers, including Alexander Markon.

  6. Ebensee displaced persons camp photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken at the displaced persons camp, and former concentration camp, of Ebensee in Ebensee, Austria. Included are photographs of displaced persons within the camp and leaving the camp, as well as photographs of camp buildings and structures.

  7. Prejzerowicz family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Prejzerowicz, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Included is a postcard sent from Niche Prejzerowicz in Częstochowa, Poland, in 1940 to her brother, Josek Prejzerowicz, in Milan, Italy; photographic postcards depicting Berisch, Rachel, Niche, and Sara Prejzerowicz, and other relatives who perished during the Holocaust; and a family book ("Deutsches Einheits Familien Stammbuch") issued to Josek and Erna Prejzerowicz in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

  8. Eva Goldberg autograph album

    The autograph album belonged to Eva Goldberg Judd and contains autographs, signatures, photographs, and drawings. Inscriptions from friends and family include Anne Frank and Susanne "Sanne" Ledermann. The contents of the autograph book were collected by Eva Goldberg prior to her emigration from Germany to the United States via the Netherlands and Great Britain. According to the Anne Frank House, Otto Frank wrote the caption "July 1936" underneath the photo of Anne Frank, Eva Goldberg, and Susanne Ledermann. This photo was taken by Otto Frank, and his shadow can be seen in the lower right co...

  9. Wilfrid J. Michaud photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs taken post-liberation at Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, in 1945. The images depict a temporary monument erected immediately following liberation honoring those who perished in the camp and a mound of ashes and bones of those whose remains were cremated.

  10. Van Geuns family papers

    The papers document the Holocaust-era experiences of the van Geun family, originally of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Included are passports, identification cards, photographs, and a baby album. The baby album documents Marianne van Geuns' childhood and was compiled by her mother, Rozia Vreede van Geuns. The other photographs in the collection depict Marianne’s parents Rozia and Simon van Guens at the time of their wedding, Marianne’s birth, and various extended family members, most of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  11. Cecile Rojer Jeruchim photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Cecile Rojer Jeruchim's experiences as a hidden child in Belgium during the Holocaust. Included are depictions of Cecile, her siblings Anny and Charles, and parents Abraham and Geshewa before World War II, the children's home of "Hirondelles," a meeting with Sister Clotilde in 1946, and post-war trips to London, England, and Rochefort, France.

  12. Eva Rindner papers

    The collection consists of documents, a personal narrative, and photographs primarily documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Eva Rindner (née Schultzmann) and her mother Lola Blonder (previously Lola Zipser and Lola Schutzmann), including Eva’s treatment for tuberculosis as a child, her father’s death in 1937, and the family’s emigration from Vienna, Austria to Haifa, Palestine (Haifa, Israel) in 1938. Included are documents related to Lola’s work as a volunteer nurse during World War I, financial documents, and letters. The letters were addressed to Eva from her parents, and were rec...

  13. Herbert Krogman photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Herbert Krogman’s life in Copenhagen, Denmark prior to World War II; his flight to Sweden with his parents, Herman and Frieda Krogman, in 1943; and his service in the Danish Army in 1945.

  14. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Communalpolitic (NS 25)

    Contains records related to municipal regulation of taxes and to culture, finance, and social welfare throughout Germany. Also contains records related to Jewish apartments and lodgings, Jewish cemeteries, the expropriation of Jewish assets, and judicial procedures related to Jewish issues.

  15. Selected records of the Zivilverwaltung in den Besetzen Gebieten, Adriatisches Kuestenland ( R 83)

    Contains documents related to the expropriation of Jewish property along the Adriatic Coast in Italy.

  16. Nuremberg Trial proceedings; postwar destruction; Nazi party history & atrocities

    Summary: This is a documentary about the war crimes trial administered by the International Military Court of Justice in Nuremberg against the main Nazi war criminals from November 14, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The film documents footage of the trial from the prosecutor's opening to the verdict. The dramaturgy includes a chronological account of the founding of the National Socialist state, the unleashing of the world war, and the Nazi crimes against humanity and is accompanied with historical footage. This material is occasionally only used for illustration and does not necessarily portray ...

  17. Alice M. Berney papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs from the children's home belonging to the Rothschild estates, "Chateau de La Guette," in France, one photograph depicting a group of girls at the École Hôtelière de Clermont Ferrand in France, and two medical certificates issued by the Comité Israélite pour les Enfants for siblings Alice and Herbert Menkes.

  18. Ruth Wertheim papers

    The Ruth Wertheim papers consists of three letters written by Ruth Wertheim following her liberation from the labor camp Marzdorf/Riesengebirge, and addressed to friends and relatives in Detroit, Michigan, 1945-1946. Also included is a newspaper clipping listing the "Nuremberg Laws," 1935.

  19. Photograph of employees in Łódź ghetto

    The photograph depicts a group of employees in the economic administration department in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Rachel Waner [donor's mother], seated on right, was a teacher, and in the ghetto she was the principal of a school on 6 Smugowa Street. After the closing of the schools in the fall of 1941, she taught children in the carpet workshop of the ghetto and later worked in the economic administration department along with her husband, Chaim Waner. Inka Waner Honigman [donor], standing to the left of her mother, was a high-school student and later worked in the ghetto's hat workshop.

  20. Saul Bell papers

    The papers consist of correspondence written from the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to family in the United States, draft versions of letters written by Saul Bell in N.Y. to his family in the Warsaw ghetto, and six photographs taken before World War II of family members, some of whom perished in the Holocaust. Some captions are written in Yiddish on the verso of photographs.