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  1. Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp photograph

    One photograph of a large group of newly liberated Jews at the Landsberg displaced persons camp taken in June 1945.

  2. Solomon Goldman collection

    Consists of post-war photographs showing Jewish DPs celebrating the declaration of the state of Israel, a photograph of Solomon Goldman [donor] speaking to a group of men, Innsbruck university certificates for Szlama Goldman, IRO immunization records for Schlama and Sonia Goldman, and a letter of recommendation for Slama Goldman from the Innsbruck American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The collection also contained Solomon Goldman's doctoral dissertation, "Education Among Jewish Displaced Persons; The Sheerit Hapletah in Germany, 1945-1950", which was transferred to the USHMM Library...

  3. Harry Reis collection

    Consists of correspondence from Hans Reis' parents, who were prisoners in the Gurs concentration camp in France from 1940-1942 to their son and to various other family members. Mr. Reis was part of a Kindertransport to England in 1939, but his parents, who remained in Konigshofen, were deported to Gurs in 1940 and then on to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished.

  4. Richard Scott Washington photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs taken or obtained by Richard Scott Washington, formerly Corporal, C Company, 42nd Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division. The images were taken during World War II and depict Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation as well as other sites of slave labor and refugees formerly under Nazi occupation.

  5. Izac Holcman papers

    The Izac Holcman papers document Izac Holcman’s military career and biographical background. Documents pertaining to his military career include his Armed Forces passport and a translation of the contents within. These materials described Izac’s various assignments, posts, and ranks within the military. Also included are two testimonies, one in lieu of oath because he could not obtain a birth certificate from Warsaw and the other a statement regarding the disappearance of his wife and son. Also included is Izac’s declaration of the intent to obtain American citizenship and a handwritten tim...

  6. Andrzej Szelubski photograph collection

    Consists of eight group portraits photographs depicting Polish prisoners of war, Jewish and non-Jewish, imprisoned in Stalag IV A in Elsterhorst, Germany, which were taken between 1940-1941.

  7. Hana Kovanic photographs

    The 67 photographs depict the Kohn family, the maternal relatives of Hanna Kovanic, who were from Velká nad Velickou in Moravia, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Most of the relatives depicted in the photographs perished in Auschwitz in 1943 and 1944.

  8. Tova Goldszer photograph collection

    The collection primarily documents the pre-war lives of the Goldszer, Josefzohn, and Sztajner families. The photographs include depictions of Jadzia Josefzohn and Adek Brodza on their wedding day in Warsaw, Poland on 20 February 1938; David Sztajner; Tova's maternal grandmother; Feiga and Yakov Tzvi Goldszer; and Tova Goldszer at an internment camp in Cyprus in 1947.

  9. Prengler-Biderman family photograph

    A photograph of the Prengler family, taken in Munich in 1949. Pictured are Sol and Ida Prengler with their children Abraham, Herschel, Ben, and Isaac, as well as their daughter Helen Prengler Biderman, her husband Max Biderman, and their daughter Linda Biderman. The family survived the war in the Lukow, Poland ghetto.

  10. "The Fight for Survival"; Zelik Asher Karpman memoir

    One memoir, 129 pages, which relates the life of Zelik Asher Karpman, born in Biajkow, Poland. He and his family were sent to the Bialobjeg ghetto in 1941. By the summer of 1941, Zelik was the only member of his immediate family who had not been either killed or deported to a work camp. He managed to escape his forced labor within the ghetto and survived the war in various hiding places in Poland. The memoir is written in the format of an oral history.

  11. Ruth Shapiro Igdal collection

    Collection consists of one yearbook entitled "Pictorial Review; Vaad Hatzala, Germany," 1948, which describes Vaad Hatzala's multi-faceted work with refugees (in English); one compendium book of the testimonies of Lithuanian survivors, collected in 2002 (340 pages, in LIthuanian); one CD-ROM containing 580 black and white photographs taken between 1920-2003 from the private collection of Ruth Shapiro Igdal. The CD-ROM, entitled "The World I Knew" also contains an index of the photographs (in English) and a history of the experiences of the Shapiro family before and during the Holocaust.

  12. Kozienice ghetto papers

    The papers consist of documents relating to the Jewish ghetto and the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kozienice, Poland. The documents include a full list of the inhabitants of the Kozienice ghetto, lists of Jews registered as able-bodied, a list of Jewish children born in the ghetto during the years 1939 to 1941, and other reports written by the employees of the Judenrat to the German authorities. Kozienice is a small town in the Radom district of central Poland. Approximately 5,000 Jews lived in the town before World War II. The Germans established a ghetto in Kozienice in the fall of 1940 a...

  13. Broadcasting station "Hristo Botev" (Fond 209)

    Samples of Soviet radio propaganda directed to Bulgaria from the radio station "Hristo Botev" located in the Soviet Union, which raise issues such as the persecution of Jews in Thrace and Macedonia and German crimes in Kiev, Ukraine.

  14. Ministry of Foreign and Religious Affairs (Fond 176)

    Contains selected records from Fond 176, including correspondence with Bulgarian legations/consulates abroad in many countries on topics including trade relations, reports to Sofia, Bulgaria, on economic and political conditions, Bulgarian agrarian workers abroad, Bulgarian-German relations; regulations for visas of various types, including transit visas, for non-citizens including Jews. Also includes material regarding the property of Bulgarian Jews; the location of Bulgarian citizens abroad including Jews; requests from relatives of victims of the "Sṭrumah" sinking; and the situation of ...

  15. Chamber of Commerce (Fond 212)

    Contains selected records from Fond 212, including draft correspondence regarding Jewish savings.

  16. Bulgarian Legation in Madrid (Fond 256)

    Contains selected records from Fond 256 including registries of visas and passports issued.

  17. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Administration of the Belomorie Region (Fond 662)

    Contains selected records from Fond 662k including records of local police and security matters during World War II.

  18. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Administration of towns in Thrace, 18th and 19th railway (Fond 705)

    Contains selected records concerning the railroad including directives, correspondence, and reports on personnel, maintenance, security, and incidents including violence.

  19. Dr. Bruno Kriss correspondence

    Consists of two letters written by Dr. Bruno Kriss, M.D., regarding the time he spent in the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1939. The letters include commentary on the effect of Kristallnacht on the prisoners in Buchenwald.

  20. Norman Salsitz papers

    The collection consists of two notebooks containing songs and poems hand copied by Norman Salsitz around 1935 and hundreds of photographs of Norman Salsitz and his family taken before, during, and after World War II in and around Kolbuszowa, Poland, and including the Kolbuszowa and Rzeszów ghettos. Most of the photographs date from the 1930s and 1940s and were hidden by Salsitz when the Jewish population of the Kolbuszowa ghetto was deported to Belzec. The collection also includes photographs of educational, religious, and social groups before the war; compulsory prewar labor brigades (“sza...