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  1. Simon Zilberberg collection

    Consists of photographs of Simon Zilberberg and his family before and after World War II and of the Simon's father, Henry, in Pithiviers camp, France; one document relating to Pithiviers; two passports belonging to the Simon's parents; and one New Year's card from 1941, with a painting of Pithiviers by Henry.

  2. Archives of the service for war victims Archives du service des victims de la guerre : Series R

    Contains records relating to the fate of Jewish and non-Jewish Belgians throughout Europe during the period of 1933 to 1948. Includes name lists from a wide variety of sources such as concentration and prisoner of war camps, relief and charity organizations, hospitals, prisons, and similar institutions. See also Parts A, Mi, and P ( RG-65.001M; Rg- RG-65.002M and Rg-65.003M).

  3. Selected records from the Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria

    Contains selected files from the following collections: Ministry of the Interior and Public Health; Administration of Police; Sofia Police; Regional Ministry of the Interior Offices in Burgas, Pleven, Plovdiv, and Sofia; Police administration in Belo More; and general staff of the Ministry of Defense. Topics include Jews in Bulgaria, Thrace, and Macedonia; reports on Jewish groups and Communist groups; KL Krestopole, St. Nicholas, and Gondavoda; reports on the situation in various regions of Bulgaria; resettlement of Jews; and postwar documents including correspondence with the Allied Milit...

  4. Malmedy scrapbook

    Contains a scrapbook that belonged to Raph Shumacher, a prosecutor in the Malmedy Trial.

  5. Harry Zaslow letter

    Correspondence: Two letters from Harry Zaslow, an American soldier, to his parents, 1944-1945, including his description of having visited an unidentified concentration camp after liberation in May 1945.

  6. Pagac family photograph

    Consists of a black and white photograph of six members of the Pagac family, who rescued the donor, gathered seated and standing together at Christmastime.

  7. Jacqueline Singer collection

    Mixed collection of documents, letters and photographs relating to the Gruen and Felber familes during the Holocaust. The photographs are mounted on pages and seem to have been part of an album. The majority of the documents are in French.

  8. Marion Weiner collection

    Consists of one black and white photograph of two women standing with a young boy and girl in a snow-covered setting. The image is of Marion Weiner and her sister at the time of their liberation from hiding in Tirol, Austria. Marion Weiner and her sister survived the Holocaust in hiding in Austria.

  9. Annette Lederman Linzer photographs

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Annette Lederman and her sister Marguerite Lederman (later Marguerite Mishkin), both of whom survived the war as hidden children in Rumst, Belgium. Documents include Annette’s postwar passport and a post-war affidavit affirming the relationship between Max Zylberszac and Reizla Lederman. Wartime photographs include depictions of Annette and Marguerite in Rumst while in hiding, their mother Reizla, and members of the van Buggenhout family who hid the sisters. Postwar photographs include depictions of Annette and Marguerite in Belgium ...

  10. Anne Marie Yellin collection

    Collection containing 4 photographs of Anne Marie Yellin posing outdoors with groups of girls; in some images, girls are dressed in white robes and posing with Catholic nuns. Anne Marie Yellin survived the Holocaust by hiding in convents in Belgium.

  11. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records : ZAST

    Records compiled by the former East German state security service (Stasi). Contains files from the state prosecutor's office in Leipzig, Germany, relating to Nazi crimes, partially including pre-1945 material used in the investigation.

  12. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records: DC, FW, KL/Haffa, ZA VI, ZB, ZB II, ZC, ZCII, ZJ, VgM, VGH and ZM

    The collection contains selected records from various record groups compiled by the former East German Security Service "Stasi." Materials are of mixed provenance, mostly on persons involved in Nazi war crimes, but are primarily papers generated by the German Security police and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) between 1933 and 1945 and German prosecutors and courts after 1945.

  13. Steven Gure photograph collection

    The collection of four photographs relating to the Steven Gure's experiences during the Holocaust in Kaunas, Lithuania, and St. Ottilian DP camp in Germany: black and white image of boy (donor at age 2-3) seated with ball and teddy bear, Kaunas, Lithuania; black and white image of boy (donor at age 10-11) and young woman (donor's sister Anne Gure) standing outside, St. Ottilian DP camp, Germany, dated 1946; black and white image of boy (donor at age 11-12) and young woman in HIAS uniform (donor's sister), dated 1946; black and white image of woman with boy (donor c. age 3 and his mother), K...

  14. Selected records from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence between the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies of the Greek government and with foreign governments and people living outside Greece. The correspondence concerns establishing the whereabouts of family members, reparations issues, immigration issues, and other concerns of Greek Jews living in Greece and abroad.

  15. Underground press from the Museum Tatrzanskie im. dra Tytusa Chalubińskiego w Zakopanem Prasa konspiracyjna

    Contains the underground press collection of 25 titles, issued mostly by resistance organizations. Among other publishers are the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the Armia Ludowa (People's Army) and the Stronnictwo Narodowe (National Party).

  16. Underground press Prasa konspiracyjna

    Contains an underground press collection of 12 titles, issued mostly by resistance organizations. Among the publishers are the Armia Krajowa, Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, Delegatura Rzadu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj, and Polska Partia Socjalistyczna.

  17. Spanish diplomatic and consular correspondence and related records

    The collection contains diverse documents from 1939 to 1963, concerning the situation for Jews in Europe in general, Spanish Jews, and individual cases of Jews seeking asylum in Spain. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to securing transit visas to Spain for Jews attempting to escape Nazi persecution.

  18. Zinovij Kuschnir collection

    Black and white photograph of young man wearing dark suit jacket and tie with a white shirt with collar. Portrait view of head and upper torso. Print has rounded corners; white border with square corners. "Odessa 1950" written in pencil on reverse bottom. Image is of Israel Srulik Kuschnir [donor].

  19. Fradla Goldberg collection

    Consists of seven photographs, one copy of baptismal certificate, one other document. At age 18, “Jadwiga Kuzio” [left] learned that she was rescued as an infant after the 1942 liquidation of the Brest-Litovsk ghetto. She had been discovered wounded in an apartment owned by a family named Goldberg. Knowing only Jadwiga’s true last name and the apartment’s address, in January 2002, her daughter contacted the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where registration forms for the Goldberg family identified the daughter born in 1941 to have been named Fradla [that the USHMM had microfilmed f...

  20. Agnes Feher papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Agnes Feher, originally of Miskolc, Hungary, who survived the German occupation of Budapest under a false identity. The collection consists eight pre-war and war-time photographs taken in Miskolc and Budapest, Hungary; postwar photographs in the Pocking, Germany, displaced persons camp and in Belgium; as well as identity and travel documents relating to Agnes Feher's immigration to Israel. Also includes a certificate of her journeyman level status.