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  1. Book

    Selected Short Stories by Thomas Mann (#L-28) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians.

  2. Book

    The Seventh Cross, a novel by Anna Seghers (#Q-33) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians

  3. Book

    Martin Eden, a novel by Jack London (#N-28) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians

  4. Lucja Frey Gottesman collection

    Consists of material regarding the life and legacy of Dr. Lucja Frey Gottesman, a Jewish female neurologist who probably perished in the Lvov ghetto in 1943. Also contains offical Russian post-war documents as well as issues of the "Gazeta Lwowska" from 1942-1943, and flyers which were posted in Lvov announcing the establishment of the ghetto.

  5. The Saturday Review of Literature [Magazine]

    The Saturday Review of Literature, November 7, 1942 with an article, "The P.E.N. hears a Report from the W.W.B." with four sketches of the meeting. In October 1942, the P.E.N. American Center held a dinner to celebrate "solidarity among intellectuals in times of strife and disorder."

  6. The Saturday Review of Literature [Magazine]

    The Saturday Review of Literature, May 8, 1943 with an article "They Burned the Books..." by Stephen Vincent Benet. There is an illustration on the cover of a Nazi bayonet stabbed through two books

  7. Book

  8. Book

    Hard cover copy of the book, One World, by Wendell L. Willkie published 1943. In August 1942, former Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie began a 31,000-mile journey in a Liberator bomber to see what he could of the world at war, its battlefronts, its leaders and its people. One World, an accounting of the journey, made a case for a strong United Nations

  9. American Memoir [Book]

    Hard cover copy of the book, American Memoir, by Henry Seidel Canby published 1947. Henry Seidel Canby, the American delegate to the P.E.N. congress, recalled in his American Memoir the atmosphere surrounding the confrontation. Canby was involved with the book-battles of the twenties and thirties between antagonistic literary ideologies and against the censorship stranglers.

  10. Book

    Hard cover copy of the book, Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. published 1969. In response to the burning of copies of this book, Vonnegut wrote to the chairman of the Drake School Board, "Books are sacred to free men for very good reasons...Wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them"

  12. Book

  13. German educational film: Alfred Wegener and The Greenland Expedition

    This is part three of a three part film of which USHMM has all three parts. (Film IDs 2587, 2591, and 2602). Footage of Alfred Wegener and his crew during his expedition of Greenland. With German intertitles. VS of crew, dogs, and sleds, travelling across and charting this seemingly endless frozen tundra. INTs, igloos, equipment, dogs, snow, crew. Wegener died on this fourth of his Greenland expeditions, and there is footage of his grave site on this reel, marked by a large wooden cross. The film ends with an epithet to Wegener.

  14. Dinu Hervian collection

    Consists of newspaper clippings of published articles and unpublished manuscripts written by Dinu Hervian (David Herscovici), a Romanian Jew who was a writer and editor. The articles were written between 1930-1949 and include those written under Mr. Hervian's pen names: Spiru, Ion Sfetcu, Cristian Tudor, and Daniel Hamer.

  15. Photographic postcard

    Photographic postcard: black and white image of a man (Szmuel (Sam) Szkop) wearing military uniform; verso, "Carte Postale/ Correspondance Adresse." Szmuel Szkop died in 1942.

  16. Joseph Titlebaum collection

    Consists of six black and white photographs depicting Ohrdruf concentration camp immediately following liberation; all are captioned "Ohrdruf" on verso, dated April 1945.

  17. Employment references

    Two documents that served as references for a maid. One is typewritten on company letterhead from Elektro-Reparatur-Werke; dated January 31,1926 and the other is a handwritten note dated 1925.

  18. Peter Klappert collection

    Group of scrapbooks containing photographs taken and assembled by Herman Emil Klappert (donor's father) during the Nuremberg Trial, as well as photographs used as evidence. Group of stereoscopic slides depicitng Hitler, taken by Heinrich Hoffman and given to Mr. Klappert. Collection also includes IMT indictment and miscellaneous notes and newspaper clippings.

  19. Chana Waserman collection

    Consists of a letter, dated 4 December 1944, written on pre-printed concentration camp stationery by Chil Laks (donor's husband) in Buchenwald concentration camp to Chana Laks (donor).

  20. Two-sided crayon drawing of a girl wearing a cross created by a young girl living in hiding

    Double-sided drawing made by Betty Julia Ensel while she was living under an assumed identity in the Netherlands. One side depicts a girl in a dress wearing a cross; the drawing on the opposite side portrays 6 girls. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, three year old Julia lived in Amsterdam with her parents, Rose Marie Schink, who was not Jewish, and Guy Weinberg, who was Jewish. Rose Marie hid twelve Jews in the attic of her house in Blaricum and was in contact with the Dutch resistance movement. Julia attended school under her mother's maiden name in order to avoid suspici...