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  1. Aenne Hertz papers

    Contains legal documents and correspondence pertaining to Aenne Hertz, a social worker in Germany from 1933 to 1941. After being fired from her public job in 1933 by the Nazis she became a social worker for Jewish organizations and enabled Jews to escape Nazi Germany.

  2. Erno Deutsch family papers

    Contains postcards sent by Erno Deutsch from the forced labor battalion in 1944, presumably forged Swiss schutzpass issued to Mr. and Mrs. Kellner, relatives of Erno Deutsch. A July 21, 1942, letter from the military authorities calling Erno Deutsch to return his military decorations. A July 27, 1942, registered mail receipt proving that Erno Deutsch obeyed that letter. An October 24,1944, letter written by Erno Deutsch asking the Hungarian Office of Taxation to grant extension since he is working in a labor battalion, and cannot look after his taxes. Commander of the labor company certifie...

  3. Karmann family papers

    The Karmann family papers relate to the experience of the Karmann family aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers contain Cuban immigration cards for Richard Karmann, Sidonie Karmann, and Annemarie Karmman, as well as correspondence and passenger notifications written on Hamburg-Amerika Line stationery regarding the ongoing negotiations about the ships destination after being denied entry to Cuba. Handwritten English transcriptions of the correspondence is also included.

  4. 82 Airborne Division newspaper

    Contains one edition of the 82nd Division newspaper.

  5. Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic

    The Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic contains commemorative stamps, food packaging, photographic materials, printed materials, and reports documenting the establishment of the Sosúa Jewish community in the Dominican Republic and the town’s development into a tourist destination. The commemorative stamps were created in 1960. Three depict an aerial view of the Sosúa coastline and two depict four of the original Jewish refugee children, Naomi Neumann, Caroline Papernik, Susanna Tauber, and Teresa Hirschfeld. Food packaging includes a salami wrapp...

  6. Samberg family restitution papers

    Contains correspondence between the family of Bela Samberg, living in the United States with the Finance department in Berlin, 1973-1974, about payments for lost jewelry during World War II, a detailed list of Chaja Lenga's jewelry, and an affidavit from Rabbi Nathan Goldberg that Motek and Bela Samberg were members of a synagogue and Jewish.

  7. Central Jewish Committee, Social Welfare Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Opieki Społecznej (Sygn. 303/VIII)

    Contains protocols, reports, statistical documents, financial documents, books with donors' names, correspondence, personal files of people receiving help. The collection documents activities of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP (Central Jewish Committee in Poland, Welfare Department) for the period 1945 to 1950. Documents concern the Jewish communities in larger cities such as Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków, Szczecin, Łódź, Białystok, Katowice, and Lublin.

  8. Selections from I Never Saw Another Butterfly Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944

    Contains selections from "I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944."

  9. Manya Ganiyevva memoir

    Contains a memoir about Manya Ganiyevva's childhood experiences in Tulchino, Vinnitsa Oblast, in the Ukraine, life in the Tulchino Ghetto, the Pechora concentration camp located in Tulchinskiy rayon of Vinnitsa oblast, and the Krasnopolka, Mikhaylovka and Talaleyevka work camps.

  10. Hekster family papers

    Contains Red Cross messages between Hekster family members in South Africa and other members of the Hekster family remaining in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation.

  11. Rakowski family papers

    Contains legal documents and photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Zofia, Josef, and Samuel Rakowski's Holocaust experiences.

  12. John E. Hart letters

    The John E. Hart letters consists of four multi-page letters written by John E. Hart, a member of the 121st Infantry division, United States Army, between April 8 and June 2, 1945. The letters, which are each written over multiple dates, describe capturing German towns and guarding captured enemy soldiers. The letter dated May 6th describes what he witnessed at the liberation of an unknown concentration camp.

  13. Ilona Gyongyi Rona memoir

    Contains memoir,32 pages, written by Ilona Rona, who was deported to Auschwitz from her home town Baja, Hungary at the age of 15. Later she was transferred to the Sudetenland, and worked as slave laborer in Mittelsteine and Weisswasser.

  14. Mezirich memorial collection

    Contains 77-page English language photocopied book titled Memorial for Greater Mezirich, which includes photocopied black-and-white and color photographs; scroll listing in Hebrew names of murdered inhabitants; NTSC VHS tape showing with English narration material of the book and ceremony in Yad Vashem.

  15. Goldfarb family papers

    Contains vaccination certificates, testimony, marriage certificate, and naturalization papers for Moses Goldfarb and Szaindl (Shirley) Dudelsak Goldfarb. Also includes a certificate for a tree planted in Israel in the memory of Sara Dudelsak, who perished in the Holocaust.

  16. Kurt Weinberg videotape and manuscript

    Contains a videotape and manuscript about Kurt Weinberg's childhood in Germany, his experiences on a Kindertransport to England, life in a Jewish orphanage in Liverpool, compulsory factory work, and work with the Civil Defence.

  17. Under Providential Guidance

    Contains a memoir about June Friedman and her family's experiences in the Borislaw Ghetto, her experiences with a Polish family and an uncle after the suicide of her parents, June's training in preparation for kibbutz life in Israel, and her eventual emigration to the United States.

  18. Julius Strassburger family correspondence

    The Julius Strassburger family correspondence documents his family’s immigration to the United States with the help of his cousins in Pittsburgh. The letters describe his increasingly constrained life in Germany, his cousins’ efforts to secure him a position in Delaware in the leather industry as well as affidavits for him and his family, and the family’s arrival in 1936. The correspondence also includes a 1940 postcard from Selma Strassburger that her father never received, correspondence from 1941 documenting the family’s unsuccessful efforts to bring Julius Strassburger’s sister and brot...

  19. Selected records from the HAPAG-Reederei (HAPAG Shipping Company), Hamburg

    Contains records relating to the St. Louis’ voyage from Hamburg to Havana and its return to Europe.

  20. Various documents of the Nazi era

    Contains black and white photo prints (some of them bearing the rubber stamp of Heinrich Hoffmann); postcard most likely written by a concantration camp guard and mailed from the Buchenwald camp; acceptance document issued for an individual upon joining the SS; stamps with cancellation on the first anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen; German press clippings; and miscellaneous other items.