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  1. To survive in the hell Between two ghettos Radzyn, Podlasky, and Mezerich

    Contains the first chapter of a memoir about Yehoshua Ron's experiences in Radzyn, Podlasky, and Mezerich during the Holocaust.

  2. Benjamin Mintz collection

    Contains a collection of documents from Rabbi Benjamin Mintz (later Benjamin Minister), including notes in 1943 and 1945 regarding a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen; a Union of Czechoslovakia certificate indicating that a refugee is in Hungary; a February 1944 postcard from a refugee in Iran confirming the receipt of a food package from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint); a message from a Budapest survivor sent through HICEM to family members in May 1946; a certificate for a displaced Jewish person traveling to Lithuania in August 1944; and a Red Cross leaflet about trac...

  3. COHASCO collection

    Contains six documents that include an arrest order from the Vilna Ghetto for a thirty-eight year old woman, printed in German on back of a Lithuanian under Nazi occupation form, a1943 Hebrew booklet produced by the Palestine Rescue Committee about mass extermination news received from refuges who were able to escape to Palestine entitled, "Stand By-Save-Rescue," and four Hebrew letters dealing with aid to survivors of Greece and Poland.

  4. Gross Rosen documents

    Contains six documents that include a Dachau lettersheet assuring parents of their child's good health, a postcard from Theresienstadt with a stamped admonishment that writing must be in German, three different Holocaust memorial covers, a Gross Rosen letter sheet, two censorship stamps postmarked on address-leaf and stamped with swastika, "Gross Rosen" with assurance of good health and request for letters and packages.

  5. Concentration camp documents

    Contains a partly printed Polish postcard from "Majdanek Konzentrationslager Waffen SS Lublin," a prison thank you for food parcels, and three Holocaust memorial covers.

  6. Zionist pamphlet

    Contains an illustrated four page booklet published by the first Zionist Congress held after World War II.

  7. Refugee Assistance Fund letter

    Contains a printed announcement in letter form about the "Refugee Assistance Fund." The letter indicates that some money was raised at Albert Hall "as a result of his (Einstein's) generous and unselfish help when he spoke to the only public gathering he has ever addressed," but more money is needed for the cause.

  8. Cesare Lombroso letter

    Contains one letter written by Cesare Lombroso stating that there was "a criminal type."

  9. UNRRA list of concentration camp victims, 1947

    Contains missing persons inquiries processed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Tracing Bureau for Austria up to March 31, 1947.

  10. Rose Silberberg Skier papers

    The Rose Silberberg Skier papers include a diary, photographs, and materials related to Silberberg’s time at the Convent of the Gray Sisters in Neisse and at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp documenting the Silberberg family in Jaworzno, Poland, Silberberg’s wartime experiences in hiding, and her post‐war experiences at Zeilsheim. The diary records Silberberg’s wartime memories and her daily life in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. The photographs include copy prints of Rose Silberberg with her family and acquaintances before and during the war and original prints and copy prints o...

  11. Abraham Atsmon papers

    The Abraham Atsmon papers consist of identification papers, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his participation in a partisan brigade in the areas of Słonim and Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American occupation zone of Germany after the war, his support for the state of Israel, his emigration to Israel in 1948, and his subsequent efforts to record the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Bi...

  12. Emmie Vida collection

    Contains a copy of a memoir written by Emmie Vida entitled, "Loving Journey: Selected Short Stories."

  13. Marga Himmler diary

    The collection consists of a diary kept by Marga Himmler, the wife of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS.

  14. Baldauf and Goldstein family correspondence

    Baldauf and Goldstein family correspondence includes letters from Flora Schwartz, Carola Goldstein, and Minnie Baldauf in Augsburg, Germany, to Arthur Baldauf and his family in Kentucky requesting assistance in leaving Germany.

  15. Nussbaum family papers

    Contains an identification card belonging to Maier Nussbaum, an identification card belonging to Ernest Nussbaum, one passport for Maier Nussbaum, one notice from the German Red Cross, and three letters.

  16. Zygmunt Kaminski memoir

    Contains a memoir, 49 pages, about Zygmunt Kaminski's Holocaust experiences.

  17. Lilli Wolff papers

    The Lilli Wolff papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, playbills, and a clipping documenting Lilli Wolff’s career as a costume designer and dressmaker in Köln and Vienna, her experience hiding in Vienna with the help of her friends, and her immigration to the United States. The papers also include poems and stories dedicated to Lilli Wolff by Max Meinecke. Biographical materials include records documenting the lives of Lilli Wolff, her brother‐in‐law Walter Schiff, and her friend Mati Driessen. A birth certificate, business registration certificate, tenant regis...

  18. Rogers family postcards

    Contains three postcards from Irene Hayek addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kohl.

  19. German Archives of the Second World War Archives Allemandes de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

    Contains records relating to the persecution of Jews in the occupied zone; racial laws; persecution of Freemasons, Roma-Sinti, and German emigrants; anti-Nazi resistance; and German anti-Jewish propaganda in France. Also contains material related to the confiscation of property belonging to Jews, the administration and liquidation of Jewish owned businesses and firms, and inventories of seized bank assets belonging to Jews.

  20. Okumenische Gedenkveranstaltung anlasslich des 60. Jahrestages der Reichspogrom-Nacht 1938 am 09.11.1998 im Historischen Rathaus Mutterstadt

    Contains a booklet about the Mutterstadt Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht.