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  1. "Why I Love Azaleas" manuscript

    Contains an English translation, 92 pages, of the German book entitled, "Warum Ich Azaleen Liebe" about Sister Mary Imma (Josefa) Mack, a postulant in the community of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Freising, Germany, who traveled to concentration camp Dachau between May 1944 and April 1945 to bring food supplies, medicine, and letters to the prisoners.

  2. Josef-Frances Feiler collection

    Contains two identification cards for Josef-Frances Feiler from Berlin, a picture postcard of Josef-Frances Feiler in Poland in 1942, one photograph of Josef-Frances Feiler in 1946, a photograph of Josef and Frances Feiler in the Linz Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp, and a photograph of the first anniversary of liberation in Linz Bindermichel.

  3. Keizer family memoir

    Contains a memoir which includes a listing of members of the Keizer famiy who perished during the Holocaust, the personal story of Felix Keizer and his family during the German occupation of the Netherlands between 1940 and 1945, and information about the general treatment of Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

  4. Emil Leyvand collection

    Contains one sound cassette and the musical score entitled "A Poem about the Holocaust" written and performed by Emil Leyvand.

  5. Records of the Organisation Internationale pour les Réfugiés

    Contains records of the Organisation Internationale pour les Réfugiés (International Refugee Organization), and other supra-national institutions, allied in the effort to repatriate or immigrate refugees to safe havens. The bulk of the materials concern refugee Jews during the years immediately following World War II.

  6. Frederica Muller memoirs

    Contains two memoirs entitled, "The Journey" and "My Liberation," about Frederica Muller's experiences in Auschwitz, on a death march from Neustadt-Oberschlesien to Gross Rosen during a snowstorm, as well as her experiences in Mauthausen and her liberation in Bergen-Belsen.

  7. Records of the Consistoire Israélite, Luxembourg

    Relate to deportations, the confiscation of property, emigration, finances, the press, the mood of the population, and orders in German-occupied Luxembourg. Included is information about Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Terezin (Theresienstadt), the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, elderly Jewish people, questionnaires for Jews, the German authorities, and Jewish demographics.

  8. Records relating to investigations and trials of war criminals (Criminels de Guerre), Luxembourg

    Contains the investigation and trial records of persons who committed war crimes in Luxembourg.

  9. Records of the Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Luxembourg

    Contains records relating to the purchases of Gauleiters, the finances of Marzell Nopperey, the plundering of Jewish assets and property, Jewish financial administration, Jewish leases, the foreign policy of Luxembourg prior to German occupation, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in Berlin, and the press in Luxembourg.

  10. Norbert Wollheim papers

    The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, the World Federation of Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Series 1, Life in Europe, primarily documents Norbert Wollheim’s l...

  11. A Void in My Heart The Memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman A Jewish Holocaust Survivor (1927-)

    Contains a memoir about Regina Godinger Hoffman's move from Cleveland, Ohio, to Sinovoir Szinervarlja?, Hungary, her life in the Chust ghetto in Poland, Regina's experiences in Auschwitz, and her later return to Cleveland, Ohio, after the Holocaust.

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Zionist pamphlet

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

  18. 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.

  19. Cesare Lombroso letter

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

  20. 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.