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  1. Jacob Mosberg collection

    Contains one identification card for Jakob Moszberg indicating that he had been a prisoner in Sachsenhasen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, one notice to Jacob Moszberg (now Mosberg) from the Ministry of Interior of Lower Saxony, a photocopy of Jacob Moszberg and Charlotte Moszberg's marriage certificate from the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, and one identification card for Jakob Moszberg issued by Dr. Solomon Barash, Director Emigration Service AJDC Bremen.

  2. Rita Hofrichter collection

    Contains 17 black-and-white photographs from the Leipheim and Föhrenwald displaced persons camps and one displaced persons index card for Rita Gliksman (Hofrichter).

  3. Eugenia Hochberg Lanceter collection

    Contains postcards, letters, and various other documents relating to Eugenia (Gina) Hochberg's experiences in the Brody ghetto, in labor camps near the Brody ghetto, her life in hiding in both Brody and Lublin, and Eugenia's (Gina) marriage to Henryk Lanceter in July 1945. Also contains 50 black-and-white photographs relating to her time in the Finkenschlag displaced persons camp in Furth, Germany.

  4. Greenfield family papers

    The collection contains 118 black-and-white photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph Greenfield, his wife, Rachel Bunis, and his son, David S. Greenfield, after liberation in several displaced persons camps in Austria, including Braunau am Inn, Ebelsberg, Ranshofen, Bindermichl, and Münichholz, from 1945 to 1949. Among the photographs in the collection there are scenes of Joseph Greenfield and his friends from the 331st and 222nd Infantry Division and the 42nd Tank Battalion of the United States Army working in Steyr, Austria, and vicinity after liberation; the wedding of Joseph a...

  5. Neff Fremont papers

    Contains certificates, postcards, and various other documents, some from the International Refugee Organization, relating to Neff Fremont's time in several displaced persons camps in Italy after World War II.

  6. Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent map collection

    This collection contains color reproductions of 14 maps from the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent. The maps were created by representatives of the Comité d'Histoire de la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale. They document refugee campsites, deportations, battle and campaign locations, atrocity sites, and resistance and anti-Nazi activity sites throughout France during World War II. Also included is statistical data reflecting the number of deportees, refugees, and prisoners in various locations.

  7. Partisan warfare maps Bandenlagekarten

    Contains 36 Bandenlagekarten or partisan warfare maps from the National Archives and Records Administration record group 242. Annotations to the maps represent the monitoring of the partisan movement in Eastern Europe and measures taken to suppress it from the side of the German military as well as the SS and the police. Geographic areas covered in the collection include the Soviet Union, Latvia, Yugoslavia, and Belarus. The maps range in date from 1941 to 1944. The bulk of the maps date from 1942.

  8. Oral history interview with Rose Price

  9. Oral History interview with Emilie Klugmann Szekely

  10. Oral history interview with Alfred Stern

  11. Medical kit

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 14, 15, 16 and 21 -- Testimony of B. Cohn

    Sessions 14, 15, 16 and 21. Witness Benno Cohn describes the effects of Nazism on Jewish cultural life: "...we were no longer allowed to play music of German composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Haydn or Mozart." Assistant State Attorney Bar-Or questions Cohn about book burning. Cohn replies: "The books of the most famous Jewish authors were hurled into the bonfire to the sound of shrieks and applause by the students who were present." Bar-Or and Cohn discuss the Nuremberg Laws; Cohn explains the Reichsbuergergesetz [German Citizenship Law], and reads mandates from the Reichsgesetzbla...

  13. Cikánsky tábor Lety u Pisku Lety concentration camp records

    Contains ledger books, indexes, and lists from the Lety concentration camp for Roma near Písek, Czechoslovakia. The materials contain information relating to camp finances and expenses, prisoner personal information, prisoner entries into the camp, prisoners releases from the camp, prisoners sent to the hospital, prisoner escapes, and prosecution of prisoners in court.

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Submissions of additional evidence and Vrba's affidavit

    Session 109. Attorney General Hausner discusses the translation of the word 'sonderbehandlung.' Whether or not this affects the testimony of the witness Krumey is discussed. 00:04:42 It becomes apparent that the exhibit has not been submitted by the Defense, and Dr. Servatius argues that parts of it are advantageous and other parts detrimental to the Defense. The Judges discuss this with each other at length. We cannot hear what they are saying. The affidavit concerns Krumey's statement on the Lidice Children. 00:13:58 The Judges ask a question about a Czechoslovak translation, one of the m...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 47 -- Testimony of witness Itzchak Nechama about the July 11, 1942 Aktion against the male Jews of Salonika, Greece

    Opening shot of the courtroom. Adolf Eichmann sits in the booth. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution are seated at their respective desks with their backs to the camera. The judges enter. All rise and Judge Moshe Landau asks Deputy State Attorney Yaacov Bar-Or to proceed. There appears to have been a brief recess after the entering of many documents into the record and the footage picks up after this. Itzchak Nechama takes the witness stand (00:01:35) and is sworn in. He testifies about his military service in the Greek army, the demobilization of his unit, and his return to Salonik...

  17. Poster

  18. Book

    Book about Nurnberg, Germany post World War II as the home to 20,000 Americans.

  20. Book