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  1. Nuremberg Race Laws 1935

    Title: "Seventh Party Congress 10-16 September 1935" Hitler and Goering address Seventh Party Congress (1935) in Nuremberg. Hitler moves to adopt Nuremberg laws, Goering reads laws including forbidding marriage between Jews and non Jews. Hitler addresses Hitler Jugend at Nuremberg, Hitler Youth singing. Army day-manoeuvers. Title: "Reception for Prime Minister Goemboes of Hungary 28 September 1935" Hitler reviews army, meets with Goering, speaks to Germans, greets the Hungarian prime minister. Goemboes statement in German.

  2. Oral history interview with Joseph Kolek

  3. Henryk Glucksman photograph collection

    The photographs depict the Glucksman family before and during the Holocaust in Wadowice, Poland; Jewish men in the Gogolin labor camp in Poland in 1941; and Maria Pelikant Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s wife, Noemi Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s daughter, and Kamila Rozenberg and Emma Datner, Henryk Glucksman's in-laws, in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963. Captions on verso in Polish.lish.

  4. Gurwicz family photograph collection

    The collection of five photographs depicts the Gurwicz family in Vilnius, Lithuania, and members of Fareynik̤te paṛtizaner organizatsye (FPO), a Jewish partisan organization in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) during World War II. Some photographs have captions in Yiddish on the verso.

  5. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers

    The Richard and Ernestine Benes papers contains a diary, biographical material, and emigration and immigration documents relating to Richard and Ernestine Benes attempts to emigrate from Austria to the United States. The diary was written by Richard from June 6 - July 4 1941. In the diary Richard writes about their emigration from Austria to Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Spain as well as their time aboard the ship and arriving in New York City. Biographical materials include birth and baptism certificates, a marriage certificate, proof of citizenship, identification cards, passports (Reisepass...

  6. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

  7. Julius and Selma Einstein papers

    Consists of correspondence (letters and telegrams) received by Julius and Selma Einstein between 1939-1941 and 1946-1947. Julius and Selma's daughter Ruth emigrated to the United States in 1939; though the collection contains correspondence sent to Selma Einstein while she was interned in Camp de Gurs in France, Selma was able to immigrate to the United States through Casablanca, Morocco, in 1941 and was briefly interned in Camp Ouedzum in Morocco. Julius Einstein, unable to emigrate, perished after being deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin). Includes correspondence between the Einsteins an...

  8. Moser family papers

    The papers consist of handwritten and typed postcards and letters written by a Jewish family, the Arnhelms, in Berlin, Germany, to relatives in the United States as well as a typewritten genealogy of German Jewish family starting with "Karl Moses, geb 15.9.93zu Kolberg, mosaisch, Preus."

  9. Stephanie Richardson photograph collection

    19 photographs taken or gathered by donor's father immediately following the Liberation of Buchenwald. The collection consists of vintage black and white copy prints of Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation by American troops.

  10. French collaborator arrested

    [Journal de guerre in 1945 - occupation allemande scene d'arrestation de collaborateur] Title: "A L'Ouest de L'Europe...Confedence Militaire" Troops, well-dressed men at train station. French collaborator arrested by train, CUs. Boarding train.

  11. Louis Schwarz papers

    The papers consist of postcards written in Nazi-occupied Poland. The majority of the postcards were written by Jacob Holschutz in Brody, Poland, to Louis Holschütz in Chicago, Ill. See numbered list in accession file.

  12. Book

    Book, printed in English, of purported "Polish" atrocities committed against Germans; published in 1940; Berlin, New York

  13. Weiss family papers

    The papers consist of a list sent from Malines concentration camp by Karl Weiss, Dorothea's father, to Madame Dujardin who saved Dorothea and her sister from deportation by the Gestapo, a good conduct certificate (Führungszeugnis) issued to Berta Weiss, Dorothea's mother, a letter sent to Karl Weiss by the police in Berlin, Germany, a re-issued birth certificate, and a family wedding photograph.

  14. Hitler poster

    Poster with black and white photograph of Hitler against a black background with white text. The portrait photograph was taken by Heinrich Hoffman; 1932. The poster is mounted on a linen backing

  15. Estare Kurz Weiser papers

    The collection includes a birth certificate, issued post liberation for Estare Weiser, a translation of the birth certificate, and three photographs of Anna Kurz, Estare's mother, and Estare after the war in Switzerland.

  16. George Weissberg papers

    The papers consist of a postcard written by Geogette Cattan [donor's aunt] in Drancy concentration camp to her fiancé, Louis de Michel, in Marseilles, France, the day before she was deported to Auschwitz where she perished, two identification cards ("Carte d'Identite") issued to Aimee Cattan [donor's mother] during the Holocaust in France, a photocopy of an identification card ("Carte de Deporte Politique") issued to Aimee Cattan stating that she was a political prisoner, and a photocopy of a repatriation card ("Carte de Repatrie") issued to Aimee Cattan as a displaced person.

  17. Fredda Shere Valenti photograph collection

    The collection consists of 9 photographs depicting Dachau concentration camp and Munich, Germany, after liberation.

  18. Peter Steindler papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Margarethe Löwy Steindler [donor's mother] in the ghetto in Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia dated 1/7/1945, and a worker's pass issued to Margarethe Steindler in 1944 in Theresienstadt

  19. Illustrierter Beobachter (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Insert to special edition of Illustrierter Beobachter, spring 1940 with maps of Europe and the Middle East. Political cartoon on cover shows African soldier with a flag "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" attached to his rifle and a French military leader and a man with Jewish-type caricature in the background with the caption "Frankreichs Schuld."

  20. Ilie Wacs family papers

    The Ilie Wacs family papers consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting members of Ilie Wacs’ family in Vienna and their emigration to Shanghai, photographs documenting the Wacs family and their friends, and printed materials documenting Jewish refugee life and Ilie Wacs’ participation in Jewish cultural youth organizations in Shanghai. Deborah Wacs materials include identification papers. Henia Wacs materials include identification papers, registration records, and tax documents. Ilie Wacs materials include identification, membership, and travel papers; student records...