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  1. My First Dress

    Contains a memoir describing the help Marie Pinhas-Lipstadt received from a GI after the Holocaust.

  2. United Kletzker Relief papers

    The collection contains one letter from the United Kletzker Relief asking for the donation of clothing, three United Kletzker Relief booklets, a black and white photograph of the Arrangement Committee of the Kletzker United Relief (1936), and a black and white picture postcard (1932) of Stephen Feinbergand Marjorie Nissen's family members standing next to the tombstone of Yitzhak Moshe, son of Yaakov Kapol. The United Kletzker Relief, composed of those American Jews originally from Kletzk, reorganized themselves to assist survivors of Nazi atrocities. They formed the Independent Kletzker So...

  3. Alec Ward memoir

    The Alec Ward memoir is a 13 page memoir entitled "My Story" by Alec Ward. In the memoir, Mr. Ward describes life in the Magnuszew ghetto, the ghetto Kozenice in the district of Radom, slave labor camps Skarzysko Kamienna and Rakow, as well as life in the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Buchenwald subcamp of Flößberg, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  4. Selected records from the Lithuanian State Archives

    Contains documents from the Lithuanian State Archives, Vilnius, selectively filmed by Yad Vashem. Included are records from the offices of the Gebietskommissars Wilna-Stadt, of the Vilnius police, and of postwar war crimes trials records.

  5. Kenneth S. Wherry collection

    Contains photocopies of Senator Kenneth S. Wherry's impressions of his trip with other members of Congress to Dachau, Buchenwald, and Dora, as well as the official report to the Congress of the United States entitled Atrocities and Other Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany.

  6. Samuel Althaus collection

    Contains an illustrated story about Samuel Althaus's Holocaust experiences and thank you notes written to him by Grafton Middle School Students in York County, Virginia.

  7. Fela Zajac collection

    Contains a bread ration card from the Łódź Ghetto, an Identification card issued by the Czech government in Prague, an identification card issued by the Czech government stating that Fela Zajac has no identification papers, an identification card from the Altotting Displaced Persons Camp, and a baggage claim ticket for arrival in New York. Fela (also known as Fayla Okraaly Zajac/Zajacs and Phila Zion) immigrated to the United States in 1947 with her husband, with whom she reunited after the war.

  8. "Needle in a Haystack"

    Contains Paula Agauas's written memoir, 30 pages, pertaining to her childhood in Poland, hiding with a Polish Catholic family during the Holocaust, and moving to Detroit, Michigan in 1949.

  9. Robert E. Cone collection

    The Robert E. Cone collecton consists of two letters from First Sergeant Joseph Cone, 260th Antitank Division, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps, to his wife, Ruth Cone, about liberation.

  10. Selected records of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS) in Zagreb

    Lists of Jews in Zagreb; statistics on Jews in the Kupari, Đakovo, and Lobor-Grad concentration camps.

  11. Directorate of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS), Jewish section

    Disposition of formerly Jewish-owned property, establishment of superior “Aryan” rights, exemptions from the requirement to wear the star of David, lists of Jews deported to camps.

  12. Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS), Jewish section

    Questionnaires completed by Jews: name, date and place of birth, citizenship, profession, employment history, data on children, property, memberships; records (e.g., receipts for supplies) of the Đakovo camp.

  13. Ustaša Supervisory Office—Đakovo Concentration Camp

    Materials on the operation of the Đakovo concentration camp.

  14. Ustaša Supervisory Office—Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, Gornja Rijeka, Kruščica, and Kupari Concentration Camps

    Materials on operation of several camps (Kupari was in the Italian-occupied zone).

  15. Ustaša Supervisory Office - Lists of Murdered Jews

    Various lists with more than 7,000 Jews murdered in the Independent State of Croatia.

  16. State Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the Occupiers and their Supporters in the People's Republic of Croatia (ZKRZ)

    Materials related to antisemitic persecution and murders, legal regulations, the disposition of formerly Jewish-owned property, and the experience of Jewish children. Lists of Jews killed in the Jadovno, Jasenovac, Kraljevica, Lobor-Grad, Pag, Rab, and Stara Gradiška camps, as well as of Croatian Jews murdered in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. Some materials on non-Jewish victims.

  17. Ministry of Health and Social Services. Welfare and Social Services Division

    Contains records relating to the regulation of Jewish pension rights, work permits for Jews in Našice, the expropriation of Jewish property in Ilok, and related matters.

  18. Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia

    Documents on the Jews in the Ustaša state, including papers of German police official Hans Helm and of German military units. Subjects include the changing of Jewish surnames, the designation of Jews and Jewish-owned businesses, the prohibition of Jews in public places, the prohibition of work by Jews in “Aryan” households, the compulsory labor of Jews, the emigration of Jews to Palestine in 1943, Jews arrested in the Daruvar district in 1942, records of the Kraljevice camp from 1942, and further regulations against Jews and “Mischlinge” in 1943.

  19. Ustaša Supervisory Office for the City and District of Koprivnica

    Contains instructions for restricting the movement of Jews, removing telephones from Jewish residences, and delivering the Star of David insignia to the Danica camp. Included are lists of Jews held in Danica camp, applications for release from the camp, and lists of shops and factories operated by Jews.

  20. Public Prosecutor's Office

    Contains the bill of indictment requesting the extradition of Ante Pavelić and Andrija Artuković, including materials relating to the operation of the Đakovo, Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, and Slavonski Brod camps. There are also lists of inmates and those murdered in the camps.