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  1. Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre

    Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists, statistics, reports, questioners, correspondence, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp documentation, witness reports and testimonies about living conditions, 1945-1965; lists of survivors, reports of special commissions after liberation, excerpts of the journal of war orphans, corres...

  2. Michel Kleinsinger collection

    Contains reviews of Michel Kleinsinger's compositions, photocopied newspaper articles about the composer and his life, and a memoir entitled "On Wings," which describes his childhood experiences, life in the Lublin concentration camp, hiding as a Catholic, and later emigration to Brazil.

  3. Hans Maier autobiography

    The Hans Maier autobiography is a photocopy of a typed and annotated translation of Maier’s original autobiography, which he wrote in German and mailed to his children just before his suicide in December 1937. Maier describes growing up in Frankfurt, his university education in law and economics, his marriage, the beginnings of his career in social work, his membership in the German Democratic Party and the German Social Democratic Party, the political turmoil in Germany following World War I, his work leading welfare services in Saxony, the economic depression, the rise of the Nazi party, ...

  4. Karl Fritzsch documents

    The collection contains eleven legal documents regarding honors and awards given to SS Obersturmfuehrer, Karl Fritzsch. Among the signatures is Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

  5. A Miracle in the Flames

    Contains a memoir, 125 pages, about the survival of a Hassidic Rabbi's family during the Holocaust.

  6. Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights letters

    Consists of sets of identical mass-produced letters which were sent to members and prospective members of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, which was founded in New York in 1933. The letters discuss upcoming events, transmit publications (not included with the collection) and thank donors for funds raised.

  7. Ungar family papers

    The Ungar family papers consist of original correspondence received by Eric Ungar’s family in St. Louis from their Ungar and Schlesinger relatives in Austria and England between 1939 and 1944 as well as a copy of a family history compiled by Eric Ungar. The correspondence describes life in wartime Austria and England, particularly the suffering and deprivation of the Schlesinger grandparents in Vienna, relates emigration efforts and complications, and asks for and relays news about family members, including those sent to Theresienstadt, Poland, and Lithuania. The correspondence also reflect...

  8. Wallace Community College Days of Remembrance

    Contains the speeches from the Wallace Community College Days of Remembrance ceremony in Selma, Alabama.

  9. The liberation of Ohrdruf, April 1945

    Contains a memoir, seven pages, about Art M. Gray's enlistment in the United States Army in October 1940, his reactions to Ohrdruf on April 10, 1945, and thoughts regarding his military service.

  10. Liro KZ-Nebenlager Lieberose: Drei starben im KZ-Nebenlager Lieberose: Das Schicksal der juedischen Familie Wollner

    Contains a booklet, 41 pages, with photocopied photographs and biographical information about the fate of the Wollner family during the Holocaust.

  11. "Studenternes Efterretnigstjeneste"

    Contains copies of a newspaper entitled "Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste," with information about the arrests of members of the Danish population by the Gestapo. Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste (SE) was an underground resistance organization in Denmark.

  12. Records of Chief Prosecutor Landmesser of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)

    The records of Chief Prosecutor Landmesser of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) consist of correspondence, memoranda, and prisoner lists addressed to the chief prosecutor at the district court in Bromberg regarding plans for the release of certain prisoners in case of regional evacuation in northern Poland in 1944‐1945; a police registration certificate; and a widow’s pension file. Correspondence and memoranda addressed to the chief prosecutor at the district court in Bromberg from the attorney general at the regional court in Danzig and from the boards of prisons and detention center in Bromberg, Danzi...

  13. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Lithuania (Fond R-973/1-3 and Fond R-1390)

    Contains selected records of Fond R-973 (Jewish ghetto police in Kaunas, reels 1–51), including police daily reports, statistics, correspondence, investigations and the ghetto court cases relating to events in Kaunas ghetto, including activities of armed Lithuanian “partisans." Includes registration books of investigation cases, listing and personal files of ghetto police, various police officer lists, lists of deportees, hospital records, the Kaunas ghetto-plan with marked houses, and Josef Schlesinger drawings. Contains also selected records collected by the Vilnius Jewish Museum, Fond R-...

  14. Zwieberge-Malachit death certificates and related records

    Contains exhibit material relating to war crimes case 000-50-9, including approximately 600 death certificates sent from the Buchenwald Aussenkommando Malachit to the camp physician’s office. Also included is “Tagebuch 6,” approximately 200 pages of prisoner personal data, including whether or not the prisoner was alive or dead.

  15. Oral history interview with Irving D. Magier

  16. Stern family documents

    Contains facsimiles of Baruch Stern's death certificate, Amalie Sara Schwab's birth certificate, attestation that her name is Amalie Stern nee Schwab, and an attestation that Amalie Stern nee Schwab has taken the name "Sara."

  17. Bericht meiner Berliner Jahre im Untergrund

    Contains a memoir with information about Margitta Donig Salzmann's experiences in the Underground and the fate of her family during the Holocaust.

  18. Samuel B. Hagner letter to his parents

    The collection consists of a letter dated 11 May 1945 written from Samuel B. Hagner, a medical corpsman with the 7th United States Army in Europe, to his parents George and Evelyn Hagner. In the letter, Samuel describes the severe conditions of starvation and sanitation that he witnessed in German concentration camps near Munich, Germany, including Dachau, after liberation. The letter is signed with Samuel’s nickname, "Dick."

  19. Bleiweiss family collection

    Contains two photographs, four picture postcards, sixteen documents pertaining to the fates of Bernhard, Leo, Wolf, Chaim, and Maria Bleiweiss during the Holocaust. Documents include information about leaving Leipzig, Germany, in 1937, moving to Italy and France, the deportation of Bernhard, Leo, and Chaim to Auschwitz, and Wolf and Maria's later emigration to the United States.

  20. Memoirs of George Burman

    Contains a memoir with information about George Burman's experiences hiding in the woods, joining a group of partisans from the town of Polenka, and the fate of his family during the Holocaust.