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  1. Nina Gottlieb documents

    Contains two documents issued to Lola Gottlieb which include a false work card for Maria Sowienska, used by Lola during the Holocaust to pass as non-Jewish.

  2. Oral history interview with Shalom Steinbach

  3. Ruth Neubeck memoir

    Contains a six-page memoir about the experiences of a German family.

  4. Ephraim family papers

    Contains correspondences and Red Cross messages between Elsie Ephraim, Hildegard Ephraim (mother), and Elizabeth Ephraim (sister) from June 1941-December 1942. Elsie orignally was a nurse in Berlin, Germany, but found refuge in England and worked for a hospital in London during the war. Hildegard and Elizabeth were deported to Theresienstadt where they both perished.

  5. Paul Kuttner memoir

    Contains a memoir about Paul Kuttner's Holocaust experiences.

  6. William C. Christianson papers relating to Nuremberg war crime trials

    Contains mimeograph copies of trial transcripts, mimeograph copies of evidence documents, memoranda, notes (typescripts and handwritten) and some correspondence relating to Judge William C. Christianson's involvement in the Wilhelmstrasse and Frick cases at Nuremberg. Also includes general notes on the cases; resumes of the prosecution cases; memoranda from defense lawyers; notes on legal precedents and source; statements by defense witnesses; notes on history of slave labor; and documents submitted as evidence in the trials. The records date generally from 1946 to 1948.

  7. Selected case files of the Border Police (Expedientes de Frontera) Spanish border files

    Contains case files on non-Spaniards (mainly German and Italian refugees) arrested and imprisoned for attempting illegal border crossings into Spain.

  8. Peter Piper letter

    The Peter Piper letter contains a handwritten letter, dated April 8, 1945, written by Peter Piper, a member of the Fourth Armored Division of the United States Army, and sent to Mary Alice Boyd in Madison, Wisconsin. In the letter, Piper describes capturing a liquor storehouse and distributing the contents to his friends, and the concentration camp he toured [likely Ohrdruf] and commented on the suicide of the mayor of the nearby village.

  9. The University in Exile

    Contains an unpublished manuscript, 145 pages, written circa 1973, with information about the "University in Exile," founded at the New School for Social Research in New York City in the Summer of 1933 as a protest against the expulsion of Jewish scholars from German universities.

  10. Eric E. Kohlhagen's papers

    Contains a letter from Eric Kohlhagen to his cousin in regards to sending affidavits for his parents to come to the United States and a memoir about Eric E. Kohlhagen's experiences in Sachsenhausen, Nordhausen, Bunawitz, Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, and Dora concentration camps.

  11. Der Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes im Bereich des Militärbefehlshabers in Frankreich (Sygn. 242)

    Contains the personal papers of French Jews from whom the French and German police agencies confiscated money and other valuables.

  12. Von Auschwitz nach Amerika Das erstaunliche Leben des Zigeuners Karl Stojka

    Contains a memoir, 128 pages, about Karl Stojka's experiences in Auschwitz.

  13. Moje zycie

    Contains a memoir about Ajzk Grinberg's experiences during the Holocaust.

  14. Konstantin family collection

    Contains letters and postcards from Josef and Mina Konstantin to their daughter Fritzi Konstantin and eight receipts for money orders.

  15. "Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste"

    Contains six pamphlets entitled, "Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste," copies of an underground newspaper produced by a resistance organization.

  16. Budapest Főváros Levéltára

    Consists of records filmed in Hungarian archives by Yad Vashem. The reels are labeled, JM/13176 through JM/13196.

  17. Tibor Neumann identification card

    Contains Tibor Neumann's identity card issued to him after liberation by the Red Army.

  18. Internes en Suisse

    Contains photocopies of case files; lists of French internment camps; lists of statistics; and lists of names from Archives du Comitite International de la Croix-Rouge record group G2, Internes en Suisse.

  19. Prisonniers de guerre juifs

    Records relate to Jewish prisoners of war (POWs) in various POW camps.

  20. Emigration

    Contains photocopies of documents form Archives du Comite International de la Croix-Rouge record group G47.