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    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah brought by Artur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's uncle, Dr. Le...

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    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah brought by Artur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's uncle, Dr. Le...

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    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah brought by Artur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's uncle, Dr. Le...

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    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah pamphlet acquired by Arthur Cohn in the US. It has the Enlish dates for Jewish holdiays for five years, from 1941-1942 through 1945-1946. Arthur escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he return...

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    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Jewish prayer book brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's...

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    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Jewish prayer book with inscriptions brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the...

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    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah with inscribed names and dates brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search t...

  8. Henri Moskow collection

    Consists of pre-war and post-war (1930's-1950's) documents, photographs, a photograph album, and correspondence pertaining to Henri Moskow and his family. The collection includes pre-war family photographs, documents, and correspondence attesting to his resistance activities in France.

  9. Records relating to treatment of Jews by Italian and German nationals during the Holocaust

    Relates to the general treatment, incarceration, deportations, repatriation of Jews by the Nazis and Italian fascists in the Balkans, Greece, Italy, Sweden, France, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

  10. Letter relating to liberation experiences at Dachau and Landsberg

    "Dachau and Landsberg" is a 3 page letter (memoir) which relates to the Holocaust experiences of Edward Newell as a liberator in Europe.

  11. Selected records from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)

    Contains records relating to the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to1945; persecution of Jews in the Netherlands; looting of Jewish property; activities of the SS and Gestapo in the Netherlands during the German occupation; anti-Jewish measures in Dutch society after the German invasion; Jewish refugees; and German concentration camps and work camps in the Netherlands during World War II.

  12. Return home: from the diary of Ms. Gorzędowska

    Collection contains an excerpt from the donor's diary describing her underground schoolwork in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to her Gestapo arrest in May 1943. After being beaten in the Warsaw prison, Gorzędowska was sent to Auschwitz until January 1945. On January 17, 1945, she and others were led on a four-day march to an unnamed train depot, packed into boxcars, and taken to Ravensbrück; she arrived on January 25, 1945. In February 1945, she and others were transported to a camp located at Neustadt-Gleve. While there, Gorzędowska was able to be detailed to "house help" in the children's b...

  14. Selected records relating to concentration camps from the National Archives and Records Administration

    Contains camp registration name lists, transport name lists, camp arrival registers, death lists, lists of Jews who emigrated, personal property lists, medical records, death certificates, prisoner biographical data cards, postwar questionnaires, and other camp records. Included is information about the Buchenwald, Dachau, Sandbostel, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Hinzert, Natzweiler, Gross-Rosen, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. The collection also contains documents relating to various Gestapo branches and to the Jewish Agency.

  15. "Survival in the Lion's Den"

    Contains information about the experiences of Fred Angress's family during resettlement in Amsterdam and their life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The testimony draws from Angress' personal diary and other published sources, all of which are listed in a short bibliography. The testimony is dedicated to Nelly Gispen, a close friend of the author during the Holocaust era.

  16. Janina Spinner Mehlberg testimony

    Consists of a copy of a testimony by Janina Spinner Mehlberg. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp.

  17. The remembrance

    Consists of the transcript for the oral history video "The Remembrance" by Norman Feld. "The Remembrance" concerns the experiences of the Feld family in Poland as they attempted to escape Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. The bulk of the transcript contains information on Feld family genealogy and the emigration of family members to the United States after World War II. The oral history interview was conducted with Norman Feld's father, Stephen Feld, his uncle, Mel Feld, and his aunt, Estelle F. Nadel.

  18. L'univers concentrationnaire Conference internationale du 26 au 28 Octobre Washington sur la liberation des camps de concentration Nazis par les Arme Allie et Franaise

    Consists of "L'univers concentrationnaire" compiled by the French Embassy for the International Liberators Conference in October 1981. Included is a report concerning the general history of concentration camps and reports on selected individual camps. Among the camps with individual reports are Dachau, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Mauthausen, and Alderney (a.k.a. Aurigny).

  19. Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes records relating to Roma in Austria

    Consists of copies of various letters and government-generated documents relating to the fate of Roma in Austria during and after the Holocaust. The documents focus on topics such as deportations, establishment of concentration camps for Roma, forced labor of Roma, and transports of Roma to Mauthausen and Auschwitz.

  20. Blueprint copies for Buchenwald

    Includes three copies of the blueprint plans for Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is a report by the Sixth Service Command describing conditions in Buchenwald in 1944. This report contains testimony by Henry Glass, a prisoner of Buchenwald for approximately four months, from September 1938 to January 1939. The report describes the physical layout of the camp, its administration, methods of torture practiced in the camp, and the colored markings used to identify the prisoners.