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  1. Ralph J. Preiss collection

    Contains 10 black-and-white photographs of donor's cousins, aunt and uncle who were deported from France to Auschwitz; annotations are on the back of each photograph; biographical information of the Wohl family is also included.

  2. Letters to my uncle a memoir

    Contains information and description of stories of a close uncle and his war related experiences.

  3. Herman F. Reissig memorandum

    The Herman F. Reissig memorandum, dated May 15, 1941, describes the SS Alsina’s departure from Marseille in January 1941 carrying more than 500 refugees en route to the United States and Latin America, its detention in Dakar by the Vichy government, Reissig’s unsuccessful efforts to work with the Vichy, British, and American governments to find a solution for the refugees, and cables received from refugees aboard the Alsina describing their confusion and anxiety.

  4. Gefangnenbuch, Strafgefaengnis Wolfenbuetel

    Photocopies of oversize pages of a prisoner register from Wolfenbuetel Prison in Lower Saxony where the Jewish deportees from the region (Braunschweig, Luenburg, etc.) were registered by the Gestapo and held November 10-11, 1938. There are also some arrests from before and after Kristallnacht listed.

  5. Recollections from the Holocaust odyssey to freedom

    Contains information regarding Holocaust experiences from Wuppertal (Elberfeld) Germany,1933; escaping to Belgium in 1938; after Germany invaded Belgium, Henry Berg [donor] and his family fled to France in 1940 only to return to Brussels, where the family lived in hiding for the rest of the war.

  6. Alexander Paspa collection

    Contains information regarding a request for medicine; a notification of receiving a package; and a request for certain foods. Three original postcards dated October 23, 1944, 1942, and July 31, 1942, all with English translations. All of the postcards were mailed to Ella Paspa in Zagreb, Croatia.

  7. Daniel Barkin collection

    Contains information regarding the General Court of Massachusetts protesting the persecution of Jews in Germany.

  8. Ilse Ann Fisher-Liberto donation

    The memoir contains information regarding donor's grandmother's, Ilse Armanski Parker, Holocaust related experiences in Danzig.

  9. Paula Scwamenau Eisenhammer memoir

    Consists of one bound memoir, 59 pages, entitled "Paula" by Paula Scwamenau Eisenhammer, originally of Sniatyn. In the memoir, she describes growing up with family in Sniatyn and Kolomyja, life in the Kolomyja ghetto, a failed attempt to escape to Romania, and escaping from a moving deportation train outside of Majdanek. She returned to Kolomyja and obtained Aryan papers. In the fall of 1942, she traveled to Germany as a forced laborer, hiding her Jewish identity. She was liberated in 1945 and was able to emigrate to the United States in January 1947.

  10. Einsatzgruppen in Polen

    Contains information regarding the administrative aspect of the Einsatzgruppen. The report spans from September 1939 to through the year 1940. The Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen, Ludwigsburg materials are from file 172/58.

  11. Dos Lid Vegn Vald

    Contains information by Moshe Diskant regarding the "environment" around the Kovno ghetto and partisan movements. In handwritten Yiddish; with portions missing.

  12. 82nd Airborne Division I & E News Summary for 7 May 1945

    Contains information of a ceremony given regarding the camps.

  13. Liz Bader collection

    Contains information regarding the donor's wartime experiences in Germany as a little girl; briefly discusses the situation of father's business; photograph is of donor and friend.

  14. Irma Gideon collection

    The Irma Gideon collection consists of a handwritten memoir in German by Irma Gideon. The memoir described her experiences during Kristallnacht in Oberlustadt, Pfalz, Germany, 1938 and her emigration to the United States. The collection also includes a photocopy of a newspaper article titled "Lustadter Synagogenbrand vor dem Richter" and a copy of a trial in the Strafkammer des Landgerichts Landau in der Pfalz in April 1948, of those people responsible for the violence on Kristallnacht. There are also biographical notes regarding the Gideon family written in English, likely created by museu...

  15. Kurt I. Lewin collection

    Consists of photographs and papers related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Kurt I. Lewin [donor]. Includes identity cards, permits to travel, work permits, documents forged while the donor was in hiding as a Studite monk, Polish army documents, entry documents into Palestine, and photographs of family members and of Studite clergy members. Also includes Mr. Lewin's handwritten 1947 memoir, "Aliti MiSpezia," as well as Polish and Hebrew typed transcripts of the same. The memoir describes his childhood, wartime, and postwar experiences.

  16. Marie Rosenberg-Swaalep collection

    Collection contains information regarding the whereabouts of the donor's family. One surviving member of the family, Marie Swaalep, was issued a displaced persons index card and travel passes to Sweden in May 1945. Collection also contains original registers of death from the Koninkrijk der Nederlanden for Marianne van Kollem, Abraham Swaalep, and Sophie Swaalep; and photocopies of statements regarding the deaths of Berta Dwinger, Alida Geertruida Kon, Juliana deGroot, and Elly Vleeschhouwer.

  17. Richard Jackson collection

    Contains photocopies of Ernst Theilman's character testimonies, with English translations. One black-and-white photograph of Mr. Theilman.

  18. Flight from the Nazis A memoir

    Contains information regarding the Silverstein family's flight from Antwerp, Belgium, to France as seen through the eyes of Philip Silverstine [donor] at age 10. In the early part of 1941, the family was able to obtain visas, passports, and boat passes to sail to America via Spain.

  19. Nechama Tec and Daniel Weiss collection

    Contains information and research on Masha Bruskina, and to a lesser extent on Vloyda Sherbateyvich and and Kirill Trus; all were executed on October 26, 1941.

  20. Selected records from the National Archives of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

    Records relate to the Fünfbrunnen concentration camp. Included are name lists of Jews deported from Luxembourg to Poland, Sipo reports on arrested Jews and resistance members, investigation files and survivor accusation statements against Gestapo man Fritz Hartmann, and excerpts from the trial of Gestapo man Klöker and many others charged with war crimes in 1948.