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  1. Zeev Rebhun collection

    Collection contains information regarding Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, including lists of Jews deported, maps of the camps, and official reports; videotape entitled "The final solution." The name lists are from the Sachsenhausen archives, NARA, and Yad Vashem archives.

  2. Jeffrey Cymbler collection

    Collection contains one copy of the 1943 German Census of all Jews residing in Bedzin, Poland, taken by the Gestapo; list totals 22,174 names.

  3. Howard A. Tanenbaum collection

    Collection contains original correspondence between Shirl Lea Kur and her daughter Sophiain Cordoba, Argentina (with annotations and English translations); original correspondence between Shirl Lea's brother, Cantor Schein, from New York, to Sophia in Argentina (with English translations); original family photographs.

  4. Morton Benson collection

    Contains information regarding his observations of corpses in striped uniforms on the side of the road in April 1945 while serving in the 11th Armored Division of the Third Army; only one date entry from a diary kept by the donor.

  5. Peter Laband collection

    Consists of one memoir, 71 pages, in typed and handwritten German, written by Dr. Paul Laband in 1938 after his release from the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was imprisoned for 1937-1938. In the memoir, he describes many details of daily life, and began writing the memoir almost immediately after his release, when his family emigrated to Trinidad. Includes an English language typed translation written by Dr. Laband's son, Peter Laband.

  6. Betti Weimersheimer collection

    Consists of one folder of original letters sent from Betti Wild Weimersheimer in Ichenhausen, Germany, to her son Samuel (born Siegfried) Weimersheimer in Newark, NJ, between 1940 and 1942. Also includes letters written by Fritz Weimersheimer (Samuel's brother) before immigrating from Palestine to the United States.

  7. How the Jews should combat the situation in Germany?

    Contains information regarding how to win American Gentile support in order to help save German Jews from being mistreated by the Nazis; written in August 1933.

  8. Juedische auswanderung: korrespondenzblatt fuer auswanderungs- und siedlungswesen, 1936-1938

    Publications: "Juedische Auswanderung," two publications, dated September 1936 and Summer 1938, subtitled "Korrespondenzblatt fuer Auswanderungs- und Siedlungswesen," published by the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland.

  9. Ruth Blecher collection

    Contents of postcard are in Polish; according to donor the contents state that the Lakner family and other Jews were taken into the forest of Nowy Targ in August 1942 and killed.

  10. "Diary of Robert Lichtblau"

    The "Diary of Robert Lichtblau" consists of a typed copy, with English translation, of the memoir of Robert Lichtblau, written in 1945. The text, which is entitled "The Diary of Robert Lichtblau" (though it seems to have been written as a narrative) contains information about the Lichtblau family before the war; the expansion of the family's pipe-making business; life in Vienna after the Anschluss; and their immigration to England.

  11. Otto Leib collection

    Collection contains a newspaper article entitled "Civilian Internment Camps in Switzerland and Censored Mail" and a letter to Regina Rothschild (in German) from the Turnverein Konstanz, Verein fuer Turnen, Sport, Spiel, und Wandern, dated April 27, 1933, regarding termination of membership.

  12. Wolfgang Kurtz collection

    Collection contains Opfer Des Faschismus issued to the donor and newspaper articles and 3 SHAEF newspapers.

  13. The autobiography of a fearless fighter in Nazi Germany and Shanghai exile

    Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.

  14. Zinochka Craevitsky collection

    Contains photocopies of handwritten letter, in Russian, from a friend of Aron Craevitsky, Zinochka's father who was killed at the front in 1943, to Aron's mother, and of a photograph of Zinochka Craevitsky; and a handwritten memoir by the donor regarding the fates of Zinochka and her mother in the Minsk (Soviet Union) ghetto.

  15. Motl Beker collection

    Contains a black-and-white photograph and a brief biographical sketch of the donor's uncle, Motl Beker, a Lithuanian Jew, who along with his entire family and the rest of the Jewish population of Janova, was shot in June 1941.

  16. Alfred Neil Kramer collection

    Contains genealogical information regarding the donor's family, the Kramlats and the Gelbers.

  17. "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment"

    Contains a copy of a booklet entitled "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment" by Kurt Lewinski. The booklet, which is a typed English translation of the original German, describes Lewinski's experiences in an internment camp for enemy aliens in England; life on the HMT Dunera ship, which transported him to Australia in 1940; and life in the Hay, New South Wales and in the Tatura internment camps. The text is written in the form of daily diary entries, and includes two epilogues written in 1942 and 1945 which reveal that Mr. Lewinski joined the Australian military.

  18. 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.

  19. Copy of the diary of Felix Landau, Vienna

    Contains information regarding Felix Landau, who was employed by the Gestapo and was assigned to secure Jewish property, volunteered to report to an Einsatzkommando in the area of Milnicle. Descriptions of executions, taking of property from prisoners and corpses. Diary covers the month of July 1941.

  20. Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe Jewish Social Mutual Assistance Zespoł Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Sygn. 211)

    Contains correspondence between the head office in Kraków and the local branches in the General Government relating to the organization’s activities and relations with the German and Polish authorities. Records include financial and organizational materials, personal files of the staff, correspondence, post war copies. The index of names and places is included in finding aid.