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  1. Heinrich Himmler itinerary

    Itinerary of Heinrich Himmler from January 1, 1941, to December 30, 1942.

  2. Selected records from the Czech Ministry of Interior Archive

    Contains 46 categories of photocopied documents from 1939 to 1942 relating to the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia; the organization of police forces; and the design, construction, and operation of the Roma camps at Lety and Hodonin. Also included are articles and excerpts from publications from 1969 to 1994 on the above-mentioned topics.

  3. Министерство на вътрешните работи и народного здраве Selected records from the collection of the Ministry of Interior and Public Health of Bulgaria Ministerstvo na vŭtreshnite raboty i narodnogo zdrave

    Contains records relating to adoption of the “Defense of the Nation Act”, the creation of concentration camps, the deportation of Jews from Macedonia and Thrace, and the People’s Courts documentation of postwar trials. Includes correspondence with the Jewish community of Sofia and the Police Department; and reports regarding Jewish owned enterprises and Jews hiding in Rila Monastery, etc.

  4. Commissariat for Jewish affairs (Fond 190)

    Contains personal files; lists of the real estate property of Jews; lists of persons of Jewish origin; bank inventories and receipts for deposited Jewish property; correspondence regarding Jewish rights and duties, the payment of taxes by Jews, the expropriation and sale of Jewish property, the “New Territories” of Thrace and Macedonia, and the establishment of ghettos; announcements of actions for the sale of expropriated Jewish property; an agreement for the initial deportation of 20,000 Jews; reports on the rounding up and resettlement of Jews; plans for temporary concentration camps; na...

  5. Selected records relating to the Holocaust in Romania

    Contains records of the Federation of Union of Jewish Communities and the O.S.E. Bucharest branch relating to its relief and aid activities for Jews who were deported to Transnistria and those in Greater Romania. Also contains name lists of Jews originally from Transylvania and interned to the USSR, lists of orphaned children and the victims of the Iasi pogrom, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Romania information forms on families in Vaslui, Iasi and Burdeni, registration cards of deportees, newspaper clippings, album and documents containing photographs of Pogrom of Bucharest, registrati...

  6. David J. Phillips memoir

    The David J. Philips memoir consists of a typewritten memoir outlining his experiences as a paratrooper with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, as well his accounts of liberating two concentration camps in Landsberg, Germany.

  7. Registration cards for Jews from Lviv ghetto and a register of the Jewish cemetery in Lviv

    Contains alphabetically ordered index cards from a file of those L’viv ghetto inhabitants who went to places of work in the city each day. Included are the name of each Jew, some biographical data, and addresses of workplaces. Also included is a register of burials in the Jewish cemetery in L’viv from 1941 to 1942. This collection is part of the Fond 701, RG -31.033M, Jewish religious community in Lwów, Poland records.

  8. Charles Burns collection

    The Charles Burns collections contains two drafts of Douglas Kelley’s book, 22 Cells in Nuremberg. The book describes the psychological profiles of high ranking members of the Nazi party, who eventually stood trial at the Nuremberg War Trials. Douglas Kelley who was in charge of evaluating the defendants, writes of his experiences with the individuals. The drafts are heavily edited by Kelley’s editor, Charles Burns. Also included in this collection are some notes made by Charles Burns, a letter to other editors about the book, and some news clippings concerning notorious Nazi members. The C...

  9. Trude Stern Binder memoir

    Contains Trude Stern Binder's memoir which describes her escape from Austria to Zagreb,Yugoslavia, life in an Italian refugee camp, experiences in Auschwitz, and reunion with her sisters in New York in 1946.

  10. Morris family collection

    Contains Danielle Alix Morris's personal memoir and a photocopy of her mother's arrestrecord. Danielle Alix Morris's memoir describes her move closer to the Swiss border after Germany annexed Alsace and hiding in the countryside of France. This collection also includes excerpts from her mother's memoir which describe Gestapo interrogation, experiences in Drancy, deportations to Auschwitz, and her father's escape to Switzerland.

  11. Laure Grandmaison Najman collection

    Contains seven documents relating to Laure Grandmaison Najman's work to hide Jews in her guest house in Brussels, Belgium, during World War II. Included are three requests to Laure Grandmaison from internees at Kaserne Dossin (Malines), who she had previously sheltered at her hostel, asking her to send foodstuffs and clothing to them in the camp, 1942-1943. Also included is a receipt from the "Aide aux Israelites Victims de la Guerre, Sectino Enfance," 1946, showing the receipt of payment of 500 francs for the housing of Marion Adler in the month of March-April 1946; and an oath signed by L...

  12. Postcard

    The postcard was written by R. Sara Scajneman from the ghetto in Dombrowa, Poland, to Chana Sender (b. Chana Wajntraub) in a labor camp at Gruenberg, Germany, on August 24, 1942.

  13. Witold Siodmiak letters from Dachau concentration camp

    Contains two letters written by Dachau prisoner Witold Siodmiak, one dated August 2, 1942, and one dated August 8, 1943.

  14. Masha Bruskinska collection

    Contains clippings, articles, letters, and testimonies (some originals and some photocopies) relating to Masha Bruskinska.

  15. Records relating to the killing of Jews in Lithuania during World War II

    Contains name lists, documents of statistics and a photograph of a memorial relating to Jews killed in Lithuania during World War II.

  16. Feliks Sinalevich memoir

    Memoir, 44 pages, of wartime survival entitled "From the Cemetery" (translated from the Yiddish) written by Feliks (Feivel) Sinalevich in 1997.

  17. Records relating to postcards from Jewish ghettos in Poland

    Contains photocopies of postcards from various ghettos during the Holocaust. Morris Rosen prepared the English captions.

  18. Rosemarie Koczy papers

    The Rosemarie Koczy papers consists of a biographical sketch of artist Rosemarie Koczy, a transcript of an oral history interview of Koczy, and an advertisement for an art exhibition at her house in New York. The oral history transcript relates Koczy's experiences as a child during and after the Holocaust.

  19. Sylvan Katz papers about John Henry Weidner

    Contains correspondence, memoirs, and newspaper clippings about John Henry Weidner's efforts to assist and rescue Dutch Jews during World War II.

  20. Ministry of Polish Armed Forces records relating to Dawid Berencwajg and Baruch Steinberg

    Contain various photocopies of documents and photographs relating to the deaths of Dawid Berencwajg and Baruch Steinberg in Katyn.