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  1. Eva Eiseman papers

    The papers consist of documents and a photograph relating to the Cohen family of Hamburg, Germany, and their escape from Nazi Germany to Montevideo, Uruguay, on the ship "General Artigas."

  2. Peter Gelbart papers

    The papers consist of a German passport for foreigners ("Fremdenpass") issued to Siegfried Gelbart [donor's father], a photograph of Siegfried Gelbart, and a bound copy of translated identification documents and letters of recommendation relating to Siegfried Gelbart and his family.

  3. Harold Wallerstein papers

    The collection consists of two German passports ("Reisepass") stamped with the letter "J." One was issued to Max Wallerstein donor's father in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and the other was issued to Elisabeth Wallerstein [donor's mother] in Mannheim, Germany, in 1939.

  4. Hugo Lam questionnaire

    The questionnaire was issued to Hugo Lam in Stanisławów, Poland (Stanislav / Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Ukraine) in order to register him as a medical professional.

  5. American serviceman papers

    The papers belonged to a unknown United States serviceman and include forty-eight photographs depicting wartime Europe and liberated concentration camps, an envelope, a set of souvenir postcards from Liverpool, England, and a business card from the Taverne Savoy in Brussels, Belgium.

  6. Ray Deming photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs taken at the time of liberation at Dachau concentration camp.

  7. Sketch

  8. Prayer book

    Jewish prayer book issued by U.S. government and carried by U.S. soldier during WWII.

  9. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin

    20 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  10. Postage stamp

  11. Cardinal Faulhaber letter

    The Cardinal Faulhaber letter was written by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and addressed to the administration of Dachau concentration camp requesting the release of clergymen imprisoned within the camp. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber (1869-1952) was a German cardinal and archbishop of Munich, Germany who was a prominent opponent of the Nazis.

  12. Selected records from the Politische Archiv des Auswärtiges Amts-Olympic Games 1936

    Contains material from the foreign office on the international issues surrounding the Olympic Games of 1936. Included are documents on potential boycotts (United States and Norway), policy related to the Jews, racial policy, logistical issues, certain events, and propaganda.

  13. Becher - Mount Kisco / Weissmandel

    An Orthodox Jew affiliated with Weissmandel's Yeshiva in Mount Kisco in New York, Mr. Becher talks about Rabbi Weissmandel, the "Blood for Goods" and other rescue efforts, and the Orthodox prohibition on violent resistance. FILM ID 3820 – Camera Rolls NY 82-87 -- Becher NY 82 Mr. Becher explains that Rabbi Weissmandel was the first person to explore the idea of bribing the Nazis in order to save the Jews. Rabbi Weissmandel began rescuing Jews from Slovakia in 1942. Religious Jews were opposed to the ban on German goods initiated by Rabbi Stephen Wise in 1933. Becher says Jews were religious...

  14. Lore Oppenheimer and Hermann Ziering - Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto (New York)

    Lore Oppenheimer and Herman Kempinsky (now Ziering), co-presidents of the Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, share their experiences during the Holocaust. They address the conflicts between German Jews and Ostjuden, deportation to the Polish border in 1938, propaganda, arrival in Riga and witnessing evidence of murdered Latvian Jews, and life in Riga ghetto. Mr. Ziering conceals his face during the interview which takes place at the 1978 Society conference in New York city. Lanzmann also briefly speaks in German with Friedrich Baer, a WWI veteran frontline soldier, who attended th...

  15. Eduard Kryshak

    A hidden camera interview with Eduard Kryshak, who accompanied two or three train transports of Jews to Treblinka and was a witness at postwar trials in Düsseldorf and Bielefeld. He claims he did not know that people were killed at Treblinka until after the war. Kryshak's wife is frequently visible doing chores in the kitchen where the interview takes place, or watching Lanzmann and Kryshak as they talk. FILM ID 3357 -- Camera Rolls #1-7 Maison/Clinique/Chemin de Fer -- 01:00:00 to 01:27:50 No picture for first few minutes. Lanzmann is talking with a German woman about Kryshak, he is in hos...

  16. The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz

    Contains a draft manuscript entitled "The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz," 76 pages plus diagrams, written as an update or revision to the author's conclusions in an earlier book, based on review of newly-available documents from Russian archives after 1991.

  17. The Jew Connoisseur Der Judenkenner (Berlin, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

  18. Prayer book

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

  20. Book