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  1. History of Jewish community of Willmars in Germany

    Contains a letter from the mayor of Willmars, Germany, Gerhard Schaetzlein, written to the donor in 1995, along with with copies of contemporary documents about the history of Jews in Willmars, which Schaetzlein said he had been collecting in order to write a history of this town.

  2. Witness statement to the killing of a Lithuanian Jew in 1942

    Contains one document, notarized in Israel, 1950, from Dov Shapiro and Benzion Lapp, testifying that they witnessed the murder of Mrs. Rahel Gordon in the Kimelichek [sic] ghetto in Lithuania in 1942.

  3. Edith Brandon papers

    The Edith Brandon papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a testimonial narrative documenting Edith Brandon’s deportation to Riga with her mother, Meta Blau; the lives of her boyfriend, Lutek Orenbach, in the Tomaszów-Mazowiecki ghetto and her friend, Ruth Goldbarth, in the Warsaw ghetto; and Edith’s Christian uncle, Hermann Bradtmüller, in Minden and the assistance he provided during the Nazi period. Biographical materials include emigration, deportation, and identification records documenting Edith and her mother’s failed attempt to ...

  4. Copy of a U.S. visa issued in Hungary

    Contains a photostat copy of a U.S. visa issued to Karoly Adam, October 1941, by U.S. Consulate in Budapest.

  5. Tibor Messinger memoir

    Contains a typescript memoir, 111 pages, written by Tibor Messinger, describing experiences in forced labor battalion, liberation from Theresienstadt, and emigration to the U.S. in 1948.

  6. Bruce Tapper and Szczupacki family collection

    Photographs, circa 1900-1937, and letter relating to the Szczupacki family of Sejny (Poland).

  7. Rudy Hooremans memoir

    Testimony: Typescript (31 pages), titled "I Am Still Here!", by Rudy Hooremans, dated July 1995. Consists of an account of a number of elderly relatives sitting on a back porch in Connecticut in 1995, reminiscing about their wartime experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium, and a meeting at the end of the war between American relatives in the U.S. armed forces and the Dutch relatives who had survived the Holocaust in hiding.

  8. A history of the Jews of Gyor

    Contains an album of text, photocopies, and photographs about the history of Jews in Gyor, Hungary during the Holocaust.

  9. Memoirs

    Memoirs of a group of friends from Poland entitled "He Was Born Free."

  10. Warsaw

    Location filming in Warsaw, Poland for SHOAH. Scenes include the ghetto, Mila 18, the cemetery, the railway station, and archival documents and photographs. FILM ID 4709 -- White 39A Varsovie La Gare VAR 61-66 Ticket counter in Warsaw's train station. (00:34) The train schedule. (3:36) A sign that reads: “Gornik. Warszawa WSCH. Częstochowa-Katowice- Gliwice.” The sign is on a train moving out of the station platform. A man is leaning outside the window of the train. (6:00) Trains go past the platform. FILM ID 4710 -- White 39B Varsovie Ville Clapperboard reads: “Varsovie Ghetto.” A monument...

  11. A letter from Daphne McLachlan about her experiences at Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony: One letter (two pages), from Daphne McLachlan to Rabbi Abraham Klausner, 1995, describing her experiences at Bergen-Belsen.

  12. Mary Schnell collection

    Contains a testimony, typescript, 8 pages, titled "Stutthof 1944--Mary Schnell," about the donor's experiences in occupied Poland (Gdynia), who converted to become Jehovah's Witness in 1943, and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned at Stutthof, where she was repeatedly interrogated and urged to abandon faith, and then sent to general part of camp, evacuation by barge in 1945, and after abandonment by guards continued sailing to Denmark.

  13. "My Private War"

    Testimony: Typescript (26 pages) of a rough draft of author's experiences, titled "My Private War," in which he describes experiences of breaking out of Lwow and living underground in German-occupied Ukraine in 1942-1943.

  14. Memoir

    Testimony: Manuscript, nine pages of note paper, with one page family tree.

  15. Abramo Segre letter

    Contains a photocopy of a newspaper clipping, from an unidentified Italian newspaper, with English translation. The article reprints the text of a letter from a man (Abramo Segre) who wrote to his fiancee during his deportation journey, and threw the letter out of the train, where it was eventually delivered to his fiancee. Segre was ultimately killed at Auschwitz.

  16. "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story"

    Testimony: Typescript, 7 pages, titled "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story."

  17. Lawyer's certification

    Contains information about a hidden Jew.

  18. Photographs of victim of an unknown concentration camp or labor camp in Germany

    Contains a photograph of a dead inmate at unidentified camp following liberation, with a United States Army medic looking on. Written caption on back identifies medic as "Milton Baker from Michigan, 2nd Armored Division in Germany."

  19. Bendix Landau memoirs

    Consists of a copy of 40 excerpted pages from memoirs by Bendix Landau, of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, addressing the circumstances of his deportation in September 1942 and his subsequent internment in Theresienstadt. Later pages concern Bendix's mobilization during WWI and military life.

  20. History of the Jewish community in Boppard, Germany

    Manuscript article on the history of the Jewish community in Boppard, Germany, from 1074-1945.