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  1. John Fout collection

    Consists of photocopies of records from the Bundesarchiv and Military Archiv of Freiburg, Germany. The records, dated 1938-1944, are related to the identification and demographics of homosexuality in Germany and the work done by Oberarzt Prof. Dr. O. Wuth in Berlin dealing with homosexuals in the German military.

  2. The Morris Wollach collection

    Consists of miscellaneous correspondence circa 1944-1989 relating to the Holocaust and postwar emigration experiences of Morris Wollach.

  3. The Hugo Princz case

    Narrative about the donor's incarceration in concentration camps as an American national and his attempts to receive restitution from the German government.

  4. Matteo Pierro papers

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence and extracts from publications which relate to the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust.

  5. Irving A. Heyman memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, 4 pages, from a former U.S. soldier, describing his experiences at the Battle of the Bulge and subsequently, at Remagen and at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  6. The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection

    The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection consists of photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp, taken by Irvin Stern on May 10, 1945. The photographs show the camp following liberation and include images of survivors and victims, the mass burial of corpses, as well as buildings, fences, and the crematorium. The letters, in the form of memoirs, relate to the Irvin Stern's experiences at Mauthausen and how he came in contact with Dal Lorvic, a Yugoslavian resistance fighter and a survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp.

  7. Joseph Finkelstein papers

    Consists of death certificates, police certificate, and English translations.

  8. Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers

    The Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers include her original typescript memoirs in German and an English translation. The memoirs describer her life in Prague; her time in Theresienstadt in 1942 and 1943; her deportation to Auschwitz with her parents in December 1943; her father’s death in in 1944; her experiences in the "family camp" at Birkenau; her deportation to Stutthof with her mother in July 1944; her mother’s death in January 1945; forced labor in Praust; a typhus epidemic in Stutthof; and her eventual escape from a forced march in January 1945. The papers also include two partially-used...

  9. Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee

    The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee contains a photocopy of the report written by Dr. Reszo Kasztner (Rudolf Kastner) in 1946. The report gives an eye witness account to occupation of Hungary and the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany. It details Kasztner's experience with the German invasion and occupation of Hungary, as well as the efforts made by Kasztner and the committee to move Jews into labor camps rather than concentration camps. The report contains a photocopy of the original report written in German, as well as an English transcription by Hilda Wolin.

  10. Edith Goldapper diary

    The collection consists of a bound volume containing a photocopy of a handwritten diary entitled "Diary of the Holocaust 1943-1944; Buch I" by Edith Goldapper. In the diary, Edith, originally of Vienna, Austria, writes about being sent to a children's home in Belgium in 1938, living in children's homes in France, and crossing the border into Switzerland. She also writes about living in the Ringlikon refugee camp and being transferred to girls' camps in Fribourg, Neuchatel, Lucerne, and Montreux. In 1947 Edith went to work for a Jewish refugee organization in Zurich and received an affidavit...

  11. Sigmund A. Cohn papers

    The Sigmund A. Cohn papers primarily comprise correspondence between Cohn and his wife and children and Cohn’s parents, Georg and Sophie Cohn in Breslau and date from the Sigmund Cohn family’s arrival in America in 1939 until the United States declared war on Germany at the end of 1941. The correspondence describes family life in Athens and in Breslau and focuses on unsuccessful attempt to secure visas for Georg and Sophie Cohn to immigrate to the United States. Occasional correspondence with the American Friends Service Committee, the US Department of State, the National Council of Jewish ...

  12. Karl Targownik papers

    The Karl Targownik papers consist of biographical materials and restitution files documenting Targownik’s partially successful efforts to receive compensation for damages he suffered during his internment in the Bochnia ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Biographical materials include birth certificates, tracing materials, continuing medical education documentation, and military service papers documenting Karl Targownik’s birth in Hungary, the ghettos and camps he endured during the Holocaust, continuing medical education courses he attended in the 19...

  13. Ernest R. Stiefel papers

    The Ernest R. Stiefel papers include photocopies of emigration and expropriation documents, Jüdische Kultusvereinigung and Jüdischer Kulturbund documents, and personal narratives describing the Nazi persecution of the Stiefel family from Frankfurt am Main; German and international barriers to German emigration; and the confiscation of money, property, and possessions of family members who emigrated from Germany and of those who stayed behind. Emigration and expropriation documents consist of photocopies of original materials documenting the processes the Nazis used to confiscate money and p...

  14. "View the Starry Realm"

    Copy of the hymn, the lyrics of which are by Dr. Norbert F. Capek, a Czech Unitarian minister who died in Dachau as a result of medical experimentation in 1942.

  15. Morton A. Roth photograph collection

    Photographs of scenes in Germany and Austria taken and collected by donor's uncle, Morton A. Roth, a member of the Military Government in Leonberg, Germany.

  16. "Birdsong."

    Sheet music and audio tape recording of song with words from an anonymous poem written in Terezin and music by the donor.

  17. A memoir

    Letter and copies of extracted pages from a publication relating to the 71st Infantry Division's liberation of Gunskirchen.

  18. Alexander Jacquemart collection

    Consist of photographs (Photo Archives), inmate uniform (Art & Artifacts), and forms from Dachau.

  19. Harry Krieger memoir

    Contains a photocopy of letter, five pages, written by Harry (Heinz) Krieger (born 1922, Munich; died 2015, Plainview, NY) to his grandchildren about his experiences in Germany as child; the rise of Hitler; Kristallnacht; beating and arrest, release, and escape to England on a Kindertransport; and eventual immigration to the United States with his parents in 1939.

  20. "Holocaust/Wartime Experiences"

    Consists of a narrative (constructed from phone interviews) and a document in German from the Dutch Red Cross relating to Abraham Muhlbaum's experiences in the Netherlands in hiding; his escape to England and later arrest when he returned to Europe; deportation to Neuengamme, and transfers to Natzweiler and Dachau.