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  1. Sara Frimer memoir

    Contains a testimony entitled "I Defeated Hitler and Mengele," printed, 33 pages, dated 1995.

  2. Postcard

    Postcard in Hungarian which states that prisoners are well and getting food.

  3. Bernard and Doris Doctor papers

    Consists of directives issued by various offices of the Nazis restricting and forbidding Jews to be a part of German life, and directives deporting Jews from Tubingen, etc. The collection also consists of a postcard from Gurs; a letter for assistance and a photocopy of a headstone with members of the donor's family inscribed on it.

  4. Joel Leitman papers

    Photographs of Dachau and a DP certificate for Buchenwald.

  5. Hazzan Raymond Kantor collection

    Consists of pre-war traditional Jewish religious music song by Hazzan Raymond Kantor [donor] during Rosh Hashana (1994) and Yom Kippur (1994). Includes a prayer book to be used as a finding aid with tapes.

  6. In the Warsaw ghetto and in the Wyszkow forests

    Memoir was written in Yiddish and translated into English. It relates to the experiences of Pninah Papier, the author and partisan, who was from Nowy Dwor.

  7. Henryk Panusz papers

    Essay, dated 30 March 1995, written by donor's former wife, Krystyna Panusz Startarien titled "Jews - Their Fate in the Background of Polish and my Personal History," copy of lecture entitled "In Memory of my Father..," statement from JHI testifying to donor's experiences in the Holocaust.

  8. Ralph Erman papers

    Testimony: Typescript, 6 pages, about author's experiences as child in Wittlich, Germany, his family's emigration to Holland, the German occupation, living in hiding there, and capture and deportation of parents to Sobibor.

  9. Heinz Heinz H. Linke papers

    Memoir and news articles relating to the Holocaust experiences of Heinz Linke [donor].

  10. Joseph J. Borchert papers

    Borchert's memoir of his experiences with Patton at concentration camp Ohrdruf.

  11. Peter F. Dembowski papers

    One postcard illustrating the German Prisoner of War Postal System sent to Peter Dembowski [donor] from Stalag XB on 21 October 1944; handwritten postcard, unknown source copied from a note written by the donor.

  13. Never say never

    The partisan's song (Jewish resistance theme song).

  14. Never forget: poems of the Holocaust

    Collection of poetry includes "The Holocaust," "Hangman on the Rhine," "Burning memories," "Of Nazi vans," "Without tears," "Mielec," "Kristallnacht," "To kill the Jews," "The silent partners of the crime," "Man's jailer," "The worker," "The carousel," "Judah," "The stamped numerals," "Inquisition," "Of life and death," "Malka," "The Warsaw ghetto," "Shalom," "Without tears," "The ghetto lion," "Mother," and "Remember."

  15. Harry Posmantier and family papers

    Contains photographs of a relative who died at Auschwitz and a photograph of the donor's brother, Sam, who was a Jewish policeman at Landsberg DP camp. There also is a photocopy of his postwar ID certificate.

  16. Selected records of the Russian State Military Archives (Former Osobyi Archives Collections) from the Yad Vashem

    Contains fragmentary excerpts from captured German documents, including directives, decrees, name lists relating to the emigration of Jews from Germany, reports, correspondence, and various other documents relating to the administration of the SD and Gestapo, Zionist organizations; RSHA and Gestapo personnel; religious conversions of Jews and Christians; the Vienna Jewish community; activities of various Jewish organizations; anti-Jewish laws; Jewish emigration; activities of the German Labor Front; activities of the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei in Auschwitz; liquidation of J...

  17. Selected records of the State Archives of Khmelnytskyi Oblast

    The collection contains various documents of the Soviet government and Communist Party regional administration related to the history of Jewish communities of the Khmelnytsky region (formerly Kamenets-Podolsky region) before and after WWII. Included are statistical information, family lists, documents about Jewish schools and reading rooms, the promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws of Jewish religious communities, Jewish collective farms, files on Jews who appealed for the reinstatement of their electoral rights, files of Jewish owners of businesses, and inventories of synag...

  18. "The Black Fox"

    Screenplay based on "Reynard the Fox," adapted from a Franco-German folk tale of the 12th century by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which draws parallels between man's inhumanity to man as portrayed in the folk tale and that was seen in Hitler's Germany. The film was produced by Image Productions, Inc. and narrated by Marlene Dietrich.

  19. Transcript of interview with Eva Weisz

    Testament of Eva Weisz's experiences during the Holocaust.

  20. Ausweis

    Identification paper (Ausweispapiere) for Sara Selman [donor] dated May 8, 1945.