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  1. Benjamin Sokol papers

    The papers consist of a leaflet issued by the Information-Education Section of the 13th Armored Division of the U.S. Army entitled, "Facts on Germany: Food," an advertisement for a German post office savings book, two maps of Europe, and correspondence, including a letter from Roger Kaufmann thanking Benjamin Sokol for taking care of his son in a concentration camp in Germany after liberation.

  2. Louis Russ papers

    The papers consist of two letters from Jews in Vienna, Austria, Anna Stein and Georg Doctor, seeking affidavits of support so that they can immigrate to the United States as well as an accompanying envelope and a photograph of Anna Stein. The letters are addressed to Samuel Doctor [donor's maternal grandfather] in the Bronx, N.Y.

  3. Frandi Meryl Lipton photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of the crematorium at Dachau concentration camp at liberation and a photograph of the kennel at Dachau at liberation.

  4. Carolyn Nast Dashef papers

    The papers consist of 13 photographic postcards depicting scenes from various cities in Europe and the United States and discussing Hitler's rise to power in Germany and the persecution of European Jews.

  5. Linda Marcus papers

    The papers consist of a letter from the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe in Paris, France, to the French Minister of the Interior on behalf of Lowy Isak Weitzner and an announcement ("In Neerland Roumt Israël") signed by O. Cahen.

  6. Roman Freulich photographs

    Consists of copyprints and film negatives taken by Roman Freulich in Łódź, Poland, in February-March, 1938. Includes photos of members of his family, as Freulich made the trip in part to encourage family members to immigrate to the United States. Also includes images of street scenes in Łódź, and two images taken in Warsaw.

  7. Izak Lewkowicz papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs of Izak Lewkowicz and others (some wearing Star of David armbands or badges), two identification cards issued to Izak Lewkowicz in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and a "D.P. Index Card" issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force to Izak Lewkowicz.

  8. Jan Quackenbush photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs of Maximilian Grabner, the director of the Gestapo at Auschwitz concentration camp, in the custody of armed guards.

  9. Marlene Shapiro photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs of the Sendach family in Poland and of a group of boys in the Mizrahi organization before World War II. Some photographs have captions in Yiddish on the verso.

  10. Women and babies

    Women in hospital. Babies being baptized. Women laughing, breast feeding. CU babies.

  11. Capture of Rotterdam

    Columns of smoke. Pan over river, showing destroyed Rotterdam. Explosion. CU, sniper, trees, smoke. Destruction, burning of Rotterdam. LS, Dutch troops walking toward camera waving white flags. Burning buildings, tanks, armored vehicles. CU, night shot: burning buildings in Rotterdam, troops. Civilians in FG, rubble. Aerial shots of Rotterdam. CU, government officials entering buildng. INT, Dutch surrendering Rotterdam to the Germans, officials seated at table. German plane as it turns over, three German planes taking off from airfield, more German planes in formation. Aerial shot, refugees...

  12. Prague Jewish Religious Community and Council of Elders Internal Circulars

    The collection consists of two directives regarding the legal status of Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942 and 1943 for internal use in the Jewish Religious Community Prague and by the Council of the Jewish Elders Prague.

  13. Jurnalul unei vieti

    Mariana Kardos (a.k.a. Mirjam Chanit) was a medical doctor, and worked as an inmate in the revier, in Auschwitz. Following the liberation she was accused, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison in Cluj (Romania) for mistreating her fellow inmates. The manuscript is her memoir and contains the descriptions of her experiences in Auschwitz and Cluj (Kolozsvár).

  14. Olga Kovacs memoir

    Contains a memoir written in 1995 about life before the Holocaust in Salgótarján and Budapest (Hungary). At the age of 18 Olga Kovacs was deported from the Salgótarján ghetto to Auschwitz. In August 1944 she was taken to the Parschnitz camp, near Breslau/Wroclaw, to work in an AEG plant. She was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on May 8, 1945. Following the liberation she stayed for a while in Trautenau (Trutnov, Czech Republic) at another AEG plant, before returning to Hungary. She left Hungary in 1961, and after a brief stay in Vienna (Austria) she immigrated to the United States. Acc...

  15. Prewar scenes of Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Yugoslavia

    The documentary movie depicts the landscapes surrounding the Danube starting in Romania with the town of Turn-Severin located after the 'Iron Gate' and with pictures of orthodox priests and peasant life. Scenes of petroleum wells in the Carpathians, buildings in Bucharest, and the Danube delta located in the Dobrudscha province are shown. From Bulgaria there are scenes of village life and tobacco harvest. From Turkey, the island of Adakalah. Concerning Yugoslavia, there are pictures of the tributary Sava River, the city of Semendria, the Banat district, the capital Belgrade and the harbor c...

  16. Documents Relating to the Peoples' Court Trial of Wilhelm Schumann et al

    Consists of a photocopy of an indictment, dated November 18, 1944 in Berlin, Germany, which describes charges brought against men and women who were arrested as Jehovah's Witnesses, including Gerhard and Wilhelm Schumann. Also includes a photocopy of a letter, dated October 17, 1944, sent to Gertrud Schumann (Gerhard's wife) informing her that he has been sentenced to death.

  17. Helen L. Dickerman collection

    The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence, accounts, and other documents relating to the office of reparation at the preparatory commission for the International Refugee Organization, from 1945 to 1948.

  18. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee records

    The collection consists of a document prepared by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Paris between July 18 and Aug 2, 1939. The document is titled "Ms. St-Louis passengers and their distribution" containing a list of 907 passengers. The collection also consists of reports, memos, correspondence (letters and cables), news releases, minutes of meetings, summaries, and surveys related to assisting survivors; newly liberated displaced persons in camps in Germany (e.g. Landsberg, Bergen-Belsen, Heidelberg, Bremen, etc. ), and in Austria (e.g. Neustadt, Villach, Linz, etc.); movi...

  19. Herbert Gutmann papers

    The Herbert Gutmann papers contain primarily correspondence relating to Herbert Gutmann, a former Jewish-German banker who immigrated to the United States in 1938. The correspondence is mainly between Herbert and his mother’s cousin Edgar Stein, who wrote the affidavit of support for Herbert’s immigration. The other group of correspondence concerns Herbert’s lawsuit against the state of Bavaria for damages caused to his father’s cattle business as a result of anti-Jewish measures promulgated in Germany during the 1930s. Other documents include identification and immigration papers, such as ...

  20. Oral history interview with Esther Shudmak