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  1. Horst Biesold collection

    The collection includes original and photocopies of documents relating to Bertholdt Jacobs and Margarete Crohn who lived in Berlin, Germany and fled to Shanghai, China and to Otto Gantz and his family including correspondence, certificates, and court proceedings. The collection also includes photocopies and originals of documents and copyprints of photographs pertaining to the treatment of deaf children during the Holocaust. Documents include correspondence between Nazi officials, lists of names, documentation of laws, memorandums, forms, statistics, and descriptions of experiments. The cop...

  2. Max Fossner letters

    Contains photocopies of three camp letters sent from Max Fossner to his family in Slovakia, from Majdanek (1942) and Sachsenhausen (April 1944).

  3. Name list of Jewish shop owners

    Photocopy of list of names from Lithuania, dated 15 June 1940.

  4. Dorothea Dressel collection

    The Dorothea Dressel collection contains documents primarily concerning Dorothea Dressel’s husband, Friedrich Dressel, who was a member of the Communist party and was killed in Dachau in 1933. Records include correspondence concerning Friedrich’s death, and post-war correspondence, including a letter from the writer Oskar Maria Graf. Other items include a death and marriage certificate, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The Dorothea Dressel collection contains material primarily related to her husband’s death in 1933. The correspondence contains a letter from Fritz’s parents, asking Dor...

  5. Bertha Kanarek collection

    Two postcards, sent by L. Milgram from Poniatowa camp to A. Jagielski, in a town near Kielce, January and February 1943.

  6. Helen Kirshner family collection

    Photocopied correspondence, primarily related to efforts of Isidore Kirschner of Philadelphia, to help people in Austria and elsewhere in German-occupied Europe get visas to immigrate to the United States.

  7. Anna Koppich letters

    The Anna Koppich letters are a series of letters totaling 33 pages written by Anna Koppich to her husband, Ferri in the days after her liberation from Auschwitz, between March 6th and March 23rd 1945. The letters describe in detail the events of her life that transpired between when her husband was sent to a labor camp sometime before 1943 until her liberation from Auschwitz in January 1945 and many are written on Auschwitz stationary. In the letters, Anna discusses her son George’s depression after Ferri was sent away, wearing a yellow star, their life in the Kolozsvàr ghetto and the sense...

  8. Gloria Lyon collection

    Photocopies of restitution documents for Gloria Lyon (born Hollander), 1950s, photographs of family, text of camp song.

  9. "My camp diary"

    An English translation of Rosa Mayer-Murr's German language diary, "Meine Campzeit, 1940-1944," 29 pages. Author describes her experiences in Gurs and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  10. Beatrice Maier papers

    The Beatrice Maier papers contains correspondence and a deposition. The correspondence consists of two letters, written by "Gerda," May and June 1939. The first letter, addressed to "Else," was written aboard the MS St. Louis; the second was written after arrival in Mirebeau, France. The letters describe experiences aboard the ship, their arrival in Havana and Florida. The deposition was prepared by Hugo Zivi of New York, addressed to the Badische Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name th...

  11. Charity concert program

    Printed concert program, 80 pages, titled "Miriam Magasi: In Aid of the European Emigrants," for a benefit concert held at the Lyceum in Shanghai, 25 November 1941. Many pages contain names of sponsors of the concert, with texts of songs performed, and description of performing artists. Pianist Magasi headlined the concert, along with tenor Ernest Krasso, violinist Ferdinand Adler, and cellist Johann Kraus.

  12. Letter relating to the fates of the Gershen Buschel family during the Holocaust

    Photocopy of letter, circa 1946, from unidentified family member (name is cut off at bottom of photocopy), addressed to "Fannie" in Philadelphia, informing her of the fate of the family of their uncle Gershon.

  13. Edward R. Murrow broadcast from Buchenwald

    AUDIO RECORDING. Murrow describes the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following his visit there.

  14. Documents relating to the killing and deportation of the population of Skala

    Photocopies, documents sent to Leon Szwarcbard (Schwarzbard) in 1945 from the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Warsaw. Includes chronology of German occupation of Skala-Podolska in the Tarnopol district, as well as a list of inhabitants killed during that time.

  15. Letter from a Jew who was hiding in a grave in Poland

    Letter, handwritten on back of forms, 7 pages, with last couple of pages of carbon copy of a typescript text that appears to explain the context of the letter. Letter seems to be identified as from Dr. Boleslaw Ratniewski, document is signed by Janina Grunda.

  16. The Jewish community of Velke Kapusany collection

    Contains a photocopy of a brief history of Martin Shlanger's hometown in Velke Kapusany, Slovakia.

  17. Barbara Mies-Singer papers

    Correspondence, photocopied, from various people in Sandomierz, Poland, to J. Horowitz in New York, 1939-1940, and one letter from nephew of Pauline Cohen, sent to her in Los Angeles, from Vilnius, 1946.

  18. A doctor talks My experiences in Sachsenhausen concentration camp last November

    Contains narrative descriptions of antisemitic incidents that happened to Hermon Preuss (b. 1911) as a youth during his school years in a Berlin's medical school and his later experiences in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  19. Thomas Szirtes collection

    Contains a copy of a copyrighted videotape which shows John Fulop and Marie Anker receiving the Golden Cross of the Republic of Hungary for their rescue activities during the Holocaust; a photocopy of a news article published in Hungary which shows John Fulop shaking hands with Dr. Thomas Katona, Chief of Protocol of the Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary; photocopy of translation of medal of bronze posthumous award; and a captioned photograph taken of John Fulop at Budapest in 1992. Collection also includes copies of miscellaneous correspondence circa 1990-1992, but not limited to the...

  20. Michael Temchin family papers

    Photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to wartime experiences of Michal Temczyn, originally of Pinsk, including his service with People's Army in Poland.