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  1. Swedish protection documents issued in Budapest

    Photocopy of "Schutzpass" for Laszlo Tibor, as well as copy of his Swedish-issued work permit, both from Budapest, 1944.

  2. Estelle Laughlin papers

    The Estelle Laughlin papers consist of post-war immigration documents for Edith Wakschlag (also known as Esther or Estera) later known as Estelle Laughlin. The documents include a Legitimation Ausweis identifying her as a former prisoner, April 1946; a Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS) identity card, July 1947; a smallpox vaccination certificate, July 1947; and an Anmeldung certificate which identifies that Michaela, Frieda, and Edith Wakschlag have registered with the local police as stateless persons who resided in Poland prior to the war, October 1945.

  3. Oscar Koppel papers

    The Oscar Koppel papers contain a variety of documents pertaining to Oscar’s professional life and assets in Germany. Material documenting Oscar’s career as a lawyer range from his diploma from Heidelberg University to correspondence regarding his disbarment, to testimonies applauding his representation of labor unions. Also comprised in his collection are documents pertaining to the family’s property and assets in Germany. This includes asset registration forms and a series of telegrams regarding the seizure of his property in 1943 and his attempts for reclamation immediately following the...

  4. Les Juifs a Liege

    Photocopy, 2 pages, of list of Jewish residents of Liege, Belgium. Taken from antisemitic publication, "L'ami du peuple," 29 November 1941, pages 3-4.

  5. Frankel Rubin Ortner Memoirs, From Terror to Triumph A Family's Story of Survival Through the Holocaust

    Testimony. Typescript, 39 pages compiled in 1990, entitled "Frankel Rubin Ortner Memoirs, From Terror to Triumph: A Family's Story of Survival Through the Holocaust," by Alexander Ortner.

  6. Margot Stern memoir

    Contains a memoir about Margot Stern's experiences being sent to Riga, Latvia, from Stuttgart, Germany. A listing of family members who perished during the Holocaust is also included.

  7. Joseph H. Robbins collection

    Photographs, from Nordhausen, after liberation. With photocopied text from the book, "History of the 104th Infantry Division."

  8. Zdzislaw Ryn papers

    Writings, typescript and photocopies of published articles, by Ryn, many relating to Holocaust survivors and "survivor syndrome," circa 1979-1990.

  9. Henry and Grete Salomon collection

    The Henry and Grete Salomon collection contains primarily identification documents for both Henry Salomon and Grete Nathan Salomon. Both escaped Germany in 1939, and later married in England. Grete worked odd jobs while Henry enlisted in the British Army. Documents include identification papers such as certificates concerning parents, travel documents, certificate of good conduct, household goods directory, registration identity cards, and various other items. Other documents include newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reparations information. The Henry and Grete Salomon collection con...

  10. Testimony

    Photocopy of document, notarized in Israel, of statement by Moritz Zauderer, who was interned with the donor's father (David Rostholder) in Buchenwald, and assumed that Rostholder was killed there. Document dated 1956.

  11. Sybil Milton collection

    The collection consists of photocopies of archival records dealing with the immigration of Jews to the Philippine Islands or with the treatment of those within the Third Reich the Nazis deemed "non-Aryan." Also includes copies of documents pertaining to the mentally infirm and to the Red Army ambulance corps.

  12. Jacoby family papers

    Documents, post-war, relating to Otto and Regina Jacoby. Includes letter from Ministry of Social Welfare in Prague, 1947, informing him of fates of several family members who were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Poland in 1942, and French identification documents for Regina (nee Karpel) Jacoby. Also, one handwritten letter in German, sent to Jacoby by Harry Noll, in Prague, Sept. 1945, providing information about family members.

  13. Justin Held papers

    Photocopied correspondence and news clipping, appears to be from police file, documenting allegations against Jewish attorney Justin Held in Nuremberg, who was accused of fraud, and who fled to Paris, and then Palestine. Dated 1933-1935.

  14. Letter relating to the expropriation of Jewish property and deportations to Terezin

    Photocopied document, unknown provenance, from Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, giving instructions for evacuation from Bamberg, August 1942.

  15. Winkler family papers

    Contains photocopied documents concerning Mikulas Winkler, originally of Berehowo, Czechoslovakia, and his experiences as a displaced person (DP) after WWII in Germany and his immigration to the United States.

  16. Personal karte from Buchenwald

    Photocopies of prisoner ID cards for Jozsef and Dezso Zelig, Buchenwald.

  17. Gerard M. Gert collection

    Correspondence. Two unrelated German letters. One is from office of Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin, addressed to residence of Samuel Gutstein in Berlin, regarding a charge against Gutstein from the corresponding office in Koenigsberg, which is being lifted since Gutstein has been in America since 1938 and is unlikely to return to Berlin. The other letter is from Rudolf von Malzahn, a German diplomat in Belgrade, writing to Alfred Rosenberg to advise him to read a recently published book from the World Jewish Congress, as well as informing him of a popular Italian exhibit in Belgrade that the G...

  18. Stanley Lewan collection

    Photocopies of postcards from family in Poland to Sam Laurie in Chicago, 1941.

  19. Selected Nazi records relating to the Jewish Question in the Netherlands and Dutch resistance

    Photocopies of documents from German occupation authorities in the Netherlands, unknown provenance. Typescript of "Etty Hillesum: Kierkegaard's Poet of Existence," by Sixtus Scholtens; other assorted items.

  20. Eric Kahn papers

    Photocopied documents pertaining to Erich Kahn and his family, including copy of form excluding Kahn from work in his native Cologne, Germany, since he was Jewish (1940), and telegrams and correspondence between family members, 1940-1942, regarding emigration and transport to camps.