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  1. Photocopy of the operational map of the 4th United States Armored Division

    Contains a photocopy of the operational map of the 4th United States Armored Division.

  2. Robert W. Kesting papers

    Contains unpublished manuscripts and copies of photographs relating to several Holocaust topics. Includes typescript drafts of notes and articles, and likely early versions of Kesting's article "Forgotten Victims: Blacks in the Holocaust."

  3. Siegfried Halbreich papers

    The Siegfried Halbreich papers contain primarily the subject files of Siegfried Halbreich, a concentration camp survivor who spent much of his later life lecturing and educating about the Holocaust. Included in his papers are thank you letters, various subject files which include his manuscript memoir, invitations to lectures, and correspondence with various organizations. Also included are several publications and articles regarding the Holocaust. The Siegfried Halbreich papers contain the desk files of Siegfried Halbreich. The “Correspondence related to speaking engagements” series contai...

  4. Joseph Kahn letter

    The letter relates to the death of Pesla Kokotek at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943.

  5. Family relations

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 24 pages. Concerns efforts of a Polish family to save Jewish neighbors during occupation. Also contains copies and tearsheets about activities of Dolza-Gronowski family during that period, as well as copy of proclamation from Yad Vashem recognizing them as Righteous Among the Nations.

  6. Remarks relating to an American Gi's experience at Dachau

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, 5 pages, titled "Remarks Holocaust Memorial [sic], Capitol Rotunda, April 16, 1993," which is the text of speech given by an American GI who was present at liberation of Dachau. Comments were read at a Days of Remembrance observance at the U.S. Capitol in 1993.

  7. "Hoelle, Tod und Teufel"

    Testimony, photocopied typescript, 122 pages, titled "Hoelle, Tod und Teufel," by Felix Bing, and written while he was at UNRRA camp in Philippeville, Algeria, 1945. Discusses German occupation of Netherlands, internment at Westerbork, and other issues.

  8. Antoni Golba memoir

    Testimony. Typescript, 11 pages, dated 1992, describing Antoni Golba's experiences from childhood in Stopnica, Poland, to the German invasion, Golba's enlistment in Polish Home Army and his time as a partisan, arrest and deportation to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and liberation.

  9. Stanisławów diaries and testimonies

    The Stanislawów diaries and testimonies document life within the Stanislawów ghetto from 1941-1943. Eliszewa Binder’s diary was written by a young Jewish girl, between 1941 and 1942. Her given name was Elza, but she was called Eliszewa by her friends. The entries discuss life in the ghetto, and several entries are written by a friend, explaining the fate of her family to the Nazis. She was most likely murdered shortly after the last entry in June, 1942. Juliusz Feuerman was born in Stanislawów in 1889, and was educated as a building engineer. During WWI, he was seriously injured on the Ital...

  10. Edward Levin papers

    Diary, typescript translation, circa 100 pages. Consists of translation provided by Edward Levin, of Jerusalem, of the diaries of Egon "Gonda" Redlich, who headed youth education activities at Theresienstadt, and date from 1942 to the eve of his deportation in 1944. Levin planned to publish these under the title "Life as If: The Diaries of Egon Redlich from the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1944."

  11. Magdelena Borowska and family papers

    Documents, primarily about Borowska's postwar immigration to the U.S. via Britain, and identification from occupied Poland during the war.

  12. Letters relating to the deaths of family members during the Holocaust

    Correspondence, 3 letters, signed "Josef" and sent from Reichenberg (Liberec) in 1938, and two others from Britain and Canada, 1946, discussing the fate of the Treulich family.

  13. Lissberger family papers

    The Lissberger family papers contains mainly identification and documentation papers for Moritz, Bettina, Klara, and Emil. Included in this collection are marriage, birth, and death certificates, certificates of good conduct, inoculation papers, transport orders, witness declarations, and school records. Other items include correspondence with foreign consulates and post-war restitution paperwork. Also included are personal items, including correspondence, photographs, a wedding invitation for Moritz and Bettina, and Bettina’s school diary, memory book, and Hebrew lesson notebook.

  14. A letter in honor of deceased American GI who experienced atrocities at Buchenwald

    Contains a typescript copy of a letter in the form of a memoir written by Franklin P. Shaw in honor of William Malsh's contribution to the liberation of Buchenwald. Shaw explains that Lieutenant William R. Malsh commanded a Military Intelligence Interrogation team that was ordered to Buchenwald on April 12, 1945. On General Patton’s orders, Malsh instructed the mayor of Weimar to arrange for one thousand Weimar citizens to visit the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, and Shaw describes the reactions of the German visitors to the scenes at Buchenwald.

  15. Kendall Taylor collection

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, apparently by Ida Shkolknik (nee Chaja Pintow), 12 pages, recounting her experiences in Holocaust, apparently in Poland.

  16. Photographs of World War II Nazi concentration camp scenes

    Contains photographs of Buchenwald taken after liberation.

  17. A wonder Rabbi in limbo First they burned books

    Typescript (photocopied), 59 pages, containing translated text of a play, originally written in German, by Leo Kohut. Second typescript, 136 pages, titled "First They Burned Books," appears to be a memoir by Kohut of his experiences in wartime Slovakia.

  18. Richard A. Ruppert collection

    The Richard A. Ruppert collection consists of biographical, photographic, and printed materials and subject files documenting Ruppert’s role as a court reporter in postwar Germany and Austria for War Crimes Investigation Team (WCIT) 6826 of the Judge Advocate General’s Corp of the U.S. Army, which investigated war crimes primarily in the areas around Welzheim, Germany. Biographical materials consist of a resume and notification of promotion for Richard Ruppert, draft correspondence including descriptions of Ruppert’s postwar activities related to war crimes investigations and prosecutions, ...

  19. Documents relating to persecution of Freemasons during the Holocaust

    Typescript essay (photocopy), 19 pages, titled "The Holocaust and Freemasonry," by Dexter Sammons, identified as Past Master of Texas Lodge of Research and Past Grand Chaplain of Grand Lodge of Texas. Also, newspaper tear sheet from paper in Weatherford, TX (hometown of Sammons) announcing talk that Sammons planned to give on this topic. All items are from 1994.

  20. "Signs of Life: The Letters of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Westerbork Nazi Transit Camp, 1942-1944"

    Testimony. Typescript, bound titled "Signs of Life: The Letters of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Westerbork Nazi Transit Camp, 1942-1944." Edited by her daughters, Yoka Verdoner and Francisca Verdoner Kan.