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  1. Official photos A Pictorial History

    Contains a photocopy of a photo album that includes battle scenes of World War II, but mostly includes scenes from Ohrdruf.

  2. John Kafka collection

    The John Kafka collection mainly consists of correspondence, printed material, and articles relating to Dr. John S. Kafka and Gertrude Kren’s (née Bloch) refutation of Rudolph Binion's (1927-2011) psychoanalytic theories on the origins of the Holocaust and correspondence related to the return of postcards and other items written by Adolf Hitler to Dr. Eduard Bloch. The collection also includes biographical material and articles written by Eduard Bloch as well as biographical material, photographs, and family research relating to the Bloch and Kafka families. Biographical material includes o...

  3. Jules Barrash letter

    The Jules Barrash letter consists of a typed testimony, written as a letter to family, by Jules Barrash, a Jewish-American liberator of the Buchenwald concentration camp, April 16, 1945. In the testimony, he describes the camp physically, his impressions taking a tour from a newly liberated French prisoner, and the hospital before bringing the other soldiers in his outfit in for a tour. He wrote that what he saw at Buchenwald showed him the reason they were fighting the war.

  4. Elias Trybuch papers

    Photographs, of donor as partisan in Belarus during WWII, and of memorial to murdered Jews in donor's hometown (Staipitz), along with letter from Neal Sher of OSI thanking Trybuch for assistance in prosecution of John Avdzej, which led to his expulsion/deportation from USA in 1984 for his role in collaborating with Germans as mayor of Staipitz during occupation.

  5. Kulturschande Selberlebnisse aus verschiedenen K.Z. Lagern

    Contains a memoir about Gertrude S. Stanchfield's experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Leitmeritz.

  6. Deutsches Reich Kennkarte for Henry Strauss

    One document, "Kennkarte" for Heinrich Sigmund Strauss, 1939.

  7. Memoir of Holocaust experiences in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany

    Contains a memoir relating to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany.

  8. Katarina Grünsteinová collection

    The Katarina Grünsteinová collection contain various documents relating to Katarina’s imprisonment during the Holocaust. Items include two postcards sent while Katarina was in Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Red Cross card, a camp newsletter, and a court decision ordering her father Moric, to dissolve his company. Other items include two newspapers, a copy of Katarina’s Czech memoir, and a small booklet about her hometown during the Holocaust.

  9. David Kohl and family papers

    Photocopied material in Polish, one from a published work, and one from manuscript (unidentified), with note indicating that published one dealt with contents of newsletter created by orphans in orphanage of Janusz Korczak.

  10. Belle Miller papers

    Contains photocopies of correpsondence, in Yiddish, and photographs relating to the family of Belle Miller in Poland during the Holocaust.

  11. Susan Medalie collection

    Contains a letter from the donor's grandmother to another relative in Brazil relating to the conditions in Germany for the Jews circa 1939.

  12. Photographs of Mauthausen and Gusen Concentration Camp

    Consists of 26 post-war photographs from the collection of Janet Peters' husband, Mark R. Peters, of the liberation of Mauthausen and Gusen. Mark was a U.S. surgical technician for the 131st Evacuation Hospital during the war.

  13. Danek Gertner collection

    The Danek Gertner collection contains primarily two memoirs and a collection of records copied from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv. The copied records contain police records, Zionist organization questionnaires, and information concerning specific people from Żabie, Ukraine; the hometown of Danek Gertner. The first memoir in the collection is entitled Hitlerism in the History of the Jews, and was written by Col. Yuri Schulmeister, a friend of Danek’s. The memoir is written in Ukrainian. The second memoir is entitled The Holocaust: Michael Silberg’s Experiences, wr...

  14. Fred Friedman collection

    Contains a photocopied article, 25 pages plus notes and lists, titled "No Time to Waste: The Unitarian Service Committee's Activities on Behalf of Victims of Nazism," along with a cover letter to an unspecified magazine (dated 1989) by Fred Friedman, the author of this article and archivist of the U.S.C. records at Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard University.

  15. Julien D. Saks collection

    Contains a captioned replica of a portrait painted by Lucy-Jane W. Saks's husband, Julien D. Saks; testimonials from various publications relating to the death of Lucy-Jane W. Saks' husband and his participation in the liberation of a Kaufering group camp (perhaps Landsberg), a subcamp of Dachau; and five slides.

  16. Documents relating to alleged Jewish burial sites in Germany

    Names lists, photocopied from several sources, including list of those interred at cemetery at Jammertal, and separate typed list of officially recorded deaths from Schilldenkmal concentration camp near Braunschweig, and unidentified photocopy list. Includes color photos of grave of Abraham Schoenfeld.

  17. David Schley collection

    Typescript (photocopy), 13 pages, of what appear to be the transcript of an oral history with David Schley, recounting his experiences in Warsaw following the German invasion and during the occupation.

  18. Simon Langner papers

    The Simon Langner papers contain primarily immigration and legal documents related to Simon Langner, a Holocaust survivor. Included are a World ORT machinist’s trade certificate, an identity card, an affidavit and testimony for Simon, and a court ruling for reparations. Also included are a copy of his brother’s Abram Langner’s birth certificate, and a photograph of Simon.

  19. Arthur Grossman papers

    Photocopies of three identification documents for Arthur Grossman, originally of Plock, Poland, who was interned at Buchenwald, and then post-liberation lived at the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

  20. Ausweis, certification for Buchenwald

    Photocopied identification card for Lucjan Radzik (originally of Sosnowiec), postwar, attesting that he had been a prisoner at Buchenwald.