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  1. Mikuláš Gaško letter

    The collection consists of a photocopy of a typed letter from Mikuláš Gaško, originally of Košické Hámre, Slovakia, to his colleague Ladislav Alexander in 1983. The letter provides testimony describing deportations of Jews from Košice (now Košice, Slovakia, referred to as Kassa) to Auschwitz II-(Auschwitz-Birkenau) in 1944, and the actions by police official Dr. Csatáry with regard to the deportations. Also included is a detailed list of deportations of Jews to Auschwitz II-(Auschwitz-Birkenau) by train with Kassa highlighted. The list was obtained through Istvan Vrancsik, a soldier assigne...

  2. Robert Bonsignore collection

    Contains a remembrance pin and card with Hebrew text, also photographs of Genia Silkes from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  3. A poem

    Poetry, one page, typescript, titled "Don't Forget Us" by Marjorie May Svendsen.

  4. A memoir

    Contains a memoir relating to the donor's father's experiences in Thessalonike (Greece), Auschwitz (Poland), and Dora (Germany).

  5. An interview regarding experiences in Grodno and Bialystok

    Testimony, transcript of interview with Leon Trachtenberg, 62 pages, about experiences in Lwow, Brest-Litovsk, Grodno, Białystok.

  6. Letter relating to the bombing of Auschwitz

    Photocopy of one letter, from Norman Bottomley to Carl Spaatz, providing rationale for not bombing Auschwitz, September 1944.

  7. Bret Werb collection

    Photocopied documents (folder 1), ordered by USHMM intern in 1994, from Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstand, concerning the trial of Helena Kafka and other Catholic religious. DOW signatur 19722/1, may have been copied for them from Bundesarchiv. Second file contains various newspapers, including Gazetka Ozobowa (six issues, appears to be mimeographed newsletter for Polish free forces stationed in Palestine, 1941), Wychodzca (Warsaw, 1935-1937, three issues), "Narod" (2 issues, 1943), and booklet "Zapomnie? nigdy nam nie wolno," from Kielce, 1945.

  8. Maximilian and Martha Koessler collection

    Published material, containing articles written by Maximilian Koessler and published in law reviews/journals in Europe and the U.S., 1929-1964. Some deal with Holocaust and WWII related legal issues (e.g., trial of Ilse Koch, of perpetrators of Malmedy massacre, of Vichy regime), most do not.

  9. Neufeld family papers

    Correspondence between various members of the extended family of Helena Mowszowicz (née Neufeld), including to and from sisters in Washington, DC and in Milan, Italy, in their attempts to help her emigrate from German-occupied Poland, 1939-1943. Includes correspondence from Helena’s husband, David Mowszowicz, who had escaped Poland and settled in Palestine, in the hope that his wife and young son would be permitted to legally immigrate and join him there. The most extensive correspondence is from Helena Mowszowicz to her sister, Nina Crovetti, who lived in Milan, Italy, and who was trying t...

  10. "Svenska Dagbladet" article by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).

    Contains a news article from the Swedish newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet," written by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).

  11. Liquidation of the Brest ghetto

    Photocopy of name list, compiled by Poles after war, of victims of Brest ghetto. Photocopied cover sheet is from Russian archive (unidentified).

  12. A memoir

    Contains photocopied and printed material including excerpts from the "Drohichin book" (Sefer Drohitshin), about experience of Jews in Drohyczyn, Poland during Holocaust.

  13. A memoir relating to experiences in the Bialystok, Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Kratzau ghettos

    Testimony, typescript, 6 pages, describing childhood in Bialystok, Soviet and then German occupation, deportation to Treblinka and Auschwitz, forced labor.

  14. Documents relating to experiences in the Tomashpol ghetto

    Photocopied official documents concerning Vasilevsky's experiences in Vinnitsa region during occupation. Documents attest to his having been persecuted/imprisoned during occupation, Russian with English translation.

  15. An article and documents relating to war criminals

    Photocopied documents from Harry S. Truman Library, used by Crum in research for article published about Karl Brandt, "Nazi Bioethics and a Doctor's Defense," a copy of which is in this file.

  16. Memoir entitled "I Never Left Janowska"

    Contains a memoir, 212 pages, entitled "I Never Left Janowska," written by Christine Kaplan in 1987. The memoir, which is a typed manuscript with handwritten corrections, describes her life in Boryslaw under Russian occupation, living in the Lwow ghetto, forced labor in Janowska and Drohobycz. Using papers identifying her as a non-Jewish Pole, Ms. Kaplan escaped the ghetto in Lwow and traveled to Oberammergau, Germany, where she worked as a forced laborer. After the war, she married and emigrated to the United States with her husband.

  17. Luba Mendelsberg letters

    The Luba Mendelsberg letters is comprised of correspondence collected by Luba and her husband Meyer while they were living in New York City in the years immediately following World War II. The letters are primarily from Luba’s nephew, Samuel Krum, written between 1946 and 1954 and describe life for Jewish refugee families in post-war Warsaw, the struggle to obtain visas to emigrate from Poland, and Samuel’s emotions in the years immediately following the Holocaust. Samuel writes to Luba from a variety of places, initially from Warsaw, then Paris, and finally, Melbourne, Australia and detail...

  18. Kay Atkinson King collection

    Contains a manuscript of the book entitled "Raoul Wallenberg: His Remarkable Life, Heroic Battles and The Secret of His Mysterious Disappearance" and of a partial text regarding treatment of Jews in Romania and Hungary.

  19. A memoir. Relating to Experiences in Brno, Eibenschutz, Terezin, and Auschwitz, and His Liberation During a Death March to Dachau

    Contains a memoir relating to experiences in Brno, Eibenschutz, Terezin, and Auschwitz, and during a death March to Dachau.

  20. Morton Dannenhirsch papers

    Correspondence, photographs, and other documents about life and WWII military service of Jewish American man from Philadelphia who served in U.S. Army as medic, including typescript copy of letter to parents sent from Antwerp in May 1945.