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  1. Postcard and documents relating to experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald

    One postcard, original, sent to Marian Tasiemski when he was a prisoner at Buchenwald, from his father, July 1944. Photocopied documents from State Museum at Auschwitz about records of Tasiemski's imprisonment there.

  2. Roza Goikhberg papers

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of typescript, from Goikhberg, written in 1992-1993, recounting experiences during German occupation in Mogilev-Podolsky district near Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Includes family photos.

  3. Mark Monka papers

    Identification documents (2) for Mojzes Maka (Mark Monka) of Bendsburg (Bedzin). One is general ID issued after occupation by Germans, and the other identifies Maka as being resident of Jewish quarter and assigned to work at a clothing factory. Also is a small square card, used as ID by Maka at the factory.

  4. A speech relating to experiences at Föhrenwald displaced person camp

    A speech titled "Liberation and the Jewish Displaced Persons Centers in Germany" and given at Temple Israel, Great Neck, NY, on 28 April 1995 providing a historical account by former director of Foehrenwald DP camp.

  5. Charles Corn collection

    Contains the Holocaust related publications in English, French, and German, a published portrait of Adolf Hitler, and two blank Fire Brigade Commendation certificates dated April 20, 1937 , signed by Heinrich Himmler.

  6. Michael Kolanik papers

    The Michael Kolanik papers document Kolanik's unsuccessful efforts to receive compensation or recognition from the German, Polish, and American governments for the time his father, Michael Kolanik, Sr., spent in Nazi labor camps in Germany during World War II.

  7. Tagebuch des Sturmes 38 Wiesbaden

    This logbook documents "Sturm 38," a Wiesbaden unit of the Sturmabteilung (SA), from 1926 to 1933. The book includes detailed entries and descriptions of educational, propaganda, and ideological activities, marches, trips, funerals, weapons training, and fights with communists. It includes photographs of Adolf Hitler, Standartenführer Philippi, and SA parades and events as well as a 1933 clipping describing the history of the SA in Wiesbaden.

  8. Lawrence Cane correspondence

    A letter relating to atrocities at Buchenwald written by Lawrence Cane to his wife, April 15, 1945.

  9. Jewish publications in Kovno

    Two newspapers, in Hebrew or Yiddish, from Kaunas, Lithuania, 1920 and 1927.

  10. "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor"

    Testimony, eight pages, typescript, with copies of photographs. Titled "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor," by Jack Fleischer, about experiences at Bergen Belsen. Originally from town near Kielce, and discusses experiences after invasion of Poland, time at Skarzysko camp, and later camps.

  11. Testimony relating to medical experiments and other atrocities at Dachau concentration camp

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, authored by Stanislaw Kamecnik, describing conditions at the medical infirmary of Dachau. Document obtained by Saul Myers, of St. Petersburg, FL, who explained in an accompanying letter of 1995 his own connection to a group of Jewish DPs in France after the war, from whom he obtained this report.

  12. Tante Liesa

    Testimony, 4 pages, photocopy of typescript. Reminiscence by unnamed author of his aunt Liese from Berlin, and what happened to her and her family during the Holocaust (author's family emigrated from Berlin to Palestine before the war).

  13. Robert W. Tighe papers

    Contains an honorable discharge document issued to Robert W. Tighe from the United States Army; correspondence from Tighe to his parents in Roxbury, MA, while he was stationed in Europe during WWII; correspondence from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1986) regarding his oral history; letters from school students thanking Mr. Tighe for a presentation at their class in 1995; news clippings; an illustrated German magazine from 1941, likely picked up by Tighe after war; and laminated pages from April 22, 1945 issues of "Yank" magazine, with cover, containing an article about General Creight...

  14. Kristallnacht

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, titled "Kristallnacht," recounting author's experience of this event, from arrest at his home in Braunschweig, imprisonment in local jail then state penitentiary, deportation to Buchenwald, then return after a couple of weeks to Braunschweig.

  15. Lowell "Doc" Drudge papers

    Consists of photocopies, including a one-page biography of Lowell "Doc" Drudge, which mentions his participation in the liberation of Buchenwald as a member of Company A, 317th Infantry, 80th Division; a copy of a letter he wrote to the "Vetvoice" in 1994; and a newspaper article about him on Memorial Day.

  16. Memoir

    Photocopy of German letter and English translation, from father of Erwin Knoll.

  17. Documents relating to the Exodus 47 incident

    One leaflet, printed in French, Hebrew, and likely Yiddish, expressing readiness of French government to allow passengers of Exodus 47 to disembark on French territory if they wish. Also is photocopy of an article about Exodus from Washington Jewish Week, 1988.

  18. Memoir

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, describes time in eastern Poland (Bolechow), invasion of Soviets and then Germans, time in ghetto and as forced laborer.

  19. Memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, photocopy of manuscript, about experiences in occupied Greece.

  20. Celia Trunk memoir

    Testimony, 4 pages, photocopy of typescript, sent by Celie Trunk (also Trunck), a survivor of Bergen Belsen, in response to a questionnaire sent out by historian at Bergen Belsen Memorial site in 1994.