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  1. Norbert and Gloria Lachman collection

    Documents relate to the tenuous situation for Norbert Lachman and his family as Jews in Danzig the late 1930s; his subsequent experiences as a student at an ORT school in Berlin; his return to Danzig in 1939 and his memories of the situation for Jews at that time; and immigration with his family to New York by way of Berlin, Ostend, and London.

  2. Morris Rosen collection

    Photograph negatives of grave sites of female victims of a death march from Ravensbrück and Gruenberg camps to Volary, Czechoslovakia; information relating to survivors and victims of Volary, Czechoslovakia, Dombrowa ghetto, and an unidentified labor camp in Breslau; photographs of acquaintances who were Holocaust survivors and photocopies of postcards to Gruenberg, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen; questionnaires for Rawa Ruska and Yakub Kalpern.

  3. Susan Warsinger papers

    The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...

  4. Mixed media sculpture representing a rescued Torah scroll

    Mixed media sculpture created by Alice Lok Cahana, 1989-1990, Houston, Texas and received by Shaike Weinberg as a gift from the artist.

  5. German occupation of Poland

    MCU, Polish war posters. CU, Polish officers leaving building. HAS, captured Polish soldiers. HAS, German soldiers marching through streets of Poland, Polish citizens in BG. MS, German color guards and German band. MCU, Hitler. MS, German color guard goose-stepping. MS, massed troops marching down the street, being reviewed by Hitler. HA, MLS, troops as they pass the reviewing stand. CU, Hitler saluting Sieg Heil. MCU, bell ringing.

  6. Liquidation by Germans of Jews in Jaslo and environs in 1942

    Contains a memoir in Polish, entitled "Likwidacja Zydow w Jasle i okolicy w 1942 r., przez Niemcow" [Liquidation by Germans of Jews in Jaslo and Environs in 1942] by Professor Jan Raczka of Krakow, Poland.

  7. Lili Kingstone collection

    Consists three passports as well as miscellaneous documents and correspondence related to the family's emigration from Austria in 1938. Also includes two pre-war photographs: one of Luise Koenigstein working in a Jewish owned textile mill in Vienna, 1935; and one of Artur and Luise Koenigstein posing with their children on the beach, also in Austria, 1935.

  8. Searching for food at Belsen after liberation

    Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. More shots of camp: smoke, tents, cooking fires, people wandering. MS through barbed wire fence where bin full of potato peelings is tipped over, two women look through waste for scraps. One Hungarian and one British sentry observe as female internees reach through fence for scraps; guards kick remnants towards them.

  9. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Information and Press, Eastern Section Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy. Sekcja Wschodnia (Sygn. 202/II/117-134)

    Contains information about German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian terrorism in occupied Poland; resistance movements; and conditions of the Polish population during occupation.

  10. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy (Sygn. 202/III/174-213)

    Contains information about activities of the Department of Information and Press; occupation policies of the Nazis; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; radio broadcast monitoring in Europe; conditions in various regions of Poland during the occupation; relations between Poles and Ukrainians; propaganda; and communist activities in Poland.

  11. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Information and Press, Western Section Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy. Sekcja Wschodnia (Sygn.202/III/135-173)

    Contains reports, surveys, decrees, a thesis, essays, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Department Information and Press and its gathering of materials relating to the reorganization of the Polish government and programs planned for territory to be recovered at the end of World War II. Includes information about reorganization of industry, economic systems, education, school systems, and real estate and property in recovered territories. Also contains information about Polish public opinion during the German occupation, Germanization of Poles, surveys of the Germ...

  12. Kommandeur der Gendarmerie Lublin records (Sygn.104)

    Contains reports, decrees, radiograms, orders, and various other documents relating to resistance activities in the Lublin area; establishment and administration of aerial patrols; police activities; and escapes of and searches for prisoners of war and prisoners of forced labor.

  13. Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger correspondence relating to the rescue of Manfred Loewin

    Contains information about the efforts of Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger to rescue members of the Loewin and Neumann families of Berlin, Germany.

  14. Heinrich Himmler order to establish a special court for relatives of SS and German police personnel

    Consists of a 1940 order signed by Heinrich Himmler establishing a special court in Munich for the relatives of SS and German police personnel.

  15. Ivano-Frankovsky Regional Museum records

    Contains statements, reports, photographs, and articles relating to the German and Hungarian occupation of Ukraine; atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in the region; statistics for executions; names of Gestapo leaders suspected of crimes; and the Tabor Smertii "death camp" at Stanislav, Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine).

  16. United States of America v. Karl Brandt et al., Nov. 21, 1946 - Aug. 20, 1947

    Contains proceedings, exhibits, and other court documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, United States v. Karl Brandt et al., the "Medical Case" (Case I), November 1946 to August 1947, prosecuting Karl Brandt and others for crimes against humanity during World War II. The proceedings contain information about medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners; euthanasia programs carried out on the mentally ill and others; and killing of camp inmates for the express purpose of collecting skeletons for medical research. A list of defendants' names is provided in NARA pamphle...

  17. United States of America v. Josef Altstoetter et al., February 17, 1947 - December 4, 1947

    Contains proceedings, exhibits, and other court documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, United States v. Josef Altstoetter et al., (Case III, the "Justice Case"), February 1947 to December 1947, prosecuting Altstoetter and others for crimes against humanity during World War II. The proceedings contain information about Jews, Roma, Poles, and nationals of the eastern territories subjected to brutal treatment and death; deportation of civilians under the "Night and Fog Decree"; sterilization of "racially impure"; and euthanasia. A detailed list of defendants' names is provided in NARA ...

  18. Records relating to Auschwitz and other camps from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, Podolsk

    Contains information about Soviet prisoners of war in Romanian camps; atrocities against Soviet citizens; liberation of Auschwitz and its various subcamps; inspection of the various Auschwitz camps after liberation; prisoners liberated from Auschwitz camps; liberation ofRavensbrück; atrocities in Stutthof; and activities of "bandit groups" (resistance fighters) in Lithuania and Belorussia.

  19. Records of der Kreishauptmann Radom-Land (Sygn.157)

    Contains applications, death notices, petitions, and various other documents relating to general administration matters in Radom, Poland, handled by the Kreishauptmann including applications of businessmen to serve German military personnel, permission for telephone lines, and petitions to send money to prisoners in Auschwitz; death notice for Józef Deugoszek, a partisan shot by the SS; death notice for Kasimir Jaslan, prisoners of Oranienburg.

  20. Gouverneur des Distrikts Radom records (Sygn.158)

    Contains correspondence, reports, criminal case records, and various other documents relating to water management in Radom, Poland; economic matters in the Radom district; the military and political situation in Radom; the defense of Lublin; regulation of work time for General Gouvernement offices; the criminal case of Wladyslaw Stefanski; police protection of prisons; and leaflets prepared by the German Army to entice Poles to fight the "Jewish Bolsheviks."