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  1. Otto and Susanne Perl papers

    The Otto and Susanne Perl papers consist of identification papers and emigration and immigration paperwork for Otto and Susanne Perl, military papers for Otto Perl, and a death certificate and burial records for Martha Perl.

  2. Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre

    Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists, statistics, reports, questioners, correspondence, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp documentation, witness reports and testimonies about living conditions, 1945-1965; lists of survivors, reports of special commissions after liberation, excerpts of the journal of war orphans, corres...

  3. Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Office for the State of Moravia situated in Brno Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, Dienststelle für Land Mähren in Brünn (B 251)

    Administrative records of the Brno office of the Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia. Contains material on the persecution of the local Jewish population, anti-Jewish measures and decrees, Aryanizations and expropriations of Jewish properties and assets, arrests of Czech individuals, Germanization efforts, Czech collaborators and informants, Gestapo, reports on the various Landräte, German and Czech police and gendarmerie, schools, theatre and cultural events, forced labor, and other subject matters.

  4. Reborn memoirs of a camp survivor

    Consists of a copy of the survivor testimony of Kay Gundel entitled "Reborn: Memoirs of a Camp Survivor." The testimony describes in great detail the persecution of Jews living in Berlin, Germany, just prior to World War II. The greater portion of the testimony is devoted to the graphic description of Gundel's imprisonment at Terezin, Auschwitz, and Merzdorf. The later part of the testimony describes Gundel's return to life in Germany and her eventual emigration to the United States. Also included with the testimony are several letters written to the Berthold family of Wilmersdorf, Germany....

  5. US case files. Auschwitz concentration camp, Record Group 338

    Consists of a war crimes case file relating to the Auschwitz concentration camp, crimes allegedly committed by camp personnel, medical experiments, lists of war crimes suspects, and testimonies by Auschwitz survivors. Includes documents relating to Drs. Josef Mengele and Friedrich Entress, and to Konrad Reinhard, a Roma who collaborated with the Germans. The earliest war crimes cases were investigated by war crimes sections under the Staff Judge Advocates of the 1st, 3rd, and 7th U.S. Armies and under the commanding generals of the Eastern and Western Military Districts. The war crimes prog...

  6. Records relating to the occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II

    Consists of copies of documents from the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia concerning Yugoslavia during World War II. Included are documents relating to the occupation of Yugoslavia by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, the activities of resistance forces, executions of Jews and other civilians in retribution for German deaths, the persecution of Roma, and Hitler's plans for the partition of Yugoslavia. Also included are documents relating to the Ustaša (Ustashi) and the Zbora groups. See RG list for titles for RG-49.00201 and RG-49.00205.

  7. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor

    Contains information about the early life of Mieczyslaw Paul Makowski (a Polish Christian) in Poland; his participation in the Polish resistance against the German occupiers; his incarceration in Pawiak Prison, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Flossenbürg; his experiences on a death march from Flossenbürg; his liberation; and his subsequent life in the United States.

  9. Oral history interview with Emanuel Tanay

    1. Testimony oral history collection

  10. Oral history interview with Stefa Kupfer

    1. Testimony oral history collection

  11. Walter K. and Lucie H. Sobotta papers

    Contains photographs, affidavits, statements, and certificates relating to Walter K. and Lucie H. Sobotta and their experiences during World War II.

  12. Grodno Oblast Archive records

    Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various German occupation agencies in and near Grodno (Hrodna) during World War II. Records include proceedings of criminal investigations; examples of anti-Jewish propaganda; census name lists for Grodno and the vicinity; the use of forced labor; and documents with information on the destruction of synagogues, the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, ghettos in Belorussia and Poland, partisan activities, resistance actions, transports of Jews from Grodno to concentration camps, arrests of Roma and Sinti, racial policies, and ...

  13. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague relating to Roma

    Selected records related to administration of penal camps and labor camps; gendarmerie administration of the so-called "Gypsy problem"; Roma camps; deportations; Jews, Romani, and Russian populations in Danzig and East Prussia; and persecution of Roma peoples. Also included are documents with statistical and evidential data derived from investigating the Roma population, and documents recording pro-fascist legislation relating to persecution of Roma.

  14. Kazimierz Smoleń letters

    1. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum collection

    Consists of censored letters written by Kazimierz Smoleń to his mother, Helene Smolen, from the Auschwitz concentration camp. Smoleń was one of the earliest Polish political prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz, where he was given prisoner number 1327; he was later a co-founder and director of the Auschwitz State Museum.

  15. Green metal Werk Kratzau labor camp badge worn by an inmate

    Green painted identification pin impressed Werk Kratzau issued to Helen Waterford at Kratzau-Chrastava labor camp, a satellite camp of Gross Rosen concentration camp, where she was interned from October 1944 until May 1945.

  16. Erna Ketchie collection

    1. Erna Ketchie Collection

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the Engelbrecht family of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Included are letters exchanged among the family while Johann (Hans) was imprisoned in Buchenwald and his wife Frieda was imprisoned in Frankfurt prior to her deportation to Auschwitz where she perished. Included is the last letter Hans received from Frieda in 1941. Photographs include depictions of Frieda and Hans, and Frieda’s sisters Kathi, Rosa, and Gutta Schwed.

  17. Franz Sobotka papers

    The Franz Sobotka papers consist primarily of letters Franz wrote to his family while imprisoned at Buchenwald. The letters relate how Sobotka misses his family, include instructions for sending him packages, and inquire about news of relatives and friends. The collection also includes letters to him from his wife and son, many with draft replies from him on the versos, as well as a 1944 map of the Weimar SS garrison command (Standortbereich), stamped "SS-Kraftfahr Ausbildungs und Ersatz regiment!"

  18. Jordan family collection

    Collection of photographs relating to the Jordan family from Miskolc, Hungary. Gyula Itzhak Jordan (b. Nov. 30, 1895) and his wife Aranka Zeisler Jordan (b. January 29, 1904), parents of Judit, (b. June 13, 1929). The Jordan family moved to Budapest in 1932, where Judit attended Scottish missionary Burgerschule, but in September 1943 she was transferred to a Jewish Gymnasium. In March 1944, with German invasion of Hungary, Jewish children were not allowed to attend school. The Jordan family had to move to a building marked with a Star of David. Gyula worked in the basement of the building, ...

  19. Hadamar; POWs raid for food; Breendonck torture devices

    Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberate...

  20. Denmark during WWII: Copenhagen; refugees escape by boat; underground printing press; Yalta

    MS, EXT Christiansborg Castle. INT, room with ornate table and chairs, empty now because the Danish government resigned. Shops/businesses, including a clothing store and a shoe store, sign reading "...pige Kofektion." Pan up building, where the National Freedom Council held illegal meetings. Memorial wreaths, flowers, ribbons with Danish commemorating fallen soldiers who died on August 29, 1943. View up street [seen in Story 828, Film ID 511] where Danish civilians bring flowers to the King on his 73rd birthday on September 26, 1943. CU, boy with raincoat. 00:06:37 At night, Danish Jews fle...