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  1. Josefa Krajewska collection

    Testimony, 42 pages, handwritten in Polish, with English translated summary. Krajewska, living in Belgium in 1993, saw an article about events that took place in her home town of Olobok in 1943, when a planned delivery of weapons to Polish partisans (Armia Krajowa) from the Polish government-in-exile in London was discovered and aborted by German SS, who took revenge on villagers. Includes English and Polish texts, news clippings and snapshots of present-day memorial.

  2. Letter relating to liberation experiences at Dachau and Landsberg

    "Dachau and Landsberg" is a 3 page letter (memoir) which relates to the Holocaust experiences of Edward Newell as a liberator in Europe.

  3. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, courtroom, a prosecutor reads indictment. LS, prisoners filing into courtroom and taking their seats. Members of the Tribunal take their places. MLS, four unidentified judges at bench. Brig Gen Josiah T. Dalbey reading part of the indictment. Capt Benjamin N Narvid, defense counselor, speaking to the court, prisoners in BG. Pan, LS, spectators and prisoners take their seats. LSs, Court personnel and spectators rise as judges enter. LS, prosecution starts its case. Defendants in prisoners' dock.

  4. Fifty years ago and today distinguished Rabbi Herzberg count on Silberman

    Testimonies (2), handwritten, one being 15 pages, written in 1978, and the other being 26 pages, written in 1994, both detailing the author's experiences of deportation to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, and his imprisonment there and at Bergen Belsen.

  5. Memoir relating to the Holocaust in the Netherlands

    Testimony, 12 pages, typescript, about life in occupied Netherlands.

  6. Eli Rotem collection

    Contains a photocopy of a letter sent by the donor's uncle (in hiding in Italy) to his cousin (living in Palestine) describing what the family had experienced after the German invasion of Yugoslavia. Also includes documentaiton about how the letter was brought by Italians to Israel in the 1990s, as well as brief account of donor's history

  7. Landsberg, Germany

    Testimony, 5 pages, photocopied, about experience as U.S. soldier in the liberation of Landsberg, 1945.

  8. Memoir relating to the plight of Jews on the Island of Rhodes

    Testimony, five pages, photocopy of typescript, describing experiences of donor's parents in the Belgian Congo, where the author was born, and in their native Rhodes, during the Italian occupation and the war, including deportation to Camp Hidar (near Piraeus, Greece) as transit camp for Auschwitz, and author's experience in avoiding further deportation.

  9. How an optimist survived the thousand year Reich

    Testimony, typescript (copied and bound), 136 pages, describing the author's chilhood and life in Berlin, deportation, and how he voluntarily joined family members who had been deported to Auschwitz, and later experiences in other camps such as Buchenwald.

  10. Marussia Filleul collection

    Contains letters, passports, certificate of naturalization, memos and photographs. Collection relates to the Holocaust and post-war experiences of Marussia Filleul (née Blums). Most of documents pertain to the attempts of Marussia to immigrate to the United States.

  11. Oberlandesgericht Posen records (Sygn. 74)

    This collection contains files relating to investigations, indictments, trials, and sentences of criminal cases in the Posen region.

  12. Ilse de Popper testimony

    Testimony, 47 pages, typescript, consisting of transcript that Wolf Popper made of an audio recording of his mother, Ilse de Popper, who recounted the family's experiences in Austria under Nazi domination, the arrest of her husband and his imprisonment at Buchenwald, and the family's escape from Austria.

  13. To remember and not to forget

    Contains an oversize scripted version of a poem entitled "To Remember and Not to Forget."

  14. Maurice Rinde collection

    The Maurice Rinde collection consists of five photographs, two identity cards, one letter, and some photocopies of the Rinde family, originally of Przemyśl, Poland. The photographs are pre-war and wartime family photos and copies of photos; the identity cards are under Maurice and Stella Rinde's false identities as Genowefa and Wiktor Kroczykowski (two original cards and photocopies of additional cards); the letter, written by Maurice Rinde, promises a rescuer that a relative in the United States will reimburse expenses for those in hiding should Mr. Rinde not survive the war. Also includes...

  15. Displaced persons materials from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

    The collection describes policies and impressions of the Allied Forces towards displaced persons after the Holocaust.

  16. Biography of Stephane Hessel

    Photocopy of typescript, bound biography of a German-born French diplomat.

  17. Temoignage sur la resistance et la deportation and ceremonie d'inauguration du Square Marcel Rajmon

    Testimony, circa 50 pages, typescript, describing experiences of Rajman and his family, fighting in resistance in France during occupation, and deportation and survival in Buchenwald. Also includes documents, including copies of photographs and texts of speeches by local officials, at dedication of a square in Paris in 1994 named in honor of Rajman's brother, Marcel, who also fought in the resistance and was killed in 1944. Marcel was pictured on the "affiche rouge" of targeted resistance fighters ("L'Armee du crime") and portrayed in the 2009 film "Army of Crime" about the Manouchian group...

  18. Selected copies of documents from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives

    Contains photocopies of selected documents concerning Jewish displaced persons in Austria and Germany for the years 1945 to 1964.

  19. Regional commission for the investigation of Nazi crimes in Poznań Akta zakończonych sledźtw w sprawach o zbrodni hitlerowskich

    This collection contains investigation case files concerning labor camps for Jews, the murder of individual Jews, and the mass execution of Jews inside and outside the camps in various districts of the Poznań region. This documentation was collected by the Główna Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation).

  20. Charles Kremer collection

    Contains an autobiography about Charles Kremer's experiences as a Nazi hunter, with an introduction by Simon Wiesenthal. Documents Kremer's thirty-seven year pursuit of Viorel Trifa, Iron Guard commandant turned Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Other items include a copy of a July 1982, "Reader's Digest" magazine article; a copy of an article from "Esquire" magazine written by Howard Blum; a program from a banquet honoring Dr. Simon Wiesenthal and Dr. Charles H. Kremer; an article from "Health Affairs" at the University of Pennsylvania; a copy of a proclamation from the Office of...