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  1. Postcard and newspaper article relating to Kristallnacht

    The postcard with stamps post marked on 09 November 1938 (the date of Kristallnacht) celebrates the treaty Adolf Hitler signed with Neville Chamberlain at Munich, Germany on 29 September 1938. The postcard, which shows images of Hitler, Mussolini, and Chamberlain, has the legend "Zur historischen Begegnung, 29. Septbr. 1938 in Munchen," and the postmark commemorates the anniversary of the 1923 putsch in Munich, characterizing the city as the "Haupstadt der Bewegung." The photocopied newspaper article from the "El Paso times" (dated exactly 50 years later) describes a television documentary ...

  2. Resolution of the Massachusetts House of Representatives concerning Nazi antisemeitism

    The resolution, which condemns Nazi violence against Jews, was introduced into the General Court of Massachusetts by Hyman Mann (or Manevitch) in 1933, and it was passed by that body the same year.

  3. Letter relating to the fate of Jews from Breslau, Germany

    The letter was written by an unknown Jewish citizen of Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to the Archbishop of Breslau. It describes how Jews in the vicinity of Breslau, Germany, and in parts of occupied Poland had their property confiscated, were deported, forced into ghettos, and summarily executed. It also describes conditions of deportees and concentration camp inmates.

  4. Documents of recognition for Dr. Jozsef Antall

    The documents relate to the deeds of Dr. Jozsef Antall, a Righteous Among the Nations who rescued Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.

  5. Map of massacre sites near Naishtot, Lithuania

    The map of Naishtot, Lithuania (now known as Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania), made by Ralph Goldberg in 1971, lists the names of the Jews of Naishtot who were killed during the Holocaust. This map is a photocopy of the original, and measures 85cm x 91.2 cm.

  6. Chil M. Rajchman testimony

    Contains information about the experiences of Chil Rajchman during the Holocaust including his deportation to Treblinka, his treatment by Ukrainian guards in Treblinka, the prisoners' revolt in the camp, his escape from Treblinka, and his return to Warsaw.

  7. Childhood memoirs of World War II

    The memoirs describe how Eva Edmands emigrated with her parents from Austria to France after the Anschluss and how they lived in hiding until France's liberation.

  8. "The Book of Strzyzow and Vicinity"

    The collection includes a copy of a translation of "The Book of Strzyzow and Vicinity," translated from Hebrew and Yiddish by Harry Langsam. The book contains information about the town of Strzyżów, Poland including the history of the community from 1898, notable rabbis and other citizens, the celebration of Jewish holidays, prominent families, the years of the Holocaust, remembrances of Strzyżów citizens by surviving family members, and the diaspora of survivors throughout the world.

  9. John Golec letter relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Relates the conditions American soldiers found when they liberated Dachau, including: sanitary conditions inside the camp; starving camp inmates and incidents of cannibalism; sadistic camp guards; medical experiments involving inmates; the effect of the camp on the civilian population living near Dachau; and Golec's ideas to prevent Germany from waging war again.

  10. Memoirs of a Roots Search

    Describes Goldzband's 1990 visit to Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland to learn about his paternal grandfather's family and how he discovered the Holocaust-related fates of some family members.

  11. Morton Dannenbirsch letters

    Morton Dannenbirsch served with the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II and the letters describe his impressions of the first Seder conducted in Belgium after the Nazi occupation and how he traced and found some Dutch Holocaust survivors, which his family knew, in a concentration camp near Groningen, the Netherlands.

  12. Nadia Gould collection

    The memoir describes her parents' families; her childhood in the French countryside; the German occupation of France; her and her mother's escape to join her father in unoccupied France; her family's escape from Marseille, France, to Portugal via Spain; her immigration to the United States and reunion with her parents; her assimilation into American culture and her activities while in high school and in college; and some of her experiences afterwards. The collection also includes picture postcards illustrated with Gould's art work depict both geometric and human forms.

  13. Gitya Glikman memoir relating to the Krasnoye and Zhmerinka ghettos

    Contains a photocopy of a one-page memoir by Gitya Glikman (b. Krasnoye, Soviet Union) describing the establishment of a ghetto in Krasne (Krasnoye), Ukraine, and the deportation of the Glikman and her family to the ghetto in Zhmerynka (Zhmerinka), Ukraine. Gitya was liberated in March 1944.

  14. "Strangers in the Heartland"

    Donald M. Douglas wrote the essay, "Strangers in the Heartland" in January 1989. The essay consists of three parts, accounts of those who escaped from Europe, of those who survived in Polish forests, and of one man who survived Auschwitz. The narratives include such subjects as: emigrating to the United States, Kristallnacht, resistance movements and partisans, male rape, and the conditions inside concentration camps.

  15. Susan Beer collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Susan Beer and her parents, Dr. Max and Rose Eisdorfer, after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. The collection includes family photographs; records relating to confiscated property and punitive monetary measures against her parents; identity cards; and a memoir, "To Auschwitz and back: an odyssey," describing her illegal emigration to Hungary and her deportation back to Czechoslovakia; conditions inside the Budapest ghetto; Hannah Senesh; Susan's imprisonment in Auschwitz; a death march; her liberation and reunion with her parents; and the fa...

  16. A short autobiography

    Zvi Baumrin's memoir describes: Baumrin's childhood in Poland; his escape from an Aktion during which his father and some other relatives were killed; his mother's and brother's experiences inside a ghetto and their death; his work in an unnamed concentration camp; his transport in a cattle car and his subsequent escape; his hiding until the end of the war in the L'vov ghetto and in the house of a gentile friend of his father's; and his emigration to Israel.

  17. If my heart didn't break then

    Jean Beller's memoir describes Jean's childhood and adolescence in Poland; her experiences as a student of elementary education in Tel Aviv, Palestine; her return to Poland before the outbreak of World War II; conditions inside the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her experiences with Chaim Rumkowski; her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage in the ghetto; her attempts to hide when the ghetto was evacuated; the death of her parents and a brother; her deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps; and her life in the United States after the war.

  18. Simon Fuks collection

    Contains legal documents, letters, newspaper articles, and a memoir describing the experiences of Simon Fuks, a rabbi of Agen, France. Fuks' memoir, "Souvenir de Guerre," concerns the German occupation of France; his service in the French military and the collapse of the French forces; his capture and subsequent release by the Germans; how he and other rabbis resisted the Nazis and gave assistance to those Jews that they could during May 1941 to May 1943; activities undertaken by the Union gééale des Israéites de France; conditions inside the camps of Drancy and Rivesaltes; and his escap...

  19. Concentration camp from Oct. 1941 to May 1945

    The collection consists of a personal narrative written by Elizabeth Reif describing her deportation from Vienna, Austria, to Łódź, Poland; her occupation as a pharmacist in the Łódź ghetto; conditons inside the ghetto; the deportation of her mother to Terezín, Czechoslovakia (a.k.a. Theresienstadt); her deportation to the camps of Auschwitz and Mittelsteine; her liberation and her return to Vienna.

  20. Józef V. Czarski collection

    The collection consists of a curriculum vitae and short story of Victor Penzer, originally of Kraków, Poland, written under the name of Józef Czarski, his false identity used when he was in the Resistance in Poland during the Holocaust. The curriculum vitae is a brief narrative describing Victor’s prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences, including his deportation to Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), the death march to Mauthausen, and his liberation at Gunskirchen in May 1945. The short story "Schillinger and the Rabbit" describes a guard at Auschwitz II assaulting Jewish prisoners after...