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  1. Oral history interview with Joseph Zaltzman

  2. Oral history interview with Elsbeth Kasser

  3. Oral history interview with Lester Edelstein

  4. Oral history interview with Miriam Grossman

  5. Oral history interview with Peter Thomas

  6. Oral history interview with Sara Boden

  7. Sam Waagenaar articles

    Contains three articles written by Sam Waagenaar about his experiences in the army at the end of World War II. One article is about the liberation of Paris, written from London in Sep. 1944 (eight pages). The other article, of which there are two copies, is about his experiences with what he believed to be a human soap factory (four pages).

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  9. Edith Rottenstein Gross photographs

    Consists of 12 pre-war and wartime family and school photographs of the family of Edith Rottenstein, originally of Czechoslovakia. Those pictured include her siblings Vulvi, David, and Dwajri, her mother, and various members of the extended family.

  10. J. Zendman envelope

    The envelope is addressed to Mr. J. Zendman in N.Y. and stamped four times with the German National seal. It was sent from Geneva, Switzerland, to N.Y.

  11. Lili Levy photograph collection

    The Lili Levy photograph collection consists of two photographs of Lili Levy, after liberation in the DP camp in Ludwigsdorf, Germany, 1945.

  12. Ebensee liberation photographs

    Consists of 42 photographs taken by Joseph H. Strubel, a member of the United States Army, upon the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp.

  13. Eugene Cohen photograph collection

    Eugune Cohen photograph collection consists of 45 photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp, Ebensee concentration camp, and Gusen concentration camp in Austria at the time of liberation. The photographs include images of concentration camp victims and corpses, male and female concentration camp survivors, the buildings and crematoria of the camps, members of the Nazi party, as well as Eugene Cohen and other unidentified soldiers. Handwritten and typed captions in English are on the verso.

  14. Membership card

    "Dienstkarte der Hitler-Jugend (BDM-Werk 'Glaube und Schönheit')" is an 8-page fold-out document issued by the BDM (Bund Deutscher Mädel), the female division of the Hitler Youth, to Ilse Wingleb of Droyssig, Germany. Ink stamped "1096199;" three purple ink stamps with eagle insignia of Nazi Germany; signed by troop leader "Wolf" and a local official.Bund Deutscher Mädel, also known as BDM or League of German Girls, was the female division of the National Socialist youth movement during the Third Reich.

  15. Ted Stone papers

    The papers consist of three letters sent from concentration camps. One letter was sent from Dachau concentration camp by Georg Aarcholski (b. December 11, 1920) to the Generalgouvernement in Poland, December 5, 1943. Two letters were sent from Auschwitz concentration camp by Alexander Hertel (b. December 13, 1912) to "Mutti" in Sosnowitz (Sosnowiec), Poland, February 14, 1943 and April 29, 1943.

  16. Rita Sands papers

    The papers consist mostly of letters written to Rita Dienstag (later Rita Sands), alias "Renee" while in hiding, by her parents from hiding places and internment camps in France. One of the letters was tossed by Rita's mother, Gusta Zwikel Dienstag, from a cattle car en route to Auschwitz in 1942.

  17. Certificate

    The certificate issued on April 20, 1941, in Germany recognizes the induction of H. Seyb into the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth).

  18. Nicholas Berman papers

    The papers consist of a certificate with a statement of Dr. Mikios Bermann's release from Theresienstadt and two registration certificates issued to Dr. Mikulas Berman and Gisela Bermanova, his wife, by the Czechoslovakian Repatriation Office.

  19. Merrill B. Remick photograph collection

    The collection consists of seven color film negatives taken at the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp by Merrill Remick, a medic in the 261st Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division, of the American Third Army.

  20. Sweisserok

    The poem "Sweisserok" was written by Erzsebet Frank at Markkleeberg in 1945 and describes the friendship and daily lives of twelve welders at the Junkers-Markkleeberg slave labor camp during the Holocaust. The poem features an illustration of the welders by a fellow laborer, possibly a young woman named Gizella. One of the welders described in the poem is Erszebet Zucker (later Elizabeth Mermel, b. 1924, Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary), who carried the poem during the death march evacuation from Markkleeberg in April 1945. (Zahava Szász Stessel describes the creation and preservation of the poem ...