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  1. Peter Gersh testimony

    Contains information about Peter Gersh's (Pinchas Gerszonowicz) boyhood in Poland; his impression of antisemitism among the Poles; German invasion of Poland; German occupation of Poland; work for the Luftwaffe at an airbase; life in a concentration camp; escape from a death march; search for relatives after World War II; and emigration to the United States.

  2. Defense of the nation law protests from the State Historic Archives in Bulgaria

    Contains photocopies of articles, petitions, letters, and various other documents relating to the persecution and rescue of Jews in Bulgaria during the Holocaust. The collection comes from several sources, among them the Central Consistory of the Jews in Bulgaria; The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church; The Doctors Union; and The sons and wives of Jewish participants in the Liberation War of 1877-1878. Also included in the collection are rescue appeals from organizations to save Bulgarian Jews, and a public letter (published in the press) written and signed by former Bulgarian ministers, la...

  3. Virginia Prentiss photograph collection

    Consists of eleven photos of Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, and Gardelegen after liberation.

  4. Ingeborg B. Weinberger papers

    Collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ingeborg Weinberger (née Cohn) and her father Ludwig Cohn of Leipzig, Germany; her husband Hans Weinberger and his parents Margarete and Theodor Weinberger, and relatives in the Landsberger and Coblenzer families. Included are pre-war sports-related documents of Ingeborg, a small amount of wartime and postwar correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Weinbergers, German passports, a workbook (arbeitsbuch), financial documents of Ludwig Cohn, two photographs of Edgar Landsberger, and a photocopy of a family book (Stammbuch...

  5. Specimen copy of passenger ticket for Hermann Ende

    Relates to Hermann Ende, who was scheduled to depart Bremen on 09 May 1946 and arrive in New York via the ship "Marine Flasher."

  6. Paul A. Roy papers

    The Paul A. Roy papers consist of biographical materials, clippings, correspondence, reports, photographs, a concert program, and a drawing documenting Roy’s service as military director of Dachau during the summer of 1945. Biographical materials include military records documenting Roy’s military career, Legion of Merit citation, Bronze Star award, and Army War College certificate. Clippings consist of photocopies of articles about Roy’s service at Dachau and subsequent career. Correspondence and reports include communiqués from the International Prisoners Committee about Roy and condition...

  7. Records relating to the participation of the 90th U.S. Infantry Division in the liberation of Flossenbürg

    Contains information about the 90th Infantry Division, postwar contacts of its veterans, and the role of division members in the liberation of Flossenbürg.

  8. Prossnitz-Winternitz postcards from Auschwitz

    Photocopies of two postcards with, both sent by Heinz Prossnitz to Alice Winternitz. The first, dated 12 October 1943 relates to the arrival of the "Masaryk transport" in Auschwitz; the second, dated 31 December 1943, contains little substantive information, but it was censored by the Nazis at Terezin (Theresienstadt).

  9. "Nazzi War Criminals on Trial, November 1945 - October 1946, Court of History, the last Fashist defense line"

    Consists of a scrapbook compiled by Avraham Tory, which contains caricature sketches (with captions) of the defendants at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. According to Tory, the sketches were drawn by "a famous Russian cartoonist."

  10. Records relating to the death of Dr. Isaak Hersch Antler

    Contains information about the death of Isaak Hersch Antler at Buchenwald in 1940 and the transfer of his remains from a temporary grave in Austria to a cemetery in the United States. Shipment of the remains was arranged by Lt. Eric R. Antler, his son.

  11. Hellinger family postcards

    Contains information about the experiences of Magda Hellinger Blau in the Birkenau concentration camp and the deportation of family members from Czechoslovakia.

  12. Sally Meyer and Theo Seyock letters

    Consists of three letters, one written by Sally Meyer and two written by Theo Seyock. The Sally Meyer letter describes the decaying situation for him and his family in Germany. That letter was entrusted to Theo Seyock, who promised to deliver it to relatives of Meyer in the United States. The two letters from Seyock describe his attempts to fulfill that promise. The 14 January 1948 letter from Seyock also describes his supervision of a Wehrmacht vehicle repair depot, where he became acquainted with Sally Meyer. He states that he was in charge of about 80 Jewish laborers from the concentrati...

  13. Israel Weiner letter concerning the fate of the Weiner family in Vinnitsa, USSR

    Photocopy of a May 1, 1944, letter written by Israel (Ezia) Weiner to his brother Moshe and sister Frieda, describing what he learned upon his return to his hometown, Vinnitsa, USSR, (Soviet Union) shortly after its liberation from the Germans. The letter contains information about the death of their mother during a pogrom in Sep. 1941 in Vinnitsa; the deaths of other family members in 1941 and 1942; and the destruction of the Weiner family home and neighborhood in Vinnitsa.

  14. Steinbach family letters

    Consists of letters, written from March 1939 to September 1943, exchanged, for the most part, between Walter and Hans Steinbach. The letters contain information about the attempts of Walter and Hans Steinbach to rescue their father, Gustav Israel Steinbach, from Bełżyce (apparently a reference to the ghetto of that name) near Lublin, Poland.

  15. Lists of Jews evacuated from Bytom in Upper Silesia

    Contains names of 982 Jews (indicated as German Jews by Siegfried Halbreich [donor] who were transported from Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) in Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) in May and June 1942.

  16. "Soviet War News"

    Photocopies of "Soviet War News" from 1944. Contains information about the German invasion of the USSR; the "sacking" of Kiev; mass killings; the Babi Yar massacre; killings in Rovno (a.k.a.Rowne) and Odessa; Soviet prisoners of war; the Majdanek concentration camp; the German invasion of Estonia; and the deportation and killing of citizens of Lʹviv (Lvov).

  17. Rabbi Noah Golinkin papers

    The Rabbi Noah Golinkin papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, and programs documenting the efforts of the Seminary Student Committee to Save European Jewry to work with likeminded organizations such as the Synagogue Council of America to help European Jews during the Holocaust. The papers also include annotations provided by the donor as well as the donor's correspondence with Haskel Lookstein about his book "Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?"

  18. World War II American servicemen (POWs) in stalags, forced marches, death marches and separated because of religion, color or nationality and forced to go to special concentration camps instead of stalags

    Contains information about American prisoners of war and their experiences at the hands of the Nazis on marches and in POW and concentration camps. Some materials also relate to American Jewish POWs who were placed in Berga/Elster, a Buchenwald subcamp.

  19. Centre de documentation juive contemporaine relating to the treatment of the "Jewish question" in France

    Contains photocopies of two documents, "Weitere Behandlung der Judenfrage in Frankreich" and "Judenfragen in Frankreich und Ihre Behandlung," which contain information about the treatment of the "Jewish Question" in France; German nationals responsible for the execution of the Nazi plan; Jewish community history in France prior to 1941; and Jewish organizations operating in France until 1941.

  20. Lindenberg family postcards

    Consists of five postcards exchanged among members of the Lindenberg family (Kurt, Herman, Johanna, Heinz, and Ruth) during November and December of 1941 after Kurt's departure to Australia on a children's transport.