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  1. "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."

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. "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).

  9. 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?"

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Nordrhein-Westfälisches Hauptstaatsarchiv records relating to Freemasons

    Photocopies of documents containing information about Gestapo investigations of pre-World War II activities of German citizens who were members of Freemason organizations.

  14. Louis Eiseman letter describing his personal impressions of Nazi concentration camps

    Consists of a copy of a letter written by Louis Eiseman to his younger sister in May 1945, relating Eiseman's general impressions of the sub-human conditions in the Nazi camps near the end of World War II. The letter describes children in the camps; starvation of prisoners; gassing and cremation of camp prisoners; the liquidation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; and the torture and killing of American troops by the Germans.

  15. Selected records from the American Field Service Archives and Museum relating to Bergen-Belsen

    Relates to the work of the American Field Service (C and D Platoons) at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. Contains information about starvation of prisoners; sanitation in the camp; disease; forms of execution used in the camp; mass burials of Bergen-Belsen victims; medical care for survivors; and activities of specific AFS personnel during the post-liberation clean up of the camp.

  16. "Soldiers Without Weapons" excerpt

    Consists of an excerpt from the book by Sophia Binkiene, which is comprised of testimony by Dr. F. Gurviciene concerning the rescue of her daughter during the Holocaust by Dr. Ona Landsbergiene, the mother of the future democratically elected president of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis.

  17. Willard Lyon letter relating to Hitler's rise to power

    Consists of a photocopy of a 21 March 1993 letter written by Rev. Willard Lyon of Gary, Indiana. In the letter, addressed to Herman Stern, Rev. Lyon asks the latter for his impressions of the changes that have taken place in Germany since Hitler's rise to power, and shares his opinions about the same.

  18. Maria Davidson remembrances

    Contains information about Maria Davidson's experiences and observations in Poland and Germany during World War II as a Jew living under an assumed Christian identity.

  19. Report and photographs relating to post-liberation Buchenwald

    Contains information about the experiences of Major Donald Luby and others in a reconnaissance group that visited Buchenwald, including a photocopied report dated Apr. 18, 1945 concerning the post-liberation situation on the camp. Also includes photocopies of photographs, including one showing what appears to be an African-American soldier standing in front of a cart full of corpses. The photographs also contain scenes from Dachau and Ohrdruf camps.

  20. Adolf Hitler's political and private testaments

    Contains photograph copies of documents relating to Adolf Hitler's final thoughts before suicide, his denial of guilt as cause of World War II, his ascribing the entire tragedy to international Jewry, his removal of Göring and Himmler from their offices for disloyalty in negotiating with the enemy without his consent, his choice of Admiral Dönitz and a slate of cabinet members to carry on the struggle, and his marriage to Eva Braun. Included is a note from Martin Bormann to Admiral Dönitz, which served as a cover letter to Hitler's political testament.