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  1. Max Goodman collection

    Consists of documents, clippings, publications, photographs, and correspondence related to the life of Max Goodman (Ghitman), originally of Orchard Park, NY. Max's family, who were originally from Germany, returned to Berlin shortly after Max was born, and Max studied music at the Berlin Conservatory of Music. He became a professional jazz musician, and immigrated to the United States in 1937 after being warned by family that the Nazis were looking for him in Germany. Max worked as a musician after his immigration, as a draftsman during the war, and as a piano tuner later in life. The colle...

  2. Felix Popper collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Felix Popper, originally of Dzialoszyce, Poland. Includes post-war photographs of Felix Popper presumably burying bodies in the summer of 1945 outside of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Also includes Mr. Popper's embarkation card for his 1947 immigration to the United States, his immigration intention declaration, and several receipts for restitution he received as a Holocaust survivor.

  3. John R. Rice collection

    Consists of nine photographs taken by John R. Rice, a member of the 40th Engineer Combat Regiment, in the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Includes photographs of mass burials and of soldiers standing near buildings in the camp.

  5. Ernest and Lily Brod photographs

    Consists of four photographs of Lily and Ernest Brod taken in Budapest, Hungary, between 1930 and 1940; and photographs of their April 1940 immigration to the United States.

  6. Dachau death train photographs

    Consists of two photographs, taken after the liberation of Dachau in April 1945, of the Dachau "death train." One photograph shows corpses on the train; the other shows American soldiers viewing these corpses. The photographs were sent to Manuel Band while he was in the armed forces during World War II.

  7. Eli Rozycki collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the post-war experiences and life of Eli Rozycki, originally of Krakow, Poland. Eli, a survivor of the Krakow, Plaszów, Jerozolimska, Pionki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Flossenbürg concentration camps, lived in Passau, Germany until his immigration to the United States in 1949. Includes photographs of life in Passau, his identity cards, his naturalization papers, and photographs of his life in the United States. Also includes one German/English dictionary, designed for auto mechanics, which was distributed after the war to aid communication bet...

  8. Emmy Blau Gold collection

    Consists of a history of the Gold family, consisting of Jenö and Emmy Gold and their two daughters, Leonie and Vera, originally of Hamburg, Germany. In 1937, Jenö and Emmy divorced, and Jenö emigrated to the United States. His daughters also emigrated after the war broke out--Leonie(Lonny) and her husband Georgy emigrated through Belgium, and later Vera through Lisbon. As Emmy was unable to obtain a German reentry visa after a visit to Belgium in 1938, she was forced to go to Hungary, as she was of Hungarian descent. In 1944, Emmy was deported from Nagykanizsa, first to Sarvar, and then ...

  9. Coslow family collection

    Consists of six pre-war photographs of family friends, including Rivka Savitzsky, Gruena Suchowolsky, Itzak Kozlovsky, and Breina Suchowolsky, as well as wartime letters, in Yiddish, sent from Vilnius and from New York City. Also includes a copy of a book containing clippings and articles about Yiddish music, theater, and culture in the Baltimore, MD, area, as well as supplemental material about musician Chanan Levkovitz and material about the Suchowolsky and Koslovsky families, including a family tree.

  11. Federal Interagency Holocaust Memorial programs

    Consists of DVDs of the Federal Interagency Holocaust memorial programs from 1994-2010, marking the Days of Remembrance. The programs commemorate Holocaust experiences in various countries, including Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Poland, and raise awareness of present-day genocides in Rwanda and Darfur. The programs include music and speeches by survivors and rescuers. Also includes advertising posters, printed programs, four round buttons worn for the commemoration events, and photographs of the ceremonies.

  12. Heinz Hesdörffer memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 293 pages, written by Heinrich (Heinz) Hesdörffer, born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany and raised in Fulda, Germany. In the memoir, Mr. Hesdörffer describes his childhood, his evacuation (with other children, including his younger brother Ernst) to the Netherlands in March 1939, Ernst's deportation (despite Heinrich's efforts to protect him), his own deportation in March 1943 to Westerbork, and his subsequent deportation, first to Theresienstadt in February 1944, and then to Auschwitz in May 1944. Mr. Hesdörffer was transferred to the Schwarzheide subcamp, where he was...

  13. Zerubawel Rosenzweig collection

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing scanned copies of photographs and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Zerubawel Rosenzweig, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. Mr. Rosenzweig was deported to Dachau from the Kovno ghetto in 1944. He was liberated near Dachau (he had been sent away from the camp a few days before liberation) on April 29, 1945. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, Mr. Rosenzweig's birth and school certificates, a description, which Mr. Rosenzweig wrote on the back of a condensed milk wrapper on April 3, 1945, of life in Dachau; and post-war...

  14. A compilation of the letters and memorabilia from the war years of Irvin Shapiro, 1943-1946

    Consists of one volume, entitled "A Compilation of the Letters and Memorabilia from the War Years of Irvin Shapiro, 1943-1946," compiled by his son, Fred Michael Shapiro, in 2005; and a bound addendum to the volume. The volumes contain scanned images of letters, artwork, and memorabilia, and transcriptions of the letters. Irvin Shapiro was a member of the United States Army from 1943-1946. In 1945, after being injured on the front, he was assigned to be an artist assisting with USO shows; the collection includes artwork and memorabilia from his time with the USO. He comments in his letters ...

  15. Estate of Shmuel Hupert collection

    Collection consists of photographs and a document pertaining to the donor's father, Shmuel Hupert. Includes one false ID card and eight photographs of Shmuel, Mina [donor and donor's wife] as well as images of Aliza, their daughter, post-war Pabianice, Bialystok, Poland and Bergen-Belsen, Germany.

  16. John Angus Clark letter

    Consists of one letter, five pages, written by John Angus Clark on May 6, 1945, regarding the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Clark, a surgeon by profession, was assigned to a medical unit and described his arrival at the camp and the planning for medical care for survivors.

  17. Jacques Ribons collection

    Consists of 68 post-war photographs from the collection of Jacques Ribons (Jakub Rybsztain), originally of Strzemieszyce, Poland. Jacques, along with his brother Bernard, was sent to Blechhammer concentration camp from the Strzemieszyce ghetto, while their mother and sister were deported to Auschwitz, where they perished. Their father had died earlier after being shot on the streets of the ghetto. The brothers were then sent to Gross-Rosen, and, in January 1945, they were sent on a death march to Buchenwald, where Jacques was liberated at age 17. He and Bernard were sent to France to recupe...

  18. Franck family collection

    Consists of letters, written between 1940 and 1941, by Hermann Franck of Hamburg, Germany, to his children. In the letters, he talks about life in Germany, the move to a Jewish homeshare in Hamburg, immigration issues, and his increasing fear that he would not be reunited with his children, who had been able to emigrate. On July 19, 1942, Hermann Franck and his wife, Martha, were deported to Theresienstadt, where Hermann died on January 10, 1943. Martha perished in Auschwitz.

  19. PM Daily newspaper

    Consists of one copy of the September 30, 1943, issue of the "PM Daily" newspaper, containing, among other wartime news, an article entitled "Report Bears German Camp Horrors In Poland" that describes daily life in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  20. Marion Pritchard collection

    The collection consists of four photograph albums depicting the Föhrenwald and Windsheim displaced persons camps from 1945-1947. The albums depict refugees and staff, including Marion Pritchard and her husband Anton Pritchard, both of whom worked for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in the DP camps after the war. Many of the photographs are annotated on the album pages.