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Displaying items 16,781 to 16,800 of 55,813
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  1. "Symbol of survival: concentration camp money of the Nazi Holocaust"

    Discusses money used in various concentration camps.

  2. Selected records relating to safehaven, restitution and other related subjects

    Contains mostly information relating to Safehaven and restitution.

  3. Kate L. Lesser collection

    One letter is from donor's brother, Hermann Lesser, who is in Palestine through the efforts of Youth Aliyah. Donor went to England on a Kindertransport. Second letter is from donor's mother, Elsa Lesser, who escaped to Cuba. Last letter was written by donor to her mother one year after leaving Berlin.

  4. The Pioneer Woman

    Magazine, "The Pioneer Woman", No. 97, April 1944. Articles in English and Yiddish about women in resistance movements, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish refugees, etc.

  5. The Ludwig Jacob papers

    Contains photocopies of transport notice and name list, labor camp call-up notice, name list from a publication, and Mauthausen death certificate, all relating to the fate of Ludwig Jacob [donor] and his family during the Holocaust.

  6. Paula Epstein collection

    Letter contains information regarding Dr. Cohn receiving a teaching position at the university of Breslau in 1932. It states that the political situation is not "agreeable."

  7. Doris Izes collection

    Documents regarding donor's attempt to obtain immigration papers for a family member.

  8. Mauthausen photographs

    Three original black-and-white photographs inscribed with "Mauthausen 8 May 1945" on the back of each photograph, as well as seven duplicates. The photographs depict piles of corpses found within the Mauthausen concentration camp, and a photograph of a man, possibly a survivor, sitting on the ground with a cart and building in the background. The photographer is unidentified.

  9. Harry Bender collection

    Six letters sent to the donor after World War II. They are from a group of people the donor came into contact with in France after their escape. The donor helped them reach Paris.

  10. Memoirs

    Translation from English into Hebrew of biographies of donor's brother and sister. Collected at a family reunion and translated for grandchildren.

  11. "Events in the ghetto: a memoir"

    This handwritten and transcribed oral testimony completed in 1947 at the Warsaw Archive contains information on the Zalkind Family; Germany's invasion of Vilna in 1941; killing of the grandmother, father and uncle of Aron Einat [donor]; life in Vilna Ghetto and concentration camp with donor's mother and brother; liquidation of the camp; hiding during a children's action; being sent to Łódź where donor survived the Holocaust, etc.

  12. Martin H. Gordon papers

    Correspondence relating to the plight of Jews.

  13. Charles J. Fiore collection

    A memoir in Italian and English with copies of publications, etc., which relate to the Holocaust-related experiences of Father Sam Bartoli while he was a prisoner in the Fossoli and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  14. How I survived in German occupied Hungary: a memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, 15 pages, "How I survived in German occupied Hungary, March 1944 - January 1945," by Maya Ben-Ari, dated 1996.

  15. In the shadow of death: Austrian Jews and the Nazi threat

    Author examines Jewish responses to antisemitism in Austria in the aftermath of World War II.

  16. Irmin Sternlieb collection

    Work card issued to Francisca Sternlieb by Romanian Government, dated 1942-1943; with stamps and photograph. Identification card issued to Francisca Sternlieb by Romanian Government; with stamps and photograph. Envelope from Geneva, Switzerland, addressed to "Herrn Isaac Rozentuler, Edinita, Jud, Hotin, Bessarabien," postmarked 2 April 1942.

  17. Henry E. Lehrich collection

    Letter written by Smyka (no last name) addressed to a unknown person. Discusses how before the war he had a great restaurant in Warsaw and was a rich man. Now after the war is too poor even to purchase basic items.

  18. Boris Mazelis collection

    A 22-page handwritten memoir in Russian regarding donor's life (there is also a 2-page English summary). Four photocopied pages of documents in Russian attesting to donor and donor's family in ghettos, Litin (now in Ukraine) and Zhmerinka (Zhmerynka, Ukraine).

  19. Hertha Spier collection

    The Hertha Spier collection consists of a short booklet, in English, entitled "Hertha Speir, KZ A-21646; Płaszów-Auschwitz e Bergen-Belsen" which contains a letter written by Hertha Spier in which she describes her Holocaust experiences. Originally from Bielsko, Poland, she describes the German invasion of Poland and being sent to the Kraków ghetto in 1940. She details her experiences in the Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to make toys and gifts to be sent to Germany. Hertha describes her and her sister Gisela Pemper’s (née Gruber) deportation to the Auschwitz concentration ...

  20. Kathy Kirk collection

    Correspondence, statements, and reports relating to donor's father, Rev. Robert O. Beck, experiences at Dachau after liberation.