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  1. Harmon James collection

    Consists of printed photographic postcards with handwritten descriptions, a printed article, and a map of Obersalzberg, all collected by either Clifton or Clinton James and mailed to a brother, Harmon James, in the United States. The printed postcards depict images of the Dachau concentration camp after liberation and have been annotated by the sender (who sent them to his brother to avoid upsetting his wife with the images); the article, in German, is "Das Krematorium in Dachau," by Willy Furlan-Horst; the map of Obersalzberg identifies the homes of Hitler, Bormann, and Goering, and was ev...

  2. Simonne Youkobovitch Wodka collection

    Contains an invitation for the 1946 wedding of Simonne Youkobovitch (donor) and Pierre Wodka.

  3. Nurses treat the wounded at a hospital

    Military man walks toward the camera along a road, smoking. The 51st Field Hospital is relocated to a hospital complex, likely in Belgium or Germany. The 51st Field Hospital was stationed in Germany after February 1945. Pan of hospital complex buildings and gardens. 01:22:11 Beatrice, wearing a traditional nurse's uniform, poses with three patients in robes outside the hospital.

  4. Rollin Kirby political cartoon comparing US isolationism to the Spanish Inquisition

    Editorial cartoon, Torquemada, created by Rollin Kirby and probably published in the New York Post. The drawing portrays the isolationist US Senator Gerald Nye as a modern day Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor who cleansed Spain of Jews in the 15th century. In Kirby's portrayal, Nye, in judicial robes, is accusing a movie producer of hating Hitler. Nye chaired a committee in the 1930s that sought to tie US entry into World War I (1914-1918) to the influence of war profiteers. He was strongly opposed to US involvement in any foreign wars and was a drafter of the 1936 Neutrality Act forbidding...

  5. Kolczyki and Goldberg families photograph collection

    Collection of 14 photographs depicting Mae and Jacob Goldberg (donor's maternal grandparents) who visited their relatives Chana and Marcus Kolczycki and their children Natan and Miriam Kolczycki, daughter Zofia Kolczycka (later Flajszman) and Estera Kolczycka-Plotkin and her family in Łódź, Poland. The visit took place in June 1939 as part of a business trip of Jacob Goldberg from the United States. Dr. Zofia Kolczycka Flajszman and her paternal uncle were the only survivors from the Kolczycki family in Łódź.

  6. Gilberte Guez Khayat certificate

    Certificate of Primary School Studies issued to Simcha Gilberte Guez (donor) in Tunis, Tunisia.

  7. Morgenthau family vacations in Mexico, the Alps, and Israel and at leisure at their farm in New York

    Various exterior shots in color: boat on an ocean, apple orchard on the Morgenthau farm at springtime, the pump house, trees and rivers in a forest and the flowers in front of one of the Morgenthau homes. Elinor in a car. 00:48:39 Bullfight in Mexico, around 1946. Scenes in Mexico, where Henry Jr. brought Henry III on vacation following his release from the Army. Henry Jr. and Henry III ride horses. 00:49:44 In 1938, the family vacations at a seaside resort in Cap D'Antibes on the French Riviera, then in the Alps in southern France. Villa with paintings in Switzerland. 00:51:35 Henry Jr. so...

  8. Selected records of the Ministry of Culture and Art. Department of Museums and Memorials Commemorating Polish Martyrdom Ministerstwo Kultury i Sztuki. Wydział Muzeów i Pomników Martyrologii Polskiej (Sygn. GK 185)

    Documentation and indexes of places of execution in the Polish provinces and in the city of Warsaw ("Kroniki bestialstw niemieckich: The Chronicles of German atrocities"), lists of camps on Polish territory, questionnaires of people arrested and testimonies of witnesses of war crimes.

  9. Günther and Kohlmann families correspondence

    Correspondence, family tree, articles and copies of photographs, related to the family of Camilla Günther-Kohlmann, originally of Brodenbach a.d. Mosel, Germany, and her husband, Walter Kohlmann, of Kirchheim a.d. Eck, both of whom left Germany to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s, and who subsequently met and married in New York. Includes correspondence from her parents, in Brodenbach, 1937-1941; correspondence from friends and other family members from her hometown during the same time period, and some correspondence from the family of her husband, Walter Kohlmann, dated 1940-1942...

  10. Amalia Klinger collection

    Postcards written by Amalia Holloschütz in Rzeszow, in German occupied Poland, to her daughter Leonora Lusia in two forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The last postcard was written on May 27, 1941 and reached Moscow on June 11, 1941 just 11 days before the German invasion of the USSR. Amalia and her two small sons Josek and Henek were deported to Belzec death camp in July 1942. Note: with Hebrew inscription for the gravestone of Abraham Itzhak Holloschütz who died and is buried in Vienna. ID card for Herbert Marian Kolisher (Leonora's second husband), a former prisoner of the Buchenwal...

  11. Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and a photograph album documenting the experiences of United States Army Chaplain Rabbi Eli Bohnen in Austria and Germany from 1943-1946. The photograph album was presented to Bohnen, who worked with Jewish Holocaust survivors in the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp, Austria, by the residents upon the closing of the DP camp in 1946. The album depicts the residents, school, organizations, drama society, workshops, protests, and Rabbi Bohnen. The photographs contain wartime and post-war images of Bohnen, along with fellow soldiers and friends primarily in...

  12. Ann Goldman papers

    The Ann Goldman papers document her work with the Vaad Hatzala in the 1940s. The documents contain a dinner program, vaccination certificate, travel documents, refugee data sheets, passenger list for the R.M.S. Queen Mary, and two undated letters. The photographs include photos of Ann’s brother Moti Leibman and his wife; Ann with Vaad Hatzala staff in Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; dinners for Henry Morgenthau and Binyamin Mintz; Vaad Hatzala staff with ambulances to be delivered to Palestine; and Ann Goldman with an unidentified person.

  13. Collection of documents of SS and German Police Zbiór zespołów szczątkowych jednostek SS i Policji (Sygn. GK 91)

    This collection contains a variety of documents of the German police and SS offices from the western territories of Poland, incorporated into the Third Reich following 1939, including: BdO and Kriminalpolizeileitstelle Danzig (Gdańsk), Der Polizeidirektor in Thorn (Toruń), KdS und des SD in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Der Höhere SS-und-Polizeiführer Posen (Poznań), SS-Oberabschnitt Warthe (Warta), Polizei-Revier Posen (Poznań), Gendarmerieposten from Lobau/Luboń near Poznań, Gendarmerie Posten Wollstein, Krmiminalpolizeileitstelle Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and others. There are also lists of gendarmes...

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-002 : Controller and Public Information (S-0554)

    Routine administrative files and preliminary drafts of releases and other publicity materials, accounting files, reports and correspondence of international organizations; reports from particular missions and displaced persons camps, UNRRA administrative organization charts and statistics. Much of records were destroyed by UNRRA or later by the Archives Section.

  15. Broadside soliciting donations to aid Jews in postwar Germany

    Poster calling for donations of food, medications and other articles for Jews in Germany. It includes a list of Judaica and "as much Kosher food as possible" an urgent need at the Belsen camp. It was issued by the Manchester & Salford Jewish Relief Committee under the auspices of the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Counci.

  16. Oral history interview with Abraham Veder

  17. Mark Liwszyc, 1915-2003, Selected Memoirs

    Consists of one typed memoir, 72 pages, entitled "Mark Liwszyc, 1915-2003, Selected Memoirs," written by Mark Liwszyc, originally of Ostrog, Poland (currently, Ostorh, Ukraine), and compiled by his daughter, Edith. The memoir is written in three sections. Section one includes the history of the Jewish community of Ostrog and Mr. Liwszyc's memories of his own childhood. Section two covers the period of 1939-1941, including the Soviet occupation of Ostrog, traveling to Lwow to continue his education, working as a teacher in the Soviet schools, the German invasion in 1941, and being forced to ...

  18. Selected records from the State Archives of the Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection includes various lists of evacuees arriving to Pavlodar from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Pavlodar Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Pavlodar Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials related to the...

  19. Paul and Judith Schneiderman collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Paul and Judith Schneiderman (donor's parents) in the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp immediately following the Holocaust. Both survived multiple concentration camps, and they met and married while in Landsberg.

  20. Imre Gross memoir

    Memoir, typescript, 129 page, written by Imre Gross (Emery Robert), describing his childhood and youth in Hungary, his conscription into a forced labor battalion between 1942-1944, his imprisonment by the Arrow Cross and subsequent escape and hiding in Budapest, liberation, and return to his hometown in 1945. Also described are his experiences in the immediate postwar years, including reunion with his father and sister, university studies, and emigration from Hungary in 1946, life as a displaced person in Germany for three years, and immigration to the United States in 1949.