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  1. Formal Jap Surrender

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information: "Japs Sign Surrender Papers." On the broad decks of the USS "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay, the official Japanese delegation signs the formal surrender documents. Military representatives of each of the victorious Allied powers, then affix their signatures, and hostilities are ended. Gen. MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allies, speaks to the gathering, and to the world, stating that hostilities have ceased, and that with God's help, war will be ended forever.

  2. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  6. Landrat des Kreises Briesen records

    Contains information about forced labor of Poles and Soviets; police actions to control forced labor; management of prisons and prisoners; anti-Jewish ordinances; handling of prisoners of war; and young people designated for work in the RAD - Reichsarbeitsdienst.

  7. Deutsche Strafanstalt Reichshof (Rzeszów) records (Sygn.110)

    Contains orders, correspondence, reports, lists, and various other records relating to the general administration of the Deutsche Strafanstalt Reichshof (German prison in Rzeszow, Poland) and other prisons in the area including ones in Tarnów, Nowy Wisnicz, Kraków, and Jaslo (Jazlowiec). Also includes information about treatment of prisoners; food rationing for prisoners and prison employees; employment of Jews; Jews held in the Rzeszów prison; religious services (Catholic Mass) held for prisoners in prisons; use of prisoners for labor; health care for prisoners; escapes; and Polish pris...

  8. Selected records from the Romanian National Archives

    Contains reports, lists, memoranda, and other documents relating to the surveillance of Jewish communities in the Romanian provinces, Also contains records of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers dealing with the "Jewish problem."

  9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  10. Oral history interview with Joseph Zaltzman

  11. Oral history interview with Elsbeth Kasser

  12. Oral history interview with Lester Edelstein

  13. Oral history interview with Miriam Grossman

  14. Oral history interview with Peter Thomas

  15. Oral history interview with Sara Boden

  16. Sam Waagenaar articles

    Contains three articles written by Sam Waagenaar about his experiences in the army at the end of World War II. One article is about the liberation of Paris, written from London in Sep. 1944 (eight pages). The other article, of which there are two copies, is about his experiences with what he believed to be a human soap factory (four pages).

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  18. Edith Rottenstein Gross photographs

    Consists of 12 pre-war and wartime family and school photographs of the family of Edith Rottenstein, originally of Czechoslovakia. Those pictured include her siblings Vulvi, David, and Dwajri, her mother, and various members of the extended family.

  19. J. Zendman envelope

    The envelope is addressed to Mr. J. Zendman in N.Y. and stamped four times with the German National seal. It was sent from Geneva, Switzerland, to N.Y.

  20. Lili Levy photograph collection

    The Lili Levy photograph collection consists of two photographs of Lili Levy, after liberation in the DP camp in Ludwigsdorf, Germany, 1945.