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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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."

  7. 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.

  8. Oral history interview with Joseph Zaltzman

  9. Oral history interview with Elsbeth Kasser

  10. Oral history interview with Lester Edelstein

  11. Oral history interview with Miriam Grossman

  12. Oral history interview with Peter Thomas

  13. Oral history interview with Sara Boden

  14. 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).

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. Ebensee liberation photographs

    Consists of 42 photographs taken by Joseph H. Strubel, a member of the United States Army, upon the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp.

  20. Eugene Cohen photograph collection

    Eugune Cohen photograph collection consists of 45 photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp, Ebensee concentration camp, and Gusen concentration camp in Austria at the time of liberation. The photographs include images of concentration camp victims and corpses, male and female concentration camp survivors, the buildings and crematoria of the camps, members of the Nazi party, as well as Eugene Cohen and other unidentified soldiers. Handwritten and typed captions in English are on the verso.