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  1. Day 25 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 25 - Wednesday, January 2, 1946. Col. Storey on the Gestapo and its activities. Defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner interjects. Col. Storey continues about the Gestapo. Lt. Harris covers the case on the SD.

  2. Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes records relating to Roma in Austria

    Consists of copies of various letters and government-generated documents relating to the fate of Roma in Austria during and after the Holocaust. The documents focus on topics such as deportations, establishment of concentration camps for Roma, forced labor of Roma, and transports of Roma to Mauthausen and Auschwitz.

  3. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin Oberfinanzdirektion case files of Roma in Berlin

    Includes approximately 250 case files created by the Oberfinanzdirektion of Berlin concerning the evacuation of Roma in Berlin and the confiscation of their personal property. After comparing the individual case files to the name list, the accessioning archivist discovered that 20 files are missing from the collection. The missing files are: Buchler, Josef; Frolian, Peter; Haustein, Adolf; Haustein, Else; Haustein, Paul; Haustein, Rudolf; Keck, Max; Maatz, Oswald; Meinhardt, Adam; Petermann, Heini; Peterman, Hildegard; Peterman, Josef; Pohl, Hermann; Rebstock, Rosa; Rose, Karoline; Schmidt,...

  4. Day 25 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 25 - Wednesday, January 2, 1946. Col. Storey on the Gestapo and its activities. Defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner interjects. Col. Storey continues about the Gestapo. Lt. Harris covers the case on the SD.

  5. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah with inscribed names and dates brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search t...

  6. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Jewish prayer book brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's...

  7. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah pamphlet acquired by Arthur Cohn in the US. It has the Enlish dates for Jewish holdiays for five years, from 1941-1942 through 1945-1946. Arthur escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he return...

  8. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Jewish prayer book brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's...

  9. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah brought by Artur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's uncle, Dr. Le...

  10. Joel Beer photograph collection

    1. Joel Beer collection

    The collection consists of 32 photographs relating to Joe Beyersdorf (Joel Beer) and his experiences in hiding with his brother, Daniel, his parents, and his grandmother in France during World War II, including his activities with a Yeshurun youth group in Lyon, France.

  11. Day 43 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 43 - Friday, January 25, 1946. French Prosecutor Dubost on Gestapo treatment. Witness Marie Vaillant-Couturier on conditions in concentration camps. Part 1

  12. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Hagadah brought by Artur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's uncle, Dr. Le...

  13. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Jewish prayer book brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's...

  14. Childhood memoirs of World War II

    The memoirs describe how Eva Edmands emigrated with her parents from Austria to France after the Anschluss and how they lived in hiding until France's liberation.

  15. Day 207 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 207 - Tuesday, August 20, 1946. Counsel for the Gestapo. Courtroom discussion. Defendant Hermann Goering. German counsel for the SA.

  16. Day 211 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 211 - Monday, August 26, 1946. Dr. Merkel for the Gestapo. US counsel, Mr. Dodd, speaks. German defense for the SD and the SA.

  17. Day 206 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 206 - Monday, August 19, 1946. Mr. Dodd speaks. The German counsel for the Gestapo addresses the court. Courtroom discussion.

  18. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Jewish prayer book brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's...

  19. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Jewish prayer book with inscriptions brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the...

  20. Book

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Die Heilige Schrift, The Holy Scriptures, a book brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did no...