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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution And Peace

  1. World War II pictorial collection

    Photographs and postcards, depicting a variety of scenes and personalities from World War II.Includes two collections formerly cataloged as: Breendock Concentration Camp. Photographs, n.d. l envelope. Depicts the World War II German concentration camp of Breendock (Antwerp, Belgium). Distributed by the Police Judiciaire, Anvers. Preliminary inventory. This set of 56 photographs depicts the locality, buildings, and camp structures. It does not contain photographs of people. Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Photographs, l945 46. Depicts the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the memorial to the ...

  2. Claremont Graduate School. Oral History Program. Transcripts of oral history interviews

    Relates to persecution of Jews in German-occupied Austria and Poland during World War II. Includes miscellaneous printed matter relating to antisemitism. Included are accounts (in Yiddish) by Josef B. Baruch dealing with American aid; account of Dr. Simon Green relating to the experiences of an Austrian Jew, emigration to Finland and conditions in Finnish camps; interview of Dr. Joseph and Marie Rebhun describing the experiences of a Polish Jew and his survival. These interviews are useful for graphic first-hand descriptions, evaluations of conditions, and particularly for knowledge about F...

  3. Russia. Departament politsii. Zagranichnaia agentura (Paris)

    Intelligence reports from agents in the field and the Paris office, dispatches, circulars, headquarters studies, correspondence of revolutionaries, and photographs, relating to activities of Russian revolutionists abroad. Includes XVIII, Revolutionary Groups of National Minorities of the Russian Empire: a) The Jewish Bund, b) The Zionist Movement, c) Jewish émigré problems for Russian security abroad, d) Activities in America: finances for Jewish movements.

  4. German pictorial collection

    Photographs, postcards, and slides, depicting various political, military, and naval scenes in Germany, including communist rallies in the 1920s, the Berlin blockade of 1948-1949, and various prominent German personalities, including East German head of state Walter Ulbricht. Contains photographs of Nazi leaders, including prints of 11 leading Nazis convicted at Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, 1945-1946, taken immediately after their execution, and five color photographs of neo-Nazi graffiti in Berlin. Ca. 1991-1994.

  5. Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych

    Correspondence, bulletins, memoranda, reports, studies, lists, financial records, and photographs, relating to Polish foreign relations during World War II, the Polish government in exile in London, Allied diplomacy during World War II, conditions in Poland during the war, deportation of Poles to the Soviet Union, Polish refugees, the Jewish holocaust in Poland, and Polish military operations. Includes some records of Polish foreign relations during the interwar period.

  6. Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich Collection

    Protocols of meetings, bulletins, statutes, programs, statements, position papers, pamphlets, and printed matter, relating primarily to the Swiss organizations Eidgenossische Gemeinschaft and Gotthard-Bund, Swiss preparations for resistance to a possible German invasion during World War II, and proposals for political and social reform in Switzerland during and after the war. Consists primarily of duplicate issuances of the Eidgenossische Gemeinschaft and the Gotthard-Bund collected by the Archiv fur Zeitgeschichte of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich.

  7. American Relief Administration: Russian Operations

    Records, 1919-1925; Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries, and photographs, relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the Soviet Union. Includes materials on interaction between the American Relief Administration and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

  8. Constantine M. Panunzio Papers

    Writings, letters, clippings, biographies, and booklists, relating to Italian politics, fascism, church and state relations, antisemitism and racism, and Benito Mussolini. Box 2 contains an envelope entitled “Anti-Semitism and Racism” consisting of excerpts in Italian for the period 1933-1938, as well as a set of clippings from Italian newspapers for 1937-1938 on the subject. Box l2 contains a 64 page typescript of an English translation of an article by J. Evola entitled "Three Aspects of the Hebrew Problem," Rome, l936.

  9. Arthur Kemp Papers

    Correspondence, writings, memoranda, notes, typed copies of documents, and printed matter, relating to Herbert Hoover, American foreign policy and domestic policies during and after the presidential administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, World War II, international relief and reconstruction, and communism. Used as research material for writing projects of Herbert Hoover. Includes draft writings by Hoover. Includes materials on Zionism and Palestine. See also Hoover, Herbert

  10. Lösung der Judenfrage in Galizien

    Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei Reichsfuerhrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei. SS-und Polizeifuehrer im Distrikt Galizien. Relates to Nazi persecution of Jews in Polish Galicia during World War II. This report by the SS and the Polizeifuehrer Galizien sent to his superior in Cracow on June l0, l943 deals with the registration of Jews, the formation of forced labor camps, resettlement in ghettos, control of the typhus epidemic, etc. The report is extensively illustrated, but because it is in photostat, the photographs are badly reproduced.

  11. Radical right Collection

    Pamphlets, leaflets, newspaper and serial issues, newsletters, bulletins, circulars, and other printed and near-print material, issued by right-wing organizations and individuals in the United States, relating to anti-communist, patriotic, fundamentalist, racist, antisemitic, neo-Nazi and other right-wing political movements and concerns in the United States, primarily since World War II. Includes material relating to world government, education, mental health, fluoridation and other issues. Includes a few letters and other manuscript materials.

  12. Craig W. H. Luther Papers

    Questionnaire responses and letters by veterans of the German 12th SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend" and by veterans of Canadian, British and Polish military units who fought against the 12th SS-Panzerdivision, and summaries of interviews with these veterans, relating to activities of the 12th SS-Panzerdivision in World War II, and especially during the 1944 Normandy campaign. Used as research material for the book by C. W. H. Luther, Blood and Honor: The History of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth," 1943-1945 (San Jose, 1988).

  13. Latviesu Centrala Komiteja

    Memoranda, reports, correspondence, registration forms, printed matter, and motion picture film, relating to conditions in Latvia under Soviet and German occupation, and to Latvian displaced persons during and after World War II. Includes a reference to the boy who is the subject of The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurem. Refers to the 18th Kurzeme Battalion.

  14. Polish Information Center (New York, N.Y.)

    Clippings (primarily from American sources), correspondence, administrative files, press reviews and summaries, bulletins, printed matter, sound recordings, and photographs, relating to World War II, the German and Soviet occupations of Poland, the persecution of Jews in Poland, and the spread of communism in Eastern Europe. This vast clipping collection contains, spread through the majority of boxes, clippings of Forward and Morning Freiheit (New York), in Yiddish, dealing with the persecution of Jews in Europe for the years 1940-1945.

  15. Irma C. Erman Papers

    Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and art objects, relating to German Jewish emigre affairs, the history of antisemitism, and Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Includes two plays dramatizing the actions of Paul Gruninger, a Swiss police captain, and Mitsugi Shibata, a Japanese official, in saving the lives of Jewish refugees in Austria and China, respectively, during World War II.

  16. E. E. Gophstein Writings

    Diaries, and historical, biographical and bibliographical writings, relating to the history of the Crimea, especially during the period from the Russian Revolution to the 1950s; the history of publishing in the Crimea during this period; notable persons of the Crimea, especially artists; the Jewish community of Simferopol'; and the German occupation of Simferopol' during World War II. Includes some later correspondence relating to the writings of E. E. Gopshtein.

  17. Harold Keith Thompson Collection

    Leaflets, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper and periodical issues, clippings, correspondence, and writings, relating to fascist and other rightist political groups in the United States and Europe after World War II. Includes a few leftist publications. Indexes: Preliminary inventory. Box l0 of the collection contains miscellaneous material dealing with anti-semitism in the United States in the l950s, some issues of the American Nationalist and some material by and about the American Nazi Party and George Lincoln Rockwell.

  18. Alfred M. Lilienthal Papers

    Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, press releases, serial issues, conference papers, interviews, studies, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings, relating to the Middle East, Arab-Israeli relations, and American foreign policy in the region.

  19. George Ephraim Sokolsky Papers

    Writings, radio broadcast transcripts, correspondence, printed matter, phonorecords, and photographs, relating to politics, communism, internal security and anti-communist movements in the United States, and to politics and communism in China and elsewhere. Includes materials relating to the American Jewish League Against Communism.

  20. Friedrich Riebe

    This folder contains the personal papers of Friedrich Riebe, born in 1901, inducted into the SS in September 1944 and became a concentration camp guard in Sachsenhausen in November 1944. According to his records, he was a butcher by trade, who had been working as an auxiliary worker in a chemical factory in May 1944. The documents are interesting for the background of a concentration camp guard. Also of interest is the poor quality of the actual paper by November 1944.