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  1. Balint family papers

    The memoir “Remember it Well: A Father’s Story,” was written by Pal Balint in Jászberény, Hungary from late 1943 until January 1944. The memoir is a retelling of his daughter’s life, and his imagining what her life in New York was like, based on the letters he received from her, and he expressed his own longing for the family to be reunited. In the memoir, he refers to the difficult circumstances in Hungary of that period, and how his only communication with Susan was through infrequent letters via the Red Cross. Two of those letters, from June 1942 and October 1943—the latter announcing Su...

  2. Bratman and Herszlikowicz family collection

    Consists of post-war identity documents, and pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Bratman and Herszlikowicz families. Includes family portraits, a photograph of the Hasag camp, and documents from displaced persons camps in Lamptheim and Fulda.

  3. Weinberg family collection

    Consists of seven photographs, including a 1936 photograph of a group of young women in Poland; a photograph of Yitzhak Weinberg's post-war bar mitzvah in Palestine; portraits of Hirsch and Rivke Weinberg; and portraits of Ester Malka and Yitzhak Stiel. Also includes Yitzhak (Izak) Stiel's 1947 Polish passport.

  4. Salpeter family collection

    The Salpeter family collection consists of biographical and genealogical information regarding the Salpeter family of Düsseldorf, Germany. The collection includes correspondence, dated 1937-1942, sent between the Salpeter family in Germany and Poland, and Klara Salpeter, who had immigrated to the United States in 1938. Photographs of the Salpeter family include candid and studio portraits of Oskar Salpeter, Brunhilde Salpeter, Klara Salpeter, Rieka Salpeter, Dorothea Salpeter, and Charlotte Salpeter. All members of the Salpeter family, except Klara Salpeter, perished in the Holocaust.

  5. Heilpern Family Collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, passports and identity papers illustrating the experiences of Hans and Sidonie Heilpern and their three children Gertrude, Felix and Wilhelmine all of whom fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. Included is correspondence from Hans to Sidonie from concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in Germany, where Hans was interned from June 1938 to April 1939. Passport issued to Sidonie states family arrived August 1939, except Felix, who arrived separately. Also included are various documents issued to family in the United States, and pre- and postwar photographs of the...

  6. Dodge family papers

    Book and folder: records of the hospital laboratory in the Dachau concentration camp. Recorded in book and on separate pages contained within the folder are last names of victims interned in Dachau and records of their blood and urine work. The book, which dates November 30, 1942 - April 7, 1943 is labeled on cover "Häftl.-Revier Laboratorium" [prisoner laboratory area]. The folder bears pink label imprinted "SS Hauptsanitätslager Aeusserlich" and stamped "Häftl. -Revier Laboratorium" and contains loose pages, dated August 21, 1942 - December 4, 1942 recording the same information. Occasion...

  7. Richard M. Cromack collection

    Consists of enlarged photographs of Hitler, Eva Braun, other Nazi leaders, personal friends, and relatives. The photographs, many of which were taken at the Berghof, are marked that they were part of the Chare collection, a group of photographs collected and annotated by the publication PM after the war. Also includes clippings of William Shirer's newspaper series, 'The Berlin Diary."

  8. Bernard John Sobczak collection

    Work ID card: "Werk-Ausweis Nr. 58 662" in metal frame, issued to Bernhard Sobczak, born on August 3, 1924; issued by Gerhard Feissler Werke; Kassel; November 4, 1944; Camp Lohfeldden.

  9. Charles W. Alexander photograph collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs documenting the Nuremberg trials taken by Charles W. Alexander. The photographs depict the participants in the Nuremberg trials both in the courtroom and behind the scenes, smaller war crimes trials, and scenes of Germany. The collection also includes two books of similar photographs and captions of the personal experiences of Charles and his wife Anne Alexander in Germany in 1945-1946.

  10. 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...

  11. 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.

  12. Charlie Dunnam photograph collection

    Collection of nine black and white photographs which document victims found in the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation and their burial, American GIs and captured German soldiers in Austria, and a candid image of Charlie Dunnam (donor's father) at Fort Benning, GA; inscriptions and captions on recto and verso

  13. Dr. Gilbert R. DiLoreto collection

    Zamecnik report: Three page testimony written by Stanislav Zamecnik and translated into English, probably in April-May 1945 on site of the liberated Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Zamecnik described the practices of the infirmary in the camp which included "medical" experiments and other tortures. Signal Corps photographs: annotated by Gilbert R. DiLoreto, who served as surgical technician in the Medical Corps of the 116th Evacuation Hospital. He was part of the first medical team to enter the Dachau concentration camp after liberation on April 29, 1945. He was discharged from the Army in 1...

  14. Benesch and Reininger families collection

    Documents and copy documents relating to Elisabeth Benesch (donor's mother), her parents Robert and Helena Benesch, and her grandparents Adolf and Emilie Gesmai. Includes a photograph depicting Helena and Robert Benesch in New York in front of their store in 1943, and three German passports, each stamped with red "J" marking bearers as Jews, issued to members of the Benesch family, dated February 18, 1938. Also includes a United States immigration Declaration of Intention of Oscar Reininger (donor's father).

  15. Questionnaires, related to Ktav-Heter and Agunot, post-Holocaust Hungary

    Nine questionnaires recording testimonies of men and women whose spouses were killed during the Holocaust, and who were seeking to record documentation of such, in order to obtain a writ of permission (Ktav Heter) to remarry. Stamped and signed by rabbis in various locations in Hungary, approximately 1946-1952.

  16. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  17. Daniel Jacobson papers

    Letter, with envelope written by Sgt. Daniel Jacobson, of Baltimore, Maryland, while serving with the US Army's 179th Infantry, 45th Division in Munich, Germany, to his wife Julia Jacobson, 6 May 1945. The letter written on Hitler's personal stationery, describes the irony of being Jewish and using Hitler's stationery, and how he acquired it during a visit with other American soldiers to the ruins of Hitler's home in Berchtesgaden. He also describes a porcelain figurine that he took as a souvenir, and other impressions of Munich, where he was stationed at the time. Also included are three p...

  18. Before the Bath Porcelain figurine of a seated female acquired from Adolf Hitler’s Munich apartment

    Painted porcelain figurine of a woman in a swimsuit, taken in 1945 from Adolf Hitler’s Prince Regent Square apartment in Munich, Germany, by Daniel Jacobson, a Jewish-American soldier. On April 30, 1945, Daniel arrived in Munich with the 179th infantry, 45th division. The apartment was untouched by the war and was visited by several American servicemen from Daniel’s division. Daniel visited the apartment on May 6, and left with the figurine and Hitler’s personal stationery. The figurine was designed in 1913 by Rudolf Marcuse, a German-Jewish artist. He was persecuted by the Nazi authorities...

  19. "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald"

    Contains a five page typescript text titled "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald" by Rabbi Dr. G. Wilde. The text recounts Wilde's arrest at his home in Magdeburg on the morning of 10 November 1938, his transfer to a cell in the local jail, and his transport to Buchenwald the following day. He describes conditions in the camp, the torture of other prisoners, the conditions surrounding his release, and attempts to prevent the shaving of his beard upon release. He concludes his account by describing how he and his wife were able to immigrate to England due to the efforst of the c...

  20. Selected records from the National Archives of Estonia in Tartu, Estonia related to the history of the Jewish communities of Estonia

    Schools records, correspondence, various regulations and reports related to the activities of the Jews in Estonia from 1890s-1941. The bulk of the collection consists of personal records of Jewish students who attended Jewish elementary schools in Tartu (Dept), regulations and instructions of the Ministry of Education, the Jewish Cultural Board and other organizations on the school and extracurricular activities, educational tentative plans, and personal files of the Jewish university students, and appointments of lecturers of the Tartu University in Estonia during the interwar period.