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  1. Rob Knight research collection regarding Jehovah's Witnesses

    Consists of four books of articles, clippings, and information compiled by Rob Knight entitled, "The History of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the History of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust." The books include articles about Jehovah's Witness Holocaust survivors, the stories of Jewish survivors and Nazi soldiers who converted to become Witnesses after the war, and information regarding the Museum's holdings on the topic of Jehovah's Witnesses. Also includes one original Jehovah's Witness tract, published in 1941, entitled "End of the Axis Powers: Comfort All tha...

  2. Schenkelbach and Feldbau family collection

    Contains documents, passports, correspondence, and photographs related to the wartime experiences of the families of Otto Schenkelbach and of Margaret (Gretl) Feldbau, both originally of Vienna. Includes Otto's correspondence from his imprisonment in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1938-1939, Gretl's correspondence regarding her 1938 immigration to the United States and her attempts to support the immigration efforts of both her parents and of Otto, and correspondence between Otto and Gretl. The couple married in New York in 1940. Also includes Otto's pre-war, wartime, and ...

  3. Konrad Bieber collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, clippings, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences of Konrad Bieber. Includes information about his parents, Hugo and Lucy Bieber, who escaped France with emergency visas in 1940, and information regarding Konrad Bieber's wartime experiences. He was imprisoned in Montreuil-Bellay, France in 1940, escaped on Yom Kippur and worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Montauban, France from 1940-1942. In 1942, he went into hiding and remained in hiding, working for the French Resistance, until liberation in 1944. After the war,...

  4. Selected records of Lucien Lublin related to resistance (CMXXI)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by Lucien Lublin concerning French resistance in general and Jewish French resistance in particular. Also contains documents related to the attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church in France in connection with Jewish persecutions.

  5. Selected records from collections of the Bacău branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains selected records, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Includes records from the Jewish communities of the following localities: Bacău (from 1935 to 1950), and Moineşti, and Tg. Ocna (from prewar to 1945). Records include memos, inventories of assets, budgets, donations, local Jewish newspapers, publications, school correspondence, a census of Jewish children, health correspondence, the Jewish theater, aid to the poor, aid to the sick, aid to students, aid for pesach, a history of the Jewish community written in 1942, the situation of...

  6. Reuven Taibel memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Reuven Taibel, originally of Vilkemeer, Lithuania. During the German invasion on June 22, 1941, Reuven and his father were separated from his mother and siblings while attempting to flee east. His mother and siblings were taken to the Paryuena forest, shot, and buried in a mass grave. Reuven and his father escaped to Kusnotchik, where his father joined the Lithuanian army and Reuven lived in a children's home. His father remarried in 1944, and after the war ended, Reuven's new stepmother found Reuven in a children's hom...

  7. Richard Mandelik collection

    Consists of letters to and from Richard (Rico) Mandelik, while he was imprisoned in the German auxiliary jail in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 1939-1940 and letters, on concentration camp stationery, from Sachsenhausen and Oranienburg from 1941-1942. Mr. Mandelik most likely perished in Oranienburg. The collection also includes several clandestine letters written by Mr. Mandelik in 1939 by pushing a pin through the paper to form letters, as well as pre-war photoprints of the Mandelik family, originally of Hroubovice, Czechoslovakia.

  8. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp

    Silver-colored finger ring made from a spoon by Leib Krycberg in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where he was an inmate from 1942-45. It is engraved with the initials and prisoner numbers, of Leib and Miriam Litman, another prisoner with whom he had fallen in love. He made a duplicate ring for Miriam. In January 1945, both Leib and Miriam were deported from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. After Mauthausen was liberated on May 5, 1945, Leib lived for three years in Arnstdorf displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. During that time, he traveled to Italy to visit...

  9. Paul Reisman collection

    Collection constists of 5 photographs, 2 postcards, 1 memoir and 1 transcript documenting the experiences of Livia (Lilly) and Nicholas (Miki) Reisman [donor's parents] and their experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The memoir was in two parts and the second part "After the War" arrived incomplete. The third part of the transcript "Family Histories" is listed on the custody receipt. A copy of the postcards and translations of the postcards listed on the custody receipt are in the donor file.

  10. Illegal immigration to Palestine (RG 17)

    Contains deportation orders of illegal immigrants, 1938-1946. Records include memoranda of personal data (political), confidential questionnaires of the Palestine Police Force with portrait photographs that provide biographical data on illegal immigrants to Palestine from Nazi occupied Europe. Questionnaires also include biographical data and photographs of Jews from Vienna and Bratislava who were subsequently deported to a holding camp on Mauritius.

  11. Court records of the Reichsjustizministerium (R 3001)

    This collection contains files on thousands of investigations and court cases from 1933 to 1945. Among the charges were Rassenschande (“race shame”), treason, arson on synagogues, and attacks on German Jews. The accused included communists, social democrats, and members of the clergy. Defendants included both Jews and Gentiles.

  12. Selected records from Fonds Diamant (CMXXV-CMXXVI)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by David Erlich (a.k.a. David Diamant), a French-Jewish Resistance fighter, concerning his own activities in the Resistance and his life before and after the War. Also contains news articles and essays, assembled by Erlich, concerning his writings about the French-Jewish Resistance.

  13. Henryk and Dorota Francuz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of both of the donors in the Łódź ghetto, their imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and later in other camps. Also includes one manuscript in which Henryk described his experiences in the ghetto, camps and his survival from the "Cap Arcona" catastrophe.

  14. Simon Goldman photographs

    The Simon Goldman photographs include 17 photographs of Simon Goldmand and his friends at the Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp in Austria. The collection also inclues a floppy disc.

  15. Beth and Lou Jacoby photograph collection

    Collection consists of four photographs depicting life in the ghetto during the Holocaust. The image of the boy and man fighting over a piece of bread was taken in the Warsaw ghetto. It is believed that the other three images (two of children standing in the street and another of someone laying on the sidewalk) were also taken in the Warsaw ghetto. Lou Jacoby's father's friend Janek Celnick survived the war as a photographer and gave these to the donor's father while they were living in the Neu Freimann DP camp.

  16. Zehava Epstein collection

    Collection photographs and identification cards documenting the experience of Zehava and Jehoshua Epstein [donor and husband] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The collection includes identification cards issued to them in Poppendorf Displaced Persons camp stating that they were on board the Exodus 1947 and forced to return to Germany from Haifa. Identification photos of each, post-war photographs with friends and family dated 1946-1947 and a photo of Zehava Epstein taken in Łódź, Poland, dated 1941. The couple met while on board the Exodus.

  17. Estate of Colonel Sidney S. Rubenstein collection

    Collection consists of ten U. S. Army Signal Corps photographs following liberation; some captioned on verso; dated 1945; in English. The photographs were acquired by Col. Sidney S. Rubenstein, USAF, who served as Deputy Director of the War Crimes Office, circa 1944-1946.

  18. Ehrenreich family papers

    Consists of family photographs, correspondence, official documentation, programs, and articles related to Dr. Nathan and Mrs. Frieda Rosenstein Ehrenreich and their son, Helmut (Henry) Ehrenreich, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Nathan was a composer and the musical director of a prestigious Jewish choir in Frankfurt and one of the founders of the Jewish Kulturbund before the family's 1939 emigration to the United States. After arriving in the United States, Dr. Ehrenreich continued his career in music in Buffalo, NY. The collection includes documents related to the education of e...

  19. Samuel Sack letter

    The Samuel Sack letter consists of one typewritten letter, sent from Samuel Sack, a member of the XV Corps of the American Army, Sydney Dutton (later Sydney Bortner). The letter was written by Sack in Salzburg, Austria on May 26, 1945 and describes his wartime experiences in the spring of 1945. The letter describes battles in which his battalion participated and Sack’s experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp as part of the Seventh Army. The letter was written on the stationery of the regional leader of the Nazi Party of Salzburg (der Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter in Sa...

  20. Displaced Persons Center Vöcklabruck

    Contains records pertaining to the Displaced Persons Center Vöcklabruck. Records include names lists, military reports, statistics, and other administrative records.