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  1. Displaced Persons Center Vöcklabruck

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

  2. Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

    Contains documents and photographs relating to pseudoscientific racial studies performed by Josef Wastl and team of anthropologists at the Natural History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and POWs in various Stalags. Contains also more than four-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939, and over a one thousand color slides taken of POWs as part of examinations that took ...

  3. Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate

    Belt worn by Josef Blonder throughout his imprisonment at several concentration camps. Eighteen year old Blonder was deported, with his parents and 2 siblings, from Oradea (Nagyvarad), Romania, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. His father, Avraham, his mother, Yokheved, 21 year old brother, Barukh, and 14 year old sister, Lea, were murdered in Auschwitz. Blonder was transferred to, but survived, imprisonment in Mauthausen and its sub-camp, Gusen II.

  4. Paul Adler collection

    Collection consists of newspaper clippings, documents and photocopies of ID cards. Includes copies of work identification cards issued to Bajla and Boruch Grzywach [no relation to donor] in the Łódź ghetto and correspondence and clippings documenting a trial of former SS officers in 1965-1966 who were in Tarnopol, Poland. Pawel Peisach Adler [donor] was called as a witness for this trial; in German, English and Yiddish.

  5. Pocket watch with chain traded for food by a concentration camp inmate and recovered postwar

    Gold pocket watch with chain and engraved floral design traded by Ana Waldner for more food in the munitions factory where she was a forced laborer from 1942-1945. It had belonged to her husband, Chaim, and Ana hid it in the lining of her coat before he was deported from Krakow, Poland. After the war, Hannah tracked down the factory manager to ask for the return of the watch. She believes that he returned it due to fear of being found out and tried as a collaborator by the Russians. Ana and her family were imprisoned in the Krakow ghetto following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, then...

  6. The Carolyn Howe Holladay and Jane H. Howe collection

    Collection consists of 11 liberation photographs taken in the Ebensee concentration camp. The collection was acquired by Edward G. Howe, MD (donors' father) while serving with the U.S. Army in Europe during WWII.

  7. Frida Rozen photograph collection

    Collection consists of six black and white photographs depicting the Rozenblum family (donor's husband's family) from Łódź, Poland. Chaim and Regina Rozenblum, their two daughters, Mania and Rozia and their son Menachem were deported from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944. Menachem, who was a student in the ghetto high school, was the only survivor of his immediate family. These photographs were returned to Menachem by his uncles in the US after the war.

  8. Nazi flag from taken from Dachau and signed by over 50 US soldiers

    Nazi flag with over fifty signatures of US soldiers taken from an office at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 by Everett A. Fox, a soldier in the United States Army, 45th Infantry Division. Fox participated in the liberation of Dachau by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. The flag was signed by members of the 158th Field Artillery Battalion and the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army soon after Fox acquired it. The flag was signed by more soldiers at a reunion of the 45th Infantry Division, circa 1990.

  9. Trophy (German and other) records from the collection of the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by Nazis and their Allies on the territory of the USSR during WWII (Fond 7021, Opis 148)

    Contains diverse military records and directives of the German Army, orders, personnel lists, addresses, appeals and correspondence of the Nazi civil and military administration on the occupied territories, anti-Soviet and anti-Jewish propaganda, records related to the organizations of interrogations of the German POW by the Soviet intelligence services (SMERSH), Soviet partisan warfare and its suppression, treatment of the Soviet POW, and the like.

  10. Selected records of the Liaison Office (under the Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers) for Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria

    Contains correspondence, various data, minutes of the meetings of the Council of the Ministries and Governors of the three provinces, bills and other materials related to the political, economical situation in Bukovina, Bessarabia and Transnistria under Romanian occupation during WWII. The collection also includes archival documents related to the implementation of the population policies in provinces by the Romanian authorities as well as Romanianization of Jewish properties and assets, plans and proposals concerning transfers of Romanian population to the newly occupied provinces, surveil...

  11. Hannah Koblentz Shulman collection

    Contains one copyprint of a wartime photograph of Hannah Koblentz Shulman, originally of Albany, NY, in a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps uniform, and a copy of the July/August 1998 issue of "The Jewish Veteran" magazine. The magazine contains an article entitled "Jewish Women in the Military: Hannah Koblentz" and describes Mrs. Shulman's experiences in the armed forces and her experiences as a Jewish woman touring the newly liberated concentration camps.

  12. Oral testimony of Dina Oppenheimer "My Story"

  13. Bozenna Gilbride collection

    Contains one copy of a drawing entitled "Hanging in Szczekow, January 14, 1942," depicting the hanging of twenty Polish men and one Jewish man in Szczekow; the names of the men are included. Also includes a partial list of names of Polish citizens sentenced to death in Auschwitz in 1942; the list includes the name, prisoner number, and birthdate of the victim.

  14. Helena Piasecka collection

    The collection contains photocopies of documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Helena Piasecka, a Roman Catholic woman originally of Żuromin, Poland, who was imprisoned at Ravensbrück, and was a victim of medical experimentation.

  15. Guta Strykowski collection

    Contains a copy of one report, 15 pages, written by Dr. Peter Ostwald, a psychiatrist at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on January 18, 1966, to Mr. Klaus Hoefel, a consular officer at the Federal Republic of Germany consulate in San Francisco, regarding the mental health of Mrs. Guta Strykowski (later Cohen, born Weintraub), originally of Vlostrova, Poland. Dr. Ostwald describes Mrs. Strykowski's wartime experiences and relates that she is currently experiencing nightmares, depression, and pain as a result of her experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Ausc...

  16. "Good-bye Mr. Ghoya" pamphler

    Consists of one pamphlet entitled "Good-bye Mr. Ghoya," published in Shanghai in September 1945. The pamphlet was a denunciation of Sgt. Kano Ghoya, the Japanese ex-vice chief of the Stateless Refugees' Affairs Bureau in Shanghai, and includes seven cartoons by F. Melchoir.

  17. "Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945" map

    Consists of a copy of a map entitled "Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie na Ziemiach Polski w Latach 1939-45" ("Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945) created by the Pań́stwowe Przedsiȩbiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficzynch in 1968. The map, which was copied from the collection of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is a map of Poland depicting hundreds of concentration camps and showing the size of their prisoner populations.

  18. Kvutsat Chizek -- Book of Meetings Hashomer Hazaier, Ken Staszov, Poland

    Consists of a photocopy of a booklet assembled by Rosalie Avery documenting the participation of her mother, Sima Rosen Avery, in the Hashomer Hatzair group in Staszow, Poland in 1928-1929. The booklet includes a photograph of young women, a map of Poland, a list of members, and English translations of recorded descriptions of meetings.

  19. Regina Löwy Espenshade articles

    Consists of one article, entitled "Zu Besuch in der Alten Heimat: Eine Rückschau auf meinen letzten Besuch im Burgenland (Stadtschlaining, Jabing, Oberwart)" and English translation of the same article, entitled "A Personal Account of my Last Visit to Burgenland (Stadtschlaining, Jabing, Oberwart)", by Regina Löwy Espenshade. The article contains reflections on her family's pre-war and wartime experiences, her genealogical research, and her favorable impressions of efforts in Stadtschlaining to commemorate both the Jewish community and the Holocaust.

  20. Kerkhoven family collection

    Consists of papers related to the wartime experiences of Dr. CLM Kerkhoven and his family, originally of the Hague in the Netherlands. Includes identification paperwork, ration stamps and ration books, a travel permit, a British propaganda leaflet addressed to the German people, Dr. Kerkhoven's request for exemption from post-war military duty, and a copy of the May 5, 1945, edition of "De Margriet", an underground paper, celebrating the end of the war.