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  1. Marta Kaufmann collection

    The Marta Kaufmann collection consists of a photograph of the Szerencs synagogue in northern Hungary, her mother's hometown. The collection also contains a photograph of Alexander Gellman, Marta Kaufmann’s father, who worked as dentist in Hungary, with a group of survivors of the Sárospatak forced labor camp at a meeting after the war.

  3. Golstick family photograph

    Photograph: image of Golstick family taken in Riga, Latvia in the 1930s. Photograph previously belonged to donor's grandmother, and it was the last item she ever received from them. It is presumed they all perished during the Holocaust.

  4. Corporal Linus Fincham collection

    Consists of three photographs of the newly-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp with description on the verso. The photographs, taken by Corporal Linus William Fincham, a member of the 5th Armored Division, Third Army. depict military activity in the camp and newly liberated political prisoners. Also includes a copy of his July 31, 1945 letter in which he sent the photographs home to his family.

  5. Robert Lee McLaughlin photograph collection

    Contains 21 photographs taken around the Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation. The photographs were taken by U.S. Army soldier T. Chappell, and entrusted to Lee McLaughlin, another solder in Chappell's unit.

  6. Harland Schuler copyprints

    Consists of two copyprints of photographs of corpses at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The original photographs were taken by Harland Schuler, who was a member of the Third Army and participated in the liberation of the camp.

  7. Newspaper announcing the death of President Roosevelt

    Consists of the front page of the Philadelphia edition of the "Jewish Daily Forward" from April 13, 1945, announcing the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  8. Eva Lips speech

    Consists of a mimeographed transcript of a speech given by Eva Lips, a German-Jewish refugee from Cologne, Germany, at Christ Church in New York City on November 14, 1936. In the speech, she describes her impression of Hitler prior to 1933, and the ways in which she and her husband, University of Leipzig anthropologist Dr. Julius Lips, were persecuted after 1933. She also describes the confiscation of their library, the burning of their books, and experiencing constant surveillance. The couple emigrated to the United States through Paris in 1934.

  9. State Court Graz: Nazi-related court cases Landesgericht Graz : NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court and investigative records of Nazi-related cases in Styria, Austria for the years 1954 to 1992. The collection includes court case against Franz Murer, the deputy of the SS commandant of the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto ("Stellvertreter und/oder Adjutant des Gebietskommissars der Stadt Wilna und Referent für Jüdische Angelegenheiten"); includes both cases that did and did not reach verdicts.

  10. Samuel Gottesman Collection

    Consists of one memoir, 76 pages, entitled "A Chronicle, 1923-1947," written by Samuel Gottesman, originally of Irshava, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine). He describes pre-war religious life in a small town, and his town being rounded up and deported to the ghetto in Berehove in the spring of 1944. He describes life in the ghetto and their deportation to Auschwitz, where he was forced to work on various construction projects. In January 1945, when Auschwitz was evacuated, he was sent on a forced march and placed in a open rail car, finally arriving at Bergen-Belsen. In the spring of 1945, he wa...

  11. "The First Generations: An early genealogical history of the Shanas, Stracovsky, Kimmelfeld, Gorstein, Mozart, Frimet, Smaller and other related families as they struggle for survival in both the Old World and the New"

    Consists of one manuscript entitled "The First Generations: An early genealogical history of the Shanas, Stracovsky, Kimmelfeld, Gorstein, Mozart, Frimet, Smaller and other related families as they struggle for survival in both the Old World and the New," by Bert Z. Shanas. The manuscript, which includes extensive copies of photographs, family tree information, maps, and documents, also includes a chapter about the members of the family killed in the Holocaust in Ukraine and the family members killed in military service.

  12. Tania and Mendel Rozmaryn collection

    Contains a Palestine immigration certificate issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine to Tania Rozmaryn in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, issued April 30, 1948; and a "Temporary Travel Document in Lieu of Passport" issued to Mendel Rozmaryn, dated November 10, 1951. Tania and Mendel married in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, where their son Jacob (donor) was born.

  13. Leon Gildesgame papers

    Consists of a cover letter addressed to Meir Grossman of the American Jewish Conference by Leon Gildesgame and two original enclosures. The original enclosures include a typewritten account of SS-Unterscharführer Franz Xaver Sommerhoff articulating his participation in the killing of Jewish civilians and others, and a typewritten copy of First Army Special Report titled "It Happened in the Twentieth Century," detailing the interrogation of Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Schübbe. Schübbe, a medical doctor, admitted to the killings of thousands of Jews, Romani people, and others by morphine injection in ...

  14. Selected records of the city of Warsaw. City Board of the capital city of Warsaw Akta miasta Warszawy. Zarząd Miejski miasta stołecznego Warszawy (Sygn. 3)

    Records of the Social-Political Department of the City Board in Warsaw concerning Jewish associations from the post-war period: Correspondence, registration or refusal of registration, lists of associations, reports on activities, statutes, lists and members and personal files.

  15. Abraham Bohrer photograph album

    Contains a WWII photo album from the US Army 45th Signal Corps.

  16. Prison at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw Więzienie przy ulicy Daniłowiczowskiej w Warszawie (Sygn.210)

    Records of the Centralny Areszt w Warszawie-"Centralniak" at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw. Includes a register of persons detained in the prison, the book of prisoners, lists of arrests, prisoners' index, file of Janina Serafin and Noech Lejba Troper.

  17. Selected records of the Voivodship Office of Warsaw Urząd Wojewódzki Warszawski (Sygn. 475) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records of the Department of Public Security (1926-1939): weekly, monthly, quarterly situation reports on the activities of political parties, social organizations, nationalities, denominations, trade unions, political organizations. Contains also records on Jewish associations (1920), exemptions from the military service of emigrants to Palestine (1926), regulation on the election of authorities of Jewish religious communes and on rabbis (1930-1931), as well a register of associations and organizations (1920-1935).

  18. Selected records of the County Starosty in Ostrów Mazowiecka Kreishauptmannschaft Ostrów Mazowiecka Starostwo Powiatowe w Ostrowie Mazowiecka (Sygn. 489) : Wybrane materialy

    Circulars and ordinances of authorities, official correspondence, reports on activities, quota reports, sending people to work, minutes of meetings, materials on the population policy of the occupant, censuses, lists of employees of the office of the starost, materials on the Polish resistance movement, reports of gendarmerie, interrogation of Jews in cases of illegal border crossing, correspondence with the Judenrat from Wegrów, matter of control of correspondence, daily orders, certificates, receipts, documentation related to the implementation of the antisemitic exhibition entitled "Jued...

  19. Selected records of the Municipal Office in Warsaw Starostwo Miejskie w Warszawie (Sygn. 485) : Wybrane materialy

    The files of the Municipal Records in Warsaw relating the history of Warsaw during the occupation and the policy of the German authorities towards the Polish population. In addition to some statistical data (data on the area and residents, statistics on births and deaths, graphics depicting the economic life of the city) there are elaborates regarding the Warsaw financial situation, housing and health matters. Includes materials depicting the housing situation of the population, the occupant's economy within the German and Polish residential district, problems of health care in the city, di...

  20. Hauptgruppe Gewrbliche Wirtschaft und Verkehr in der Distriktkammer fuer die Gesamtwirtschaft in Warschau Grupa Główna Gospodarka Przemysłowa i Ruch w izbie Okregowej dla Gospodarki Ogólnej w Warszawie (Sygn. 496//II)

    Selected records of German industrial factories in the GG. Includes lists of trading companies in Warsaw, statistics on workers, numerous materials regarding the borders of the Warsaw ghetto, relocation of companies from the ghetto area, allocation of premises in the ghetto, various corespondence and reports.