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  1. Pin

    Pin, “American First / Home Mission Board” with central image of map of United States; from “T. Theo. Lovelace / 4834 Vincennes Ave. / Chicago”

  2. Pin

    Pin, “Defend / America / First”

  3. Block of stamps

    Block of stamps, “Keep America / Out of War” above field of crosses with “War Crushes / Democracy” at bottom

  4. George E. Rothlisberg collection

    Photographs taken shortly after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 by United States Army Signal Corps photographer George E. Rothlisberg. Also includes a small amount of photographs taken after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau, including German prisoners-of-war.

  5. Serebrenik family papers

    The collection primarily documents the immigration of Otto and Lili Felberbaum Serebrenik, and their son Stefan, from Vienna, Austria to the United States in January 1939. Included are biographical documents such as birth and marriage certificates, and a family genealogy narrative; immigration paperwork including German passports, affidavit of support from David Felberbaum for Hermann and Marie Felberbaum, and naturalization certificates.The collection also includes wartime correspondence regarding Otto’s mother Regina Serebrenik (née Weiss), who was deported from Vienna to Riga, Latvia in ...

  6. Benjamin Wajl memoir

    Memoir: "Moje wapomnienia z okewau 2 wosny swiatowej..." [My calamities from the 2nd World War] by Benjamin Wajl; 58 pages. Wajl was a native of Łódź, Poland, who fled east when the war broke out, and fought with the Russian army.

  7. Charles Paul Kogel collection

    The Charles Paul Kogel papers include biographical materials and photographs documenting Charles Kogel from Antwerp, Belgium; his prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences in Belgium; his wartime alias in France; and his immigration to the United States in 1952 with his second wife, Sara Kahan, and their son Henry. Biographical materials include military papers, a 1942 letter on behalf of the King of Belgium, false French papers in the name of "Andre Ravaux," Charles and Sara's wedding booklet, a certificate awarding Charles a war medal, a Belgian passport, an American naturalization certifi...

  8. Werner Jakubowski papers

    The Werner Jakubowski papers primarily consist of correspondence between Werner Jakubowski while he was a refugee in France and his brother Stephan Jakubowski in New York City. Werner’s letters are from Gurs or from Meillon par Assat, in the Basses Pyrenees. The correspondence describes Werner’s family situation in France and documents efforts by family and friends to transfer funds to them from New York and to aid their immigration to the US.

  9. Garbovits family papers

    The collection consists of wartime postcards sent from Arnold and Karolin Garbovits in Budapest, Hungary in 1944. Two postcards were written by Arnold from a labor camp in Budapest to Karolin and his daughter Erzsebet (later Elizabeth), dated 9 and 15 October 1944. Three postcards were written by Karolin on the train as she was being deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in December 1944, one of which was addressed to Elizabeth, dated 12 December 1944; one addressed to a relative called Lainhorn Jolanka, dated 10 December 1944; and one addressed to Ferencz Veiler likely authored ...

  10. Miksa Eisikovits's Hasidic Jewish folk music collection from Maramures

    Photocopy of Miksa Eisikovits's (Max Eisikovits) Hasidic Jewish folk music collection from Máramaros (Maramures, Romania) documented in 1938-39. The collection consists of four school music sheet booklets with handwritten scores, annotations, and phonetic, liturgic Hebrew and Yiddish texts. Included are four additional sheets. Miska collected 160 songs during his research in Máramaros, but was unable to capture lyrics for all of them. The collection has been published as "És a halottak újra énekelnek ..." : Eiskovits Miksa Máramarosi haszid zsidó zenei gyűjtéses (1938-1939) / szerkesztette ...

  11. Siegfried and Katherine Susskind collection

    Affidavits of Identity and Nationality for Siegfried Susskind and Katherine Susskind (née Zappen), who left Germany in 1939, went to Budapest, and were then in Shanghai from 1940-1948 before immigrating to the United States. Also includes Katherine Susskind's "Acknowledgment of Filing Petition for Naturalization" and blank postcards of scenes around Hongkew, China.

  12. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta

  14. Introductory text for a portfolio of 15 reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Introductory insert, in French, for a portfolio of secretly created prisoner sketches from Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, which were reproduced, engraved, and published in 1946. The originals were created by Henri Gayot and the introduction was written by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. The sketches depict daily camp life and prisoner abuse, particularly for prisoners like Gayot and LaPorte, who were marked as Nacht und Nebel (NN) [night and fog], and were meant to “vanish” in the camp. LaPorte was arrested by the German S...

  15. Presentation by Samuel Schryver

  16. Oral history interview with Clara Rechnitz

  17. Simon Strauss photograph

    Consists of one photograph depicting Jewish deportees from the Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schuechtern districts boarding a train at the Hanau station. Among those being deported is the donor's uncle, Ludwig Gernsheimer.

  18. Dora Pinkus Staub papers

    Consists of documents and correspondence related to Dora Pinkus Staub, originally of Gleiwitz. Includes correspondence from Dora, who was elderly and living in Berlin, Germany, from 1940-1941, prior to her deportation to Theresienstadt. Also includes a confirmation of her 1862 birth from a registry and notes regarding family genealogy.

  19. Schlachter family correspondence

    The collection consists of letters sent by Leopold and Gertrude Schlachter in Stuttgart, Germany from 1940-1941 to their daughters Liselott and Margot Schlacter in New York. Liselott and Margot fled Germany on a Kindertransport to Glasgow, Scotland and immigrated to the United States in September 1940. There is a small amount of letters sent from other individuals, as well as Liselott’s resume and a copy of Margot’s birth certificate, both from 1939.

  20. Gerald Trees photograph collection

    Consists of seven photographs of the Kaufering sub-camp of Dachau soon after liberation.