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  1. A memoir relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of typescript, recounting experiences of Dan Daugherty, an American soldier, at liberation of Dachau.

  2. A memoir. Relating to Experiences in Brno, Eibenschutz, Terezin, and Auschwitz, and His Liberation During a Death March to Dachau

    Contains a memoir relating to experiences in Brno, Eibenschutz, Terezin, and Auschwitz, and during a death March to Dachau.

  3. A miniszterelnökség központilag iktatott és irattározott iratai (1867-1945)

    • Records of the Prime Minister’s Office (1867-1945)

    A whole row of Hungarian Prime Ministers and their offices have played notable roles in the history of anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews during the 1930s and 1940s. In Hungary, anti-Semitic initiatives, including anti-Semitic legislation, was often launched and even more often supported at this level. In 1944, following the entry of Nazi Germany into Hungary, it was the newly appointed government headed by Prime Minister Döme Sztójay that actively collaborated with the German Sonderkommando in the implementation of the mass deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Records of the ...

  4. A Miracle in the Flames

    Contains a memoir, 125 pages, about the survival of a Hassidic Rabbi's family during the Holocaust.

  5. A náci és nyilas rémtettek kivizsgálására alakult bizottság

    • Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities

    The documentation of the Holocaust (avant la lettre) started in Hungary practically as soon as the war had ended and it took various major forms. Holocaust survivors played major roles in several of the attempts at early documentation such as the DEGOB interview project with thousands of camp survivors. The many trials that dealt with crimes committed against Hungarian Jews during the war years and the documentation project pursued by the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi and Arrow Cross Atrocities were among the most important Hungarian state-based forms of Holocaust documentation. W...

  6. A new dawn, a new hope for man

    Collection of poems, essays, and thoughts from students while reading literature from the Holocaust, specifically literature by Anne Frank. Other literature on prejudices are also included.

  7. A personal memory of Flossenbürg

    Contains information about Leslie A. Thompson's experiences as a Protestant chaplain with the 97th Infantry Division of the United States Army and his recollections of post-liberation Flossenbürg.

  8. A photograph of atrocities from Landsberg

    Contains one photograph of corpses, purportedly from the Landsberg camp.

  9. A poem

    Poetry, one page, typescript, titled "Don't Forget Us" by Marjorie May Svendsen.

  10. A postcard from Berlin to Westerbork

    Postcard (1) sent from family in Berlin to Alfred Casperius at Westerbork camp,

  11. A postcard from Dachau 3K

    Postcard (1), written by Matt Dachinger to Anny Dachinger, of Vienna, written from Dachau during Matt's imprisonment there, January 1939.

  12. A postcard from Łódź

    Postcard (1) sent from Siegmund Klein, in Łódź ghetto, to his brother Leo in New York, May 1941.

  13. A Presidente da Secção Auxiliar Feminina D. Margarida de Morais em conversa com algumas visitas

    A Presidente da Secção Auxiliar Feminina D. Margarida de Morais em conversa com algumas visitas.

  14. A Presidente da Secção Auxiliar Feminina D. Margarida de Morais em conversa no seu gabinete com algumas visitas

    A Presidente da Secção Auxiliar Feminina D. Margarida de Morais em conversa no seu gabinete com algumas visitas.

  15. A Promise to My Mother: Memories of a Life Shaped by the Holocaust

    File contains a bound book detailing the memoirs of Yossi Indig.

  17. A questionnaire

    Photocopy of questionnaire submitted by Magier for a restitution claim, includes narrative account of his time as a forced laborer in Annaberg and Bedzin.

  19. A report on Mogielnica in Poland

    Photocopy of mimeographed publication, dated 1947, about the status of Jews from Mogielnica in Poland, and what became of them during the Holocaust.

  20. A short autobiography

    Zvi Baumrin's memoir describes: Baumrin's childhood in Poland; his escape from an Aktion during which his father and some other relatives were killed; his mother's and brother's experiences inside a ghetto and their death; his work in an unnamed concentration camp; his transport in a cattle car and his subsequent escape; his hiding until the end of the war in the L'vov ghetto and in the house of a gentile friend of his father's; and his emigration to Israel.