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  1. Ross M. Snowdon papers

    The papers consist of five photographs taken by Ross M. Snowdon, a Master Sergeant in the 11th Armored Division, after the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945 and a booklet about the history of the 11th Armored Division during World War II.

  2. John Turbish photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs depicting the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp by United States troops.

  3. Beit Din in Warsaw collection

    Collection of letters and documents from the Beit Din (rabbinical court) in Warsaw from the latter part of 1939, immediately before the outbreak of the war. Includes handwritten and printed documents concerning family matters signed by the dayanim of the Warsaw Beit Din.

  4. Erwin Stern collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Erwin Stern, born in Rechnitz, Germany and later of Vienna until 1939, when he and his sister Theresa were sent to France and hidden in the Château du Masgelier children's home. They came to the United States in June 1941 through a transport organized by the United States Committee for the Care of European Children. Includes documentaiton compiled in preparation for that journey, such as an affidavit in lieu of passport.

  5. Chart of Nazi party at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 374) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. Chart of Nazi party organization set up in front of courtroom. Ralph Albrecht, US assistant counselor, describes the different officers and positions of the National Socialist Party. "Hoheitstraeger," bearers of the sovereignty in the party, are pointed out in the chart. MS, Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, and others in prisoners' dock. MS, Goering and Hess lean over prisoners' dock and look at chart in lawyer's hand. MS, Goering makes notes as he listens with one earphone. LS, people standing during recess. MS, Goerin...

  6. Itchak Wolster papers

    The papers consist of an identification card ("Werksausweis") issued to Stefan Wolster by the Landwirtschaftliche Kartoffelverwertungsaktiengsellschaft / Werk Gmünd and a summons ("Aufforderung") issued to Ishak Wolster.

  7. Refugees

    Magyar Híradó 950. Intertitle reads “LENGYEL MENEKÜLTEK érkeztek a Kárpátok hágóin Magyarországra. M.F.I- HORVÁTH.” The Hungarian landscape from a moving train. Two soldiers ride bikes along the road, and the second one waves. The train moves quickly past buildings. In the yards are various soldiers and multiple horses attached to carts. A large number of horse drawn carts all together on the side of the road. A man sits in a cart pulled by two horses, multiple others trailing behind him. A man in uniform sits on top a pile of items in a horse-drawn cart, looking at the camera as he rolls p...

  8. Krakow, Poland

    German-produced documentary, scenes of life in Krakow. Mostly exterior shots of streets, streetcars, people involved in their daily activities- on the move with bikes, carts, on foot, etc. Various high angle shots of public squares, statues/monuments and architecture. Contrasted with various shots of a market, most likely in the Krakow ghetto, MCUs of bearded and /or bespectacled men dressed in tattered clothing, photographed in stereotypically "Jewish" poses. Trains pulling into a station, where Nazi flags are displayed on the building, uniformed man in FG as train enters station.

  9. Ralph Hershaw photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of four young soldiers in the Estonian Army, including Rafael Hirschowitz (Ralph Hershaw), and four photographs of a Yiddish theater troupe in Tartu, Estonia, with which Ralph Hershaw and his uncle, Gustave Jmyanitoff (George Manitoff), were involved.

  10. Leo Fettman papers

    The collection consists of 27 photographs of Leo Fettman and friends and family members in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II, including several depicting a Yiddish theater troupe in the camp, and a temporary travel document issued to Leopold Fettman in Germany with visa stamps for immigration to Canada.

  11. Moshe Sheps papers

    The Moshe Sheps papers consists of 52 photographs and a postcard relating to Moshe Sheps' family before and during World War II in Poland.

  12. Frank P. Herold photograph collection

    The collection consists of 21 photographs taken in Bergen-Belsen and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation in April 1945.

  13. Dorothy Wilonsky photograph collection

    This collection consists of seven photographs of Robert Wilonsky who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and his family in Munich, Germany after World War II. One photograph depicts Sam Moseson, Robert's brother, Dorothy and Robert Wilonsky, and their daughter, Mona, on the eve of their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  14. Miep Kaempfer-van Engel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Miep Kaempfer-van Engel as a hidden child in the Netherlands during and after the Holocaust.

  15. New Year card

    The New Year card bears an oval shaped portrait of Murray Weglinski on the right. The text reads: "L'shana Tovah Tikatevu" (New Years Greetings), printed in Hebrew letters in the ceter. There is also a Star of David with an image of the sun and palm trees on the left. The card was created while Murray Weglinski was in Eschwege, Germany.

  16. Halina Masri papers

    The papers consist of 103 photographs depicting Halina Wroncberg Masri's family before World War II in Poland, her experiences as a hidden child during the war, and her experiences immediately after the war, including her immigration to Israel. The collection also includes a business card for Mordka (Mordechai) Bleiwejs, Halina’s maternal grandfather.

  17. Pola M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pola M., who was raised in S?iauliai, Lithuania. She recalls the rich, cultural Jewish life; attending Hebrew school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; learning of mass killings; her father's arrest and deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; forced labor at airfields, then in the Radvilis?kis and Baciunai labor camps; feelings of helplessness after a public hanging in June 1943, which the Jewish Council tried to prevent but had to carry out; transformation of the ghetto into a concentration camp in September; the "children's act...

  18. Flora and Louis Pearl collection

    The collection consists of a finger ring and documents relating to the experiences of Louis and Flora Stark Pearl and her parents in Hungary and in several concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  20. Roger Bordage papers

    Consists of a letter inscribed on pre-printed stationery from Roger Bordage to his mother Yvonne Bordage in Paris, France. The letter was written while Roger was interned in Oranienburg concentration camp, dated 3 October 1943. This letter was contained in an offical government envelope addressed to "Madame Bordagh" [sic] [donor's mother] in Paris; no signature on note or envelope, dated 28 April 1943. Also in the envelope is a typewritten note by a railroad worker explaining how he retrieved an additional note from Roger Bordage (not in the collection) when it was thrown out of a train ont...