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  1. Ukraine under Nazi occupation presentation photo package from USSR

    Contains photographs of sites in Ukraine under Nazi occupation; some photographs include descriptions.

  2. Richard Poston collection

    Certificates issued by Le Secretaire General de la Commission de Gouvernement du Territoire de la Sarre, reports, affidavit, etc. Donor picked them up in an area north of Nurenberg.They relate to Jews named Neumark and Cahnmann, who at one time resided in Bischweiler and Frankfurt am Main. It appears they emigrated to France in 1934. There are blank Nazi forms associated with this collection.

  3. The Binning P. Chambers papers

    Documents, newspaper clippings, and a letter relating to Mauthausen concentration camp and Franz Ziereis.

  4. Lamp unto my feet, change my name to life

    Script telling story of European Jewry before, during and after the Holocaust.

  5. Edward Anders papers

    The Edward Anders paper consists of a Latvian identification card issued to Edward Anders (then known as Edwards Alperovics) in 1941; his mother, Erika Alperovics’ Latvian passport, issued in 1942; documents and related correspondence, including his draft notice for the Waffen-SS, in German and Latvian, circa 1943; a pamphlet, in German and English, entitled "Baltic War Criminals, Witnesses Urgently Required Again the Persons Mentioned Overleaf!," published by a Group of Baltic Survivors in Great Britain and addressed to surviving Jews and non-Jews in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; documen...

  6. Jonathan Scott Guyer collection

    Letter written by John Correll to his sister Elizabeth Thompson. Describes the Gestapo headquarters and Dachau.

  7. Soviet Propaganda film

    This two reel "agitka" (short propaganda film) was one of the first produced by the Soviet regime. Made in 1919 to show to Red Army troops, often on trains, the film tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army.

  8. A wish for a prayer A memoir

    Holocaust experiences in Hungary: forced labor camp; interrogation.

  9. Richard Remizowski collection

    92 black-and-white commercially produced cards depicting the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

  10. Dana Bruden collection

    Letter was written by donor's great aunt in 1940 documenting her trip back to Germany in order to help her mother escape from Germany.

  11. Mann family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, correspondence, documents, memoir material, photographs, and photographic negatives, and artwork relating to the experiences of Dr. Ignacy (Igor) and Erika Schoenbaum Mann and their family before, during, and after World War II, in Istanbul, Palestine, Rhodesia, and Kenya.

  12. Shifra Altshuler letter

    Photocopy of a typescript version of a memoir written in the form of a letter dated October 12, 1942, from Shifra nee Altshuler (married name unknown) to her sister, Rochelle, and two brothers, Barryl and Aryeh, describing in detail the sufferings of the Jewish Community of Ivyeh, Poland, at the hands of both the Poles and the Nazis. The memoir covers the period of October 12 to December 23, 1942.

  13. Lutz Haase collection

    Contains official documents concerning donor's status as a political refugee in Shanghai during the war. Collection of booklets and newspapers are published by the "Association of Former Central European Refugees from Shanghai." Also includes 27 photographs taken in the Hongkew ghetto between 1943-1948, described by the donor.

  14. Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection

    The Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection consists of a photocopy of a diary, in Polish, describing Maria Engel Gunsberg's life from 1939-1945, including time spent in hiding in Eastern Poland. Also includes a photocopy of the diary of her father, Gustav Engel, also written in hiding. Engel's diary gives extensive information about the events of the Holocaust near Tarnopol, Poland. The original diaries are located at Yad Vashem.

  15. F. Harry Brown's memoirs

    Contains autobiographical information of the donor and his family in Czechoslovakia and Austria prior to 1939; emigration to the United States through Switzerland; and fates of other family members.

  16. Sharon Muller collection

    Contains information on the following: an original printed program commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and an original journal of the Zionist Youth Movement containing articles about the third anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  17. Panorama of the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

    Panoramic footage of the new moving platform installed on the boardwalk at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Children stand making playful gestures. One boy rubs a piece of paper on his forehead and hat. Some people walk on the platform, others stand still, others move off the boardwalk. Boy pulls a man off. A man hops on, takes his hat off, and smiles. Woman gets on the platform and smiles at the children. Man gets off the platform and cuffs a boy on the side of the head. CUs, people on the platform.

  18. Joan Wolfermann collection

    Contains correspondence from M. Lichtmann dated November 1940, describing his escape from Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia.

  19. Peter Rosen papers

    The Peter Rosen papers contain training materials from the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie; drafts, correspondence, and research created during the production of a 1945 handbook titled The German Police prepared by MIRS (London Branch) and SHAEF’s Evaluation and Dissemination Section (EDS); two Gestapo files; and a Sicherheitsdienst (SD) file. Camp Ritchie training materials include handouts on the organization and tactics of the French and German armed forces; recognizing the uniforms of allies and enemies; technical instruction in aerial photography, signal communica...

  20. Elizabeth Simon collection

    Contains information regarding Elizabeth Simon's internment at Mauthausen: certification of her internment, dated 22 May 1945; Claims Conference questionnaire, not dated; and an affidavit for indemnification claim, dated 1967.