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  1. The autobiography of a fearless fighter in Nazi Germany and Shanghai exile

    Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.

  2. Zinochka Craevitsky collection

    Contains photocopies of handwritten letter, in Russian, from a friend of Aron Craevitsky, Zinochka's father who was killed at the front in 1943, to Aron's mother, and of a photograph of Zinochka Craevitsky; and a handwritten memoir by the donor regarding the fates of Zinochka and her mother in the Minsk (Soviet Union) ghetto.

  3. Motl Beker collection

    Contains a black-and-white photograph and a brief biographical sketch of the donor's uncle, Motl Beker, a Lithuanian Jew, who along with his entire family and the rest of the Jewish population of Janova, was shot in June 1941.

  4. Alfred Neil Kramer collection

    Contains genealogical information regarding the donor's family, the Kramlats and the Gelbers.

  5. "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment"

    Contains a copy of a booklet entitled "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment" by Kurt Lewinski. The booklet, which is a typed English translation of the original German, describes Lewinski's experiences in an internment camp for enemy aliens in England; life on the HMT Dunera ship, which transported him to Australia in 1940; and life in the Hay, New South Wales and in the Tatura internment camps. The text is written in the form of daily diary entries, and includes two epilogues written in 1942 and 1945 which reveal that Mr. Lewinski joined the Australian military.

  6. Selected records from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)

    Contains records relating to the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to1945; persecution of Jews in the Netherlands; looting of Jewish property; activities of the SS and Gestapo in the Netherlands during the German occupation; anti-Jewish measures in Dutch society after the German invasion; Jewish refugees; and German concentration camps and work camps in the Netherlands during World War II.

  7. Copy of the diary of Felix Landau, Vienna

    Contains information regarding Felix Landau, who was employed by the Gestapo and was assigned to secure Jewish property, volunteered to report to an Einsatzkommando in the area of Milnicle. Descriptions of executions, taking of property from prisoners and corpses. Diary covers the month of July 1941.

  8. Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe Jewish Social Mutual Assistance Zespoł Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Sygn. 211)

    Contains correspondence between the head office in Kraków and the local branches in the General Government relating to the organization’s activities and relations with the German and Polish authorities. Records include financial and organizational materials, personal files of the staff, correspondence, post war copies. The index of names and places is included in finding aid.

  9. Funeral of Iron Guard Leader

    01:34:42 LS funeral cortege coming out of church. 01:34:48 CU of General Antonescu and Nazi official Baldur von Schirach leading group down steps. Crowds in street along route saluting and holding banners. 01:35:04 Casket being carried by many bareheaded men in dark uniforms. 01:35:11 Overhead of street procession. German soldiers carry funeral wreath. LS of formation in shape of crossed arrow. Women in black. Men carrying iron cross symbols. Man crying. 01:35:41 Arrival at cemetery with casket. Huge banners with men's portraits on them. CU of officials saluting. LS large crowd there saluti...

  10. Invasion of Oesel and Moon Islands, Estonia.

    "Ufa" logo; "Nr. 57" appear on screen. The narrator says, "Die Inseln Oesel und Moon in deutscher Hand." [The islands of Oesel and Moon in German hands]. Map showing Oesel (Saaremaa) and Moon islands, located between Latvia and Estonia. Luftwaffe planes in the air over the islands. German ships in the ocean; mines detonating in the water. Soldiers on board ship receiving orders. Cannons firing from the ship at Soviet positions. Germans in small motorboats race toward the island while planes overhead cover them and fire at a lighthouse/watchtower on the island. Planes bomb the island. German...

  11. Esther Sonheim collection

    Collection contains correspondence, in Yiddish, and official documents issued to Esther Sonheim [donor] including a Polish passport; a green card issued by the U.S. Immigration Agency; and receipts for food packages which were sent by the donor and her aunt from Chicago, IL to family members in Warsaw.

  12. Blasting IG Farben plant

    Blastin the I.G. Farben War Plant, November 12, 1945. MS, Gen Lucian K Truscott speaks with Col S Y Giffert of the Industry Branch of the Military Government. CU, Gen Truscott. HS, the general pushes the handle of the magnetic exploder. MSs, MCUs, officers connected with the project. CU, sign, "Schwaben Control Office". CU, sign, "Enemy Ammo Collecting Point". VS, results of the blasting. Officers and men inspect the damage. Pan, VS, destroyed trees, ammunition bunkers, and building structures. (These buildings were camouflaged). Note: The actual explosion was not photographed.

  13. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942

    Contains a 28 page memoir by Saul M. Bergman. Written in 1997, this memoir relates the author's experiences as an adolescent during the German invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the author's escape to Switzerland, where he was reunited with his mother and sister in Geneva in 1942.

  14. Romanian State Archives records

    New documents related to the confiscation of Romanian archives by the Military Allied Commission added on July 23, 1998 Fond: Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Sanatescu, Radescu. Contains additional photocopied materials to RG-25.002M: requests made by Jews to Presidency of Consule of Ministers; specific case of Sally Solomon Karmitz. This folder is in Archivele Statului, Inventar 300, Presedentia Consiliuluide Ministrii, 1941, dosar 641.

  15. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst collection

    Contains essay by the donor who is on the staff of the Institut fuer Afrikanistik,Universitaet zu Koeln, entitled "'Der schwarze Stern' Vom Schicksal deutscher Afrikaner im Nationalsozialismus;" an editorial concerning blacks in Nazi Germany excerpted from a book by Paulette Reed-Anderson entitled "Eine Geschichte von mehr als 100 Jahren: Die Anfaenge der Afrikanischen Diaspora in Berlin;" and copies from the Bundesarchiv of Wehrmacht, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Eingeborenen kunde, and NSDAP correspondence and reports which include name lists, dated 1938-1941, relating to individuals of Afr...

  16. Celia Rothstein Elbaum collection

    Contains a handwritten memoir (apparently written by the donor's niece whose name is unknown) and handwritten interview notes describing the experiences of Celia (Cesia) Rothstein Elbaum in the ghetto in Lask, Poland, until it was liquidated; her transfer to the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, where she stayed from 1941 to August 1944; her transfer, along with her sisters and brother, first to Birkenau concentration camp, where one sister was selected for extermination, and then with her surviving sisters and brother to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they volunteered for work in hopes of...

  17. Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education "Progress Reports" from the Committee for Refugee Education, 1940-1942 and 1949

    Contains Committee for Refugee Education "Progress Report" for 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1949. The reports include information about the Committee for Refugee Education and its work; statistics on students participating in English training courses offered by the Committee; teaching methods used by Committee instructors; and other agencies, including the American Committee for Christian German Refugees and the Jewish Welfare Board, that cooperated with the CRE.

  18. Betsy Lalich collection

    Contains a memoir written by the donor in the form of a letter which gives a brief biography of her grandfather, Stojan Knezevich, a Serbian farmer living in Mutilich (Yugoslavia) who was killed by Croatian Ustashi in 1944; and copies of photographs, circa 1935-1936, showing Jovan Knezevich, brother of Stojan Knezevich, at the dedication of a monument to King Alexander of Yugoslavia, who had been killed by Croatian Ustaša (Ustashi) in France in 1934.

  19. Ingrid Kalanj Lyras collection

    Contains a biographical sketch, written as a letter, describing the experiences of the donor's great grandmother, Marija Obradovic Kalanj, a Bosnian Serb, who, with her family, lef tBenakovac (Bosnia) in 1937 to farm land they had purchased in Serbia. In 1941 they were forcibly expelled by ethnic Albanians and returned to Benakovac. Over the next two years various members of the family were murdered by the Nazis or Croatian Ustaša (Ustashi); Marija was shot by the Ustashi in 1943. A color photograph of a portrait of Marija and Mileta Kalanj, a color photography of the Kalanj family headsto...

  20. Helga Roth collection

    Contains material relating to Alma Frieda Exner, nee Held, consisting of a brief memoir of her daughter, Mrs. FNU Redeker, describing her experience as a young child being grabbed by a women on the way to school, forced onto a train and sent to a boarding school in Gross-Rosen (Germany) where she received no mail or information about her family; her later move to her grandmother's home in Goerlitz (Germany); her and her father's visits to her mother who was in prison in Goerlitz and later sent to the psychiatric clinic in Bunzlau (Poland); the death by lethal injection of her mother on Febr...