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  1. Mark Hochman collection

    Documents illustrating and describing the experiences of Mark Hochman, born in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia [present-day Ukraine] who was interned in various forced labor camps during the Holocaust. Included are post-war affidavits of birth and employment in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia, Czech driver’s license and police document [potentially residential]. Also included in the collection is an application for reparations from the Claims Conference, dated 1993. Two cassette tapes, recorded interview with Mark Hochman, one labeled “Interview/Mark Hochman/Louis Rosenkranz/1989”.

  2. Selected records from the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung (R 26 IV)

    Contains records pertaining to Aryanization, activity reports of the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung, statistics on the Carpathian countries, social politics in Slovakia, emigration in Hungary, organization and structure of the University of Zagreb, and forced laborers in the agricultural sector.

  3. Surrender of military and civilians in Engers and Germersheim

    (LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman is named Urban. American soldiers walk through the streets of Engers. Nice shots of an American soldier searching Germans. A First Lieutenant swears in two enlisted men as Second Lieutena...

  4. Erika Rybeck collection

    The collection consists of a drawing, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Erika Schulhof and her family in Vienna, Austria, and Erika's experience as a Kindertransport refugee in the United Kingdom before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Olga and Werner Leszynski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Olga and Werner Leszynski and their daughter, Ruth, in Berlin, Germany, and Prague, Czechoslovakia, and their emigration to the United States before the Holocaust.

  6. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Landes

    Contains information on the systematic persecution of Jews in the Landes, France. Includes information concerning the expropriation of Jewish property, the wearing of the yellow star, police surveillance of cinemas, and name lists of Jews residing in the area.

  7. RZ 214, Referat D/Abteilung Inland

    Contains records relating to Nazi party movements in Germany and other countries, concentration camps, elections, emigration, the Kapp Putsch, reports on Jews around the world, expatriations, individuals like Thomas Mann, the exile press, Vatican reports, Pius XII, and Bishop Hudal. Included also are reports on hostility against Germans around the world, records on “relocation” issues in Eastern Europe, youth movements in Europe, "Jewish Question'" around the world, Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Jews in Bulgaria, the sterilization of “ Rheinland Bastarde”, and on racial questions.

  8. Personal archives of Siegfried Jagendorf

    Contains records of Mr. Jagendorf, Jewish engineer deported to Moghilev Podolski, Transnistria, in 1941.

  9. DPs moving in Germany; Inspection of army band/troops

    03:46:41 (Munich 756) Movement of DPs from Berlin to American Zone of Germany, Kassel, Germany, July 24, 1948. DPs line up, getting ready to pull out of Kassel area. CU, Maj A S Hyman speaking to group and Dr. William Haber, adviser to Gen Clay on DP affairs. MCU, woman holding child. CU, blonde girl. Two women sitting next to their belongings. DPs waiting at railroad station platform. CU, girl holding doll. DPs walking to the station. DPs getting aboard trucks Pan, line of trucks filled with DPs at Camp Mattenberg. People getting of trucks at camp. Men getting loaves of bread out of truck....

  10. Pohronská county Pohronská župa

    Records relating to implementation of the Jewish Codex in Pohronská county; guidelines for a census of the Jewish population; official decrees and orders by the Ministry of Interior banning Jews from residing within certain neighborhoods and in various municipalities; official decrees and orders by the Ministry of Interior prohibiting Jews from attending public areas; punishments and administrative actions for employing and affiliating with Jews; regulations concerning Catholic Jews; rescinding of concessions and permits from Jewish business and restaurant owners; expropriation of Jewish-ow...

  11. Heinemann and Graetz families collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the Heinemann and Graetz families in Nazi-occupied Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  12. Shoshana Neuman collection

    The collection consists of two paintings created by Shoshana Neuman around 2007 depicting scenes from her childhood in the Bershad ghetto in Transnistria, Romanian occupied territory, during the Holocaust.

  13. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Maine-et-Loire

    Contains records pertaining to the systematic harassment, imprisonment, and spoliation of Jews in the Maine-et-Loire as well as records pertaining to the Jewish internment camp at Clefs and the Roma-Sinti internment camp at Montreuil-Bellay.

  14. World War II antisemitic and anti-Nazi poster collection

    The collection consists of four posters, two Serbian antisemitic posters, one Nuremberg Trial poster, and one Polish film poster, that are relevant to the history of the Holocaust.

  15. Selected records from the Austrian State Archives collection Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung

    Contains records related to forced labor, protective custody (Schutzhaft) including prisoner lists, and religious organizations in the Ostmark, Austria.

  16. "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995"

    Consists of one manuscript, in print and on CD-ROM, entitled "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995", written by John Nicholson in 2007. Mr. Sklovksy was born in Siberia, but following the Russian Revolution, his family moved to Berlin, where he attended school. In 1934, Mr. Sklovsky moved to France and studied at the University of Lyon. In October 1939, he joined the Czech Brigade and spent the war fighting with the British Army, while his mother, Chaja Sklovsky, was deported from Drancy in 1942 and perished in the Holocaust. In 1947, Mr. Sklovsky immigrated to...

  17. Selected records from the Austrian State Archives collection NS-Vermittlungsstelle

    Contains compensation claims made by the so-called Legionäre (illegal Austrian Nazis who found refuge in Nazi Germany before 1938, and returned after Austria’s annexation to Nazi Germany), by heirs of killed or executed Austrian Nazis, and others.

  18. Selected records of the Nazi Justice (NJ) collection

    The collection "NJ" consists of over 25,000 single files of selected Nazi trial records compiled at the Archives of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) Central Party of the East German communist party, after the war. The SED Archives collected original files from different German courts, including the "Volksgerichtshof" (Nazi "People's Court"), district courts and others between 1933 and 1945. Records mainly document resistance and opposition to the Nazis and relate to communists, social democrats, clerics, Jews and members of resistance organizations in the occupied countr...

  19. Testimonies and transcripts of World War II Jewish veterans

    Contains transcripts of interviews and articles regarding Jewish World War II veterans provided by the staff of the Judaica Institute in Kiev. Although the documents are primarily transcribed interviews of the veterans, there are some first and third person biographical accounts. In addition to extensive detail about their military service during the war, there is some information about daily life, religious activities, family life and educational attainment before and after the war.

  20. American Joint Distribution Committee in Poland

    Contains 2,445 Polish- and English-language files of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Warsaw, including those of the Secretary’s Office and the Emigration, Individual Relief and Welfare, Tracing, Warehouses, Bookkeeping, Administration, and other departments or units. Contents reflect the AJDC’s main activities: rendering material assistance (e.g., food, medicine, clothing, tools) and funding organizations such as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, the Bund, Zionist movements, youth associations, religious societies, and Hebrew schools.