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  1. Prentice G. Morgan collection

    Consists of two pages from a photograph album owned by Prentice G. Morgan, a member of Patton's Third Army. Morgan participated in the liberation of Buchenwald, and the photograph album pages include eleven photographs of the liberation and his commentary about what he witnessed in the camp. The photographs depict American military personnel in the camp, camp buildings, summary justice, military personnel viewing anatomical artifacts belonging to Ilse Koch, and the burial of victims.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Eyewitness Project collection

    Oral history interviews produced by the Holocaust Eyewitness Project.

  3. Heinz Isenberg collection

    Consists of letters and photographs related to Heinz (Henry) Isenberg, who came to the United States from Germany on a transport in 1936. Includes letters from Heinz and his host family to his parents and sister in Germany, his naturalization papers, school reports, newspaper clippings, and photographs of Heinz and his family. The family was reunited in the United States in 1939. Also includes a video biography of Heinz Isenberg, on DVD, entitled "My Journey to Paradise," made on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

  4. Daniel Petriccione collection

    Consists of two photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes one photograph of a crematorium oven and one photograph of what appears to be a stone block with the word "Buchenwald" carved into it.

  5. Selected records from the Archives of the Department of the Calvados

    This collection was created by picking relevant documents from collections deposited at the archives by several local administrative divisions, and from the pre-war “M” series related to foreigners and immigration. The most relevant documents concern lists of Jewish inhabitants, card files made from gathering names and correspondence in relation to this, as well as files concerning the Aryanisation of property and businesses. The Aryanisation files deal almost exclusively with businesses and real estate and not with investments in businesses or shares of stock. The procedure for each file i...

  6. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Vienne

    Records pertaining to Camp de la route de Limoges in Poitiers: information on accounting, general administration, and aid to the families of internees; files on individual internees; surveillance over internees’ arrivals, departures, and escapes; correspondence with the German authorities; files on Jewish business owners; files on non-Jewish aliens, Freemasons, and Roma and Sinti; Jewish population statistics.

  7. Liberator clips

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Zabin Collection - Omaha Beach in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2612, 01:04:49 to 01:12:45) Zabin Collection - Liberation of Dachau; medical unit in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2460, 01:00:00 to 01:09:30)

  8. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Eure

    Lists of German women interned as enemy aliens, registered Jews, requisitioned Jewish businesses and buildings, individuals in need of psychiatric care, arrested persons, and foreign Jews living in Evreux. Materials include a card file for French Jews, a card file for foreigners, and files on Freemasons.

  9. Selected Records of the David Diamant Collection from the Departmental Archives of the Seine‐Saint‐Denis,1906‐1986

    David Diamant (David Erlich 1904-1994) was a Polish-born French Communist resistance fighter and President of the Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et Entraide, who ran the Marxist Library of Paris, part of the French Communist Party, for many years. This was originally a heteroclite collection of press clippings, newspapers and magazines, documentation, original manuscripts in many languages (handwritten or typed,) and unidentified photos and microfilms in Yiddish which Mr. Diamant seemed to be keeping for his own use. There were also many boxes containing the membership forms of the Orga...

  10. Selected records of the Fonds Vanikoff from the French National Archives

    Records from the personal collection of Maurice Vanikoff (1886-1961), who in the 1930s was active in defense of rights of political refugees and victims of antisemitism, active in similar cause in Casablanca 1940-1943, and continued as an activist in France after the war. Includes government decrees concerning political refugees (1938-1939) and various associations and groups involved with their cause and antisemitism; reports on the situation of Jews in France before the war (1936-1939), under Vichy, as well as in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (1940-1944); documents of the Center of Politic...

  11. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Laufer

  12. Selected records of the Consistoire Central Israélite de Belgique, Brussels

    Records concern the Jewish communities of Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, and other Belgian cities. It contains correspondence among Jewish organizations during the German occupation, as well as documents concerning pre- and postwar Jewish and refugee organizations, synagogue records, and materials related to antisemitism.

  13. 1 video program about the Holocaust: Eichmann trial

    Audiovisual monitor shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second flor (2.08d) - The Killers: Eichmann Trial

  14. Berlin collection of YIVO, RG 215

    Contains fragmentary records of agencies of the Nazi government. It contains primarily reports, clippings, and other documents generated by the Reich Ministry for Propaganda and the Reich Civil Administration for the Occupied Eastern Territories.

  15. Visiting Polish family, Vienna, Paris, and Holland

    Title card: “With the Faust Family Pabjanice April 1933.” In Pabianice, Poland, three children play with a shovel and bucket in the sand. Three women in fur coats sit closely together on a bench. The Faust family walks down a residential street and poses for the camera. The elder is Herman Faust, a textile manufacturer whose home and business were located in either Pabjanice or Czestochowa (many family members perished during the Holocaust). Lovely portraits of the family. The children make faces and are scolded. The group continues to pose in various spots and groupings for the camera, som...

  16. Records of the city administration in Przemyśl (Fond 602 opis 1)

    Contains records of the city administration established by the Nazi authorities during the German occupation of Przemyśl. Among them are orders and directives, reports, and minutes of meetings.

  17. Records of the Regional Ukrainian Police in Przemyśl (Fond 608 opis 1)

    Contains records of the Przemyśl Ukrainian Police, established by the German authorities during the occupation of the town from 1940 to 1944. Among the records are orders, staff lists, correspondence, investigation records, search warrants, interrogation reports, and the like. There are also records of the sub-stations in Vilshany and Pikulichi.

  18. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, a duvet cover, a glass slide projector, glass slides, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ephraim Robinson and his family as refugees during the Holocaust, as residents of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, and as immigrants to the United States in the postwar period.

  19. Oral history interview with Harry Burger

  20. Nazi banner with a black swastika within a white circle

    Nazi flag recovered from the stadium at Nuremburg, Germany in the spring of 1945 by Glen Hatch, a soldier in the United States Army. Hatch also was with one of the US Army units that liberated Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.