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  1. Nazi Party Labor Day pin given to a US soldier by Hermann Göring

    Nazi Party Labor Day 1934 pin, likely given to Lieutenant Jack Wheelis by Herman Göring during his imprisonment at Nuremberg from 1945-1946. Labor Day (also known as May Day) takes place on May 1 to celebrate laborers and the working classes. In April 1933, after the Nazi party took control of the German government, May 1 was appropriated as the “Day of National Work,” with all celebrations organized by the government. On May 2, the Nazi party banned all independent trade-unions, bringing them under state control of the German Labor Front. Soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945,...

  2. Deutsche Strafanstalt Tschenstochau German Penalty Court in Częstochowa Niemiecki Zakład Karny w Częstochowie (Sygn. 47)

    This collection contains 3,794 personal files of prisoners. Included are arrest forms containing personal details such as the last name, first name, date and place of birth, nationality, religious denomination, occupation, education, last whereabouts, marital status, when brought before the court (date), reason of accusation (the main reason was: politics or leaving the ghetto, hiding and helping Jews, lack of arm band, theft, and the like). There is also a description of the prisoner (appearance) with such data as: age, size, posture (e.g. weak), hair (e.g. matted), hair growth (shaved, un...

  3. Hemda Gold photograph collection

    Collection of pre-war family photographs which depict the Barzyslewski and Goldin family in Poland; dated 1920s-1939; most captioned on verso in Yiddish

  4. Paula and Samuel Schäffer letters

    Consists of five letters sent by the family of Paula and Samuel Schäffer in Poprad, Slovakia, between the years 1920 and 1939, to their daughter, Bertha Wicks, who emigrated to the United States prior to World War I. Paula and Samuel died prior to deportation, after a forced march, and the four Schäffer children--Gisella, Cidi, Ethel, and Jeno--who remained in Europe all perished in the Holocaust.

  5. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of photographs taken by an unknown photographer after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Also includes photographs of the liberation of Paris, and post-war postcards of Baden-Württemberg and Schorndorf, Germany.

  6. Dr. John Karabin collection

    Consists of photographs and glass slides of images taken by Dr. John Karabin, a member of the United States Army attached to the 91st/93rd Evacuation Hospital who participated in the liberation of Dachau. The images depict the Dachau hospital, corpses, the Dachau death train, and the area surrounding the camp.

  7. William A. Spiegler collection related to Josiah E. DuBois, Jr.

    This collection contains material collected by the late historian William A. Spiegler, who was preparing to write a biography of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Though much of the collection consists of copies from various archival sources and publications, it is an excellent resource for historians studying DuBois and his work with the War Refugee Board and on the I.G. Farben trial. The collection includes original and copied drafts, with handwritten changes, corrections, and notes, of “The Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews,” “Personal Report to...

  8. District Department of Czestochowa Wydział Powiatowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 61)

    This collection contains selected records of the County Department of Częstochowa, Poland, created by the various departments. Includes minutes, resolutions of the sessions of communal councils and budget files. Contains information concerning Jews, including lists of the unemployed, the aldermen (towns Kłobuck, Krzepice and other communes), merchants, physicians and farmers. Minutes of the communal councils contain affairs of the Jewish community and the names of Jewish aldermen.

  9. Josef Hirschhorn collection

    Consists of a copyprint of a portrait of Josef Hirschhorn, originally of Oradea, Romania. Also includes a letter written by Hirschhorn on Sachsenhausen camp stationery, dated 13 August 1944, prior to his death, presumably at Sachsenhausen. It was the last letter the family received from Hirschhorn.

  10. Scrap iron business

    Men clear and shape shredded metal after the war. This scrap iron business was owned by Levie Simons and located in Pernis (Rotterdam area). Maurits Schaap worked here in 1940, and met Andre de la Porte, an aristocrat who later intervened to help Schaap during the war. Several people work at typewriters and telephones.

  11. Oral testimony of Irene Raab Epstein

  12. Kurt Kastan correspondence

    Letters written on concentration camp form stationary from Kurt Kastan to his wife Rosa (Rosel) and their daughters in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). The letters are primarily written from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, between February 1941 and February 1942.

  13. Schiller and Binder families collection

    Contains letters written by the Schiller and Binder families in Kitsman (Cotman) and Chernowitz, Romania, to their children Sara Schiller (donor's mother) and Moshe Schiller, and Shmuel Binder (donor's father) and Arie Binder in Palestine. The Schiller family from Kitsman and the Binder family from Chernowitz were deported in the fall of 1941 to Transnistria. According to testimonies, the Schiller family was thrown off the barge in the middle of the Dniestr River and drowned. The Binder family was deported to Transnistria at the same time, and no one survived.

  14. Jack Weiner photographs

    Consists of original photographs and glass slides from the collection of Dr. Jack Weiner, a member of the United States Army who worked at the 115th Field Hospital in Kassel, Germany, in 1945. The collection includes photographs of Weiner and his staff in the summer of 1945, of structures damaged in the war, and original glass slides of the liberation of a concentration camp. The photographs are described on the verso.

  15. Star of David badge with the letter J. acquired by a US pilot

    Star of David badge acquired by Ben Grobman, a US Army glider pilot, in Belgium.

  16. Arnold Mechur papers

    Consists of documents and a photograph related to Arnold Mechur's pre-war schooling and training as a tailor in Berlin, Germany. Also includes a 1937 photograph of three boys, Mechur's immigration documents for his 1940 emigration from Europe to Cuba, his naturalization papers for the United States, and a program noting his participation in a 1974 art show in southern Florida.

  17. German Jewish family life and leisure activites, 1931-1934

    01:00:02 Roll 1. Renate plays with a framed photograph. Mother Johanna (Hanna), partially in frame, shows her various objects to play with. Renate holds a piece of paper with the date written on it: 20.III.32. [March 20, 1932] Otto and Hanna hold Renate. 01:02:15 Roll 2. HAS, train station, 1932. Elizabeth, Otto's sister, holds her baby. Sign for train from Dresden to Hamburg. Waving on the train platform. Renate walks in a park with Mother Hanna, Aunt Elizabeth Plaut Hamburger, and baby cousin Eleanor Hamburger. Brief shot of Renate sitting up in bed. 01:04:43 Roll 2A. In a public park, Ha...

  18. "From Hell to Home"

    Consists of one copy of a memoir, 143 pages, in Hebrew with English translation, entitled "From Hell to Home," written by Matisyahu Goldberg, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. In the memoir, Mr. Goldberg describes his family, childhood and religious life in Lithuania; his involvement with the Irgun Zvi Leumi; life in the Kovno ghetto; forced labor in Kaišiadorys and in Kazlų Rūda. In 1944, he was forced to return to Kovno and deported from there to Dachau, arriving in July 1944. He was liberated by the American military while on a forced march from Dachau. After the war, he attempte...

  19. Maria Rose memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 115 typed pages, written by Maria Rose, originally of Warsaw, Poland, and edited by her son Julian (Julek). In the memoir, she describes her childhood, education, and family life in Warsaw, noting the fates of her extended family and school friends, as well those as in the Communist Association of Polish Youth, of which she was a member. She describes her pre-war arrests as a Communist, her marriage to Herc Dawidson, life in wartime Bialystok, Herc’s arrest, her 1943 return to Warsaw, deportation to Majdanek, and experiences in Auschwitz, Rajsko, and multiple camps i...

  20. 1936 Berlin Olympics torch holder engraved with the torch relay route

    Olympic torch holder used during the 1936 Summer Olympics.