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  1. Kaufman family collection

    Contains photographs, four notebooks (in Yiddish), identification documents, certificates, and correspondence, related to the wartime experiences in France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both men in resistance activities during the occupation of France, their imprisonment by the Germans, and Finkielsztejn's deportation from Pithiviers and his presumed death. The notebooks contain a memoir written by Kopel Charles Kaufman in 1945-1946 describing in detail his experiences in Auschwitz...

  2. Margaret House letter

    Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.

  3. Dachau photographic negatives

    Consists of photographic negatives of Dachau liberation photos, which were widely published and distributed to American soldiers in the spring of 1945. These images are from the collection of the Racimora family, who were imprisoned during the war and spent time in displaced persons camps after the war.

  4. Dorothea Minskoff photographs

    Three photographic prints documenting the prosecutors and witnesses during the I.G. Farben trial in Nuremberg: 1) image of prosecution team member Dorothea Grater Minskoff standing at the podium, 2) members of the prosecution team, including Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. (Chief Prosecutor and Deputy Chief of Counsel) and Ruth Benedicta Kempner (third from the left), standing in the courtroom in front of a map of the I.G. Farben factories at Auschwitz, and 3) image of a group of British POWs who testified as witnesses for the prosecution at the trial standing in front of the same map.

  5. News of armistice received in Paris

    In Paris, people gather to hear news of the armistice. Loudspeakers in a square relay live "hard but not dishonorable conditions". "The German government solemnly declares that it does not intend to use for its own purposes of war the French [naval] units in the control ports, apart from coastguard and minesweeping vessels". CUs, of the listening crowd, including some individuals who appear Jewish, a black man in a suit, women, people talking to each other, and one wiping away a tear.

  6. Sold family correspondence

    Contains letters written by Szymon and Hinda Sold in Lwow, Poland, to their daughter Regina Sold Bauer and son-in-law, Dr. Artur Bauer in Palestine. In 1941 they left Lwow and moved to Stryj to avoid deportation to Siberia. The last communication was dated July 3, 1942 and was sent via Red Cross to Dr. Artur Bauer in Petah Tikva, Palestine.

  7. Max Austein photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs taken during the Krupp Trial (the United States vs. Alfred Krupp, et al.), which was held before United States military courts in Nuremberg between December 1947 and July 1948. Max Austein was one of the translators present at the trial and is pictured in several of the photographs.

  8. Large red Nazi garrison swastika banner signed by soldiers of the 80th Infantry

    Very large red Nazi swastika banner taken by 19 year old Paul Mercer, a US soldier, at the end of the four day battle to capture Kassel, Germany, on April 4, 1945. Paul and his unit, the 318th Machine Gun Squad, 80th Infantry Division, Third Army, faced stiff opposition at Kassel, which had a still operating Tiger Tank factory. At 12:30am, April 4, General Major Erxleben surrendered with about 400 troops. He wanted to present the garrison banner to the American commander but it could not be found. Paul had slipped behind the troops and removed the flag without anyone's noticing. The banner ...

  9. Cohen-Paraira family in the city before the war

    Ellis and her brother Abraham pose in front of blooming tree, probably in Scheveningen in 1938. Deer grazing at a park in the Hague. David with Ellis and Marian Viskoop, a family friend later killed at Sobibor. 01:10:33 A pier close to the family home on Maastrichtsestraat in Scheveningen, "SCH" on the boats. 01:10:37 Good shots of David, Abraham, and Ellis walking hand-in-hand in town. Clock and illegible signs ("... Theater") at left. Another view of Ellis, in a different jacket, holding a book and walking toward the camera in town.

  10. Jocheved and Mordechai Ziv collection

    Collection of family photographs of the Kuczyński and Frankenstein families in Skierniewice, Poland before the war; during the war in the Rawa Mazowiecka ghetto and after the war in Skierniewice with other survivors, celebrating Passover. Photograph of Dr. Libersohn (later Ziv) as he was demobilized from the Red Army and wedding photographs of Jadzia (Jocheved) and Dr. Ziv in Skierniewice in 1946. Document issued in Skierniewice, Poland; stating that Mr. Ezriel Kuczyński owned property in Skierniewice before the war and was a respected citizen of the city.

  11. "Iasii Mei"

    One memoir, 57 pages, entitled "Iasii Mei," by Dr. Iosif Finkelstein. In the memoir, Dr. Finkelstein describes the events occuring in Iasi, Romania, in June and July 1941, including his own memories of his experiences at that time.

  12. Oral history interview with Helena Bickart Stricks

  13. Anti-Semitic election campaign poster

    Anti-Semitic election campaign poster, "Elections Legislatives du 22 Septembre 1889/ Ad. Willette/Candidat Antisemite."

  14. Plaque in memory of the victims of Kiskőrös, Hungary, 1949

    Photographic copy of a memorial plaque produced in Kiskőrös, Hungary, in 1949, commemorating and listing the residents of that town who were deported and murdered during the Holocaust. Contains an artistic depiction of the deportations of 1944. Beneath this are listed the names of the victims. On the border of the illustration is a depiction of an iron chain, the links of which contain individual illustrations drawn from Passover texts.

  15. Reuben family papers

    Contains correspondence and forms related to Mrs. E. Reubens, of Cardiff, Wales, and her efforts to assist Jewish displaced persons at the Bergen-Belsen refugee camp, 1945-1946. Includes pre-war correspondence regarding her involvement in Jewish organizations in Britain that sought to assist German-Jewish refugees, dated 1933-1938.

  16. Ben Shneiderman photographs

    Contains eight photographs depicting the Szymin and the Sznajderman families before the war in Warsaw, Otwock and Kazimierz, Poland; two photographs depicting Benjamin and Ryfka Szymin (donor's maternal grandparents) and Ryfka’s sister, Malka, in the Otwock Ghetto, dated c. 1941; one photographic postcard with an image George Kadisch showing the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, captioned on verso: “Warsaw 1945 – Nalewki Street.”

  17. German troops return home

    Banner welcoming soldiers returning home by train reads a Hearty Welcome to you Brave Soldiers. Women, children and old men wave joyfully, and soldiers descending from railway cars hug girls, who offer flowers, to sound of song including Herrlich ist die Heimat. Tank crews lift children onto their flower-garlanded tanks to play. Cheering Germans in garrison town welcome back tank regiment as it parades by. Hitler Youth boys wave white handkerchiefs and young members of the BDM throw flowers at the tanks passing by. CUs of Germans.

  18. Levy and Kupferstajn families papers

    Collection of photographs (56) and documents illustrating the families of the Kupersztajn family from Bilgoraj and Warsaw, Poland and the Levy family from Banja Luka in Yugoslavia. Most members of the both families were murdered in Poland and Croatia. Klara Kupersztajn Dulman, later Clara Levy (donor's mother) survived German occupation, the Warsaw ghetto, and Soviet forced labor camps. David Levy (donor's father) survived German and Italian occupation, an internment camp, and later in hiding. David and Clara met in the Bagnoli DP camp in Italy and immigrated to the United States in 1950. D...

  19. Blankman family photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs documenting the Blankman family in Dubno, Poland (Dubno, Ukraine) prior to Chaim Blankman's immigration to Palestine in 1935.

  20. Kalman Epsztein photograph

    Consists of one photograph of Kalman Epsztein (third from front) at a protest in Cremona, Italy during the war. Kalman was born in Borszczow, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1916.