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  1. Records of the Stadtverwaltung Weichselstadt

    Contains circulars, registers, lists, correspondence, and various other documents relating to the registering of the urban population in Warthegau or Wielkopolska (a Polish region annexed into the German Reich); inhabitants conscripted for service in the Wehrmacht; evacuation of Poles and Jews to the General Gouvernement territory; registration of property abandoned by Poles and Jews after evacuations; employment for newly resettled Germans; maintenance of population registry cards for inhabitants of the Hermannsbad district; identification of Polish laborers with the letter "P"; travel reg...

  2. Records of the Landrat des Kreises Wollstein (Sygn. 66)

    The collection contains circulars, bulletins, correspondence, lists, photographs, and various other documents relating to the establishment of the office of Displacement (Expatriation of Poles) in Poznań, Poland; settlement of Germans in Warthegau (Western Polish territory incorporated into Germany); forced evacuation of houses for use by resettled Germans; tracing of escaped Polish POWs by the Secret Police in Poznań; arrest of Polish workers abandoning their work stations; curtailing of work of priests, pastors, and monks; prohibition of marriages between Germans and Poles; prohibition ...

  3. Court inquiries about executions and mass graves in districts, provinces, camps, and ghettos Ankieta Sadów Grodzkich (Sygn.163)

    This collection contains questionnaires distributed by various Polish courts to districts and provinces and to municipal authorities near the sites of concentration camps and ghettos in Poland. The questionnaires request information about mass executions and mass graves.

  4. Helen Freibrun memoir and photograph

    The Helen Freibrun memoir consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir containing information about Helen Freibrun's life in Usharod (Uzhgorod), Czechoslovakia, before the Holocaust; her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was involved in selections by Josef Mengele and interactions with a female Nazi named Ilse; her experiences in Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; her survival of a death march; and the start of her new life in the United States. Also included is a photocopied photograph of Helen Freibrun and her brother six months after the end of Wo...

  5. Leontyna Davies questionnaire transcript and photo album

    Contains information about Leontyna Opocynska Davies' experiences in her hometown of Nowy Sacz, Poland, and the ghettos of Stary Sacz and Krakow; her forced labor at the AEG - Allgemeine Elektrizitägss Gesellschaft Kabel factory in Płaszów; her internment at Auschwitz; and her survival of a death march in Germany. Also included are pages of an album containing photos of the Opocynski family in the Stary Sacz ghetto. The album contains notations and photo identifications made by Leontyna Davies.

  6. History of the family Wos the dream comes true

    Contains information about the Wos family from the late nineteenth century to World War II, including references to the helpfulness of Mr. Wos' father, a Polish Catholic, to Jews during the existence of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, gives information on Polish resistance to the German occupation of Poland; deportations; Ravensbrück; forced labor in Germany; repatriation; post war life under the communist regime in Poland; and emigration to the United States.

  7. "Memories of a Vanished World"

    Contains information about Joseph Soski's childhood in Busko and Krakow, Poland; German occupation of Krakow; increasing restrictions of Jews; donor's escape to the Soviet-occupied zone of Poland; life in the Czestochowa ghetto; forced labor; deportation to Buchenwald, then to Dora-Mittelbau; evacuation from Dora-Mittelbau; liberation; displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States; and a new life in the United States.

  8. Katalin Karpati testimony

    Contains information about the life of Katalin Karpati (named Kato Nagy before and during the Holocaust). The memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary; marriage and family life; German occupation of Hungary in 1944 and subsequent hardships for Jews; her experiences in a number of camps, including Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen; liberation and return to Hungary; escape from Hungary after the 1956 uprising; and a new life in the United States.

  9. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor

    Contains information about the early life of Mieczyslaw Paul Makowski (a Polish Christian) in Poland; his participation in the Polish resistance against the German occupiers; his incarceration in Pawiak Prison, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Flossenbürg; his experiences on a death march from Flossenbürg; his liberation; and his subsequent life in the United States.

  10. Peter Gersh testimony

    Contains information about Peter Gersh's (Pinchas Gerszonowicz) boyhood in Poland; his impression of antisemitism among the Poles; German invasion of Poland; German occupation of Poland; work for the Luftwaffe at an airbase; life in a concentration camp; escape from a death march; search for relatives after World War II; and emigration to the United States.

  11. Defense of the nation law protests from the State Historic Archives in Bulgaria

    Contains photocopies of articles, petitions, letters, and various other documents relating to the persecution and rescue of Jews in Bulgaria during the Holocaust. The collection comes from several sources, among them the Central Consistory of the Jews in Bulgaria; The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church; The Doctors Union; and The sons and wives of Jewish participants in the Liberation War of 1877-1878. Also included in the collection are rescue appeals from organizations to save Bulgarian Jews, and a public letter (published in the press) written and signed by former Bulgarian ministers, la...

  12. Virginia Prentiss photograph collection

    Consists of eleven photos of Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, and Gardelegen after liberation.

  13. Ingeborg B. Weinberger papers

    Collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ingeborg Weinberger (née Cohn) and her father Ludwig Cohn of Leipzig, Germany; her husband Hans Weinberger and his parents Margarete and Theodor Weinberger, and relatives in the Landsberger and Coblenzer families. Included are pre-war sports-related documents of Ingeborg, a small amount of wartime and postwar correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Weinbergers, German passports, a workbook (arbeitsbuch), financial documents of Ludwig Cohn, two photographs of Edgar Landsberger, and a photocopy of a family book (Stammbuch...

  14. Specimen copy of passenger ticket for Hermann Ende

    Relates to Hermann Ende, who was scheduled to depart Bremen on 09 May 1946 and arrive in New York via the ship "Marine Flasher."

  15. Paul A. Roy papers

    The Paul A. Roy papers consist of biographical materials, clippings, correspondence, reports, photographs, a concert program, and a drawing documenting Roy’s service as military director of Dachau during the summer of 1945. Biographical materials include military records documenting Roy’s military career, Legion of Merit citation, Bronze Star award, and Army War College certificate. Clippings consist of photocopies of articles about Roy’s service at Dachau and subsequent career. Correspondence and reports include communiqués from the International Prisoners Committee about Roy and condition...

  16. Records relating to the participation of the 90th U.S. Infantry Division in the liberation of Flossenbürg

    Contains information about the 90th Infantry Division, postwar contacts of its veterans, and the role of division members in the liberation of Flossenbürg.

  17. Prossnitz-Winternitz postcards from Auschwitz

    Photocopies of two postcards with, both sent by Heinz Prossnitz to Alice Winternitz. The first, dated 12 October 1943 relates to the arrival of the "Masaryk transport" in Auschwitz; the second, dated 31 December 1943, contains little substantive information, but it was censored by the Nazis at Terezin (Theresienstadt).

  18. "Nazzi War Criminals on Trial, November 1945 - October 1946, Court of History, the last Fashist defense line"

    Consists of a scrapbook compiled by Avraham Tory, which contains caricature sketches (with captions) of the defendants at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. According to Tory, the sketches were drawn by "a famous Russian cartoonist."

  19. Records relating to the death of Dr. Isaak Hersch Antler

    Contains information about the death of Isaak Hersch Antler at Buchenwald in 1940 and the transfer of his remains from a temporary grave in Austria to a cemetery in the United States. Shipment of the remains was arranged by Lt. Eric R. Antler, his son.

  20. Hellinger family postcards

    Contains information about the experiences of Magda Hellinger Blau in the Birkenau concentration camp and the deportation of family members from Czechoslovakia.