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  1. Horst Biesold collection

    The collection includes original and photocopies of documents relating to Bertholdt Jacobs and Margarete Crohn who lived in Berlin, Germany and fled to Shanghai, China and to Otto Gantz and his family including correspondence, certificates, and court proceedings. The collection also includes photocopies and originals of documents and copyprints of photographs pertaining to the treatment of deaf children during the Holocaust. Documents include correspondence between Nazi officials, lists of names, documentation of laws, memorandums, forms, statistics, and descriptions of experiments. The cop...

  2. A memoir relating to experiences in Czernowitz

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, of survivor from Bukovina.

  3. Tosia Scharf biography

    Contains a two-page biography titled "In Loving Memory of Our Auntie," by Genie Glucksman. Describes life of Tosia (Toby) Scharf; childhood and early adulthood in Chrzanow and Krakow; German occupation; and her time at Płaszów.

  4. National Socialist German Workers Party pin worn by a Party member

    National-Sozialistische-Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("N.S.D.A.P.") [National Socialist German Workers Party] pin worn by Party member.

  5. Joseph Dainow collection

    Contains letters written by Joseph Dainow from September to December 1945 describing his experiences while working in the Office of the U. S. Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, and his visits to Fürth, Germany, and encounters with the remaining members of the Jewish community there; "Joe Dainow : Letters from Nuremberg 1945," which contains photocopies of a 1973 article from the Louisiana Law Review describing Dainow's career at Louisiana State University and photocopies of Dainow's Nuremberg correspondence with highlighted statements and ann...

  6. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. 02:23:45 Reel 3: Part 6: Advance on Sevastopol. ["Einnahme Sewastopols, der Staerksten festung der Welt"] German bombers and artillery attack Sevastopol, which falls on July 1, 1942. Shots of German Captain Gollab in his plane and of Gen. Fritz von Mannstein's inspection of new German artillery. German troops occupy and search Sevastopol, and raise Nazi flag.

  7. A memoir relating to survivors of Nazi massacres in Ukraine

    Testimony, typescript, 8 pages, plus one photograph. Describes family and childhood in Krakow, and life in ghetto there under German occupation.

  8. Theodore and Martha Burian papers

    The Theodore and Martha Burian papers contain primarily identification documents, which the family used for verification purposes as they immigrated to the United States. Contained in the collections are birth and marriage certificates, citizenship papers, passports, and police registration documents. Also included are boarding passes for the Nyassa passenger ship, and residency certificates for the town of Pohořelice in the Czech Republic.

  9. Onie Rogers photograph collection

    Contains photographs of the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity.

  10. Photographs of Dachau and other World War II scenes

    Photographs, in album, taken by German émigré working with U.S. Army, in Bavaria, 1945. Shows towns (Mittenwald), and camp at Dachau, with liberated prisoners, and dead SS officers. Album appears to be compiled by someone other than Sieburth since it gives information about him in a caption label at end.

  11. Women, childcare, park, "Der Stuermer", market

    INT women training for Nazi motherhood at soup kitchen, cooking class, ladling soup. All at table, hands clasped, praying, eating. Class on infant care, instruction with doll, diapers, rubbing lotion. Potty in glass bowl in crib corner. Women around crib see how to lift baby out. LS town of summer garden homes with trees, big buildings (new city housing?) on outskirts. Apartment building with five stories, swastika flags. Woman in backyard feeding chickens. Pram with baby, stares at sky. In garden, girl picks daisy; shaved man with cigar. 00:24:20 EXT shops, sign "B. R. Friedland" [this is ...

  12. Asya and Zakhar Mikhelman memoir

    Testimonies, four pages, handwritten, relating to experiences of Asya and Zakhar Mikhelman. Asya was from Brailov, Zakhar from Tiraspol, and both describe experiences during occupation of Moldova.

  13. Kenneth Oppenheimer papers

    The papers consist of a passport ("Reisepass") issued to Alfred Siegfried Oppenheimer donor's father by the Chief of Police in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, a German military draft notice ("Benachrichtigung") issued to Alfred Oppenheimer, a marriage certificate ("Heiratsurkunde") issued to Ernst Rosenbaum and Paula Mathias [donor's maternal grandparents] in Hofgeismar, Germany, and two photographic postcards of Yvonne and Helga Kaufmann [donor's cousins], both of whom died in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  14. Memoir relating to experiences in Odessa and Domanevka

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript (English) plus another version, handwritten (Russian).

  15. Simon Herskovitz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, circa 1990s. Describes childhood in Slovakia, Hungarian occupation of region in 1940, deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, deportation to Kaufering and then march to Allach and liberation. Postwar immigration to Palestine/Israel.

  16. Grigoriy Getselevich memoir

    Testimony, one page, handwritten, brief account of life under German occupation in Ukraine (near Vinnitsa).

  17. Why the Jews?

    Essay, typescript, 6 pages, titled "Concerning the Holocaust: Why the Jews?" Consists of a conspiracy theory that Americans permitted Holocaust to happen as a way to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, so that American and British oil interests could have better (unfettered) access to Middle Eastern oil. 1994.

  19. Erwin Lachman collection

    Contains two address books and one pocket calendar of Ernst Lachmann, who committed suicide in Berlin in 1942 to avoid deportation.

  20. Martin M. Rieger family collection

    Various documents about extended Rieger family, including one file regarding settlement of estate of Levi Riess with Emilie Rieger as beneficiary; studies of Max Martin Nathan as architecture student at Technical University of Stuttgart, including correspondence from German student union questioning his plans to make a trip abroad to study architecture; a summons from the Gestapo in Stuttgart (1938); correspondence (via Red Cross) between Max, after his arrival in St. Louis, and his father, N.M. Nathan, first in Hamburg, then in Theresienstadt; and between Max Nathan and other family member...