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  1. Vladimir Perekalsky memoir

    Memoir, two pages, containing information about Vladimir Perekalsky's experiences in the ghetto in Kamenetz-Podolsk and in the Lantzendorf and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  2. Shalom Sechvi papers

    Testimony, typescript, unpaginated, and film slides. Typed text describes various events in (unnamed) author's life, during WWII, in camps/death marches, and then in Israel during war of independence. Slides (19) in plastic box may be matched to various sections of this text.

  3. Concentration camp atrocities

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food Kaunitz:...

  4. Documents relating to a Danish survivor of Theresienstadt

    Photocopied press release and news clipping, concerning Mrs. Blima Itzkowitz of Copenhagen, on the occasion of her 90th birthday in 1950. First item is from Danish Information Office in New York, lauding Mrs. Itzkowitz for her life as well as her fortitude during deportation to Theresienstadt, and accompanying news clipping is from unidentified publication in Danish.

  5. Forced confrontation, cinema

    LS of town road filled with people walking down towards the camera, buildings on frame right. Various shots of inhabitants of Burgsteinfurt (Germany) in the streets being ordered, assembled, and directed by troops, standing in lines, walking orderly, entering cinema. Sign above cinema entrance reads "Belsen & Buchenwald." People being directed as they exit cinema. CUs facial as civilians exit. NOTE: Burgsteinfurt was called the "village of hate" in the B.L.A. magazine, "The Soldier," because of its silent but noticeable resentment of the British occupation. The military government began...

  6. Trial of Adolf Eichmann [abridged version] (audio only)

    AUDIO RECORDING April 11 to December 11, 1961. An abridged version of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

  7. Susan Toth collection

    Consists of a copyprint and a copy of a document regarding the Bor forced labor camp in Serbia. Includes a photograph of a group of men and a list dated 1944 of thirteen men who were in a forced labor commando at Bor. The copy of the list was notarized in Timisoara, Romania, in 1944.

  8. Michael Kolanik papers

    The Michael Kolanik papers document Kolanik's unsuccessful efforts to receive compensation or recognition from the German, Polish, and American governments for the time his father, Michael Kolanik, Sr., spent in Nazi labor camps in Germany during World War II.

  9. Johtje Vos colledtion

    Testimony, 217 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "From the Entrance of the Tunnel." Describes activities of author and her husband in Dutch resistance and hiding Jews during German occupation of Netherlands.

  10. Papers of the Blumenthal family

    Consists of photocopies of list of residents of "the Jews' House", Munster; of drawing of "Das Judenhaus" from publication; and of correspondence (German and English translation) from Tea Blumenthal and Rabbi Steinthal.

  11. Ralph Walsh letter regarding Bergen-Belsen

    Consists of a photocopy of a letter, 9 pages, written by Ralph Walsh to Winnie, Fred, and Donald Walsh, dated June 28, 1945. In the letter, Mr. Walsh describes what he witnessed on a tour of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which had been liberated several weeks before his visit.

  12. Andrew Sipos collection

    Testimony (authored by donor, about his parents), photographs of family members, identification card for donor's father, letterhead and sample pattern from father's factory.

  13. Book Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime

    One volume of From the Last Extermination : Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime.

  14. Testimony

    Photocopy of document, notarized in Israel, of statement by Moritz Zauderer, who was interned with the donor's father (David Rostholder) in Buchenwald, and assumed that Rostholder was killed there. Document dated 1956.

  15. Morris Krakowsky memoir

    Testimony, 27 pages and photos, typescript, titled "Morris Krakowsky Memoir," dated 1995. Describes experiences in his hometown of Łódź prior to and during occupation, and at Skarżysko labor camp, then Buchenwald, and at Landsberg DP camp after liberation.

  16. Zalman Lubocki memoir

    The memoir of Zalman Lubocki of Kaunas, Lithuania is his eyewitness account of the German invasion in June 1941, life in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, imprisonment at Stutthof, hard labor, liberation, and his arrival as a displaced person at Landsberg, Germany. The collection is comprised of the original copy of the 100 page memoir written in Yiddish in 1945 when Zalman was living in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  17. Family relations

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 24 pages. Concerns efforts of a Polish family to save Jewish neighbors during occupation. Also contains copies and tearsheets about activities of Dolza-Gronowski family during that period, as well as copy of proclamation from Yad Vashem recognizing them as Righteous Among the Nations.

  18. Mark and Elsa Rubenstein papers

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, with outline-type list of experiences of Mark and Elsa Rubinstein during Holocaust, and Polish newspaper clipping about them.

  19. Norman Zylber and family papers

    Photocopies of Polish passport, family photos, and identification card for former internee of Buchenwald, all related to Naftali Zylber.

  20. Oskar Mendelsohn collection

    Consists of photocopies and printed material relating to the fate of Norwegian Jews during World War II. Central to the collection are many documents that illustrate the experience of Norwegian Jews under the Quisling Government, including police lists, official forms and certificates, antisemitic legislation, and extracts from several memoirs and diaries detailing daily life. The collection also contains copies of Nazi documents related to the Jews of Norway, lists of Norwegian Holocaust victims, and postwar survivor testimonies and legal initiatives.