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  1. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 7 pages, written in 1995. Describes childhood in Hamburg, Kristallnacht and his subsequent arrest and internment at Sachsenhausen, emigration to England and then to the United States.

  2. Malvina Graf collection

    Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, of Polish born survivor from Krakow, spent 2 years at Płaszów. Alludes to book she has published of her memoirs.

  3. Alfred Meyer papers

    Death certificate for Alfred Meyer, who died at Buchenwald in November 1938, and receipts for expenses of his burial at Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt am Main; letter from camp announcing his death to his widow, Mrs. Erna Meyer; and later correspondence (post-war) as she sought to trace fates of other family members.

  4. Testimonies relating to the persecution and killing of Jews in Lithuania during the Holocaust

    Photocopies from the Clerk of Court, St. Landry Parish, Opelousas, Louisiana.

  5. Oral history interview with Felix Mietla

  6. Documents relating to the Paul Grueninger case

    Contains press reports, court records relating to the trial of Paul Grueninger, who saved 3,000 Jews.

  7. Abraham Kaner Identification card

    The provisional identification card ("Ausweis") was issued after liberation to former Mauthausen internee Abraham Kaner.

  8. Nazi propaganda: home front

    Intertitle: "Ein Film vom Arbeitseinsatz und der Gefolgschaftsfuersorge in Heeresbetrieben" [A film about work's employment and staff's welfare in army firms] This documentary begins with graphics showing the German civilian workforce in Army firms in 1939 and 1943 and highlights the rise of women's involvement. It stresses the importance of a female workforce for 'wrestling for Germany's future'. A 'typical day' is shown: a worker's camp situated in a beautiful landscape, housing in modern buildings, working in healthy conditions, living conditions 'like at home', 'real comradeship' betwee...

  9. Women at marketplace

    VAR shots of Nuremberg marketplace. Women selling wares, eating soup, weighing large squash. Flower stall, vendor talks to girls, baskets of flowers. In Dinkelsbuehl, two older men with sideburns, CUs, loading grain with rope. Tudor buildings with window boxes, quaint. LS, courtyard, aerial shot of rooftops in Dinkelsbuehl, balconies with flowers, aerial shot of street in village. In Nuremberg, sign: "Adolf Hitler Platz". EXT, wall of building with painting and German inscription. At market, CU vendor talking.

  10. Nazi propaganda: leadership principle

    The compilation starts with a staged scene of an uniformed Nazi officer speaking in Russian about the Fuehrer to people with beards and shabby clothing gathering in a hut. Then documentary footage of Hitler is shown: in a car passing cheering masses, addressing a gathering about overcoming of any pre-existing cleavages in favor of the unity of the German people, at the balcony of the Reichskanzlei [Reich chancellery] watching a torch-lit parade in 1933 to the sound of the German national anthem, with Baldur von Schirach and Rudolf Hess at a stadium gathering of the Hitler Youth, at the Olym...

  11. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner

    Sketchbook created by Adolf Frankl, depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps. It was likely created after the war, as a way for Adolf to process his experiences during the Holocaust. Adolf was living in his hometown of Bratislava with his wife, two children, and a large extended family, when the city became part of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia in May 1939. When World War II began in September 1939, the family’s interior design store was confiscated and Aryanized. Adolf was able to continue working for the new owner, and received documentation protecting him and his family fro...

  12. Documents relating to the Holocaust story of Feygl (Fela) Infeld (Glaser)

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript, about experiences of donor at Stutthof camp in 1945. Also contains news clipping about the same, from newspaper "Jewish Standard," 28 April 1995.

  13. Jurnalul unei vieti

    Mariana Kardos (a.k.a. Mirjam Chanit) was a medical doctor, and worked as an inmate in the revier, in Auschwitz. Following the liberation she was accused, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison in Cluj (Romania) for mistreating her fellow inmates. The manuscript is her memoir and contains the descriptions of her experiences in Auschwitz and Cluj (Kolozsvár).

  14. International Military Tribunal publications and an atrocity photograph

    Photocopies of floor plan of the Nuremberg courtroom for the International Military Tribunal. Also includes list of the defendants; instructions to the press camp; and a photographic print of man being tortured at unidentified location.

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  16. Hanetzotz (The Spark)

    Bound periodical from late 1945, apparently from United Zionist Movement among Jewish survivors in Germany.

  17. Sidney Stecher collection of restitution claim files

    Contains restitution case files for clients of Sidney Stecher. The case files contain personal information about Holocaust survivors including: place of birth, occupation, ghetto and concentration camp experiences, place of liberation, medical information, and attempts to receive restitution from the German government. Files also contain various documents dating from the 1930s and 1940s used as evidence in the claims process.

  18. Oral history interview with Simon Strauss

  19. Forced confrontation, funerals of victims

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Funerals of victims of the SS in Cologne and Lindlar. German civilians are forced to walk past open caskets and aid in the religious processionals.

  20. Ruth Taub Feldman papers

    The Ruth Taub Feldman papers consists of photographs of the Taub family, biographical materials documenting the Taub family, Ruth’s brief memoir, letters to Ruth from her father and Gilbert Kraus, an autograph book inscribed by Ruth’s parents and friends, clippings, and a newsletter. The papers document Ruth Taub’s immigration as one of the "50 children" in the spring of 1939, and the immigration of her parents, Markus and Jeanette, from Vienna to the United States in March 1940. The papers also include a copy of Brith Sholom's July 1939 newsletter, "The Royal Recorder," featuring an articl...