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  1. Oral history interview with Kurt Weiler

  2. Marcella Lazerus papers

    Photocopies of four documents, 1938-1939, related to Isaak Bernstein of Berlin-Lichtenrade, including letter expelling him (as a stateless Jew) from the Technische Universitaet-Berlin.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Russia, and other countries

    Testimony, typescript, 199 pages, titled "A Russian Chronicle, Michael L. Zlatovski, 1881-1951." Inscribed "For Rae and Jack, fondly, Helen." On verso of title page is "Copyright, 1976, Helen Zlatovski-Tenenbaum." Memoir describes life in pre-Revolutionary Russia, the early years of the Soviet Union, and immigration to the United States.

  4. Ruins in Novgorod; Kinggesep concentration camp

    Reel 2. LS ruins in Novgorod. MS soldiers digging, uncovering large steeple bell. LS bell being dragged out of the ground. LS diver submerging to attach cable to bell. LS bell towed out of water. Pre-war shot of church contrasted with footage of the church in ruins. MSs and CUs of toppled statues partially buried in snow. ELS large gravesite. Map highlighting Pavlovsk. The town with soldiers moving through. Various structures on fire. CUs statues and historical sites in ruins. 04:04:05 Map highlighting Pushkin. Extensive pan across city from elevated vantage. Before and after shots of museu...

  5. German 62nd Infantry Regiment Anschulss photo album

    Photographic album which chronicles the march of a German infantry regiment into Austria during the Anschluss in March 1938. Several pages contain inscriptions describing the actions of the 62 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, and 20th Infantry Regiment.

  6. Eugene Zinn memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 31 pages, with three copied pages of song text and list of family members who were killed, and description of Auschwitz. Author describes childhood and family in Slovak village of Huncovce, later German occupation, deportation to Auschwitz and experiences there.

  7. Oral history interview with Lowell Drudge

  8. Julius and Leopold Stein correspondence

    The Julius and Leopold Stein correspondence contains photocopies of letters between Julius Stein and his brother, Leopold, among others. The correspondence relate primarily to the liquidation of Julius’ chemical plant in Meiningen, Germany, and Julius’ attempts to prevent such from happening. This continued while Julius was arrested and imprisoned in Buchenwald. The last letters are death notifications sent to Leopold concerning his brother’s death at Dachau.

  9. Arthur Riegel papers

    Photocopied memorial book and news clippings about events to commemorate Elsa Rauch, a school teacher from Lueneburg, who was deported to Łódź and eventually gassed at Chelmno in 1942. Her former students gathered together in 1993 to dedicate a memorial plaque to her, with Arthur Riegel apparently leading this action. Included is a photocopied booklet (37 pages) with a biography of Rauch, copied documents, and typescript copies of correspondence.

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Przemysl, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript. Description of experiences in Dobromil, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

  11. Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei Lublin (Sygn.175)

    Contains instructions, name lists, questionnaires, and correspondence concerning uniform allowances for members of the 25th Regiment of the SS, Ordnungspolizei in Lublin, Poland; questionnaires completed by police functionaries in the 25th Regiment in Lublin; correspondence concerning furloughs for SS personnel of the 25th Regiment; instructions of the commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Lublin concerning the showing of a propaganda film concerning bombs; and correspondence from the Generalgouvernement in Lublin concerning real estate.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Czechoslovakia and the USSR

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Description of childhood and youth in Ostrava (Czech), German occupation, flight to Lwow, and then Buczacz, and then deportation by Soviets to Siberia.

  13. Nazi propaganda: anti-US

    The prologue indicates this film shows authentic American documentary footage from the 'paradise of freedom'. The film starts with images of the Statue of Liberty as narration tells that it was erected on a field of gallows. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is accused of preaching the 'phrases and slogans' of freedom, democracy, and religion while practicing oppression. Police squads and army troops are shown fighting with teargas, clubs, and pistols against strike riots in this 'freest democracy of the world'. The fate of millions of honest and poor American workers and peasants is contrast...

  14. Berman and Donner papers

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, written in 1944 by a "Mr. Donner" describing his experiences at Jasenovac. Also enclosed is letter to USHMM from Berman, who met Donner and his family when he was in the U.S. Army in Taranto, Italy, and the Donners were refugees there. Includes photos of Donner family taken in Taranto by Berman, 1945.

  15. Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Soap issued to Esther Moses, October-November 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Esther Zelmanovits Moses was interred in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was given this bar of soap when she was sent to work in Hamburg on November 26, 1944. She carried it with her for the remainder of the war. Her husband, Herbert Moses hid the bar of soap in his father-in-law's, Sam Zelman, store in Kansas.

  16. Margaret Gruenbaum collection

    Contains album of miscellaneous correspondence, drawings, documents, and news articles relating to experiences in Terezin, 1942 - 1945.

  17. Erica Spindel collection

    Testimony, handwritten, 3 pages, of Erica Spindel, describing birth in Vienna, being sent to Switzerland as child, father's arrest and internment in Dachau and Buchenwald, and family's subsequent trip to Shanghai. Also contains photocopies of three postcards sent by father from Buchenwald and Dachau.

  18. Photocopies of miscellaneous German correspondence relating to the escape of Czeslaw Mordowicz from Auschwitz and the condition in the camp as of 1944

    Photocopied documents describing the escape of Czeslaw Mordowicz from Auschwitz in 1944.

  19. A memoir relating to a survivor's experiences at Pechora concentration camp

    Contains a memoir relating to a survivor's experiences at the Pechora concentration camp

  20. Julius Beer papers

    Julius Beer papers consists of a 2 page testimony, 1995; a 1 page speech delivered at a synagogue in New Jersey, 1993, regarding Julius Beers Holocaust experiences in Hamburg, Germany and the Auschwitz concentration camp; and an article published in the Washington Jewish Week, September 2, 1993.