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  1. Moritz Weisberg collection

    Contains a memoir and poems relating to experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Gusen.

  2. Oral history interview with Esther Shudmak

  3. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence

    The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence contains monthly reports and biographical briefs on the residents of the displaced persons camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The administration of these camps were run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was set up in 1913 in order to assist Jewish communities overseas. The collection centers around the documentation created by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee as it administered the camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The camp names near Ulm were Sedan-Kaserne, Hindenburg-Kaserne...

  4. Sidney Liswood photograph collection

    Consists of 15 photographs of liberation of Dachau and the nearby village.

  5. Memoir of a slave laborer in Hungary and Ukraine and a prisoner in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen.

    Testimony, typescript, 4 pages, describing life in Mezotur, Hungary, implementation of anti-Jewish laws there, work in labor-regiment with Hungarian forces in Soviet Union (Voronezh), return to Hungary and work on forced labor battalions, deportation to Mauthausen toward end of the war, and liberation.

  6. Harriet R. Karan collection

    Testimony, typescript, eight pages, titled "An Unforgettable Tale" by Nora Hope Karan, describing her experiences during German invasion of the Netherlands, imprisonment at Westerbork, then deportation to Bergen Belsen, liberation, life as DP, and immigration to U.S. Separate typescript (2 pages) titled "Eva" by Harriet Karan, letter addressed to her after death in 1978.

  7. Lili Kingstone collection

    Consists three passports as well as miscellaneous documents and correspondence related to the family's emigration from Austria in 1938. Also includes two pre-war photographs: one of Luise Koenigstein working in a Jewish owned textile mill in Vienna, 1935; and one of Artur and Luise Koenigstein posing with their children on the beach, also in Austria, 1935.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences in Odessa and Domanyovka ghettos

    Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, about family's experience in Odessa and Domanevka under German occupation.

  9. Ernst and Ruth Rettinger papers

    One letter, on Red Cross stationery, from Ernst and Edith Rettinger, from Palestine, sent to his parents in Bratislava, 1942, as well as two photocopied news clippings from American newspapers (1994), describing Rettingers' experiences as Jews who were able to flee Czechoslovakia shortly before German takeover.

  10. "From Jaslo - Through Hell - to Freedom"

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 36 pages, by Edward Blonder, written in 1981. Describes childhood in Jaslo, Poland; German invasion and occupation; creation of ghetto in Jaslo and eventual destruction of that ghetto and transfer to Przemyśl ghetto, then Auschwitz and various labor camps (including Ebensee); liberation and immigration to the United States.

  11. Kalinin awards military; pilots; Jewish anti-fascist committee

    Kalinin decorates military men, INT, close views. 01:19:46 Pilots and crews on airfield; to planes; bombs dropping, air-to-ground shots. 01:21:49 Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Speech "To the Jews of the World". Ilya Ehrenburg, Serge Eisenstein, Solomon Mikhoels. 01:22:22 CU Solomon Mikhoels speaking in Russian, seated at microphone: to 01:24:02 CU Peretz Markish speaking in Yiddish, "Brother Jews" 01:25:24 CU Sergei Eisenstein speaking in English, "racial hatred is foreign and loathsome to me... The time has come to fight... sacred struggle... saving a people... Triumph of humanism over br...

  12. Green patch with a gray embroidered swastika within a diamond

    Green parch with a gray swastika to be worn by a Nazi party member or sympathizer.

  13. A memoir relating to Charles G. Ipjian and the Turkish persecution of the Armenians

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, unpaginated (circa 100 pages), about life of Charles Ipjian, an Armenian immigrant from Turkey, who came to Chicago in the 1920s.

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in Sosnowiec and Peterswaldau

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, in Polish with partial English translation. Experience of author, from Czestochowa, Poland, and what she experienced in that town, Sosnowiec, and Gross Rosen, among other places and labor camps during the war.

  15. Oral history interview with Eva Gutman

  16. Lawrence B. Wayne collection

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, 26 pages, titled "My Dream? By Louis Weintraub, as told to Technical Sgt. A.W. Schenk," 27 pages. Account of Weintraub, from his hometown of Łódź, to imprisonment at Auschwitz, Oranienburg (Sachsenhausen), and Buchenwald, and of liberation by Americans, including Schenk. Includes two photos of Larry Wayne.

  17. Copies of selected records relating to war crimes at Gross Rosen

    Consists of photocopies, photostats, and typed reports from the collection of the Panstwowe Muzeum Gross-Rosen. Includes transport lists; partial lists of inmates; records of exectionsp; transport lists to and from Auschwitz and Mauthausen; and letters to and from the camp written by Polish prisoners.

  18. A memoir

    Testimony, 7 pages, typescript, titled "An Account of the Holocaust," by Sam Seif (Shlomo Zaif). Account of author's family during German invasion of Poland (they lived in Kalisz), transport to ghetto at Rzeszow, then at Płaszów camp, then as forced laborer in or near Czestochowa. Account appears to have been written by one of Seif's children.

  19. Manfred Katz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, four pages, describing Katz's experience in a village near Kassel, deportation to Riga in 1941, the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps, liberation, migration to US Zone of Germany, and eventual unification with family of sister and immigration to US.

  20. Book

    Book detailing the annhilation of Lithuanian Jewry.