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  1. Also Balaj memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 10 pages, written 1994, relating to experiences in Bucharest (Romania), Sarata (USSR), and Baldovinesti (USSR).

  2. Ausstellung SA-Gefaengis General-Pape-Strasse 1933 7 Kuenstler zeigen Arbeiten am Authentischen Ort Reaktionen auf Spuren und Dokumente

    Packet of documentation about history of barracks complex in Berlin on the General-Pape-Strasse used by the S.A. in 1933 as a location to imprison and torture political opponents of the Nazi regime. Velobound, contains history of complex, copies of documents and news clippings, photos of documentary filmmakers or others researching history and talking with survivors in 1990s.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Małogość, Skarżysko Kamienna, and Czeştochowa

    Testimony, typescript, 5 pages. Describers author's childhood in Chlewice, Poland, German invasion and occupation, forced labor in Malagosc, concentration camp in Skarżysko, and then forced labor in Czestochowa, before liberation.

  4. Eva M. Sell collection

    Testimony, excerpt (originally 64 pages, of which only pp. 57-64 are included), along with the cover and an original photograph.

  5. Regina Tigel papers

    Photocopy of Soviet document, attesting that donor (Regina Blufstein) fought as a partisan during war, and tear sheet from a Russian-language Israeli newspaper (1991), with an article telling Blufstein's (Tigel's) story, as well as two copy print photos of her.

  6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  7. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, photocopied from standard museum questionnaire form, plus five separate pages of handwritten text.

  8. Jacobson family papers

    The Jacobson family papers contain letters and telegrams between the Ostermann and Jacobson families documenting the Jacobson family's attempts to immigrate to the United States; two American Joint Distribution Committee press releases and a letter documenting the voyage of the MS St. Louis; a photocopy of a letter Erich Jacobson wrote to his family from Dachau concentration camp in 1938; a newspaper clipping announcing Erich Jacobson's death in in 1952; and a photocopy of a clipping memorializing the MS St. Louis.

  9. Anna Loewenstein papers

    The papers consist of two letters handwritten on air mail paper and sent from Rotterdam, Netherlands, to the donor's sister during the Holocaust.

  10. Kristallnacht

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, titled "Kristallnacht," recounting author's experience of this event, from arrest at his home in Braunschweig, imprisonment in local jail then state penitentiary, deportation to Buchenwald, then return after a couple of weeks to Braunschweig.

  11. Testimony

    Relates to Morris Jacob's (now Morris Rosenthal) experiences in various concentration camps and on a death march to Austria.

  12. Searching for food at Belsen after liberation

    Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. More shots of camp: smoke, tents, cooking fires, people wandering. MS through barbed wire fence where bin full of potato peelings is tipped over, two women look through waste for scraps. One Hungarian and one British sentry observe as female internees reach through fence for scraps; guards kick remnants towards them.

  13. Simon Langner papers

    The Simon Langner papers contain primarily immigration and legal documents related to Simon Langner, a Holocaust survivor. Included are a World ORT machinist’s trade certificate, an identity card, an affidavit and testimony for Simon, and a court ruling for reparations. Also included are a copy of his brother’s Abram Langner’s birth certificate, and a photograph of Simon.

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, acquired by a US soldier and NRRA administrator

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in 1943 in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp acquired by Mordecai E. Schwart. Schwartz, a soldier in the United States Army, was recruited after the war ended in May 1945 to serve as Area Director for UNRRA. He worked for UNRRA until 1948, when the organization was deactivated. He then became Area Director for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), supervising twenty-eight displaced persons camps in Germany. The DP camps were set up to house and feed, and to provide medical service and legal protection for survivors of the concentration and ...

  15. Mania Knobloch family papers

    Photographs of family, identification pass (from Schleissheim DP camp) for Mania Warschauer, notes.

  16. Lori Butler-Scheiwe memoir

    Testimony, seven pages, typescript, in form of letter to Walter Reich of USHMM asking that her family be included in museum's registry of victims and survivors. Provides detailed listing of experiences of various family members in Moldova during Holocaust.

  17. From hell to home

    Testimony, 143 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "From Hell to Home: Memoirs of One Who Survived," by Matityahu Goldberg, written in 1986 and translated (from Hebrew?) by Carl and Nechama Alpert. Recounts life in pre-war Lithuania, Soviet and German occupation, Dachau, time in DP camps, immigration to Israel.

  18. Unloading stretchers; digging graves

    Ambulance enters camp. Sign reading DDT CENTER. Women and men unloading stretchers from ambulance. Pan, cemetery, men digging graves, crosses erected. Tents. Doctor and patients walking about. LS camp, watchtower, people walking, some with shovels.

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  20. ID cards relating to Ebensee

    Identification documents, postwar, from a displaced person (DP) and former camp inmate.