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  1. William A. Grab Jr. collection

    The William A. Grab Jr. collection is comprised of papers pertaining to Thaddaus Zalewski and Paul Flohr, both prisoners held by the Nazis during the Holocaust and collected by William A. Grab, a veteran of the United States Army. The Thaddaus Zalewski papers include four letters written by Thaddaus during his incarceration in Dachau between 1943 and 1944. The letters were sent to a family member living in East Prussia. The material pertaining to Paul Flohr includes various identification papers and membership cards. Included among them are membership cards for the Social Democratic Party a...

  2. Oral history interview with Amalie Mary Robinson

  3. German town; Degenerate Art exhibit in Munich

    In the medieval German town of Eisenach, passersby, civilians, artist painting quaint scene outdoors. EXTs Wartburg fortress walls. LS, hillside. 00:13:52 Industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, high angle views. Visitors at displays, including farm equipment: "Stahl-Kombinus" and "Leichte Maschinen". Fountain inside exhibition, crowds. 00:15:25 Very crowded city square in Weimar in summer. Throngs of people, many seated at tables outdoors, men in uniform, women in summer dresses. Large group dancing, ballroom style (motion is slowed down in film). Banners with swastikas surround the square. 0...

  4. Oral history interview with Judith Schanda

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in Uzgorod

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, about Ernst Bohm's wife, Lily, originally from Uzhgorod, and her life in hiding during war.

  6. Oral history interview with Howard Wisla

  7. Sheer Luck

    Testimony. Typescript, 219 pages, titled "Sheer Luck," by Jack Warga, of Brookline, Massachusetts, dated 1994. Describes experiences of childhood in Poland, family's immigration to Belgium, escape from Belgium through France after German invasion, eventual escape from France to US via Cuba, experiences in U.S. Army during and after WWII, and experiences of his extended family that had remained behind in Poland.

  8. Records relating to Jews in Ukraine during World War II

    Photocopied documents, all related to Archbishop Andrei Szeptycki (Sheptytsky) of the Ukrainian Catholic church, and his role and activities during the occupation of Ukraine.

  9. Records relating to Auschwitz and other camps from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, Podolsk

    Contains information about Soviet prisoners of war in Romanian camps; atrocities against Soviet citizens; liberation of Auschwitz and its various subcamps; inspection of the various Auschwitz camps after liberation; prisoners liberated from Auschwitz camps; liberation ofRavensbrück; atrocities in Stutthof; and activities of "bandit groups" (resistance fighters) in Lithuania and Belorussia.

  10. Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers

    The Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers consist of advertisements, photographs, printed materials, and store catalogs documenting the Brenner family’s photograph supply stores in Cologne, their expropriation under the Nazi regime, the establishment of their store in Rome, their escape to the United States, the establishment of their store in Washington, DC, and Leo Brenner’s store in Haifa.

  11. Luba Mendelsberg letters

    The Luba Mendelsberg letters is comprised of correspondence collected by Luba and her husband Meyer while they were living in New York City in the years immediately following World War II. The letters are primarily from Luba’s nephew, Samuel Krum, written between 1946 and 1954 and describe life for Jewish refugee families in post-war Warsaw, the struggle to obtain visas to emigrate from Poland, and Samuel’s emotions in the years immediately following the Holocaust. Samuel writes to Luba from a variety of places, initially from Warsaw, then Paris, and finally, Melbourne, Australia and detail...

  12. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee records

    The collection consists of a document prepared by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Paris between July 18 and Aug 2, 1939. The document is titled "Ms. St-Louis passengers and their distribution" containing a list of 907 passengers. The collection also consists of reports, memos, correspondence (letters and cables), news releases, minutes of meetings, summaries, and surveys related to assisting survivors; newly liberated displaced persons in camps in Germany (e.g. Landsberg, Bergen-Belsen, Heidelberg, Bremen, etc. ), and in Austria (e.g. Neustadt, Villach, Linz, etc.); movi...

  13. Oral history interview with Ruth Knopp

  14. Sarra Gimelshtein collection

    Consists of a handwritten, bound memoir, written by Sarra Gimelshtein relating to her experience in the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus. In the memoir, she describes her experiences as a young child fleeing the liquidation of the Minsk ghetto and escaping into Poland, where she survived the war.

  15. Alice Fahrer papers

    The papers consist of two studio portraits of Joseph Ornstein, one taken in 1898 and one (a copy print) printed in 1951, and a postcard send by Joseph Ornstein from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Karoline Zisdka in Vienna, Austria.

  16. Memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of manuscript, 11 pages, in Russian (with one page English summary included by donor). Covers experiences between 1941-1944 in occupied Odessa, includling Slobodka ghetto.

  17. Robert A. Bauer papers

    Contains material, including scripts and press clippings, pertaining to Robert Bauer's activities broadcasting anti-Nazi programs from France and Normandy. Also includes personal papers regarding his entry into the United States.

  18. A memoir relating to experiences in Kraków, Płaszów, and Auschwitz

    Consists of one memoir, 1 page, in English, by Ernest Abraham, who lived in Łódź and Krakow before the war. In the testimony, he writes about the deportation of his parents and sister to Belzec, his own forced labor in Płaszów, where he worked in a shoe factory, his deportatation to Starachowice, to Buna-Monowitz, and his eventual liberation from Buchenwald. Mr. Abraham also briefly describes his post-war family life.

  19. Abraham Kolender memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages. Recounts experiences of Kolander, in his native Poland, life in pre-war period, German occupation, wartime exile in Soviet Union (Ural Mountains), experience as DP at Landshut, immigration to U.S.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in Balta

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, in Russian with English summary, about experiences of Orentlikher (born Fira Kaleka) and her family, in Balta ghetto in Ukraine, during occupation. Also, photocopied Soviet-era document attesting to family's presence in Balta ghetto (near Odessa) from 1941-1943.