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  1. Georg and Margarethe Weiss family papers

    The Georg and Margarethe Weiss family papers include two passports ("Reisepass") issued in Vienna, Austria, to Georg and Margarethe Weiss and affidavits and correspondence from Louis Weiss regarding his support of Georg and Margarethe’s immigration to the United States. Louis was not related to the Weiss family. The collection also includes a diary written by Peter Weiss, Georg and Margarethe’s son, from 1938-1940. Peter began his diary when he fled to Belgium in 1938 and his last entry was in June 1940, after arriving in the United States. In his diary Peter writes about boy scouts, leavin...

  2. Oral history interview with Harry Burger

  3. Oral history interview with Harry Toporek

  4. Oscar Koppel papers

    The Oscar Koppel papers contain a variety of documents pertaining to Oscar’s professional life and assets in Germany. Material documenting Oscar’s career as a lawyer range from his diploma from Heidelberg University to correspondence regarding his disbarment, to testimonies applauding his representation of labor unions. Also comprised in his collection are documents pertaining to the family’s property and assets in Germany. This includes asset registration forms and a series of telegrams regarding the seizure of his property in 1943 and his attempts for reclamation immediately following the...

  5. German town; market, airstrip, BDM

    WS, two men in field. Market. Woman with pigs. Plowing/farming scenes. HAS market. Farming. CU, soldier guarding building. Soldiers marching, parade. Fighting sequences at Army Day celebration. Train passing castle in FG in Eisenach. EXT, building with clock and sign, "Haupteingang." Street scenes. CUs, INT, men at work in Leica factory in Wetzlar. River with barge passing. Freight train, long, sustained, round curve near the Rhine River. Farming on mountainside, picking grapes. Several BDM girls throw javelins, do calisthenics in yard at Zinnowaldschule in Berlin. School/camp behind girls....

  6. Max Poznanski collection

    The Max Poznanski collection contains documentation acquired by Poznanski, in an effort to gain reparations for his medical conditions. Poznanski suffered from bronchitis and severe nervousness, gained from his time working in the coal mines while a prisoner in several concentration camps. The majority of the collection contains medical reports and diagnoses in English, German, Czech, Russian, and Polish. Also included are photographs of Max and his wife before the war, and news clippings in German. The Max Poznanski collection contains documentation gathered over many years in order to pro...

  7. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp

    Gold ring missing the setting taken by 18 year old Yidl (Eddie) Wajnsztajn from Treblinka death camp where he was forced to sort the belongings of incoming inmates. Yidl, his mother Leah, and 20 year old brother Israel were deported by the Germans to Treblinka from Losice, Poland, on August 22, 1942. The next day, while waiting in line for water, he was shot in the chest by an SS guard. Israel hid him and dressed the wound, then went to get water and never came back. Yidl escaped and returned to Losice. He told the remaining Jews about the horrors he had seen, but no one believed him. His f...

  8. Susan Medalie collection

    Contains a letter from the donor's grandmother to another relative in Brazil relating to the conditions in Germany for the Jews circa 1939.

  9. Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who perished in Auschwitz

    Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum who was deported from Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to Auschwitz where she perished, age 29, on November 30, 1943. The sculpture was created by Pieter Starreveld, circa 1986-1988.

  10. Frank Shurman collection

    The Frank Shurman collection contains primarily photocopies of documents collected by Frank Shurman, regarding his family and the Holocaust. Shurman, was arrested and imprisoned in Buchenwald before his family received visas to immigrate to the United States. He later enlisted in the United States Army. Documents include a biography of his uncle Albert Schürmann, and correspondence and translations from his uncle Albert to his uncle Otto prior to Albert’s deportation. Other documents include scrapbook pages and a copy of a speech Frank gave at his cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, a biography of Albert...

  11. Salomon Schmidt diary

    Consists of copies of an original diary written by Salomon Schmidt, who survived the war in hiding in Markuszowa, Poland. Mr. Schmidt was a member of the Judenrat in Frysztak, Poland. Includes English language translations of portions of the original diary, which is deposited at Yad Vashem.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Germany and USSR during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 6 pages, handwritten, about experiences of two sisters, from Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg) Germany, whose family went to the Soviet Union in the late 1930s on a "prisoner exchange," and after arrival in Armenia, were arrested and sent to Siberia.

  13. Under the heels of the Nazis

    Testimony, typescript (presumably unpublished), bound, 336 pages, undated but compiled in early 1990s, by survivor (Sam Seltzer) originally from Poland (Upper Silesia), but living in Detroit area.

  14. Memoir relating to the Holocaust in Dvinsk

    Memoir relating to the Holocaust in Dvinsk (presently Daugavpils, Latvia; known in German as Dunaberg).

  15. Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center

    Retrieved by Leonard Bloom while stationed in France.

  16. United States of America v. Josef Altstoetter et al., February 17, 1947 - December 4, 1947

    Contains proceedings, exhibits, and other court documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, United States v. Josef Altstoetter et al., (Case III, the "Justice Case"), February 1947 to December 1947, prosecuting Altstoetter and others for crimes against humanity during World War II. The proceedings contain information about Jews, Roma, Poles, and nationals of the eastern territories subjected to brutal treatment and death; deportation of civilians under the "Night and Fog Decree"; sterilization of "racially impure"; and euthanasia. A detailed list of defendants' names is provided in NARA ...

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Kretshnyf and Ukraine

    Testimony, typescript, 15 pages. Describes experiences of Haya Moskovitz (nee Katz), originally from a village (Kretschnyf) near Sighet, Transylvania. Describes life in Kretshnyf, deportation to Stanislaw (Ukraine), some relatives sent to Kamenets-Podolski, and eventually Auschwitz.

  18. Surrender of Belgium

    MCU, LS, German soldiers crossing field, mounting machine gun by fox hole, crossing small pontoon bridge, fighting in streets of city. Buildings burning, wrecked guns and tanks in streets. Pan across destroy city in Belgium as the narrator announces that the Beligan king has capitulated. Various scenes of surrender: German and Belgian high-ranking officers (including Field Marshal von Manstein?) talking. Belgian officer signing document. Automobile carrying large white flag. Camera on car showing columns of soldiers on side of highway. German and Belgian officers on steps of building. Belgi...

  19. Bernice Golde papers

    Documents (identification), relating to Malka Blajweis (Bleiweiss), and her experiences in DP camps after war, including post-war IDs issued in DP camps, certifying that she was imprisoned in concentration camps.

  20. Oral history interview with Lisa Miranda