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  1. Documents relating to Anne Frank

    Contains one letter to Janice Rush from Otto Frank, dated 1967, responding to a letter Rush, of Herington, Kansas, had sent to him expressing admiration for "Diary of a Young Girl." Also includes a holiday card from Otto Frank, December 1970, and a letter from Miep Gies, 1989, after Rush wrote to her, also.

  2. Oral history interview with Fred Korpell and Marga Korpell

  3. Manuscript and commentaries relating to the fate of the Gubic family and to the Slovak Holocaust

    Testimonies, consisting of photocopied typescript texts (varied), with list of texts in first folder. Most seem to do with time Otto Gubic spent as partisan during occupation of Czechoslovakia, and his role in Slovak National Uprising (SNP).

  4. Semen Borokhovskiy collection

    Contains memoir, photograph, certificate, map, and news clips relating to experiences in Pechora.

  5. Ricke Papanek testimony

    Testimony. Photocopy of manuscript in German, with a 62 page translation into English, with a postscript. The original manuscript was titled "Aufzeichnungen ueber mein Leben im Kamp durch 2 Jahre, fuer meine Kinder," and was written by Viennese-born Ricke Papanek, who was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943. The manuscript was written in diary form about author's time in Theresienstadt, looking back on life in the Netherlands and events of deportation, to liberation and return to Holland. English translation contains a note by the translator, her niece Erna Winter, who provides a brief bio o...

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Radom, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 19 pages. Discusses German invasion and occupation of hometown of Radom, Poland; life in ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz, and then to other locations in Germany as forced laborer.

  7. Addison Moll collection

    Contains numerous photographs accompanied by a mimeographed text titled "Photos of the Signal Corps, Story of the 166th" (approximately 32 pages). The photos depict events in France, Luxembourg, and western Germany, many with captions on verso.

  8. Olga Kovacs memoir

    Contains a memoir written in 1995 about life before the Holocaust in Salgótarján and Budapest (Hungary). At the age of 18 Olga Kovacs was deported from the Salgótarján ghetto to Auschwitz. In August 1944 she was taken to the Parschnitz camp, near Breslau/Wroclaw, to work in an AEG plant. She was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on May 8, 1945. Following the liberation she stayed for a while in Trautenau (Trutnov, Czech Republic) at another AEG plant, before returning to Hungary. She left Hungary in 1961, and after a brief stay in Vienna (Austria) she immigrated to the United States. Acc...

  9. American prisoner of war in Buchenwald

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, titled "American Prisoner of War in Buchenwald" by Roy Allen, as told to Seymour Shubin. Eighty (80) pages, undated.

  10. Leningrad liberated

    Reel 1. Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "10"/ "Moscow"/ "February 1944"/ "Directed by I. Kopalina"/ "Leningrad is liberated from the enemy blockade" Various shots of Leningrad in winter. Title: "This is an unforgettable night for Leningrad" Dark LS of cannons firing, cut to view of fireworks over the city. CUs smiling civilian faces in crowd. Wide pan across spot lit crowd. Low MS of woman against backdrop of fireworks. Daytime, pan across civilians reading message of thanks to the Leningrad front posted on a building side. 03:48:26 Titles: "Reporting on Leningrad's liberated ground" Battlefield...

  11. Oral history interview with Errico Levis

  12. Andrew Rosenbaum and family papers

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, titled "The History of the Landau and Weinberger family," by Hana Rosenbaum.

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  14. Irena Peritz papers

    The Irena Peritz papers include her autograph book, diary, and memoir documenting her friendships in Lvov and Borysław and her family’s experiences in the Borysław ghetto and labor camp and in hiding. The papers also include letters from Janka and Niuta Teicher documenting their experiences in the Drohobycz labor camp and Dachówczarnia brick factory. The autograph book includes signatures, poems, and drawings by Irena Peritz’s friends in Lvov and Borysław. Correspondence consists of letters written by Janka and Niuta Teicher in the Dachówczarnia labor camp in Drohobycz to Irena Peritz in Bo...

  15. David Kohl and family papers

    Photocopied material in Polish, one from a published work, and one from manuscript (unidentified), with note indicating that published one dealt with contents of newsletter created by orphans in orphanage of Janusz Korczak.

  16. Photographs of mass grave sites at Dora-Mittelbau

    Photographs of mass graves at Dora-Mittelbau being viewed by local German residents of Nordhausen.

  17. Military Advance in France; German soldiers in Paris

    MCU, horse-drawn artillery advancing through Chateau Thierry; French prisoners in FG. MCU, motor-drawn artillery advancing, infantry in BG. Drivers of horse-drawn artillery sleeping on wagons. MCU, tank panzer division crossing river on pontoon bridge. Armored vehicles on road. Infantry advancing in heavy rain. French POWs. Field kitchen. MS, Volkswagon passing by tanks. Buildings burning around oil refinery. Oil tanks on fire, black smoke. Nazi flag hoisted. Airplane landing in Paris, civilians and soldiers in FG. LS, Eiffel tower. MCU, anti-tank gun in streets of Paris. MCU, German troops...

  18. A memoir

    Testimony, 30 pages, photocopy of typescript, plus photocopies of maps and photographs. Titled "To: Our Descendants" from Natalia and Daniel Hochman. Discusses childhood in eastern Poland (now Ukraine), in Sambor and Boryslaw, life in the Boryslaw ghetto, where the Hochmans first met, and life in hiding prior to liberation by Soviet troops in 1944.

  19. Oral history interview with Curtis Whiteway

  20. Shlomo Meltzer memoir

    Testimony, 98 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "A Jew" by Shlomo Meltzer, giving account of childhood near Lwow, invasion of Germans, war years, etc. Also includes Russian typescript version of same, along with copied Russian documents and photos.