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  1. Henry and Grete Salomon collection

    The Henry and Grete Salomon collection contains primarily identification documents for both Henry Salomon and Grete Nathan Salomon. Both escaped Germany in 1939, and later married in England. Grete worked odd jobs while Henry enlisted in the British Army. Documents include identification papers such as certificates concerning parents, travel documents, certificate of good conduct, household goods directory, registration identity cards, and various other items. Other documents include newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reparations information. The Henry and Grete Salomon collection con...

  2. Oral history interview with Eugene Debs Simon

  3. Dimiter and Radka Zagoroff papers

    Correspondence (all photocopied), relating to requests from West German prosecutors for Sagoroff's assistance with testifying in case against Adolf Beckerle, former German ambassador to Bulgaria, for his role in persecution of Jews in Bulgaria during war.

  4. Yessoula Cohen identification card

    The identification card was issued to Yessoula Cohen, Henry Levis's uncle.

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in the Krizhopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten, 3 pages, describing experiences of family in their home village, near Vinnitsa, and in ghetto in Chechelnik.

  6. A Memoir relating to experiences in the Chernauti Ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, in Russian, describing experiences of Pilper and his family in the Chernivtsi ghetto.

  7. A wonder Rabbi in limbo First they burned books

    Typescript (photocopied), 59 pages, containing translated text of a play, originally written in German, by Leo Kohut. Second typescript, 136 pages, titled "First They Burned Books," appears to be a memoir by Kohut of his experiences in wartime Slovakia.

  8. Registration cards of the Jewish prisoners of war from the camps in Lublin Kartoteka Jeṅcow Wojennych Żydow z obozu w Lublinie (Sygn. 208)

    Contains registration cards arranged as an index to the names of Jewish prisoners of war (POW) who were recruits from the eastern borderland (Kressy Wschodnie) of prewar Poland, were held in various POW and other camps in the area of Lublin, Poland, and were killed in Majdanek. The registration cards contain information on prisoner names, date and place of birth, parents’ names, and the camp where they were imprisoned. The majority of the registration cards include the prisoners’ mug shots and fingerprints.

  9. Gerson Zycband memoir

    Testimony, 150 pages, typescript, about experiences in Włodawa, Poland, during German occupation.

  10. KXTV oral history interview

  11. Marian H. Moss and family papers

    Correspondence from Hela Rosen, in Sweden, to Marian (Mania) Horn, in Boston, 1947. The correspondents knew each other from Poland, and Rosen was writing as a DP to Horn after the war. Also are photographs of several people, most appear to be pre-war (1937-1939) and are inscribed on the back. Also included is one postcard sent by Horn to her mother, Rywka Horn, in the Łódź ghetto, July 1940; in it, she expresses worry about family, not having heard anything from them in 4 months, and postcard was returned to Horn in New York with stamp from authorities saying it was not deliverable, address...

  12. Oral history interview with Werner Weinberg

  13. Oral history interview with Joseph Rapaport

  14. Valentina Svoyatytsky memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, seven pages, likely dictated to a native English speaker and signed by Svoyatytsky, dated 1994. Describes experiences in Minsk during the German occupation.

  15. Harry C. Saunders collection

    Contains photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence, publications and photographs which relate to the 1st Platoon, Troop D, 41st Cavalry Recon Squadron Mech., 11th Army Armored Division, liberating Mauthausen, and Harry C. Saunders' recollections of Mauthausen.

  16. Letter from a Jew who was hiding in a grave in Poland

    Letter, handwritten on back of forms, 7 pages, with last couple of pages of carbon copy of a typescript text that appears to explain the context of the letter. Letter seems to be identified as from Dr. Boleslaw Ratniewski, document is signed by Janina Grunda.

  17. Photocopies of documents, letters and publications relating to the persecution of Jews and Jewish resistance in Belgium during the Holocaust

    Photocopies of documents, letters and publications relating to the persecution of Jews and Jewish resistance in Belgium during the Holocaust.

  18. A letter and a Nazi publication relating to the Nazi view of Jewry

    Letter, from German Consul General in Montreal, Canada (L. Kempff), November 1933, addressed "Dear Sir" and elaborating justification for Germany's treatment of Jews, along with printed booklet, titled "Germany's Fight for Western Civilization," 32 pages, printed in Berlin. Letter may have been mass produced for wider distribution in Canada, in response to speeches of Rabbi Stephen Wise.

  19. John Kafka collection

    The John Kafka collection mainly consists of correspondence, printed material, and articles relating to Dr. John S. Kafka and Gertrude Kren’s (née Bloch) refutation of Rudolph Binion's (1927-2011) psychoanalytic theories on the origins of the Holocaust and correspondence related to the return of postcards and other items written by Adolf Hitler to Dr. Eduard Bloch. The collection also includes biographical material and articles written by Eduard Bloch as well as biographical material, photographs, and family research relating to the Bloch and Kafka families. Biographical material includes o...

  20. Jaffe family postcards

    Postcards (4), sent from Juda Joffe to his brother (Boris, in New York) and son (Juda, in St. Augustine, FL), appealing for help, written from Warsaw (presumably from the ghetto), March through May 1941. One postcard is sent via HICEM in Lisbon, asking for help in contacting various relatives in U.S. and urgently seeking assistance from them.