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  1. Ruth Oppenheimer letters

    The Ruth Oppenheimer letters contain correspondence collected by Oppenheimer during her time living in Nazi-era Germany. The bulk of the correspondence comes from her boyfriend George Rau to Oppenheimer, during his imprisonment in 1939. George was arrested for having a relationship with an Aryan woman, and was later tried and found guilty of the same crime before dying in prison. The letters were written weekly and sent to Ruth. In addition are a letter and postcard from Rau prior to 1939, and correspondence from Rau’s family after his death.

  2. Photocopy of the operational map of the 4th United States Armored Division

    Contains a photocopy of the operational map of the 4th United States Armored Division.

  3. Arnold Newfield papers

    Documents (3), including birth certificate of Arnold Neufeld (documenting birth at Westerbork) with translation; photocopy of printed article by Alice Newfield about how she was reunited with her husband Arnim after her imprisonment at Bergen Belsen; and a "Mantello certificate" bestowing El Salvadoran citizenship on the whole Neufeld family, 1943.

  4. Karima Cristella collection

    Contains papers relating to refugee relief work of the Rev. Peter Abraham Azar.

  5. Bernard Blustein memoir

    The Bernard Blustein memoir is a 427 page memoir describing Bernard’s memories of the initial attack by the Germans on Belarus in June 1941, his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and his liberation in 1945. Written sometime after his arrival in the United States, the memoir recounts details of Bernard’s family and work life in Belarus, efforts to evade capture, assignments as a forced laborer, living conditions in the camps, and details of death marches.

  6. Documents relating to postwar Jewish refugee activities in the United States

    Program (mimeographed) for Hanukkah celebration at "The Haven: Buffalo Jewish Club" in 1947, along with text of speech given there and lyrics of songs.

  7. "Signs of Life: The Letters of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Westerbork Nazi Transit Camp, 1942-1944"

    Testimony. Typescript, bound titled "Signs of Life: The Letters of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Westerbork Nazi Transit Camp, 1942-1944." Edited by her daughters, Yoka Verdoner and Francisca Verdoner Kan.

  8. Klein Generations

    Genealogy, 313 pages, titled "9 Klein Generations," began by Simon Friedman in years following World War I, and completed by Harrold Weinberger in 1980.

  9. German surrender at Stalingrad; German prisoners & generals

    02:43:10 Title: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "8"/ "Moscow" / "February 1943" / "Directed by I. Setkinoy" / "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "Our armies have finished destroying the German-fascists surrounded near Stalingrad" / "Documentary of the last days of the enemy surrounded near Stalingrad" Panning ELSs of fire fight on snowy terrain. Aerial MSs of Soviet airplanes. Close views of corpses. MS soldiers in trenches, smoking. Close, over shoulder view of soldiers crawling to evade fire. LS of surrendering Germans filing out of brick building. LS soldier marching with white flag. 02:47:46 ELSs...

  10. Selected Nazi records relating to the Jewish Question in the Netherlands and Dutch resistance

    Photocopies of documents from German occupation authorities in the Netherlands, unknown provenance. Typescript of "Etty Hillesum: Kierkegaard's Poet of Existence," by Sixtus Scholtens; other assorted items.

  11. Joseph H. Robbins collection

    Photographs, from Nordhausen, after liberation. With photocopied text from the book, "History of the 104th Infantry Division."

  12. Roman and Ann Mandel collection

    Documents, identification, for Estera Schwimmer (Szwymer) and Roman Mandel, post-war Germany, documenting Schwimmer's disabilities caused by treatment in concentration camps, birth certificates, immunization documents, and others. Also has notebook with news clippings from German publications during the war, likely compiled by German schoolboy with name on front cover, scratched out and replaced with Mandel's name.

  13. Hassia Gilman letter

    Consists of one letter, written by Hassia Gilman to her brother and sister's family on October 15, 1944. In the letter, she describes wartime life in Leningrad and hearing about what happened to Jewish relatives in the town of Beshenkowitz, Russia.

  14. Seymour Reitman collection

    The Seymour Reitman collection consists of handwritten notes made by survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Wildflecken on Danube (SS training camp) camp given to Seymour Reitman, a member of the US Army, shortly after liberation, circa 1945. Among the survivors were Jewish performers from a Yiddish Theater in Berlin, Germany who had been at Buchenwald concentration camp performing for the SS. The collection includes names and addresses of survivors, and testimony, in Yiddish, of a survivor named Yakov Leukovits, born in Skernievits (Skierniewice, Poland) addressed to E. Wol...

  15. Documents relating to the indictment of Ernst August Koenig

    Photocopied documents, related to case against and indictment of Ernst Koenig, dated 1986.

  16. My meeting with Heinrich Himmler - April 20/21, 1945

    The collection consists of three versions of Norbert Masur's report of his meeting with Heinrich Himmler on April 20-21, 1945. Included is a copy of Masur’s original report in German, a version entitled “En Jude Talar Med Himmler” published in Swedish in 1945, and an English translation completed by Masur’s nephwer, Henry Karger. Masur was a member of the Swedish section of the World Jewish Congress. At his meeting with Himmler, Norbert Masur negotiated the release of 7,000 Jewish women from Ravensbrück concentration camp, and the women arrived in Sweden in April 1945.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Sharkowszczyna and Glubokoye ghettos and as a partisan

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, concerning Zorach Serkin's experience in occupied Belarus, including Szarkowszczyna ghetto

  18. DPs; postwar rehabilitation

    Titles read: Um Resultado da guerra. Descito por aimbere. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, displaced persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, a soldier guards them. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. Milit...

  19. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Neustadt

    Consists of a typed copy of one memoir, in English, written by Flora Herzberger in Rodewisch, Germany, in June 1945. In the memoir, Mrs. Herzberger describes the family's deportation from Germany into Poland to the Łódź ghetto in 1941, her husband's death in the ghetto, the deportation of the children of Łódź, and her deportation to Auschwitz with her son and daughter. She describes life in Auschwitz and being sent, with her daughter, to forced laber at the Sackisch subcamp of Gross-Rosen in an airplane factory. She thanks the American military and all who have been so kind to her after...

  20. Oral history interview with Hans Lopater