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  1. Aerial photograph of Camp de Gurs

    Aerial photograph of Camp de Gurs, France. There is a map and caption in German handwritten in pencil on the verso. A stamped caption reads: "Cimetiere des Deports / De Gurs (France) - Vue générale. / Deportationsfriedhofs Gurs / Frankreich - Gesamtansicht."

  2. Judith Hajec photograph collection

    The collection consists of 13 black and white photographs taken at Dachau when the 15th Artillery Corps encountered the camp at the time of liberation.

  3. Harry L. Smith photograph collection

    The collection consists of 23 photographs taken at Buchenwald at the time of liberation that show camp structures, crematoria, corpses, and liberated prisoners. The photographs were taken by Harry L. Smith in April 1945, when he was a medic with the 628th Medical Clearing Company of the U.S. First Army.

  4. Charles Kotkowsky collection

    The collection consists of a photograph and 3 theater programs. The photograph shows Charles Kotkowsky playing the role of Adolf Hitler in a theater production entitled "Hitler's Last Night." The programs include one for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Hitler's Last Night," written and produced by Charles Kotkowsky; and two for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Tovia, the Milkman," by Shalom Aleichem, one in English and one in Yiddish.

  5. Elizaveta Vineberg photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs of 4 individuals: Sofýa Benýaminova Vainberg (née Tokman), David Iosifovich Vainberg, Polina Davidovna Vainberg-Sagaigak, and Dora Davidovna Vainberg-Mikhailov.

  6. Henry H. Barschall papers

    The Henry H. Barschall papers consist of Henry Barschall's 1934-1936 Friedrich Wilhelm University grade book whose yellow stripe and notations indicate he was a Jewish student and not a member of the German student body. The papers also include correspondence regarding Hermann Barschall's status as a patent attorney, his continuation in his profession under the Nazi regime due to his veteran status, and his dismissal from the profession after new anti-Jewish legislation of October 1938.

  7. Hessy Levinsons Taft collection

    The collection consists of eight black and white photographs and one modern color photograph depicting members of the Levinsons family, a postcard addressed to "Sascha Lenssen, Opernsänger" (opera singer), a birthday card, and a magazine titled "Sonne ins Haus," which depicts a photograph of Hessy Levinsons Taft as an infant on the front cover because she won a contest to select the most beautiful "Aryan" baby in Germany.

  8. Museum für Geschichte der Stadt Dresden papers

    The papers consist of two receipts for donations to Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes (WHW - a winter relief campaign), one antisemitic flyer, and an Aryan genealogy chart.

  9. Henry Plitt papers

    The papers include 55 photographs including images of Major Henry Plitt as a child and as a member of the United States 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment and the liberation of Dachau concentration camp as well as a letter written to Julius Streicher, after his capture, by his wife.

  10. Deutsches Einheits Familien = Stammbuch

    A family tree in book form for "Stanislaus and Maria Rozhon."

  11. Portrait of Perry Milbauer

    Black and white photograph, matted, inside black cardboard folder. Image of Perry Milbauer [donor] in uniform, World War II. The photograph was taken in Brussels, Belgium, after VE Day in 1945.

  12. David H. Pollock papers

    The papers consist of an envelope and three letters to David H. Pollock concerning the search for Israel Ajzenberg (later known as Harold Eisenberg) and Mrs. Chaim Rosenbaum [sister of Israel Ajzenberg] by their families. One letter was written by Claude Renaud, Chief Constable of Windsor, Ontario, and another letter was written by C.W. Farrow, also Chief Constable of Windsor, Ontario.

  13. Henry Fleisher photograph collection

    The collection includes images of Jewish persecution in Germany before the Holocaust, Nazi propaganda photographs, and images from the Stroop report of the Warsaw, Poland, ghetto.

  14. Eva Cohen papers

    The papers consist of three letters from the Okre̜gowy Komitet Żydowski (Jewish Committee) of Kalisz, Poland, to Eva Cohen about survivors in the village and the kinds of kosher foods that could be sent to Poland, along with an envelope that contained some of this correspondence.

  15. Solomon Klug photograph collection

    The collection consists of four individual and family portraits of Solomon Klug's family. Included are Solomon, Hershel (brother), Nathan (brother), Jacob (father), Gittel (mother), Paula (sister), and Chaskel Klug (brother). Hershel and Nathan Klug were killed during World War II.

  16. Margaret Klug photograph collection

    The collection consists of 30 original and copy photographs of Margaret Jastrow Klug's extended family both before and after World War II.

  17. Photographs of an Italian internment camp

    The collection consists of four copy photographs of men posing for group photographs in the Italian internment camp, Civitella della Chiana, September 1940.

  18. Helene Baraf papers

    The papers consist of a civil marriage certificate issued in Berchem, Belgium, for Osias Zupnik and Chana Beila Klein; a photograph of Leon Zupnik (donor's brother); a certificate of residence from Lille, France, for Leon Zupnik; and a certificate documenting Leon Zupnik's arrest and deportation to Auschwitz.

  19. Michael A. Diamond papers

    The papers consist of documents and photographs pertaining to Michael Diamond's experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. The photographs mainly consist of images of Michael Diamond and his family and friends in Czechoslovakia before and after World War II; of his emigration to Israel with his wife, Ilse, after the war; and of his daughter, Naomi, as a baby.

  20. Abraham Malach papers

    The papers consist of 34 photographs of Abraham Malach and his family and friends, as well as school report cards, identification cards, and an immigration certificate for Abraham Malach.