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  1. US Justice Department restitution files for the Netherlands

    Consists of looted claims forms filed by the government of the Netherlands on behalf of Dutch citizens whose property the Germans seized from 1940 to 1942. *Not available on microform.

  2. Bureaucratic persecution Jewish life in Frankfurt-am-Main, 1933-1938

    Manuscript produced at Harvard by Paul Hamburg in 1967. Contains information about antisemitic persecution and anti-Jewish laws in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; organized boycotts of Jewish businesses; Kristallnacht; and Jewish reaction to persecution in Frankfurt am Main.

  3. Golden book and other Forty-Second US Rainbow Division memorabilia from the Rainbow Division archives

    Contains information about the involvement of the 42nd US Infantry ("Rainbow") Division in the liberation of Dachau and the memorialization of Belgian political prisoners who died there. Included are excerpt pages from the "Golden Book" containing the signatures of several Dachau survivors.

  4. Rodney A. Ross essays relating to the Gordon and Goldberg families

    Consists of "Ethel Nottinger Gordon, 1886-1966" and "Yesterday Czarist Lithuania, Today the World: The Dispersal of the Children of Raphael and Chana-Rochel Goldberg," both written by Rodney A. Ross. "Ethel Nottinger Gordon..." contains information about Ethel N. Gordon (grandmother of the donor) and her life in Lithuania; Nottinger and Gordon family genealogy; and her life in America. "Yesterday Czarist Lithuania..." contains information about the genealogy of the family of Raphael Goldberg (paternal grandfather of Rodney A. Ross); the Goldberg family in Slobodka, the "Jewish ghetto" near ...

  5. Fritz Gutenstein postcard from Dachau concentration camp

    One postcard written by Fritz Gutenstein from Dachau concentration camp on November 18, 1938, to his wife, Bertel (Bertha)Gutenstein, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany. He reports on his arrival in the camp and asks for news from home.

  6. Post-liberation Buchenwald photographs

    The collection consists of copyprints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by the United States Army in April 1945.

  7. Post-liberation photographs of Nordhausen concentration camp

    Contains ten black-and-white copyprints of photographs of Nordhausen concentration camp taken by James C. Ernest, a member of Company A of the 238th Engineer Combat Battalion, shortly after liberation in April 1945. The photographs contain images of victims' bodies and burial of victims in mass graves by German citizens.

  8. Post-liberation photographs of Dachau concentration camp

    Contains 17 black-and-white photographs of Dachau concentration camp taken shortly after liberation in April and May 1945. Among the images are scenes of dead victims, dead SS troops from the camp, dead victims in railroad cars near the camp, surviving inmates in the camp, and Dachau camp buildings and crematoria.

  9. Erich Reisfeld papers

    Contains identification cards with photographs, membership cards, certificates, letters, and various other documents relating to Erich Reisfeld's life in Vienna, Austria, in the late 1930s, his involvement with Zionist youth organizations, and his emigration from Austria to the United States via England in 1939.

  10. Sterbeurkunde for Paul Reiss

    Photocopy of a Sterbeurkunde (death certificate) for Paul Reiss issued from the Standesbeamte des Sonderstandesamt Arolsen on July 24, 1963. Includes Paul Reiss' date and place of birth, date and place of death, and similar information for his wife, Rosalie Reiss.

  11. Post-liberation photographs of Dachau concentration camp

    Contains nine black-and-white photographs of post-liberation scenes at Dachau concentration camp. Includes scenes of dead bodies, the crematoria, and liberators viewing dead bodies. The photographs were taken circa April 1945, mass-produced and distributed throughout Europe.

  12. Hans Salomon papers

    Contains three certificates relating to Hans Salomon's imprisonment in Gurs and Rivesaltes concentration camps in France, and a safe travel pass with a black and white photographs of Hans Salomon attached. The document allowed for Salomon to travel safely throughout France from 1942 until 1943.

  13. Post-liberation photographs of a German concentration camp

    Contains eight black-and-white photographs of scenes at a German concentration camp after liberation. Included are photographs of the crematoriums, mass gravesites, and execution sites.The presumed date range of the photographs is from 1945 to 1946.

  14. Walter K. and Lucie H. Sobotta papers

    Contains photographs, affidavits, statements, and certificates relating to Walter K. and Lucie H. Sobotta and their experiences during World War II.

  15. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate

    Partial charred porcelain electrical insulator from Auschwitz concentration camp acquired postwar by Hans Braun, a German Sinti man who was imprisoned there with his family from March 1943 to May 1944. It was the type used to connect electrical wires to the concrete fence posts around the camp. In early 1940, Hans, a forced laborer, broke a machine at a factory and was accused of sabotage. The Gestapo came after him and he fled Bernau and went into hiding. Hans was arrested twice, but escaped, until March 1943, when he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was reunited with his family in the ...

  16. Large embroidered needlepoint designed by Yankel Ginzburg

    Colorful, embroidered wall hanging created by Yankel Ginzburg for the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington in 1976. The three-panel image was designed by Ginzburg and then executed in needlepoint by sixty-one artisans, 60 women and one man, between 1976 and 1986. The design is intended to symbolize the Jewish people's arduous journey to freedom.

  17. Tony Simon-Wolfskehl collection

    Plastic-bound portfolio with 11 pages containing 11 photographs of Tony Simon-Wolfskehl's charcoal sketches of people in extremis during the Holocaust, as well as nine poems, which are photocopies of typescripts.

  18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark note

    10 (zehn) mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt by Nazi Germany after they occupied the city in September 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. Although the notes are dated May 15, 1940, the inital printing occurred in March. The ghetto was liquidated by the Germans in August 1944.

  19. Roma documents from the Otto Pankok Museum, Düsseldorf

    Contains information relating primarily to Otto Pankok and his strong interest in Roma, especially Roma of Düsseldorf, Germany. Of special interest in the collection are articles relating to the artwork and career of Otto Pankok and his play "Wie Wir Leben."

  20. Eigil Jorgensen papers

    The Eigil Jorgensen papers consists of a framed original letter from the Danish bishops to the supreme authorities of the Nazi occupation forces in Denmark.