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  1. Oral history interview with Alice Winant

  2. A memoir relating to experiences in Warssawa, Shavel, Kraków, Stutthof, and Landsberg

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 14 pages, written by Binder, of Johannesburg, South Africa, describing her experiences during Holocaust.

  3. Leya Tsvayner papers

    Information compiled circa 1989-1994, describing the occupation of Dubossar, Moldova, from 1941 onward, with list of names of families from there. Compiled by a memorial committee seeking to document events in that town, led by G. Kiseleva and A. Moskaleva.

  4. Collection relating to antisemitism and other Holocaust subjects

    Contains a bound photo album from the SS-Border Police school at Pretzsch (Elbe), located southeast of Wittenberg, depicting activities and facilities at the school; enclosed typed note, from Col. Julian Raymond (CIC) states that it was presented to Himmler with a dedication in December 1939. Also includes item is a book (paperback), "Völker, Völkergruppen, und Volksstämme auf dem ehemaligen Gebiet der UdSSR," compiled by the Reichsführer SS, Rasseamt und Institut für Grenz- und Auslandsstudien," 1942; collectible stamps from Third Reich; identification passes for refugees (former camp inma...

  5. Jack and Ina Polak collection

    Love letters written by Jack Polak and Ina Soep in the concentration camps Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen.

  6. Hanna Khajezadeh papers

    The papers consist of two fliers advertizing a Nazi propaganda board game called, "Juden raus" ("Jews out!"), manufactured by Rudolf Fabricius. "Juden raus" was a sort of amalgam of Monopoly and Halma created by the Nazis as propaganda. The objective was to collect as many Jews as you could and get them off the board. The pieces were little pawns wearing pointed medieval Jewish hats; the players moved them by rolling dice. The child winning was the one whose Jews scurried out, 'off to Palestine!,' through the gates of a walled city.

  7. Elsa Meyring memoir

    Testimony, 50 pages, photocopy of typescript, written by Elsa Meyring, entitled "Aus dem Leben einer Deutschen Nichtarier."

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  9. Oral history interview with Jacques Steinberg

  10. Gloria Lyon collection

    Photocopies of restitution documents for Gloria Lyon (born Hollander), 1950s, photographs of family, text of camp song.

  11. Oral history interview with Ana Benkel de Vinocur

  12. Benjamin Schepsman collection

    Documents (3), two from post-liberation Dachau camp, one from International Refugee Organization, all three attesting to the imprisonment of Benjamin Schepsman (Szepsman) at Dachau, and prior to that, at Natzweiler.

  13. Program and speech to commemorate Yom Ha-Shoah 5754

    Photocopy of a program and speech (7-page memoir) dated April 7, 1994, which relates to the donor's Holocaust-related experience in Poland and the fates of some members of his family.

  14. A memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, brief outline (Romanian survivor).

  15. Copy of a research report entitled "Captain Ocskay, a righteous man."

    Historical text, circa 150 pages, titled "A Research Into the Activities of Captain Ocskay Laszlo of the Hungarian Army, during the Years 1944-1945," documenting his efforts to save Jewish prisoners in a Hungarian labor battalion. By Dan Danieli of Riverdale, NY, 1995.

  16. Jan Quackenbush photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs of Maximilian Grabner, the director of the Gestapo at Auschwitz concentration camp, in the custody of armed guards.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Romania

    Testimony, 1 page, photocopy of typescript (on Claims Conference letterhead), containing summary of telephone conversation with Abram and Mikhail Sheynman, describing occupation of their hometown in Moldova by German and Rumanian troops.

  18. Oral history interview with Renata Laqueur

  19. Oral history interview with Shmaryagu Shargel

  20. Koranyi family papers

    The Koranyi family papers include a postcard, two Swedish protective documents, a photograph, and a photocopied clipping documenting the survival of Zsigmond (Sigmund), Sara, and Marta Koranyi in Budapest during the Holocaust. Marta’s friend Gabrielle (Gabi) sent her the postcard in June 1944 from a sealed deportation train destined for Auschwitz, where Gabi was killed. A rough English translation of the Hungarian postcard reads, “My little Martha, Since the morning we have been standing with our packings, we don’t know where we are going. Think of us, Many Kisses, Giza. Please send a card ...