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  1. 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 ...

  2. Sam Simon Holocaust scrapbook

    Collected materials from Sam Simon. Most files consist of photographic reproductions of assembled album pages containing postcards and photographs from various camps and ghettos. Collection also contains a few first-day covers and commemorative postage stamps from Israel, relating to events commemorating the Holocaust, circa 1970s.

  3. Albert M. Sharon memoir

    The Albert M. Sharon manuscript is titled "Laissez Passer, A Different Holocaust Story." It was told to and transcribed by his wife, Lynn Sharon. The manuscript tells the harrowing tale of Albert Sharon and his family, as they fled Brussels, Belgium in 1940 at the outset of World War II. Fleeing into France, the family moved into several villages along the Pyrenees, before ending up in Italy in 1943, The story details the struggles of a Jewish family living on the run, and the assistance they received from many families while they traveled. The story also describes Albert's involvement as a...

  4. Oral history interview with Harry Zansberg

  5. Odessa Oblast Archives records

    Contains files from the central administration of Transnistria (Ukraine) dealing with the local Jews and with the Jews deported from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria, and their fate in the ghettos between the Dniestr and the Bug.

  6. Wladyslaw Mielcarz memoir

    Contains a typescript untitled memoir relating to Wladyslaw Mielcarz's Holocaust experiences, particularly at a Dachau subcamp. Includes photocopies of black and white photographs from the camp.

  7. Germans push thru France; Hitler meets w/ Mussolini

    LS, tanks spread out over fields, waiting for artillery barrage to lift. Shells burst in distance. LS tank advances. VCU, tanks. Shell bursts close by; burning French tanks. CU, showing shell holes, dead. Tank crews eating after battle. Hitler visits front, looking over map with staff officers, including Raeder and Goering. Receiving news of French capitulation. Boarding train for Munich to meet Mussolini. Pan, Berchtesgaden. Hitler meets officials in train station, German children and Mussolini giving Nazi salute. CUs, Hitler and Mussolini in car, crowd in BG.

  8. Jan Zwartendijk papers

    Contains information about Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Kaunas, who worked with Chiune Sugihara to help Jews escape Lithuania.

  9. Gertrude Kahn papers

    Death certificate, dated 1949, for Friedrich Wessely, from Council of Jewish Communities in Czechoslovakia, attesting to Wessely's death at Theresienstadt in 1942. Two photographs, unidentified, perhaps of Wessely and his wife, Sofie Levy Wessely.

  10. Kenneth L. Gerke photographs

    Photographs, copies of post-liberation photos of camps.

  11. Oral history interview with Benjamin Bashan

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, 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.

  13. Tagebuch des Sturmes 38 Wiesbaden

    This logbook documents "Sturm 38," a Wiesbaden unit of the Sturmabteilung (SA), from 1926 to 1933. The book includes detailed entries and descriptions of educational, propaganda, and ideological activities, marches, trips, funerals, weapons training, and fights with communists. It includes photographs of Adolf Hitler, Standartenführer Philippi, and SA parades and events as well as a 1933 clipping describing the history of the SA in Wiesbaden.

  14. A. G. Bramble papers

    Photocopies of letters from A. G. Bramble to his wife, 1945, after liberation of the Landsberg-Kaufering concentration camp, plus copies of newsletters/articles by other servicemen about camp liberations.

  15. Esther Fox memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, 10 pages, circa 1990s, recalling family and childhood in Łódź, study of medicine and training as a doctor, and her work as a physician in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, Guben, and Bergen Belsen.

  16. Oral history interview with Werner Neuberger

  17. Heinrich Stern collection

    The Heinrich Stern collection contains primarily immigration documents related to Heinrich and Charlotte Stern. Heinrich was a lawyer who was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald. He was released after his wife obtained travel permits, and the couple immigrated to Bolivia, where they lived until they moved to the United States in 1944. Documents include visa applications, identity cards, police documents, letters of recommendation, and other documents needed to immigrate. Other various items include the certificate Heinrich obtained to be a notary and practice law, his disbarmen...

  18. Eva Bergmann memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of manuscript, four pages, relating to experiences in Germany prior to emigrating to the United States.

  19. Oral history interview with Ellen de Solla Price

  20. "Svenska Dagbladet" article by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).

    Contains a news article from the Swedish newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet," written by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).