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  1. American Jewish Committee documents

    Correspondence and related documents pertaining to the activities of the American Jewish Committee and its members in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-1930s. Contains correspondence from Morris Waldman of the AJC in New York to various individuals (many with names blacked out by donor) in Portland, and news releases about issues related to antisemitism during this period.

  2. Oral history interview with Stanley Dabrowski

  3. Julia Gejdenson collection

    Various items, including tear sheet from Forward (Forverts) newspaper (in Yiddish), dated 1966; program from Yom Hashoah commemoration in Spain, 1989; clipping from French magazine with article about persecution of Jews in France during war, and photos from book about Nazi war criminals.

  4. David Schley collection

    Typescript (photocopy), 13 pages, of what appear to be the transcript of an oral history with David Schley, recounting his experiences in Warsaw following the German invasion and during the occupation.

  5. Oral history interview with Aranka Siegal

  6. Postcard from the Kraków Ghetto

    Postcard, from Marie Wolf in Kraków Ghetto, to Leon Ginger in New York, July 7, 1941.

  7. Samuel and Irene Goudsmit collection

    The collection consists of typescript and handwritten originals and tissue copies of miscellaneous correspondence in German and English, circa 1944-1945. Includes but is not limited to the following: letters, directives, memorandums, drawings, annotated maps, telegrams, etc., which relate to the Nazis constructing underground installations in Germany and Austria using slave, forced, and POW laborers. In addition, there are some documents relating to medical experiments performed by German physicians in Nazi concentration camps.

  8. Anna Baumgart and Thea Rostock papers

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, by Anna Lipnowska (Baumgart), describing her experiences in Warsaw Ghetto, along with two post-war letters of reference for Dr. Nachman Boim (one from UNRRA camp, one from hospital in California where he was resident in 1950).

  9. Les Juifs a Liege

    Photocopy, 2 pages, of list of Jewish residents of Liege, Belgium. Taken from antisemitic publication, "L'ami du peuple," 29 November 1941, pages 3-4.

  10. Memoir relating to experiences in labor camps

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript. About experiences in Transylvania (Satu Mare), time in forced labor camp in Hungary.

  11. Leonard Lief correspondence

    The Leonard Lief correspondence consists of letters, postcards, forms, and receipts exchanged among Leonard Lief in New York, his family in Warsaw, and humanitarian agencies and organizations. The correspondence documents Lief’s efforts to assist his family during the early years of the Holocaust and to trace their whereabouts and fates afterwards. Correspondence from humanitarian agencies and organizations includes letters and postcards from the Red Cross, HIAS, Jewish Social Self Help, Central Committee of Polish Jews, and American State Department transmitting requests, facilitating the ...

  12. Rehabilitation at Belsen Camp

    Pan over buildings. Pan across barrack square. MS of stable door, door opens, young woman begins to sweep entrance to stable. Interior shot of stable, being decorated by group of women with green branches. Curtains, tables, linens. MCU group of women sitting and standing around a bed inside barrack arranging branches and talking. Shot of barrack interior where multiple tables are set up in foreground and background, women having meal. Camera pans around room with flower arrangement in the middle, woman making bed, others, by window, repairing boots and shoes, sewing. CU of women playing car...

  13. Rose Gruenapfel papers

    Photocopied documents. Contains copies of documents from when Rose Gruenapfel testified against war criminals in trial in occupied Germany, October 1945, as well as pre-war family photos, and text of translated pages from her diary, which she kept at Neustadt-Gleve concentration camp.

  14. Benjamin Sokol papers

    The papers consist of a leaflet issued by the Information-Education Section of the 13th Armored Division of the U.S. Army entitled, "Facts on Germany: Food," an advertisement for a German post office savings book, two maps of Europe, and correspondence, including a letter from Roger Kaufmann thanking Benjamin Sokol for taking care of his son in a concentration camp in Germany after liberation.

  15. Harry Friedman correspondence

    The Harry Friedman correspondence consists of postcards and letters Harry Friedman received from family members including Perl, Simon, and Isaac Friedman in Horodenka, Poland before World War II and under the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  16. A memoir

    Thesis (not testimony). Consists of thesis submitted by Anja Siebert at the University of Kassel, 1993, as part of her studies in the school of education and/or English, detailing a curriculum to be used to teach students of English using the Holocaust memoir "Seeds of Sarah" by Judith Isaacson.

  17. Oral history interview with Frida Herskovits

  18. "Go For Broke"

    Compilation of documents, photographs, and news clippings, all photocopied, from Hideo Nakamine, about the 522nd F.A. Battalion, U.S. Army, part of the 100th/442nd battalion of Japanese-American soldiers.

  19. Frederick Bergmann memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, undated, written by Frederick Bergmann, recording childhood in Fuerth, education, emigration in summer 1939, internment as enemy alien, first in England, and then in Canada for duration of war, enlistment in Canadian Army toward end of war and deployment with occupation troops in Germany.

  20. Ivano-Frankovsky Regional Museum records

    Contains statements, reports, photographs, and articles relating to the German and Hungarian occupation of Ukraine; atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in the region; statistics for executions; names of Gestapo leaders suspected of crimes; and the Tabor Smertii "death camp" at Stanislav, Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine).