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  1. Kotlewski family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Moses and Teofila Vorshirm Keitelman (later Marian and Teofila Kotlewski), originally of Mielec, Poland. The documents relate to the Keitelmans' pre-war education, including Moses' training as a doctor and Teofila's as a X-ray technician. Includes post-war documents related to the family's name change to "Kotlewski," the name they used during the war, and Moses' name change to "Marian." Includes wartime and post-war photographs of the Kotlewskis, their sons George and Adam, life in Wrocław, and photographs tak...

  2. Blake and Anna Schiff papers

    Documents, correspondence, identification papers, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Blake and Anna Schiff in the Warsaw Ghetto, Grodno, and in hiding in Novosiolki. Biographical material includes documents regarding Blake’s education and employment in the United States, Blake’s false identity card under the name Stephan Podolski used in post-war Poland, and social security cards. Correspondence includes letters sent by Blake to Mary and Helene Daily, his aunt and cousin in the United States, regarding his efforts to immigrate to the U.S. in 1939 as a student, and sc...

  3. Eugenia Goldberg testimony

    Consists of testimony, 26 pages, in German, written in 1993 in the form of a letter by Eugenia Goldberg, originally of Liepāja, Latvia. She describes life under Russian occupation in Liepāja and in Riga, the German invasion, and her wartime attempts to survive. She also mentions the experiences of her extended family, as well as of George Schwab, who her husband, Julius Goldberg, aided.

  4. Abraham Kopec photograph collection

    Photographs illustrating the postwar experiences of Abraham Kopec, who was born in 1933 in Govorovo, Poland and as a child was deported to Siberia with his family, where his mother died. Includes images taken in displaced persons camps in Germany, including Wetzlar.

  5. Meyer family collection

    The Meyer family collection consists of documents, photocopies, social reports, and a photograph illustrating the experiences of Lotte (née Weil), Ernest (Ernst Meijer), and Bob Meyer (b. 1939) during the Holocaust in the Netherlands and their subsequent immigration to the U.S. in 1948. Original U.S. Naturalization Certificates for Ernest and Lotte Meyer conferred on 4 May 1953 are included as well as restitution claims, a medical evaluation regarding Lotte Meyer, and a social worker report regarding Bob Meyer that requests recognition and assistance as a victim of persecution under the Net...

  6. Lea Derszowicz memoirs

    The collection consists of two handwritten memoirs written by Lea Derszowicz (née Eberstark) describing her experiences in Poland, primarily in Dzików, Tarnobrzeg, the Dębica ghetto, and the Pustków concentration camp. Her writings chronicle some of her personal background and her family’s experiences during the early years of World War II including life in the Dębica ghetto, forced-labor, relatives searching for family after being separated, dressing as a boy to sneak out of Dębica with the aid of others to procure food to smuggle back in, deportation to Pustków, her brother getting shot f...

  7. Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families in Nasielsk, Poland before the war, and after the war in several displaced persons campsin Germany, including Rosenheim. Faiga Milchberg Tick and her husband Shmuel Tick fled their hometown Nasielsk to Bialystok in the Soviet zone. In July 1940 the Soviets deported them to Vologda forced labor camp. They were able to return to Nasielsk, where their daughter Malka was born in September 1945. Soon after, they left Poland for a DP camp in Germany and immigrated to Canada in September 1948. The collection also includes photog...

  8. Oral history interview with Fred Heyman

  9. Research files of a Swedish author Staffan Thorsell relating to Nazi war crimes in Poland

    Research files of a Swedish author, Staffan Thorsell, who wrote the book "the Warsaw Swedes." The records relate to the work of Swedish businessmen based in Warsaw, including: Sven Norrman, who was head of the Swedish engineering company ASEA in Warsaw. Norman and a group of Swedes worked for corporations that would later become Swedish Match and Ericsson. Norman took thousands of the photos in the Warsaw Ghetto and smuggled out documents detailing the murder of 700,000 Jews by Germans, inlcuding 2,000 photo negatives of German war crimes in Poland, including photographs he took himself in ...

  10. Aaron Tunick papers

    The collection primarily consists of family correspondence received by Aaron Tunick, originally of Stołpce, Poland (Stolbsty or Stowbtsy, Belarus), after he emigrated from Poland in 1934. The bulk of the letters (1936-1941) are from his siblings, and in particular Henja and Yitzhak. The letters discuss a deteriorating situation, loss of their businesses because they are Jewish, a rise in antisemitism, and an urgency to flee Poland. A small amount of biographical material consists of a birth certificate and a Zionist Organization of Poland identification card. Also included are photographs d...

  11. Trials against Germans in the foreign countries of Europe: Reference files of Counselors

    The collection consists of 390 file volumes with documents from defence lawyers from trials against German defendants in court in Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia. The largest proportion of the documents is from trials in France and Luxembourg. The trials took place between 1946 and 1960. About 90 % of the files come from law firms of the following lawyers: Dr. Kurt Behling, Berlin (148 volumes), P. H. Gordan, Gießen (8 volumes), Prof. Dr. Carl Haensel, Freiburg (11 volume...

  12. German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND): Records related to War Crime Trials, German Federal Archives Koblenz (BND B 206)

    Consists of documents collected by the German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) after 1945. 10 files are on the identification of Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie.

  13. Public Prosecutor Office District Court of Berlin Staatsanwaltschaft beim Landgericht Berlin (B Rep. 058)

    Selected records of the Public Prosecutor at the District Court of Berlin relating to criminal cases concerning crimes against humanity, war crimes trials, and Nazi crimes against Jews, homosexuals, Sinti and Roma, the disabled, political prisoners, Jehovah’s witnesses, forced laborers, as well as documents regarding euthanasia facilities, ghettos, concentration camps and prisons. Includes interrogations, testimonies, judicial examinations of war criminals and witnesses; reports of the International Tracing Service Arolsen about concentration camps, documents on deportation of Berlin Jews t...

  14. Presentation by Ed Silverberg

  15. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers

    The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva Freyer (née Lichtenstein) and their children Marion and Ursula in Berlin, their emigration from Germany to the United States in 1939, and wartime correspondence with family members and friends still in Germany. There is a small amount of material related to the Lichtenstein family of Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Biographical material includes birth certificates, German identification cards and passports, marriage papers,...

  16. Records on the Holocaust in North Africa from the German Federal Archives Freiburg and Berlin

    Records on German military actions in Tunis, and Africa, mostly administrated by Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff, and secret reports on Africa and its Jewish population by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, and Reichsführer SS. Includes war diaries of the German Naval Command North Africa and German Naval Command Tunisia, summary reports, radio messages from the combat area in Libya and from the battle area in North Africa, reports relating to political situation in Libya, Morocco, and to "Jewish questions" in South Africa, newspaper clippings and agency reports about the situation of Jews in ...

  17. Selected records from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine related to the history of Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv region before and after WWII

    Contains selected records of the Soviet and Communist Party regional bodies related to individual Jews, Jewish families, and Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) region before and aftermath of WWII. Included are statistical information about Jewish population of the region, documents about schools and special reading rooms for Jewish population, promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws of Jewish religious communities and inventories of synagogues, prayer houses, files on Jews who appealed for the reinstatement of their electoral rights, restitution of the nationalized ...

  18. Goldlust family papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Goldlust family of Konstanz, Germany including Manja Goldlust and her children Paula and Leo’s deportations to the Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, correspondence from the camps with Manja’s husband Bernhard Goldlust in England, and Bernhard’s attempts to help them immigrate to England. Biographical material consists of Bernhard’s Foreigner passport (Fremden Pass), primarily postwar identification documents of Paula (some documents place her birth as 1928), an affidavit and related documents...

  20. Print by survivor artist David L. Bloch

    Iimage of roll call at Dachau by survivor artist David L. Bloch