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  1. Abraham Kaner Identification card

    The provisional identification card ("Ausweis") was issued after liberation to former Mauthausen internee Abraham Kaner.

  2. "From Darkness to Light" memoir

    Memoir, 13 pages, relates the experiences of Barbara (Borka) Klima nee Rozsa, who hid from the Nazis in Slovakia, in many different houses and situations, while also trying to protect her young daughter Eva, who was hidden in a Christian orphanage. The memoir also details their immediate post-war experiences and emigration to the United States in 1949.

  3. Greet and Rob Coopman photograph collection

    The collection consists of 42 photographs documenting the Troostwyk and Coopman families and their experiences in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  5. 4 video programs about the Holocaust: war crimes trials

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #1 Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #2 Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Eichmann Trial Second floor (2.08) - Other Trials

  6. Belsen after liberation

    CU, pan up to clothed corpses scattered on the ground, group of survivors in BG. MLS, makeshift tent with survivors. CUs, survivors.

  7. Anne Haas Jacobson Papers

    Contains a letter received by Harry Haas (donors' grandfather and father) in 1939, sent by Viennese Jewish woman named Rosalie Haas and her Protestant husband Robert, who were trying to flee Nazi Austria.

  9. 422nd Night Fighter Squadron collection

    Contains 12 photographs taken by a soldier in the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron stationed in Belgium. Includes images of damage to an unidentified city, and post-liberation photographs of survivors in an unidentified concentration camp.

  10. Ramon Wallen collection

    Consists of one photograph of Adolf Hitler in discussion with three unidentified men in military dress uniforms. On the verso of the photograph, there is a faded printed number "43."

  11. French collaborator arrested

    [Journal de guerre in 1945 - occupation allemande scene d'arrestation de collaborateur] Title: "A L'Ouest de L'Europe...Confedence Militaire" Troops, well-dressed men at train station. French collaborator arrested by train, CUs. Boarding train.

  12. Documentation of the municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Applications of Kostopol municipality workers requesting to receive residence permits in apartments and homes that were owned by Jews; - Documentation regarding the Jews in Kostopol, including the number of Jews in the ghetto, places of work, and the burial of murdered Jews.

  13. New York Department of Investigation report

    Relates to causes of, and recommends measures to prevent, antisemitic vandalism and violence in New York City. The memorandum of l69 pages was submitted by the Commission of Investigation to Mayor F. H. LaGuardia on January 5, l944 and was based on case reports of 69 antisemitic disturbances from September l942 to March l943. A nearly equal number of incidents took place from March l943 to January l944. The report concluded that 3l incidents were of an antisemitic nature.

  14. Więzienie w Sieradzu

    • akta osobowe więźniów - akta administracyjne (odpisy wyroków, korespondencja) - materiały ewidencyjne (księgi więzienne, skorowidze, wykazy funkcjonariuszy oraz zwolnionych więźniów)

  15. Sąd Grodzki w Rudzie Śląskiej

    • akta spraw rehabilitacyjnych - materiały ewidencyjne (repertorium, skorowidz)

  16. Prokuratura Specjalnego Sądu Karnego w Krakowie

    • akta prokuratorskie dotyczące zbrodni niemieckich - akta prokuratorskie dotyczące osób wpisanych na niemiecką listę narodową

  17. Барановичское городское управление, г.Барановичи

    • Stadtverwaltung Baranowichi

    Приказы и распоряжения управления, здравотдела, списки жителей г.Барановичи, домовые книги. Документы по личному составу (личные дела служащих).

  18. Комендант полиции Барановичского округа, г.Барановичи

    • Gendarmerie Gebietsfuehrer Baranowitschi

    Донесения начальников полицейских постов, коменданта полиции, учетные карточки полицейских, списки лиц, служивших в полиции.

  19. Lavern A. Weiser papers

    Photographs of post-liberation Dachau, news clippings from 1945, and news account of U.S. Army veteran Lawrence Weiser, circa 1990s. Photos appear to be from Weiser. Also includes a cartoon map of Europe, showing path of 42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow Division) from landing at Marseille to Bavaria and Austria by V-E Day.

  20. 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.