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  1. Kurt Gutfreund papers

    The Kurt Gutfreund papers include biographical materials, Theresienstadt postcards and receipts, photographs, and a clipping. The Theresienstadt material documents Kurt Gutfreund’s imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from 1943-1945 with his mother Hildegard. Postcards and receipts primarily document packages Hildegard’s sister sent them in Theresienstadt. Some of the postcards include coded messages from Hildegard in the addressee field requesting specific foods in the next package (for example “Dear Onion” to indicate she wanted onions). Additional postcards from the Gutf...

  2. Selected records from the Croatian State Archives related to the prewar history of the Jewish communities of Croatia

    Contains selected records created by the regional authorities within Croatia related to Jews and Jewish communities in Croatia in 1918-1941. It includes information about Jewish organizations and associations active in prewar Croatia. The bulk of the collection relates to the foreign Jews entering or transiting through the territory of Croatia from the neighboring countries. It includes individual police and surveillance files, various name lists, police files of foreign Jews, including a list of Jewish refugees from Germany, Poland and Hungary, statistics, permission for temporary stay or ...

  3. Pirika Hershkowitz collection

    The collection includes a calendar in which Pirika Hershkowitz noted significant dates after her and her cousin, Matilda Herz, escaped from a death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau on February 2, 1945. The collection also includes pre-war family photographs in Gherla, Romania and post-war photographs from Cluj and Gherla, Romania where Piri Hershkowitz married Karoly Klein on July 27, 1945 as well as an identification document issued by the Romania authorities to Piri Klein and two letters and a note sent from Bucharest to Piri Hershkowitz.

  4. Swiss watch taken from the body of an SS guard by a concentration camp inmate

    Swiss wrist watch with a contemporary band taken by 21-year-old Abraham Lewent, possibly from the body of a dead SS guard, around April 1945. After the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943, Abraham and his father Raphael were deported to Majdanek concentration camp where his father was killed. After two months, Abraham was transferred to Skarżysko-Kamienna slave labor camp, then to Buchenwald concentration camp, a month later to a subcamp, Schlieben, then back to Buchenwald. He was transferred to Bisingen, a subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof for about 8-10 weeks, and then sent t...

  5. Klein and Dreher families collection

    Letters sent to Helen Dreher (nee Ilon Klein) by relatives in Hungary (original and photocopies); photographs from Helen (Klein) Dreher's family as well as her husband, William Dreher, and his family. Also includes Herman Klein's text about the Jews of Hungary and his own family's story (photocopy).

  6. Manfred and Adella Plaut collection

    Papers related to Manfred Plaut, including U.S. naturalization paperwork, identification documents, correspondence with the International Tracing Service regarding the fate of family members, and a photocopied chapter from the book "One, by one, by one : facing the Holocaust," by Judith Miller (1990). Also includes material related to Adella (Wachtenheim) Plaut, including her efforts to trace the fate of her family members.

  7. Radio Luxembourg Collection

    Contents include propaganda broadcasts transmitted from 1944-1945 by the black propaganda radio station Sender 1212 (Radio 1212) and interviews conducted in 1979 with ex-personnel, Edmund Schechter and Hanuš Burger.

  8. Eddie Cantor radio broadcasts

    Excerpts from "The Robinson Newscast" and "Bedtime Story" broadcast by Eddie Cantor on his radio show "It's Time To Smile" (the show was sponsored by a toothpaste manufacturer) broadcast on March 31, 1943. Apart from Cantor, the voices heard belong to Harry Von Zell (track 1) and Edward G. Robinson (track 2). This full broadcast was "dedicated" to Hitler (for details of the full broadcast, refer to www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/variety/eddie-cantor-its-time-to-smile/guest-edward-g-robinson-1943-03-31). Robinson played prominent role in the touring pageant "We Will Never Die," also in 1943 (...

  9. Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler collection

    Collection of copy prints, passport, certificates, documents, identity documents documenting the experiences of Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler (donors’ parents) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Also includes pre-war photo album documenting family and friends, and a scrapbook compiled on the occasion of Ernest Hubler’s Bar Mitzvah in 1933 that contains loose and adhered calling cards, postcards, letters and telegrams. Both Edith and Ernest were originally from Vienna. Edith left via Belgium, arriving in the US with her younger brother Herbert in May 1939. Ernest immigrated to the ...

  10. Gutmann family papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photograph albums and are part of a collection documenting the experiences of Herbert Gutmann and the Gutmann family in Germany and their immigration to the United Kingdom and the United States before and during WWII.

  11. Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers

    The Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers consist of identification documents, affidavits, documents, and photographs relating to the Schwarz family. Also included is Ilse Weinberger's memior entitled "Story of My Life," a letter from Ilse to Vera Frankel, and a photograph of Ilse Weinberger, the maid of honor, at Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz's wedding, June 29, 1932.

  12. Remember Commission 1945 testimonies

    Contains five typescript testimonies of Holocaust survivors compiled shortly after World War II, previouly bound together in a binder marked "Remember Commission 1945." Testimonies are identified as: "Dr. A. Weinberger, geb. 5.2.1904 in Auschwitz, mit Frau Bertha und Kind Josef (40 pp); "Max Moses, geb. den 7.12-1900 in Strassburg, mit Frau Batseba und Kindern Renee und Freddy Robert, seit 1919 in Holland (Tilburg)" (66 pp; page number 91 is missing, may also be missing pages after last page marked 108); "Dr. Abraham Wainryb, geb. in 1912, aus Wilna" (16 pp); "Jankiel Koppel Leimer, geb. 24...

  13. Oral history interview with Maurice Behar

  14. Announcement

    Announcement from authorities in “North-East France” announcing the existence of “bandits” and asking for the cooperation of the French population not to align or work with the “bandits” which the French and the German Wehrmacht will squelch. The announcement Itself is entirely in French, however signed at bottom in German “Der Befehlshaber im Bezirk Nord-Ost Frankreich” or the commander in the district of north-eastern France.

  15. Ten Brink family papers

    Contains correspondence and one passport, documenting the family of Fritz (Fred) Ten Brink. Includes passport for Rosa Weinberg (nee Ten Brink), originally of Emden, Germany; a Red Cross letter from Fritz Ten Brink and his family (wife Ella and son Peter), sent from England to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ten Brink, of Berlin, October 1942, with reply from them on verso, dated January 1943; and a two postwar letters, from the Baudner family and from Kurt Seligmann, both of Berlin, reporting on the fates of various friends and family members, as well as Ten Brink's parents.

  16. Anthony George Bello photographs

    Contains six post-liberation concentration camp photographs obtained by Anthony George Bello (donor's father), a member of Patton’s Third Army, Eighth Armored Division. Anthony obtained the photographs from an unknown source but also witnessed the atrocities first-hand. Images are large format, news press images of German women burying the dead in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany; images of the dead piled up in Buchenwald concentration camp; the crematoria at an unidentified camp; and Eisenhower viewing the dead in Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  17. David Goldberg collection

    Contains identification documents, restitution paperwork, and passports of various unrelated individuals, most likely all Jews, who fled Nazi occupation.

  18. Selected records of the Civic Chambers, attached to the Judicial courts of the Department of the Seine Les registres des arrêts des Chambres civiques de la cour de justice du département de la Seine (Z5)

    The archives of the civic chambers of the court of justice, departmental section of the Seine, are constituted by the files of the cases judged from 1944 to 1951, classified by registration number of the Prosecutor's office, as well as by the registers of judgments and the files on behalf of the accused allowing their files to be found. The accused are often members of collaborationist parties or members of the French State services and the documents of their trials help to establish their responsibilities in the implementation of the policy of the Vichy government. We can thus find in this...

  19. Frank A. Tuman papers

    Collection of papers relating to Corp. Frank A. Tuman during his service with Company L, 304th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division of the US Army during WWII. The collection includes a certificate of Merit issued to Tuman for Conspicuously meritorious and outstanding performance of military duty against an armed enemy and a Commendation issued to Tuman from Maj. Gen. Wm. R. Schmidt and Col. Wallace A. Choquette regarding the work Corp. Tuman and Pfc. Harold Levine performed in Mumsdorf, Germany regarding the reburial of victims of Nazi atrocities and the forced confrontation by the lo...