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  1. Collection of the Union Général des Israélites de France (UGIF) (22 P 3065-3078)

    Consits of an alphabetical card file listing names of Jews deported from France.. The collection was reconstituted from dispersed documents in individual name files used to support claims in the SHD Archives in Caen. Originally, it was a card file transmitted to the French Ministry of Veterans’ Affairs after WW II to provide information on deported Jewish victims. Since the documents in the individual files are no longer in use to back individual claims by survivors or their heirs against the Nazi regime or the Vichy government, it was decided that the Union Général des Israélites de France...

  2. Hermann and Charlotte Sperling collection

    Correspondence of donor's grandparents Hermann and Charlotte Sperling (later Spalding) and children Irene and Dorothea (donor's mother).

  3. George Barlaz papers

    The George Barlaz papers include photographs, immigration material, school records, and extensive correspondence relating to George Barlaz and his family’s pre-war life in Russia and Poland, George’s immigration to the United States, his attempts to help his family immigrate to the United States in the early 1940s, and his attempts to locate his family after the war. The collection also includes a diary kept by George from 1913-1921 which includes entries, addresses, and other notes. Series 1 includes pre-war photographs of the Barlaz family including Avraham, Adela, George, Shmuel, and Cha...

  4. Irving Rubenstein collection

    Contains carbon copies of reports recorded in Mauthausen. Includes copies of a nine-page confession of Franz Ziereis, former commandant, detailing daily murder and mistreatment of Mauthausen inmates [per Ziereis] persecuted by other high-ranking Nazi officials, and a with note to his wife including details of atrocities at other camps. Also includes a report, including a handwritten note on the last page, conveyed by inmate and victim Wladislaus Czaplinski, a physician in the camp who was interned in the Camp from 1940 through liberation. His statement details the murder of thousands of pri...

  5. Herbert L. Winograd collection

    Two envelopes; one sent to donor’s aunt “Beyla Katz…ul. Krasnoarmeiskaia in Pruzhany…Zapadnaia, Belorus, Brestskaia oblast [in Russian]…formerly Poland” from “Winograd, Beechwood…” Ohio, postmarked November 6 [no year] and stamped “RETURN TO SENDER.” One envelope sent from Else Guggenheim in Camp de Gurs to Norbert Guggenheim in Cleveland, Ohio and postmarked January 29, 1942. Else was deported to Auschwitz September 4, 1942.

  6. Antisemitic scrapbook

    Contains a scrapbook with newspaper clippings dated 1938-1939, with international headlines from newspapers in the United States. Includes hand-written comments, underlining, and other notations inserted periodically. Includes several headlines about Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, some clippings from German publications, and articles about Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The creator of the scrapbook was apparently a graduate of that college; one clipping about Franklin & Marshall includes the handwritten notation, "The Jewish invasion of my alma mater is on with...

  7. Oral history interview with Judith Beker Meisel

  8. Frajda Tauba Birsztajn papers

    The collection consists of photographs of the extended family and friends of Frajda Tauba Birsztajn as well as her mother, Aidla Berlandsztein’s family, before, during, and after the war in Poland and the United States. The collection also includes a birth certificate and Polish passport issued to Frajda and an invitation to the wedding of Lola Birsztajn and Mieczslaw Weintal in 1935.

  9. Diamond and Weinrib families papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Karl Diamond, originally of Tarnów, Poland, and his wife Ruth Diamond (née Mam), originally of Białystok, Poland, and her sister Helen Weinrib (née Mam) in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, 1945-1949. Included are marriage certificates, employment papers, identification papers, immigration paperwork and naturalization certificates, restitution documents, inquiries to the Red Cross regarding members of Karl’s family, and personal narratives and speeches of Karl regarding his Holocaust experiences.

  10. Dr. Arthur Kessler papers

    Dr. Arthur Kessler's papers related to reparations for Vapniarka survivors as well as related to his own compensation from Germany.

  11. Hasso Hinke journal

    Journal illustrated and written by German POW Hasso Hinke who was held in Rheinwiesenlager in 1945-46 (part of a group of 19 camps built in Allied-occupied part of Germany by the US Army to hold captured German soldiers (held between 1-2 million Wehrmacht personnel) under poor conditions and later in a PG Lager in Grenoble, France. The journal Includes letters and postcards he sent and received. (It looks like a family member or the author later added notes in pen and an article). Hasso Hinke worked as a professional cartoonist and caricaturist in Berlin after the war. Photographs, clipping...

  12. 1936 Olympics collection

    Collection of materials relating to the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936 collected during a visit to Berlin in summer 1936. Included in the collection are: tickets, street maps, tourist guides, advertising from the famous warehouse 'Karstadt' at Hermannplatz (which was new and is an example for the modern architecture and modern life at that time). Includes a faksimile street map of Berlin in the 1930s. Newspaper "Der Arbeitsmann, August 1, 1936, 2 Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, poster from Kraft durch Freude organization.

  13. KdF-Wagen

    Booklet advertising KdF Wagen, using Hitler's image

  14. Die Judenfrage

    The Jewish Question: Negotiations of the Prussian House of Representatives, November 1880

  15. "Die Nachrichten - Abteilung 17 stellt sicher..."

    Book of drawings by a German soldier from Communications Unit 17 of the German Army in France 1944. Unique drawings showing satirical attitude toward war and camaraderie of unit. Drawings were produced for the 50th birthday of the Division commander in August 1944 by Fritz Illburger.

  16. Prewar Austria: vacation and leisure time

    “Bilder vom staatlichen Skikurs Radstadt Weihnachten 1933” Horse pulls a sled. People walk and ski in the snow. They point and wave at the camera. Others trek up a hill on skis and ski down. Tree with icicles. A person falls. “Allerlei Allotria” The boys do acrobatics. They ski down another hill. Someone waves. More acrobatics. People on a balcony. 01:03:45 Parade of uniformed military men in the snow. “Hotel Pesl Lisl Jasny” CUs of different people, some dark, some smiling for the camera, at the train station. Train departs, kids wave. (01:05:46) Mixed shots of skiing, and a group of peopl...

  17. Association of Jewish engineers in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 326)

    This collection contains minutes of the meetings of the Association of Jewish Engineers in Wilno ( Vilnius), Poland and its board, lists of members and engineers according to their professional qualifications, applications for the membership and copies of their professional diplomas (1932-1939), statistical data, annual reports about association activities, correspondence with other Jewish organizations (ORT, OSE) and branches of the Association in Poland ( Kraków, Lwów), bylaws, financial documentation, and questionnaires of unemployed members of the Assosiation (1940).

  18. Sgt. Thomas P. Carbone collection

    Contains ten photographs depicting scenes shortly after the liberation of the Mauthausen camp. The photographs were taken by Sgt. Thomas P. Carbone, medic with the 575th Antiaircraft Artillery, 11th Armored Division. Most photographs bear descriptions on the verso written by the photographer.

  19. Norman R. Stupp collection

    Photograph of Dachau at liberation, from the donor's father, Norman R. Stupp, PFC, 82nd Airborne Division. The photograph depicts a pile of corpses of camp prisoners.

  20. Sightseeing in Washington, DC

    The Lindemanns visit Washington, DC. US Capitol building. The White House with autombile traffic and visitors by the fence. Fountains at the Washington Monument. The reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial. More sightseeing. Pan of the Union Station. A friend approaches the camera coming down stairs. Cherry trees in full bloom at the Tidal Basin, train passes by in the BG.