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  1. Oral history interview with Maurice Levis

  2. Herbert C. Whelchel collection

    Contains loose pages of a photo album depicting images of postwar damage to a German city and images related to a war crimes trial at Dachau, as well as an "Elisted Man's Identification Card," a list of humorous euphemisms used in filing or referring documents, and a service record document related to Herbert Whelchel's military service during WWII and in a subsequent war crimes trial.

  3. Jewish County Committee in Żary Powiatowy Komitet Żydowski w Żarach (Sygn. 366)

    Ordinances, announcements, minutes of meetings, official correspondence, registration questionnaires of members, personal files of committee employees, materials related to the Youth Department and others.

  4. Landherrenschaften-National Committee Affairs 416-1/5 Landherrenschaften-Landesausschussangelegenheiten

    Records of the Landherrenschaften-Landesausschussangelegenheiten: committee's negotiations (protocols), and general affairs relating to budget, taxes and accounting, construction, housing, livestock and drainage, municipalities, schools, transport and police, as well as insurance and social affairs.

  5. Oral history interview with Hanus Weber

  7. Oral history interview with Max Eisen

  8. Selected records of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts from the State Archive in Banská Bystrica

    Consists of selected records from 15 collections concerning the persecution of Jews in Slovakia (1945-1948) and pertaining the trials and investigations of Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members tried in the court in the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts for collaborating with the German security forces. Contains files on the aryanization, deportation of Jews from Banská Bystrica in 1942, hiding of Jews, denunciation and detention of Jews, arrest of Communists, Jews and Roma, the ghetto in Lučenec, mass murder in Dolný Turček, guards in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, impris...

  9. Selected records from the State District Archive Pelhřimov

    Administrative records from various towns and districts in Bohemia and Moravia concerning anti-Jewish regulations and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Includes name lists and registers of local Jews. Consists of selected records from 16 collections of the State District Archive Pelhrimov (Státní okresní archiv Pelhřimov) : District office Humpolec (Okresní úřad Humpolec) (1799) 1855-1945 (1951); District office Kamenice nad Lipou (Okresní úřad Kamenice nad Lipou) (1808) 1855-1943 (1953); District office Pelhrimov I (Okresní úřad Pelhřimov I) 1850 -1945 (1956); District sch...

  10. Reich Trustee of Labor 356-4 Reichstreuhänder der Arbeit

    Selected records of the Reichstreuhänder der Arbeit (Reich Trustee of Labor). Consists of regulations and correspondence.

  11. Oral history interview with Egon Brill

  12. Stella Luftig collection

    Contains two photographs: one, dated 15 May 1927, a studio portrait of two boys; the other, undated, of a woman with three children in a park.

  13. Rinah J. Karson collection

    Contains letters and postcards written in the early and mid 1930s from Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and elsewhere.

  14. Stephen Bass document

    Liberation document issued for Istvan [Stephen] Bass, who was born in Koszeg, Hungary in 1923 and was deported to concentration camps, and liberated in Gusen concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria. Document dated June 8, 1945; entitled "Provisional identification card for civilian internee of Mauthausen," and "Ausweis - Certification."

  15. Performers at convalescent homes and DP camps in Italy

    Soprano Marguerite Kozenn and pianist and composer Julius Chaje shake hands with two men in front of a gate at a rest home or DP camp in Italy with the sign “AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE.” Kozenn and Chaje tour the terrace with a large fountain and several small statues. CU of a statue of a cherub. Kozenn, Chaje, and the two men walking down a set of steps in a garden. INT, CU hands playing piano. Chaje plays piano, then stands up, bowing to the camera. Chaje plays piano accompaniment as Kozenn sings for the audience of refugees. Chaje and Kozenn talk to several young refugees in t...

  17. 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.

  19. Prewar family life in Hungary

    Andris Berkes (the son of Ernö’s cousin) rides horse, probably in summer 1932 at family farm in Zabar. Includes shots of the town as well as other family members horseback riding and jumping. (08:33) Herding sheep, Andris assists the shepherds. Well with long pole hauling up bucket. (09:41) In Mohács, Béla Molnár, the father-in-law of Klári, poses outside their home. Children, Peter and Anni Molnár; Eva Popper rides a tricycle. (10:11) An elderly couple (grandparents) pose for camera. Eva plays with her father and the family’s fox terrier dog. (10:46) INTs, CUs, grandparents Jonas and Jenny...

  20. Oral history interview with Peter Kadar