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  1. Israel "Sol" Sokolik papers

    The collection consists of handwritten testimony of the wartime experiences of Israel "Sol" Sokolik, who survived the Holocaust in Slonim (Belarus) in the ghetto and as a partisan. The testimony was used at the 1973 trial of Gerhardt Erren and Lothar Schultz for war crimes committed in Slonim. Also included are two doucments in Polish and Russian.

  2. "Massenmord" airdropped leaflet

    Double-sided leaflet dropped over Germany in late 1942 following the December 17, 1942 declaration by the United Kingdom and United States stating explicitly that the German authorities were engaging in mass murder of the European Jews. The leaflet describes the deportations and mass murder already underway, and promises postwar punishment for those responsible.

  3. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta

  4. Sonja Speyer Echt papers

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sonja Speyer Echt, originally of Guxhagen, Germany, including her childhood in Guxhagen, immigration to the United States in February 1938 on a Kindertransport, and her efforts to receive restitution from Germany. Included is her German passport, a copy of her birth certificate, a wartime postcard from her family in Guxhagen, genealogy notes, One Thousand Children reunion materials, restitution claims, and photographs. The photographs include depictions of Sonja, her sister Rita, Berta, and family tombstones.

  5. Oral history interview with Gesualdo Gorini

  6. Oral history interview with Jack Zatz

  7. Oral history interview with Genia Litwin

  9. Wolfgang and Ruth Hannes papers

    Contains photographs, a photo album, documents, and postcards documenting the experience of Wolfgang and Ruth Hannes and their family.

  10. Oral history interview with Leon Weintraub

  11. Oral history interview with Leon Schagrin

  12. Oral history interview with Herbert Weiss

  13. Charles Roman papers

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Charles Roman during the Holocaust.

  14. Press Archive DAIA (Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas)

    Articles, clippings, correspondence and statistics of the Press Archive DAIA (Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas) related to antisemitism in Argentina and around the world.

  15. County Starosty in Kielce Starostwo Powiatowe Kieleckie (Sygn. 101)

    Consists of various records relating to Jewish population in Poland, Kielce County: Registers of real estate of Kielce county; situational reports concerning security in the county (Files 203-221, 229-240), and situational reports of the Kielce voivode and other starosts (Files 247-265, 273-297), files on the general political situation in the county (Files 298, 306-309, 310-313), police reports from accidents and events (Files 928-940, 946-947), court activities (Files 941-942), files regarding the activities of political parties (Files 326-337 ), National Party (Files 338), Communist Part...

  16. Police Disciplinary Chamber 221-9 Polizeidisziplinarkammer

    Administrative records of the Polizeidisziplinarkammer (Police Disciplinary Chamber). Consists of files of Johan Zawadzki, Carl Schmahl, Gerhard Leonard, and Friedrich Karl Wurster.

  17. Fred Tausig papers

    Contains photographs and documents regarding the experiences of Fred Tausig and his family from Vienna, Austria. Includes certificates from the Technische Hochschule in Vienna issued to Fritz Tausig; report cards from the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School; numerous prewar and World War I era family photographs; identification cards and newspaper clippings related to Fritz's experience as a Pathfinder Scout in Austria and Shanghai; identification cards; postcards; and postwar photographs from Vienna including many of the family's housewares business.

  18. Garbovits family papers

    The collection consists of wartime postcards sent from Arnold and Karolin Garbovits in Budapest, Hungary in 1944. Two postcards were written by Arnold from a labor camp in Budapest to Karolin and his daughter Erzsebet (later Elizabeth), dated 9 and 15 October 1944. Three postcards were written by Karolin on the train as she was being deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in December 1944, one of which was addressed to Elizabeth, dated 12 December 1944; one addressed to a relative called Lainhorn Jolanka, dated 10 December 1944; and one addressed to Ferencz Veiler likely authored ...

  19. Touring Bremen and Berlin; parades

    Group outing (of the amateur film club?) in Germany. Outdoor sculpture (Monument to the March Dead), statue in Weimar, CUs of the group, wreath at base of statue, drinking fountain. 01:01:42 Man in suit delivers speech (microphone on stand), girls in white dresses beside him, boys with flags. Scenic shot. Dining outdoors. Brief sequence of a man with a movie camera (01:02:14). Church. “Restaurant Cafe Kugel” Small group marches in the street with flags. Gathered near Kolonialdenkmal statue of elephant in Bremen. Harbor at Bremerhaven. The tour group gathers to board a small boat. Shots of t...