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  1. Sara Nussbacher and Chaim Yeger collection

    Manuscripts in English and Hebrew documenting the experiences of Sara Nussbacher (nee Markowich) and Chaim Wolf Yeger. Includes copy of Hebrew manuscript by Tali Geva in 1989 about Chaim Yeger and the English translation by donors of that manuscript. Manuscript about Sara Nussbacher written in English by donors based on her oral history, and includes original photographs.

  2. Oral history interview with Dr. Dennis Coppel

  3. Walter Eisenhuth photograph collection

    Consists of 16 photographs documenting scenes at Buchenwald shortly following liberation. The photographs are associated with the military service of Walter Eisenhuth, who served with an Army Engineer Maintenance Company. Includes images of piles of corpses; the burial of victims; survivors in their camp uniforms; scenes at various buildings aroud the camp site; and the hanging of a sign, in English, announcing a memorial observance for the victims of the camp.

  4. Oral history interview with Fiorella Fano

  5. Cukier and Cohen families papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence of brothers Max Cohen and Charles Cohen, both of whom immigrated to the United States before World War II from Poland, from their nephews Jakub Cukier and Shmul Cukier. Early letters concern Max’s attempts to help Shmul immigrate to the United States in the early 1920s. Postwar letters from Jakub inform his uncle Charles that he and his older brother served with the Polish Army, were imprisoned, and that his parents and older brother all perished in the Holocaust.

  6. 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.

  7. "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.

  8. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta

  9. 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.

  10. Oral history interview with Gesualdo Gorini

  11. Oral history interview with Jack Zatz

  12. Oral history interview with Genia Litwin

  14. Wolfgang and Ruth Hannes papers

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

  15. Oral history interview with Leon Weintraub

  16. Oral history interview with Leon Schagrin

  17. Oral history interview with Herbert Weiss

  18. Charles Roman papers

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

  19. 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.

  20. 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...