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  1. Zoller collection

    Contains a copy print image of donor's father eating a meal with family shortly after arriving in Los Angeles.

  2. David Goldberg collection

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

  4. Oral history interview with Regina Naftaniel

  5. Municipal Construction Department 321-2 Baudeputation

    Various registers, protocols and other records relating to construction and administration of the Hamburg yard, fortification and other buildings.

  6. Suss family collection

    Contains a certificate of residence issued to Pinkas Suss giving him rights to remain in his hometown, including stamp used as a passport, issued January 22, 1929; an identification card issued to George Suss (donors' father) from an Austrian scout organization, 1927; and a wedding portrait of the donors' parents, dated 15 December 1945.

  7. Nass family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Max and Florett Nass, their son Werner, and Florett’s parents Manfred and Helene Goldmeir. Included are biographical materials, immigration paperwork, wartime correspondence to Max in New York from his father Abraham Nass in Regensburg, Germany, and photographs. Biographical material includes identification papers, birth and marriage certificates, German passports, a clipping regarding Straubing, a Goldmeier family history, vaccination certificate, and a German driver’s license. Immigration papers include Affidavits of Support, appli...

  8. Ludmila Obolensky-Flam collection

    Collection of photographs and photographic postcards, some bearing inscriptions, depicting friends of Ludmila Obolensky-Flam who were massacred in 1941 in Riga, Latvia.

  10. Painting

    Oil on canvas, created by Elly Berkovits Gross, which document her experiences while a prisoner in Birkenau; titled "Black Lake" (2018)

  11. Anthony Dotta photograph collection

    The Anthony Dotta photograh collection consists of photographs of the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. The photographs depict United States soldiers standing among corpses in the camps, the burial of victims by German civilians, the gallows of Ohrdruf, and the crematoria at Buchenwald concentration camp. It is believed that the photographer was either John Pagotto or Louis Pagotta, friends of Anthony Dotta.

  12. French resistance leaflets

    Leaflets, newspapers, and documents from resistance organizations in the south of France.

  13. Painting

    Oil on canvas, created by Elly Berkovits Gross, which document her experiences while a prisoner in Birkenau; titled "Last Hours" (2017)

  14. Monique Joseph papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and his family. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, an autograph album, immigration papers, correspondence, memoirs, and photographs. Biographical material related to Monique includes address books, an autograph album, identification papers including a French passport; false-identity documents under the name of Monique Colin; post-war documents regarding her ...

  15. 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."

  16. American soldiers in Paris; Louvre Palace

    From left to right: Hymie Green, his older sister Zelda Blatt (wife of Julius Blatt) and their mother Ada Green. Zelda wearing a fur coat speaks. Large ship with steam rising from its two funnels. Pans right along the dock. Hill with various buildings. Views of the sea from a boat. 01:20:33 Julius and friend talking and laughing along the edge of the boat. Julius lifts a cigar to his mouth. Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in front of the Louvre Palace. A young girl in winter clothing leans on a stroller. A bearded man sits on a bench in the garden feeding the birds food from his pocket. Anothe...

  17. Selected records from the State District Archive Znojmo

    Administrative records from the towns of Znojmo, Miroslav in Bohemia and Moravia concerning anti-Jewish measures and regulations and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Includes name lists and registers of local Jews. Selected records originate from three collections at the State District Archive in Znojmo: 1. Archiv města Znojma (Archive of the city of Znojmo) 1281-1945 (1980); 2. Archiv městečka Miroslav (Archive of the town Miroslav) 1783-1945 (1948); 3. Archiv obec jiřice u Miroslavi (Archive of the municipal office of Miroslav) 1783-1945 (1948).

  18. RZ 105 Office of the German Under Secretary RZ 105 Büro Unterstaatssekretär 1936-1945

    Records related to diplomatic relations between Germany and foreign countries, including Italy, Japan, Poland, and the Soviet Union, concerning the "Jewish question." Consists of correspondence, telegrams, propaganda materials, articles and newspaper clippings.

  19. Oral history interview with Georg Sessler

  20. 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...