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  1. Franz Gerhard Back papers

    The Franz Gerhard Back papers include documents, correspondence, report cards. university records, baptismal certificates, and immigration papers documenting Frank Back, his parents, Anton and Wilhelmine (Minna) Back, and his grandparents, Ignatz and Julie Sommer and Ignatz and Katharina Back.

  2. Max and Dorothy Folk papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Max and Dorothy Folk, both of whom survived the Holocaust and married in Landsberg am Lech, Germany after the war. The collection primarily consists of biographical and identification papers from Landsberg, documents regarding their respective Holocaust experiences, papers related to their immigration to the United States in 1950, and restitution paperwork. Biographical material primarily documents the Max and Dorothy’s post-war lives as refugees in the Landsberg am Lech DP camp area. Papers of Max include identification cards; documents ...

  3. 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...

  4. Dachau Trials photograph album pages

    Two-sided photo album page (loose) with 4 photographs taken during the Dachau Trials (1945-1947).The pages are annotated in English. Includes depictions of camp building exteriors, an unidentified woman in a jeep, and the ceiling lights of a courtroom. There are annotations for other photographs missing from the pages.

  5. Deborah Senn collection

    Correspondence, memoranda, transcripts, tapes, and publications concerning the work for Holocaust insurance restitution in the Washington State Office of Insurance Commissioner, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and for the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC)

  6. Komlos and Grünhut families papers

    The collection consists of two memoirs documenting the Hungarian Holocaust experiences of Herbert Komlos and his wife Eva Lőwy’s cousin Irén Grünhut. The memoir authored by Herbert Komlos discusses his survival of Hungarian labor battalions and going into hiding in Budapest with his wife Eva Lőwy and extended relatives. Irén Grünhut was a survivor of several camps including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Stutthof. Her memoir is a photocopy of the original authored in 1955.

  7. Jeanne Thomas Bell papers

    The collection includes the following British newspapers: Daily Mirror, August 28, 1939 Evening Standard, April 16, 1945 Sunday Pictorial, May 13, 1945

  8. Ella Menke Leeser letter

    Copy of a 5 page typewritten letter describing the experiences of the Leeser family, originally from Germany, while in hiding during the Holocaust in the Netherlands. The letter was authored in June 1945 by Ella Menke Leeser and her daughter Yonny and sent to relatives in Argentina. The letter contains information about the various Dutch aid givers and unique circumstances in which Ella and her two children, George and Yonny, were able to survive.

  9. Suzanne Friedmann photographs

    The Suzanne Friedmann photographs depict Suzanne Friedmann and other young women and children at the Rothschild orphanage and hospital in Paris where Friedmann lived before and during the war. The collection also includes picture of her brother Jacques Friedman in the French Amry and picture postcards of the Rothschild hospital.

  10. Der Phew-er Hitler Skunk S(cent) Penny Guitar Brooch

    Der Phew-er Hitler Skunk S(cent) Penny Guitar Brooch; 1940

  11. Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers

    The Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers consist of identification documents, affidavits, documents, and photographs relating to the Schwarz family. Also included is Ilse Weinberger's memior entitled "Story of My Life," a letter from Ilse to Vera Frankel, and a photograph of Ilse Weinberger, the maid of honor, at Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz's wedding, June 29, 1932.

  12. Fluss and Lipow families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Lipow and Fluss families of Berlin, Germany, including their immigration to the United States. Biographical material includes William and Bertha Lipow’s ketubah, immigration documents, correspondence, restitution paperwork, and photographs. Material related to the Fluss family includes identification documents and postcards.

  13. "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.

  14. Prayer book

    Prayerbook that belonged to the donor's grandmother.

  15. 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 ...

  16. Dr. Douglas M. Kelley papers

    The collection documents Dr. Douglas M. Kelley’s role as a United States Army psychiatrist examining 22 high-ranking Nazi defendants awaiting trial in the Nuremberg War Trials. Included are case files for each defendant; war trial documents, memorandums, and clippings; Rorschach test results; Nazi Rorschach research papers and correspondence; and manuscript drafts of his book 22 Cells in Nuremberg. Nuremberg War Trials papers include administrative documents and memorandums, a diary and ledger with handwritten notes by Kelley, clippings regarding the trial defendants, and copy prints of pho...

  17. Hermann and Charlotte Sperling collection

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

  18. Oral history interview with Paula Weiss

  19. Harold and Pirry Roth papers

    Consists of a scrapbook, correspondence, clippings, restitution documents, IDs, naturalization documents, and other original materials pertaining to Pirry and Harold Roth, formerly of Uzhhorod and later of the United States. Pirry and Harold married in 1939 before Harold immigrated to the United States with his parents. Pirry was to later follow but her plans to emigrate from Europe were disrupted by the war. Pirry survived deportation to Auschwitz and was liberated at Plön in 1945. After her liberation she was reunited with Harold who had been serving in the US Army. The couple married for...

  20. 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.