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  1. Otto and Ann Silber Mandel papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Anny Silber (b. 1917) and her husband Otto Mandl (b. 1913) from Vienna, Austria [donor's parents]. Documents include school report cards, Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passports], correspondence addressing their emigration from Austria and assistance by Otto's cousin Sam Kellner in New York. Also included are State Department letters concerning the 1941 emigration of Anny's parents Sigmund and Malvine from France and birth certificate for Otto ["Otto Bass recte Geiger" parents "Israel Bass recte Geiger und Adele geb. Bornstein...

  2. Oral history interview with Sulamed Lev

  3. Erich Lilienthal death certificate

    Death certificate issued for Erich "Israel" Lilienthal, a Jewish man who died in Berlin on June 14, 1940 at St. Hedwig Hospital. He was survived by his wife Gerda Amanda "Sara" Lilienthal (nee Sürth); she was deported to Auschwitz on November 29, 1942 and did not survive.

  4. Friedrich and Paula Haas papers

    Consists of documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Friedrich and Paula (nee Klawir) Haas, who were born in Vienna and fled to Ireland before immigrating to the United States. Includes materials related to their affidavits of support prepared by Lawrence Schnadig of Chicago, IL, who was not related to them. The collection also illustrates Friedrich's imprisonment in Buchenwald and Dachau after the Kristallnacht pogroms, including letters from the camps.

  6. Jan Jozef Gasior papers

    The collection consists of an identification card and certificate issued to Jan Josef Gasior, originally of Dukla, Poland, confirming that he was a persecuted Pole who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1942-1945. A photograph of Gasior and his second wife, Maria Grzesik, is also included.

  7. Oral history interview with Alfonsa Stirpe

  8. Cemetery Administration 325-1 Friedhofsverwaltung

    Consists of the register and plans of old burial places, and personnel files of the Cemetery Administration in Hamburg.

  9. Oral history interview with Berta Andersson

  10. Oral testimony of Shoshana Gottdank

  11. Complete Israelite cookbook with consideration of French and Bohemian cuisine, as well as Easter cuisine Cookbook, Vollständiges israelitisches Kochbuch, owned by Clara Gutmann

    Jewish cookbook that belonged to Herbert’s mother, Clara Gutmann. The book was written by Marie Kauders and published in Prague (now Prague, Czech Republic) by Jakob B. Brandeis in 1898. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Herbert Gutmann and the Gutmann family in Germany and their immigration to the United Kingdom and the United States before and during WWII.

  12. Benjamin Wajl memoir

    Memoir: "Moje wapomnienia z okewau 2 wosny swiatowej..." [My calamities from the 2nd World War] by Benjamin Wajl; 58 pages. Wajl was a native of Łódź, Poland, who fled east when the war broke out, and fought with the Russian army.

  13. Archives of the Army History Directorate of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense

    The collection contains records related to the military service of Greek Jews in the Greek Army during the Greco-Italian war (1940-1941). It includes lists names of the Greek army's conscripts, lists of the officers and soldiers, lists of fallen and those who received military awards for the services during the war, correspondence related to transfer and promotion of the military personnel. Also contains records related to postwar period, trials of the German war criminals, requests of moral remunerations, and the Status of the Constitution of the Evzones in Athens with reference to Hebrew ...

  14. Baby János

    Various CUs, infant János Schiffer at 5 months, 3 months, 7 weeks, and 8 days (reels compiled in reverse chronological order). János in a stroller. Erzsébet holds her first baby. More CUs of baby János in his crib. (03:52) János is weighed. (05:05) János is bottle fed. (06:20) János is bathed, cleaned, and clothed. (09:12) János is breastfed. Various shots of baby. (11:30) INTs, sunlit room, János (8 days old) is held by his mother, Erzsébet, on November 30, 1930.

  15. Oral history interview with Jozef Reich

  16. Harold Green photograph collection

    The Harold Green photograph collection consists of a small photograph album depicting liberation scenes of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. According to an interior inscription the photographs are associated with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. The photographs were given to Harold Green by an unidentified friend and fellow WWII veteran.

  17. Oral history interview with Eva Lecerof

  18. Selected records from the Military Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia related to the criminal investigation of war crimes on the territory of Yugoslavia during WWII

    Records of criminal investigations and trials pertaining to German, Hungarian, Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and Slovenian war criminals accused of war crimes against humanity committed on the territory of Yugoslavia during WWII. In addition to the Belgrade trials, the war crimes trials also took place at the Military Tribunals held in Zagreb, Sarajevo, and Ljubljana.

  19. Salek and Anny Rosendorn papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Salek and Anny Rosendorn, both originally from Łódź, Poland, including their lives as refugees in the Neustadt displaced persons camp from 1945-1947 and their immigration to La Paz, Bolivia in 1947. The collection primarily consists of identification cards and documents regarding Salek’s work with the Jewish Welfare Committee, the International Welfare Advisory Council, and the Central Jewish Committee. Other material includes poems authored by Anny on Jewish Committee stationary, a certificate identifying her as a former prisoner of Stut...