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  1. Oral history interview with Kiwa Zyto

  2. Peter Kossowsky family papers

    Photographs, documents, German passport, letter, wedding ketubah, invitation, scrapbook, mourning book and report cards documenting the experience of Peter Kossowsky and his family.

  3. Nathan and Miriam Sadik papers

    The collection consists of documents relating to Polish Holocaust survivors Nathan and Miriam Sadik’s post-war experiences in Austria prior to immigration to the United States in 1948. Included are two copies of their marriage certificate, Miriam’s declaration of intention form, and a copy of Sadik’s membership card for The Mutual Aid Organization of Jewish Ex-Prisoners in Concentration Camps (l'Organization d'Aide Mutuelle d'Ex-Prisonniers Juifs de camps de Concentration) which lists Auschwitz and his prisoner number 76654.

  4. Sidrer family papers

    Consists of photographs and documents pertaining to Liova and Zlata Sidrer, the parents of Ettie Zilber. The collection primarily documents Liova and Zlata's experiences as displaced persons living in Landsberg.

  5. Dinner reception at Pető home; snowstorm and hunting

    WIth titles in Hungarian. “I.RÉSZ” with picture of a violin and a lever-action rifle. “AMI NEM MINDENKINEK SIKERÜL”. “A78-IK SZÜLETÉSNAP” An older woman looks at the camera, smiles, and talks. “ACSALÁD” CU, 3 playing cards - a jack, a king, and (what looks to be) a joker. INT, Laszlo Pető in the middle of two men playing cards, with 1 man standing in the BG. “ÖSSZES AOLU SŬLI ULSIMO” They play cards. Women, including older sister of Gyorgy, Rózsa Pető, and Zseni Krausz, sit at a table, eating and talking. 01:48 “II. RÉSZ” “AMI NEM MINDENKINEK SIKERÜL” “A33-IK SZÜLETÉSNAP” “MEGÉRTE, MEGÍRTA…...

  7. Rinah J. Karson collection

    Contains letters and postcards written in the early and mid 1930s from Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and elsewhere.

  8. "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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Oral history interview with Michael Meschke

  13. Selected records from the Historical Archives of Subotica related to the history of the Jewish community

    Contains selected records related to the history of the Jewish Community of the city of Subotica, part of the Vojvodina province in Serbia. It includes records from the collection of the Senate of Subotica (Fond 41), the executive body governing of the city, Records pertain to the economic and political activities of the local Jewish community, and others, Serbs, Hungarians, Germans in 1918-1941. Contains census statistics, applications for permission to open business, various petitions and certifications, minutes of the Jevrejskog ortodoksnog pobožnog društva (Jewish Orthodox Pious Society...

  14. Selected records of the Intelligence Archive of the Buenos Aires Police Department (DIPBA)

    The records consist of surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998. This collection contains records relating to the surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998, and relating to former Nazis in Argentina, nationalists and right wing activities, and Antisemitism.

  15. Henry (Hank) M. and Marion Rosenwald collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs of Henry (Hank) M. Rosenwald and Marion Marx Rosenwald. Henry M. Rosenwald and his parents Paul Rosenwald and Margarete (Grete) Rosenwald were able to emigrate to the U.S. from Germany with the help of their American Rosenwald cousins. Marion Marx was also an emigre from Germany. The collection includes items from WWI through Hank's death in 2001.

  16. Herbert C. Whelchel collection

    Contains loose pages of a photo album depicting images of postwar damage to a German city and images related to a war crimes trial at Dachau, as well as an "Elisted Man's Identification Card," a list of humorous euphemisms used in filing or referring documents, and a service record document related to Herbert Whelchel's military service during WWII and in a subsequent war crimes trial.

  17. Oral history interview with Zlata Santocki Sidrer

  19. Geclewicz family photographs

    Contains approximately 69 postwar photographs brought by parents Anna (nee Charlotte Gersten) and Daniel (Gedalia) Geclewicz (later Geslewitz) from Lüneburg, Germany, depicting displaced persons in and around the town.