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  1. Francie Alpert papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Francie Alpert (born Fernande Waligora), originally of Paris, France, who survived the war as a child refugee in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Documents include Francie’s clothing ration card, identification card, French passport, and resident alien’s border crossing identification card. Photographs include prints and copyprints of Francie as a child and teenager, her parents Szmul and Rose Waligora, Szmul’s father Szoel and his wife, Rose’s parents Abraham and Isza Kunigis, and Francie’s sister Janette.

  2. Oral history interview with Egon Brill

  3. Max Eichhorn collection

    The Max Eichhorn papers include correspondence, photographs, subject files, and writings documenting Eichhorn’s World War II service as a Jewish chaplain. Eichhorn was one of the first Jewish chaplains to enter the Dachau concentration camp after liberation, and he led the first religious service in the camp. Correspondence includes letters between Max Eichhorn, his family, the families of servicemen, military authorities, and American Jewish organizations during World War II. Photographs depict Max Eichhorn in uniform and conducting religious services at Camp Croft and in the field in Euro...

  4. Housing and Settlement Office 353-3 Wohnwirtschafts- und Siedlungsamt

    Selected records relating to residential housing estates and construction projects for individual settlers in Hamburg, 1940. The entire collection contains general files on organizational and personnel matters, and on the overall planning and on individual projects. The largest part of the records are the settlement files to small, outskirts, group, unemployed, SA, state, factory and residential housing estates and construction projects of individual settlers in Hamburg (before and after the Greater Hamburg Act) and for places outside of Hamburg: Ahrensburg, Buchholz/Kreis Harburg, Bünnings...

  5. Oral history interview with Norman Gleiss

  6. Jewish family life pre-war; skiing

    Section 1 and 3: Eric Weyl smokes a cigarette while sitting at a table (continuation of shot in RG-60.1740 at 01:01:17). Two women outdoors in a wool coats and hats, snow on the ground, they walk along a sidewalk. The taller woman is Else Weyl, who later walks with her brother-in-law Paul Weyl, the man with spectacles. They make faces at the cameraman. Family members walk on the city street (shops, tram-lines), probably in Monchengladbach, and pose for the camera. In a park, Gertrude and her mother Elsa (Lieschen) Weyl walk down a path. They push Bernard Weyl, Eric's father, in a wheelchair...

  7. Berger, Hartstein, and Marx families papers

    Consists of correspondence pertaining to the Hartstein, Berger, and Marx families of Stuttgart, Germany; Prague; and the United States.

  9. Weissbarth family papers

    Contains a play written and performed on the occassion of Arthur Weissbarth's 13th birthday; the document was saved by Else Weissbarth (donor's mother-in-law) who brought it with her her when she, her husband, and son immigrated to the US in 1938. Includes two postcards, one written to George "Hansi" (donor's husband).

  10. Housing Care 353-2 II Wohnungsamt

    Selected files of the Wohnungsfürsorge (Housing Care) relating to the Bullenhuser Damm School, camps for prisoners and workers, camps for interned Italians, Jewish mixed race and homeless, and files relating to murdering of Jewish children shortly before the end of WWII.

  11. Trims; outtakes from Jonny's Gang comedy film

    Reel contains quick, unrelated trims and cuts filmed by Walter Hausner. WH logo (reversed). Side view of man in dark sweater vest, observing the tennis game from above. VAR quick cuts of athletes in the tennis match. Side/close view of woman, with athletes and court in BG. More shots of the spectators, some smoking. Two athletes walk up the stands towards the camera. Soccer team, playing and posing for the camera. The Hausner friends ski outdoors in winter. Czech troops in uniform with weapons parade the streets in Prague, spectators with umbrellas, shop signs, cobbled streets/tram lines. A...

  12. Alexander Dallin papers

    The Alexander Dallin papers document Alexander Dallin and his family’s escape from Europe between 1939 and 1940 and their immigration to the United States through autobiographical materials, family trees, photocopies of certificates and letters, newspaper clippings, and some original documentation. The collection contains a draft of Dallin’s incomplete autobiography-- split into two chapters-- a copy of Dallin’s memoir written in 1941, and a speech memorializing American Journalist, Varian Fry, which all relate to Dallin’s experience in Vichy France after escaping Nazi Germany before he and...

  13. Siegfried Urias law office 621-1/86 Siegfried Urias

    Records of the law office of Dr. Siegfried Urias, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  14. George Rothman papers

    The George Rothman papers document the Holocaust-era experiences of George Rothman (born Georges Bardenstein) and his parents Emmanuel and Esfira Bardenstein in Bordeaux and Paris, France, including Emmanuel’s enlistment in the French Army, George’s hospitalization due to a severe illness, his parent’s deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz, and his survival as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage. Included are pre-war biographical papers, correspondence, photographs, and a memoir. The bulk of the biographical materials consists of correspondence and immigration documents regarding George’s ...

  16. Instytut Niemieckiej Pracy na Wschodzie (IDO) Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)

    Records of the Central Board of Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO): correspondence, lists of employees of the Institute, financial books and others; records of IDO branches in L’viv and Warsaw; records of various IDO sections: Prehistory, History, Art History, Law and Administration, Touring and Descriptive Geography, Anthropology, Ethnography and Race, Farms and Statistics, Forestry, Chemistry; and records on economic relations in selected villages in the GG area. Contains also statistical studies, typescripts of scientific papers, editorial materials of the journals "Die Burg", "Deuts...

  17. Henriette Bick Hahn papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of Henriette Bick Hahn and her parents Karl and Emma Bick, originally of Munich, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of documents and correspondence relating to Karl’s imprisonment in Stadelheim and Dachau after Kristallnacht. The last letter in the collection written by Karl while in Dachau is dated May 5, 1940. Other material in the collection includes Karl and Emma’s marriage certificate, identification cards and naturalization certificate of Henriette, and prewa...

  18. Goldmann family papers

    The Goldmann family papers consist of correspondence, biographical records, immigration documents, school notes and records, photographs, and military documents relating to Kurt Goldmann's prewar life in Germany, immigration to the United States in 1939, experience as a student at Pennsylvania State University, service in the United States Army during WWII, and his postwar life in the United States. Also included are documents related to Kurt’s parents, Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann, and their emigration from Germany to England and the United States, as well as prewar documents relating t...

  20. Collection of Polish underground press Zbiór polskiej prasy konspiracyjnej

    A collection of 359 titles of the Polish underground press from all areas of the occupied Poland. The collection includes both titles issued by parties associated with peasant parties about the organization of the Peasant Battalions, as well as titles published by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and the National Armed Forces (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne).