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  1. UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission

    Consist of administrative files related to displaced persons, repatriation, emigration, tracing of people, child welfare, Children's Homes, welfare assistance by various international organizations; special monthly reports and statistics from British, French and American Zones; files of the displaced persons camps, narrative reports, correspondence, and registers from the particular UNRRA teams regarding operations of the displaced persons camps.

  2. Kenneth Kravis photograph collection

    The Kenneth Kravis photograph collection contains 22 annotated photographs taken by Kravis of the discovery and aftermath of the Gardelegen massacre in Germany, April 1945. On April 14, 1945, the 102nd Infantry Division entered Gardelegen, Germany and discovered the remains of the massacre of prisoners by the SS. The victims had been burned alive in a barn. Following the discovery, German civilians were forced to exhume the victims’ bodies for reburial in single graves. On April 25, 1945, a ceremony was held to erect a memorial tablet and honor the victims. The Kenneth Kravis photograph col...

  3. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.

  4. Prayer book

    Consists of a Tefilat Yiśraʼel (Israels gebete) prayer book, published c. 1943 Basel which includes names and addresses of various contacts inscribed by the donor's father, a Holocaust survivor, while living as a displaced person in Leipheim.

  5. District Office in Třebíč Okresní úřad Třebíč

    District administrative records including decrees against Jews and expropriation and aryanization of Jewish properties in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch).

  6. Holocaust memoirs collection

    Contains Holocaust memoirs of Jehoash Alperovitch, Joseph Bainvoll, and Lilli Gontscheroff.

  7. Sydney Asher collection

    Photographs in envelopes of the Pedescala Massacre which took place between April 30th and May 2nd 1945 in Val d’Astico, Italy north of Vicenza in three municipalities, Pedescala, Forni, and Setteca`. The images were acquired by Donor’s husband, Sydney, who was in the 5th Army and who was a lawyer so given the task of investigating the atrocities. Includes an envelope labeled “Vittime di Pedescola” or Victims of Pedescola.

  8. Fundación IWO Archive-Idisher Visnshaflekher Institute in Argentina Archivo de la Fundación IWO-Instituto Científico Judío en Argentina

    This collection contains organizational records, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. Files are arranged at the folder level. The documents relate to the arrival of survivor artists, correspondence with artists, writers and other personalities in the aftermath of World War II, cultural activities and publishing projects of survivors.

  9. Selected records of the General Commissioner of the Republic of Poland in Gdańsk Komisarz Generalny Rzeczypospolitej w Gdańsku (Sygn. 259)

    Selected records of the office of the Komisarz Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Gdańsku (General Commissioner of the Republic of Poland in Gdańsk). Consist of reports, agreements, negotiations of the High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Gdańsk on the situation in the Free City of Gdańsk (Danzig), attacks on Poles and Polish property; records on paramilitary and other German organization, recruitment to NSDAP, Anti-Jewish actions of the National Socialists, attacks on Polish scouts and Polish families in Gdansk; political reports of the General Commissioner RP in Gdańsk on the...

  10. Ole Barfoed collection (Group 860: IV.T.48.O)

    The collection of Ole Barfoed consist of correspondence and reports, mainly from Jews relating to their escape to Sweden during the occupation of World War II, copies of miscellaneous documents from archives, and private notes. During the 1950s Ole Barfoed worked with some 70 Danish Jews who had escaped to Sweden during World War II and persuaded them to write down their accounts of their experiences from that time. The majority of these firsthand accounts were written by Jews who were well connected in society, and who also, for the most part, were above average in terms of personal financ...

  11. Erwin Stern collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Erwin Stern, born in Rechnitz, Germany and later of Vienna until 1939, when he and his sister Theresa were sent to France and hidden in the Château du Masgelier children's home. They came to the United States in June 1941 through a transport organized by the United States Committee for the Care of European Children. Includes documentaiton compiled in preparation for that journey, such as an affidavit in lieu of passport.

  12. Drawing

    Postcard with self-portrait in front of brick wall and text by donor's father, Janos Gombosi

  13. Franz Reisz painting

  15. Emigration Fund for Bohemia and Moravia, Office in Brno Auswanderungfonds für Böhmen und Mähren (B 392)

    Consists of records pertaining to expropriated and liquidated Jewish businesses and real estate, includes individual cases, 1939-1942. The collection also features documentation about the deportation and transports to concentration camps of Czech Jews.

  16. Gerta Solan collection

    Collection of approximately 27 family photographs documenting Gerta Solan with her parents, grandparents, family and friends before and after WWII in and around Prague.

  17. Selected records of the Sondergericht bei dem Landgericht Zichanau Sąd Specjalny przy Sądzie Krajowym w Ciechanowie (Sygn. 644/III) : Wybrane materialy

    Criminal cases against Poles and Jews for theft, smuggling, fencing, illegal trade of meat, bread, and helping Jews. The accused people were sentenced to very severe punishments: death penalty, concentration camp, a prison camp, and a fine. Most of the prisoners did not survive.

  18. Selected records of the Office of the District Starosta in Łódź Starostwo Grodzkie Łódzkie (Sygn. 334) : Wybrane materiały

    Cases and registers of foreigners, and the index of Polish citizenship certificates.

  19. Sightseeing in Berlin and German-occupied Paris

    Side street. German officer stands next to a car: “M30 Pf4 4 To.” He kneels beside the car and talks to a mechanic working underneath it. He climbs up to the driver’s seat. River. People ride bikes. The Schlossbrücke bridge in Mitte, Berlin, with the Berliner Dom in the BG. The Pont d'Iéna bridge across the River Seine in Paris, and the Eiffel tower. Large building with a dome. Other Paris buildings. The Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, with the L'église de la Madeleine in the BG shot from the Pont de la Concorde. The Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Corner of Rue...

  20. Louis Lex, Jr. collection

    Contains a black-and-white photographic print of a pile of corpses in the newly-liberated Dachau concentration camp, kept in an envelope from Rays Photo Service, La Crosse, Wisconsin; no inscription on verso. The image was part of a series taken by the Yugoslav Prisoner Committee and widely distributed to American soldiers; dated May 4, 1945. Acquired by Private Louis Lex, Jr. (donor’s father) who served in the US Army during WWII as a member of the 66th Black Panther Division, 264th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company L.