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  1. Report of Fritz Linnenbuerger

    The thirteen page report was written by Dr. Fritz (Fred) Linnenbuerger (1873-1967) and chronicles his trip to Germany in the late summer of 1939. Linnenbuerger, a resident of Ashley, North Dakota, had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1896. In 1939 Linnenbuerger was among nearly 70 German-Americans who had been invited to tour Germany by the German Teacher's Association. Among other tours and meetings the group was brought to view the Buchenwald concentration camp. This encounter is documented in the report and was included in a November 1939 article of the Dakota Freie Presse...

  2. Selected records of the City Tuszyn Akta miasta Tuszyna (Sygn.2135) : Wybrane materiały

    Post-war materials regarding property matters of the Jewish and Polish population. Includes registers of properties, and the permanent and temporary population of city Tuszyn.

  3. Maurice Levitt collection

    Consists of a notebook and handwritten loose notebook pages written by Maurice Levitt, along with photographs taken at displaced persons camp. Levitt, a member of the United States military, worked for the Frankfurt Jewish GI Council, an organization of Jewish soldiers seeking to provide supplies and cultural activities for displaced persons. The handwritten pages document his experiences in 1946 and 1947, while the photographs show aid workers and displaced persons at the Babenhausen and Lindenfels DP camps, among others.

  4. Marshall W. Minard photographs

    The Marshall W. Minard photographs consist of 14 photographic prints and postcards documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation and the Dachau death train. The Buchenwald photographs are captioned “Buchenwald Stalag” on the back. The images depict survivors, victims, skin with tattoos, exterior and interior of buildings, an effigy of Hitler, and American soldiers. The Dachau photographs depict victims inside and next to the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

  5. Max Mittelmark painting

    Painting: created in 1959, illustrating the experiences of Max Mittelmark, born in 1906 in Strojinetz, Bukovina [present day Ukraine] and deported to Transnistria where he was confined to the Bersad ghetto and experienced horrible livingg conditions which are described in his artwork. He and his wife Fanny survived, returned to Romania and eventually came to the United States in the late 1950s.

  6. Pearl Reiter Fink photograph album

    The collection consists of one photograph album created by Pearl Reiter (later Fink) documenting her time in Europe serving with the US Forces European Theater, Office of Military Government, US Zone (USFET G5). The album includes visits to the Zeilsheim and Ziegenhain DP camps, Salzburg, and Luxembourg.

  7. Photograph of James Ford and Earl Browder

    Contains a photograph of James Ford and Earl Browder shaking hands, dated 1940. Browder was the Communist Party nominee for President of the United States in 1940, and Ford was his running mate.

  8. Public Prosecutor Office District Court of Berlin Staatsanwaltschaft beim Landgericht Berlin (B Rep. 058)

    Selected records of the Public Prosecutor at the District Court of Berlin relating to criminal cases concerning crimes against humanity, war crimes trials, and Nazi crimes against Jews, homosexuals, Sinti and Roma, the disabled, political prisoners, Jehovah’s witnesses, forced laborers, as well as documents regarding euthanasia facilities, ghettos, concentration camps and prisons. Includes interrogations, testimonies, judicial examinations of war criminals and witnesses; reports of the International Tracing Service Arolsen about concentration camps, documents on deportation of Berlin Jews t...

  9. Selected records of the Trade Union of Journalists of the Republic of Poland. The Main Board in Warsaw Związek Zawodowy Dziennikarzy Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. Zarząd Główny w Warszawie (Sygn. 544)

    Protocols, correspondence, statements, resolutions, press clippings regarding court hearings against journalists accused of working with Germans during World War II.

  10. Selected records of the County Starosty in Ostrów Mazowiecka Kreishauptmannschaft Ostrów Mazowiecka Starostwo Powiatowe w Ostrowie Mazowiecka (Sygn. 489) : Wybrane materialy

    Circulars and ordinances of authorities, official correspondence, reports on activities, quota reports, sending people to work, minutes of meetings, materials on the population policy of the occupant, censuses, lists of employees of the office of the starost, materials on the Polish resistance movement, reports of gendarmerie, interrogation of Jews in cases of illegal border crossing, correspondence with the Judenrat from Wegrów, matter of control of correspondence, daily orders, certificates, receipts, documentation related to the implementation of the antisemitic exhibition entitled "Jued...

  11. Templom Űlės Kőnyv

    Register book of the Hungarian Jewish community in Montevideo.

  12. Frank Bearse collection

    Contains a document marked “…large examination document of the confessions of the former Camp Commander, Mauthausen, Standartenfuerhrer Franz Ziereis”; 3 pages typed recto and verso; dated 24 May 1945. Also includes a two-page typed document titled “Record of Events Co. “E” 260 Infantry”; an envelope addressed to German Jewish Children’s Aid in New York, NY, postmarked May and November 1940, with some stamps have detached from the envelope, thought to have been used to send birth certificates of Jewish children for immigration or purposes.

  13. Zarnicer family collection

    Document issued on behalf of Esther Zarnicer [donor’s maternal grandmother], living in Camp de Gurs [Ilôt L Baraque 14], granting permission for her daughter, Ruth, to be removed from Camp de Gurs for the purpose of immigration to the United States of America. Dated 21 November 1941 and signed by “Ester” and stamped by the camp director. Includes a photograph of Ruth’s parents, Esther and Robert Zarnicer [who died in 1932]. Ruth and her her brother Hugo were placed in the Chabannes children's home before later going into hiding under false names. Esther was deported and killed.

  14. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s

    Correspondence, reports, and files relating to Jewish residents and refugees in Belgium before, during, and after World War II that document the Communauté Israélite de Bruxelles and its president Max Gottschalk, the Comité d’aide et d’assistance aux Réfugiés d’Allemagne, the Comité d’assistance aux enfants juifs réfugiés d’Allemagne, and the La Ramée agricultural school for Jewish youth. The collection also includes index cards documenting Jewish community in Brussels during the Second World War, individual files on child refugees, and files and drawings documenting Dina Dreyfus, the daugh...

  15. Francis E. Kratz photograph collection

    Contains two photographs of the massacre at Gardelegen, Germany, taken shortly after the event on April 13, 1945. Both images depict victims who were murdered in a barn set on fire by Nazi guards. The photographs belonged to the donor’s father, Francis E. Kratz who was part of the US Army’s 3258th Signal Service Company and was stationed in Europe after December 17, 1944.

  16. Records on the Holocaust in North Africa from the German Federal Archives Freiburg and Berlin

    Records on German military actions in Tunis, and Africa, mostly administrated by Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff, and secret reports on Africa and its Jewish population by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, and Reichsführer SS. Includes war diaries of the German Naval Command North Africa and German Naval Command Tunisia, summary reports, radio messages from the combat area in Libya and from the battle area in North Africa, reports relating to political situation in Libya, Morocco, and to "Jewish questions" in South Africa, newspaper clippings and agency reports about the situation of Jews in ...

  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. Registration cards of the Jewish residents of Ivano-Frankivs'k city and its region (formely Stanisławów) from the regional Social Insurance Office (Fond 57)

    Consists of 9445 registration cards of Jewish residents of Stanisławów city and region (now Ivano-Frankivs'k). Collection contains selected (based on the ethnic origin) cards of the Jewish residents who were registered by the local Social Insurance Office during the Nazi occupation of this city while performing various work details and labor assignments inside and outside Stanisławów ghetto in 1941-1942.

  19. Film projector

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn617796
    • English
    • a: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Depth: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Depth: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) c: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) e: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) f: Height: 1.310 inches (3.327 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) g: Height: 1.060 inches (2.692 cm) h: Height: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) | Depth: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm)

    Film Projector “Olympia” projector manufactured by “Kinotechnische Werkstätten” or Cinematographic Workshop Walter Knetsch in Breslau, Germany, a company that was established in 1919. Also included are a heater, three bulbs and the box that contained the projector and the above-named parts.

  20. Legacies and papers of Dr. Mikołaj Łącki Spuścizna Dr. Mikołaja Łąckiego (Sygn.1293)

    Papers of Dr. Mikołaj Łącki. The collection consists of prints, manuscripts, typescripts (own and foreign works, various papers, statistics-mostly in the form of tables), notes, calculations, letters. Materials concern the extensive activity of dr. Łącki and living conditions of the people in the Warsaw ghetto.