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  1. Romeo G. Boudreault photograph collection

    Contains eight photographs of the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp taken by Romeo G. Boudreault, a soldier in the US Army's 142nd Infantry Division. All photographs bear inscriptions on the verso.

  2. Print by survivor artist David L. Bloch

    Iimage of roll call at Dachau by survivor artist David L. Bloch

  3. Templom Űlės Kőnyv

    Register book of the Hungarian Jewish community in Montevideo.

  4. General Directorate of Studies and Investigations : Special Section devoted to Germany Direction generale des etudes et recherches : Section Speciale Allemagne (SSA) (GR 28 P 7)

    The collection contains the archives of the SSA and primarily documents the organization and personnel of the German special services (RSHA and Abwehr) during World War II. The archives come from two different sources: 1) the archives “ DALO” from the Bureau of Documention in Germany (Bdoc 9000) and to which the second office gave a classification scheme of two to seven digits beginning with 4, and 2) the archives “K” arranged thematically. The collection includes reports on the German special services and documents pertaining to the Abwehr and the SIPO-SD/ RSHA, collaboration, the Wehrmach...

  5. 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.

  6. Concentration camp uniform worn by Mihaly Borsa

    Two-part prisoner uniform, a jacket and pants, worn by Mihaly Borsa in Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  7. Anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster

    Antisemitic poster; "Minden a miénk!" [Everything is ours!]; dated circa 1919-1920

  8. Kruger family collection

    Contains letters from Kolomyia, Vienna, and elsewhere, primarily dated 1938, including several addressed to Moritz Fahnin Brooklyn, NY.

  10. Meyer family collection

    The Meyer family collection consists of documents, photocopies, social reports, and a photograph illustrating the experiences of Lotte (née Weil), Ernest (Ernst Meijer), and Bob Meyer (b. 1939) during the Holocaust in the Netherlands and their subsequent immigration to the U.S. in 1948. Original U.S. Naturalization Certificates for Ernest and Lotte Meyer conferred on 4 May 1953 are included as well as restitution claims, a medical evaluation regarding Lotte Meyer, and a social worker report regarding Bob Meyer that requests recognition and assistance as a victim of persecution under the Net...

  11. Samuel Sobel collection

    Collection of cigarette cards of Nazi propaganda, produced and sold in cigarette packages and then collected to be placed in pre-printed albums. Cards are a variety of Nazi propagandistic imagery such as peaceful Nazi party rallies, construction of infrastructure [building new roads, farming] done in Germany titled on reverse “The State of Work and Peace”, military imagery and troops titled on reverse “Fight for the Third Reich”, images of German actors and directors, and receipt to retrieve cards.

  12. Judenrat in Rawa Ruska Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Rawa Ruska (Sygn. 232)

    Records of the Judenrat in Rawa Ruska. Contains a name list of craftsmen applying for concessions for running workshops and stores.

  13. Dr. Ernest Parker collection

    Binder with typescript memoir by Lothar Ernst Pollak from May 10-December 6, 1940. Details Lothar’s family’s flight beginning in Brussels, Belgium; through France, Spain and Lisbon; arriving in Cuba in December and ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Lothar Pollak was born 1901 in Reichenberg [Liberec], the Czech Republic. In the 1930s, Lothar moved to Germany, where he met his wife Anna. They then moved to Austria and then Belgium for Lothar’s work. In May 1940, with their daughter Erika, they fled ultimately arriving in the United States in 1941 where they changed their n...

  14. Oral history interview with Eleanor Weile

  15. Milton Zimmerman photograph collection

    Consists of seven original photographs depicting Dachau at liberation, including the so-called "Death Train," with original inscriptions on the verso. The photographs were acquired by Milton Zimmermann (1921-1948) of Louisville, KY, while serving with the medical detachment of the 283rd Field Artillery Battalion. The collection also includes a copy of a portrait depicting Milton Zimmerman in uniform with his wife Jean.

  16. Municipal National Committee in Třebíč Městský národní výbor Třebíč

    Consists of municipal records from the Nazi occupation period featuring an alphabetical list of Jews living in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch), a register of persons arrested, and a register of executions and deaths, 1939-1945, with information about the races of prosecuted persons.

  17. J. Herbert Nagler papers

    The J. Herbert Nagler papers consist primarily of letters Nagler wrote to his parents in Philadelphia while he was studying medicine in Berlin, Germany and in Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland. His letters include his impressions of the last years of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi party and Hitler’s assumption of power, the situation of Jews in Germany, and the April 1, 1933 anti-Jewish boycott. The collection also includes an electronic typescript of Nagler’s letters and a digital image of Nagler.

  18. Colection of Rabbi Aaron Barend N. Davids (Aaron Barend) Collectie Rabbijn Aaron Barend N. Davids (P-122)

    Private documents, correspondence, announcements, articles, sermons, speeches, and lectures of Rabbi A.B.N. Davids (Aaron Barend). Included also are notices, separate numbers of some Jewish periodicals, as well as newspaper clippings and some brochures with scientific dissertations about Dr. D. Feuchtwang, a chief rabbi of Vienna, 1897-1957, a publication the "In Memoriam for the chief Rabbi A. Ascher Ezn", as well as a bereavement of A.B.N. Davids, a commemorative book on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Groningen synagogue, 1931, documents received from the University Library i...

  19. Zvi Brick collection

    Contains fifteen letters sent to survivor Zvi Brick, the former director of the Jewish Agency office in Kovno, while he stayed in a displaced persons camp in Italy. Addressed from New York, Munich, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, dated 1946-1947, in Yiddish, Hebrew and some English. The letters were sent mainly from official entities and they record the state of the displaced, the difficulties of immigration to Palestine, monetary matters, and more. Includes seven letters from the general secretary of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, Louis Siegal, typewritten on official stationery and signed ...

  20. Judenrat in Theresienstadt Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Theresienstadt (Sygn. 268)

    Records of the Judenrat in Theresienstadt. Contains a milk card for Moses Grinbaum, issued in 1941.