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  1. Krup family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting donor and her parents, and other survivors from Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy, dated 1946-1948

  2. Sgt. Charles J. Stim collection

    Collection of black-and-white photographs documenting the Ohrdruf concentration camp immediately following liberation; images include burial of victims, American GIs, a camp watch tower, and forced confrontation by local civilians; some captioned on verso by Sgt. Charles J. Stim (donor’s husband) in pencil. Also include a document entitled: “I had no shoes, and complained. ‘Till I met a man, who had no feet.' The concentration camps at Ordoff [sic], Germany Linz, Austria”; dated April 1945.

  3. Tajna Policja Państwowa. Oddział w Sieradzu Selected records of the Secret State Police. Branch in Sieradz Geheime Staatspolizei. Aussendienststelle Schieratz (Sygn. GK 707),

    This collection contains instructions, correspondence, minutes and reports on searching for escaped prisoners of war, deserters and criminals (events of "special importance”). The records relate to religious matters and persecution of Jews, anti-German offences, the transport of detainees to concentration camps, hostile attitudes towards Germans, avoidance of work, refusals to sign Volksliste, sabotage, assaults, the resistance movement, passport matters and prisoners of war.

  4. Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Angers Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Angers (Sygn.768)

    Selected materials include protocols, speeches and transcripts of meetings I-XI of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in Angers, France in 1940. Part of speeches and presentations is related to the persecution of Polish and Jewish people in occupied Poland. One of the members and a participant in the meetings was Ignacy Schwarzbart, a prominent Polish Zionist.

  5. Jewish Community of Romania Comunitati Evreiesti din Romana

    Records of the Jewish communities from Focșani, Bucharest, Giurgiu, Botoșani, Ploiești, Bîrlad, etc. and some Zionist organizations. Records reflect the situation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina, discriminatory policies implemented by the government of Romania such as closing businesses, expropriation of properties, internment in camps, the situation of Jews in the Golta region, emigration of Jews from Romania, repatriation of Jews interned in camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish o...

  6. Mondschein family photograph collection

    The Mondschein family photograph collection contains five photograph albums relating to the Mondschein and Leniower families in Poland prior to the World War II, and their post-war time in the displaced persons camp near Steyr, Austria, 1946-1949.

  7. Selected records of the district of Grodzisk Mazowiecki Starostwo Powiatowe Grodzisko-Mazowieckie (Sygn. 243)

    Correspondence and statisctis of minorities living after World War II in the county of Grodzisko-Mazowieckie, the register of cemeteries, real estate properties owned by Jews and Germans before the war, the records of the Jewish community in Grodzisk, testimonies of witnesses about German crimes committed against Poles in the county during the war, registers of war criminals.

  8. Nurses at field hospital

    The 51st Field Hospital at a campsite (in France?). Beatrice takes of her helmet and glasses and poses for the camera near other corps members and a cluster of tents. Pan of tentsite, corps members, and an ambulance. 01:08:13 Man in glasses exits a tent and smiles for the camera. Laundry hanging to dry outside. 01:08:22 Large group of military personnel sit in the grass for a meeting. Beatrice (on the right) and two women sunbathe. 01:08:34 Beatrice sits on a jeep and poses for the camera before helping another nurse sort laundry items in the grass.

  9. Sarah Radzeli photograph collection

    Consists of copyprints and photographs from the collection of Sarah Schneider Ben-Ami Radzeli. Includes a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe Radzeli taken around the period of World War II and a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe's wife Ita with her grandchildren (Louis's niece and nephew Yankel), all of whom perished during the war. Also includes a pre-war portrait of the family of Esther (Adler) and Mordachai Neuman of Berezovo, Czechoslovakia; a group photo taken at the 1939 wedding of Rachel Adler of Berezov; and a portrait of Basya (Fromovitz) Katz. Basya, her husband Yossel, and the Neu...

  10. Gertrud Oppenheimer collection

    Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received permits to move to a transit camp in Marseille. In January 1942 Leo was transferred to a forced labor camp in Augagne, and in July he came to Marseille directly to a hospital. In August 19...

  11. Florence Leeds photograph collection

    Two photographic prints. First print is a post-war black and white image of the Death Wall in the yard of Block 11 at the Auschwitz concentration camp; stamped on verso by the Auschwitz Museum and the photographer; in Polish. Second print is a black and white image of unknown piece of artwork, likely from the collection of the Auschwitz Museum.

  12. J. Robert Cox photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by J. Robert Cox, MD (donor's father), who served with the 132nd Evacuation Hospital, taken shortly after his arrival at the Dachau concentration camp on May 2, 1945, a few days after liberation; inscriptions by Dr. Cox written on verso. Also includes U.S. Army Signal Corps images documenting the atrocities in the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation

  13. Joseph Bookowich photographs

    Consists of photographs from the collection of Joseph Michael Bookowich (later Brooks), a member of the 339th Ordinance Depot Company, depicting the capture of Hermann Göring and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs taken in Dachau depict prisoners showing various aspects of camp life, while the photographs of Göring depict him posing and talking to his American captors. Also includes mass produced photographs of women mourning the death of children, who appear to have died in a bombing raid, possibly in eastern Europe.

  14. Archives of the Jewish Community Thessaloniki (RI-33)

    Records of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece, 1882 to 1941. The collection consists of minutes, legal ordinances, correspondence, books of debtors, ledgers of accounts, various bank documents, statistics, census, and private papers relating to Jewish community meetings, cooperation with other Jewish communities in Greece and abroad, financial operations, real estate and construction, religious affairs, family status (birth, marriage and death records, genealogy, etc. 1882-1940), education and culture, welfare and health, Jewish organizations and Zionist movement, famil...

  15. Inspectorate of Home Army in Częstochowa Inspektorat Armii Krajowej w Częstochowie (Sygn.399)

    Records of the Armia Krajowa (AK), the Inspectorate in Częstochowa. Documents relate to organizational matters and orders of the Home Army Headquarters, quartermaster’s orders, military problems, budget, financial settlements, financial reports, and contain lists of the sanitation equipment. The collection also contains documents on AK Women's Military Service, the Warsaw insurgents, and guerrilla troops.

  16. Matricule 49859 / Temoignage de Pierre ARNAUD Ancien Resistant Deporte

    Contains unpublished memoirs of Pierre Arnaud (donor's grandfather), a resistance fighter deported to Buchenwald. Manuscript entitled "Matricule 49859 / Temoignage de Pierre ARNAUD Ancien Resistant Deporte."

  17. Selected records of commune Pass Akta gminy Pass (Sygn. 60)

    The register of sought people from the Pass commune in Poland.

  18. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Nowe Miaste on Pilica Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn. 1837)

    Court civil cases of the post-war period in Poland. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą and include records of possession, reconstruction of acts of marital status (certificates of birth, marriages and deaths), finding dead persons, and cases of inheritance.

  19. German propaganda leaflet

    Leaflet: "What about calling up Sam Levy..."; dated January 1945; in English

  20. Poster issued postwar by the Central Historical Commission, Łódź