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  1. Ernest H. Bennett photograph collection

    Collection of eight photographs depicting the Dachau concentration camp following liberation; dated April-May 1945; brought home from WWII by American serviceman Sgt. Ernest H. Bennet (donor's father) who was a member of the 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion Radio Section, XXI Corps of the 7th Army.

  2. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap Hunting License/Open Season/No Limit" and image of crossed weapons.

  3. Berl Grosser postcards

    Consists of a collection of handwritten and typed postcards and letters sent to Bernhard (Bernard/Berl) Grosser, originally of Kamionki Wielkie, Poland, but who was living in Milan, Italy. The postcards, sent from family and friends, mainly writing from Poland between 1938-1942, were used to update Mr. Grosser on their personal situation, attempts to immigrate, and discussion of relief packages. Unbeknownst to Mr. Grosser, his mother died in the late 1930s; the greetings from her on many of the postcards were included as his family attempted to shield him from this information.

  4. Hildegard Vicktor papers

    The Hildegard Vicktor papers consist of family trees; correspondence tracing Hilde’s aunt Berthilde Kern Kohler; a history of the Jewish community of Landau in der Pfalz; photocopies of birth, marriage, and death certificates for Karl and Hilde Vicktor and Isabella Kern; two photographs of the Vicktor, Kern, and Michel families; an article about Kristallnacht in Landau; an article about Hilde’s cousin Werner Michel; memorial remarks by the mayor of Landau in 1987; and Hilde’s brief account of her return visits to Germany.

  5. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Żyrardów Sąd Grodzki w Żyrardowie (Sygn.1746)

    Court civil and criminal cases related to repayment of debt, beatings, insulting public officials, embezzlement, theft and other matters. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Żyrardów. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  6. American nurses sightseeing in England

    Beatrice and some military personnel stand in Trafalgar Square in London. The 51st Field Hospital arrived in England in March 1944. Nelson's Column, the bronze lions, and crowds feeding pigeons are visible. A sign says, "Let our savings speak for us. Carry on London. Salute the soldier." on the base of the column. 01:03:47 Buckingham Palace. The group poses outside Westminster Abbey. They continue to sightsee in London: the clock tower at Westminster Palace, red double-decker busses, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, and St. Paul's Cathedral, and at 01:05:43 the Wells Cathedral in Some...

  7. Michael Schwartz memoirs

    Consists of one typed memoir, 85 pages, entitled "Memoirs," written in 2006 by Michael Schwartz, originally of Debrecen, Hungary. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Hungary; his father's disappearance while part of a forced labor battalion, his deportation to Auschwitz, where his mother, sister, and grandmother were murdered; his subsequent deportation to Dachau with his brother, Tibor; their liberation in April 1945 and return to Hungary; their immigration to the United States in 1947; and their post-war lives in America.

  8. Sylvia Malcmacher papers

    Consists of several pages of typed testimony written by Sylvia Malcmacher about her wartime experiences, including her life in the Vilnius ghetto, in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Muhldorf concentration camps, and at the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Includes a copy of the Vilna hymn, a copy of her post-war identity card which includes a photograph of Sylvia wearing her camp jacket, and a copy of a photograph of the memorial erected in Ponary.

  9. John Moskel photograph collection

    Contains photographs related to the wartime experiences of John Moskel (donor's late husband), who was a Private First Class in the 69th Infantry Division of the United States Army. Includes post-liberation photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp as well as photographs of PFC Moskel's unit moving through Europe. Also included are photographs, likely picked up by PFC Moskel, that were apparently taken by German soldiers on the Eastern front, including images of Jews being hung, non-Jewish forced labor, and signs of bombing and destruction.

  10. Goldschmeid and Burstyn families collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Imré and Borbala Wirth Goldschmeid and their daughter Veronika Goldschmeid. Included are pre-war images and documents such as birth certificates and report cards for Imré and Borbala, and post-war documents concerning Veronika, Borbala, and Borbala's mother Julianna who were together in Budapest until 1944 at which time Vera was placed with the Red Cross, and Borbala and sister Margit were deported to Bergen Belsen where they survived. Juliana and Mor (Borbala's parents) perished of hunger in January 1945 in Budapest....

  11. Military personnel return home

    High views of military personnel packed tightly on the deck of a large ship at sea. A trio of a bassist, a drummer, and a pianist entertain soldiers on a crowded ship deck. Scenes from the boat deck. American flag at mast. Captain Beatrice Wachter departed Europe for the United States on November 21, 1945.

  12. Ester Yotvat collection

    Collection of photographs relating to the family of Jakub Weiss and Salomea Sara Feiler Weiss and their two children, Josef, b. 1926, and Ernestyna Nusia, b. 1930 (donor). The Weiss family lived in Lvov, Poland at 20 Kochanowskiego Street. Jakub Weiss died in June 1939 and in September 1939 Sala’s family came from German occupied Poland. They were deported by the Soviets in June 1940. In June 1941 Nusia went to summer camp in Zaleszczyki and when Germans invaded USSR, all the children were evacuated to Siberia. Nusia was in an orphanage for four years. In May 1945 Nusia wrote home and she r...

  13. Adela Litwak Rozycki collection

    Collection of documents concerning the experiences of Adela Litwak (donor's mother) who was born Jewish in 1920 in Lwow, Poland [present day Ukraine] and hid during WWII under the false identity Ksenia Osoba.

  14. Pearl Laufer photograph collection

    Collection consists of one photograph of survivors of Dachau. Among those pictured is the donor's mother, Zelda Feldlaufer.

  15. Correspondence of collaborators (Fond 241)

    The collection includes correspondence of Dutch volunteers who fought with the Germans on several fronts. Correspondence relates primarily to Dutch volunteers of the Nationalsozialisches Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK - National Socialist Motor Corps), with their families in the Netherlands. It also includes correspondence of members of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB- National Socialist Movement), who emigrated to the German refugee camps after September 1944.

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-002 : Controller and Public Information (S-0554)

    Routine administrative files and preliminary drafts of releases and other publicity materials, accounting files, reports and correspondence of international organizations; reports from particular missions and displaced persons camps, UNRRA administrative organization charts and statistics. Much of records were destroyed by UNRRA or later by the Archives Section.

  17. Max Reiner papers

    Typescript autobiographical text, approximately 254 pages, by Max Reiner, originally of Czernowitz and Vienna, describing his experiences in Austria and Germany prior to emigration, written 1940. The text was written in response to a project at Harvard University in 1940, seeking autobiographical texts from German and Austrian emigres, titled "My Life in Germany." In his text, Reiner described his impressions of turn-of-the century Czernowitz, his move to Vienna to begin his career as a journalist, his move to Berlin at the age of 23, and his subsequent career with the Ullstein publishing h...

  18. Leslie Nichols collection

    Consists of letters, dated August-September 1935, related to the efforts of Leslie Nichols of Cleveland, OH, to assist in the emigration of Dr. Walter Jaffe (who was half Jewish) and his wife, Sylvia Lavalle (who was not Jewish), of Berlin, Germany. Includes instructions on how to proceed, blank visa paperwork, a letter from Leslie Nichols to Judge Maurice Bernon of Cleveland asking for his assistance; and a letter from Leslie Nichols to Sylvia Lavalle informing her of his efforts on her behalf. The couple eventually survived the war in Paris.

  19. Handkerchief

    White handkerchief that belonged to Eugen Fellner.

  20. Selected records from the collections of the Argeș branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Records relating to the confiscation of Iron Guard goods, the Iron Guard rebellion, neo-Protestant Churches, prisoners of war, Romanies sent to Transnistria; confiscation of properties of Romanies; taxes and goods for Jews, the hunt for those accused of war crimes, the round up of nomadic Romanies, refugees, deportation to Transnistria of Jews, deportation of Romanies, and Jewish affairs. Included are lists of properties of Romanies, and lists of Jews.