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  1. Auschwitz-Birkenau O/S / The Largest Destruction Camp of the World

    Contains a typed, mimeographed copy of an undated report, written by an unknown author; 7 pages (note: pages are numbered 2-8). Acquired by Joseph M. Washburn (donor's father) while with the US Army during WWII, where he served as a member of War Crimes Investigating Team 6829

  2. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  3. Court Grodzki in Warsaw, file Zg.1946 Sąd Grodzki w Warszawie, akta Zg.1946 (Sygn. 655)

    This collection contains selected files, so-called “Zg.” of the Sąd Grodzki w Warszawie, i.e. contains cases of establishing somebody as deceased or issuing a death certificate. Cases apply to those who had perished (99 per cent of cases) during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: who were arrested either by the Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, or murdered in ghettos or places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application for establishing that someone had died, testimonies of two witnesses on standard forms,...

  4. Ministerul Propagandei Nationale Selected records from the Ministry of National Propaganda (Fond 730)

    Contains records relating to speeches by Argetoianu, and C. Giurescu, miscellaneous information about the Iron Guard and Antonescu's activities, speeches by prominent Iron Guard members, propaganda articles about Antonescu, material related to the confiscation of Jewish property, and the relationship between Iron Guard and Nazi ideology. Includes reports from Paris about anti-Semitism, foreign views on the policies of the Goga government, speeches by Carol II, diplomatic reports from Bucharest and Berne relating to Nazi propaganda, reports from the Hungarian, Polish, American, Austrian, and...

  5. Bert and Else Coles narrative

    Consists of a typed narrative, 2 pages, written by Ron Coles, the son of Bert and Else Coles, in 2010. In the narrative, Mr. Coles describes the early life of his parents in Germany, their marriage in 1932, their emigration to Panama in June 1938 and from there, to Cali, Colombia, where they spent the war. Mr. Coles also describes the family's 1946 emigration to the United States.

  6. Gerö family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to Zoltan and Johanna Gerö and their daughter, Eva (now Eva Gerö Gal), originally of Budapest, Hungary. Includes an identity workbook for the shop in which Zoltan manufactured false Palestine certificates, a 1943 letter, and displaced persons paperwork, including a document attesting to Zoltan's death at Auschwitz.

  7. Leo Sadinsky photograph collection

    Consists of three photographs taken in the spring of 1945 inside the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, which Holocaust survivor Leo Sadinsky remembered taking off the body of a German soldier, depict a pile of corpses, a body next to a wall, and a group of prisoners in uniforms behind a barbed wire fence. The photograph of the pile of bodies is dated April 15, 1945 on the verso.

  8. Lt. Preston Amble Reed photographs

    Consists of photographs and photographic negatives taken at the liberation of the Langenstein concentration camp by Lieutenant Preston A. Reed in April 1945. Reed was a trained professional photographer in Minneapolis who, during the war, served with the 168th Signal Corps in the Ninth Army. Also includes a copy of Reed's shot sheet, the original photograph sleeve, and a copy of a photograph which was taken by an unknown photographer at the Holzen concentration camp.

  9. "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)"

    Consists of one manuscript, 94 pages, entitled "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)" by Donato Grosser, based on the recollections and documents of his father, Bernardo (Berl) Grosser. In the manuscript, Donato Grosser describes the experience of Italian Jews and Jewish refugees in Italy in the 1930s, including information about the 1938 emigration of his father, Bernardo Grosser, who was from Kamionki Wielkie, but emigrated by way of France. In Italy, Grosser became one of the secretaries of the Genoa office of DELASEM (the Delegazione per l'Assistenz agli Emigr...

  10. Vidaver, Rozaner, and Katz family photographs

    Consists of 22 pre-war family photographs of the Vidaver, Rozaner, and Katz families of Gomel, Belarus, and Łomża, Poland. The photographs were sent to family members in the United States; the individuals depicted perished in the Holocaust.

  11. Propaganda posters and flyers produced by the German authorities on the occupied territory of the former USSR

    Contains various German propaganda posters and flyers created and produced by the German authorities during the occupation of Ukraine and other territories of the former USSR.

  12. Simon Goldsmith photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Simon Goldsmith during the time period surrounding the Holocaust; includes images documenting his life in Lithuania before the war and his post-war experiences with the Red Army and while living in the displaced persons camps.

  13. Rubenstein Family Papers

    Contains correspondence sent to Estera Binstock Rubenstein (donors' mother) in the United States from her immediate family in Wachok, Poland between 1939 and 1942. Also included are newspapers, in Yiddish, dated 1946 and 1949.

  14. Ernst Berl papers

    Correspondence, documents, printed articles, news clippings, documenting the experiences of chemical engineer Ernst Berl, following his removal from the faculty of the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other emigre academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, correspondence concerning attempts to help others immigrate from Austria and Germany and obtain academic positions in the United States, as well as materials documenting Berl's efforts to help persecuted Jews in Darmstadt with scholars...

  15. Lists of deported persons of Judeo-Spanish ancestry deported from France

    Contains digital reproductions of lists of deported persons of Judeo-Spanish ancestry who were deported from France. These are provisional lists and include information forms, some with photographs, on individuals, as well as people names found on lists at the Spanish Consulate in Paris, 1940.

  16. Al Gordon collection

    Consists of a postcard of the MS Batory, an ocean liner which was part of the Polish merchant fleet, and a postwar photograph of Al Gordon standing in uniform in front of a building marked "Nurnberg Military Post."

  17. V-E day celebrations in Germany; newspaper; discovery of important documents

    (LIB 6468) V-E DAY CELEBRATION, Idar-Oberstein, Germany, 8 May 1945. 00:00:07 Soldiers line up for flag-raising ceremony. An official military photographer shoots pictures. 00:00:34 Major General Hugh J. Gaffey speaks to troops. 00:01:10 Troops salute the US flag. 00:01:40 (LIB 6469) V-E DAY, Dusseldorf, Germany, 8 May 1945. Slate indicates cameraman R. Joyce. US troops enjoy free coffee and doughnuts. 00:02:14 Men and women crown around a radio. Troops salute an arriving military vehicle. Troops line up outside opera house. 00:02:50 Slate showing cameraman Crossley of the 159th Infantry Re...

  18. Schwarzbaum and Lesorgen families papers

    The collection primarily documents the prewar and postwar experiences of the Schwarzbaum and Lesorgen families, originally of Sosnowiec, Poland, and consists of biographical and immigration documents, restitution paperwork, and photographs. The bulk of the material documents the postwar experiences of Fela Schwarzbaum (Fela Lesorgen) and Lewek Lesorgen (Leon Lesorgen) as displaced persons prior to immigration to the United States, where they later met and married. Documents include identification cards, vaccination cards, immigration documents, correspondence, and clippings. Photographs inc...

  19. Charcoal and watercolor sketch of six Orthodox Jewish males

    Watercolor sketch called Pozsony, Hungarian for Bratislava, Slovakia, of 6 Orthodox Jewish males created by Magda Frank, a professional sculpture, at an unknown date. Magda, 30, a native of Kolozsvar, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) was in Budapest attending art school when it was occupied by Nazi Germany in March 1944. Magda was relocated to a yellow star building and, in November, confined to the Jewish ghetto. In early 1945, Budapest was liberated by Soviet forces. In 1950, Magda emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to join her only surviving relative, a brother Stefan.

  20. Carl and Robert Gamer papers

    This collection is clearly delineated into two parts, each potentially very valuable for future scholarship. The Dr. Carl Gamer papers cover the coursework, research, and writing of his 1940 doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana, “Freedom of Religion in Germany: A Study of Theory and Practice Under the National Socialist Regime, with Special Attention to Free Churches of American and English Origin.” The term "free churches" referred to the non-established churches that historically had been either churches stemming from the Reformation but (in the early 19th ...