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  1. Robert Marchik collection

    Consist of approximately 16 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity by Robert Marchik, a member of the United States Army. The photographs depict the burial of corpses and of the Gardelegen cemetery.

  2. Dr. Wolf (Bill) Matsdorf collection

    This collection contains the papers of Wolf (Bill) Matsdorf, a social worker and one of the originators of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society Sheltered Workshop, established in 1955. He was also involved in other activities within the Jewish community including the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism and the Society for the Rescue of European Jewry. Papers include: documents of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, the Australia-Israel Society for Cultural Exchange; the Kimberley plan; personal records and papers on ...

  3. Ergas family collection

    Consists of one folder of correspondence sent from Albert Ergas in Thessaloniki, Greece, to his brother, Jack Ergas, in New York City, between 1945-1946. In the letters, written in Ladino, Mr. Ergas describes the family's experiences during the Holocaust which most of the family spent in hiding, the economic and emotional situation of the Jews in post-war Greece, and the family's business and property. Includes photographs of the Ergas family building and a restitution claim put forward by Jack Ergas for the family's property in Turkey which was confiscated during the war.

  4. Rachel Zonszajn Benshaul collection

    The collection includes a diary written by Cypora Zonszajn while living in the Siedlce ghetto. The diary recounts Cypora's flight from her family home in the ghetto to an attic above the ghetto police command post with her daughter Rachel while part of the ghetto was forcibly evacuated in August 1942, including Rachel's paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Through information received by someone who escaped, Cypora writes that people are being deported to Treblinka and details the events leading to their deaths. The diary was written in Polish and entrusted to Irena Zawadzka an...

  5. Dachau photographic negatives

    Consists of photographic negatives of Dachau liberation photos, which were widely published and distributed to American soldiers in the spring of 1945. These images are from the collection of the Racimora family, who were imprisoned during the war and spent time in displaced persons camps after the war.

  6. Jocheved and Mordechai Ziv collection

    Collection of family photographs of the Kuczyński and Frankenstein families in Skierniewice, Poland before the war; during the war in the Rawa Mazowiecka ghetto and after the war in Skierniewice with other survivors, celebrating Passover. Photograph of Dr. Libersohn (later Ziv) as he was demobilized from the Red Army and wedding photographs of Jadzia (Jocheved) and Dr. Ziv in Skierniewice in 1946. Document issued in Skierniewice, Poland; stating that Mr. Ezriel Kuczyński owned property in Skierniewice before the war and was a respected citizen of the city.

  7. George Flaum Banet and Marlene Roberts Banet photograph collection

    Collection of family photographs and a silhouette documenting the experiences of Georges Flaum (donor), his parents Therese (Tauba Hirszberg) and Charles (Chaim) Flaum, and their family primarily in France during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Georges survived the Holocaust in hiding. His parents both perished at Auschwitz.

  8. Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Częstochowie (SOCz), (Sygn. GK 236)

    Selected records of trials at the district court in Czestochowa, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  9. News of armistice received in Paris

    In Paris, people gather to hear news of the armistice. Loudspeakers in a square relay live "hard but not dishonorable conditions". "The German government solemnly declares that it does not intend to use for its own purposes of war the French [naval] units in the control ports, apart from coastguard and minesweeping vessels". CUs, of the listening crowd, including some individuals who appear Jewish, a black man in a suit, women, people talking to each other, and one wiping away a tear.

  10. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Legal Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Prawny (Sygn.303/XVI)

    Contains financial records of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), as well as correspondence and files related to Jewish property in Poland and other countries, war crime trials (Rudolf Höss), personal files and the files of several dozen regional offices. Includes correspondence of the Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski we Wrocławiu relating to Jews–German citizens who stayed in Poland after the war, as well correspondence relating to aid rendered to Poles who helped Jews during the war, denouncements of people who collaborated with Germans during the occupation, requests for interventio...

  11. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47061
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Wooden comb and paper case given to 21 year old Esther Dykman by a friend on December 27, 1944, when they were slave laborers in an AEG Factory in Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The friend found the comb on the side of the road and made the holder from materials taken from the factory where she and Esther worked. Germany invaded Soviet controlled Poland in June 21,1941, and three days later occupied Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) where Esther lived with her parents and 8 year old sister Cyla. By July, they enacted policies to persecute the Jews. German mobile killing units, aide...

  13. Israel Harvey Eisen collection

    Consists of three photographs from the collection of Israel Harvey Eisen, a member of the 15th Army Air Force. Includes two photographs of Eisen while he was in training in Florida and Alabama 1943, and a formal group photograph of members of the 15th Army Air Force in Foggia, Italy.

  14. Back to work Print 7 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners carrying exhausted, injured, or dead prisoners so that the same number of men are present at the end of the day as at the beginning at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men ...

  15. Collection of indictments and transcripts of trials of war criminals and political leaders

    Contains trials of individuals accused of crimes in Transnistria and Iași (Romania); indictments of top leaders of the Antonescu administration, indictments of leaders of the National Peasant Party (adversaries of communists and not war criminals), and indictments of other anti-Communist leaders.

  16. Margarete Borchardt Rund memoir

    Consists of one memoir, with copies in the original German and in English translation, written in 1973 by Margarete Borchardt Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, Mrs. Rund, who was born in 1885, describes her unhappy childhood and difficult marriage to Sigismund Rund, who was the Consul General to Panama and Estonia in the Weimar Republic. During their marriage both her husband (and later she) were unfaithful. She describes the changing life in Berlin after 1933 and her husband's immigration to Switzerland in 1934. She documents the Nazi confiscation of money and her efforts...

  17. District Office in Prešov Okresný úrad Prešov

    Contains administrative records on the Jewish community and Jewish individuals in the Prešov District. The records include lists of Jews living in the region, deportation lists and exemptions from deportation, lists of labor camp inmates, applications of Jews appealing for exemption, Jewish work permits, ban of the Jewish press, revocation of licenses, individual files of Jewish doctors and lawyers banned from carrying out their profession, liquidation and aryanization files of Jewish properties, Jewish housing lists by street address and apartment number, request by the Orthodox Jewish com...

  18. Hitler returns to Berlin in July 1940

    With Sound. Camera pans over Upper Rhine. Hitler's motorcade crosses pontoon bridge eastwards; tracking shot shows children in swimsuits waving near a customs post and adults showing signs of love, loyalty and gratitude. Hitler, now aboard train, accepts flower from girl and shakes hands of HJ boy. Train journey continues past Marbach (Neckar), peasant on his plow, and stops at stations where Hitler autographs postcard portraits of himself. Camera shows Hitler in profile. Berlin prepares welcome; swastika flags fly, BDM girls spread flowers along route from Anhalter Bahnhof to Reichs Chance...

  19. Zoo and snow in Holland

    Abraham at the zoo in the Netherlands, bears and lions. 01:07:53 In black and white, children sled in the snow. Two men pull a heavy load on a wagon.

  20. The Task of the Woman of To-Day

    Pamphlet: 'The Task of the Woman of To-Day' published in Berlin, Germany in 1936 on the occasion of the Conference of Women at the Reich Party Rally of Honor; In English