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  1. Notice demanding the surrender of the city of Utrecht to German forces

    Notice issued May 14, 1940, by the German Supreme Military Commander to the Military Commander of the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, demanding the city's unconditional surrender to Germany. It warns that the city is surrounded by German forces, including Stuka bombers, and that the Dutch commander should consider sparing Utrecht and its residents the fate of Warsaw. If Utrecht does not surrender, it will be regarded as a fortress and attacked. The German blitzkrieg attack on the Netherlands began on May 10 with bomb attacks near Rotterdam. On May 14, Rotterdam was attacked and occupied by Ge...

  2. Harry Oberyant papers

    Collection of letters sent home by US Army soldier Harry Oberyant (donor's father) documenting his experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp; 1984 testimony (2 pages) written by Harry Oberyant; 3 photographs of him.

  3. "My Account: The Honest Truth"

    Consists of one memoir, 65 pages, entitled "My Account: The Honest Truth" by Magda Klein Dorman, originally of Kecskemét, Hungary. She describes persecution after the German invasion of Hungary and the memory of her father being taken for forced labor in April 1944. After a brief attempt to be assigned labor outside the city, Magda was forced to return to Kecskemét, where she was interned in the ghetto and then at the brick factory outside of town. She was deported to Auschwitz in June 1944, where her mother was killed upon arrival. She describes life in Auschwitz, being quarantined with sc...

  4. Camille Silberman family collection

    Contains documents illustrating the experiences of Camille Silberman [donor], who was in hiding in Belgium during the Holocaust.

  5. Kawer family photographs

    Collection of fifteen photographs of the Kawer family before the war in Sokolow Podlaski, Poland. Chaim Hyman Kawer (donor’s father) was the youngest of eight children. One of his brothers, Akiva, left Poland for Argentina before the war and all other siblings with their families were murdered in Treblinka death camp in 1942. Other photographs show Hyman Kawer and some of his friends who survived in USSR and returned to their hometown in 1946 and an exhumed mass grave. Hyman and Roza Kawer left Poland for Hallein DP camp in Austria, where their daughter Pesla was born. Aaron Kawer was born ...

  6. Kolekcja "Z", No. 1141 (Sygn. GK 166). Lista Polskich Żydów deportowanych z Trzeciej Rzeszy do Polski przez obóz w Zbąszyniu w 1938 r

    List of 4,560 individuals, persons deported from Germany to Poland through the camp in Zbąszyń, Poland. This “List of Jews Deported from Zbąszyń” in 1938 includes: first and last names (and maiden names), parents’ names, mother’s maiden name; date, place, and country of birth; confession, marital status, current address, military service (including rank), occupation, and degree of mastery of Polish; place and date of passport issue, issuing authority, and passport series and number.

  7. Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to one inmate by another inmate in Liebenau

    Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to 15 year old Eva Lasch by Evelyn Anderson when both women were imprisoned in Liebenau internment camp in Nazi Germany circa 1943-1944. Liebenau chiefly held noncombatant civilian and diplomatic enemy nationals, chiefly female and from the United States and Great Britain, classified as prisoners of war. Eva was originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia, which was occupied by Germany in March 1939. In February 1945, she arrived in the US on the Gripsholm with her mother Anna. Her father, who was Jewish, had escaped there earlier. Evelyn, who was ...

  8. “Selection” Print 11 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 wrapped in blankets in a barrack being selected for an unknown labor detail by a Kapo and ghetto police officers at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. 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 were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle...

  9. Brodie pattern MK II green steel helmet worn by a Belgian officer

    British issued Brodie pattern MK II green steel helmet worn by Marcel Frank when he was a Belgian liaison officer with the British Army during the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp in late April 1945. Marcel was stationed at Lueneberg, on the outskirts of Bergen Belsen, and assisted with the repatriation of Belgian survivors in the displaced persons camp. He was present when the British uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of forced laborers in the nearby forest. Local former Nazi officials were forced by the Army to exhume, make coffins, and properly rebury the 243 bo...

  10. Toddler at play before the war

    Hester (Hesje) Jas, the daughter of close family friends, plays inside and then outside on the sidewalk in various outfits. Her father Benjamin, a member of the Jewish Council in Scheveningen, is visible. Hester (b. February 15, 1938) was later killed with her mother Elisabeth Querido Jas at Sobibor on June 11, 1943. Benjamin was also killed at Sobibor on July 16, 1943, with his son Eddie Jas (b. July 1, 1925).

  11. Plaque in memory of the victims of Kiskőrös, Hungary, 1949

    Photographic copy of a memorial plaque produced in Kiskőrös, Hungary, in 1949, commemorating and listing the residents of that town who were deported and murdered during the Holocaust. Contains an artistic depiction of the deportations of 1944. Beneath this are listed the names of the victims. On the border of the illustration is a depiction of an iron chain, the links of which contain individual illustrations drawn from Passover texts.

  12. Rosalie Levinson collection

    Letter and press release from Hugh S. Fullerton of the State Department to the Reverend Paul Himphreys [sic; correct spelling: Humphreys] in New Jersey. Contents of letter indicate Reverend Himphreys [sic] sent a telegram requesting action on behalf of Jews in Nazi-occupation, dated June 12, 1943. Letter references May 1943 conference in Bermuda between the United States and the United Kingdom of which the plight of the Jewish refugees was the focus.

  13. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection

    Photographs of Kaufman and Gliklich family members before the war in Łódź, Poland and after the war in the Wels DP camp. Includes photographs of Braun family members in Berlin, Germany before they immigrated to Palestine in 1937. Also includes a Polish passport issued in Sweden to Shmuel Kaufman in 1948 and a copy of the marriage certificate of the donor's parents.

  14. Lustig and Katz family collections

    Consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork related to the Lustigs' emigration to the United States in 1938 and the emigration of their young daughters, Ilse and Lilly, in 1939, who had been staying with relatives while their parents were establishing themselves in the United States. Also includes documents related to family friend Ludwig (Lutz) Katz, also of Mannheim, who met and married fellow German-Jewish refugee Gertrud Rosenthal in New York in 1943. Includes documents related to life i...

  15. Romulus Latham photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints documenting victims found in the Mauthausen and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation; dated April-May 1945. Acquired by Romulus Latham (donor's father) while serving in the U.S. Army with Patton's Third Army during WWII.

  16. Selected records from the Archivo di Stato Torino

    Contains records relating to the racial laws and their implementation in Turin, Italy. Includes a census of Jews of Turin from 1938-1943, and other records relating to internment in concentration camps, and arrests of Jews. Also includes lists of Italian workers in Germany between 1940-1945 and lists of concentration camps.

  17. Selma Dreiseszun collection

    Contains photographs depicting members of the Zimnowitz, Cybulski and Abramski families in Stawiski, Poland (north of Łomża), dated 1918-1928. Photographs depict Dina Abramska and Chaim Zvi Zimnowitz, dated c. 1935-36 in Stawiski, Poland, and one photograph of Chaim Brum, son of Alter Brum and Lena (Lecha) Abramsky. Includes postcards addressed to the Fanny Walker family in Kansas City sent from Stawiski, Poland by Alter Brum and Zisl Zimnowitz, in Yiddish and English, dated March 1935 - June 1938.

  18. John J. Kurdzo photograph collection

    Photographic print: image of American soldier standing in front of anti-Nazi posters in German and Polish drawn by freed prisoners hang outside a barrack of the Buchenwald concentration camp; captioned on verso "Concentration Camp"; in English. Photographic print: image of the crematorium ovens at the Buchenwald concentration camp; captioned on verso "ovens Concentration Camp"; in English.

  19. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP).The Presidium and Secretariat Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Prezydium i Sekretariat (Sygn. 303/I)

    Contains reports, name lists, minutes of sessions, domestic and foreign correspondence, e.g. with the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) and World Jewish Congress, personal files of the staff and others, records relating to pogroms of Jewish people in Kielce and other places, religious matters, graveyards, and exhumations, newspaper clippings, and documentation of various commissions of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP): the Centralna Komisja Międzypartyjna, Centralna Komisja Mieszana, Komisja Mieszkaniowa, Centralna Frakcja Polskiej Partii Robotniczej (PPR), Polska Zjed...

  20. Abraham Heckman collection

    Consists of original documents related to life in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes a brief history of the camp, written in short paragraphs and highlighting major events and executions; a narrative, one page, entitled "Mord und Hunger im November 1939" by Dr. Gustav Herzog, originally of Vienna; a blank form for reporting on the execution of inmates; and documents related to services honoring those who perished at Buchenwald.