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  1. Michael Pratt collection

    Documents and identification cards illustrating the experiences of Michael Rapoport, who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1927. Includes identification cards issued to Michael under the pseudonym Mieczysław Ciesielśki, including a "Kennkarte" dated 1943 which states his religion is Roman Catholic. Additional documents indicate he worked Brunn-Werke G.m.b.h. in Warsaw, Poland. Post-war documents include school identification card issued under Michael's pseudonym, dated 1945-1947, and later documents issued under the name Rapoport including a Macabee card in Łódź, Poland. Michael emigrated from Pa...

  2. KL Lublin-Majdanek, Private documents of camp personnel Dokumenty Prywatne Personelu Obozowego (Sygn. III)

    Contains various documents from concentration camp KL Lublin-Majdanek, e.g. identification cards (Personalasweis), soldier’s identification cards (Soldbuch), private and official correspondence, certificates and calendars.

  3. Sergeant Donald Blanchard photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs, which depict piles of corpses and crematorium ovens, were taken by Donald Harry Blanchard, a Staff Sergeant in the 399rd Field Artillery Battalion of the 8th Armored Division. The photographs are described on the front of the images.

  4. Ben Shneiderman photographs

    Contains eight photographs depicting the Szymin and the Sznajderman families before the war in Warsaw, Otwock and Kazimierz, Poland; two photographs depicting Benjamin and Ryfka Szymin (donor's maternal grandparents) and Ryfka’s sister, Malka, in the Otwock Ghetto, dated c. 1941; one photographic postcard with an image George Kadisch showing the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, captioned on verso: “Warsaw 1945 – Nalewki Street.”

  5. Hitler greets throngs in Berlin

    Hitler in an open car parades on decorated streets in Berlin and arrives on the Wilhelmsplatz. Good CUs of happy Germans saluting Hitler. Hitler with staff on the balcony of the Reichs Chancellery, greeting the masses.

  6. Night and Fog Print 1 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 during a roll call between 3 am and 4 am at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. Many 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 were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had b...

  7. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945 by an unknown member of the American Army. Includes images of corpses immediately after liberation, of preparing, transporting, and burying these corpses, and of a pyre on which corpses were burned.

  8. Jewish Brigade patch

    Jewish Brigade patch: square with blue and white striped background and yellow Star of David in center

  10. Morris Rosen collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, copyprints, identifications and clippings collected by Morris (Moniek) Rosen. The photographs, mainly individual and group portraits, depict the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life of the Jewish community of Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, including photographs taken in the Dabrowa ghetto. Also includes photographs of family members and friends of Morris Rosen, including those he met in the Kittlitztreben concentration camp, in the hospital in Volary, Czechoslovakia and in various displaced persons camps.

  11. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of copyprints and photographic negatives depicting images taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, originally from the collection of Leo Vissas, an American soldier during World War II. The images depict prisoners assisting with the reburial of corpses; images of summary justice; and images of the Dachau death train, with "Off Limits" marked on the train cars.

  12. Military Entry Permit

    Consists of a military entry permit for S. Wallace Kagan to move freely around the British, French, and American occupied zones of Germany, dated December 1946.

  13. Teenagers smile for the camera

    Closeups of Ida Van Pesh (a non-Jewish friend), Vera Serlui (Ellis's second cousin, killed at Auschwitz on November 19, 1942), Ellis, and Abraham as they pose for the camera inside their home. The girls pose for a group shot.

  14. District Court in Gdańsk Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Gdańsku (SOGd), (Sygn.GK 240)

    Selected records of trials at the district court in Gdaṅsk, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka), by 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 German collaborators.

  15. "Iasii Mei"

    One memoir, 57 pages, entitled "Iasii Mei," by Dr. Iosif Finkelstein. In the memoir, Dr. Finkelstein describes the events occuring in Iasi, Romania, in June and July 1941, including his own memories of his experiences at that time.

  16. Lilly Geringer Drukker memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 95 pages, written by Lilly Geringer Drukker, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, she describes the history of her parents' families in Poland, Greece, and Austria, her own childhood in Vienna, the effects of the German annexation of Austria on her family, her emigration to Great Britain in 1939 as part of a Kindertransport, and her emigration to the United States in 1940 at age 13. In addition, she describes her family's life in New York during the 1940s, her brothers' service in the military, and her father's search for work as a musician. She ...

  17. "Beyond Never Again: How the Holocaust Speaks to Us Today"

    Consists of one essay entitled "Beyond Never Again--How the Holocaust Speaks to Us Today," written by Edwin Goldstein after he attended a course on Chabad Lubavitch Hassidic Response to the Holocaust, which was taught by Rabbi Yisroel Mangel, whose father is a Holocaust survivor. In the essay, Mr. Goldstein reflects on the role of religious faith during the Holocaust, the Judaic tradition of challenging God, and the lessons learned from the Holocaust about the role of the individual within a community.

  18. Cohen-Paraira family in the city before the war

    Ellis and her brother Abraham pose in front of blooming tree, probably in Scheveningen in 1938. Deer grazing at a park in the Hague. David with Ellis and Marian Viskoop, a family friend later killed at Sobibor. 01:10:33 A pier close to the family home on Maastrichtsestraat in Scheveningen, "SCH" on the boats. 01:10:37 Good shots of David, Abraham, and Ellis walking hand-in-hand in town. Clock and illegible signs ("... Theater") at left. Another view of Ellis, in a different jacket, holding a book and walking toward the camera in town.

  19. "Memoirs of my Life"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 65 pages, entitled "Memoirs of my Life" by Louis Suskin. In the memoir, Suskin describes his childhood in Belgium and the Netherlands, his apprenticeship in the diamond trade in Antwerp, his marriage to Sonia Schwerner and his family's escape from Belgium to southern France in 1940 and their immigration to Cuba, experiences in Cuba during the war years, their life in New York following the war, Suskin's return to Belgium to adopt his niece, Raymonde, the growth of the Suskins two children, the family's immigration to Israel and return to New York...

  20. Elsie Deeks collection

    Consists of photographs, correspondence, and documents from the collection of Elsie Deeks, originally of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ms. Deeks worked with the St. John's Ambulance Brigade of Canada as part of the 29th British General Hospital and was stationed at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between May and July 1945. Includes handwritten letters about life in the hospital, personal photographs, documents related to her wartime service and copyprints of official photographs taken upon the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.