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  1. Oral history interview with Isaac Stain

  2. "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression"

    Consists of a CD containing one manuscript, 219 pages, entitled "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression," by Howard Cohn. In the manuscript, Mr. Cohn describes his the experiences of his father, August Cohn, who born in Fulda, Germany, and arrested as a Communist in April 1933. After being beaten and publicly humiliated in Oberkaufungen, he was tried and imprisoned in the Kassel and Hameln prisons before entering the concentration camp system in 1935, where he was imprisoned both as a Jew and a Communist in the Esterwegen, Sachsenhausen, Dachau, and B...

  3. Aizen family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs relating to the Aizen family, including passports, images of life in Hofgeismar DP camp in Germany, and descriptions of their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a certificate issued by Jewish National Fund in Germany c. 1946, stating that Mr. Dov Aizen (donor’s late father-in-law) planted trees in Palestine in memory of his father, Jeshajahu Aizen, who was murdered during the Holocaust in Wlodzimierz Wolynski, Poland; issued by Jewish National Fund in Germany, c. 1946.

  4. Cyril Pearl collection

    Contains the research papers and original sources used by Cyril Pearl in writing his book on the Dunera ship ("The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake") and the records on the internment camps in Australia. In 1940 German refugees seeking asylum in England were sent to Australia as an enemy alien aboard the Dunera ship and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp for a year and a half. In 1942, England realized their mistake in holding these refugees and they were released. Records include ephemera from the Hay camp, newspaper clippings about the Dunera affair,1941-1983, hansard ext...

  5. Schwarz-Krakowiak family papers

    Collection consists of 79 postcards sent to Hildegard Krakowiak (later Schwarz), of Shanghai, by her mother, Frieda Krakowiak, of Berlin, 1939-1941; as well as autograph album of Hildegard Krakowiak, 1919-1928.

  6. Cross of Honor of the German Mother [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] medal, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross

    Cross of Honor of the German Mother [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] 3rd class order, Bronze Cross, an award instituted following a December 16, 1938, decree by Adolph Hitler to encourage German women to bear more children. It was awarded by the Nazi Party in Hitler's name, with his signature engraved on the back. A recipient could be nominated by the Party or a government official and had to be of pure German origin and good character. The medal was issued in three levels: first class, gold, for mothers with eight or more children; second class, silver, for six to seven children; third cl...

  7. DP camp collection (RG VII-126)

    Contains rare posters, flyers, communications, and reports originating from various DP camps, mostly in Austria. Examples include reports from the DP camp Bergen-Belsen, 1946; flyers and reports from the Hashomer Hatzair Austria, 1947; election materials for DP camp leadership, Austria; writings and illustrations created by children survivors from Łódź on their way to Palestine.

  8. Anti-Semitic flier, "Institut des Questions Juives"

    Anti-Semitic flier related to the "Institut des Questions Juives." One side resembles a ration ticket and the other, printed in red ink, contains further information about the "Institut d'Etudes des Questions juives" and also about an exposition being held at the Palais Berlitz, Paris, called "Le Juif et la France."

  9. Selected records from the National Archives of Ireland

    Contains selected records from the National Archives of Ireland including records of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary's Office, Department of Justice, and the Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister). These records include reports of the German Legations in Berlin and Rome, and the High Commissioners Office in London, regarding immigration and refugees, the situation in Germany and Italy, lists of visas, visa applications, and the Irish Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees.

  10. "Stefan Sebastian Lazarus Salomon Frank"

    Consists of one memoir, 57 pages, entitled "Stefan Sebastian Lazarus Salomon Frank," written by Stefan Frank, who was born in Regensburg, Germany and raised in Regenstauf. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in the 1920s and early 1930s, his early education, and the family's decision to move to Schweinfurt when Stefan and his brother, Michael, were about to enter secondary school. Mr. Frank describes antisemitic persecution in Schweinfurt in the 1930s; Michael was sent to Palestine in 1936 while Stefan, still a young teenager, began to work as an apprentice cook as career training wit...

  11. Soup drudgery Print 8 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 desperate prisoners struggling to scoop and eat soup that has been spilled on the ground 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 of the night and were meant to be...

  12. Robert Righter collection

    Consists of copyprints of images taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, including images of the Dachau death train and of prisoners in uniform. Also includes a brief testimony (3 pages) by William Hummer and copies of the United States military discharge paperwork for Lindley Righter. Both men served in the 45th Division of the Seventh Army and participated in the liberation of Dachau.

  13. Salo Fiszgrund collection Spuścizna Salo Fiszgrunda (Sygn. 331)

    Contains papers of Salo Fiszgrund (1893-1971), a Bund activist in Krakὀw in the1920s. Includes correspondence with Szymon Zachariasz, testimonies relating to the trial of Lieber Gotlob, in which Salo Fiszgrund was a witness, newspaper clippings, an issue of a „Biuletyn Komisji Historycznej przy Komitecie Centralnym Bundu” (“Bulletin of the Historical Commission at the Central Committee of Bund”) of 1946, as well as fragments of notes other publications.

  14. Archivo de Shmerke Kaczerginski

    This collection contains personal papers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), former partisan and collector of Jewish music: i.d. documents, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and secondary sources such as clippings and publications about Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's book, "Destruction of Jewish Vilna", published in New York in 1947).

  15. Istner family photographs

    Collection of photographs depicting Filip and Zofia Istner (donor’s parents) and their families before the war in Lvov and Zloczow, Poland; during the war in the USSR; and after the war in Poland and in displaced persons camps in Germany.

  16. Collection of photographs from various files Fotografie z różnych dokumentów (Sygn. BN)

    Contains various photographs of the size of membership cards or passports, made in the early post-war years. They were attached to various documents (mainly from the records of the Organization for Rehabilitation and Training ( World ORT Union; ORT), the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej (Society for Health-Protection of the Jewish Population in Poland; TOZ), and Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (Central Committe of the Jews in Poland; CKŻP): Department of Emigration, personal files), however, over several dozen years they were, due to unknown circumstances, separated from tho...

  17. Ludwig and Hedwig Klein collection

    Consists of passports, documents, and correspondence related to Ludwig and Hedwig Klein, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Ludwig and his wife Hedwig were able to emigrate to the United States after Ludwig, who was arrested on Kristallnacht, was released from Buchenwald. Includes documents related attempts to bring his brother, Josef, to the United States from France; as well as documents pertaining to Josef's life in France as a refugee from Germany, his interment in various camps as an enemy alien, and his eventual deportation to Auschwitz via Drancy, including postwar correspondence and ...

  18. Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Lublin = Jewish Council in Lublin Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Lublin (Sygn. 253)

    Contains various documents related to the ghetto dwellers in Lublin and small ghettos in the Lublin province area, such as: ordinances concerning identity cards (Ausweis), letters of prisoners of war of the camp 7 Lipowa St. in Lublin, card files of people who died in the ghetto (Nov.– Dec. 1941), correspondence of the Jewish Council, various certificates, receipts, work cards, private documents, a name list of people who died in various places in 1940, and an alphabetical index of Lublin dwellers (date unknown).

  19. Abram and Rywka Lasocki documents

    Contains a Polish passport issued to Abram and Rywka Lasowski in 1935, with stamps showing their immigration to Palestine via Lisbon and Greece; and a document in Hebrew and some English, issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine office in Lisbon, 1935, for the Lasockis. Also includes seven photographs.

  20. Peter Schmit photograph collection

    Consists of 20 photographs from the collection of Peter Schmit, who was a member of the United States Army during World War II. Includes photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and photos of the destruction in Germany. Some of the photos include captions.