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  1. Selected records from the State Archives of the Orel Region, Russian Federation

    Contains records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi crimes within Orel region. Includes records relating the crimes committed by the Germans and their allies during WWII occupation of the Orel region.

  2. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  3. Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg, Beitragskarte (contribution card)

    Passbook, issued to Jay Stern, from the Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg, documenting the dues paid by Stern over a period of a year and a half to a welfare organization benefiting Jews in Duisburg. Undated, circa 1930s. Document contains 17 adhesive stamps, in the amount of 1 Reichmark or 50 pfennigs, with representations on each stamp of various Jewish themes, such as festivals and holidays, and the names of patriarchs.

  4. Selected records from collections of the Caraş-Severin branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from the sub-district of Bozovici and includes records relating to the confiscation of Baptist prayer houses. Also includes records from the Police commissariat of Anina relating to orders concerning the capture of war criminals and thieves, goods of war criminals, and real estate. Also contains records from the Police commissariat of Orsova relating to orders concerning prohibition of peasants/ farmers to enter Jewish homes, and records from the Police from Baile Herculane of orders concerning German and Hungarian minorities, Hungarian terrorists, German spies, forced labo...

  5. Tour of Vienna

    Title card: “An der Kamera: Mario Wiberal.” “Gesamtbildgestaltung: Frank Rossak.” “Der Film zeigt Kultur- und Baudenkmäler sowie Wiens Garten von heute.” Church on Leopoldsberg in Vienna. Pan of the city and countryside below. Pan of Stephansplatz. Vienna Parliament and city council. A streetcar passing in front of the Parliament. The Volksgarten. The Naturhistorisches museum. The Theseus Temple. The Burgtheater. Cafe Landtmann. The City Council. The Rathausplatz. Various statues. A streetcar passes in front of the Rathaus. The Universität Wien Hauptgebäude. The Liebenberg statue. The Ratha...

  6. Manfred Greiffenhagen lyrics

    Consists of typescript texts of seven poems and song lyrics written by Manfred Greiffenhagen while he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, plus one text attributed to Leo Strauss. The typed texts are entitled "Marsch der Kadermaedel," "Die Juden on Bergen-Belsen," "Transport," "Die Ochsen," "Ich singe tief..," "Es War Einmal," and "Kasernenlied." Also includes a poem entitled "Als ob-," which was written by Leo Strauss. Some of the lyrics list that music has been written by Martin Roman.

  7. American soldiers in Landsberg; liberated Polish Army soldiers and surrender of German forces

    (LIB 6181) A soldier holds up a slate that reads: "30 April 45, Hitler's Room Landsberg Prison." The cameraman's name is Olin. Far view of the prison. A street sign reads "Hindenburg-Ring." Various exterior shots of the prison. Men hang flags (surrender?) out of two prison windows. Two guard watchtowers and downed fencing, presumably part of the prison complex. 01:39:09 Two uniformed American soldiers and a civilian wearing a white armband enter Hitler's former prison cell. The civilian points out details in the cell, including a guest book and a portrait of Hitler hanging on the wall. He p...

  8. Hashomer Hatzair Buenos Aires Office (RG 35)

    Contains correspondence and letters of the Hashomer Hatzair leadership, Israel Rappaport, Meir Sal, Rotem Eliezer, Ariel Said, Sandra Tz'mh, Pesach Zskin, Hao Senkman, Shlomo Slutzky, Avery Fisher, Enrique Zvika, Shani Haim, Daniel Geller, Diana Niimark, and Dario Teitelbaum (founder of the Ken headquarters, i.e. "nest"). Also includes various advertisements, and other records regarding a construction site in Santa Fe, Argentina, and a collection of articles about missing persons in Argentina during the "Dirty War" from 1976 to 1983.

  9. Henry Bund collection

    Consists of documents, passports, correspondence, newspaper articles regarding the life of Dr. Heinrich Bund (later Henry Bund), originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes information about his education in Austria, emigration to the United States in 1938, pre-war, wartime, and post-war employment, and his extensive efforts to gain ownership and restitution for family property in Poland and in Vienna. Also includes information about his mother, Dorothea Bund (later Bond) and brother, Eduard Bund (later Edward Bond) both of whom also emigrated to the United States in 1938. Also includes an Engl...

  10. Legation of the Republic of Poland in Cairo Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kairze (A.50)

    Contains personal files of Polish citizens of Jewish origin residing in Egypt, as well as records relating to the emigration of Jews to Palestine (report from 1938), and a newspaper, “La Tribune Juive,” of September 22 1937 (an issue about ethnic minorities).

  11. Walter Rockler collection

    Consists of a bound manuscript of clippings, transcripts, and articles related to the life of Walter J. Rockler, who was a prosecutor at Nuremberg. Includes information and articles related to his experiences in the Pacific during World War II, his work at Nuremberg, and his later critiques of American foreign policy and of the prosecution of war crimes. Also includes the transcript of an oral history which Jeffrey Burt conducted with Walter Rockler in December 2001.

  12. Marek family collection

    Consists of copies of scanned letters, documents, photographs, identification paperwork, and travel documentation related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life of Antonina Milgrom Marek (also known as Tauba), originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes pre-war correspondence to family in the United States, post-war identity cards documenting her life in a refugee camp in Great Britain and her marriage to Kazimierz Marek.

  13. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner

    Concentration camp uniform pants issued to Max Rottenberg while imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1944 and 1945. Max, his parents, Albert and Anna, and sisters, Illus, Elisabet, Erna, Erzsebet, and Bozsi, lived in Dés, in the Transylvania region of Austria-Hungary (now Dej, Romania). Between February 1938 and August 1941, Max and his sisters, Elisabet and Ilus, relocated to Spišská Stará Ves, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). In the spring of 1942, the Slovakian authorities deported Elisabet to Auschwitz concentration camp German-occupied Poland, and Max began living un...

  14. Testimony regarding Kristallnacht and Dachau

    Consists of one typed testimony, 10 pages, unsigned, written most likely in late 1938 or 1939, by an anonymous author, regarding the experiences of the author after being arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. The author describes the Gestapo search of his apartment, his arrest, and gives extensive detail about life in Dachau at this time. Wendy Wallace [donor] found this testimony in the home of Miss Mundell Doolittle.

  16. Loew family postcards

    Consists of five postcards written from the Lwow ghetto in 1942 by the Loew family to their daughter, who was living in France.

  17. Vollweiler family collection

    The Vollweiler family collection consists of identity documents, family history materials, and correspondence related to the Vollweiler family, originally of Heidenheim, Germany. Justin Vollweiler was arrested on Kristallnacht in 1938 and imprisoned in the Dachua concentration camp. He was able to immigrate to the United States after his release. His wife, Else and daughter Inge were able to join him in May 1939. His son Jack was born in the United States in 1940. Includes identity and education information, a postcard sent to Justin while he was imprisoned in Dachau, and extensive correspo...

  18. Cloyd Lewis Hershberger photograph collection

    Consists of photographs taken or given to Cloyd Lewis Hershberger, a member of the 45th Tank Battalion of the 13th Armored Division of the Third Army. The images depict the liberation of Buchenwald, the aftermath of summary justice, the destruction of various buildings and the buildings at Berchtesgaden.

  19. Râmnicu Sărat Jewish community collection

    Consists of documents related to the Jewish community of Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, including a printed pamphlet of community regulations, synagogue documents, letters by Rabbi Dr. Menachem Shafram, tax documents, and correspondence by local Jewish business owners.

  20. Kleinberg family papers

    The Kleinberg family papers comprises postcards and letters written between the members of the Kleinberg family from 1939 until 1945. The majority of the correspondence is between the Kleinberg siblings and their immediate families, with the many of the letters coming from Zofia Minder in Krakow and Lola Schifeldrim, a close family friend who worked for Irena’s husband, Ferdynand Keiner and assisted Roman’s wife and daughters. Several of the postcards are written from a Soviet work camp, many of which are from Roman and Izydor. A majority of the postcards and letters have messages from mult...