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  1. Hermann Goering's Art Purchases (Fond 211)

    Contains photocopies of art collections dating from the period 1940-1945 concerning transactions in the Netherlands and other European countries; some concern the collection J. Goudstikker. Reichsfeldmarshall Göring (1893-1946) bought art in large quantities in occupied Europe. These transactions were partially organized by his private assistant, Gisela Limberger, Dr. K. Mühlmann and the director of the art collections of Goering, Walter Andreas Hofer.

  2. Asher and Sara Laor photograph collection

    Contains eleven photographs of Asher and Sara Laor in the displaced persons camp at Landsberg am Lech, circa 1945.

  3. Sam and Susan Weiss collection

    The Sam and Susan Weiss collection consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war and post-war lives of Salomon (Sam) Weiss and Zuzana Lehrmanova (later Susan Weiss), both originally of Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia. The collection includes citizenship documents, identification documents, and immigration documents. The photographs include members of the Weiss family and the Lehrmanova family, most of whom did not survive the Holocaust.

  4. Jiři Eisenstein letter

    The Jiři Eisenstein letter consists of one letter dated 1942, 6 pages of text written in English to Peter Kussi. Though unsigned, the letter was written by Mr. Kussi's uncle, Jiri Eisenstein, who explained his life from 1939-1942 in Prague under the Nazi regime in very poetic, exact terms. The letter was smuggled out of Prague and sent to New York, where Mr. Kussi received it in 1944. In January 1944, Jiri Eisenstein was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. His wife, Mimi, was killed in Auschwitz in March 1944.

  5. 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.

  6. Yvette Farnoux collection

    Consists of copies of two letters, in English. Dr. René Bine, Jr wrote the first letter to his parents, René Bine, Sr., MD and Alma Bine, in San Francisco after visiting his relative, Yvette Baumann Bernard Farnoux, and her family in Paris in September 1945. In the letter, he describes Yvette's experiences as a high-ranking member of the French Resistance, her activities in the French underground, her arrest, and her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and a forced labor camp near Dresden. She was given the rank of Captain in the Reserves as an honor after her return from the camps. Yvet...

  7. Frederick E. Jaeggi photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, including images of corpses gathered for burial and of survivors of the camp.

  8. Borge and Tove Siebern scrapbooks

    Consists of five scrapbooks assembled while Bjorn Siebern, former Danish policeman and member of the resistance, and his wife, sometime between 1964 and 1973. They contain a combination of wartime photographs, documents, and three-dimensional objects documenting all aspects of the German occupation of Denmark. Some documents relate directly to Mr. Siebern's work, including ID cards, false IDs and forgery stamps. He assumed multiple identities during the war. There are also leaflets dropped over Denmark, Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi cartoons. The photos include photos of German officials, D...

  9. Lea Freund Goldbrenner correspondence

    Contains letters and postcards written in 1940-1941 by Lea Freund Goldbrenner (donor's grandmother) in Berlin, Germany to her children in Paris and Nancy, France, updating them on events in Berlin and the fate of family members, and thanking them for news of their lives in France.

  10. Noon Gourfain collection

    Identification card: issued to Renate Adler-Rudolphi immediately following the Holocaust, by the “Committee for Ex-Political Prisoners”. Renate, born July 22, 1925, Jewish, was deported from Hamburg, Germany to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic in 1942. From there she was deported in October 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland and then to Oederan slave labor camp, a sub-camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany. She and her mother both survived and she immigrated to the United States in 1952 from Bremerhaven, Germany

  11. "Robert's World"

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "Robert's World", by Robert Tartaul, written in 1996 and describing his life from 1915-1967. In the memoir, he describes growing up near San Francisco and his experiences as a training officer in the United States Army from 1940-1944. In January 1945, he was shipped to France and was assigned to the 564th Tactical Artillery Battalion, with whom he participated in the liberation of concentration camp survivors on a death march near Ried, Germany.

  12. Franz Zürni papers Einzelbestand Franz Zürni (1912-)

    Consists of primary source archival records, photographs, and a recorded television interview pertaining to Franz Zürni’s mission (1945/1946) to transport relief shipments on behalf of the International Commission of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as Zürni’s personal papers and interviews. Includes photographs taken by Zürni of the Mauthausen and Buchenwald concentration camps shortly after liberation and a television interview (VLC media file) with Franz Zürni broadcast by TeleZüri on 21 July 1998. The television broadcast also features a segment on the conviction for Holocaust denial of pu...

  13. Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania

    World Jewish Congress census of Holocaust survivors in Romania in 1945; documents on the persecution of Jews under the Antonescu regime, deportations of Jews from Transylvania, forced labor, and other subjects (an inquiry into Adalbert Kallay); a list of administrators of property “Romanianized” from Jews.

  14. Selected records from the collection of the police of Ploieşti in the Prahova Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Police of Ploieşti, including documents related to various religious groups.

  15. Franz Süss letter

    Consists of one letter sent by Dachau prisoner Franz Süss to a relative named Ludmila Süss in Prague on October 1, 1944. The letter, in German, was written on Dachau stationery. In the letter, Mr. Süss describes life in Dachau and the rations he received.

  16. Fuchs and Buchbinder families collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Sarah Fuchs and Moishe Buchbinder before, during and after the Holocaust. Prewar images of the Buchbinder family in Navaselicza, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine], post-war documents including Sarah and Moishe’s Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate), pre-war images of the Fuchs family in Irholcz, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine]. Moishe fled to the Soviet occupied territories where he was arrested and deported to a Siberian prison and later was recruited as a soldier for a Soviet-Czech unit through the end of the War. Sarah wa...

  17. 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.

  18. Rabbi Barry Friedman photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the aftermath of the Dachau and Ohrdruf concentration camps after liberation; images show American soldiers in the camp, burial of victims in mass graves, and camp views; dated April-May 1945

  19. Judith Bar Kochba photograph collection

    The Judith Bar Kochba photograph collection consists of photographs of the Kann family in Dordrecht, Netherlands before and during World War II. Some of the photographs were taken while the Kann children (Elise Kann, Otto Kann, Judith Kann, and Jacob Kann) were in hiding.

  20. Palestine (Mandatory) Government, Migration Department: name card index (RG11)

    Contains approximately 35,000 index cards and correspondence relating to legal Jewish immigrants to Palestine between the years 1933-1948.