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  1. Reports of Eichmann trial (NSG)

    Contains 29 reports written by Dietrich Zeug, a German Prosecutor who was a member of the West German observer team at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Zeug worked at the Zentrale Stelle Ludwigsburg and was tasked with looking for evidence that could be of relevance for its work.

  2. Gold family collection

    Collection of documents relating to Jacob Gold (b. 1908) and Hela Chaja Ost Gold (b. 1914) [donor's parents] who survived the Holocaust in Siberia, USSR. Includes affidavits, citizenship papers, and immigration documents, circa 1949-1956.

  3. Egon Weiss papers

    The Egon Weiss papers consist of a diary written by Egon Weiss describing his 1940 voyage on the SS Milos, the explosion of the SS Patria, his internment in the Atlit detainee camp, and the following years in Jerusalem as well as a scrapbook containing biographical material and photographs relating to the Weiss family from approximately 1890 to 2009. The collection also includes correspondence between the family and information relating to the SS Patria and prisoners of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Egon Weiss began his diary after he arrived in Palestine in 1940 and the last entry was ...

  4. Records of the Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (B 162)

    Contains selected records relating to the investigation and prosecution of crimes committed under the National Socialist regime from 1933-1945. Includes interrogation reports of perpetrators, testimonies of witnesses, and court decisions. Records document violent crimes, including: mass crimes against Jews and others committed by members of the SS and security police within the killing squads in Poland and in the former Soviet Union, as well as crimes in numerous ghettos, concentration and extermination camps (such as Auschwitz, Majdanek, Belżec, Treblinka or Sobibὀr) across occupied Europe...

  5. Janina Ecker collection

    Photographs (24) and identification cards (3) relating to experiences of the donor's extended family in Krakow, Poland, from World War I through occupation of Poland in World War II.

  6. Theresienstadt notebook

    Contains one notebook, handwritten in pencil by an unknown author, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp between 1942-1943. The notebook, consisting of 21 pages, contains quotations from popular authors, philosophers, artists, and others, including Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, John Steinbeck, Margaret Mitchell, Leonardo da Vinci, Dostoyevski, and Buddha. The name "Dita" is written on the inside front cover of the notebook.

  7. Forced burial of victims by German civilians

    (LIB 6591) Estedt, Germany. German civilians smooth dirt over fresh graves in a fenced area, then pound grave markers (crosses) into the dirt. A group of Polish former forced laborers led by a man in a Polish army uniform, carries a large wreath with a red and white ribbon in a procession (Polish funeral march). Wreath inscribed with "Od Polaków z Estetu ku czci pomordowanych rodaków" [From the Poles of (in) Estet in honor of their murdered countrymen]. They wear small badges (the purple P on a yellow square) on their breasts. They enter the fenced area with the wreath. Several American sol...

  8. Selected records from collections of the Harghita branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Mayorship of the town Miercurea Ciuc relating to the administration of Jewish goods. Also included in this collection are records from the Mayorship of the town Gheorgheni relating to: the dismantling of Hehalutz, “All for the Fatherland” (Iron Guard), authorizations for meetings of the Jewish community, Christian faith among Jews, prohibiting Jewish commerce, goods from Jewish deportees, war criminals and their goods, real estate remaining from deported Jews. Also includes records from the democratic Jewish Committee (CDE) of the district of Ciuc relating to biogr...

  9. Selected records from the collections of the Maramureş branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Prefecture of the District of Maramureş including orders of the Ministries of Interior and Defense concerning the rights of Jews, as well as the approval from the Ministry of Interior for the activites of a Mizrahi Zionist organization in Sighet. Also contains documents concerning bandits from Viseul de Sus.

  10. Gusti Shoval photograph collection

    Contains two photographic prints of Sabina Sheindl Klapholc and Chaim Jakub Klapholc in the Chrzanow ghetto, circa 1941.

  11. Hashomer Hatzair Prague-Bratislava Office (RG-33)

    Contains correspondence, letters, diaries, activity reports of the Hashomer Hatzair, Prague-Bratislava office concerning refugee camps, immigration, summer settlements, and a seminar held in Lindenfels (Germany). Records relate to the Hashomer Hatzair movement in various European countries or areas such as Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Transylvania, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and France.

  12. Palestine Government. Custodian of Enemy Property

    Contains 34 registers of enemy debts, 1941-1946, and case files of claims to property in the year 1947 in enemy or enemy occupied countries, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Hungary, etc.

  13. Leser family papers

    Correspondence, diaries, photographs, identification documents, postcards, and books, belonging to the family of Helen Leser (also known as Helene Leser, Chana Leser), originally of Rozwadów, Poland. Documents include identification documents for family members during the German occupation of Poland; materials from the Soviet Union during the time of her family's exile there, including postcards received and a children's book; diaries written by Leser while in France after the war; notebooks containing written poetry in Russian and Yiddish; correspondence received by family members and frie...

  14. Jozef Bryf memoir

    Consists of one CD containing the handwritten memoirs, in Yiddish, of Jozef Bryf. The memoirs, written in the 1980s, cover the period of 1920-1980 and describe Mr. Bryf's childhood in Łaskarzew, Poland, the German bombardment of Warsaw in 1939, and escaping with his future wife, Hanna Bleiwais, into the Soviet occupied territories. In 1941, the couple was deported to Siberia for forced labor, but after a year, moved to Tashkent, where they spent the war. After the liberation of the area, they moved back to Poland, from which they escaped in 1946 and ultimately joined family in France.

  15. Undersecretary of State for Romanization (Aryanization), Colonization, and Inventory

    Contains records from the Undersecretary of State for Romanization(Aryanization), Colonization, and Inventory relating to Aryanization in Romania. These records include: requests of refugees from Transylvania and Bessarabia to be in charge of Aryanization; lists of selling and buying shares whose owners were Jews; transfers of bonds relating to the Astra Romana Society; transfer of shares of various industrial societies; reports relating to various industrial societies; Committee on discovering Jewish goods which had been transferred to another owner to avoid being confiscated; requests and...

  16. 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.

  17. Flora Kahn collection

    Consists of one money order sent on January 6, 1941 transmitting seventy dollars to Flora Kahn, listing her address as Camp de Gurs, France.

  18. Selected records from the Central State Archives of the Republic Mordovia, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records related to evacuation of various groups of Soviet citizens and relocation to Republic of Mordovia from 1939 to 1944. Includes various lists of evacuated Jews, communists, political refugees, specialized workers and members of their families. Also includes correspondence pertaining to allocation of food, improvement of living conditions, and maintenance of orphanages etc.

  19. Carl Walters photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation; taken by Carl 'Dutch' Walters [donor's great uncle] while serving with the U.S. Army during WWII. Images include survivors, victims, and various scenes from around the camp; dated April-May 1945.

  20. Ordnungspolizei in Moravia; Daluege

    Title card reads: “1938 Wiener Schutzpolizei in Südmähren.” Title card: “Wille und Tat des Führers ermöglichen die friedliche Heimkehr des Sudetenlandes in das Groẞdeutsche Reich.” Title: “Ein starker Gurtel von Betonbunkern und Hindernissen sollte deutsche Menschen ewig trennen. Volksbewusstsein und Opferwille überwanden auch diese eiserne Grenze.” LS, then pan, of a fortification in the countryside. Fortification building with the words “Pravda vitezi” [“Truth prevails”] painted on it. Two Ordnungspolizei walk into the building. More shots of the fortification. Buildings in Podyji Nationa...