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  1. Jakob Ascher papers

    The Jakob Ascher papers contain biographical material, correspondence, emigration and immigration documents, school records, and photographs relating to Jakob Ascher and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany and Jakob’s immigration to the United States. The collection includes report cards, poems, an athletic certificate, and essays relating to his daughter, Esther Ascher’s schooling as well as photographs depicting the Ascher family before the war and Esther during her time at a Hachshara in Germany and Palestine. The collection also includes biographical material such as identific...

  2. Laurel Terry collection

    Consists of a small book entitled "Mitglieder=Grundbuch" consisting of the handwritten names and membership numbers of members of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) from an unknown town. Also includes a Russian postcard sent to Lemberg in 1943 depicting a drawing of frontier men discovering a Russian town, and a photograph of a group of young men in uniform standing with Nazi flags in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany.

  3. Springtime in Vienna

  4. German and Austrian Immigrants Association collection (Hitachduth Olej Germania)

    Consists of printed proclamations, notices, invitations and book printed on behalf of the German and Austrian Immigrants Association, based in Tel Aviv, between 1935-1938. Also includes a booklet, entitled "Missive to Immigrants from Western Europe," which was printed in German and Hebrew in 1938.

  5. Burial Authorizations and Memorial Inscriptions of the United Synagogue's Cemetery at Willesden, UK

    Contains copies of the burial authorizations as well as abstracts of memorial inscriptions which make reference to the loss of a family member in Europe during World War II.

  6. Stanley Squire photograph collection

    Collection of 18 photographs documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken by Stanley F. Squire (donor's father-in-law) while he was a solder in the U.S. Army.

  7. Sydney Goodman papers

    The Sydney Goodman papers include a diary, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Sydney’s experiences as a Jewish American soldier who was captured as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge and sent to Stalag IX B and Berga an der Elster as a forced laborer. Sydney began his diary shortly before he was captured in 1944 and continued writing until liberation in 1945. He wrote on the back of 36 family photographs about his experiences as a POW at Stalga IXB and Berga and kept a list of those who died. Correspondence includes telegrams and letters from the War Department to ...

  8. Nazi party activities in 1939 and 1940 in Bruchsal

    Title: Staatsrat Spaniol besichtigt nach der Rede in einer Grosskundgebung Bruchsals Kleintierzucht, 28 Februar 1940 [Councilor Spaniol visits the small animal breeding facility after a speech at a rally in Bruchsal, February 28, 1940]. Spaniol inspects the farm and one of the rabbits. 01:18:16 Title: Mit Flugblaettern glaubten die Franzosen den Krieg zu gewinnen November, 1939 [The French believed they would win the war with leaflets]. Men examine a package of leaflets attached to a hot air balloon that has landed in a field. 01:20:03 Title: Rueckkehr der siegreichen Truppen in Bruchsal, 2...

  9. Anita Etzyon photographs

    Contains five photographs of the donor's family, originally from Borysław, Poland (now Borylslav, Ukraine), where the donor was born in 1941, and was hidden during the war disguised as a Christian. Photographs may depict period of her family's time in hiding.

  10. Benjamin Sagalowitz papers Nachlass Dr. iur. Benjamin Sagalowitz (1901-1970)

    This collection relates to Benjamin Sagalowitz’s activities as a journalist and includes records on several trials relevant to World War II and the Holocaust that took place over a period of three decades, including the trial of David Frankfurter, the Nuremberg Trials, the Eichmann Trial, and the Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt. Includes also family photographs, correspondence with numerous individuals (including Robert M. W. Kempner, Erwin Lagus, Prof. Dr. Carl Ludwig, Jacob Zucker et al.) and Jewish as well as Zionist organizations, a letter (together with archival documentation) from Sagalo...

  11. Oral history interview with Martin Silberman

  12. Dr. Guido Schoenberger collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, reports, photographs and other materials relating to the emigration of the Schoenberger family from Germany to the United States; to family and friends remaining in Germany; to the Schoenberger family's new life in the United States, to Dr. Schoenberger's professional career as an art historian; and to his work for Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.

  13. Noemi Sheinbein photographs

    Contains three photographs. Two photographs depict Maurycy Moniek Kokotek (donor's older brother) in the Bedzin ghetto; dated 1942 and 1943; Maurycy Kokotek was killed by Germans on August 8, 1943 in Bedzin. The third photograph is a group portrait of children and teachers at Jewish boys' School in Bedzin before the war.

  14. Jozef Weiler papers

    The Jozef Weiler papers include biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Jozef and Helena Weiler’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Poland. The collection includes a repatriation card issued to Jozef, Helena, and their son, Ryszard, for moving from Drohobycz, Poland to Wrocław, Poland, a certificate stating that Jozef arrived from Drohobycz and was sent to Boza Gora (Mszana, Poland), and pre-war photographs of Jozef and Helena taken in Drohobycz, Poland. The collection also includes a diary written by Jozef on the back of 1939 lab reports from a Galicja oil company docu...

  15. Naum Roshal memoirs

    The Naum Roshal memoirs include a printed and bound copy of Book 1 of Naum Roshal’s memoirs, “My Memories,” covering the years 1926-1945 and describing Roshal’s childhood, the family’s 1941 evacuation from Kapcevičy, Ukraine to Ufa, Bashkir ASSR, and his experiences as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army from 1943-1945. The collection also includes a digital copy of Book 1 of Roshal’s memoirs along with digital copies of Book 2 and Book 3 describing Roshal’s experiences during the periods 1945-1959 and 1959-1999, including his immigration to the United States. The memoirs also include reproduc...

  16. Hashomer Hatzair Paris Office (RG-34) הלשכה האירופאית בפריס

    Contains correspondence and letters with the Hashomer Hatzair movement in various countries, such as France, Belgium, Israel, England, Austria, Chile, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Germany, Italy etc.; also letters written by the leadership, activity reports, accounting and financial reports, newspapers of the movement. Included are MAPAM (United Worker's Party) correspondence, reports and correspondence with the Conference of Jewish Materials Claims against Germany (CJMCAG).

  17. Selected records from the State Archives of the Novgorod Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records relating to German occupation in the Novgorod region from August 1941 to January 1944. Includes records relating to the extermination of Jews, Roma, Soviet civilians, and prisoners of war; records of evacuation, and lists of population. Also contains pre-war records on liquidation of synagogues and their transformation into medical facilities.

  18. 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.

  19. "The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor"

    Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor" written by Yuri Prizov, with copies in English and Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Prizov describes his childhood, initially in Zaysan, Kazakhstan, and later near the Polish border, as well as his memories of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the family's escape east, to the region of Karachay-Cherkassia, in the Caucasus, as well as the massacre of Bogdanovka (near Stavropol), where his mother's family lived; posing as non-Jews, and life in Grozny after the war. In the memoir, he described the way...

  20. Genowefa Gasior collection

    Consists of photocopies of notarized translations and a letter attesting to the wartime experiences of Genowefa Dobrzawska Marcjan-Gasior, originally of Boryslawa, Poland. During the war, Mrs. Gasior and her family hid a Jewish man named Naftula Strauser (later Marian Stasinski) and a Jewish woman named Zofia Lawoczkin in their home. The collection includes a copy of a letter written by Mrs. Gasior and translations of the statements of wartime neighbors, Danuta Wesolowska and Janina Ziemianska, both of whom knew that the Gasiors were hiding Jews.