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  1. Records of the Oberreichsanwalt beim Reichsgericht Leipzig (R 3003)

    Contain approximately 600 files (30,000 pages) of the chief prosecutor at the German supreme court during the Reichstag Fire prosecutions; over 300 additional files on the ensuing repression of the Social Democratic and Communist Parties. The Reichstag fire trial held before the Supreme court of the German Reich began September 21, 1933; the accused being Marinus van der Lubbe, Ernst Torgler, Georgi Dimitrov, Blagoi Popov and Vasil Tanev. The concluding day of the trial, December 23, 1933, presiding Justice Wilhelm Bünger pronounced the verdict guilty against van der Lubbe for high treason...

  2. Robert Hesse papers

    Documents related to the career and emigration from Germany of Robert Hesse, including identification documents (German passport and identification card), certificate of discharge from Buchenwald (1938), immigration card from Cuba, typed resume (1940), and photo copies of two family photographs.

  3. Alwin Steinitz writings

    The Alwin Steinitz writings consists of four articles, in English, typed with handwritten corrections, by Alwin Steinitz, a former Swiss journalist and survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The articles, written between 1945-1947, detail Mr. Steinitz's personal experiences and memories of his imprisonment as an anti-Nazi journalist, of life in Buchenwald, of liberation, and of post-war Germany.

  4. Collection of documents from the German Consulates in Palestine (RG-67)

    Documents of German consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa, including records of relations with the Ottoman authorities, tax matters, the acquisition of property, Jewish immigration, civil and criminal cases, representation of German interests by the Spanish Consulate (1917-1926), and a variety of other subjects. Collection reflects Germany’s takeover of the Austrian Consulate in 1938. The collection also documents the Haavara Agreement between Nazi Germany, the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank, and the Jewish Agency.

  5. "All Paths Lead to Rome"

    Consists of one handwritten poem, three pages, entitled "All Paths Lead to Rome" by Yitzchak Yitzchak, which was the pseudonym of Yitzchak Ben Shaul, who wrote this poem in Bari, Italy, in late 1944. The poem was written for the Jewish Brigade troupe of music and entertainment in Italy.

  6. Selected papers of Marcel Henri Jaspar

    Contains selected papers of Marcel Henri Jaspar. Includes minutes of meetings of the Ministry of Public Health regarding the evacuation of the civilian population, correspondence and diplomatic notes. Includes reports on German atrocities and correspondence with Jews as well as officials from others countries during the war and after-war period.

  7. Bella and Bernard Pasternak collection

    Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of donors before, during, and after the Holocaust; includes photographs from Bernard’s experiences in forced labor (March 1943-March 1944) and ghetto (March-May 1944), in addition to his post-war life in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Italy [Trani] (1945-1949). Also included are records of Bella’s pre-war life in Urisor, Romania (1930s, early 1940s), and post-war in Dej, Romania (after liberation), and Austria (after liberation). Bernard was deported to Auschwitz and then went on a death march to Bu...

  8. Polish Legation in Havana Poselstwo Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w Hawanie (A. 62)

    Contains selected records from the Havana consulate of the Polish Government-in-Exile, including a list of Polish citizens (mostly of Jewish origin), 1935-1946; as well as other records relating to applications for entry visas to Cuba, primarily from Polish Jews, 1946-1947.

  9. Rotenberg family collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Rotenberg family in Jauer, Germany and in Tientsin, China in the years 1930-1948. Collection of documents relating to Haim Szmul Rotenberg, cantor and shochet (ritual slaughterer for kashrut), his wife Rosa Deborah Pollak Rotenberg, and their two sons, Bernhard and Wolfgang, and their efforts to emigrate from Germany in 1938-1939; school certificates from Jewish school in Tientsin, China. Correspondence: letters and postcards from members of the Rotenberg and Pollak families residing in Poland, dated 1939-1941.

  10. Selected records from collections of the Tulcea branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the District of Tulcea, Commission of Romanization (CNR) consisting of lists of Germans repatriated from the district of Tulcea, payments to guards to protect expropriated Jewish goods, goods from repatriated Germans, tables of Bulgarian and Italian citizens, renting of real estate and goods belonging to Jews and Bulgarians, selling of German goods, instructions and tables of goods confiscated from Jews taken from Tulcea, Sulina, and Babadag, administration of the Ruth Gottlieb Mill.

  11. Forced burial of death march and concentration camp victims by German civilians; Russian POWs in a hospital; survivors at Buchenwald

    (LIB 5968) Schwarzenfeld, Germany. LS of many coffins loaded onto horse-drawn carts. German civilians from Schwarzenfeld unload and carry the coffins, walking past rows of corpses. Many civilians dig graves in a fenced area. The remains of a striped uniform are visible on at least one of the bodies awaiting burial. Houses are visible in the background. The victims died while on one of several evacuation transports from Flossenbuerg, en route to Dachau. On April 16th, a transport of some 1700 Jewish prisoners left Flossenbuerg. Near Schwarzenfeld, their train was strafed and destroyed by All...

  12. Charles Neil Starr collection

    Letter: typed and handwritten on the back of a proof sheet of photographs documenting the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and printed by the US Army Signal Corps; written by Cpl. Charles Neil Starr (donor's friend) to his wife Vivienne in Akron, Ohio; dated August 17, 1945; in English.

  13. Gottschalk family correspondence

    The Gottschalk family correspondence consists of correspondence from the Gottschalk family of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, in the period before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence to Agnes Arnsdorff, who had immigrated to Palestine from her family from 1937-1941, and after 1944. Most of the family was murdered by the Einsatzgruppen in December 1941.

  14. Torah scroll fragment from the Remu Synagogue

    Fragment of Torah scroll from the Remu Synagogue in Krakow, Poland.

  15. Henry Sharp collection

    The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation.

  16. Ostarbeiter at the Prater

    Film opens on the Ferris wheel at the Vienna Prater amusement park. Dissolve and other simple special effects throughout. Wide shot of crowds (some wearing German/Austrian uniforms; some in street clothes) at the park followed by closer view of two women and two men walking and smiling. Shots of attractions at the park: the Ferris wheel and a roller coaster (camera views from the ground as well as on the roller coaster). More shots of the “Voelkergemisch” of Nazi uniformed men mingling with males and females in civilian dress. The clothing of the latter indicates that most of them are not G...

  17. Gunczberger family papers

    The collection consists of photographs of the families of Manya Reichman and Maurice Gunczberger including pictures of siblings and extended family members, dated c. 1930s-1940s, documents: from Slovakia, dated early 1930s, and correspondence written by loved ones in Slovakia to family in the United States, dated early 1940s. Also includes passenger list from the Cunard White Star Line for Maurice's voyage.

  18. El Male Rachamim Holocaust Memorial - Chile document

    Contains one document on letterhead of the Comite Central de Educacion y Cultura Judia de Chile (Santiago), with text in Hebrew

  19. Portfolio

    Title page, table of contents, and introductory information for 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.

  20. Deportation of the last Jews of Bruchsal, October 1940

    Title onscreen: "Bruchsal Judenfrei! Die letzten Juden verlassen Bruchsal, 18 Oktober 1940" [Bruchsal free of Jews! The last Jews leave Bruchsal, October 18, 1940] A line of Jews, wearing warm clothing and carrying suitcases and bags, files past the camera, including Marcus Rosenberg and his son Leo Rosenberg and Edith [Loeb] Leuchter and her mother, Julie. They are guarded by uniformed Germans, including police. Many people in civilian clothes stand in the background, watching the deportation. Uniformed Germans follow behind the last of the Jews. The last Jews of Bruchsal were deported to ...