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  1. Jews are Not Welcome sign

    Two signs read: "Bederkesa: Kreis Wesermunde, Reg.-Bez. Stade" and "Juden sind in Bederkesa unerwuenscht!" [Jews are not welcome in Bederkesa!] Shots of a river and a bucolic German town. Bederkesa is located in Lower Saxony in northwest Germany.

  2. Relli Schmerler Katz memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 25 pages, untitled, by Relli Schmerler Katz, originally of Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, written in 1996, Mrs. Katz describes pre-war Jewish life. Her family was deported in April 1944 to the ghetto in Mátészalka, Hungary, and from there to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arrival in Auschwitz, reuniting with an aunt who had been deported previously, and surviving multiple selections. In August 1944, she and her mother were sent to the Geislingen an der Steige forced labor camp. She describes a number of her specific memories of the camp, including the memory...

  3. William Stanton photograph collection

    Black and white photograph depicting corpses piled on ground and on a cart, survivors and barracks visible in the background at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. On the verso is a handwritten inscription in blue ink: "Mauthausen / Concentration / Camp / near Linz, Austria / May 1945." The photograph was brought home from the war by Sgt. William Stanton of Vermont who served with the 11th Armored Division of the U.S. Army.

  4. Wajnberg family collection

    The Wajnberg family collection consists of original and copied documentation related to the wartime and post-war lives of Saul, Chaja, and their daughter, Lusia Wajnberg, originally of Demblin, Poland. Includes Saul Wajnberg's identity card as a survivor of Buchenwald, and narrative information about the experiences of Chaja and Lusia, who spent the war in various ghettos and concentration camps in and around Demblin. Includes documentation regarding Lusia's post-war psychological problems conducted by the Anna Freud clinic, Saul and Chaja's medical problems, and restitution documentation f...

  5. Ginny Helgeson collection

    Consists of five enlarged Signal Corps photographs taken by Claude Edward McGraw, a member of the United States Signal Corps. The photographs depict survivors demonstrating the use of the crematorium or photographers after the liberation of Dachau; Red Cross tents at Mauthausen; and prisoner portraits, including one of a Soviet prisoner with his name and prisoner number tattooed on his chest. Also includes one smaller photograph with caption describing the image of the reburial of bodies taken from a mass grave in Wetterfield, Germany.

  6. Large sepia diazo print of Congress Hall in Nuremberg acquired by a US soldier

    Diazotype reproduction of the architectural blueprints for Congress Hall retrieved by 32 year old Colonel Max W. Goodman, a Jewish American soldier, in Nuremberg, Germany, circa May 1945. The monumental building was designed to be the congress center of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, for which Speer designed the overall plan. Congress Hall was designed by Ludwig and Franz Ruff. The foundation stone was laid in 1935, but the building was never finished due to the outbreak of the war. Max served for five years in the Quartermaster Corps with the Third United States Army under General George S....

  7. Martin Weiss papers

    The Martin Weiss papers consists of identification documents collected by Martin Weiss in post-war Czechoslovakia. The documents were collected by Weiss after his release from the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp, and were intended to be used for Weiss’ immigration to the United States.

  8. Wolf and Gidanskis letters

    The Wolf and Gidanskis letters consist of letters written in Yiddish between December 1938 and April 1941 in Lithuanian. One letter was written by Yitzhak Zev Wolf and eleven letters by Josef Gidanskis to his niece, Esther Golde. In the letters, Mr. Gidanskis discusses pre-war Jewish life in Lithuania and alludes to the news he is hearing about the Holocaust.

  9. Justice Ministry : Files of the State Public Prosecutor's Offices ; miscellaneous matters Justizministerium : Akten der Staatsanwaltschaften. Verschiedene Angelegenheiten

    Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Sosnowiec (Sosnowitz). Includes ordinances about treatment of political prisoners, POWs, and Polish slave laborers; reports about prisoner esc...

  10. Records of investigation and documentation of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland (B.d) Akta badawczo-dochodzeniowe Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (B.d.)

    Contains investigation files on crimes committed by Nazi criminals in the concentration camps in Poland and Germany, as well as in ghettos, towns, and villages in Poland.

  11. German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau

    Contains a copy of a report entitled "German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau" written by escapees from the camp (unnamed in the report, later identified as Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler) in April 1944. The report was distributed in the United States by the War Refugee Board in November 1944.

  12. Prewar Jewish life in Budapest

    Peter Veres plays in his playpen during summer 1939. He is pushed on a swing outdoors. Mother Kati holds Peter. Kati, Agi, Lenke, Bela, and another woman pose together. Kati and her father Bela Krausz walk towards the camera. Kati, Agi, and another woman, possibly a cousin or friend, pose by a large haystack. George and Kati hug. 01:13:15 Peter and his cousin Andrew (as infants) are posed on a blanket in the yard, probably in Summer 1939. They are joined by Kati and Agi Jakab (Andrew's mother). 01:15:09 Kati and another woman knit outdoors. A little girl and Peter play in a playground. 01:1...

  13. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Street scenes of the Warsaw ghetto. Pedestrians cross a bridge over the street. Special attention is given to reverse rickshaws--bicycles with benches on the front--in which people are carted around. Jewish men have their documents examined. Some elderly men then meet in a well-decorated hall, possibly a restaurant. Jewish police, all in jackets and ties, stand at attention in two lines, then march down the street. One is shown chasing children away with a baton. A corpse is shown on a sidewalk; pedestrians pass it by. The interior of a luxurious home, with hardwood-paneled floors, floral w...

  14. Nowe Miasto nad Pilica ghetto

    Shots of road signs: Litzmannstadt 88 km, Rawa 29 km, Radom 58 km, Tomaszow 48 km, Warschau 81 km. German soldiers and two women walk past a row of German trucks. Scene changes to show LS of children playing in front of buildings, presumably in the ghetto of Nowe Miasto nad Pilica. An older man carries a basket into a building. Two men wearing armbands sit in a doorway. Dark shot of man smiling at the camera. Wide shot of a street - a man and a small child push a baby carriage toward the camera. Two men with bicycles can be seen behind him. Young girls stand in front of a house and smile at...

  15. Emil and Martha Feigenbaum collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Emil and Martha Feigenbaum, originally of Berlin, Germany. The papers specifically concern emigration, employment, and visa issues. Although the couple was able to emigrate to the United States before the war, despite attempts, they were unable to save Emil's parents, Meier and Flora, both of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  16. Stadelheim death certificates

    The Stadelheim death certificates consists of certificates documenting the deaths of prisoners at the Stadelheim prison in Munich, Germany, between 1942-1944. The certificates indicate that the vast majority of the prisoners were executed by beheading in groups and their bodies transferred to the Anatomical Institute in Munich. Includes some bureaucratic correspondence and transport bills for taking the bodies to the Institute. Also includes the original binder which housed the documents, on which "Leichen" [Corpses] is written, and on the inside of the binder, the chemicals used to create ...

  17. Związek Żydów Byłych Uczestników Walki Zbrojnej z Faszyzmem (Sygn. 318)

    Contains documents relating to activities of the Union of Jews-Former Participants of Military Combat with Nazism. Mostly correspondence, circular letters, minutes of meetings, resolutions, addresses, plans of ceremonies, invitations, personal files of the staff and combatants.

  18. Yank, the Army Weekly (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Issue of Yank: The Army Weekly, with a cover featuring four portraits of American soldiers with the caption: "American soldiers who were prisoners of the Germans."

  19. Erwin Froman collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the Freimowitz family, originally of Romania, pre-war postcards sent by Ferenz Freimowitz (donor's father) to the donor's brother in the United States in May 1940, and post-war identification paperwork and affidavits for Eisik Freimowitz (now Erwin Froman). Also includes certificates, letters, and newspaper clippings related to Mr. Froman's work sharing the story of his Holocaust experiences.

  20. Fred Haber Signal Corps collection

    Consists of 8x10 black and white Signal Corps photographs taken during and immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of Allied conferences (including Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and Quebec), journalists visiting the concentration camps in April 1945, the capitulations of both Japan and Germany, the Nuremberg trials, Landsberg prison, members of the Signal Corps, USO shows, atrocities in the Pacific theater, the death of Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession, and the 1945 victory parade in Washington DC, as well as many other candid and posed photographs. The photo...