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  1. Selected records from the National Archives of Malta

    This collection contains records relating to the Jewish Community of Malta, such as birth and marriage certificates, applications for passports and permission to travel, immigration to Malta, internment, and travel from Palestine.

  2. F. Keith Davis memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs, "16th FAOB" by F. Keith Davis, written in March 2000, and "KZ" compiled by F. Keith Davis in 1995. In "16th FAOB," Mr. Davis describes being drafted in 1943, his army training, landing in France in August 1944, his memories of the Battle of the Bulge, and his experiences at the liberation of Ohrdruf. Includes copies of his personal wartime photographs. In "KZ," Mr. Davis presents clippings and photographs about the liberation of Ohrdruf and his memories of that day with annotations.

  3. "Die Fahne Hoch!...Wesen werden und Wirken des Dritten Reiches"

    Consists of a copy of the original typed manuscript of "Die Fahne Hoch!..Wesen werden und Wirken des Dritten Reiches" by Fritz Ginszberg. The manuscript, which was offered to publishers, includes images tucked or pasted into the text and was published in 1946.

  4. Polish Embassy in Moscow and Kuybyshev (USSR) Ambasada Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w Moskwie i Kujbyszewie (ZSRR) (A.7)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Embassy of the Polish government-in-exile. The collection comprises records of activities of the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Moscow (and Kuybyshev after November 1941) from September 1941 through May 1943. The majority of files date from the tenure of Ambassador Stanisław Kot (1 Sept 1941- 13 Jun 1942), and the rest from the tenure of Dr. Tadeusz Romer (12 Oct 1942 - 5 May 1943). Documents include coded telegrams, reports and dispatches, instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the ambassadors, documents of the representatives of t...

  5. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Corrèze

    Contains selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Corrèze pertaining to French and foreign Jews fleeing the occupied zone and seeking refuge in the Corrèze, as well as the internment of Jews, and work brigades in the Corrèze.

  6. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulate, Sweden: General Correspondence (FO 188)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulate in Sweden relating to the persecution of Jews and forced labor in Norway, the position of Hungarian Jews, German propaganda in Sweden, Jewish refugees and Swedish assistance, and illegal immigration.

  7. Brzeziny ghetto: snow; synagogue; hanging

    Film taken by a German, possibly Propaganda Kompanie 689. Sign: "Wohngebiet der Juden! Das Betreten ist unbefugten verboten...." [Jewish residential area! No unauthorized admittance...] CU, sign with a star marking, pan down to street view. Crowds in the cold snowy streets of the Brzeziny ghetto. Jews walking, bundled up, with yellow stars. Children in FG. VAR shots, street scenes, snowing, children in the windows of wooden homes, Jewish homeowners, filming through a fence. CUs, children with yellow star marking "Jude," elder, baby. Walking up a stairwell. Men pushing ice in the river. Peop...

  8. "This is Impossible to Forget"

    Consists of one typed memoir, in Russian, written in 2002 by Yevgeny Vodlinger, originally of Krasnye Okna, Ukraine. In the memoir, Mr. Vodlinger describes his experiences as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army during World War II, including how he was treated by fellow soldiers. After the war, he learned that his parents and brother had been taken from their hometown of Ribnita and executed in a mass-shooting by the Nazis near Dubosary.

  9. Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich (1941-1945) : Historical Archive Kulturgemeinschaft der Emigranten in Zürich (1941-1945): Historisches Archiv

    Records pertaining to the activities of the Cultural Alliance of Emigrants in Zurich during World War II and the immediate postwar period. Association arranged cultural and recreational activities for Jewish refugees in holding camps; from summer 1944 devoted increasing attention to postwar concerns, including repatriation and onward emigration.

  10. Ahnenpass

    Contains an "Ahnenpass" issued to Karl Haiblen (donor's father) that documents his family ancestry to prove that he was of "pure Aryan blood." Dated October 6th, 1938; Tübingen, Germany.

  11. District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Katowicach

    Contains records of the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Silesia territory. Records are very diverse and include files of investigations of German crimes; files on wanted war criminals and verdicts of criminal trials against war criminals, including the case of the crew of KL Auschwitz and its chief officer, Rudolf Hoess; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; case files of SS and Gestapo officers, German physicians, and collaborators, the verdicts of German Sondergerichte; also contains questionnaires concerning location...

  12. "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families"

    Consists of one memoir, on CD-ROM, entitled "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families" by Jerzy Kubowski. The memoir, which is in Russian, Polish, and English, includes excerpts from various family members' memoirs, letters, and copies of photographs and drawings. Members of the family were able to immigrate, while others were sent to the Warsaw ghetto. Some survived the ghetto, while others either perished in the ghetto or in the Treblinka extermination camp.

  13. Salomon Windmuller collection

    The Salomon Windmuller papers document Windmuller’s life in Germany, internment in France, and immigration to the United States and consist of a school certificate, World War I commendation, Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten membership card, American immigration quota number, tax office clearance certificate, internment camp release certificate, transit pass, request for leave from the Gurs concentration camp, and an identification card renewal receipt as well as photocopies of a safe passage certificate, of a letter from the American Consulate in Marseille, and of a telegram confirming th...

  14. Jews in Poland; unearthing the Ringelblum Archives

    Immediate postwar documentary about the Jews in Poland during World War II. In Yiddish with English subtitles. Also called "We the Survivors". 06:12:59 to 06:13:58 Footage of the first unearthing of the Ringelblum Archives on September 19, 1946 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. During the war, Emanuel Ringelblum and a team of historians within the Warsaw Ghetto assembled an astonishing set of testimonies, documents, and photographs, which they preserved in buried milk cans to be unearthed after the war. Man arrives on a motorcycle at a large pile of rubble. Group of men stand at the entran...

  15. Records relating to the research and judicial verdicts of the authenticity of Anne Frank diary (Fond 212c)

    Contains documents regarding research and judicial verdicts of the authenticity of the Anne Frank diary.

  17. Eugene Shelton collection

    Consists of materials related to the experiences of Corporal Eugene Shelton, who participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Includes a photograph of corpses, a one-page testimony written by Cpl. Shelton about his experiences, and a large hand-drawn map of the movements of the 355th Infantry Regiment, which participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf.

  18. Feldman family collection

    Collection of photographs and photo postcards depicting the Felman and Altman families in Sokolów Podlaski, Poland before the war, and images from the Steier and Wels displaced persons camps after the war.

  19. "The Activity and Rising of the Hitlerjugend" Until the Outbreak of World War II

    Consists of one research paper entitled "The Activity and the Rising of the Hitlerjugend [Hitler Youth] until the Outbreak of World War II," by Shai Rossler. Includes information gathered from interviews with former members of the Hitler Youth and BDM (Bund Deutscher Maedel, or the League of German Girls) and a discussion of the history of the National Socialist youth movements.

  20. Joseph Winkler memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 660 pages, untitled, by Joseph Winkler, originally born in Sambor, Galicia, in 1903. The memoir was dictated in August 1974 and transcribed. In his memoir, Mr. Winkler describes his childhood, life under Russian occupation during World War I, and seeing his town become Polish territory. He got a job at a petroleum refinery in Drohobycz in 1927, received his doctorate in chemistry, and met and married Eugenia (Genia) Weidenfeld, with whom he had a daughter, Lili. He describes the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and life under the Russian occupation. After the German...