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  1. Central Jewish Historical Commission at the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydów w Polsce, Sygn. 303/XX

    Contains correspondence, certificates and agreements, minutes, reports, instructions and questionnaires for conducting interviews with Holocaust victims, name lists of war criminals and their victims, lists of Jewish doctors in Łódź Ghetto, and many other lists related to Jews in particular cities or villages; lectures, notes and memos, relating to many activities of the Central Jewish Historical Commission at the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). One of most important part of correspondence constitute letters and supporting documentation relating to war crimes, war criminals ...

  3. "A Survivor's Connections: Yesterday into Today"

    Consists of one typed testimony, 14 pages, entitled "A Survivor's Connections: Yesterday into Today" by Judith Sherman, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. In the testimony, she describes the various elements of daily life that remind her of her Holocaust experiences and includes poetry that she has written about her memories.

  4. Dachau liberation photographs

    The Dachau liberation photographs consists of thirteen photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. Some of the photographs are mass-produced liberation photographs, while others, including photographs of survivors in the camp and of the collection and burial of bodies, are less common images.

  5. "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror"

    Consists of one magazine entitled "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror," which contains photographs and propaganda information about the Kitchener camp in Richborough, England. The magazine describes the daily lives of the mostly Jewish refugees living in the Kitchener camp. The magazine was created by the Kitchener Camp Committee. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment h...

  6. Reutlinger family papers

    Collection of documents pertaining to Shlomo Reutlinger's family who escaped Pforzheim, Germany to Cuba. Shlomo was sent from Germany to Belgium and then to Palestine in 1940. Included in the collection is Shlomo's grandfather's passport and documents from Gurs and Rivesaltes which include description of life in these camps. List of inmates in Rivesaltes, postcards and handwritten manuscript giving an explanation of the Passover Haggadah that was written in Gurs. Photo of Shlomo's parents and sister Ruth in Cuba, 1943, as well as other miscellaneous documents.

  7. Selected records from collections of the Hunedoara branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains prewar and wartime records of various local police organizations, including reports on Jews and other minorities, treatment of Jews, Ayranization, and deportations to Transnistria. It also includes postwar material on emigration to Palestine, measures to prevent further killing of Jews, Jews under forced labor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Deva Jewish Democratic Committee’s (CDE) correspondence with Jews, with the Joint, and with central Jewish authorities.

  8. Memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov describing his life before World War II and under the Nazi occupation in Kiev

    Contains photocopies of 143 pages of memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov. The author describes his family life in Kyiv during the famine in Ukraine, apartment problem of that time in Kyiv, difficulties with the food supply, persuasion by NKVD “enemies of people”. In the beginning of the war Khudyakov served in the military unit located near Kyiv. Author depicts different military operations of his division in Kyiv oblast at the beginning of the war. In the September 1941 Khudyakov was taken as a prisoner of war and placed in the Soviet POW camps in Yagotin and Sulimovka in Kyiv region.The...

  9. Records of Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller (MOL K 280)

    Contains files of the Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller, most of the documents are semi-official: letters requesting patronage, jobs, benefits, tax write-off , etc.; the letter from John Sebastian, 1939, proposing to collect and publish regulations and restrictions for Jews; newspaper clippings; miscellaneous records on the "Jewish questions."

  10. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Switzerland: General Correspondence (FO 192)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulate in Switzerland relating to the implementation of the Washington Accord (Allied-Swiss Accord) relating to Allied efforts to recover and restore gold and other assets stolen or hidden by Germany during World War II in Switzerland.

  11. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, France: General Correspondence (FO 146)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, France relating to war crimes.

  12. "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child"

    Consists of a lecture delivered by Dr. Shmuel Kneller at the Holocaust Studies Centre in Haifa upon the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9, 2008. In the lecture, entitled "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child," Dr. Kneller describes his memories of Hitler coming to power, of pre-war antisemitism, and of his experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht. The lecture, originally given in Hebrew, was translated in English.

  13. "My Encounter with Eichmann"

    Consists of a memoir,16 pages, entitled "My Encounter with Eichmann" by Stephen Shields, a member of the 71st Infantry Division of the United States Army. In the memoir, Mr. Shields describes his memory of a conversation he had with a German prisoner of war, whom he believes to have been Adolf Eichmann, and his memories of the liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp. The memoir also contains information about Eichmann's role in Budapest and the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg.

  14. Civil Chancellery of the President of the Polish Republic Kancelaria Cywilna i Gabinet Wojskowy (A.48)

    Contains selected records of the Civil Chancellery of the President of the Polish Republic of the Polish Government in Exile relating to various Jewish matters, war refugees and displaced persons 1944-1947, and national minorities. Includes dispatches and reports from occupied Poland, a political report of Jan Karski, October 1940-February 1943, a speech of Prof. Olgierd at the New Zionist Organization, accusation of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from Kuybyshev (Samara) in Russia for discrimination toward Jews by Polish military authorities, a negative respond toward the dismissal of Jews f...

  15. Chris Makas papers

    Consists of a memoir written by and oral history conducted with Sgt. Chris Makas, a member of the 63rd Infantry Division of the United States Army, who participated in the liberation of the Kaufering concentration camp. Both the memoir, which is undated, and the oral history, which was conducted in December 2000, describe his wartime experiences. Includes copyprints of Sgt. Makas and several images of Kaufering after liberation. Also includes copies of several documents related to Sgt. Makas's history and memories of Kaufering. The oral history was conducted by Sgt. Makas's daughter, Elaine...

  16. Henry Werdinger collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Heinrich [Henryk] Werdinger (donor). Born in Borysław, Poland, he was arrested and interned as a slave laborer in Borysław, in 1942 for Karpathen Oel AG. In April 1944, he was first transferred to the Płaszow concentration camp, and then to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria in August 1944, where he was liberated in May 1945. His immediate family perished. Included in the collection are photographs that document pre-war life in Borysław, postwar documents and photographs which illustrate Heinrich’s wartime experiences and p...

  17. Fred Frankel collection

    Consists of 12 photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp of David Frankel (born Towia Frenkiel) and Lili Frydman (later Frankel), and their son, Abraham Frankel. Includes photographs of their wedding on May 19, 1946 in the displaced persons camp, the Frankels with groups of friends, and a photograph labeled 1940, which the donor believes to be a photograph of a crematorium at Auschwitz, circa 1940, which Lili Frankel obtained from an unknown source.

  18. German prisoners; Americans at Moosburg

    Long lines of German prisoners and US military in a city square. 02:15:00 US tanks parade through city street, shops behind, civilians cheering. Soldier talking with Austrian civilians. CUs, German prisoners marching, bicycle, open jeep. Some prisoners riding in jeep. (AUSTRIA slate) 02:17:40 More German prisoners marching (very blurry), conducting traffic in city streets. HAS, lake/river with quick shot of a civilian getting water. Long line of prisoners march by wrecked railroad cars. Pan of wreckage with prisoners marching by, looting, trucks, mountains in distance. Two lines of German p...

  19. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "My Story," written in 2005 by Eva Biro Slott, originally of Szentes, Hungary. She describes her childhood in Hungary, the deaths of her parents in 1931, and living with various relatives. In 1944, she was living in Budapest and writes about the German invasion of Hungary. She was sent to forced labor but was soon released, returned to Budapest, and described life in wartime Budapest. After the war ended, she made her way to the American zone of Germany, reconnected with her brother, who had immigrated to the United States previously and was a memb...

  20. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers

    The Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers include a handmade diary created at the Sömmerda slave labor that describes a death march near the end of the war and photographs depicting Clara and Jacob Kempler with family and friends at the Landsberg am Lech and Leipheim displaced persons camps after the war. The collection also includes two post-war identification cards for Jacob Kempler, three photographs reproduced and published by Zvi-Hirsh Kadushin (George Kadish), and four postcards depicting Landsberg am Lech, Bremen, Marseille, and Holocaust victims. The handmade diary was created at the Sömme...