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  1. "A Hidden Child's Story"

    Consists of one article, entitled "A Hidden Child's Story" by Sam Lauber, which originally appeared in the Dayton (OH) Jewish Observer in May 2005. In the article, which includes copies of photographs, Mr. Lauber describes the Nazi occupation of Antwerp, where he was born in 1942. Mr. Lauber's parents arranged for him to go into hiding with the Detry family in La Louviere, Belgium, where he remained for a year before reuniting with his family. In 1948, the family immigrated to the United States. Mr. Lauber describes his post-war life and decision in 1986 to travel to La Louviere to find the...

  2. Selected Records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, United States of America: General Correspondence (FO 115)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of the United States of America relating to Jews, the sale in Argentina of exit permits for Jews in Nazi Germany, the evacuation of Jewish refugees from occupied Europe in 1944, and illegal immigration.

  3. "The Rebirth"

    Consists of one memoir, 9 pages, entitled "The Rebirth" by Alfred Henick, who was a member of the United States Army stationed in Germany in 1946. In the memoir, he describes meeting members of his extended family who had survived the Holocaust, and his assistance in enabling them to immigrate to the United States.

  4. Ministry of Justice Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości (A.20)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Polish government-in-exile under Minister Bronisław Kuśnierz. Includes secret files of Katyń massacre, records related to Jewish affairs, communist actions (such as the pro-Soviet atmosphere in ghettos), cruelty of the USSR and German occupiers of 1939-1940, crimes of the Wehrmacht against civilians and Polish citizens interned in Palestine by the British authorities (mainly Jews). Contains the letter of the World Jewish Congress to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the abolition of the 1938 law depriving Jews in the Pol...

  5. Chaplain Harry V. Hamblen photograph collection

    Contains photographic black-and-white prints documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation. Includes close-up images of victims, piles of bodies stacked behind the crematorium with memorial wreaths hanging on the wall above them, and the crematorium ovens. The photos were brought home from the war by Chaplain Harry V. Hamblen (donor’s father) who served with the 5th Corps of the U.S. Army during WWII.

  6. Appeal Court in Lublin (SAL) Sąd Apelacyjny w Lublinie (SAL), Sygn. 220

    This collection contains selected files of criminal trials which took place in the Appeals Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liabi...

  7. Davidovits family collection

    The Davidovits family collection consists of photographs and documents concerning the Davidovits family (donor's mother and extended family) in Sighet, Romania; many images document a visit by Evelyn and her mother Regina who traveled from the United States for an extended visit to Sighet in the early 1930s to visit Regina's immediate family and their children. The majority of Regina's family were eventually deported from Sighet to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  8. Henry Baigelman collection

    Contains documents pertaining to Henry Baigelman's participation in a jazz band called the "Happy Boys" that performed in displaced persons camps in Germany after WWII. Includes handwritten sheet music, song lyrics in Yiddish, certificates acknowledging group's performances, documentation stating that Henry Baigelman had been interned at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a copy of a Passierschein issued to him. (See also Henry Eisenman collection, 2018.525.1)

  9. Wehrmacht activity in USSR

    Amateur footage shot by a Wehrmacht soldier somewhere in the USSR. German artillery fires upon wooden houses in a Russian village. CUS (dark) of toldiers loading howitzers. 00:43:01 Nice shots of German troops advancing across a field toward the smoldering village. Camera pans across the Russian countryside as prisoners are marched into the fields. Two Soviet soldiers stand at gunpoint with their hands in the air while a German soldier checks their pockets. German troops march down a country road. Soviet POWs are marched down a muddy, wooded road. Some of them wheel bicycles. 00:44:10 A Sov...

  10. Erna Fridman manuscript, "The Long Way Home"

    Erna Fridman’s manuscript "The Long Way Home" consists of an English translation prepared in 1995 of the original Polish memoir Erna composed following the Holocaust and her return home to Kraków in 1945. The translation is by her daughter, Pazit Gat, and also includes poems by Fridman and photocopies of family photographs and Fridman's visit to Kraków in 1993. Erna’s narrative describes her memories from before the war, the German occupation of Poland, and life in the Kraków ghetto. She describes the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, her impressions of Amon Göth, learning about Auschwitz...

  11. Joan Diamond collection

    The collection includes family photographs of the Stein family in Turaszowka, Poland, dated 1934, taken on the occasion of the visit of Joan Stein (now Joan Diamond) and her parents from the United States and a postcard sent to Ben Stein from his family in Poland telling him that the situation there is not well, dated May 26, 1940, in German. Also included are two travel journals kept by Olga Stein, Ben’s wife, during their visits from Passaic, NJ back to Europe to visit family in Poland and Czechslovakia. The journals primarily detail their travel, family, and relatives who were drafted in...

  12. Desecrated section of a Torah scroll used as postal package wrapping

    Section of a desecrated Torah scroll used to wrap a parcel and addressed in multiple locations to the Schmid family in Munich, Germany. It was posted between 1941-1944.

  13. "Süssholz Siblings: The War"

    Consists of one memoir, 50 pages, entitled "Süssholz Siblings: The War" by Friedl Süssholz-Wolfstein, originally of Trier, Germany. She describes her childhood, her father and brother's deportation from Germany as stateless persons in 1938, and her own escape as a child into Belgium, where her family was slowly reunited. After various attempts to escape after the outbreak of war, Friedl and her brothers were arrested in France, and Friedl was deported to Auschwitz, where she worked sorting victim belongings in the "Canada" section of the camp. After Auschwitz was evacuated, Friedl was sent ...

  14. Jan Ciechanowski collection Kolekcja Jana Ciechanowskiego (Kol. 82)

    Contains correspondence and other documents of the Polish Embassy in the USA, 1939-1945. Includes records relating to aid for refugees from USSR, relations with the USSR, arresting of the staff of the Polish Embassy in USSR, help rendered by the USA to the USSR, the conference Churchill-Roosevelt, U.S. attitude toward the war, policy of FDR towards Poland, the Ambassador’s reports to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, evacuation of Polish children from USSR, denouncing Polish Citizens to Germans by the Vichy Government, Jewish affairs: mass extermination of Jews in the German occupied ...

  15. Dachau camp administration buildings and SS guards at roll call

    Color and black and white footage shot by a baker who supplied bread to the Dachau concentration camp and was also a member of the town of Dachau's amateur film club. See Stories 1283, 1284, and 1285 for related footage. Poor quality color footage showing the interior of the Dachau administration department. A man stacks and counts paper money at a desk. He gives a Hitler salute to someone off camera. 00:18:32 Quality improves. SS men stand outside camp buildings. There is snow on the ground and icicles hang from the gutters. 00:18:56 Film switches to black and white. A car pulls up to a ga...

  16. David Ettlinger collection

    Collection of 39 photographs; images of children and their activities in the Jewish Children's Home in Caputh near Berlin, Germany; dated 1934-1936.

  17. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives in Nantes concerning Palestine

    Contains a collection of diplomatic dispatches sent to all French diplomats during the period 1938-1949 concerning Palestine. Various subjects discussed include: illicit immigration to Palestine in 1939 (the exodus of Polish Jews toward the Levant); surveillance of the activities of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in October, 1939 and his "escape"; Zionist politics; a letter from the French Ambassador to Turkey in 1942 to the Admiral of the Fleet under Vichy in 1942 on the "Strouma Affair" [Struma]; "Jewish Terrorism in Palestine," dated November 9, 1944; the evolution of the Palestinian econo...

  18. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Protocols of Treaties, United States of America (FO 93)

    Contains records from the Office of the Protocols of Treaties, United States relating to an exchange of notes to set up a joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine December 10, 1945.

  19. "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child"

    Consists of one memoir, 81 pages with appendices, entitled "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child" by Marlies Wolf Plotnik, written in 2005. In the memoir, Mrs. Plotnik describes her childhood in Darmstadt, Germany, her memories of Kristallnacht, her family history, her family's immigration to the United States through England in 1939,and her life in the United States. Includes copies of photographs, documents, and family trees.

  20. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence (FO 286)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Consulate and Legation in Greece relating to telegrams and resolutions from the Jewish communities including Salonica and Corfu expressing gratitude for the British mandate in Palestine, 1922, and relating to illegal immigration into Palestine, 1946.