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  1. Anna Berkovitz papers

    Papers consist of 19 photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the Weiszhausz and Friedman families before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  2. György Ránki collection

    Consists of color copies of materials related to György Rosenberg (later György Ránki), who was fourteen years old when he was deported from Budapest. The collection includes copies of the note he threw from the train addressed to his father; identity papers he received after his liberation in Lübeck, Germany, and later in Sweden; a Red Cross search card; and other documents.

  3. 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.

  4. Oscar Reiss papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Oscar K. Reiss, originally of Munich, Germany. Included are immigration paperwork, his German passport, United States Army records, and an affidavit related to his attempt to help his family in Germany immigrate to the United States. Also included are a small number of photographs which include depictions of Oscar’s mother Irma Reiss prior to the Holocaust, and Oscar in his U.S. Army uniform.

  5. Rachel Garfunkel papers

    Collection consisting of a group of clippings of reviews of the book "And the Sun Kept Shining," a manuscript, a script of a play, correspondence, and two memoirs.

  6. "Ash Camp" photograph album

    The Ash Camp photograph album is a leather bound photograph album, black with embossed horses, which includes 326 mounted and labeled photographs. The photograph album's owner is unknown but includes photographs of the Gabe family, the Saul family, the Jake family, and the Elais family. In addition to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely a camp for Jewish refugees in Shanghai in 1945, and the distribution of food delivered by parachutes by “Yanks.”

  7. 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...

  8. U.S. soldiers in Germany; ruins; mass grave; leisure activities

    Picture is extremely dark and it is difficult to make out what it is - could be piles of bodies at a camp near a barbed wire fence or some kind of military encampment. Interior of a trailer with a personal effects (gloves, photograph of a woman hanging by the window, books, pistol and holster) possibly belonging to a SS officer (1945). Outside, soldiers unload a truck in Rippig, Germany with framed art, furniture, and other items. A steam shovel is used to clean debris from wrecked homes in an effort to clear the streets in bombed Frankfurt in 1945. There is a very quick incongruous split-s...

  9. 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.

  10. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Consular Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (FO 369)

    Contains general correspondence from the Consular Department of the Foreign Office relating to restitution to victims of Nazi persecution and immigration of British Jews to Israel, 1949.

  11. Ágnes Grünwald collection

    Consists of color copies of report cards, a Swiss protective pass (Schutzpass), handwritten poems, postcards, letters, and photographs. The collection was created and owned by Ágnes Grünwald, who was sixteen years old when she was deported from Budapest in October 1944. The postcards, poems, and letters were sent from a forced march. Grünwald perished in a concentration camp (likely Bergen-Belsen).

  12. Sándor Eppler collection

    Consists of photocopies of letters and telegrams of condolence received by members of the Eppler family after the death of Sándor Eppler in 1942. The collection also contains photocopies of eulogies and newspaper clippings. Sándor Eppler was the General Secretary of the Hungarian Jewish community, and represented the community at the Evian Conference in 1938.

  13. Mass surrender at Chemnitz; liberated POWs and DPs; Germans move out of Czechoslovakia; bomb damage

    Men overlook a factory. German prisoners walking on road, surrendering (part of the mass surrender of the German army around Chemnitz). One walks barefoot. Wrecked German vehicle. CU, U.S. 9th armored soldier, patch on shoulder. German in cockpit of plane as he puts his hands up. American officer frisks him. MPs take him away. German aircraft is towed with truck. German aircraft lands on American-held airfield. Long line of German trucks bring in surrendering army. German officer rides horse, surrendering, civilians on street. Men with horse-drawn vehicles come in for surrender. Men follow ...

  14. Barbara Garfinkel Goldlust collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, photographs, and postcards illustrating the Garfinkel family's efforts to sponsor Juda Cichowicz, who was living in Poland. Includes correspondence from her maternal relatives in Nazi-occupied Poland.

  15. Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection

    The Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection consists of identification documents, photographs, naturalization documents, financial documents, and a childhood memoir relating to the experiences of Ruth Haas Sadovnik who was sent from Berlin, Germany to England on a KThe Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection consists of identification documents, photographs, naturalization documents, financial documents, and a childhood memoir entitled “Twice a Refugee” relating to the experiences of Ruth Haas Sadovnik who was sent from Berlin, Germany to England on a Kindertransport on July 3, 1939. The childhood memoir was w...

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. Anti-Jewish sign on a streetcar in Belgrade

    Busy street scene in Belgrade. Buildings, piles of rubble, horse-drawn carts and cars. 00:49:42 A streetcar passes by with a sign that reads "Fuer Juden Verboten" [Jews forbidden]. Two men cross the street. Panning shot of the city, including smokestacks and a river (either the Danube or the Sava).