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  1. Baran family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of the Baran family in pre-war Vilna, Poland; Nancy, France; hiding near Vilna; and after the war in Łódź, Paris, and Israel during the years 1929-1950.

  2. Colette Flake-Bunz collection

    Consists of a photograph of Colette Flake-Bunz, originally of France, which was taken after liberation when she was 15. Also includes a wartime photograph of Marie-Therese Maunier with her daughter, Genevieve Maunier-Valentini, and a wartime copyprint of Henri and Simone Voisin with Henry's mother, Albertine Voisin. The Maunier and Voisin families hid Colette Flake-Bunz during the war, saving her life.

  3. British counter-propaganda short

    Cartoon titles: Official Films Presents... "Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk. Animated by the Gestapo Hep-Cats" Produced by Leslie Winik. Counter-propaganda film made to mock the Nazis by reversing and repeating newsreel shots of Adolf Hitler saluting and his troops goose-stepping from "Triumph of the Will" to create the illusion that Hitler and his gang were dancing to the popular British tune of the day, "The Lambeth Walk." Uses reverse, stop motion, and jump cuts. Footage reproduced in rhythmic sequnces by an optical printer. Adds appropriate slide whistle and Bronx cheer sound effe...

  4. "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials"

    Consists of a bound copy of the "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials", published in London in 1945. The book has a handwritten inscription from Justice Jackson to Sidney S. Alderman, who served as a prosecutor at Nuremberg. The book includes some of Alderman's handwritten notes, annotations, and underlining in the text.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Jewish Refugee Alliance in Switzerland / Union of Jewish Refugees in Switzerland Jüdischer Flüchtlingsverband in der Schweiz / Union Jüdischer Flüchtlinge in der Schweiz

    The collection pertains to the activities of the Jewish Refugee Alliance in Switzerland / Union of Jewish Refugees in Switzerland during the immediate postwar period, 1945-1948.

  8. Eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust period collection (RG-104)

    Contains the Holocaust survivors testimonials and eyewitness accounts relating to ghettos, labor and internment camps, Jews on the Aryan side and in hiding, Jewish partisans and underground fighters from many places in Europe under Nazi occupation between 1939 and 1945. The collection contains testimonies of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research collection, RG-104, series I and III. Series I includes approximately 1,900 separate testimonies from the Displaced Person camps in Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland and other countries collected by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland after th...

  9. Records of the Hauptamt Wissenschaft- series Kennkarten, Police Identification Cards assigned to German Jews (RG 222)

    Contains 4689 administrative duplicates of police identification cards, called Kennkarten, issued to German Jews in the period c. 1939 – c. 1942 from several municipalities in Germany, including substantial numbers of cards from Mainz (Stadt & Land), Frankfurt A.M., Geissen, Darmstadt (Stadt & Land) and Worms.

  10. The Peoples' Court in Linz (court cases with a verdict and court cases without a verdict) Volksgericht Linz (Verfahren mit Urteil and Verfahren ohne Urteil)

    Contains 322 post-war trials of defendants accused of Nazi war crimes. The trials took place in the Volksgericht Linz (People's Court in Linz), Austria from 1946 to 1955. These cases mostly relate to Jewish victims. Includes cases from Salzburg over which the Volksgericht Linz also had jurisdiction.

  11. The archives of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai

    Contains administrative and personal files created by the Central Information Bureau for Jewish War Sufferers in the Far East, and the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Aid Society of the Jews in Germany). The administrative files include correspondence from the Central Information Bureau for Jewish War Sufferers in the Far East with Jewish communities and international Jewish and non-Jewish aid and migration organizations in various parts of the world, including New Zealand, Italy, China, Switzerland, Germany and Nazi-annexed Austria, Australia, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Poland, sever...

  12. 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.

  13. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence (FO 195)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy and Consulate in Turkey relating to asylum for Jews and persecution of Jews, 1944.

  14. Selected records from the Foreign Office and predecessor: Embassy, Consulate and Legation, Denmark: General Correspondence (FO 211)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Embassy, Consulate, and Legation in Denmark relating to the political situation in Iceland and Denmark, war graves, and the influence of German propaganda in Denmark.

  15. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Beirut, Lebanon (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence and Letter Books (FO 226)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulate in Beirut relating to Arab responses to Jews in Palestine, Arab investigations into Jewish smuggling of arms into region, Jewish immigration, and demonstrations and protests against Jews in Palestine.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. Literary archives of poet Riva Naumovna Balyasnaya

    Contains selected records related to Riva Balyasnaya, Jewish Soviet poet. Incudes copies of her personal papers, poems, a biography, and critical reviews of her poetry. Includes also materials of criminal investigated case related to Balyasnaya‘s poetry; an interrogation in 1952; a review of her poetry by three philologists that indicates her ”anti-Soviet activity”; a statement from the hospital about her mental condition in 1954; and related materials. Riva Balyasnaya's poetry includes poems written during WWII and dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and to Jewish resistance.

  19. Leo Cohn collection

    Consists of digitized scans of documents, handwritten music, letters, postcards, photographs, and published material related to the Holocaust experiences of Leo Cohn. Mr. Cohn was born in Luebeck in 1913 and was a member of the French Jewish underground movement through the Jewish scouts. He was murdered in December 1944.

  20. Charles Jordan case (ÚDV-76/VvK-95). Investigation of Charles Jordan's death by the Office of the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism (ÚDV)

    Consists of the records of the investigation of the death of Charles Jordan, the executive vice-chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who was found drowned in Prague’s Vltava River on August 20, 1967.