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  1. Print 6, Szron, trees in a hoarfrost

    Print 6 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  2. Edith Cord collection

    Contains material documenting the experiences of the Mayer family while in French concentration camps and in hiding under false names. Contains a letter from the Rivesaltes concentration camp from father to wife and children (8/25/42) just prior to deportation; the last postcard from a father sent prior to deportation to Germany (9/3/42); the last postcard sent from donor's brother Kurt to mother and Edith (8/23/42), Bram, France; two envelopes, one from donor's father sent from Camp de Rivesaltes, and second addressed to donor from Red Cross postmarked January 19, 1945; French residence pe...

  3. Selected records from the Gesandtschaft Rio de Janeiro

    Contains records from the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives) located in Vienna, Austria, pertaining to the Austrian Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Most of the records are NSDAP files relating to persons, organizations, and institutions in South America with Nazi associations or connections. Also includes information on anti-Austrian and anti-Nazi activities abroad, the Vaterländische Front, propaganda, and expulsions.

  4. Portfolio cover

    Portfolio cover for book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  5. Humorous Hitler postcard

    Consists of one postcard depiciting a cartoon Hitler painting an outhouse with a copy of "Mein Kampf" hanging inside the doorframe. The postcard is entitled "The House Painter." The postcard was sent from Pvt. F. Coleman at Fort Sill, OK, on May 24, 1943, to Mr. Francis Gowen in Concord, NH. In the postcard, Pvt. Coleman writes that he hopes that the picture on the postcard were true.

  6. Ernestina Ancel collection

    Collection consists of seven photographs relating to the Huttmann family in Gura Humora, Romania, and their experiences in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  7. Ellen Echeverria photograph collection

    Consists of photographs of Elke Plech (Elke Bozena, now Ellen Echeverria), a hidden child, with Janina Wysocka, the Polish woman who hid her during the Holocaust.

  8. Occupation of the Ruhr by the French

    French troops occupy the Ruhr area. A scene shot from a window shows a large crowd on the street and French troops on horseback. Shot of a French tank. A title reads: "Germany's most important economic region is harrassed by heavily armed negroes." An image of a French African troop is superimposed over scenes from the Ruhr. A crowd of unemployed Germans in the street.

  9. The office of the region of Silesia in Katowice Urząd wojewódzki śląski w Katowicach (Sygn. 27)

    Contains files of the Office of the Region of Silesia in Katowice. There were 14 departments within this office. Almost all the files selected for microfilming are from one department: Dept. IV., Social and Political Department.

  10. Nazi banner with a black swastika within a white circle

    Nazi flag recovered from the stadium at Nuremburg, Germany in the spring of 1945 by Glen Hatch, a soldier in the United States Army. Hatch also was with one of the US Army units that liberated Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.

  11. Military Historical collections Militaergeschichtliche Sammlungen

    Contains mainly personal papers, correspondence, diaries, and similar materials written by German officers and soldiers during World War II.

  12. Lizou Fenyvesi collection

    Collection consists of documents sent to donor's mother regarding the fate of her first husband, Maximilien Reiter; the documents, dated 1947, state that he had been interned in Drancy, and from there deported to Majdanek on March 6, 1943. He "disappeared" and is presumed not to have survived. Includes a photographic image of Maximilien Reiter, dated September 1934.

  13. Memoirs Wspomnienia

    The collection contains several hundred of memoirs, testimonies and diaries of former prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, collected over several decades after World War II. This collection provides personal insights into the experiences of prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The collection is open, memoirs and testimonies are still being collected.

  14. Records of the Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt, Ghettoverwaltung Records of the Łódź City Council Ghetto Administration Akta Miasta Łodzi Zarząd Miejski. Wydział do Spraw Getta (Sygn. 221)

    This collection contains records of the Ghettoverwaltung, a department of the Germans' administration of the city of Łódź. Included are documents of over 120 enterprises operating in the ghetto; ghetto police reports; information on Jews being brought from Western Europe; and information about deportations to labor and death camps.

  15. Kurt and Helen Rosendahl collection

    Collection consists of four photographs, one 2 RM note from the Buchenwald SS commisary, three documents declaring K. Rosendahl a former political prisoner (from the Amicale of Buchenwald, the National Federation of World War II political prisoners, and from the Brussels Minister of the Reconstruction), two photocopies of identifying documentation, one article by Kurt Rosendahl entitled "Buchenwald Revisited (2 pages), and one exhibition brochure for "The Overlooked Holocaust: The Devastation of the Sephardic Communities," which ran from 11/16/92-6/24/93 at the Holocaust Resource Center and...

  16. Buchenwald liberation photograph

    Consists of one photograph, almost certainly of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, of two piles of corpses.

  17. Eva Hamlet photographs

    Consists of two photographs from the collection of Eva Riese Hamlet, originally of Magdeburg, Germany. One photograph shows Eva holding a Schultuete filled with candies on her first day of school in 1930, and one photograph of Eva with her parents in 1939 before she left on a Kindertransport to England.

  18. National Socialist Lawyer's Association, Reich Law Department Selected records of the the Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund, Reichsrechtsamt (NS 16)

    The records contain documentation of the accumulation, budget and bookkeeping of the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Juristen (BNSDJ) / Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund (NSRB), personnel files and records of the education and career advancement of members of the BNSDJ / NSRB, and files from the Reichsrechtsamt and several district-bureaus of the BNSDJ / NSRB, primarily personnel files.

  19. Torah

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35054
    • English
    • 1932
    • Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) overall: Height: 135.380 inches (343.865 cm) | Width: 4.620 inches (11.735 cm)

    Miniature Torah preserved by Johanna Baruch Boas while living in hiding in Brussels, Belgium. The Torah belonged to her husband, Bernhard, and was possibly used while traveling. Bernhard died in Berlin in 1932. Johanna carried it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939, with her daughter’s family. The Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940 and enacted punitive anti-Jewish legislation. Soon they were deporting Jews to concentration camps. Johanna buried the yarmulke and other religious items to keep them safe during the occupation. Johanna survived with the help of her n...

  20. Mayer family correspondence

    The Mayer family correspondence consists of sixteen letters from Babette Mayer and Paula Hein in Bollendorf and Wolfenbüttel; Moritz Mayer in Liège; and Berta Lazard in Differdingen, Avallon, and Verteuil to their family members in the United States. The letters describe conditions in Germany, Belgium, and France and ask for emigration help.