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  1. Selected records pertaining to Jews in Albania

    Contains excerpts from many files of the Albanian Central Archive collections. The contents are records about Jews in Albania before, during and after the Second World War. Some of the varied topics are: taxation of Jews vs. non-Jews; information on the Jewish community in various localities; governmental decisions regarding Jews; Jews in trade and commerce; demographic and census statistics; petitions made by Jews and resulting decisions; name lists of foreign citizens resident in Albania, including Jews holding foreign citizenship; correspondence with James McDonald of League of Nations c...

  2. Synagogue destroyed by French fascists with the help of the SS

    French police stand in front of a bombed synagogue. CU shots of the destruction, exterior and interior. Panning shots including the Hebrew script over the door. According to the Bundesarchiv, in the night of 2-3 October, 1941, six out the seven synagogues in Paris were bombed by the French fascist Parti Populaire Francais. The attacks were carried out under the initiative and with the support of the SD, which provided the explosives.

  3. Irma Morgenstern Grundland collection

    Contains an identity card, documents, and photographs concerning Irma Grundland's postwar life in Poland.

  4. Selected records from the Ordnungspolizei

    Records pertaining to the Ordnungspolizei, including organization and daily administration of the Ordnungspolizei, expulsion of Jews, expropriation of Jewish property and assets, the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna at the Hotel Metropol, treatment of homosexuals, and personnel matters (such as promotions to SS).

  5. Zitta Christiansen Stubstad collection

    Collection consists of photographs and a document pertaining to Zitta Christiansen Stubstad and her mother in Copenhagen during the war. Permit issued to Zitta Christiansen, donor's mother, which enabled her to go to work at the telelphone exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark; dated September 15, 1943. Also includes two photographs of the telephone exchange in Copenhagen circa 1943 and one photograph of Zitta and her friend in pre-school, which was bombed by the British AF in March 21, 1945 by mistake.

  6. "Fifth Infantry Division Diamond Dust" newspaper

    Consists of the May 25, 1945, issue of the United States Army's Fifth Infantry Division newspaper "Diamond Dust." The issue includes the articles "5th Unearths Another SS Brutality" and the reprint of a letter written by survivor Gerda Weisman (now Gerda Weissmann Klein).

  7. Henry J. Kellermann collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and accomplishments of Dr. Henry J. Kellermann, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's pre-war life and schooling, the Gross-Breesen agricultural school for German-Jewish boys, and Dr. Kellermann's involvement in wartime refugee affairs and in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Also includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's post-war career in the United States Foreign Service, where he served in Bern and as the permanent representative to UNESCO, and regarding hi...

  8. Estate of Shmuel Hupert collection

    Collection consists of photographs and a document pertaining to the donor's father, Shmuel Hupert. Includes one false ID card and eight photographs of Shmuel, Mina [donor and donor's wife] as well as images of Aliza, their daughter, post-war Pabianice, Bialystok, Poland and Bergen-Belsen, Germany.

  9. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Velvet tallit pouch buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. A tallit is a prayer shawl worn by Jewish males for prayer services, It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In Dece...

  10. Bozenna Gilbride collection

    Contains one copy of a drawing entitled "Hanging in Szczekow, January 14, 1942," depicting the hanging of twenty Polish men and one Jewish man in Szczekow; the names of the men are included. Also includes a partial list of names of Polish citizens sentenced to death in Auschwitz in 1942; the list includes the name, prisoner number, and birthdate of the victim.

  11. Jewish Union for resistance and mutual aid Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'entr'aide (UJRE)

    This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance fighters before their execution; postwar personal files on Polish Jews requesting aid; files on children in Communist-sponsored orphanages (Comité central de l'enfance); books from lending libr...

  12. Sol and Arlene Sturm collection

    Contains six postcards and two envelopes from letters written to donor's mother, Helen Schreiber, in New York City, from Herman Schreiber and his wife, Netta Horowitz-Schrieber of Stanisławów, Poland, dated 1939-1941.

  13. Selected records from the Bundesarchiv Berlin (NS Splitter)

    This collection contains miscellaneous documents of various provenances. It includes propaganda guidelines, bulletins, circular letters, correspondence, essays by Reich Minister Goebbels in Das Reich, several announcements and letters by propaganda officials in Bayreuth, and a list of the members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene (German Society for Racial Hygiene).

  14. Illuminated manuscript presented to Adolf Hitler from Hinrich Lohse, Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein

    Consists of one illuminated, calligraphic, manuscript, bound in brown leather, presented to Adolf Hitler from Hinrich Lohse, the Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein, on January 30, 1943 in Kiel. The manuscript was presented on the occasion of the ten year anniversary of Hitler's assumption of power. The letters are penned by Professor Th. Riebicke of Kiel, and are red, yellow, and blue. The leather binding of the book has a gold eagle, and the book itself is preserved in a brown leather box.

  15. Joseph Zeller photographs

    Contains six black and white photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Joseph Zeller, originally of Czerneardova, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine). Includes a photograph of a United Jewish Partisans gathering and two photographs of a sports team.

  16. Trial of the 20th of July plotters against Hitler

    View of the courtroom in the Supreme Court of Berlin, showing the accused sitting in the dock, surrounded by police. Roland Freisler and the other judges enter the room and give a Hitler salute before taking their seats. Freisler calls the name of the accused Hans-Georg Klamroth and Klamroth is brought forward. Freisler berates Klamroth for knowing about the plot and doing nothing to prevent it. Hans-Bernd von Haeften is brought before Freisler. After confirming his position in the political department of the Foreign Office, he says that he no longer felt bound by his oath to Hitler, and th...

  17. Kurth Wertheimer postcard

    One original postcard written by donor's grandparents to Kurth Wertheimer (aka Raanan Galilee) while he was recuperating in a hospital.

  18. Charles Peter Heimann collection

    Consists of 14 photographs taken upon the liberation of an unknown concentration camp in the spring of 1945. The photographs, which depict corpses lined in rows, were either taken or acquired by Charles Peter Heimann, a member of the United States Army. Also includes the envelope in which they were held.

  19. Misha Avramoff and Adele Brechner collection

    Contains 12 photographs pertaining to the lives of Menashe Avramoff and his sister, Adele Brechner, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Menashe and his mother left Sofia for Ruse during World War II, where his mother's family lived. Adele was born there in December 1944. Photos depict prewar and war years including forced labor of father.

  20. Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp

    Cigarette lighter fabricated by Laszlo Weisz while he was imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Russia. He was a master watchmaker and bartered his services to obtain provisions while in the camps. Weisz was 29 years old and living with his wife and 5 year old son, Peter, in his hometown of Kunszentmarton, Hungary, when he was conscripted into a forced labor battalion in June of 1942. He was transferred to several labor units in Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union. At the end of the war in late 1944-1945, he was in a labor camp in Dnepropetrovsk in the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary ...