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  1. Army broadcast regarding the liberation of Dachau

    Narrator introduces himself as Jack Parker, with the Seventh Army in Germany and describes the “Dachau death camp” which he had entered the previous Monday, April 30th. Parker is a correspondent for some American radio network but does not name which one. Parker and his colleagues had been in Munich, where there was still fighting, and was on his way back to their “press camp” when they got word that Dachau had been liberated. He describes in some detail as he and four other correspondents approached and then entered the camp: the death train (Parker describes it as well as the journey from...

  2. Chef der zivilverwaltung beim oberbefehlshaber im militaebezirk Posen Szef zarządu cywilnego przy dowódcy okregu wojskowego w Poznaniu, Sygn. 298

    The collection contains orders of occupation authorities, reports of the office activities and activity of the subordinated administration (Landrats) and police units, official reports of the meeting with military officials.

  3. "Against the Odds"

    Consists of one memoir, 79 pages, entitled "Against the Odds," written in 1998 by Greta Grossman Lake, originally of Mikulov (Nikolsburg), Czechoslovakia. She describes her childhood in Mikulov, her family life, her memories of World War I, and her marriage in 1932 to George Lakenbacher. Despite difficulty, the couple, who were converted Catholics, along with Greta's brother Joe and his family, were able to immigrate to France in 1938. In 1942, after the first waves of arrests in the Langeac area, George escaped to Spain, but was arrested across the border and interned at the Miranda del Eb...

  4. Cheryl Mordfin collection

    Collection consists of a record book containing the meeting minutes of the Zduńska Wola Relief Organization; written and kept by Anna Katzowsky, donor's grandmother, who was recording secretary. Also includes a blank postcard sent out for meeting notifications inserted inside front cover; dated 1940-1957, in Chicago, Illinois. Anna Waksman Katzowsky immigrated to the U.S. from Zduńska Wola, Poland in the 1920s. She and others would meet regularly to collect money to send along with packages to family and friends still living in Zdunska Wola during WWII and after liberation when some had mov...

  5. "My Memories from the War"

    Consists of one memoir written in May 1996, 4 pages, entitled "My Memories from the War," by Claire Holand, originally of Pabianice, Poland. In her memoir, Mrs. Holand, the only survivor of her immediate family, writes about her experiences in pre-war Poland, her deportation to Auschwitz and life in a forced labor factory in Neukolln, Germany, where she worked between 1942 and liberation in April 1945.

  7. Thomas Lugosi collection

    Collection consists of two photographs, one of Thomas Lugosi with a friend and one of Lugosi with his father.

  8. Selected records of the police of the region of Silesia Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Sygn. 38/0)

    The collection contains selected records from the files produced by the Head Command of the Police of Region of Silesia and some of the County Police Commands. They cover the following matters: orders and resolutions of the superior authorities, situation reports, searches, inquiries and arrests of the delinquents, information about the social and political events, especially relating to the German minorities and communist movement, and information about the political parties and associations.

  9. Jacob Igra photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs seemingly taken by a SD-SIPO (Sicherheitspolizei) German soldier in Sosnowiec, Poland. The photographs show German soldiers interrogating and arresting Polish citizens, and possibly include photographs of the "Wehrfaehige," people who were capable of carrying arms who were interned during and after the Polish campaign as a security measure. The photographs were found after the war by Jacob Igra in an apartment in Sosnowiec.

  10. Gina Bilander collection

    Album of copy prints of donor's father and his twin brother as well as other family members in prewar Łódź, Poland. Donor's father immigrated to the United States in 1936. He was one of nine children in the family. Original photos of Herman Goering taken in 1945 when donor's father was a Private 1st class member of the 253rd Engineering Corp under General Patton during WWII. Their platoon guarded Herman Goering after his capture in 1945. Photograph of donor's father wearing his army uniform taken in Germany in 1945, signed by donor's father for his wife.

  11. Elizabeth Kardos Langfelder Kux collection

    The collection consists of correspondence and documents related to Elizabeth Kardos Langfelder Kux's restitution claims. The papers include information about Mrs. Kux's Holocaust experiences, including the arrest and death of her first husband, Jakob Langfelder, her own imprisonment in the concentration camps of Sered (Czechoslovakia), Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Bad Kudowa labor camp, Mauthausen, and the Klein-Schönau labor camp. Also includes information about the death of her oldest son, Stephen, who froze to death as a toddler on a transport to Mauthausen, and the birth of her son Charles i...

  12. Szloma Przechacki identity card from Fulda

    Consists of one identity card, dated October 15, 1949, issued to Szloma Przechacki, originally of Zuromin, Poland, identifying him as a member of the Jewish Congregation of Fulda, Germany.

  13. "A Conversation with Hans Fantel"

    Consists of one oral history interview with Hans Fantel, originally of Vienna, Austria, conducted by Rosemary Masters in 2000. In the interview, Mr. Fantel discusses his childhood in Vienn and his discovery, after the Anschluss, that his grandmother was Jewish and he was therefore deemed to have "impure blood." He became a member of the Czech underground and immigrated to the United States, where he married and became an author and journalist. His father, who was Jewish on his mother's side and who had argued against German rearmament, was arrested in 1938 and did not survive the war. After...

  14. Selected records from the State Archives of the Modern History of the Smolensk region, Russian Federation, related to the Nazi occupation, partisan and underground activities, and Jewish life before WWII

    Selected records related to the Nazi occupation of the Smolensk region during WWII such as correspondence files of the regional administration regarding evacuation of civilians; statistical information about population; records (orders) of the partisan detachments active on the occupied territory; a list of partisan detachments; personal records of partisans; Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi Soviet propaganda (posters and flyers); captured German documents (mostly German soldier s letters home); and memoirs of the former partisans and members of the Communist underground written after WWII ( m...

  15. Registration cards of Jewish refugees in Tashkent, Uzbekistan during WWII

    The collection contains 156,000 registration cards of Jewish refugees who arrived in Tashkent and were registered in February 1942. These registration cards list only those who came directly to Tashkent and then went to different localities in Uzbekistan. The card catalogue does not include those who arrived at other localities within the Uzbek Republic as well as significant number of Jews and non-Jews who came to Tashkent after February 1942 - including people joining their family in Uzbekistan from other parts of Soviet Union.

  16. Ernst Frank collection

    Collection consists of four Deutsches Reich Reisepasses issued for Ernst Frank [donor] dated March 6, 1939; his parents Johanna Frank, dated June 26, 1939; and Solomon Frank, dated February 27, 1939; and grandmother Yetta Frank, dated June 26, 1939. Ernst Frank escaped Germany via England with his family and emigrated to the United States in 1939. Included is accompanying red textile passport case.

  18. Chava Edelman collection

    Contains 16 photographs pertaining to the experiences of the Weineirman family in Transnistria between 1941-1944.

  19. Albersheim family papers

    The Albersheim family papers consist of biographical, photographic, and printed materials documenting Walter Albersheim from Billerbeck, Germany before World War II, his photography studios in Barcelona and Amsterdam during the Nazi years, his efforts to avoid deportation during the Holocaust, the liberation of Amsterdam, and Albersheim’s immigration to the United States with his wife and daughter after the war. Biographical materials include birth, registration, marriage, and business records related to Walter Albersheim, a photocopy of his personal narrative in German and an English trans...

  20. 1945 program commemorating the Holocaust

    Consists of a program for a memorial service held on 20 Adar 1945 (March 5, 1945) in Jerusalem at Churvah Synagogue. The service included the reciting of Kaddish, the designation of the week following the 23rd of Adar as a week of mourning for the victims of the Holocaust, asking the community to open their arms to refugees, and the expression of concern for the children who survived the war hiding in Catholic monasteries.