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  1. Judith Hanlon papers

    Papers consist of identification papers, correspondence, photographs, and a passenger list documenting the experiences of Hans, Elise and Herbert Stein and Moritz and Karoline Stein during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The papers inlude correspondence written by Hans Stein while imprisioned in Dachau concentration camp after his arrest on Kristallnacht and information pertaining to the family's immigration from Vienna.

  2. Main Administration of Berlin Selected records from the collection "Hauptfinanzverwaltung" (A Rep. 005-03-020)

    Contains copies of some of the volumes of annually published financial reports and/or annual financial plans about subjects including business construction and health care from 1933 to 1943, produced by the Hauptverwaltung Berlin (Main Administration of Berlin). Also includes recommendations concerning the elimination of Jewish, Marxist, and pacifist books from the public library of Berlin (1933).

  3. Exhumation of corpses at a mental hospital in Vinnitsa

    Exterior shots of a mental hospital in Vinnitsa, Ukraine where a Soviet team conducts an investigation into killings at the institution. A man points out the location of mass graves where the executed patients were buried. Two men carry a corpse on a stretcher to a table, where a woman in a white coat prepares to examine it.

  4. Berkowicz family papers

    The collection contains correspondence documenting the Berkowicz family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Included is correspondence to Bina Tac Berkowicz after her immigration to the United States from her sister Faiga Tac Bursztyn in the Warsaw ghetto; letters from family members in Slonim, Belarus; correspondence from Bernard Berkowicz’s brothers who were refugees in New Zealand; and letters enquiring about the whereabouts of various family members. Also included is the passenger list of the M.S. Piłsudski, the ship Bina, Bernard, and their daughter Barbara sailed on from Poland to the...

  5. Elisheva Schelaznicky papers

    Contins a false identification card issued for "Sonja Seegers" and used by Betty Beek (donor's couson) who died in Bergen-Belsen of typhus on March 15, 1945; issued in Haarlem, The Netherlands; dated September 15, 1941.

  6. Students in the Jewish Autonomous Region

    Scenes from Rusanov, in the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). Students sit at drafting tables in a classroom. Another classroom where a teacher demonstrates a small telescope (?) for students. Close-up of students in the class and the teacher at a chalkboard. A class of students out of doors, learning how to survey the land. The intertitles indicate that these students come from all parts of the world, including New York and Vilna.

  7. Elias Mermelstein papers

    Contains photographs and documents illustrating post-war experience of Elias Mermelstein (donor). Includes an immediate post-war portrait image of Elias wearing his concentration camp uniform; a later portrait of him appearing much healthier; and document issued by UNRRA stating donor was living in Eggenfeld-Pfarrkirchen in Germany from December 1945-February 1946.

  8. Hermann Göring-Werke/Vöest

    Contains records pertaining to the Hermann Göring ironworks founded in 1938. Collection includes internal reports with information on forced labor and letter correspondence between Reichsmarschall Göring and Generaldirektor Pleiger.

  9. Dachau crematorium and museum

    EXT, Dachau camp. Sign displayed in front of Dachau's first crematorium, "This area is being retained as a shrine to the 238,000 individuals who were cremated here. Please don't destroy." Slow pan of camp buildings and large white cross marking the old gallows stand. INT, crematorium, ovens (overexposed). MS, sign in four languages: "Old Gallows Stand." EXT, Barrack X with crematorium and gas chamber. MS, wood platform, cross, coffin on gallows stand. INT, exhibition in the crematorium-gas chamber building (Barrack X) with life-size mannequins dressed in prisoner uniforms demonstrating tort...

  10. Diana Siedner collection

    Black and white photograph attached to card of two women and a man seated, two boys standing behind them, a child standing to the right and a baby seated on the left. Verso, black ink inscription; dated 1929; Lyoboml, Ukraine, Poland. Pictured is donor's aunt.

  11. "A Testament of the Survivors, A Memorial to the Dead: The collection of Gross-Breesen Letters and Related Material"

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing three volumes (consisting of a total of 1537 typed pages) entitled "A Testament of the Survivors, A Memorial to the Dead: The Collection of Gross-Breesen Letters and Related Material." The volumes consist of correspondence, photographs, and documentation related to the Gross-Breesen institution, a training farm for Jewish youth founded in May 1936 by Professor Dr. Curt Bondy, and the pre-war, wartime, and post-war lives of those who lived in Gross-Breesen. The volumes were created for the 70th anniversary of the founding of Gross-Breesen.

  12. Birkenau liberation photographs

    Consists of eleven photographs taken upon the discovery and liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The photographs were taken by a member of the advance guard of the Eastern Polish Corps, which traveled with the Soviet army, and depict the abandoned camp, camp structures, and corpses of inmates who had not been evacuated.

  13. Memoirs of Lyubov Tartakover about her husband Shulem-Yankel Leibovich, Holocaust survivor

    The collection contains the memoir "Gray Shaking Shadows", hand-written by Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's wife, Lubov Tartakover. The memoir covers Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's time in a series of camps from 1944 to1945, deportation to Birkenau -Auschwitz, his experiences in Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen and other concentration camps, liberation and repatriation. Also includes one photograph and three drawings.

  14. Konrad Bieber collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, clippings, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences of Konrad Bieber. Includes information about his parents, Hugo and Lucy Bieber, who escaped France with emergency visas in 1940, and information regarding Konrad Bieber's wartime experiences. He was imprisoned in Montreuil-Bellay, France in 1940, escaped on Yom Kippur and worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Montauban, France from 1940-1942. In 1942, he went into hiding and remained in hiding, working for the French Resistance, until liberation in 1944. After the war,...

  15. Oral history interview with Malveena Rosengarten

  16. "The Clan of the Komonyies: The Descendants of Marton Lebovics, 1787-2000"

    Consists of a family history entitled "The Clan of the Komonyies: The Descendants of Marton Lebovics, 1787-2000" and a family tree tracing the family from 1787-2000. Written by Michael Shanyi, originally of Nagydobrony, Hungary, the history describes the family's pre-war experiences in Hungary and post-war lives in Israel, the United States, France and Ukraine. Many members of the family perished during the Holocaust.

  17. Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers

    The Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and personal narratives documenting Lisette and Benno Soep’s marriage, Benno’s imprisonment and death at Mauthausen, Lisette’s imprisonment at Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, and her immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs stamped "International News Photos” taken in Nazi Germany depicting Hitler and senior members of his staff, Kristallnacht, book burnings, firing squads, and hangings in the forest near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Biographical materials include...

  18. Grünaü family papers

    The Grünaü family papers consists of passports, marraige certificates, and birth certificates pertaining to the Grünaü family in Germany during World War II, issued November 1938-September 1940.

  19. Catalog

    Collection consists of a booklet, Zidovi, the catalog from an antisemitic exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia. The cover has image of a man with sword and shield battling a snake. Dates for exhibit,"1.V.1942-1.VI.1942." Black and white illustrations and text.

  20. Duquesne spy case; enemy agents in the US; Private Snafu cartoon

    Title on screen: Duquesne Case: Secret. The word "Secret" has been crossed out. Grainy footage, shot clandestinely, shows a New York City street and the interior of an office. Hoover's narration tells of Harry Sawyer [pseudonym for William Sebold], a naturalized German citizen who became a double-agent after he was approached by the Gestapo (in reality the Abwehr) in 1939. The footage shows Duquesne entering Sawyer's office. Spies talk with Sawyer and give him money and the blueprints to the ship SS America. Duquesne, "the most cautious of them all," looks around the room before removing di...