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  1. United States Army Signal Corps photographs

    Collection consists of 36 U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs from multiple concentration camps including Buchenwald and Ohrdruf.

  2. Golda Szajniak registration form

    Consists of one document registering Golda Szajniak, born December 30, 1926 in Eichstädt, at her local police station. The document, which is undated, identifies her as Jewish, includes her fingerprint, and is stamped with a Third Reich police and SS stamp.

  3. Eugene Bartenstein collection

    Consists of documents obtained by Eugene Bartenstein while in Germany in 1945 as a member of the United States Army. Includes instructions for "Führerpost," a German mother's certificate, a certificate from Hitler congratulating a couple on their fiftieth anniversary, and correspondence between the mayor of Salzburg and officials in Berlin regarding additional funds to repair the city after the 1944 bombings.

  4. Barbara Lindenbaum Brotman collection

    Consists of documents and four photographs related to the Lindenbaum family, originally of Siedlec, Poland. Includes photographs of Dora Lindenbaum, who passed away in the Siedlac ghetto, of Genia Lindenbaum, who disappeared with her husband and child from Mezrich, Poland, of Adolf Lindenbaum, who disappeared with his wife from Lublin, Poland, and of Victor Lindenbaum and Hersh Grynberg. Also includes wartime and pre-war correspondence and documents from the family.

  5. Joseph Chervin collection

    Consists of six photographs (three images with enlarged duplicates) taken upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The photographs depict piles of corpses. Also includes one handwritten letter, dated August 13, 1945, from PFC Joseph Chervin of Cleveland Heights, OH, to his parents, enclosing the enlargements of the photographs as well as the original envelope in which he sent the letter and the photographs.

  6. Naming of Second Croat Division

    Consists of the document officially commissioning and naming the Second Croat Division of the Waffen SS, a mountain division given the honorary title of "Kama." The document is dated May 28, 1944 and is signed by both Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. The official title of the division was 23. WaffenGeb.Div. der SS "Kama" (kroatische Nr. 2) and the division consisted mainly of Croatian Muslims. Also contains a copy of a photograph of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem reviewing an SS division.

  7. Gina Kaeser papers

    Papers consist of documents, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Heinrich and Gustava Skovronsky [donor's parents] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Some of the photographs were saved by Gustava while in the concentration camps by keeping them wrapped up in her hair with a comb.

  8. Memoirs of Abram Tseitlin

    The collection contains the printed memoirs (Memories) of Abram Tseitlin, written in 1990. The work predominantly spans the period 1941-1944 of Second World War. There are six chapters including: Chapter 1, "War"; Chapter 2 , "Evacuation"; Chapter 3, "Kerminye"; Chapter 4, "School", Chapter 5, "Misfortunes of War"; and Chapter 6, "I ask."

  9. Selected records from the Beauftragter für den Vierjahresplan/Zentrale (R 26 I)

    Contains records pertaining to measures concerning the Jewish question, results of the 4-year plan, report of the department Hauptverbandstelle Ost, confiscation and expropriation issues, construction and organization of the Lódź Getto, supply of fuel to Auschwitz, the Transdanubia report about the status of Jewish trade in Hungary, report of the arbeitswissenschafltiche Institut der DAF, amnesty petition for Ernst Starkenberg, manuscripts about the national revolution in Romania, report about the situation in Poland and the Jewish population of Łódź and Warsaw, and a report by Dr. Scha...

  10. Arie and Rina Singer photograph collection

    Collection of 29 photographic images relating to experiences of Arie and Rina Singer and their families during the before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. "Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945" map

    Consists of a copy of a map entitled "Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie na Ziemiach Polski w Latach 1939-45" ("Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945) created by the Pań́stwowe Przedsiȩbiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficzynch in 1968. The map, which was copied from the collection of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is a map of Poland depicting hundreds of concentration camps and showing the size of their prisoner populations.

  12. William Lush collection

    Collection consists of a German passport (Reisepass) issued to Paul Steinharter on January 13, 1937 includes visas from Belgium and England and an immigration visa from the United States. The passport issued to Lea Steinharter includes visas issued for Spain and Portugal and an immigration visa from the United States. Documents inserted into her passport include a Declaration of Intention for U.S. citizenship, receipt issued on board the SS Exeter on August 13, 1941, and a note and letter to Paul from Clara Lussheimer in Chicago dated June 4, 1951; in German.

  13. Ruth M. Grill photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Ruth Rubenstein (later Ruth Grill) and her family, originally of Königsberg, Germany. Includes pre-war photographs of Ruth's father, Heinz Rubenstein, and his staff at a Jewish hospital in Berlin, and a postwar photograph of Ruth en route to the United States aboard the MS Nieuw Amsterdam in 1948.

  14. Mordechai and Chaya Adler collection

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, in English, written by Chaya Konig Adler, originally of Lubaczow, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her family's experiences in Lubaczow and Zlotchov in the early years of the war, her experiences posing as a Polish girl in Warsaw and the constant threat of being discovered. After the war ended, she reunited with her surviving siblings and married Mordechai Adler. Also includes a copy of a diary and calendar (a luach) written by Mordechai Adler regarding his wartime experiences.

  15. Commemoration material

    Consists of one postal commemoration envelope with stamp honoring the victims of the Shoah and the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II; first day issue of May 9, 2005.

  16. Oral history interview with Daniel Hassan

  17. Heldentum in Guers

    Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "Heldentum in Guers" (Heroism in Gurs), written by Dr. Ludwig Mann. In the memoir, Dr. Mann, who worked as an inmate doctor, relates his memories of "heroes" he encountered in the Gurs camp--people who cared for the sick or who volunteered to replace others on transports. The memoir is undated, but was written sometime before Dr. Mann's death in 1947.

  18. "Report on the Jewish Refugee Community in Shanghai"

    Consists of one report, 23 pages, entitled, "Report on the Jewish Refugee Community in Shanghai", written by William Schurtman for a Sociology class in 1954. Mr. Schurtman, a refugee who lived in Shanghai from 1938-1947, describes the political, social, and history of the Shanghai Jewish community as well as some of his own experiences.

  19. German women involved in war effort; woman wearing Mother's Cross greets her son; German army in France; Warsaw Uprising; action on the Eastern Front

    Cameramen listed on screen: Ammer, Berna, Garms, Grigoleit, Groeninger, Jaeckisch, Kilian, Lempert, Mahla, Pahl, Ritter, Selbach, Stollsteimer, Zeiss. Close up on an announcement requiring both women and men to register with the employment office. Women in an office page through piles of registrations while the narrator says that women must now enroll in the total war effort. Women must fill positions so that men can be free to go to the front. Shots of women operating drill presses, working in an armaments factory, and being trained as streetcar conductors. Women serving in the police and ...

  20. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 2: Triumph of the Will excerpts; rearmament; Nuremberg Laws

    Reel 2 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Nighttime rally. Ernst Roehm (?) speaks at a podium. SA members sing. Hitler, Goebbels, and Baldur von Schirach at a huge gathering of Hitler Youth. Young boys play drums, wave at Hitler. Von Schirach introduces Hitler, who makes a speech. Only part of the speech is translated. Title: Sixth Party Congress presented in excerpts from the official German film "Triumph of the Will" 4 - 10 September 1934. Excerpts from speeches of Hess, Rosenberg, Dietrich, Streicher, Ley, Frank, Goebbe...