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  1. Harold Pearson liberation photographs

    Consists of 46 photographs, some duplicates, taken by Harold Pearson, a member of the United States Army. The photographs are possibly of the Belsen concentration camp after liberation.

  2. Records of the 8th Gendarmerie District, Kassa, Hungary (MOL Z 936)

    This collection contains records of the confiscation, processing, and distribution of Jewish property in Hungary in 1944. It contains computation sheets, reports, and certificates about valuables taken from individuals who were deported in 1944 from the Trans-Carpathian region, Bereg county and its neighboring places, and from the vicinity of Budapest.

  3. Records of the Jewish Youth Scout Organization "Hanoar Haivri" (Fond 441)

    The collection contains the following types of documents: bylaws, programs, appeals, minutes of the meetings of the Board, correspondence with the Zionist organizations in Poland and worldwide, documents related to the activities of the branches of the organization throughout the Eastern Galicia and Silesia (arranged alphabetically by locality only "M"-"R"), financial activities of the organization and membership information, including various lists of members, representatives to the meetings, questioners. and the like.

  4. Irmgard Weinberg Schwartz collection

    Consists of letters, postcards, and telegrams to Irmgard Weinberg from her parents, Jakob and Helene Wertheimer of Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, Germany. The letters concern the Wertheimers' attempts to emigrate from Germany to join their daughter, Irmgard, in England.

  5. Selected records from National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Finance of the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile in London (JAF 819)

    This collection contains records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Contains records related to deportation of Jews to Terezin, and Poland. Also contains appeals for evacuation, 1942-1945.

  6. Selected files from various collections of the Landesarchiv Berlin

    Contains records relating to Jewish properties and cemeteries, health care, forced labor, discrimination, Jewish children's home, and adoption issues. Also contains personal files, name lists of Jewish people and addresses of Jewish properties, including alphabetical street names register of expropriated Jewish property in Berlin, alphabetical name register of Jewish people whose mortgages on land were sold, correspondence concerning Jewish mortgages and war damages; Jewish marriages; and the Blood Protection Act.

  7. Selected records of the Bezirksamt Tiergarten (A. Rep. 032 - 08)

    Contains records relating to Jewish property: expropriation of Jews; Jewish owners and renters; and sale of Jewish property; medicine: racial biology and eugenics; sterilization of disabled persons; rabbis in local hospitals; expulsion of Jewish doctors; fines for consulting Jewish doctors; list of Jewish hospitals and pharmacies; education on racial biology and genetics for Aryan doctors; statistics concerning eugenics and racial biology; and special files relating to the hospital Moabit; NSDAP propaganda and salaries for war prisoners.

  8. Oral testimony of Dina Oppenheimer "My Story"

  9. Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien - Jerusalemer Bestand Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna-Jerusalem component collection

    Contains the Holocaust related archival records of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community Vienna), including reports, letters, emigration and financial documents, deportation lists, card files, books, photographs, maps, and charts detailing the final years of the once-largest German-speaking Jewish community in Europe. The current part of the collection, microfilm reels 960-1231, contains emigration questionnaires.

  10. Liberation of Prussia, including Insterburg POW camp

    A column of German civilians carrying their belongings flees the Soviet advance. The narrator says that all roads of escape have been blocked. Close-up on a poster advertising the German Volkssturm. Captured German troops and civilians. Close-up of Margarethe Gensler, who the narrator says was a female member of the SS. A woman points out a man who she says used slave labor at his factory. POWs, including French and British soldiers are liberated from the Insterburg (Prussia) POW camp. The men exit through a barbed wire gate and receive cigarettes from Soviet soldiers. Brief close-up of a f...

  11. "Da Fossoli a Mauthausen" translation

    Consists of the English translation of one manuscript, 121 pages, entitled "Da Fossoli a Mauthausen," originally by Don Sante Bartolai (Msgr. Samuel Bartolai), an American-born Roman Catholic priest and survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the memoir, Father Bartolai recalls his arrest and imprisonment in the Modena, Italy, prison in March 1944, his transfer to the Fossoli di Carpi concentration camp, and his experiences in Mauthausen and Ebensee from June 1944 until liberation.

  12. Selected records of the Reichsstudentenführung / Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NS 38)

    Contains selected records of the Reichsstudentenführung / Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund pertaining to the denial of matriculation to Jewish students in Brünn/Czech Republic, non-admission of Polish students, reports of the Jewish derivation of students, and denunciations of various non-Aryan professors.

  13. Regina Löwy Espenshade articles

    Consists of one article, entitled "Zu Besuch in der Alten Heimat: Eine Rückschau auf meinen letzten Besuch im Burgenland (Stadtschlaining, Jabing, Oberwart)" and English translation of the same article, entitled "A Personal Account of my Last Visit to Burgenland (Stadtschlaining, Jabing, Oberwart)", by Regina Löwy Espenshade. The article contains reflections on her family's pre-war and wartime experiences, her genealogical research, and her favorable impressions of efforts in Stadtschlaining to commemorate both the Jewish community and the Holocaust.

  14. Documents related to the righteous gentiles in the former USSR

    The collection includes photocopied letters, envelopes, testimonies, certified statements, photographs, passports, certificates of honor, forms, and applications of Jewish residents of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and the Gentiles who saved them. These documents were collected mostly from 1989 to 1997 by four main organizations: The Jewish Foundation of Christian Rescuers; the Association of Jewish Organizations and the Ukrainian Community; World of the Righteous; and the Societal History Instruction Center on Babi Yar.

  15. Robert Kaldor collection

    Contains an identification card issued to Robert Kaldor by DEGOB National Committee Supporting Returning Deportees, stating that military and civilian authorities should cooperate with the bearer upon his return from Theresienstadt; issued July 2, 1945, in Budapest, Hungary. Also includes a birth certificate for Robert Kaldor (born December 20, 1931), issued March 22, 1958 in Budapest.

  16. Erich Katz collection

    Consists of two documents, one entitled "Meine 'Sommer Jugendfreundin' Gerda Fischer" and the other entitled "Die Tage und Nächte des Nazi-Terrors 1938/39," both by Dr. Erich Katz, originally of Gross-Enzersdorf, Austria. In "Die Tage und Nächte des Nazi-Terrors 1938/39," Dr. Katz describes his memories of the Anschluss, Kristallnacht, and his experiences in Dachau after Kristallnacht, and in "Meine 'Sommer Jugendfreundin' Gerda Fischer," Dr. Katz recalls his memories of a childhood friend who did not survive the war. Dr. Katz and his family emigrated to Ecuador in 1939.

  17. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp

    Silver-colored finger ring made from a spoon by Leib Krycberg in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where he was an inmate from 1942-45. It is engraved with the initials and prisoner numbers, of Leib and Miriam Litman, another prisoner with whom he had fallen in love. He made a duplicate ring for Miriam. In January 1945, both Leib and Miriam were deported from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. After Mauthausen was liberated on May 5, 1945, Leib lived for three years in Arnstdorf displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. During that time, he traveled to Italy to visit...

  18. Jacoby family in Biecz and other small towns in SE Poland

    Traveling shot of Biecz, Poland (near Krakow). CUs, Grandmother and Grandfather Jacoby. Family portrait: Mark Jacoby (donor) stands at the left with his Grandmother and Grandfather seated, and his cousin, Ciela (12), next to his brother, Willis. Cousin playing. CU, Ciela and her mother. Family poses again. Various shots of Biecz homes and establishments. A small train station in Siepietnica village, sign reading "Siepietnica". More family portraits. Children play on horse; Mark with local boys. Group shot of a family in the neighboring Polish village of Raclawice, cow, fields, farmland. 00:...

  19. Ernst Baerwald speech

    Consists of one speech, 10 pages, delivered by Ernst Baerwald to a Jewish congregation in Oakland, CA, in the spring of 1941, regarding the immigration of European Jews to China and Japan. Mr. Baerwald, who had lived in Japan for almost 30 years, attests to the work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and appeals for funding for these refugees. He also mentions the help that Jan Zwartendijk, Chiune Sugihara (both unnamed in the speech), and Moses Beckleman had provided to refugees in Lithuania.

  20. Military parade honoring Pilsudski

    Title: "Warsaw, Poland. Military Parade in Memory of Pilsudski." MSs, CUs, parade in streets of Warsaw with Polish soldiers on horses, cannons, and soldiers on bicycles.