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  1. Photograph of the Rejers holding their infant daughter

    The image taken in Łódź, Poland, depicts Mordechai and Sara Leder Rejer holding their daughter, Lucia Rejer [donor].

  3. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- A civil party testifies

    18:09 President Cerdini questions the witness as to how he was able to identify his interrogator as Barbie 18:11 Cerdini asks for specifics as to the type of train used to transport the witness to Auschwitz, and as to whether he knew about the existence of the gas chambers upon his arrival 18:13 Prosecutor Bermann asks the witness how he was able to identify Barbie in their first encounter; the witness thanks the court for the 'gift' of being able to testify against Barbie 18:15 Defense lawyer Vergès questions the witness as to the purpose of his work for the Red Cross, and whether his work...

  4. Dwora Zofia Mortenfeld papers

    The papers consist of three portrait images of Netka Putersznyt and Berisz Putersznyt, Dwora Zofia Mortenfeld's parents, and Frymeta Mortenfeld, Dwora's mother-in-law. Also included in the papers is a postcard written by Netka Putersznyt in ghetto in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, on December 24, 1942, to her daughter Zosia Putersznyt who was interned in Ober Altstadt concentration camp.

  8. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of ten photographs taken upon the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Photographs depict survivors and the Dachau camp grounds. These photographs are donated in memory of Captain Leon Strauss, who took the photographs.

  9. Drawing

  10. Reska and Vera Katz letter

    The letter was written to Rose Levinson in Chicago, Ill., by her niece, Reska Katz, and Reska's daughter, Vera Katz, in a displaced persons camp in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia. They write of family members who survived and those who perished and ask for sweets and vitamins for Vera and clothing.

  11. Dr. Sándor Vig memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 131 pages, detailing the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Sándor Vig, originally of Slovakia. Dr. Vig kept a very descriptive daily account of his experiences in a Hungarian forced labor battallion, and wrote this memoir using those notes after the war. The memoir is available in both Hungarian and Hebrew versions.

  12. Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Political Department (MOL K 63)

    The collection contains selected records relating to Hungarian foreign relations and policies. Includes reports submitted in 1944 by Hungarian diplomatic missions in Arad (Oradea), Bucharest, and Brasov (Brassó) in Romania to the Foreign Ministry in Budapest about incidents concerning Jews; a speech of the priest Áron Márton at St. Michael's Church, May 1944, condemned the prepared deportation of Romanian and Hungarian Jews; also contains Hungarian German press article and clippings.

  13. Steven N. Montrose papers

    The Steven N. Montrose papers consist of photographs depicting Montrose (born Nathan Rozenberg) and his parents and other relatives in prewar and wartime Łódź and postwar Germany. The collection also includes birth and naturalization certificates for Montrose and his father and a book proposal for an autobiography by Montrose describing his prewar and wartime life in Łódź, the Łódź ghetto, concentration camps, postwar Germany, immigration to the United States, and new life in America.

  15. Atrocities; liberation of concentration camps

    Propaganda compilation of graphic newsreel and documentary materials showing concentration camps as Allied cameramen entered between 1945 and 1946. Opening credits: "An AF Film Release" (Actualites Francais Films); "Sterling Films" ; "Camps of the Dead / They need no explanation, no titles. Just look and be glad you live in America." "Langestein [sic]" Langenstein: Corpses in open area, pits, doctors and other civilians, exhumation, lining bodies on soil. "Ohrdrus [sic]" Ohrdruf: Corpses, pits, VAR CUs. Two male survivors. "Dachau" Soldiers at gate with eagle. CU sign, "Zentral Bauleitung d...

  16. Fanny Flam papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, documents, identification cards, and a notebook containing pieces of coupons and ration cards that relate to the experiences of Fanny Herman, donor, and her family during their pre-World War II life in Belgium, during their time in hiding in the south of France, and during their escape to Switzerland.

  17. Barbie Trial -- Day 16 -- Two witnesses and a civil party testify

    14:57 the Attorney General asks the witness, Mrs. Vansteenberghe, to discuss her husband's mission within the Resistance, which was to follow Barbie 14:57 Prosecutor Iannucci asks the witness to describe the execution of Resistance members after the last transport, on August 11, 1944 15:00 Prosecutor Zelmati comments on the particularity of Barbie's pinky finger, and asks President Cerdini to circulate a photograph of Barbie to the jurors 15:07 Prosecutor Zelmati asks President Cerdini to circulate a group of photographs of the Montluc prison, which demonstrate the witness' view of the hall...

  18. Lubinski family papers

    The papers consist of 21 photographs and 12 documents concerning the experiences of Susan Lubinski [donor], her sister, Steffi, and her parents, Margarethe and Arthur Lubinski, during their flight from Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), in 1939 to Shanghai, China, where they remained through the end of World War II.

  19. Metalworks factory on the Black Sea

    Russian town on the Black Sea. Several shots of the workings of an ore/metalworks factory. Factory/town from a distance with Russian peasants walking in foreground.

  20. Susan Heller photographs

    Consists of ten photographs of Slovakian Jewish refugees in Canada.