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  1. Harry Anrode collection

    Consists of one photocopied document, 9 pages, describing the author's arrest and detainment in the Buchenwald concentration camp after the Kristallnacht mass arrests in November 1938. The document is unsigned and undated.

  2. "Memories"

    Consists of one manuscript, 95 pages, entitled "Memories," by Simon Juan Lichtig, originally born Szymon (Szymek) Lichtig, of Tarnów, Poland. He describes his childhood in Tarnów, his escape to Lwów using false papers, hiding as a Polish Catholic in Kiev, Soviet Union, and in Saarbrúcken, Germany, and his experiences as a translator for the United States Army.

  3. Adam Peiperl papers

    The papers consist of identification cards, photographs, and a document relating to the experiences of Adam Peiperl after World War II and in Camp Wegscheid near Linz, Austria, and photographs of the Peiperl family before World War II in Poland.

  4. Cathy Salomon photographs

    Consists of 15 photographs depicting the wartime and post-war experiences of the Gotteszmann family of Paris, France, consisting of Eugene and Helene Honig Gotteszmann and their daughter, Catherine. Eugene Gotteszmann was a foreign (Hungarian) military volunteer with the French army in 1940 when he was arrested. He spent the war in the Magdeburg work camp. Helene Gotteszmann hid in Paris with false papers, and Catherine (Cathy) hid with the Gomez family in Puiseaux until France was liberated. The family was reunited in 1945 and emigrated to Venezuela in 1955.

  5. Photographs of Nuremberg Atrocities

    Consists of 24 photographs of atrocities supposedly committed by Gestapo in and around Nuremberg, Germany, 1944-1945. Includes photographs of corpses of German soldiers and civilians. Some photographs are described, and some were apparently taken by the Nuremberg Criminal Police in 1944.

  6. Edith Kahn collection

    Contains of correspondence, clippings, and photographs regarding the pre-war experiences of the Baer family, the Schneider family, the Eugen Wolf family, Lina and Margot Levy, the Faber family,and Ludwig and Emma Kahn, all of Germany. Most of the correspondence was written by people who later perished in the Holocaust, and details the Jewish life in pre-war Germany.

  7. Papers of Dimităr Iosifov Pes̆ev (Fond 1335)

    Selected records from the personal papers of Dimităr Pes̆ev, a prominent politician, who played a crucial role in preventing the deportation of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust.

  8. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.

  9. Victim reburial photographs

    Photographs show the exhumation and reburial into coffins of corpses by uniformed and non-uniformed men and women. The location and date of these photographs is unknown.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Postwar Germany, puppet show depicting Goering being hanged

    Men working on a badly damaged building in postwar Munich. People and horse-drawn carriages on the streets. A crowd of people gather to buy newspapers. The dope sheet indicates that this footage was filmed on the day after the executions at Nuremberg. A woman looks at a poster advertising a performance of "Die Schoene Helena" by Offenbach, a Jew whose works were forbidden under the Nazis. Men looking at more advertisements for entertainment, some of them in English. A huge billboard advertises a Loretta Young movie, "Roman einer Taenzerin," also with Konrad Veitd. Scenes from a stage perfor...

  11. "Plungyan" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 60 pages, written by Jacob Josef Bunka, entitled "Plungyan." In this memoir, Mr. Bunka describes the history of Jewish life in Plungyan, Lithuania (also known as Plunge), and his experiences in Plungyan in the early years of the war, evacuation to Russia, and return to Plungyan after the war. He includes the names of Jews who perished, of Lithuanian collaborators, and of Righteous Gentiles. The memoir has been translated into English by Stephen Geller Katz and edited by Rabbi Beyamin Herson. The collection includes a photocopy of the original memoir in Yiddish.

  12. Eric M. Lipman documents

    Contains documents and photocopies of documents collected by Eric Lipman while he served as an intelligence specialist with the United States Third Army and in the following months when he helped to assemble evidence for possible use in the Nuremberg Trials. Includes correspondence and reports regarding Theresienstadt and Ohrdruf.

  13. Fred Joseph Golinveaux, Jr. letter

    The two-page letter was written by Fred Joseph Golinveaux, Jr. and was sent to his parents while he was serving with the United States Army in Heidelberg, Germany, during World War II. In the letter, he describes the experiences of Michael Goldberg, a 15-year-old Polish boy who spent three years in concentration camps in Austria.

  14. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Communalpolitic (NS 25)

    Contains records related to municipal regulation of taxes and to culture, finance, and social welfare throughout Germany. Also contains records related to Jewish apartments and lodgings, Jewish cemeteries, the expropriation of Jewish assets, and judicial procedures related to Jewish issues.

  16. Marie Winkelman collection

    Collection consists of seven pre- and post-World War II photographs of the family of Marie Lubowski Winkelman; also includes one false "Kennkarte," for Maria Lisiecka used while in hiding in Warsaw, Poland.

  17. Metropolitan Andrew Graf Szeptycki collection

    Consists of copies of documents (many with English translations) written by Metropolitan Andrew (or Andrey) Graf Szeptycki (Sheptytsky or Sheptytskyi), the Metropolitan of Halicz and Archbishop of Lwów (today L’viv). Includes two pastoral letters: the first was issued on July 1, 1941, the day of the German occupation of Lwów, while the second, entitled "Thou Shalt Not Kill," was issued in Nov.1942. Also included are signed and notarized depositions from witnesses attesting to the efforts of the Metropolitan to save Jews during the Holocaust, articles written about the Metropolitan and his b...

  18. Relay race in Bad Saarow, Germany

    "Stafette des Sport Club Bad Saarow. Sieger wurde S.C.C. vor Eiche Fuerstenwalde und S.C.B.S." Relay race of the club Bad Saarow. Spectators, coaches, boys on sport team. Relay race with running, horse racing, bicycling, kayaking, and swimming. Team posing for picture and celebrating after the event. MS, man at podium delivering speech. Title: "Zum Schluss, das Wort ergreif ich es / So gilt's vor allem dem S.C.B.S. / Bad Saarow ist ein gutter Hort / Es lebe Saarow und der Deutsche spricht."

  19. Archbishop von Galen leads a religious procession in Vechta, Germany

    Bishop of Münster Clemens August Graf von Galen presides over an Ascension Day procession in Vechta. On-screen titles state that the Ascension Day procession serves as an opportunity to remember the war-torn history of Vechta. Further titles go on to relate that the end of thirty years war with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 did not result in the end of Vechta's occupation by Sweden. However, with the efforts of Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen, the town was freed from Swedish rule on the day before Ascension Day in 1654. A joyful procession ensued, which has been repeated every year s...

  20. Dedication of the Buchenwald "Little Camp" memorial

    Consists of CD-ROM containing a 21 minute video introducing a brief history of the "Little Camp" or "Jewish Camp" section of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the dedication of a memorial at the site of the" Little Camp," which took place on April 14, 2002.