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  1. Administration of the city of Feodosiya during the Nazi occupation (Fond p 1458)

    Contains records of the city of Feodosiya, Ukraine, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  2. Ahren family photographs

    Consists of ten pre-war photographs of the Ahren family, originally of Radzanowo, Poland. Nathan Ahren [donor] has described each photograph.

  3. Selected records from the Varese prefecture

    Contains documents related to the formulation and implementation of anti-Jewish racial laws in and around the areas of Piedmont and Lombardia, Italy. Also contains documents related to Jewish refugees in this area.

  4. Hugh Baumgardner letter

    The Hugh Baumgardner letter is a six-page typed letter was written by Hugh Baumgardner [donor's sister's father-in-law] describing his visit to the Dachau concentration camp following its liberation in the spring 1945.

  5. Concentration camp striped uniform coat with yellow triangle worn by a Polish Jewish female inmate

    Striped concentration camp coat issued to 17 year old Esther Kessler, or her mother, Masha, when they were imprisoned in Kaiserwald concentration camp. It was worn from September 1943-January 1945 through several camps. It has a handmade prisoner id with a small yellow triangle patch. After German occupied Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in June 1941, Esther and Masha were forced into a Jewish ghetto. They were transferred to Kaiserwald in Riga, Latvia, in September 1943 when the ghetto was liquidated. In the summer of 1944, they were sent to Thorn concentration camp in Germany, and worked as s...

  6. Selected records from Central State Archives in Prague Uřad říš̌ského protektora (JAF 1005)

    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. Includes reports regarding aryanization of Jewish businesses, questionnaires of Jewish properties, lists of Jewish workers, documents regarding situation in Theresienstadt (death statistics), Lety camp, and deportation of Jews to Theresienstadt. Also includes lists of art objects in Sbirow castle (including Jewish art), information regarding Jews, Roma and Sinti, and Russians i...

  7. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 2, the ambulance column arrives. Memorial day for E V Ringmann, ambulance driver who was killed in an allied aircraft, whose casket is loaded onto a railroad car. Norwegian paramedic team. Doctors examine the new arrivals. Women with naked torsos show their tattoo marks. Naked women bathing, showering, and get new clothes. They are disinfected from lice. Registration stall for Danes and Norwegians. Danes get new clothes. Some people talk with each other, doctors examin...

  8. Post-war satirical leaflet

    Consists of a leaflet entitled "Velkonĕmecká R̆ís̆e" (Greater German Empire). The leaflet sarcastically mourns the death of the Third Reich; cause of death is described as a bleeding heart and giving in to the will and the hand of Hitler.

  9. "Report on inspection of German concentration camp at Buckenwald"

    Consists of one document, 5 pages, entitled, "Report on Inspection of German Concentration Camp at Buckenwald" [sic] by Brig. Gen. Eric F. Wood, Lt. Col. Chas H. Ott, and CWO S.M. Dye on April 16, 1945. The document describes the history of the camp, the then-current makeup of prisoners and the health issues they faced, and a summary of the daily activities of the Buchenwald concentration camp under the Nazis.

  10. Naomi Elath papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, songs, and identification cards relating to Naomi Elath's experiences in the children's homes at LaGuette and La Bourboule, France.

  11. Berek and Cywia Rosner collection

    Consists of documents regarding Berek and Cywia Rosner's time in the Foehrenwald Displaced Persons Camp and subsequent emigration to Canada in 1951. The majority of the documents are restitution papers filed by the Rosners and include medical reports, testimonies from fellow forced laborers, and forms as well as receipts for restitution received.

  12. Rudas family collection

    Consists of a photograph, circa 1943, of Istvan Weltman, the donor’s cousin (fourth from left) during his forced labor near Munkacs, Hungary; a photographic portrait, circa 1934, of Bora and Imre Barna with their daughter Anna (Bora and Anna perished in Auschwitz and Imre was killed in a labor battalion); a photographic portrait of the donor’s relatives – Reiner; a photographic portrait of Suzy Barna, who at the age of 5 was killed in Auschwitz in 1944; a photographic portrait, circa 1940, of Gyorgy Kaszas, the donor’s first cousin, a jazz player, who was shot and killed in 1944, after bein...

  13. "Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will: Nazi Propaganda at Work!"

    Consists of speech given by James May on April 29, 2003 at the State University of New York at Binghamton entitled "Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will: Nazi Propaganda at Work!" In the speech, he describes his experiences at school in Germany and the influences of the film work of Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl on his daily life. Includes copies of his correspondence with various media outlets regarding Riefenstahl.

  14. "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp"

    Consists of document, seven pages, entitled "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp," by Robert M. Rutan. Mr. Rutan visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on May 2, 1945, shortly after liberation of the camp, while traveling toward the Baltic Sea with the 7th Armored Division. He describes the experience of a visitor to the camp and what he witnessed there.

  15. Bianka Karpf papers

    The papers consist of six photographs relating to the experiences of Bianka Karpf and her family in Boryslaw, Poland, (now Boryslav, Ukraine), their attempt to emigrate to Palestine, and their activities with Hashomer Hatzair as well as one "Ausweis für Arbeitsjuden" issued to Bianka Silberman [donor].

  16. Kwasniewski-Chiger family photograph collection

    The collection consists of 19 photographs relating to the experiences of the Kwasniewski and Chiger families immediately following the Holocaust. Six photographs are images of Marian Kwasniewski Marian Keren, his parents, Helena and Joseph, their rescuers, Janina Mikolajewicz and Gienia, and extended family in Poland. Thirteen photographs are images of Krystyna Chiger [Kristine Keren], her parents, Ignacy and Pepa, and her brother, Pawel, in Poland and Israel.

  17. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 24 photographs of taken upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs are from the collection of Andrew F. Tully, Jr., a foreign correspondent with the Boston Herald.

  18. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field

    Very large Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [DRK; German Red Cross] flag with a Reichsadler, a black Imperial eagle, with a white Swastika on its chest and a red cross in its talons, displayed upon a white field. After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in January 1933, the Nazi Party began to reshape the private charity sector. By July 1933, the DRK was one of only four non-state aid organizations left in Germany. Its new president was a Nazi Party official, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In December 1937, the DRK became a unit of the Nazi Party and, the next year, it became a Social ...

  19. Karl Engel deportation account

    Consists of one undated four-page account, written by Karl Engel, of a January 11, 1942 deportation of Jews from Vienna, Austria to the Riga concentration camp.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees on the move in northern France and Belgium

    Refugees in northern France and Flanders. Refugees, mostly women and children sit in the backs of trucks, looking at the camera. A group of men and women stand with bicycles and wagons in front of the awning of a bar. Horse-drawn wagons drive off. French soldiers march through a town. A few spectators watch their progress and wave at the men. People with bundles strapped to bicycles stand on the street. A group of them move off down the street, watched by other people in the street. A nice shot of people wheeling their bundle-laden bikes past several destroyed buildings. Refugees on an open...