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  1. Gustav Müller papers

    The Gustav Müller papers contain correspondence, notices, and questionnaires related to the restriction of Jewish activities in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The records document the dissolution and liquidation of Gustav Müller’s business, the relinquishment of his business license and his and his wife’s drivers’ licenses, instructions to sublet part of his apartment, rules about long-distance telephone use and the ownership of typewriters and bicycles, a Civilian Air Raid Protection ID card for his wife, and a notice that he had taken a course on anti-aircraft defense.

  2. Oral history interview with Donald N. Brandin

  3. Police offices in Poland Polizeidienstellen in Polen (R 70)

    Contains records of various German police agencies in Poland, reflecting their organizational structure and activities. Includes reports, directives, decrees, and other documents.

  4. Eline Hoekstra-Dresden collection

    Contains documents issued to Eline Dresden and her father, Professor Daniel Dresden, while interned at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

  5. German newspaper clippings

    Contains German newspaper clippings with information about the passage of the Nuremberg Laws.

  6. Einwandererzentralstelle Litzmannstadt (R 69)

    Contains general files including activity and situation reports, statistics, and guidelines and standards for bestowing citizenship on Volksdeutsche being transferred from eastern and southern Europe. The collection is partially digitized.

  7. History of Jews and antisemitism in the USA

    Transcribed from the film's Forward: "What you are about to see makes no pretense of being a comprehensive statement of a vast question - the history of the Jew in America and the nature and causes of anti-Semitism. This is a glimpse, and only a glimpse, of the truth about a small section of our fellow Americans who are becoming increasingly the target of native sowers of hate and dissension whose most potent ally is ignorance. Here, then is a ray of sunlight to help pierce the gathering gloom of lies, evil whispers and blind hate which only yesterday threatened the very existence of a free...

  8. Diary of Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front

    The diary was written by a unknown Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front between 23 September 1941 and 27 December 1941. In the diary the soldier provides very detailed descriptions of daily life and his experiences. On 23 September 1941 he describes witnessing Jews march down the road wearing yellow stars and on 30 September 1941 he describes arriving at an unidentified town where Jews had recently been hanged for supposedly burning a bridge. The diary includes French vocabulary practice and some brief entries in shorthand.

  9. Jozik Wolman photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs, which depict Jozef Orski's maternal uncle, Jozik Wolman, working in the ghetto pharmacy in Łódź, Poland.

  10. Gitlya Starikova photograph

    Black and white photograph of a man and a woman with an inscription (handwritten) in black ink on verso: "Mr. Iosif Starikov and/Mrs. Gitlya Starikova/1948"; verso: purple sticker with black ink numbers "05370" adhered on left. Created by unknown photographer, 1948.

  11. Joseph Zeller collection

    Consists of six photographs of Jewish orphans, including Joseph (Zelikovich) Zeller, who found refuge in England following the war; and one copyprint of the Zelikovich family before the war.

  12. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection

    The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the photographs are the parents of Gertrude Fischbach Moritz Heller (b. December 30, 1876) and Friede Heller (b. May 25, 1880), and her parents-in-law Jonas Fischbach (b. October 17, 1885) and Amalie Fischbach (née Dull, b. September 29, 1884). The photographs were taken in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1938; London, England, circa 1939; and 1943-1944 after their arrival in the United States. All pictured were passengers on the MS St. Louis and eventually immi...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation by Russians

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Village street with road sign in Russian. Russian infantry advancing past wrecked building. Russian cavalry. Germany surrenders. Concrete fortifications with underground furnaces. Yugoslav and Serbian men (in striped coat), Jewish woman with black eye. 01:12: EXT of German prison, iron handcuffs. Pile of dead bodies in the prison yard (4,000 in all). Entire prison yard filled with corpses. To 01:14:03 Street fighting, house to house fighting. Soviet soldier helping wounded comrade. Concealed pill boxes.

  14. Oral history interview with Gina Haurowitz

  15. Oral history interview with Judith Marie Lessing

  16. Muller family papers

    Contains a memoir about Marianne Muller Vitez's Holocaust experiences; two identification cards issued to Marianne Vitez's parents, Hans Israel Muller and Alice Leven, in Morocco; Alice Muller's German passport; John Muller's German passport; a Carte d'identité d'étranger de la République française au Maroc for Marianne Sarah Muller; a list of clothes and household goods Alice Muller submitted to the Nazis before leaving occupied Belgium; and a Certificat d'identité des refugies provenant d'allemagne for Hans Muller, issued by the Belgium government.

  17. Nuremberg: ruins of the city; IMT

    Excerpt from the film beginning with opening titles: "This film is made available for television by the Department of the Army in the public interest. Europe 1945." VS of destruction, rubble, etc. incurred in the European theater of war. Men, women, children, babies, walking aimlessly through piles of rubble. German intertitles list the major Nazi Party leaders, all on trial at Nuremberg. VS, scenes of the courtroom, prosecutors/judges speaking, translators in booth. Pan of International Military Tribunal. VS, crowds, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party rallies, large crowds running in the streets, Hi...

  18. Tabachnik family papers

    Contains a document about the Holocaust related deaths of the family of Joseph Tabachnik who were killed in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.

  19. Hildegard Lewis papers

    The Hildegard Lewis papers include letters and postcards to Hildegard Lewis in New York and New Jersey from her parents, Lion and Selma Jordan, in Koblenz as well as photocopies of photographs of Lewis, her parents, and her brother and sister. The letters provide news about friends and family, describe the Jordans' increasingly difficult situation in Koblenz, and ask for Lewis' help with their emigration efforts.

  20. Helen Goodman collection.

    Consists of six letters written by Yan Gutman (donor's brother) to Anna Gutman (donor's mother) while he was in a Soviet penalty regiment and while serving in the Red Army. Yan Gutman's crime was taking some salt for a piece of bread at the Krasnoyarsk train station.