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  1. Michel Kleinsinger collection

    Contains reviews of Michel Kleinsinger's compositions, photocopied newspaper articles about the composer and his life, and a memoir entitled "On Wings," which describes his childhood experiences, life in the Lublin concentration camp, hiding as a Catholic, and later emigration to Brazil.

  2. Trial against Jürgen Stroop Proces Jürgena Stroopa (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of Jürgen Stroop, the SS and police chief who crushed the Warsaw ghetto uprising and ordered the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. Also includes materials on crimes committed by his assistants, Franz Konrad and Herman Hoefle. Jürgen Stroop was tried by American military authorities in Dachau in January 1947, then extradited to Poland. In July 1951 Stroop was tried at the Warsaw District Court and executed by hanging that September.

  3. Auschwitz concentration camp records Abteilung IIIa - Arbeitseinsatz

    Contains telegrams, card files, card indexes, reports, registers, name lists, and various other documents relating to prisoner labor in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz concentration camps. Select files relate to camp prisoners working as electricians and ironworkers. The records date from 1942 to 1945 with the bulk dating from 1944.

  4. Hitler on annihilation of Jewish race; Occupation of Czechoslovakia; Aircraft launch

    Title: "Goering Launches First Aircraft Carrier 8 December 1938" Goering speaks at the launching of the carrier Graf Zeppelin. Title: "1939" Title: "Hitler Predicts Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe if War Occurs 30 January 1939" Hitler speech at Reichstag. Title: "President Hacha of Czechoslovakia Arrives in Berlin as Guest of Hitler 14 March 1939." Hacha walking in street lined with SS officers. CU, flag. Hacha gets into automobile. Title: "Occupation of Remainder of Czechoslovakia 15 March 1939." Various newspaper headlines. Nazi soldiers on village road, on motorcycles and bicyc...

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  6. Letter written to Alexander Goldberger

    Contains one letter written to Alexander Goldberger from an unidentified sender in Vienna, Austria, asking about an affidavit to come to the United States.

  7. Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp records Abteilung III - Schutzhaftlagerfürung

    Register books, card indexes, and various other records relating to the "state of the day" in Auschwitz concentration camp, the camp for female Roma in Birkenau concentration camp, the camp for male Roma in Birkenau concentration camp, prisoner numbers, prisoner barracks, the SS Baubrigade Bauzug, the penal company, the underground cell in barrack 11, and Soviet prisoners of war who died in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  8. Proces ośrodek zagłady Sobibór (Sygn. Ob.60)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of certain Sobibór extermination center staff.

  9. Ministry of Health and Social Services. Welfare and Social Services Division

    Contains records relating to the regulation of Jewish pension rights, work permits for Jews in Našice, the expropriation of Jewish property in Ilok, and related matters.

  10. Oral history interview with Irving D. Magier

  11. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

  12. Havaner lebn Vida Habanera (Havana, Cuba) [Newspaper]

    Newspaper from Cuba documenting the arrival of the MS St. Louis.

  13. Theresienstadt papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and newsletters produced in Theresienstadt (Terezín), Czechoslovakia, after World War II.

  14. Postcards from the Dombrowa ghetto

    Contains two original and seven fujis of postcards from the Dombrowa ghetto.

  15. Military prison for French collaborators; Elderly sick men

    Lyon, French collaborators imprisoned at Fort du Montluc, a military prison formerly run by Gestapo. Conversing at tables, delivering food to prisoners, playing cards. "Krankenrevier": older French men, sick and infirm. Some are named in French narration.

  16. Hans G. Rosen documents

    Contains twelve documents pertaining to Hans G. Rosen's experiences in the underground during the Holocaust.

  17. Sticker issued in the US to support relief efforts for Polish Jews

    Sticker with the caption "They Shall Not Die" with an image of a Jewish family in Poland wearing armbands issued by the American Federation for Polish Jews to raise funds and awareness of the persecution of Jews in Nazi occupied Poland.

  18. Izak Sznaper photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of the Izak Sznaper’s parents Abraham and Basia (née Bleiweiss) Sznaper and four of their 8 children; a photograph of Basia Sznaper and Izak’s grandmother, aunt, and uncle; a photograph of Izak’s cousins Frieda and Moriz Press; and a photograph of the Izak’s sister, Salka, and brother Mojsze. All of the photographs were taken near Wojnilów, Poland (Voynyliv, Ukraine).

  19. Rose Deutsch identity card

    Identity card with information about Rose Deutsch's deportation from Hungary and internment in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

  20. Oral history interview with Abe Citrin