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  1. Schmarak and Bieler family papers

    The Schmarak and Bieler family papers consists of letters, postcards, telegrams, visas, and identification documents relating to the Schmarak and Bieler families in Switzerland and Poland during World War II.

  2. Hitler Youth; Rearmament

    Title: "Part III Preparation for Wars of Aggression 1935-1939" Title: "1935 Von Schirach Urges Hitler Youth to Follow Principles of "Mein Kampf"" von Schirach addresses youth. Title: "Goering Announces Rearmament of Germany March 1935" Miscellaneous military scenes.

  3. Isadore Berenstein memoir

    Contains a memoir, 92 pages, which documents Isadore Berenstein's Holocaust-related experiences in Sochocin, Poland, and in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  4. Pete Emminger collection

    This collection contains four journals which include information about Pete Emminger's enlistment in the United States Army, his reactions to being stationed in Dachau, photographs from Dachau, and legal documents related to his military service.

  5. Speech; Anschluss; review military parade

    Title: "1938" Title: "Hitler Addresses Reichstag on Rearmament 20 February 1938" Hitler speaks at Reichstag. Title: "Anschluss March 1938" Title: "Return from Austria March 1938" Hitler reviews a military parade. Title: "Hitler Addresses Reichstag on the Anschluss 18 March 1938" Title: "Hitler's 49th Birthday 20 April 1938"

  6. Mojizesz Mendel Reich papers

    The papers consist of a photographic postcard of Mojizesz Mendel Reich with other boys in an orphanage in Drogobych (Drohobych), Ukraine, an immigrant identification card from the United States Department of Labor for Mozes Mendel Reich, and a passport for Mozes Mendel Reich.

  7. Dachau by Elmer Joachim

    Dachau by Elmer Joachim is a five page memoir about the reactions of a United States soldier, Elmer Joachim, to his arrival in the Dachau concentration camp on May 3, 1945.

  8. Frieda Lederer photograph collection

    The photographs depict Frieda Lederer in Mukacheve, Hungary (now Ukraine), before World War II, as a refugee with the Lowengart family in Göteborg, Sweden, and as an employee with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Munich, Germany, after the war.

  9. Oral history interview with Charles Willner

  10. Stefan Zweig suicide letter

    This letter contains the text of the suicide declaration of the novelist Stefan Zweig, who took his life while in exile in Petrópolis, Brazil, in February 1942. The statement at the end of the first paragraph reads as follows:.".my spiritual homeland Europe, self-destructed." This version is likely a hand-written copy, from an unknown source. The original version of this letter is owned by the National Library of Israel.

  11. Jewish quarter in Amsterdam

    Hand turns book. Views rooftops of Amsterdam, VAR shots of city. Street musicians. VAR shots of streets and houses. Old counting house. Canals and canal houses. Market in Jewish quarter. Canals, views of boats, water, bridges. Warehouses, loading. More buskers. Harbor scenes. Herring stall. Bell tower. Rembrandt monument. Jewish quarter: candle and star are superimposed on footage; boys, going to synagogue, wedding; market, men talk, flower stall, diamond cutting. Picture shop. Canals. Harbor. Canal reflections. More Jewish quarter. Sundial with Hebrew letters, interior lamp, brief EXT of P...

  12. French collaborator arrested

    [Journal de guerre in 1945 - occupation allemande scene d'arrestation de collaborateur] Title: "A L'Ouest de L'Europe...Confedence Militaire" Troops, well-dressed men at train station. French collaborator arrested by train, CUs. Boarding train.

  13. Nazi atrocities

    Orientation Film no. 19. War Department Information Film showing German concentration camps and victims of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald, and other camps. Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of...

  14. Ruth Wanderer Biheller collection

    Contains eight black and white photoprints of scenes in Aschau displaced persons camp and an identification card (Kennkarte) for Guti Wanderer. The photographs depict scenes of the ORT training school in Aschau and an Israel independence parade.

  15. Lilly Goldstein D. P. index card and vaccination form

    Contains a displaced person index card (A 10193) issued to Lily Kaufman (Lilly Goldstein) by the Allied Expeditionary Force in 1945 and a vaccination form for Lili Kaufman issued a displaced persons camp in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1945.

  16. Hans Maier autobiography

    The Hans Maier autobiography is a photocopy of a typed and annotated translation of Maier’s original autobiography, which he wrote in German and mailed to his children just before his suicide in December 1937. Maier describes growing up in Frankfurt, his university education in law and economics, his marriage, the beginnings of his career in social work, his membership in the German Democratic Party and the German Social Democratic Party, the political turmoil in Germany following World War I, his work leading welfare services in Saxony, the economic depression, the rise of the Nazi party, ...

  18. Organisations juives en France avant 1939

    Contains records, documents, reports, correspondence, member lists, and statistics from prewar Jewish organizations such as the Societé Française de Propagation du Travail Industriel et Agricole parmi les Juifs, Maison Israélite de Refuge pour l’enfance, Maison de Refuge Israélite de Lyon, Association Zadoc Kahn, École Normale Israélite, and Comité de Bienfaisance Israélite.

  19. Ungar family papers

    The Ungar family papers consist of original correspondence received by Eric Ungar’s family in St. Louis from their Ungar and Schlesinger relatives in Austria and England between 1939 and 1944 as well as a copy of a family history compiled by Eric Ungar. The correspondence describes life in wartime Austria and England, particularly the suffering and deprivation of the Schlesinger grandparents in Vienna, relates emigration efforts and complications, and asks for and relays news about family members, including those sent to Theresienstadt, Poland, and Lithuania. The correspondence also reflect...

  20. Fragmenty pamietnika ... krematorium nr. 2 w Brzezinka = fragment of a diary recovered from crematoria number 2 at Birkenau in July 1961

    Contains a microfilm copy and black and white photoprints of fragments of a Yiddish-language diary recovered from an ash pit at crematoria nr. 2 in Birkenau concentration camp. An unknown writer compiled the diary. It describes life in the Łódź ghetto. (See Acc. 1998.A.0135 for transcription of diary).