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  1. Max and Mathilde Maier family papers

    The Max and Mathilde Maier family papers measure 1.5 linear feet, date from 1866‐1998, and include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting Max Maier’s World War I military service and the couple’s education, marriage, and emigration to Rolândia, Brazil. The papers also include a copy of an autobiography by Hans Maier and a copy of Gertrud Mainzer’s description of her time in Bergen‐Belsen. Biographical materials include records documenting the lives of Max and Mathilde Maier as well as Cäcilie, Hans, Heinrich, Hermann, and Margarete M...

  2. Germans advance in Yugoslavia

    [Rangee de SS aplaudit a une reunion, Paris] German units advance in Yugoslavia. Bombing. Wounded soldier. Captured men (Serbians/partisans?).

  3. The University in Exile

    Contains an unpublished manuscript, 145 pages, written circa 1973, with information about the "University in Exile," founded at the New School for Social Research in New York City in the Summer of 1933 as a protest against the expulsion of Jewish scholars from German universities.

  4. Milice meeting in Paris

    Meeting of Milice at the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris, 1944. WS, Palais de Sports. Crowd, banners, placards, including: "Gardes Patriotique de la Sauf" ; "Garde Patriotique Salmson" HAS, INT stadium, crowd seated. Louis Saillon (sp?) speaking. Slow pan, spectators. CUs, signs: "Garde Patriotique section de St. Denis" ; "Garde Patriotique Cinema Francaise...Servir" ; "Presse" ; "Garde Patriotiques du Theatre," spectators.

  5. N.A. Getzler papers

    Contains two essays written by Dr. N.A. Getzler. The first, "Diktiert und verfasst von Dr. N.A. Getzler," and the second, "Das Schicksal des Grenzstreifens Jablonitze bis Snvatin in des Kriegsjahren 1941-1944."

  6. Samuel B. Hagner letter to his parents

    The collection consists of a letter dated 11 May 1945 written from Samuel B. Hagner, a medical corpsman with the 7th United States Army in Europe, to his parents George and Evelyn Hagner. In the letter, Samuel describes the severe conditions of starvation and sanitation that he witnessed in German concentration camps near Munich, Germany, including Dachau, after liberation. The letter is signed with Samuel’s nickname, "Dick."

  7. Archives de Drancy

    Contains documentation about the administration of the camp, the condition and treatment of the inmates, lists of inmates, a list of those liberated from the camp, information about provisions for Christmas 1943, memoranda from the camp commandant, personal papers of the inmates, and other information.

  8. Ustaša Supervisory Office—Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, Gornja Rijeka, Kruščica, and Kupari Concentration Camps

    Materials on operation of several camps (Kupari was in the Italian-occupied zone).

  9. Jacobsberg family collection

    Contains 19 photographs, a Shanghai census certificate, a passenger list for the Lloyd Triestino, Shanghai refugee papers, a marriage certificate, a death certificate, two pieces of Deutsches Reich Reisepass, two International Certificates of Inoculation and Vaccination, and two Shanghai Resident Certificates pertaining to the experiences of the Jacobsberg family in Shanghai.

  10. Trial against Hans Biebow Proces Hansa Biebowa (Sygn. SOŁódź, 3-5a)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of Hans Biebow. Includes testimonies and name lists of witnesses, documents on Chelmno concentration camp, report on Łódź ghetto, lists of confiscated Jewish jewelry, list of Jewish victims, lists of SS staff, and list of ghetto leaders. Contains also Biebow autobiography, letters and correspondence.

  11. Afrique du Nord. Congrès Juif Mondial. Maroc--pays étrangers.

    Contains records about the activities of the World Jewish Congress in North Africa, antisemitism in the French army, the delegation from Tunisia at the War Emergency Conference, the Cremieux Decree, the German seizure of Jewish assets, German atrocities, the postwar activities of Adolf Eichmann, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and the interrogations of the International Tribunal in Nuremberg.

  12. Hitler speech; Krupp munitions plant; reoccupying Rhine; Ribbentrop

    Title: "1936" Title: "Reoccupation of the Rhineland, 7 March 1936." Nazis march into Dusseldorf as people cheer. Guards are posted at monuments and docks. 02:33:56 Title: "Minister von Neurath expresses confidence all Germans will vote approval of Hitler's policies, 29 March 1936." Hess, Goebbels, and others also cast votes. 02:35:14 Title: "Ribbentrop, Ambassador to Great Britain, Outlines Nazi Foreign Policy, April 1936." Seated at a desk Ribbentrop explains that the Chancellor has placed before the world his peace plan. Germany's sovereignty has been restored and Hitler will not allow it...

  13. Records of the United States Mission to the Polish Government in Exile in London

    Contains information about relations between the United States and the Polish government in exile in London. Subjects include underground activities in Poland, relations between Poland and the Soviet Union, and relations between the London and Moscow Polish leadership.

  14. From the Mists of Time Fragments from A Childhood Between the Wars (World Wars I & II)

    Contains a memoir, 26 pages, about Miriam Eliasberg's early life in Munich, move to Vienna, Austria, with her family in 1933, summers of 1935-1936 in a small village in the Alps called Obertressen, leaving Austria in 1938 for Zurich, London, and her journey to New York on the SS Britanic.

  15. Karl Fritzsch documents

    The collection contains eleven legal documents regarding honors and awards given to SS Obersturmfuehrer, Karl Fritzsch. Among the signatures is Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

  16. Dreier and Tarnowski families papers

    The Dreier and Tarnowski families papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from approximately 1939‐1944. The collection includes correspondence and photographs documenting the Dreier and Tarnowski families, their hardships in East and West Prussia and Pomerania under Nazi rule, and their efforts to emigrate. Correspondence primarily consists of letters to Elli and Alfred Burchardy in Shanghai from Flora and Wolff Tarnowski in Stargard, from Edith and Siegfried Tarnowski and Taübchen Tützer in Piaski, and from other family members and friends in Stargard, Piaski, and various cities in Germany...

  17. Bleiweiss family collection

    Contains two photographs, four picture postcards, sixteen documents pertaining to the fates of Bernhard, Leo, Wolf, Chaim, and Maria Bleiweiss during the Holocaust. Documents include information about leaving Leipzig, Germany, in 1937, moving to Italy and France, the deportation of Bernhard, Leo, and Chaim to Auschwitz, and Wolf and Maria's later emigration to the United States.

  19. Tibor Neumann identification card

    Contains Tibor Neumann's identity card issued to him after liberation by the Red Army.

  20. Centralny Zarzad Budowlany Oddzialow Wojskowych i Policji w Lublinie

    Contains files 61 and 99 from the record group 22, Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS und Polizei in Lublin, dating from 1940 to 1944.