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  1. David Beitner photographs

    The photographs depict relatives and friends from David Beitner’s hometowns of Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, and Sławków, Poland, before World War II and of David and his friends in the Preibitz DP camp in Germany after the war. Some of the photographs have captions in Yiddish and Polish.

  2. Leah Kessler Greenblatt memoir

    Leah Kessler Greenblatt's memoir contains information pertaining to her escape from Baronowicz, Poland, in June 1941, work on a collective farm in the Ukraine, and in factories in Stalingrad and Al Mata. Leah Kessler Greenblatt also describes her experiences after the war in an Austrian refugee camp and her trip to Israel in May 1946.

  3. Tin pail made for one prisoner by another in Kaufering concentration camp

    Tin bucket made in Kaufering concentration camp for 14 year old Shmuel Rabinovitz by the head tinsmith. It originally had a cover, but it was lost. The large size of the pail was very helpful for Shmuel. He was often able to get a larger serving of soup and he could keep his bread portion in it as well. Shmuel carried the pail with him on the death march in April 1945 when the Germans evacuated the camp because of approaching US troops. Shmuel and his parents, Yitzchak and Shulamit, were incarcerated in the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunus], Lithuania, after the Germans occupied the city in J...

  4. Hasten Hebrew Academy collection

    Consists of one adhesive stamp with logo from office of Reichskanzlei; three postcards from Zambrów, Poland (dated 1946), written in Yiddish and addressed to George Sampson of Indianapolis, Indiana; and a letter written by Sy Schenkman, a U.S. soldier writing home to his wife in Indianapolis, describing the scene at site of a concentration camp in Nammering (near Bayreuth), Germany, including German civilians being forced to bury bodies of camp victims, and former SS guard being beat up by American troops.

  5. Selected records from collection CCVIII, Belgium, Ministry of Reconstruction

    This collection contains information on internment camps in France and Belgium during World War II, including information on the fate of Jewish children.

  6. Државен Архив на Република Македониjа Selected records from the Archives of Macedonia

    Contains selected records from two collections: The Jewish Community of Skopje, 1915-1961; and Management of the Jewish Question, 1942-1964. Also contains photocopies of records of district administration of Skopje and Bitola, police records and names lists concerning Jewish population, financial documentation and declarations on Jewish assets, records from Trade (Mercantile) industrial bank “Vardar” and Bulgarian credit bank, Sofia, branch Skopje.

  7. Hitler declares war on US, meets French diplomats; Himmler & Bach-Zelewski visit camp near Minsk

    Title: "Invasion of U.S.S.R. 22 June 1941" Early morning street activities in Berlin on morning of invasion of USSR. Preparation of broadcast at radio station. At 5:30 AM Goebbels sits at desk and makes announcement. Shots of people listening. Von Ribbentrop walks into conference. Newspaper headline, then map of Eastern Front. Flare goes up in dark, silhouettes of troops in dark. Artillery fire and burning target presumably in East Prussia. Dismantling of border post. German troops move cautiously forward. Explosion in building interior. Title: "Meeting with Petain, Laval, and Franco in Fra...

  8. Gilbert and Beatrice Paul papers

    The papers consist of certificates, identification cards, and correspondence relating to Gilbert and Beatrice Paul and their experience during and after the Holocaust.

  9. Damaged planes; Norway under German attack

    Burning German plane. CU, German pilot. Captured, wounded German aviators. Damaged plane. Helping comrade with wounded leg/foot. Damaged tanks. Leaving house, boarding truck, eating. Attacking with weapons. In Norway, bombing ships, beautiful mountains in BG. Boats, city burning from air attack. Ships in water of Norwegian fjords. Looking at destruction, advance through binoculars. Soldiers returning to large ship on smaller boats. Destruction. CUs, captured Germans, some wounded, interrogation. Soldiers marching, conversing. Wounded in hospital. Fighting, weapons. Pan, beautiful landscape ...

  10. "By the Skin of Our Teeth"

    Contains a memoir, 129 pages, entitled "By the Skin of Our Teeth," by Harry Nissimov. Mr. Nissimov writes about his experiences in a Jewish labor brigade in Bulgaria during World War II.

  11. Zweigenthal family collection

    Contains of letters, black and white photographs, a Sauf Conduit pass for Robert Zweigenthal, and 8 legal documents pertaining to the escape of Robert Zweigenthal, his wife, Elizabeth Aigner Zweigenthal, and her mother, Caroline (Carolina) Aigner, from France through Portugal to the United States. Includes copies of two letters written in 1941 by Sara Delano Roosevelt, the mother of President Franklin Roosevelt, requesting that assistance be given to members of the Aigner family. The photographs depict life on the ship traveling from Portugal to the United States.

  12. Etat-Major Allemand en France: Otages et Exécutions

    The collection documents the development and application of hostage and reprisal policies in occupied France under the military authorities and later the SS. Contains detailed prisoner and hostage lists from places such as Melun, Amiens, Laon, and Rouen, as well as reports and correspondence about prison conditions and shootings. Title of collection used is that applied by the source repository, to denote selected records they obtained after the war, which had originated from various military and SS offices in occupied France.

  13. Archives de Nuremberg : Juives de Riga

    Contains documentation about the German occupation authorities in Latvia, the expropriation of Jewish property, and the head of the Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete, Alfred Rosenberg. The documents that comprise this collection were selected by the source repository, the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, following the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, from documents that had been collected as potential evidence during the trial of Alfred Rosenberg.

  14. Proces zaloga Chełmna nad Nerem, II (Sygn.Ob.19)

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

  15. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with the letter J. to identify a Belgian Jew

  16. J. Nestel letter

    The letter was written to Col. Wooten from J. Nestel in Salzburg, Austria, requesting that Capt. D'Jernes remain as commander in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) displaced persons camp "Beth Bialik" (Jewish Transit Camp #2). Attached are 51 sheets containing 1,417 signatures from camp residents.

  17. Peter Piper letter

    The Peter Piper letter contains a handwritten letter, dated April 8, 1945, written by Peter Piper, a member of the Fourth Armored Division of the United States Army, and sent to Mary Alice Boyd in Madison, Wisconsin. In the letter, Piper describes capturing a liquor storehouse and distributing the contents to his friends, and the concentration camp he toured [likely Ohrdruf] and commented on the suicide of the mayor of the nearby village.

  18. Rose Steinhauer papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Abram Kolersztajn in the ghetto in Końskie, Poland, and one post-period publication describing the atrocities committed during the Holocaust.

  19. Remembering George

    Contains a four-page memoir entitled, "Remembering George," written by Christine Friedlander about her husband, George Friedlander's experiences as a student in Berlin prior to the Nazis coming to power, his mother's deportation to Riga, Latvia, and his life in wartime England working as a welder and steelworker in various factories.

  20. List of Slovakian Jews who died in Ravensbrück concentration camp

    Contains a typewritten list of Slovakian Jews who died in Ravensbrück.