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  1. Photograph of a family of four in Poland

    The photograph depicts a family of four in Poland.

  2. Safta Marin memoir

    Contains a memoir, 5 pages, typed in Romanian, by Safta Marin (born Georghe Apostol), originally of Clejani, Romania. In the memoir, he describes his childhood as a Roma/Sinti, his experiences traveling by wagon as part of a deportation into Russia in 1942, and the starvation and deaths of members of his family. Born Georghe Apostol, after the war he named himself Safta Marin after a brother who died during the war.

  3. Pamphlet

    Anti-Nazi writings by exiled members of the German Social Democratic Party living in Paris. "Germany/Monthly Reports by the Executive Committee of the Socialist Democratic Party of Germany/Vol. 5/No.2/English Version of Vol. /No.10"

  5. George and Shari Fine collection

    Contains pre-war photographs of the Fingerhut family (George Fine's family) from Siauliai, Lithuania, and of the Marmor family (Shari Fine's family) of Bistrita, Romania. Includes postwar identification cards issued to the donors and immigration paperwork documenting Shari Marmor's immigration to Canada. Also includes playbills, posters, songbooks, and other materials documenting Yiddish theatrical productions in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, in which Shari Marmor performed. Some materials, including a Passover Haggadah, are from the Foehrenwald DP Camp.

  6. Selected records of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS) in Zagreb

    Lists of Jews in Zagreb; statistics on Jews in the Kupari, Đakovo, and Lobor-Grad concentration camps.

  7. Tunia Kogan memoir

    Consists of one memoir, handwritten in English, by Tunia Kogan, originally of Ozorkow, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her life and family in Ozorkow, the selection in the town square, life in the ghetto, and her deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944. In December 1944, she was sent to Dresden. After the bombings in Dresden, she was sent on a forced march for two months, until she was able to escape with her sister near Karlsbad and Marienbad. She lived in a displaced persons camp for five years before emigrating to the United States.

  8. Linden family papers

    Contains biographical sketches, photonegatives, photographs, school report cards, newsletters, identification documents, certificates, clippings, affidavits, a Jewish flag, and various other documents relating to the experiences of Fred Linden (Fritz Isaac Lindenstrauss), his wife Ruth Betty Salomon Linden, and their son, Kurt Joseph Linden, during their time living as German Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, from April 1939 to August 1947. Several documents relate to the Linden family's business, "Ladies Secondhand Store," where they provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the ...

  9. Selected records from collection DLI, Archives of the Sixième et de la Resistance Juives

    Contains materials related to Sixième and other Jewish resistance fighters, including lists of members, operational documents, and post war materials related to pensions and decorations awarded by the French government.

  10. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers

    The Dingfelder and Wolff families papers contains photographs of the Dingfelder family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, as well as a studio photograph of Aline and Arthur Wolff, circa 1920s, and an undated tourist postcard of the MS St. Louis. Correspondence in the papers includes a typewritten letter written by Rudi Dingfelder in English regarding his wartime experiences imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp, Buchenwald concentration camp, and other slave labor camps, August 12, 1945; ...

  11. Gurwicz family photograph collection

    The collection of five photographs depicts the Gurwicz family in Vilnius, Lithuania, and members of Fareynik̤te paṛtizaner organizatsye (FPO), a Jewish partisan organization in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) during World War II. Some photographs have captions in Yiddish on the verso.

  12. Trial against Artur Greiser Proces Artura Greiser (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigative records, evidence, and court documents and verdicts relating to the trials of Artur Greiser, in relation to crimes he was found guilty of, including the implementation of policies of persecution, deportation, and murder of Polish Jews during the German occupation of Poland. Includes trial protocols, interrogations of witnesses, preliminary hearings and presentation of evidence against war criminals.

  13. Early Nazi Party history, events, leaders

    Reel 2: Jackson continues with the reading of Count 1 at Nuremberg trial. HS, in court, prisoners' dock. CU, "Mein Kampf," text superimposed. In Munich, burgeoning Nazi party, following the lead of Adolf Hitler, instigate street riots with the aim of gaining the highest degree of control over the Germans by any means. HAS, mobs/crowds running through wide street, chaos. Nazis marching with flag, elite members posing on stairway, more marching. Goebbels at desk, on telephone, in leather coat shouting. Nazis parading, Germans heiling. Hitler. Nazis on horseback rushing down street. Newspaper ...

  14. Nina Gottlieb documents

    Contains two documents issued to Lola Gottlieb which include a false work card for Maria Sowienska, used by Lola during the Holocaust to pass as non-Jewish.

  15. United Kletzker Relief papers

    The collection contains one letter from the United Kletzker Relief asking for the donation of clothing, three United Kletzker Relief booklets, a black and white photograph of the Arrangement Committee of the Kletzker United Relief (1936), and a black and white picture postcard (1932) of Stephen Feinbergand Marjorie Nissen's family members standing next to the tombstone of Yitzhak Moshe, son of Yaakov Kapol. The United Kletzker Relief, composed of those American Jews originally from Kletzk, reorganized themselves to assist survivors of Nazi atrocities. They formed the Independent Kletzker So...

  16. Rywek Żytnik photograph collection

    The Rywek Żytnik photograph collection consist of photographs of the Żytnik family in Sawin, Poland, and the surrounding area before and during the Holocaust as well as a photograph of a memorial to Jews killed by the Germans in Dashev, Ukraine, from 1941 to 1942.

  17. Nazi crimes: early gassing, corpses, camp atrocities, forced labor

    Reel 5: Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. 05:38:38 CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into the brick work of a small brick building, in an area that appears to be a bricked up window or door. Projec...

  18. Esther Malin collection

    Contains four pieces of ghetto scrip, four photographs from the Łódź Ghetto, and one newspaper clipping.

  19. Selected records from collection DLXXXI, Résistance

    Contains primarily post-war materials related to the French resistance, the decorating and honoring of resistance fighters, resistance memorialization, and resistance fighters' reunions and organizations.

  20. A Miracle in the Flames

    Contains a memoir, 125 pages, about the survival of a Hassidic Rabbi's family during the Holocaust.