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  1. Prayer book

    Hebrew prayerbook, daily and festivals, carried out of Krakow, Poland in November 1939 by Estelle Lipperman Montavani, nee Friedman [donor's mother], published in Przemysl, Poland in 1933.

  2. Trial against Albert Forster Proces Alberta Forstera (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigation materials, evidence, and court documents relating to the trial of Albert Forster. Includes preliminary hearings and presentation of evidence against Albert Forster, trial protocols, testimonies of Polish legal and medical expert witnesses, German documents on restrictions on use of the Polish language, on Polish citizens, and informatoin about the germanization of Polish children; personal documents and speeches of Albert Forster, names lists of Poles killed by Germans, names lists of Poles enrolled in the "Volksliste," census of 1939 of Gdansk and West Prussia, press...

  3. "Needle in a Haystack"

    Contains Paula Agauas's written memoir, 30 pages, pertaining to her childhood in Poland, hiding with a Polish Catholic family during the Holocaust, and moving to Detroit, Michigan in 1949.

  4. Ustaša Supervisory Office - Lists of Murdered Jews

    Various lists with more than 7,000 Jews murdered in the Independent State of Croatia.

  5. Erlich family papers

    Contains a group of photographs, postcards, calling card and document relating to the Erlich family in Kutno, Warsaw and Bedzin and Ida Kowal (donor) in Palestine.

  6. Concentration camp inmate jacket worn by Polish Jewish woman in Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck

    Concentration camp jacket worn by Polish Jewish woman in Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck concentration camps

  7. Hitler lays wreath; Youth meeting; Ninth Party Congress

    Title: "German Sailors Killed in the Spanish Civil War Brought Home on the "Deutschland" 18 June 1937" Hitler lays a wreath commemorating the return of German soldiers killed in the Spanish Civil War and addresses a youth meeting. Title: "Ninth Party Congress 6-13 September 1937" Hitler speaks.

  8. Estare Kurz Weiser papers

    The collection includes a birth certificate, issued post liberation for Estare Weiser, a translation of the birth certificate, and three photographs of Anna Kurz, Estare's mother, and Estare after the war in Switzerland.

  9. Manual

    Handbook for the Nazi Storm Troopers and the Nazi Schutzstaffel elite military forces.

  10. Nazi atrocities; interrogation

    Opening credit: Service Cinema Armee Francaise. Barbed wire at Hadamar. Survivors - Poles and Russians. Lice. Americans tour camps. Piles of victims. Local civilians forced to enter hut with bodies. CUs, captured German. Various shots of corpses, ashes, bone, open graves. 3 men in gas masks lift buried corpses from grave. Americans, doctor in white coat, military start autopsy, examination. Interrogation. Poison bottle. HAS, graves.

  11. Róża Zyto papers

    The papers consist of photographs, identification cards, a diploma, and a report card relating to the Plac family in Poland before and after the Holocaust and in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.

  12. German soldiers in Austria; Celebrating liberation in Paris

    Title: "L'Allemagne entres est ou west" Tank. Border with Austria. Tyrol. Men aboard truck with armbands reading "Heimat," waving, shaking hands. Women in village courtyard, soldiers. CU, flag, memorial pillar with engraved names of towns. HAS, Austrian village. Dead French prisoners, preparing for burial. CUs, photographs. In city, CUs Daladier, Reynaud, Princess de Grace, Clemencau, Gen. Weygand, etc. Soldiers return home, marching with belongings, flag. In Paris, newspaper headlines, "Capitulation sans condition" "Victoire" De Gaulle's voice on loudspeaker, people listening on street, fl...

  13. Germany-Italy pact; Inspecting defenses on West

    Title: "Signing of European Axis Pact 22 May 1939" Hitler attends the signing of the pact between Germany and Italy. Title: "Welcome Home of German Legion from Spanish War 6 June 1939" Hitler reviews troops returned from the Spanish Civil War. Title: "Inspection of West Wall Fortifications August 1939" Hitler inspects West Wall defenses.

  14. Jewish quarter in Amsterdam; preparing Sabbath

    Credits (in Dutch). Roof tops of Amsterdam. HA street scenes. CUs street and business signs in Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Street scenes, houses, canals. Store fronts. Market. Clock tower (INT and EXT), four o'clock. People look at watches. Challahs. VAR scenes of people closing shops, putting away work (including good quality shots of diamond works). Preparing Sabbath at home (candles, cooking, setting table). EXT Portuguese synagogue, men in top hats enter, families. INT, prayer books, VAR shots of synagogue, cantor at bima, shots of men praying. EXT, rooftops of Amsterdam at dusk.

  15. Ray Alcaraz photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of the liberation of a concentration camp near Munich, Germany.

  16. Selected records from the collection LIV, Morocco and Tunisia

    Contains records pertaining to the application of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in Morocco and Tunisia.

  17. Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights letters

    Consists of sets of identical mass-produced letters which were sent to members and prospective members of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, which was founded in New York in 1933. The letters discuss upcoming events, transmit publications (not included with the collection) and thank donors for funds raised.

  18. "Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste"

    Contains six pamphlets entitled, "Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste," copies of an underground newspaper produced by a resistance organization.

  19. Photograph of two women

    The photograph depicts a young girl with her arms around a seated woman.

  20. Annelise B. Hoffman papers

    Contains diplomas, certificates, correspondence, support affidavits, genealogical data and family trees, photographs, and a scrapbook relating to the experiences of the Bernhardt family, Ernst, Ella, and their children Erika, Annelise, and Hans, of Berlin, Germany, during the early years of the Third Reich and their process of emigration to the United States. The collection also contains several photographs and letters relating to Ella Moses Bernhardt's mother, Ida Moses, who perished in Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. The materials in the collection range in date from 1905 to1998. The...