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  1. Selected records of the Jewish labor camps in Slovakia

    Contains photocopies of documents, photographs and architectural drawings relating to the establishment of the labor camps in Sered, Novǎky, and Vyhne, Slovakia, the incorporation of Jews into the camps, and the function and structure of the camps. Also included is an English-language essay on the camps.

  2. Memories of and from Robert "Shanghai Bob" Goldman

    Contains a memoir, 27 pages, about Robert "Shanghai Bob" Goldman living in Shanghai in the early 1940s and assistance by the (HIAS) Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the (AJDC) American Joint Distribution Committee.

  3. Hitler/Hindenburg poster

    Poster with drawing of Hitler shaking hands with Hidenburg with large "1" and swastika and text in black, "In grosster Not Adolf Hitler zum wahltauch wahlte Hindenburg Reichskanzler Ihr. Liste 1"

  4. Dem herrn Landeskommisar

    Scrapbook containing information about the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, memorial ceremonies held there after World War II, and newspaper articles about various concentration camps.

  5. Centrala Przesiedleńcza Policji Bezpieczeństwa, Ekspozytura w Zamościu (Sygn. 43)

    Contains files 1 through 72 from the record group 513, records of the Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Umwandererzentralle Posen, Zweigstelle Zamosc, dating from 1942 to 1944.

  6. Lorraine Glendinning collection

    The Lorraine Glendinning collection consists of items sent from Lorraine Pressler (later Lorraine Glendinning) in Nuremberg, Germany, to her parents in Missouri, August 1946, including a map of the seating arrangement of the courtroom for the International Military Tribunal (IMT); a visitor pass to the Tribunal (session 390); a letter from Lorraine with envelope; and a newspaper with front page article about the International Military Tribunal entitled "Das Nurnberg Urteil" [The Nuremberg Judgement], with images of defendants, their judgement and sentence.

  7. Albert Wesley Barthelmes letter

    Contains a copy of a three-page letter written by Albert Wesley Barthelmes to his parents about the liberation of a concentration camp.

  8. Peter Mansbacher papers

    The Peter Mansbacher papers include a memoir, correspondence files, and subject files documenting Mansbacher’s efforts to obtain a visa to the United States, his passage to England on a Kindertransport, subsequent internment in England and Canada, and eventual immigration to the United States. Mansbacher's 1991 memoir, Refugee from Nazi Oppression: an Autobiography by Peter Mansbacher, describes his childhood in Lübeck, his wartime experiences in England, the completion of his education in Canada, and his eventual move to the Chicago, Illinois area. It includes photographic copy prints and ...

  9. Trial against Ludwig Fischer Proces Ludwika Fischera (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains selected files (NTN File 48-81, and 552-558) of the investigative materials, transcripts of trials, witness statements, arrest warrants, evidentiary documents, sketches, diagrams, maps and other court documents relating to the trial of Ludwig Fischer, Joseph Meisinger, Max Daume, and Ludwig Leist, relating to crimes committed during the German occupation, while Fischer was governor of the Warsaw district of the Generalgouvernement, from 1939 until 1945.

  10. Salomon family papers

    The Salomon family papers consists of correspondence and emigration and immigration files documenting Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon’s unsuccessful efforts to immigrate to the United States from Berlin. The collection also includes correspondence from Marianne Adler, Hermann and Edith’s daughter, and Elsbeth Stern, Hermann’s sister, documenting their efforts to bring their family to the Unites States. Salomon family correspondence includes wartime letters among Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon to Marianne Adler and Elsbeth Stern about Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte’s efforts to immi...

  11. Triumph of the Will: Nazi Party Rally 1934, Hitler, Labor Corps, SA

    {No Titles} Excerpt from "Triumph of the Will" Hitler speaks at several day and night rallies. RAD - Labor Corps day at Nuremberg. Hitler: "Heil, Reichs Arbeitsmaenner!" RAD man: "Kamerad, woher stammst du?" Replies: Aus Friesenland. Aus Schlesien.... 01:49:50 Hitler begins speech to RAD assembled on vast field. SA section, nighttime rally and speech. 01:53:00 Hitler Youth Day: Drums, music, von Schirach speaks to field of HJ. Followed by Hitler speech to HJ. To 01:58:15, followed by long cheers, heils, and Hitler in open car around stadium saluting ranks of Hitler Youth.

  12. Gouache painting of a prisoner at the Majdanek concentration camp

  13. Photograph of corpses at a concentration camp after liberation

    The photograph depicts corpses laying on the ground at a concentration camp at the time of liberation.

  14. Maurice Schellekes memoir

    Contains a 1981 memoir with information about Maurice Schellekes's experiences in Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps as well as the fates of his family members during the Holocaust.

  15. Bericht meiner Berliner Jahre im Untergrund

    Contains a memoir with information about Margitta Donig Salzmann's experiences in the Underground and the fate of her family during the Holocaust.

  16. Bloch family papers

    The papers of the Bloch family papers include biographical information as well as records documenting claims made by Norbert and Gretel Bloch and Käthe Bremer to receive restitution for losses and damages suffered under the Third Reich. Biographical materials include family trees; birth, marriage, and death certificates; passports and identity cards; travel papers; naturalization papers; school records; and vaccination records for Norbert and Gretel Bloch and Käthe Bremer as well as for Max and Hildegard Chodowski and Amalie and Gertrude Sichel. Claims include the burning and looting of the...

  17. Provincial administration in Białystok Urząd Wojewódzki w Białymstoku (Sygn. 71)

    Contains reports, registers, and various other documents from the Repatriation Department, General Political Branch, and the Social Branch of the Bialystok Provincial Administration dating from 1944 to 1950. The records contain information about repatriation, terrorism by underground groups, religious confessions, minority groups in Bialystok, including Jews, and war damage to Jewish communities.

  18. Rosa Marx family letters

    Rosa Marx received the postcards and letters from her parents, living in Vienna, Austria, from 1939 Nov. to 1941 Oct. 14 while living in New York with an aunt and uncle.

  19. Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia

    Documents on the Jews in the Ustaša state, including papers of German police official Hans Helm and of German military units. Subjects include the changing of Jewish surnames, the designation of Jews and Jewish-owned businesses, the prohibition of Jews in public places, the prohibition of work by Jews in “Aryan” households, the compulsory labor of Jews, the emigration of Jews to Palestine in 1943, Jews arrested in the Daruvar district in 1942, records of the Kraljevice camp from 1942, and further regulations against Jews and “Mischlinge” in 1943.

  20. Slovaquie - resistance

    Contains copies of documents from the DII collection at the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris, France. Includes copies of official documents concerning the surveillance, persecution and internment of Jews from Slovakia, including information about resistance movements.