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  1. Dominic Gasbarri photographs

    The Dominic Gasbarri photographs consist of thirty black and white photographs of victims, survivors, and facilities at the liberated Ebensee concentration camp and one photograph of Dominic Gasbarri. Many of photographs include Gasbarri's descriptions of survivors, facilities, and daily life at the liberated camp on the verso.

  2. English translation of "Woss ich hob durchgelebt Was ich durchgemacht habe"

    Contains an English translation of "Woss ich hob durchgelebt Was ich durchgemacht habe," Klara Schachter's published memoir about her Holocaust experiences.

  3. German invasion, territorial expansion

    Reel 4: Text superimposed on screen re: Norway and Germany. "9 April 1940" Aerial shots of parachutes. Civilians watch silently as troops march by, some frightened, women running (quick), very soft, street chaos, streets in flames, crowds piling into trucks, fearful faces, some weeping. Troops. Text superimposed on screen re: invasion of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg. 05:30:18 "10 May 1940" Troops, night shots. LS, silhouettes of buildings on fire. Text superimposed on screen re: invasion of Yugoslavia. 05:31:15 "6 April 1941" Planes dropping bombs, explosions. Soldiers running down country ...

  4. Moje zycie

    Contains a memoir about Ajzk Grinberg's experiences during the Holocaust.

  5. Budapest Főváros Levéltára

    Consists of records filmed in Hungarian archives by Yad Vashem. The reels are labeled, JM/13176 through JM/13196.

  6. Giovanni Palatucci papers

    Contains a biography of Giovanni Palatucci (1909-1944), who, as the police commissioner of Fiume, on the Italian coast, worked to ensure the safe migration of refugees, prevent the looting of Jewish homes, hid files, and supplied money to refugees attempting to escape the Gestapo. In September 1944, he was arrested and sent to Dachau, where he perished. He was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Includes a certificate honoring Palatucci and the typed testimony of Goty Bauer of Milan, Italy, regarding his experiences with Palatucci.

  7. Felber family correspondence

    The Felber family correspondence consists primarily of letters from Eta Birnbaum in Leipzig to her sister Erna and her children Lilli and Norbert in Belgium and France in 1940 and 1941. These letters describe her loneliness and unease, her worries about her imprisoned husband Markus Felber, and her reactions to plans to send her children to relatives in the United States. Most of the correspondence is original, but some letters are photocopies.

  8. Selected records of Lucien Lublin related to resistance (CMXX)

    Contains materials, collected and assembled by Lucien Lublin, related to Jews in the French Resistance and to post-war Jewish French Resistance organizations.

  9. Striem family papers

    Contains a photocopy of Rolf Striem's birth certificate, the last letters he received from his parents in Germany, and copies of his obituary.

  10. Selected records from Fonds Diamant (CMXXV-CMXXVI)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by David Erlich (a.k.a. David Diamant), a French-Jewish Resistance fighter, concerning his own activities in the Resistance and his life before and after the War. Also contains news articles and essays, assembled by Erlich, concerning his writings about the French-Jewish Resistance.

  11. Sarah Eckstein Grebenau a memoir

    Contains a memoir, 12 pages, about Sarah Eckstein Grebenau's work as a member of the Jewish Relief Unit formed toward the end of World War II under the auspices of the Central British Fund.

  12. Alec Ward memoir

    The Alec Ward memoir is a 13 page memoir entitled "My Story" by Alec Ward. In the memoir, Mr. Ward describes life in the Magnuszew ghetto, the ghetto Kozenice in the district of Radom, slave labor camps Skarzysko Kamienna and Rakow, as well as life in the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Buchenwald subcamp of Flößberg, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  13. Henryk Glucksman photograph collection

    The photographs depict the Glucksman family before and during the Holocaust in Wadowice, Poland; Jewish men in the Gogolin labor camp in Poland in 1941; and Maria Pelikant Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s wife, Noemi Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s daughter, and Kamila Rozenberg and Emma Datner, Henryk Glucksman's in-laws, in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963. Captions on verso in Polish.lish.

  14. Photograph of corpses at a concentration camp

    The photograph was taken at the liberation of a concentration camp, possibly Ohrdruf or Buchenwald, and depicts a large group of corpses stacked against the wall of a brick building.

  15. Book

  16. Peter Steindler papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Margarethe Löwy Steindler [donor's mother] in the ghetto in Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia dated 1/7/1945, and a worker's pass issued to Margarethe Steindler in 1944 in Theresienstadt

  17. Doris Jacobson collection

    Contains six newspapers; one ticket to a handball competition as part of the 1936 Olympics; one map of the Berlin transit system; two passenger lists and two menus from the Queen Mary from March 1938; two postcards; and one letter, dated 1925, from a secretary to Kaiser Wilhelm II.

  18. William C. Christianson papers relating to Nuremberg war crime trials

    Contains mimeograph copies of trial transcripts, mimeograph copies of evidence documents, memoranda, notes (typescripts and handwritten) and some correspondence relating to Judge William C. Christianson's involvement in the Wilhelmstrasse and Frick cases at Nuremberg. Also includes general notes on the cases; resumes of the prosecution cases; memoranda from defense lawyers; notes on legal precedents and source; statements by defense witnesses; notes on history of slave labor; and documents submitted as evidence in the trials. The records date generally from 1946 to 1948.

  19. Emigration

    Contains photocopies of documents form Archives du Comite International de la Croix-Rouge record group G47.

  20. Selected records from collection DXLIX, Archives of the Sixième et de la Resistance Juives

    Contains forged, falsified, and stolen documents used by the French Jewish rescue organization “Sixième” in the conduct of their operations during the German occupation of France.