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  1. Oral history interview with Bruno Eidinger

  2. The stories of our lives Chaim Szyja and Dwojrele Neuman

    Contains Chaim Yehoshua Neuman's 93-page handwritten memoir, in Yiddish, in which he describes his life in pre-war Poland; the increasing persecution of Jews which followed the German invasion of Poland in September 1939; his experiences in the Sosnoftza and Srodula ghettos; his work in a tailor shop and a clothing factory; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp, circa August 1943; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp a few weeks later, where he worked in the tailor's shop; his transfer by train to Buchenwald concentration camp during January 1945; his transfer to Rehmsdorf ...

  3. Heinz Praeger papers

    The Heinz Praeger papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Heinz Praeger, his prewar life in Germany, and his wartime years as a refugee with his wife and son in Shanghai. Biographical materials include three copies of a brief biography of Heinz Praeger by Michael Carlon describing Praeger’s childhood in Berlin, antisemitic persecution in the 1930s, his imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his relocation to Shanghai, meeting and marrying his wife, the birth of their son, the family’s immigration to the United States, and their lives in New...

  4. "Inside the Nuremberg trials: a prosecutor's comprehensive account"

    Contains drafts of the preface and several chapters from a proposed book by Drexel A.Sprecher, based on his experiences serving with the Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

  5. Oral history interview with Bernard Helitzer

  6. S. Z. Kantor collection

    Contains two copies of "Public Status of the International Red Cross Committee under International Law and Publicity of its Activities and Reports"; a copy of a transcribed letter from S.Z. Kantor to Cordell Hull, July 28, 1943; copy of a transcribed letter from S. Z. Kantor to Norman H. Davis, March 6, 1944; five photographs from Ohrdruf following Liberation taken by a friend of Gideon Kantor; and one photocopied article about S.Z. Kantor, former president of the Vienna Bar Association.

  7. Return home: from the diary of Ms. Gorzędowska

    Collection contains an excerpt from the donor's diary describing her underground schoolwork in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to her Gestapo arrest in May 1943. After being beaten in the Warsaw prison, Gorzędowska was sent to Auschwitz until January 1945. On January 17, 1945, she and others were led on a four-day march to an unnamed train depot, packed into boxcars, and taken to Ravensbrück; she arrived on January 25, 1945. In February 1945, she and others were transported to a camp located at Neustadt-Gleve. While there, Gorzędowska was able to be detailed to "house help" in the children's b...

  8. Piano tribute to the victims of the Holocaust

    Contains a piano composition written by Matt Wilder, an eighth grade student at Yorktown Middle School, Yorktown, Indiana, in remembrance to the victims of the Holocaust.

  9. Essays by the Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs

    Contains two essays: "A Jewish military force" and "Palestine and the Arab world." Discusses the need for a Jewish military and the implications of establishing one.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    December 5-6, 1938. Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. 04:20:42 LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. 04:21:28 Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods [staged]. LS of man peering through bush. 04:22:31 VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. 04:22:45 VS of them listening to radio. 04:23:17 VS in dormitory playing ukelele and singing. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at ca...

  11. Efim Yurkovetski collection

    Contains a handwritten memoir, in Russian, of Efim Yurkovetski (also spelled Iourkovetsky or Yurkovetsky)) and photocopies of two documents, in Russian, relating to his Holocaust experiences in Odessa, Domanevka and Akhmetchetka (Transnistria, now Ukraine) and Viktorivka (now Ukraine) from October 1941 to March 1944.

  12. Louis Drucker collection, 1945

    The collection consists of photographs taken by American Soldier Louis Drucker at the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Gardelegen, and Reims, France. Includes depictions of survivors, bodies, graves, German prisoners of war, and American and Soviet soldiers. Many of the photographs are annotated by Drucker on verso.

  13. Nazi swastika armband acquired by an American POW

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- German Anti-Jewish Riots

    German anti-Jewish riots. Quick flash of store window "Jude" and Jewish Star. 04:09:22 Three folks looking in. SS on second SS shoulders' putting up poster. 04:09:35 LS, in crowded sidewalk (car camera) Jewish star. SS look at camera, street sounds, honking horns. Footage of the New Synagoue in Berlin from September 1932: Interior of synagogue. 04:09:50 Women singing (in choir). Cantor Leo Gollanin sings the Kol Nidre on the evening before Yom Kippur, 1932. LS of synagogue interior. 04:10:57 SS on cars, bike hangs on, street again, crowded sidewalk. Back to synagogue, LS of bimah.

  15. Eyewitness account of the Buchenwald concentration camp Weimar, Germany

    A letter from John M. Boykin to Blanch Starke, dated April 20, 1945, describing his experiences at Buchenwald concentration camp.

  16. Oral history interview with Adele Strummer

  17. Ruth Taenzer collection

    Consists of correspondence written from Paula Teitelbaum to Ruth Schiller between 1938-1945. Ruth emigrated to the United States in April 1939, but her friend Paula remained in Europe and wrote to her throughout the war, describing her experiences, including the arrest of her father in 1940.

  18. Certification of Iosif Gavi's partisan activities

    Contains original and photocopy of a temporary certificate, in Russian, and a photocopy of a permanent certificate, in Russian and Belorussian, stating that Iosif Semionovich Gavi participated in partisan activities in Belorussia during the Great Patriotic War from May 1943 to July 1944.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Mosque; Arabs in Palestine

    Road junction with Syrian and Transjordanian borders. Buses, signpost "Jerusalem Trans Jordan South" and "Frontier Syria". 06:32:45 Desert, cows, sea. People on beach. 06:33:24 Jassar Mosque at end of road, old market square in FG. Teachers walking. 06:34:19 Entrance, students walking up and down. Playing board games. 06:35:25 Reading mail. Street scenes with camels, busy 06:36:07 Men drinking tea/coffee. 06:36:45 Shot of busy square. Band walk past. 06:37:45 Arab women and children. 06:38:47 Shot of town. Street, countryside. 06:40:21 Men walking in FG, Khalissa Arab Market, merchants, but...

  20. Dora Weiner collection

    Contains photographs, ration cards, postcards from Gurs and Drancy, certification documents, a passport, souvenir menus and programmes from the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, and permit documents relating to the life of Dora Weiner (Dwojra Raca Rubinsztejn, February 17, 1927) from 1942 to 1957.