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  1. Oral history interview with Jeanne Rothschild

  2. Fritz G. Cohen collection

    The Fritz G. Cohen collection consists of 37 handwritten postcards, in German, sent from Hannover, Germany, dated 1940-1942, from Lina Cohen, the donor's grandmother, or Margarete Liepmann, or Bertha Abrahamsohn, the donor's aunt, and sent to Hete or Henry Vaderborght or Mimi Lambucht in Brussels (Belgium), and to Dr. J. Gramegna in Genoa, Italy. All the postcards are addressed to "My dear child" or "My dear children" and describe daily family life in Hannover, Germany. The death certificate is from Terezin and dated March 30, 1943; it states that Lina Cohen died in Terezin February 20, 1943.

  3. Ernst Rothstein affidavit letter

    The letter concerns an affidavit of support for Ernst Rothstein, a victim in a concentration camp, and was written to Hertha Shickler by a member of the firm Bendix, Luitweiler & Co.

  4. Military pass

    The military government pass was issued in Stadt Nordhausen to Emil Davidovits [donor's husband], a liberated victim, allowing him to travel to Kassel, Germany, to find his wife and return home.

  5. Kurt I. Lewin collection

    Consists of photographs and papers related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Kurt I. Lewin [donor]. Includes identity cards, permits to travel, work permits, documents forged while the donor was in hiding as a Studite monk, Polish army documents, entry documents into Palestine, and photographs of family members and of Studite clergy members. Also includes Mr. Lewin's handwritten 1947 memoir, "Aliti MiSpezia," as well as Polish and Hebrew typed transcripts of the same. The memoir describes his childhood, wartime, and postwar experiences.

  6. Trude Stern Binder memoir

    Contains Trude Stern Binder's memoir which describes her escape from Austria to Zagreb,Yugoslavia, life in an Italian refugee camp, experiences in Auschwitz, and reunion with her sisters in New York in 1946.

  7. Dana Bruden collection

    Letter was written by donor's great aunt in 1940 documenting her trip back to Germany in order to help her mother escape from Germany.

  8. Roman Haar collection

    The Roman Haar collection contains documents from Roman’s childhood, growing up in Poland. The photographs in the collection are mainly of Roman, but some show him posing with his father Salo, and his mother Erna, and his half-brother Joachim Fritsche. The larger photograph taken in 1943 is of Roman while he was hiding in Rzeszow, and one photograph from 1946 is of Roman, Erna, and Joachim. Another photo is from a children’s Purim holiday play put on while at Foehrenwald displaced persons (DP) camp. Also within the collection is a document ordering Roman to be separated from his mother and ...

  9. Exclusion, Dispersal, Extermination: Jews in Schwerin, 1933-1945 Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Bernichtung: Juden in Schwerin, 1933-1945

    Contains a report entitled "Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Bernichtung: Juden in Schwerin, 1933-1945" ("Exclusion, Dispersal, Extermination: Jews in Schwerin, 1933-1945") by Bernd Kasten, with translations by Rolf Meyersohn. Provides information regarding the community of Schwerin with descriptions of the businesses, entrepreneurs, and factory directors; relations with Berlin and the Nazi party; Kristallnacht and its aftermath; the role of the town's physicians; boycotting of the craftsmen and workers; emigration and hiding of school-aged children; fates of the elderly; Mischlinge; relations wit...

  10. John Leh II collection

    Collection contains a letter written by the donor to his parents in May 1945 describing his experiences in the 82nd Airborne Division and his visit to Wobbelin concentration camp. These excerpts are not the originals but copies which were used in a publication.

  11. Oral history interview with John Weidner

  12. Ehrlichman and Leibovich families papers

    The papers consist of a release/discharge notification ("Entlassungsanzeige") issued to Mordechai Ehrlichman [donor's father] by a German prison in Marseille, France; five identification cards issued to Golda Leibovich [under name "Maria-Angelica Georgescu" [donor's mother], Nathan Pizon [under name "Jean Pizon" - donor's first cousin], Mordechai Ehrlichman, and Chaja Ehrlichman [donor's mother]; and two copies of a document regarding the distribution of gas masks that was issued to Joseph Leibovici [sic].

  13. Ignacy Steinkeller identification card

    The document served as identification for Ignacy Steinkeller, interned during the Holocaust and liberated in Flossenbürg, Germany. The document was issued by Alfred Ziegler, Infantry Captain in the United States Army.

  14. Commissariat général aux questions juives (AJ 38)

    This collection contains records relating to the operations of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ), established by the Vichy government of France in March 1941. The CGQJ was responsible for defining Jewish status; inventorying Jews and their possessions prior to property Aryanization; excluding Jews from the French economy; implementing anti-Jewish laws and regulations; and arresting, interning, and deporting foreign and French Jews. Included are a variety of documents relating to the CGQJ’s operations during the German occupation, as well as records form the Ministre des F...

  15. NSDAP pin

    National-Sozialisteische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("N.S.D.A.P.") [National Socialist German Workers Party] membership pin.

  16. Fred Feld papers

    The Fred Feld papers consists of a passport ("Reisepass") stamped with a " J" issued to Mathias Scheer [Fred Feld's uncle] in Austria on December 1, 1938, and two postcards written by Baruch Wiener in Tarnów, Poland, to his brother-in-law, Mathias Scheer in Brooklyn , N.Y. in September 1941.

  17. Michal Van Dommelen papers

    The papers consist of an immigration identification card issued to Marianne Bohnstedt [donor] by the American consulate in Panama and a letter sent by the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] on behalf of Dr. Joseph Norden in Hamburg, Germany, to his daughter, Bertha Bohnstedt [donor's mother], in Alliance, Ohio.

  18. Betsy Lalich collection

    Contains a memoir written by the donor in the form of a letter which gives a brief biography of her grandfather, Stojan Knezevich, a Serbian farmer living in Mutilich (Yugoslavia) who was killed by Croatian Ustashi in 1944; and copies of photographs, circa 1935-1936, showing Jovan Knezevich, brother of Stojan Knezevich, at the dedication of a monument to King Alexander of Yugoslavia, who had been killed by Croatian Ustaša (Ustashi) in France in 1934.

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  20. Marie Rosenberg-Swaalep collection

    Collection contains information regarding the whereabouts of the donor's family. One surviving member of the family, Marie Swaalep, was issued a displaced persons index card and travel passes to Sweden in May 1945. Collection also contains original registers of death from the Koninkrijk der Nederlanden for Marianne van Kollem, Abraham Swaalep, and Sophie Swaalep; and photocopies of statements regarding the deaths of Berta Dwinger, Alida Geertruida Kon, Juliana deGroot, and Elly Vleeschhouwer.