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  2. Dina Littman photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of David Kuperman [donor's brother] and Leibul Mendelman [donor's cousin] taken in Zgierz, Poland; a photograph of Moshe Pinches Leyzerowich [donor's maternal grandfather]; and a copy photograph of Jacob and Miriam Kuperman [donor's parents] and their children (David, Regina, Macheia, Molley, and Dina) taken in Zgierz, Poland.

  3. Undzer lid = Our song

    Collection contains an original typescript of Yiddish music lyrics with annotations made by Kaczerginski (1908-1954). It was discovered folded in a book regarding Kaczerginski. The collection also contains the translation which was used in the booklet to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum compact disk, "Rise up and fight! Songs of Jewish partisans."

  4. Basia McDonnell papers

    The papers consist of nine photographs of Basia Israel [donor] and her parents, Tosha and Izryl Israel, in the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, and an autograph book dated 1928 belonging to Tosha Israel that survived in hiding with Izryl Israel during the Holocaust.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Buenos Aires

    INT "Casa Rosada" [Pink House], the official residence and executive office of President Ortiz in Buenos Aires. MS, CU, Weddell, Breckinridge Long, President Ortiz, and Foreign Minister Cantilo talking on couch. 01:43:03 Group of men in suits, including men from before. 01:44:58 Buildings, trams, horse and carts, in front of US Embassy in Buenos Aires, guards. 01:45:50 INT, staircase. Weddell and his butler. 01:46:54 Plaque to Franklin Roosevelt. 01:47:43 Shaking hands and greeting visitors for official reception. 01:50:16 EXT, embassy, cars coming and going. 01:51:43 Guests outside. 01:52:...

  6. Postcard from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    Postcard sent from Theresienstadt Ghetto to Basel, Switzerland, during World War II. Inscribed on both sides; recto, address on right side; return address upper left corner: "Ms. Elli Schachiau/Theresienstadt" [writing partially illegible].

  7. Charles Burns collection

    The Charles Burns collections contains two drafts of Douglas Kelley’s book, 22 Cells in Nuremberg. The book describes the psychological profiles of high ranking members of the Nazi party, who eventually stood trial at the Nuremberg War Trials. Douglas Kelley who was in charge of evaluating the defendants, writes of his experiences with the individuals. The drafts are heavily edited by Kelley’s editor, Charles Burns. Also included in this collection are some notes made by Charles Burns, a letter to other editors about the book, and some news clippings concerning notorious Nazi members. The C...

  8. Recollections of a painful past

    Contains Alec Feiner's memoir describing his childhood in prewar Krakow, Poland; his family's experiences in Lvov, Poland (a.k.a. L'viv, Ukraine) to which they fled following the German invasion of Poland; in Fediakovo, a Soviet labor camp in the Ural Mountains region to which they were deported in July 1940; in Solvychegodsk and Kharitonovo, Soviet Union, in Lublin, Poland following the Soviet invasion in 1944, in postwar Krakow, Poland, Vienna, Austria and the United States. An "Epilogue" describes Alec Feiner's 1996 trip to Russia to revisit sites of his wartime experiences.

  9. Gefangnenbuch, Strafgefaengnis Wolfenbuetel

    Photocopies of oversize pages of a prisoner register from Wolfenbuetel Prison in Lower Saxony where the Jewish deportees from the region (Braunschweig, Luenburg, etc.) were registered by the Gestapo and held November 10-11, 1938. There are also some arrests from before and after Kristallnacht listed.

  10. Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe Jewish Social Mutual Assistance Zespoł Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Sygn. 211)

    Contains correspondence between the head office in Kraków and the local branches in the General Government relating to the organization’s activities and relations with the German and Polish authorities. Records include financial and organizational materials, personal files of the staff, correspondence, post war copies. The index of names and places is included in finding aid.

  11. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Cemetery in Łódź; dead honored

    October 18, 1947: Polish authorities at funeral of American soldiers in a Catholic Polish church. Clergy, US military, people on pews in church. 03:01:17 Coffin with American flag over it. Religious ceremony, including American Ambassador Stanton Griffis, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, and Edward Raymond, Agricultural Attache at the Embassy. 03:02:14 American soldiers salute. Polish soldiers and Polish flag. Wreaths carried out. Clergy leave. 03:03:19 Putting wreaths in hearse. Polish officers shaking hands with American officers. 03:04:16 Military procession, coffin on road in Warsaw. 03:05:15 Nove...

  14. Soviet War News Weekly Oswiecim

    Newspaper containing text and photographs of the liberation of Auschwitz.

  15. Scheiner family papers

    The Scheiner family papers consists of a German passport issued to David Scheiner, Bertha Scheiner Freud’s brother, on September 8, 1938; a German passport issued to Helene Scheiner, Bertha Freud’s sister-in-law, on May 6, 1940; a German certificate issued by S. Katz & Co. in Vienna, Austria stating that Berta (Bertha) Scheiner has been dismissed as part of the Aryanization of the company, June 30, 1938; a letter in German from the Oesterreichische Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein stating that the bearer Berta Scheiner is allowed to take RM 30 to England and that no other privileges have...

  16. Photograph of German soldiers humiliating Jewish men

    The photograph depicts two German soldiers posing for the camera and holding the beards of two Jewish men while a third man looks on.

  17. Egon Anderson collection

    Consists of five photographs of Allied soldiers burying bodies in an unidentified concentration camp after liberation.

  18. Laura Sacerdote Perrini collection

    The collection documents the Holocast-era experiences of Laura Sacerdote Perrini of Saluzzo, Italy and her relative Abramo Segre of Chivasso, Italy. Included are a handwritten personal narrative in Italian authored by Laura regarding her Holocaust experiences in Italy; two letters authored by Abramo to his fiancee Lucia Bracco, along with a will, dated 7 December 1943; and a genealogical chart of Sacerdote Perrini and Segre families. The letters are dated 30 November and 7 December 1943, and include transcriptions and English translations. The 7 December 1943 letter and will were written by...

  19. Izabela Biezunska-Malowist false identification card

    The identification card ("Kennkarte") was issued to Izabela Biezunska-Malowist under the alias "Janina Truszcynska" by the Polish underground.

  20. Rachelle Silberman Goldstein collection

    Contains a yellow star; two Belgian identity cards issued to Rachelle Silberman Goldstein's mother, Sabina Silberman, a false identity in the name of Alice Jeanne Van Dam and a postwar identity card; and a booklet containing a list of passengers on the S.S. Washington, September 1-2, 1950, which includes the names of the Silberman family members immigrating to the United States. The photographs contain images taken in hiding of Jacques and Rachelle Silberman and family photographs taken before and after World War II.