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  1. Klopstock family papers

    The Klopstock family papers include biographical material, emigration and immigration material, correspondence, publications, and photographs documenting Johanna Klaus and Norbert, Hilda, Ruth, and Liselotte Klopstock’s immigration to the United States from Berlin in 1940. The collection also includes documents and correspondence from Norbert Klopstock while imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and the Kitchener internment camp in Richborough, Kent. Biographical materials include a copy of Hilda Klopstock’s birth certificate and a German passport and identity card for J...

  2. Photogaph album belonging to a United States soldier

    Contains a photo album compiled by a US soldier, handed to Lt. Colonel Hands, US Army during WWII.

  4. Motl Beker collection

    Contains a black-and-white photograph and a brief biographical sketch of the donor's uncle, Motl Beker, a Lithuanian Jew, who along with his entire family and the rest of the Jewish population of Janova, was shot in June 1941.

  5. Records relating to twins in Auschwitz

    Collection contains photocopied lists of names and certificates of twins who were used in Josef Mengele's medical experiements in 1944 at Auschwitz II.

  6. Photograph album page

    Page from a Jewish family album that depicts pre-war life in Yugoslavia. Loose photo album page with two binder perforations, bearing two black and white photographs on recto and two on verso. Found in front of photo album [Ref 1]

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rotterdam - Spring 1939

    703 J: April 20 and 21, 1939. German boats with Nazi flag on the River Maas at Rotterdam, railway bridge in BG. Other boats. 05:43:48 Canal between Dutch houses. Barges at River Maas and liner "Statendam" in BG. Church. 05:44:27 View of Colingselstraat in Rotterdam, the main shopping street. Handing out flyers. Barges in Lloyd harbor with factory and ship in BG (used for taking merchandise from Dutch colonies to small towns). Docks. 05:45:16 Cargo and sacks, unloading boxes. Produce of Dutch East Indies on bale, bamboo canes. 703 O: 05:46:04 Dutch Army in North Brabant, May 1, 1939 statione...

  8. Records relating to postcards from Jewish ghettos in Poland

    Contains photocopies of postcards from various ghettos during the Holocaust. Morris Rosen prepared the English captions.

  9. The autobiography of a fearless fighter in Nazi Germany and Shanghai exile

    Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.

  10. Peter Laband collection

    Consists of one memoir, 71 pages, in typed and handwritten German, written by Dr. Paul Laband in 1938 after his release from the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was imprisoned for 1937-1938. In the memoir, he describes many details of daily life, and began writing the memoir almost immediately after his release, when his family emigrated to Trinidad. Includes an English language typed translation written by Dr. Laband's son, Peter Laband.

  11. Magdalena Nadler Vasadi memoir

    Consists of a typewritten account, one page, of Magdalena Nadler Vasaldi's experiences in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps and on a death march from Auschwitz.

  12. Interview with Mrs. Minsky: a transcript

    Contains information regarding Mrs. Minsky's Holocaust related experiences in Warsaw, Poland; life and work in the Warsaw ghetto; Nazi actions taken against the Jews in the ghetto; discusses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; life in Majdanek and Auschwitz; and the death march in Jan.1945.

  13. Emlékfoszlányok Hazateres -- Az ut

    Consists of a typewritten manuscript, 36 pages, entitled "Emlékfoszlányok" ("Fragments of memories") containing two short stories, "Hazateres" ("Returning home"), in which she describes her journey home from Miskolc, Hungary, where she was attending college, to Munkacs, Hungary in 1944, and "Az ut" ("The journey"), in which she describes her three-day journey in 1944 in a cattle car from Munkacs to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  14. Cyla Furcayg photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard of David Furcayg and his wife and children in Poland in 1938 and a copy print of the Furcayg family and their housekeeper in Poland in 1916 (Mayer Furcayg is in the high chair). Captions on the verso are in Yiddish and English. All of Mayer Furcayg's immediate family were deported to Treblinka death camp where they perished.

  15. Selected records of the World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Sub-series 3: Location Service

    Contains location lists of survivors, known dead, and inmates of concentration and refugee camps. [Note: These records are reproduced along with the rest of Series D in RG-67.011M.]

  16. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Church/religious ceremony in Warsaw; Cardinal Hlond

    November 16, 1947: Cardinal August Hlond arriving in car. Priests, clergy entering the heavily damaged All Saints Catholic Church in Warsaw, including Hlond and Mgr. Sigismund Kaczynski, ex-member of the Polish government in exile at London. 02:46:03 Religious procession on street. Archbishops of Poland talking to Hlond in Kaczynski's office at the residence of the Cardinal of Warsaw. Reverend Michael Kolbuch, Provincial of Poland and father of La Salette Congregation, bowing to Hlond. Children offering flowers. 02:48:16 October 18, 1947: Destroyed church St. Alexander's Church at "Place of...

  18. Aron Tsakh collection

    Collection contains photocopies of a memoir and certificates, in Russian, and of a letter, dated April 22, 1997, in English, from the donor "To Mister Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany," asking for help in locating a German officer who helped him escape from the Nazis.

  19. Portfolio

    Reproductions of sixteen lithographs by Stefan Horsky, with two accompanying pages of text of Oranienburg

  20. Министерство на вътрешните работи и народного здраве Selected records from the collection of the Ministry of Interior and Public Health of Bulgaria Ministerstvo na vŭtreshnite raboty i narodnogo zdrave

    Contains records relating to adoption of the “Defense of the Nation Act”, the creation of concentration camps, the deportation of Jews from Macedonia and Thrace, and the People’s Courts documentation of postwar trials. Includes correspondence with the Jewish community of Sofia and the Police Department; and reports regarding Jewish owned enterprises and Jews hiding in Rila Monastery, etc.