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  1. Irene Hass Shapiro collection

    Contains the donor's recollections of the German invasion of Bialystok (Poland) in September, 1939, the Soviet occupation which occurred shortly thereafter, and the German return on June 27, 1941; the burning of the Jewish quarter; the mass executions of Jewish men; her transfer into the ghetto on August 1, 1941, along with 60,000 other Jews, where she stayed until the ghetto was liquidated in 1943; her transfer, with her mother, to Blizhyn (Poland); her transfer, again with her mother, to Auschwitz concentration camp in May 1944; her transfer to a munitions work camp at Lippstadt (Germany)...

  2. The Jewish Conspiracy Word of the Week Nazi propaganda poster exposing the Jewish conspiracy links to the Allied Nations

    German propaganda poster issued during the week of December 10 to December 16, 1941, from the Parole der Woche (Word of the Week) series. The poster contains a diagram that maps out the alleged power structure and key Jewish figures that controlled the Nazi’s enemies. The accompanying text elaborates on the diagram. It gives brief backgrounds of the key figures, and shows their interconnectedness as well as their familial relationships with world leaders. The antisemitic myth that Jews use their power and influence to manipulate and control world governments is one of the most prevalent and...

  3. Dos Lid Vegn Vald

    Contains information by Moshe Diskant regarding the "environment" around the Kovno ghetto and partisan movements. In handwritten Yiddish; with portions missing.

  4. Print

    Lithgraph of Oranienburg

  5. "Die Letzten Mitglieder der Juedischen Kultusgemeinde Dauborn"

    Consists of a research paper entitled "Die Letzten Mitglieder der Juedischen Kultusgemeinde Dauborn," written by Gerhard Heckelmann in 1995. The paper includes information on the history of the town of Dauborn,Germany, the names and histories of the Jewish families in the community, and what happened to them in the Holocaust. Also includes information about families in the towns of Kirberg, Heringen, and Mensfelden.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers; Munich Pact

    667 KK: Hilly countryside. 03:32:45 Underground bunker with barbed wire. 03:32:54 Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. 03:33:29 Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. 03:34:13 Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). 03:34:26 Ladder. Switchboard. 03:34:45 Nazi Party Rally. 03:35:24 German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM: 03:35:46 Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitle...

  7. Paula Scwamenau Eisenhammer memoir

    Consists of one bound memoir, 59 pages, entitled "Paula" by Paula Scwamenau Eisenhammer, originally of Sniatyn. In the memoir, she describes growing up with family in Sniatyn and Kolomyja, life in the Kolomyja ghetto, a failed attempt to escape to Romania, and escaping from a moving deportation train outside of Majdanek. She returned to Kolomyja and obtained Aryan papers. In the fall of 1942, she traveled to Germany as a forced laborer, hiding her Jewish identity. She was liberated in 1945 and was able to emigrate to the United States in January 1947.

  8. "Wir Fahren aus Theresienstadt; we are leaving Theresienstadt, 1945"

    Collection describes a train scene when inmates were being transported to Auschwitz.

  9. Pestiujsag

    Hungarian newspaper.

  10. Harry Gordon manuscript

    Contains an 360 page handwritten manuscript entitled "The Shadow of Death" by Harry Gordon, which was latter published in English by the University Press of Kentucky in 1992.

  11. Ministry of Polish Armed Forces records relating to Dawid Berencwajg and Baruch Steinberg

    Contain various photocopies of documents and photographs relating to the deaths of Dawid Berencwajg and Baruch Steinberg in Katyn.

  12. Alvin J. Schoenhals letter

    Contains a letter, five pages, written by United States Army Sgt. Alvin J. Schoenhals to his family describing what he saw when he visited the recently-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp on June 14, 1945.

  13. Henry and Grace Dondero photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs of the proceedings of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremburg and Dachau, Germany; one photograph of refugees on the ship "Medina Yehudit" attempting to enter Haifa, Palestine, on December 3, 1947; and a photograph of a little girl waving Israeli and American flags in front of a kosher butcher store in Pittsburgh, Pa., on July 2, 1948.

  14. Lövinsohn family papers

    The Lövinsohn family papers relate to Edith Lövinsohn and Hella Roubicek’s (née Lövinsohn) experience aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers include correspondence sent to Edith from the Hamburg-American Line while aboard the MS St. Louis, a German passport, Cuban immigration cards, photographs of Hella Roubicek taken aboard the MS St. Louis, and views of Cuba and immigration officials on boats in the harbor, as well as two menus for meals served aboard the MS St. Louis. Also included is a Sächsische Schulzeitung newspaper published in Dresden, Germany, dated April 20, 1933, with Adolf Hitler ...

  15. Bartolomej Horansky manuscripts

    Contains three typewritten manuscripts, two untitled and one titled "Meine Erlebnisse mit den Deutschen," written by the donor's late father, Bartolomej Horansky.

  16. Photograph album page

    Page from a Jewish family album that depicts pre-war life in Yugoslavia. Page bears two black and white photographs on recto and one on verso. Found in front of photo album [Ref 1]

  17. Book

  18. Liz Bader collection

    Contains information regarding the donor's wartime experiences in Germany as a little girl; briefly discusses the situation of father's business; photograph is of donor and friend.

  19. Morris family collection

    Contains Danielle Alix Morris's personal memoir and a photocopy of her mother's arrestrecord. Danielle Alix Morris's memoir describes her move closer to the Swiss border after Germany annexed Alsace and hiding in the countryside of France. This collection also includes excerpts from her mother's memoir which describe Gestapo interrogation, experiences in Drancy, deportations to Auschwitz, and her father's escape to Switzerland.

  20. The Binning P. Chambers papers

    Documents, newspaper clippings, and a letter relating to Mauthausen concentration camp and Franz Ziereis.