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  1. Pamphlet

  2. Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers

    The Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers consist of biographical materials, a memoir, photographs, and a postcard documenting Jack Glotzer’s family in pre‐war and wartime Rohatyn and Jack and Beatrice Glotzer’s immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical materials include the meal card Beatrice Glotzer used during her passage to the United States, an International Refugee Organization medical tag issued to her when the ship reached Boston Harbor, and two report cards issued to Edmund Glotzer in 1938 and 1939. Jack Glotzer’s memoir, I Survived the German Holocaust Against All Odds: A ...

  3. Helga Roth collection

    Contains material relating to Alma Frieda Exner, nee Held, consisting of a brief memoir of her daughter, Mrs. FNU Redeker, describing her experience as a young child being grabbed by a women on the way to school, forced onto a train and sent to a boarding school in Gross-Rosen (Germany) where she received no mail or information about her family; her later move to her grandmother's home in Goerlitz (Germany); her and her father's visits to her mother who was in prison in Goerlitz and later sent to the psychiatric clinic in Bunzlau (Poland); the death by lethal injection of her mother on Febr...

  4. Regina Niven papers

    The papers consist of three photographs of a meeting of Jewish men in Poland, including Chaim Bornstein and his father Moshe Wolf and the Chief Hassidic Rabbi of Będzin. Also included are three letters written by Sifra Forster in Sosnowiec, Poland, to her brother, Bernard Forster, in Great Britain.

  5. Peter Rosen papers

    The Peter Rosen papers contain training materials from the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie; drafts, correspondence, and research created during the production of a 1945 handbook titled The German Police prepared by MIRS (London Branch) and SHAEF’s Evaluation and Dissemination Section (EDS); two Gestapo files; and a Sicherheitsdienst (SD) file. Camp Ritchie training materials include handouts on the organization and tactics of the French and German armed forces; recognizing the uniforms of allies and enemies; technical instruction in aerial photography, signal communica...

  6. Abraham M. Neumann family collection

    Contains certificates, legal documents, identification documents, travel documents, menus, postcards, Reisepasse, school report cards, letters, booklets, and photographs relating to the life of Abraham M. Neumann and the Neumann and Kuerschner families in Warsaw, Poland, and Vienna, Austria, and the emigration of several family members to the United States.

  7. Latvian State Archives KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crime investigations and trials in Latvia

    Contains photocopies of selected interrogation transcripts, decrees, biographical data sheets, witness statements, photographs, and miscellaneous court and trial documents from the Latvian State Archives Fond 1986 relating to the arrest, investigation, prosecution, sentencing, and in some cases, execution of war criminals accused of atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in Latvia during World War II.

  8. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  9. Records of the Associations for the Care of Orphans CENTOS Zespół Zwiazek Towarzystw Opieki nad Sierotami, CENTOS (Sygn. 200)

    Contains reports, minutes, remarks to reports, inspection reports, kitchen inventory, kitchen menu, financial statements, correspondence, and a variety of documents relating to the work of the CENTOS kitchens and boarding houses between 1941-1942, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Records document virtually all aspects of CENTOS kitchens activities, including organizational structure, kitchen expenses, staffing, kitchen menu, food supplies, falsification of food supplies, unfair accusation of shortages, disinfection of the kitchens, coal supplies, and all elements of inspection tasks.

  10. George Kulstad papers

    The papers consist of three hand-written receipts issued to Helen Kulstad [donor's mother] by Jewish emigrants to Shanghai, China named Fritz and Daisy Willdorf.

  11. Kata Kovacevic collection

    Contains a photograph and a brief biographical sketch of Kata Kovacevic, a Serbian woman imprisoned and shot in Jasenovac concentration camp, probably in late 1942.

  12. Pin made in the Łódź ghetto

  13. Topas family papers

    The Topas family papers include identification documents and photographs relating to George Topas and the Topas family of Warsaw, Poland. The papers include Sura Etta Topas’ Polish passport, 1939-1941; a photostat copy of Sura Etta Topas’ birth certificate; a photostat copy of the marriage certificate of Sura Etta Topas (née Ferszt) and Icek Jakob Topas; and a letter of recommendation for George Topas written by Max B. Harding, Major, 345th Field Artillery Battalion, November 25, 1945. The Topas family photographs include a group photograph of the Topas family and the Goldfarb family, Sura ...

  14. Regina and Siegfried Keil papers, 1942-1947

    The Regina and Siegfried Keil papers include birth certificates for Regina and Siegfried Keil, one photograph of Regina and Siegfried Keil, one photograph of a family reunion, and one commendation for Regina Keil from the maternity ward of the Jewish hospital of Berlin.

  15. "My life before, during and after the Holocaust"

    Consists of a typewritten memoir, two pages, of Solomon Wieder, originally of Dolha, Hungary, describing his survival of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; his post-liberation medical treatment in Sweden; and his life in the United States to which he immigrated in 1947; and photocopies of three newspaper clippings about the donor.

  16. David J. Phillips memoir

    The David J. Philips memoir consists of a typewritten memoir outlining his experiences as a paratrooper with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, as well his accounts of liberating two concentration camps in Landsberg, Germany.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Swiss troops in Bern, Switzerland

    Swiss target practice near Bern. LS, men in civilian clothes with guns returning from shooting practice. 04:33:42 In street, outside Hotel Suisse, trams. 04:34:16 Posters announcing the Federal Shooting Contest (in German, French, Italian). Frontier guard soldiers with binoculars in the mountains. 04:35:00 Soldiers with backpacks, horses, machine guns. 04:36:27 Soldier on small bridge with gun. Peasant passes by. Soldiers sit by house on lookout. 04:37:46 Staff of mountain infantry regiment in office. Colonel looking at map, giving orders. 04:38:34 LS, village, church. 04:39:21 Streets in B...

  18. Zvi Zedak letter

    Contains a four-page letter written by Zvi (Hirsch) Zedak (1907-1944) on July 15, 1944, while hiding in a bunker in the Kovno ghetto with his wife.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    In the Samaria Plain, workers develop wasteland, leveling ground. Views of Hedera, the largest settlement in Samaria, showing houses, gardens, fields, etc. with sand dunes in the BG. Tractor plowing fields. Orange plantations. 02:23:52 Farming scenes at Arab farm, plowing among orange trees, weeding in orange grove, CU, Arab diverting waters in irrigation canal. Cows feeding on Arab farm, coming out of stable. 02:25:13 Men and women picking oranges in one of the largest plantations in Rehoboth (the main town in the orange-growing belt of Palestine), CUs. 02:25:55 Packing oranges. CU, Yemeni...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Grand Council of the Rabbinate; Talmud School; Court of Appeals

    Grand Council of the Rabbinate of Tel Aviv (reunion to remind rabbis of the principal points of Jewish orthodoxy and urge them to induce Jews to practice the religion more assiduously). Entrance to the hall of the Grand Council; Grand Rabbi Amiel (in soft hat) and Grand Rabbi Toledano (in the turban) go to their seats at a table, other rabbis stand. Rabbis talking. Rabbi Amiel speaks, others listen. Rabbis Amiel and Toledano talk to each other. CU, rabbi with beard listening. 05:53:30 Talmud School of the Grand Synagogue of Tel Aviv under the direction of the Grand Rabbi David Prato. Childr...