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  1. Leon Leserkiewicz photographs

    Consists of a photoprint of the Leserkiewicz family, originally of Kraków, Poland, and photographs of post-war exhumations, taken by Anthony Simone, a member of the 8th Armored Division. Leon Leserkiewicz [donor] has listed the members of the Leserkiewicz family; only the donor and his brother Viktor survived the war.

  2. Nechama Tec and Daniel Weiss collection

    Contains information and research on Masha Bruskina, and to a lesser extent on Vloyda Sherbateyvich and and Kirill Trus; all were executed on October 26, 1941.

  3. Josef Zlatkin identification card

    The identification card was issued to Josef Zlatkin from the Selfaid of the Jewish Former Concentration Camp Inmates Upper Austria in Linz, Austria. The card has a red upside-down triangle on the front and the serial #458.

  4. Theodore Kessler collection

    Collection includes black and white photographs of donor's family prior to the war; copies of correspondence regarding donor's internment in Buchenwald and Berga/Elster; and a two part videorecording of the donor.

  5. Oral history interview with Charles Rotmil

  6. Daniel Barkin collection

    Contains information regarding the General Court of Massachusetts protesting the persecution of Jews in Germany.

  7. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst collection

    Contains essay by the donor who is on the staff of the Institut fuer Afrikanistik,Universitaet zu Koeln, entitled "'Der schwarze Stern' Vom Schicksal deutscher Afrikaner im Nationalsozialismus;" an editorial concerning blacks in Nazi Germany excerpted from a book by Paulette Reed-Anderson entitled "Eine Geschichte von mehr als 100 Jahren: Die Anfaenge der Afrikanischen Diaspora in Berlin;" and copies from the Bundesarchiv of Wehrmacht, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Eingeborenen kunde, and NSDAP correspondence and reports which include name lists, dated 1938-1941, relating to individuals of Afr...

  8. Wolfgang Kurtz collection

    Collection contains Opfer Des Faschismus issued to the donor and newspaper articles and 3 SHAEF newspapers.

  9. "Europa Europa" by Shlomo Perel; translated by Bryan Mark Rigg

    Contains a translation, 117 pages, of Shlomo (Solomon) Perel's book "I am Solomon Perel," or "Europa, Europa."

  10. Bertha Taenzer collection

    Contains 249 letters written by Bertha Taenzer to her children, Erwin and Ilse, from 1937 to 1943. Bertha Taenzer (b. 1876, Merchingen, Baden, Germany) died in Theresienstadt concentration camp on September 25, 1943.

  11. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet published by US Army describing conditions at Gunskirchen concentration camp upon Liberation.

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

    In town of Ness Ziona, Arabs and Jews in street, returning from work. The town represents a pure partition scheme, as the left side of road is occupied by Arabs and the right by Jews. 02:13:23 Ben Shemen settlement, a junior agricultural village near Tel Aviv for training young boys in farm work. Boys and girls folk-dancing, playing musical instruments, swimming/diving in pool, editing and printing their own newspaper. 02:15:17 Palestine Orchestra, founded in 1936 by violinist Bronislaw Huberman, in its second season. Under the direction of Issay Dobrowen, conducting the last movement of th...

  13. Letter written by the Vichy General Commissioner to Berck Hercberg

    The letter was written by the Vichy General Commissioner to Berck Hercberg donor's father-in-law and pertains to the disposition of Jewish property in the Vichy zone of France.

  14. Nazi propaganda cigarette card album

    Nazi propaganda cigarette coupon album celebrating Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

  15. Ruth Blecher collection

    Contents of postcard are in Polish; according to donor the contents state that the Lakner family and other Jews were taken into the forest of Nowy Targ in August 1942 and killed.

  16. Emanuel E. and Dorothea G. Minskoff papers

    The Emanuel E. and Dorothea G. Minskoff papers include correspondence, photographs, printed materials, a scrapbook, and subject files documenting Emanuel E. Minskoff’s work for the Individual Assets Investigation Branch in postwar Europe, his work on the I.G. Farben Trial, and Dorothea G. Minskoff’s work on the Ministries Trial, which were part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings in Nuremberg, Germany. The papers also include information about Emanuel E. Minskoff’s work for the Treasury Department’s Foreign Assets Control Division regarding remittances to and trade with China in the ear...

  17. Zelda Deitell memoir

    Contains Zelda Deitell's handwritten memoir, six pages, describing life in Warsaw, Poland, before and after the German invasion; her marriage in December 1939 and move to Otwock, Poland; the help given by a Catholic friend caring for her young daughter and in finding a hiding place for her and her husband;and immigration to the United States in 1949.

  18. Reflections on some pertinent aspects of the Holocaust

    Contains a description by William Pace (formerly known as Wolf Peisachowitsch) of the role of Jewish councils and police in the ghetto life of Jews during the Holocaust and his own experiences in the Schavel, Lithuania ghetto. Also included are photocopies of a portrait of a man and of letters written to Dr. Pace in 1980 by the Medical Society of the State of New York regarding a service citation and in 1983 by the New York County Medical Society regarding membership.

  19. Memoires of Stuk

    Contains information about a Polish town, Stuk; names some victims from the town and what happened to them during the Holocaust; describes how, in 1948, members of the town went back in order to give proper burials and to reestablish the Jewish cemetery; and general reminiscence by the unknown author.

  20. Letters to my uncle a memoir

    Contains information and description of stories of a close uncle and his war related experiences.