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  1. Lwów files Teka Lwowska (Sygn. 229)

    This collection contains reports, articles, clippings, and various other documents relating to the persecution and execution of Jews in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine); the activities of the Jewish council (Judenrat) in the Lwów ghetto; the confiscation of Jewish property; the eviction of Jews from their homes; various "actions" in the ghetto, some specifically targeting elderly Jews; the mistreatment of Jews by Ukrainians; the burning of synagogues; the extortion of money from Jews in the ghetto; the activities of the German police and Gestapo; Jews taken to forced labor camps near Lwów; ...

  2. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 5 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  3. Susan Mayerowitz papers

    The papers consist of a service record booklet for the German military and a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Stern donor's father, a Reisepass issued to Hilde Metzger [donor's mother], and one school diploma issued to Kurt Stern in Germany in 1927.

  4. Ralph Erman papers

    Testimony: Typescript, 6 pages, about author's experiences as child in Wittlich, Germany, his family's emigration to Holland, the German occupation, living in hiding there, and capture and deportation of parents to Sobibor.

  5. Ethel Levine collection

    Original letters dated 1943 from what is believed to be from the family Jacobs but the handwriting is that of M. van Til; letters from Westerbork and Terezin. Photocopies of photographs.

  6. The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection

    The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection consists of photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp, taken by Irvin Stern on May 10, 1945. The photographs show the camp following liberation and include images of survivors and victims, the mass burial of corpses, as well as buildings, fences, and the crematorium. The letters, in the form of memoirs, relate to the Irvin Stern's experiences at Mauthausen and how he came in contact with Dal Lorvic, a Yugoslavian resistance fighter and a survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp.

  7. Ann Strauss-Salfield collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ann Strauss-Salfield (née Schloss), originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Ann, who fled to England in 1939, and her future husband Milton Strauss living in the United States. The correspondence focuses on their daily lives, but there are frequent discussions of her attempts to get a visa and immigrate to the United States. Other correspondence includes letters to Ann from her grandmother, Uncle Moritz, and her stepsister Margrit; and letters to Milton from his brother Alfred a...

  8. Russian Military Medical Museum Archives records

    The collection contains records acquired by members of the field medical units of the Red Army that provide information on the persecution and killing of Jews and others in Eastern Europe by the Nazis. Documents include reports regarding concentration camp conditions; treatment of Russian prisoners; and reports and eyewitness accounts of Nazi atrocities in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

  9. "Birdsong."

    Sheet music and audio tape recording of song with words from an anonymous poem written in Terezin and music by the donor.

  10. Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich collection

    One publicity flyer; memoir about Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich [donor], author unknown; newsclipping regarding the donor.

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  12. Letter relating to German war crimes at Gardelegen

    Typewritten letter from an American soldier to his mother describing war crimes committed by German soliders against Russian prisoners of war at Gardelegen.

  13. Renata Maas photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs of corpses possibly killed in a pogrom in Stanisławów, Poland (now Stanislav, Ukraine), as well as an envelope used to store the photographs.

  14. Jack Friedman collection

    Consists of a photocopy of an identity certificate and transit visa issued to Jakob Frydman (Jack Friedman) by Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas, Lithuania, in August 1940, a copy of a photograph of the Mr. Friedman holding his visa, photocopies of two postcards sent from occupied Poland in 1941, and photocopies of newspaper clippings and programs honoring Sugihara between 1986-1995.

  15. Drawings and documents of the children of Izieu Dessins et documents, des enfants d'Izieu

    Contains documents related to the operation of the children's hostel/orphanage in Izieu, France. Also contains artwork and writings of the children housed there.

  16. J. Robert Jarvis collection

    Contains black-and-white photographs of atrocity scenes from Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, a mass burial site for Jews in Germany, an alleged Jewish victim being taunted by what apprear to be Waffen SS troops, etc.

  17. Norman A. Sinowitz collection

    Four color photographs; certificate in Hebrew; postcards and letters in Russian and Yiddish.

  18. "Honor... whatever the price: a memoir"

    Discusses Holocaust experiences while living in the Netherlands. Father arrested for political reasons; mother involved in underground movements.

  19. Abe Weiss papers

    The Abe Weiss papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and restitution papers documenting Abe Weiss from Kołomyja, his relocation to Leipzig, and his immigration to the United States as well as his family members who remained in Kołomyja, Leipzig, Zbąszyń, Kolno, and Białystok and perished in the Holocaust. A photo album includes photographs from his visit to the Berlin Olympics. Biographical materials include photocopies of Abe Weiss’ Polish and German birth certificates, wedding announcements for Regina Nachbar and Chaim Dudowicz, Red Star Line and S.S. Gerol...

  20. Stewart Levy collection

    Collection contains an identity card for "Opfer des Faschismus" for donor's grandfather, Harry Levy; a Milwaukee Journal Magazine article for 5 May 1985 describing the donor's father; obituary for donor's father; essay written by donor's mother describing her Holocaust related experiences.