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  1. Romanian Foreign Ministry Archives records

    Contains various documents relating to German-Romanian relations from the perspective of the "Jewish problem." Also contains information on the fate of Romanian Jews in various parts of Nazi-occupied Europe.

  2. Oral history interview with Leo Weil

  3. Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers

    The Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers include her original typescript memoirs in German and an English translation. The memoirs describer her life in Prague; her time in Theresienstadt in 1942 and 1943; her deportation to Auschwitz with her parents in December 1943; her father’s death in in 1944; her experiences in the "family camp" at Birkenau; her deportation to Stutthof with her mother in July 1944; her mother’s death in January 1945; forced labor in Praust; a typhus epidemic in Stutthof; and her eventual escape from a forced march in January 1945. The papers also include two partially-used...

  4. Henry Bermanis collection

    Letters from Henry Bermanis to his daughter Betty regarding his family and personal life history. Memoir entitled "A visit to Vilnius" by Bermanis, dated April 5, 1992. Memoir entitled "Witness to Minsk" by Bermanis, undated. Memoir entitled "Riga revisited, plus some other places" by Bermanis, dated January 26, 1992. Memoir entitled "Brief Impressions from a short trip to Romania" by Bermanis, dated July 14, 1992.

  5. Josef Wajs letter

    The letter was written by the Ameican Consul in Belgium, R.M. de Lambert, to Josef Wajs (donor's father) during the Holocaust informing him that he has been put on the waiting list for immigration to the United States since the immigration quota from Poland has already been met.

  6. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 5 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  7. Memoirs

    Memoirs of a group of friends from Poland entitled "He Was Born Free."

  8. Alexandre Frank collection

    The collection documents Alexandre Frank and his wife Elka Barth Frank's efforts to help Jewish refugee children at Château de le Hille during the Holocaust. Contains a photocopy of a French article, dated circa 1985, regarding their work at le Hille; a photocopy of a 1985 German article from Freiheit regarding the Franks; two photocopies of lists of names and addresses of refugee children in the Franks' care; and an original copy of "Les Enfants de La Hille 1942-1985." containing biographies of the refugee children compiled for a 1985 reunion.

  9. Underground press Zespół podziemie-prasa konspiracyjna (Sygn. 230)

    Contains newspapers, bulletins, periodicals, reports, leaflets, radio announcements, essays, clandestine underground publications, and various other documents relating to the activities of the anti-Nazi underground movement in Poland during the German occupation from 1939 to 1945. The materials relate to underground and partisan group activities, persecution and extermination of Polish Jews, activities of communists, situations on the war front, and situations in the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps throughout Poland. A significant portion of the collection is made up of photocopies o...

  10. Selected Records Relating to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau)

    Photocopies of records related to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau), a tour in Germany organized by the NSDAP to promote German racist ideology and support for colonialism in Africa.

  11. Henry E. Lehrich collection

    Letter written by Smyka (no last name) addressed to a unknown person. Discusses how before the war he had a great restaurant in Warsaw and was a rich man. Now after the war is too poor even to purchase basic items.

  12. Candleholders

    Pair of candlesticks given as a wedding gift to Tony Holtz and Max Hannes, brought to the US in 1937 by Helmut Hannes.

  13. Hermann Landau

    Hermann Landau talks about the rescue work of Rabbi Weissmandel, as well as rescue efforts based in Switzerland and the U.S. He describes Weissmandel as an increasingly desperate man who would not hesitate to bribe the Nazis or commit violence if it would help the Jews. FILM ID 3144 -- Camera Rolls #143-146 Lanzmann asks Landau about his first meeting with Rabbi Weissmandel in Switzerland immediately after the war. Weissmandel was enraged with those who did not do more to help the Jews, including Landau, whom he physically attacked when they met. They discuss how Weissmandel jumped from the...

  14. Yehuda Bauer

    Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli scholar, talks about how he first became involved in the study of the Holocaust and how he tries to strike a balance between emotional involvement and objectivity. He talks about the Jewish Council and Israeli attitudes to them after the war. Lanzmann and Bauer debate Kasztner's actions and motivations and the Nazi fantasy of the powerful "world Jewry". The interview was recorded outdoors in the early evening at a kibbutz in Israel (probably Bauer’s home). FILM ID 3793 -- Camera Rolls 1-3 -- Interview Judenrat CR1 Bauer says he came from Prague in 1939 at the age of...

  15. Eva Mándlová Roubíčková papers

    The Eva Mändlová Roubíčková papers include a diary, documents, and photographs relating to the wartime experiences of Eva Mändlová while imprisoned in Theresienstadt. The diary was written by Eva in Gabelsberger shorthand from 1943-1944 while in Theresienstadt. In her diary Eva writes about her family’s deportation, life in the ghetto, the fear of being transported, and her relationships and interactions with other people. The collection also includes a Red Cross telegram between Eva’s husband, Richard, and his mother, pamphlets notifying Eva’s family that they have to leave their home...

  16. A report on Mogielnica in Poland

    Photocopy of mimeographed publication, dated 1947, about the status of Jews from Mogielnica in Poland, and what became of them during the Holocaust.

  17. Boy Scout badge

  18. Boris Mazelis collection

    A 22-page handwritten memoir in Russian regarding donor's life (there is also a 2-page English summary). Four photocopied pages of documents in Russian attesting to donor and donor's family in ghettos, Litin (now in Ukraine) and Zhmerinka (Zhmerynka, Ukraine).

  19. Kathy Kirk collection

    Correspondence, statements, and reports relating to donor's father, Rev. Robert O. Beck, experiences at Dachau after liberation.

  20. Medal issued to Polish prisoners of Nazi concentration camps