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  1. Henryk Panusz papers

    Essay, dated 30 March 1995, written by donor's former wife, Krystyna Panusz Startarien titled "Jews - Their Fate in the Background of Polish and my Personal History," copy of lecture entitled "In Memory of my Father..," statement from JHI testifying to donor's experiences in the Holocaust.

  2. Sketch

  3. Playfully fighting over cigarettes

    "Where are the Cigarettes?" Home movie of Albert Günther Hess (AGH) and his wife Ilse clowning around and fighting over the "last" cigarette. Titles throughout reading: WHERE ARE THE CIGARETTES?; AFTER TWENTY MINUTES; A BIG ROW; K.O. (KNOCKOUT); THE GENEROUS WINNER.

  4. Stanley Steinhart papers

    Contains information on perpetrators, persecution of Jews, etc.

  5. Recollections of a combat medic

    Contains donor's recollection as a combat medic with Company "C," 82nd Armored Medical Battalion of the 12th Armored Division, serving in France and Germany, and participating in the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp.

  6. Jacob Avni papers

    Consist of photocopies of a memoir, news article, names lists of survivors, and other miscellaneous charts, correspondence, etc, in Hungarian, Hebrew, and/or Yiddish, written and compiled by Jacob Avni (born Gyoergy Steiner) in 1993.

  7. Sigmund A. Cohn papers

    The Sigmund A. Cohn papers primarily comprise correspondence between Cohn and his wife and children and Cohn’s parents, Georg and Sophie Cohn in Breslau and date from the Sigmund Cohn family’s arrival in America in 1939 until the United States declared war on Germany at the end of 1941. The correspondence describes family life in Athens and in Breslau and focuses on unsuccessful attempt to secure visas for Georg and Sophie Cohn to immigrate to the United States. Occasional correspondence with the American Friends Service Committee, the US Department of State, the National Council of Jewish ...

  8. Franziska Nunnally papers

    The Franziska Nunnally papers include three postcards from her mother, Irma Huppert, documenting her last two weeks in Vienna before her deportation and death in Minsk and a letter from her brother, Leopold Huppert, documenting his internment at St. Cyprien. Irma’s first postcard reveals her concern that she would soon be removed from her home, her second letter describes how she was arrested shortly after her first postcard and the conditions of her detention at the Sperlschule, and her third postcard describes her preparations for her deportation to an unknown location (Minsk). Leopold’s ...

  9. Willy Hilse (audio only)

    Willy Hilse, a railroad worker at the Auschwitz train station, describes his work and transport arrivals at Auschwitz, shipments of Jewish property, his postwar difficulties, and his reluctance to speak about his experiences again in the future. This interview was recorded in Germany without image or picture. FILM ID 3634 -- Hilse 1 Hilse describes transport arrivals at Auschwitz, including technical details such as the location of the ramp, train platforms, and the separation of men and women and witnessing the arrival of Hungarian Jews in 1944. He goes on to list the nationalities of Jews...

  10. Siegmunt Forst

    Siegmunt Forst escaped Vienna and moved to New York after the war broke out. He talks about his dealings with Rabbi Michael Weissmandel, a Slovakian Jew who tried desperately to tell the world what was happening to the European Jews. Weissmandel begged American Jewish leaders and others for money with which to bribe the Nazis. Lanzmann is interested in the individual and collective choices about whether to resist and/or to rescue, and in this interview and others he clearly views Weissmandel as an important figure. FILM ID 3119 -- Camera Rolls #12,14,15,17 -- 01:00:02 to 01:38:00 Lanzmann a...

  11. Ladyfingers: a memoir

    Anna Margaretha "Anneke" Vonk describes a little girl's life during the Holocaust when living in Holland. The donor remembers vividly the events that Anna Vonk is writing.

  12. Sketch

  13. Guerre, 1939-1945 - Vichy - Amerique - USA - Mexique

    Contains photocopied report on Emergency Rescue Committee with correspondence from Varian Fry, pp. 158-234. File 64.

  14. Aron Rabinovich memoir

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, Russian and typescript, along with a 3-page English translation, recounting the author's experience in the Domanovka, Ukraine ghetto, 1941-1943, and in a Jewish children's home after escaping from Domanovka.

  15. Bronislaw Falborski

    Bronislaw Falborski witnessed the deportation of Jews from Kolo to Chelmno. He talks about the speed of the gas vans. This interview takes place in Falborski’s home in Poland and was recorded during Lanzmann’s second trip to Poland. FILM ID 3809 -- Camera Rolls 1-5 CR 1;2;3 (Rue à Midevits) CU, framed painting of Mary nursing baby Jesus on the wall. Mr. Falborski was the private driver for May from the autumn of 1941 to 1942. May lived in the house of a former forest warden, named Gay, in a town near Kolo. Falborski also lived in the house of an evicted forest warden. The wardens had been e...

  16. Oral history interview with Benjamin Chruscicki

  17. Henriette Mandel papers

    Photocopies of family papers, in French, relating to the eligibility of donor's nephew, Robert Kreidelman, for a war-orphan pension. Also contains evidence that donor's relatives were killed at Auschwitz.

  18. Andre Steiner

    Andre Steiner, an architect, discusses the Judenrat and resistance activities in Slovakia with Lanzmann. He recounts relations with Rabbi Weissmandel and Gisi Fleischmann in their attempt to rescue Slovak Jews from deportation. FILM ID 3414 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 00:00:22 to 00:33:51 CR1 Andre Steiner was born into an assimilated Czechoslovakian Jewish family. He was an architect in Brno and in 1939 he was imprisoned briefly because his father-in-law was a leader of the Jewish Agency in Czechoslovakia. He and his family left Brno for Bratislava as soon as he was released from prison. In Br...

  19. George Katz photograph collection

    The collection consist of seven photographs taken by American soldiers of Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

  20. Simon Srebnik - Chelmno

    Simon Srebnik (Shimon Srebrnik) was a boy of 13 when he was deported to Chelmno from the Łódź ghetto. He worked on a Sonderkommando burying those who had been murdered by gas. Srebnik was seriously wounded by Nazi gunfire during the liquidation of the camp, but managed to escape and find refuge with a Polish farmer. The Germans offered a large cash reward for turning Srebnik in, but the Poles, who already feared the approaching Russians more than the Germans, did not betray him. After the war he immediately immigrated to Israel. Srebnik's story is a focal point in the film "Shoah." The inte...