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  1. David Wisnia songs written in Auschwitz (Oswiecim)

    Consists of the handwritten lyrics to four songs: "Oświęcim" (in Polish), "Oświęcim" (in Yiddish), "Mendele" (in Polish), and "Schweig, Herzele, Schweig" (in Yiddish), written by David Wisnia while imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The lyrics were smuggled out of the camp in a metal can by Wisnia's friend, Isaiah Kalfus, during the evacuation of the camp. Also includes sheet music for "Oświęcim" written in 1984, as well as an audiocassette of the songs.

  2. American Relief for Poland organization records

    Contains reports, bulletins, general correspondence, name lists, "welfare messages," financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various other records relating to the work of the American Relief for Poland from 1939 to 1952. The files of the American Relief for Poland, Lisbon office, contain reports and general correspondence from Florian Piskorski, American Relief for Poland delegate to Europe, general financial records of the Lisbon office, name lists of Polish and Jewish refugees, Polish prisoners of war, and Roman Catholic priests, in concentration camps receiving aid, and ...

  3. Lawyer's certification

    Contains information about a hidden Jew.

  4. The Gyula Trebitsch papers

    Contains photocopies of three documents pertaining to Julius Trebitsch, 1945-1947. The first two relate to the organizations for liberated Jews/political prisoners in Holstein, 1945, the third is a Hungarian document from 1947, attesting to the treatment Trebitsch had received from Germans during imprisonment and work on forced labor battalion, 1942-1944.

  6. Star of David badge with Jood printed in the center

  7. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 3 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...

  8. Ada Lichtman

    Ada (Eda) Lichtman talks about her experiences in the Krakow ghetto, her father's murder, and her transport to Sobibor. She was chosen to do the SS laundry in Sobibor and remembers cleaning dolls and toys seized from a transport of children for the SS families. She talks about Franz Stangl and Gustav Wagner and relates a story about a Dutch transport where the prisoners were given postcards to write home before they were murdered. At Lanzmann's urging, Lichtman sews doll clothes during the interview; this is a duty she used to perform in Sobibor. FILM ID 3270 -- Camera Rolls #1-4-- 01:00:18...

  9. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 4 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...

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

  11. Marion Gottesmann papers

    Testimony: Typescript memoir, in German and in English translation, "Wie ich Auschwitz ueberlebte" ("How I survived Auschwitz"), plus typescript about Theresienstadt.

  12. Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection

    The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a handmade book which was created by liberated inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The book was presented Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum in 1945. It includes a photograph of liberated prisoners as they are about to emigrate to Palestine as well as lines from a song by Mordecai Geburtig sung in the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, and a song about Buchenwald by Percy (Peretz) Brand. Translation: Page 2, in Yiddish and English: "Isaiah 21-12;/Watchman, what of the night?/Watchman, what of the night?/The Watchman said:/The morning...

  13. Edna H. Greene collection

    The Edna H. Greene collection consists of correspondence between her parents, Louis Bissinger and Frieda Bissinger, while her father was interned on the Isle of Man, dated 1940-1941. Identification documents for Louis and Frieda Bissingerare also included.

  14. A history of the Jews of Gyor

    Contains an album of text, photocopies, and photographs about the history of Jews in Gyor, Hungary during the Holocaust.

  15. Chayim Gefen: my life: a memoir

    The memoir is in English and Hebrew and relates to the Holocaust experiences of Chayim Gefen in Poland including liberation.

  16. Joseph Okladek papers

    Contains photocopies of documents pertaining to donor's sister, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust by moving to Belgium and marrying a Christian man.

  17. Die Grosse Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbun Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau 1935-1943

    Consists of an article entitled "Die Grosse Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbung: Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau 1935-1943" [The Big Negro Drum of Promoting Colonialism: the German Afrika-Show], by Elisa Forgey, which was originally published in Werkstatt Geschichte in 1994. The article describes the ways in which black performers were humiliated and abused during the Nazi era.

  18. Selected Records from the International Committee of the Red Cross Commission for Prisoners, Internees and Civilians. Jews (Israélites), 1939-1961 (bulk 1940-1950)

    Contains working files of Hans Bachmann, personal secretary to Carl J. Burkhardt, relating to assistance to Jews in various countries and civilian detainees of concentration camps in Germany from 1939 to 1945; administrative records of the Department of Special Assistance (DAS) relating to actions in favor of Jews; records relating to materials and moral assistance from the International Red Cross (ICRC) on behalf of European Jews; general records relating to ghettos, internment camps, and concentration camps for Jews; records relating to ICRC appeals to various governments asking for respe...

  19. Short interviews near Grabow (Maisons)

    Interviews with Polish inhabitants of Grabow, a village located 19 km from the Chelmno extermination camp. Prior to the war, Jews had accounted for over half the population of Grabow. In 1942, all of the approximately 4,000 Jews of Grabow were rounded up, locked in the town's Catholic church, and then transported to Chelmno. In these outtakes, Lanzmann reads a letter written by the rabbi of Grabow in January 1942, detailing the horrors that awaited his people. He conducts short interviews with town residents about their memories of that time, and the outtakes also contain mute shots of town...

  20. Mary Schnell collection

    Contains a testimony, typescript, 8 pages, titled "Stutthof 1944--Mary Schnell," about the donor's experiences in occupied Poland (Gdynia), who converted to become Jehovah's Witness in 1943, and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned at Stutthof, where she was repeatedly interrogated and urged to abandon faith, and then sent to general part of camp, evacuation by barge in 1945, and after abandonment by guards continued sailing to Denmark.