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  1. The Jewish community of Manila

    Articles regarding the establishment and history of the Jewish community and its synagogue in Manila, dated 1946 and 1947.

  2. Underground archives of the Warsaw Ghetto : Ringelblum Archives Konspiracyjne archiwum getta Warszawskiego : Archiwum Ringelbluma

    Contains some 25,000 pages of more than 6,000 documents relating to the lives of the Jewish population living within the borders of occupied Poland from September 1939 to the end of February 1943. The collection contains questionnaires, reports, journals, diaries, memoirs, journal articles, literary works, letters, notices, copies of official correspondence, protocols of the deliberations of ghetto institutions, identity cards, postal notices, advertisements, medical prescriptions, business stationery, wrapping paper used in the ghetto, outlines of scholarly and artistic works, school and u...

  3. The Revier (hospital) in the concentration camp Dachau, a report

    Report on inhuman Nazi treatment and methods used on inmates in the station for experimentation, Block 7 - Mental Illness Dept., and the overall hospital at Dachau.

  4. Harry Krieger memoir

    Contains a photocopy of letter, five pages, written by Harry (Heinz) Krieger (born 1922, Munich; died 2015, Plainview, NY) to his grandchildren about his experiences in Germany as child; the rise of Hitler; Kristallnacht; beating and arrest, release, and escape to England on a Kindertransport; and eventual immigration to the United States with his parents in 1939.

  5. Metal tag issued to inmate in Melk concentration camp

    Metal tag issued to inmate in the concentration camp Melk (subcamp of Mauthausen-Ebensee).

  6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  7. Karl Kretschmer - Einsatzgruppen

    Karl Kretschmer was Obersturmführer with Einsatzgruppe 4a (Babi Yar) and wrote an infamous letter to his wife and children about the killings. In this hidden camera interview, Kretschmer is very reluctant to talk. Lanzmann asks about Babi Yar and Kretschmer says he wasn't there. He says he doesn't remember what his letter said since he doesn't have them any more. Kretschmer says he was struck by the fact that the Jews put up no resistance at mass shootings. FILM ID 3246 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:00 to 01:12:37 Lanzmann sits in a hotel room reading some papers, preparing for a secretly t...

  8. Harold Reichenthal collection

    The Harold Reichenthal collection consists of an undated letter (postmarked June 1938) from Isser Reichenthal in Berlin to Jack Cohen (or Cohn) in Schenectady, New York, requesting affidavits for his daughter, Dorothea (Reichenthal) Graf and her husband Ernst Graf. Also includes the envelope in which the letter was mailed.

  9. A memoir

    Contains a one-page testimony of a former forced laborer in Romania.

  10. Ferenc Klopfer papers

    Consists of photocopied documents from Dr. Ferenc Klopfer, including a handwritten memoir of Klopfer's experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt, written in the latter location after liberation in May 1945. A separate text describes in more detail events during the death march from Buchenwald to Theresienstadt in early 1945. Also included is a photocopy of the surviving portion of a list of patients treated by Klopfer in the hospital at Buchenwald, with names of patients, including their birthdates and places of birth, dates of their deaths, as well as diagnoses and causes of...

  11. Walter Furman papers

    The Walter Furman papers comprised documents and photographs collected by Walter while serving overseas with the United States armed forces. Included in the collection is a five-page mimeograph copy of a report prepared by for Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) by the United States Group Control Council dated 16 April 1945 summarizing the conditions at Buchenwald, and two black-and-white photographs of atrocities at Dachau.

  12. Edith Brandon papers

    The Edith Brandon papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a testimonial narrative documenting Edith Brandon’s deportation to Riga with her mother, Meta Blau; the lives of her boyfriend, Lutek Orenbach, in the Tomaszów-Mazowiecki ghetto and her friend, Ruth Goldbarth, in the Warsaw ghetto; and Edith’s Christian uncle, Hermann Bradtmüller, in Minden and the assistance he provided during the Nazi period. Biographical materials include emigration, deportation, and identification records documenting Edith and her mother’s failed attempt to ...

  13. Bible

    Hungarian bible used in Dachau, Germany, following liberation.

  14. Otmar Pirnat papers

    The papers consist of two letters written by Otmar Pirnat, a political prisoner at the Mauthausen concentration camp, to his parents on Mauthausen camp stationery. Mr. Pirnat, originally of Maribor, Slovenia, was wrongfully arrested as a partisan, sent to prison in Vienna, then to Mauthausen, were he was imprisoned for more than two years.

  15. "Holocaust/Wartime Experiences"

    Consists of a narrative (constructed from phone interviews) and a document in German from the Dutch Red Cross relating to Abraham Muhlbaum's experiences in the Netherlands in hiding; his escape to England and later arrest when he returned to Europe; deportation to Neuengamme, and transfers to Natzweiler and Dachau.

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  17. Agata Bubola papers

    The papers consist of a birth certificate ("Geburtskunde") issued for Gabor Müller in Feldsberg, Austria (now Valtice, Czech Republic) (Gabor Müller died six weeks after his birth) and a postcard written by Agata Müller [donor] in Feldsberg, Austria, to Dr. Josef Rado [donor's father] in Mährisch-Kromau (Moravsky Krumlov), Czech Republic.

  18. Thomas Shepherd photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs taken of prisoners and corpses at Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation.

  19. Stamp booklet with canceled Republic of China postage stamps

    Booklet filled with 216 canceled Republic of China postage stamps that belonged to Rudolf Abraham. After the Nazi regime took power in Germany in 1933, laws were passed to persecute the Jewish population. The family butcher shop struggled when Jewish businesses were boycotted and Jews were forbidden from practicing certain trades. Rudolf was arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938. His family got him released in December, but he had to leave the country. Rudolf left for Shanghai, China, and in August 1940, he reached the United States.

  20. Czeslaw Borowi - Treblinka

    Czeslaw Borowi (Borowy) is a Polish peasant who lived his entire life in Treblinka. He describes the transports and the experience of living in the shadow of the camp. When the Germans were shooting at Jews, his family slept on the floor to avoid stray bullets. He repeats some of the common refrains about how rich Jews arrived in fancy trains and the Jews offered no resistance. Borowi makes the throat-slitting sign in "Shoah." See Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare for his reflections on Borowi and his role in the film. FILM ID 3348 -- Camera Rolls #46,47,48,56 -- 01:00:13 to 01:23:39 Re...