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  1. Chelmno (CH)

    Interviews with local Polish people in and around Chelmno, as well as location filming. FILM ID 3767 -- White 72 CH 48-49 Lettre May. CL lit Lanzmann reads a letter from Mr. May regarding operations at Chelmno. FILM ID 4602 -- Foret Chelmno FO 1-4 Interview Uniquement Interview with two men in the forest near Chelmno. The Poles brought SS guards to the forest at night in order to exterminate Jews. Lanzmann asks the men to describe Polish women who worked for the Germans, Jewish victims' belongings, and the occasions when Goering hunted in the forest near Chelmno. FILM ID 4629 -- White 31 CH...

  2. Sidney Etkin collection

    The Sidney Etkin collection contains documents obtained by Etkin during his time treating prisoners from the recently liberated Mauthausen-Gusen camp in June, 1945. The documents contain statements made by Franz Zeireis, the commandant of the camp. He details the camp conditions, specific torture done to prisoners, numbers of prisoners killed, and other facts regarding the management of the concentration camp. Also included are photographs of the prisoners and camp, taken by Etkin, as well as a newspaper clipping summarizing the role Zeireis played in the management of Mauthausen.

  3. Union générale des israélites de France records

    Contains information about the establishment of the Union générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) and its work in the Northern and Southern zones of occupied France; work of the Comité de coordination; work of the president and secretariat; Jewish census in France; aid for camp internees; UGIF finance and administration; liaisons with police departments; employees of UGIF; homes for the aged; care of children and orphans; UGIF social services; education and sports; medical welfare; food services and agriculture; the Commissariat général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ); Jewish war veteran...

  4. In the Warsaw ghetto and in the Wyszkow forests

    Memoir was written in Yiddish and translated into English. It relates to the experiences of Pninah Papier, the author and partisan, who was from Nowy Dwor.

  5. Book

  6. Klara Ostfeld collection

    Contains a typewritten, English-language translation by Martha Luchsinger of Klara Ostfeld's memoir relating to life in Cernauti, Romania (now Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine), under the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier) and the Ion Antonescu regime; her deportation to Transnistria (Ukraine) in 1941; conditions in "Mogilev Podolsk" (Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine) and Scazenetz forced labor camps; and her postwar life in Romania, Israel, and Venezuela. Carlos Rangel wrote a "Prologue" to the memoir. The title pages for the Author's note and Ch. 1. are missing and the title pages for Ch. 9. and Ch. 52. are in...

  7. Irmin Steinlieb donation

    Article photocopied from "History of the Jews in Bucovina," vol. I. Copies of postcard and envelope from camps in Poland, 1940, addressed to Committee for the Aid to Jews affected by the war in Switzerland.

  8. Richard Stiel collection

    Fluechtlingsausweis (refugee identification document) for Marthe Stiel.

  9. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Welt im Film no. 57

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Courtroom, dock. MS, defendant Oskar Schroeder is interrogated by his defense counsel, Dr. Rudolf Merkel. 09:29:41 Welt im Film no. 57: "Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas in Hamburg, Germany" SEQ: Douglas arrives in Hamburg, Germany to attend a session of the Zones Advisory Board. He greets the members of the Zones Advisory Board and in his speech says that his appointment coincides with the beginning of a new phase of British policy regarding the British Zone. "The Scholl Case." The first ses...

  10. Jack Morse papers

    Identity cards, black-and-white photographs of St. Lô and Buchenwald, and video tape made by Jack Morse [donor] (memoir).

  11. Maps of Ukraine, Transnistria, and Rumania

    Contains copies of wartime maps of Ukraine, Transnistria, and Rumania [sic], reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress.

  12. Union générale des Israélites de France records from the CDJC, Paris

    Consists of records from the Contemporary Jewish Documentation, Paris, relating to the operations of the Union Générale des Israélites de France. The collection contains records from the Archives of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF). The collection includes the files of Jewish social organizations integrated into UGIF by the Germans. Representative of the documents in the collection are correspondence between constituent elements of UGIF, reports, statistics, legal affidavits, and testimonies. The collection also includes records from Groupements de Travailleurs Étra...

  13. Fritz Rosenthal family papers

    The Fritz Rosenthal Family papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from 1900-1995. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, and professional records documenting major life events of Rosenthal family members, the immigration of Fritz, his wife Marty, and his father Karl Rosenthal to America, the lives of the Rosenthals in the United States, and Fritz Rosenthal’s career in chemistry. Records documenting Karl and Claire Rosenthal’s experiences in Würzburg during and after Kristallnacht are particularly noteworthy. Other family members highli...

  14. Musia Gershenman testimony

    Contains a photocopy of handwritten testimony in Yiddish by Musia Gershenman, who, along with several other Jews from the Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) ghetto, was rescued by Antonina and Jonas Paulavicius. Included with the testimony is an English translation provided by the USHMM. The collection also includes a videocassette of the ceremony at Yad Vashem recognizing Antonina Paulavicius as a "Righteous Among the Nations."

  15. "Krankengymnastin in Auschwitz"

    Consists of a typed memoir, in German, by Simha Naor (born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994), originally of Vienna, Austria. The memoir, 238 pages, is based on Ms. Naor's journal, which she wrote shortly after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and which included information about her work in the hospital in Auschwitz. The memoir based on this draft was published in 1986 as "Krankengymnastin in Auschwitz: Aufzeichnungen des Haftlings, Ausgabe 80574."

  16. George Hindels identification card

    The identification card was issued to George Hindels by the Jüdischer Pfadfinderbund Österreichs on July 4, 1932.

  17. "La Banalita del Bene" The story of Giorgio Perlasca

    Consists of a draft of an English language translation of "La Banalita del Bene: The Story of Giorgio Perlasca," originally of Enrico Deaglio and translated by Gregory Conti. The draft, consiting of 129 pages and including a transcript of part of Perlasca's diary, was later published as "The Banality of Goodness" (South Bend : University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).

  18. Oral history interview with Albert Speer

  19. A memoir

    Contains information on pre-Holocaust Yugoslavia; Holocaust related experiences while hiding in Vienna; post-war life in Zagreb, and in America, in which the donor was told she was Jewish, not Catholic.

  20. Belzec

    Location filming in Belzec, Poland for SHOAH. Film ID 4707 -- Belzec 22-23 Gare. Camp Doubles, Chutes Bte 22 Camp Travelling down a road, trees on either side. Train tracks. Road leads to a metal gate. (1.57) “1942-1943” on the gate. (2.19) Driving down the same road as before, this time getting a clear view of a sign on the right that says “Do Bylego Obozu Zaglady” [to the extermination camp.] Sign includes shield with two swords. (4.41) Railroad tracks and large piles of chopped wood in the BG, CUs. (5.21) Train tracks and old train cars (not on the tracks but beside them). Path of the tr...