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  1. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 2 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...

  2. Willi Kuhn papers

    Postcard from her grandfather in Nuremberg to Anni Kuhn in Sidney. Information about and account of what Willi Kuhn was entitled to receive as a monthly pension from the Federal Insurance Company for Employees in Berlin.

  3. Copy of a U.S. visa issued in Hungary

    Contains a photostat copy of a U.S. visa issued to Karoly Adam, October 1941, by U.S. Consulate in Budapest.

  4. Jewish medical resistance in the Vilnius ghetto during the Holocaust

    Contains a typescript text entitled "Jewish Medical Resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto…", 113 pages, plus endnotes and copies of photos.

  5. Ray Deming photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs taken at the time of liberation at Dachau concentration camp.

  6. U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, 82nd Congress, 1st Session (RG 233)

    Includes reports, evidence documents, investigation results, and other materials relating to the committee’s investigation on the Katyṅ Forest Massacre,1940 (Murder of the Polish officers and Polish intelligentsia).

  7. Siegelmann collection

    "Survival of children in the Holocaust" by Hanna Siegelmann. "The Jewish community in Fulda" by Michal Siegelmann.

  8. Tadeusz Pankiewicz - Cracow

    Tadeusz Pankiewicz was a Pole who ran a pharmacy within the confines of the Krakow ghetto, refusing the Germans' offer to let him relocate to another part of the city. He aided Jews by providing free medication and allowing the pharmacy to be used as a meeting place for resisters. FILM ID 3220 -- Camera Rolls #1-2, 3-4, and 5-7 01:00:09 CR 1,2: Lanzmann and Pankiewicz stand in a Krakow street. They spend most of the interview in different parts of the Plac Zgody (now Plac Bohakerow Getta), from which Jews were deported from the Krakow ghetto. They begin walking. Pankiewicz tells Lanzmann th...

  9. Donya Raykh memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, one page, recounting author's experience in unnamed village, and then deportation to Shargorod, Transnistria.

  10. Edith Goldapper diary

    The collection consists of a bound volume containing a photocopy of a handwritten diary entitled "Diary of the Holocaust 1943-1944; Buch I" by Edith Goldapper. In the diary, Edith, originally of Vienna, Austria, writes about being sent to a children's home in Belgium in 1938, living in children's homes in France, and crossing the border into Switzerland. She also writes about living in the Ringlikon refugee camp and being transferred to girls' camps in Fribourg, Neuchatel, Lucerne, and Montreux. In 1947 Edith went to work for a Jewish refugee organization in Zurich and received an affidavit...

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  12. Romanian anti-Jewish legislation

    Romanian anti-Jewish legislation for the following years: 1938, 1940-1944.

  13. Pamphlet

  14. Ruth K. Heiman collection

    Letters written by donor's parents, Max and Elise Heiman, and uncle Nathan Heiman, prior to their deportation during the years of 1940-1942 (translation provided).

  15. Curtis Sloan papers

    The Curtis Sloan papers consists of a "Report On Camp At Auschwitz," 10/12/1944; "Notes About The Camp of Civilian Prisoners at Ravensbruck;" 10/12/1944; and United States Army Signal Corps photographs of survivors and victims at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and the Volary Death March. Photographers include unidentified photographs, as well as J.R. Bradley and Howard E. James.

  16. Rose Linden papers

    The papers consist of a postcard sent by Mendel Lipschitz in Skidel, Poland, to his brother, Charles Lipschitz [donor's father-in-law], in New York, N.Y., and a postcard sent by Mendel Lipschitz in the Soviet Union to Charles Lipschitz in N.Y.

  17. A witness of accusation: Transnistria, 1941-1944

    Copy of a memoir in Russian describing the suffering of Jews inflicted by the Romanians and Germans in 1941-1944.

  18. Selected records of the Nikolaev Oblast Archives II from Yad Vashem

    Contains primarily documents from the Romanian occupation government’s Prefecture of the Golta region in Transnistria. Roll 1 contains historical and geographical information on the Golta region, correspondence regarding the use of Jews for work, and a 1943 list of Jews in the Golta ghetto. Roll 2 contains military orders and reports about the fight against Soviet activists and Communists, correspondence of the prefect of Golta, correspondence regarding the use of police for disposal of victims’ possessions and the use of prisoners of war for work (1941–1942), and 1943 orders of the 2nd Dep...

  19. Lang C. Dickinson collection

    Correspondence and photographs of Holocaust scenes, German medals, foreign paper money, etc. Includes photographs of U.S. Army Air Force photographer Lang C. Dickinson, and survivors and victims at Buchenwald shortly after liberation.

  20. Rose Kaplovitz papers

    The Rose Kaplovitz papers consist of correspondence, autograph books, and photographs documenting the lives of Rose and her family in Sosnowiec, Będzin, and Łazy. The collections relates to their experiences before the Holocaust, Rose’s survival in the Sosnowiec ghetto and Ober-Altstadt forced labor camp, and her postwar life in a Jewish orphanage in Chorzów and at the Leipheim displaced persons camp. Correspondence primarily consists of wartime letters and postcards written by the Zaks family in the Sosnowiec ghetto and sent to Rose’s sisters Mania and Tola at the Welzel textile plant in T...