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Displaying items 19,381 to 19,400 of 58,960
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  1. Radovolsky family collection

    Memoir by Ida Radovolsky; memoir by Tsilya Radovolsky; three unidentified photographs.

  2. Eve Silver collection

    Photocopy (enlarged) of a work permit. Newsclippings, book reviews, published poems written by and about the donor.

  3. Bryansk Oblast Archives records

    Reports.

  4. "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story"

    Testimony: Typescript, 7 pages, titled "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story."

  5. Schlesinger family papers

    Consists of correspondence addressed to Gustav Schlesinger of Brooklyn, NY, from friends or family in Brezno, Slovakia, dated 1933-1939.

  6. Francine Lawrence collection

    Two documents regarding Amilcar Patalacci's deportation.

  7. Leo Schadach memoir

    Testimony: Photocopy of typescript (225 pages), titled "Orasele pierdut," by Leo Schadach, about the author's deportation from Bukovina to Transnistria in 1941.

  8. Taylor speaks of experiments and rules of war at Medical trial

    (Munich 464) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Taylor tells of concentration camp victims being injected with epidemic jaundice and being used for sterilization experiments. Numerous healthy victims were injected with spotted fever virus. Experiments in cholera, typhus, and other infectious diseases were also conducted. Experimental patients were shot poisoned bullets. General Taylor accuses the defendants of violating the rules of war, the rules of the Geneva convention pertaining to prisoners of war.

  9. Karl Brandt makes final statement at Medical trial

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Beals announces that the Tribunal has convened to hear last statements of the defendants of Case 1 and that the defendants do not have to make statements unless they desire to. Karl Brandt, once Hitler's personal doctor, makes his statement.

  10. Jenohedgy Szerdahelyvi postcard

    The postcard was written by Jenohedgy Szerdahelyvi to Janos Szerdahelyvi in Hungary.

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

  12. Oral history interview with Vivien Spitz

  13. Ring

  14. The Ludwig Jacob papers

    Contains photocopies of transport notice and name list, labor camp call-up notice, name list from a publication, and Mauthausen death certificate, all relating to the fate of Ludwig Jacob [donor] and his family during the Holocaust.

  15. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Tiergarten; Mauthausen Trials

    Welt im Film, issue no. 79. December 9, 1946 "Beginning of Trials against German Doctors" Courtroom personnel stand as tribunal files in. Pan, courtroom. An American officer calls out names of chief defendants as camera pans the defendants in dock, including Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Schroeder, etc. Telford Taylor addressing court (no sound). HS, tribunal. 09:36:54 Karl Brandt standing, pleads not guilty. Handloser and Herta Oberhauser also plead not guilty. Welt im Film, issue no. 52. "Tiergarten Plowed Up, Berlin" Pan of Tiergarten. British tractors help cultivate so...

  16. John Fout collection

    Consists of photocopies of records from the Bundesarchiv and Military Archiv of Freiburg, Germany. The records, dated 1938-1944, are related to the identification and demographics of homosexuality in Germany and the work done by Oberarzt Prof. Dr. O. Wuth in Berlin dealing with homosexuals in the German military.

  17. Benjamin Schlesinger collection

    Letter written by donor's mother, Szyfra Szlizynger who was residing in Bedzin, 1943 April 7, to Mr. Schwartzbaum in Switzerland Ms. Szlizynger was asking for help to obtain a passport to Switzerland mentions husband and 5 children in her letter. Postcard is written by Bracha and Szlamek Piwowonski (aunt and uncle of donor), also from Bedzin in 1943 June 3 to Aron Gepner in Tittmoning internment camp. Piwowonskis wanted help to get to Tittmoning in order to get to Switzerland.

  18. Oral history interview with Karl Targownik

  19. Hazzan Raymond Kantor collection

    Consists of pre-war traditional Jewish religious music song by Hazzan Raymond Kantor [donor] during Rosh Hashana (1994) and Yom Kippur (1994). Includes a prayer book to be used as a finding aid with tapes.

  20. Joseph J. Borchert papers

    Borchert's memoir of his experiences with Patton at concentration camp Ohrdruf.