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  1. Sketch

  3. Marek Jannusz collection

    Contains audio tapes, programs and brochures, etc. of Requiem and Sh'ma dated April 27, 1996, and a Boston University Conference on "Rescue and Resistance WWII and the Present."

  4. Hanna Marton

    Hanna Marton is from Cluj (now Romania), formerly the capital of Transylvania. Both Hanna Marton and her husband were lawyers and Zionists. Marton was aboard the train organized by Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, carrying 1684 'privileged' Jews that left Hungary for Germany, eventually bringing them to Bergen-Belsen on 9 July 1944. Claude Lanzmann asks questions in French, which Hanna Marton understands, although she replies in Hebrew. Her answers are translated to French by Lanzmann's female translator, Francine Kaufmann. The transcript is in French only. Cluj was also known as Kolozsvar and Klau...

  5. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 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 killi...

  6. Stanley Hochman papers

    Consists of several copies of "My World War II Memoirs" by Stanley Hochman (typescript, 15 pages), along with photocopies of poetry.

  7. The Striker, July 1935, 13th year 1935 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

  8. A brief diary of my war years

    Contains a two-page, typescript testimony recounting the author's experiences in occupied Poland.

  9. Book

  10. Postage stamp

  11. Felice Ehrman collection

    Letters from donor's stepmother's brother from Moabit Prison in Berlin (a.k.a. Berlin-Moabit) to his father in Vienna, dated December 1939 to April 1941; letter from Zuchthaus Ebrach, written by Kurt König; receipts acknowledging money being received by König while imprisoned; Kurt König's death notice from the Gestapo.

  12. Auschwitz

    Draft manuscripts and research materials for book entitled Auschwitz.

  13. Banner

    Nazi banner removed by John Edgar Frost during the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.

  14. Walter Stras collection

    Consists of a report from the Bürgermeister in Brücken, Germany, concerning the Jews in the town in 1938; letters from Hilda and Simon Straass, Walter Stras' parents, in Gurs concentration camp; a propaganda leaflet entitled "Kraft durch Fruede!"; a letter of identification for Walter Stras written by H. E. Wortsmith of the 6th U.S. Armored Division; copyprints of photographs depicting scenes of Brücken and Steinbach am Glan, Germany; Walter Stras' Ausweis (identification card) from Buchenwald concentration camp; a letter from Lotie Marcus of United Jewish Social Services concerning Walt...

  15. Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius photographs

    The collection consists of three photographs of Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius and their family of Panemune, Lithuania. The Paulavičius family rescued 16 people during the Holocaust, including 12 Jews primarily from the Kovno Ghetto. There is also a post-war photograph of Antonina with 6 of the Jews the family helped rescue: Miriam Krakinowski, Yohanan Fein, Musia Gershenman, Tanya Ipp, David Rubin, and Aaron Neimark.

  16. Rube Goldberg collection

    Two news clippings about the 9th Division and its entering Czechoslovakia in 1945, and a concert they gave (undated), featuring S/Sgt Rube Goldberg.

  17. Farming wine and tobacco; Mussolini visit to Berlin

    Rural/farming activity. MLS unloading tobacco leaves. 00:01:16 In Heidelberg, CU, door and porcelain sign: "Dr. med. E. Lobstein" "Arischer Arzt" [Aryan doctor]. 00:01:49 Grape harvest and wine pressing scenes. In Rhineland/Neustadt, kneeling to pick grapes, VCU, beautiful light. MLS of vineyard and workers. MS, older woman bent over basket. MLS edge of field, pouring grapes from basket and into big press. INT dark, primitive, grape press, slowly coming down. Leaking out of barrel down chute. Grape pulp being ground up. CU, grapes. In field, little boy helps man. Loading funnel, press. Scar...

  18. An article and documents relating to war criminals

    Photocopied documents from Harry S. Truman Library, used by Crum in research for article published about Karl Brandt, "Nazi Bioethics and a Doctor's Defense," a copy of which is in this file.

  19. Arthur Klein and Rudolf Huber memoirs

    Contains testimonies by Arthur Klein and Rudolf Huber about the Jewish communities in Nove Mesto and Zarosice, Czechoslovakia during German occupation. Includes translations of the texts created by Fred and Leon Deutsch.

  20. Frandi Meryl Lipton photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of the crematorium at Dachau concentration camp at liberation and a photograph of the kennel at Dachau at liberation.