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  1. Dachau concentration camp "Prämienschein"

    The receipt ("Prämienschein") was issued to a prisoner (victim) in Dachau concentration camp. A number of camps within the German Reich issued very similar notes known as 'Praemienschein' or premium notes. Scrip from some camps are of the same design except for the camp name. This shows the influence of the concentration camp authority in regards to note design. Premium notes were authorized by the 'Service Regulations for the Granting of favors to inmates.' The notes were supossed to be used for cigarettes and other canteen purchases, to fund inmate savings accounts, and even pay for brot...

  2. Memoir relating to the Holocaust in Hungary and incarceration in Nazi concentration camps

    Testimony. Typescript, two pages, describing experiences in hometown (Koloszvar/Cluj) and at Auschwitz. Also includes a one-page photocopy of a police registration document in postwar Dresden, confirming that she had been imprisoned at Auschwitz.

  3. Neufeld family papers

    Correspondence between various members of the extended family of Helena Mowszowicz (née Neufeld), including to and from sisters in Washington, DC and in Milan, Italy, in their attempts to help her emigrate from German-occupied Poland, 1939-1943. Includes correspondence from Helena’s husband, David Mowszowicz, who had escaped Poland and settled in Palestine, in the hope that his wife and young son would be permitted to legally immigrate and join him there. The most extensive correspondence is from Helena Mowszowicz to her sister, Nina Crovetti, who lived in Milan, Italy, and who was trying t...

  4. Yefim Gorelik and family papers

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, Russian, with English translation, about experiences of Gorelik, originally of Parich, near Bobruisk, Belarus. Names list of villagers from Parich who were deported and/or killed by Germans, photographs of Gorelik's family. Typescript list appears to have been compiled from handwritten list in folder, that was compiled in Parich in August 1944, immediately following liberation.

  5. Vitale family papers

    Correspondence (8 letters) from Gemma Vitale Servadio, written to friends, family and an attorney, June 1944. Servadio sent these letters from the Fossoli internment camp, after she and her mother, Nina Levi Vitale, were arrested, and prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Collection also contains the text of a lecture given by Servadio’s brother, Col. Massimo Adolfo Vitale, in 1947, after he observed the trial of Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Hoess in Warsaw, and subsequently visited the camp.

  6. Eugen Heydt papers

    Contains correspondence, statements of payments from the German office of retirement and aid service payments to a Charlotte Heyd, living in Miami, Florida for the year 1978, and to Eugen Heydt and his child Gisela Heydt who applied for naturalization in 1951. The Heydts left Germany in 1938, to go to Johannesburg in South Africa.

  7. Naomi Zelwer papers

    Text of Holocaust commemoration speech by Zelwer, an Australian born (1972) Jew, who in her speech reflected on her grandparents' experience during Holocaust. Also news clippings about Zelwer.

  8. Khaya Vayuberg memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, English, describing Vaynberg's (Weinberg) experiences in Moldova, then in Mogilev Podolsk, Pechora camp, and liberation.

  9. Majerowicz family papers

    The Majerowicz family papers contain documents primarily relating to Arthur and Marie Majerowicz, and their son Kurt. The documents pertaining to Arthur and Marie are mainly identification documents, such as birth, death, and marriage certificates, Arthur’s employment and education history, immigration documents and membership cards. The items relating to Kurt come from his time while interned at Westerbork, and include birthday and postcards he sent to family members, a letter giving power of attorney to his father, and information requests concerning Kurt’s death at Buchenwald. Other docu...

  10. Louis Satvsky collection

    Louis Satvsky collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the efforts of Otto and Gitla Waga to immigrate to the United States from Vienna, Austria with the assistance of their cousins, the Stravsky family. The documents include letters written to the Stravsky family in the United States requesting assistance in securing an affidavit of support, copies of correspondence with the American consulate in Vienna, copies of documents compiled in support of immigration, and a photograph of Gitla Waga. Also included is a photograph of a young boy, likely Meiloch Waga, who escaped t...

  11. David Wharton memoir

    Testimony, one page, typescript. Brief description of experiences in Kaunas, in ghetto of Slabodke, then Stutthof, then liberation. Met and married his wife, Bassia (see 1995.A.1151), in Slabodke.

  12. Tsilya Tochilnikov papers

    The Tsilya Tochilnikov papers consist of personal narratives and photographs documenting Tsilya's flight from Voznesensk, Ukraine, during World War II and the loss of relatives killed in the war and in the Holocaust. The narratives describe Tsilya’s happy early life in Voznesensk, fleeing from German bombs in 1941 on a long and arduous journey, finding refuge in Tbilisi, learning her relatives had been killed, her mother’s desperate grief, her own and her brother’s removal to children’s homes, being sent to Baku with her brother, and finding a foster mother in Baku but suffering from contin...

  13. Stanford J. Shaw collection

    The Stanford J. Shaw collection consists of photocopied archival documents assembled by Shaw during the research he conducted for his book "Turkey and the Holocaust." Shaw located most of these documents in what he described as the “uncataloged archive” of the Turkish Consulate-General and the Turkish Embassy, both in Paris, France. The documents that he copied were primarily case files and related documentation about Turkish Jewish individuals and families who resided in France during the German occupation (1940-1944), and who sought assistance from Turkish diplomats to prevent their arres...

  14. Letter relating to an American soldier's experiences at Buchenwald and Dachau

    Letter, one leaf (two pages), dated 5 June 1945, with envelope, addressed to Major A.F. (Abe) Wechsler in New York, from "Jack" (return address is illegible due to water damage on envelope), a U.S. soldier stationed in Europe, who describes Paris at V-E Day, and two trips he made to Germany in the month afterwards, including one to visit Buchenwald and one to visit Dachau.

  15. The Story of Berta and Freddy Fischel

    Typescript, 5 pages, with separate title page, "Surviving: The Story of Berta and Freddy Fischel," by Sonia Pressman Fuentes. The author (Fuentes) was a cousin of Freddy Fischel, and she wrote up this narrative after interviewing the Fischels in 1975 and 1991.

  16. Helena Roth family papers

    Photocopy of a death certificate for Samuel Roth, the donor's father-in-law, who died at Buchenwald. Photocopy of a prisoner card with photograph of Eugene Roth. Original typescript letter from the International Red Cross, International Tracing Servicing, circa 1963.

  17. Roza Goikhberg papers

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of typescript, from Goikhberg, written in 1992-1993, recounting experiences during German occupation in Mogilev-Podolsky district near Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Includes family photos.

  18. Name list of Jewish shop owners

    Photocopy of list of names from Lithuania, dated 15 June 1940.

  19. Oral history interview with Yetta Eisner

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in the Domaniovka ghetto

    Testimony, typescript (copy), 2 pages, about author's experiences growing up in Odessa, arrest and transfer to Domianovka camp