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  1. Index books and registration forms for Jewish survivors in Poland Wykaz ocalałych Żydow polskich (Sygn.307)

    Contains index books and registration forms for Polish Jewish survivors, compiled by the Central Committee of Polish Jews, Department of Statistics. The indexes contain only basic information; the registration forms include each survivor’s date of birth, mother’s name, address in 1939, postwar address, and ghettos and camps of imprisonment during the Holocaust.

  2. "Great Fear and Little Bread"

    Testimony, typescript, 6 pages, titled "Great Fear and Little Bread" by R. B. Cappello.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Palemonas and Stutthof

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, about author's experiences in German occupied Lithuania, in unnamed town/ghetto as laborer, deportation to Stutthof.

  4. British propaganda: anti-German

    Jiri Weiss assembled this documentary footage which he brought from Czechoslovakia to Britain after fleeing German occupation. Film shows images of agriculture, people in folk costumes, and a church Sunday. The narrator describes Czechoslovakia as a "nation of freedom and peace" for nearly 1,400 years. Scenes of Prague during narration about the development of a Czechoslovak democracy in 1918 under Pres. Masaryk, similar to Great Britain's. Czechoslovakia's virtue as a "bastion against fascism" is demonstrated by its "education for freedom, education for peace". Images of the social project...

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in Minsk and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages (with typed English translation), circa 1990s. Describes experiences in Minsk ghetto.

  6. Joseph Napoli collection

    Photocopy of an article written by Napoli, a former officer in Army tasked with de-nazification of Germany after 1945, describing problems with process of denazification during that period. Published as "Indifference or Ignorance?" in the newsletter of the Public Committee in Israel of Survivors of Auschwitz, 1983.

  7. Lowell "Doc" Drudge papers

    Consists of photocopies, including a one-page biography of Lowell "Doc" Drudge, which mentions his participation in the liberation of Buchenwald as a member of Company A, 317th Infantry, 80th Division; a copy of a letter he wrote to the "Vetvoice" in 1994; and a newspaper article about him on Memorial Day.

  8. Oral history interview with Emmie Vida

  9. Rev. Stanley Dabrowski papers

    The Reverend Stanley Dabrowski collection contains documents concerning Reverend Stanley Dabrowski, a Polish Catholic priest who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1939 and detained at Dachau until he was liberated in 1945. This collection consists of original documents concerning Reverend Dabrowski’s life and biographical background from pre and post-war Europe and materials he collected regarding the Holocaust and Dachau once he arrived in the United States. Among his original documents is a Polish passport, identification cards, his ship passage ticket to the United States, and correspondenc...

  10. Henry Kolber papers

    Consists of newspaper clippings and a telegram collected by Henry Kolber between 1961 and 1969, focusing on the 1968 trial of Wilhelm Rosenbaum, who was found guilty for ordering the mass execution of Jews in the Kraków district.

  11. Edward R. Murrow broadcast from Buchenwald

    AUDIO RECORDING. Murrow describes the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following his visit there.

  12. Oral history interview with Frida Herskovits

  13. Initiative on Genocide and Human Rights program

    Photocopied planning documents from American Sociological Association task force on genocide and human rights, including notes for planning meeting in 1993, and memoranda from various participants, ranging from well-known sociologists like Earl Babbie and Charles Tilly, to representatives of USHMM.

  14. Al Sommer, Jr. letter relating to Ohrdruf

    Contains a typescript photocopy of a letter from Al Sommer Jr., while in the United States Army during World War II, to his parents relating to his experience at the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  15. Crematorium tag

    Consists of one cylindrical clay disc of the type which were attached to deceased prisoners' bodies during cremation to easily identify the ashes. Though the original origins of this disc, numbered 8745, are unknown, such discs were used at Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Majdanek, and similar discs were also discovered at Belzec.

  16. Hans Weil papers

    The Hans Weil papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting German educator Hans Weil, his relocation to Italy following his dismissal from teaching at Goethe University, and the school, Schule am Mittelmeer, that he established for German emigrant children in Recco, Italy.

  17. Sonia Bimsztein papers

    Records relating to the internment of Sonia Bimsztein in Drancy and her deportation to Auschwitz.

  18. Hertz family history

    Testimonies, containing both German and English versions of memoir by Fred Hertz, titled "Four Hundred Forty Six Years and Ten Days," about life of Hertz family and relatives in Coesfeld, Germany, experiences after Nazis came to power, Kristallnacht, and emigration to Palestine via the Netherlands.

  19. Mixed media sculpture representing a rescued Torah scroll

    Mixed media sculpture created by Alice Lok Cahana, 1989-1990, Houston, Texas and received by Shaike Weinberg as a gift from the artist.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in the Minsk ghetto and as a hidden child

    Testimony, handwritten, 8 pages, Russian, with typed English translation. About experiences in occupied Minsk.