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  1. Marlin Zimmerman photograph collection

    Contains liberation photos of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

  2. Reminiscences of Flomin Yakov Abramovich

    Testimony, unpaginated (approximately 100 pages), about experiences of Flomin as partisan in Ukraine during occupation. Also contains photocopied documents about Flomin.

  3. Documents relating to experiences in the Tomashpol ghetto

    Photocopied official documents concerning Vasilevsky's experiences in Vinnitsa region during occupation. Documents attest to his having been persecuted/imprisoned during occupation, Russian with English translation.

  4. Construction, BDM, German children, flying club

    City of Berlin. Construction crew at work, pouring cement. City view, with radio tower. 00:17:02 "Reichskrafts" sign on building. Farm scenes. BDM (Bund Deutsche Maedel) girls with their arm badges, milking goat. Blond girl cutting bread for two children. CU of children at tables, eating, outdoors. INT, Kindergarten. Children painting, washing dishes. 00:19:51 Children go off together with school satchels on their backs in Essen, arms around each others' shoulders, various combinations of boys, girls. Smokestacks, city in BG, Krupp factory. 00:21:23 Flying club, gliders, young men carry gli...

  5. Der Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes in Frankreich records (Sygn. 350)

    Contains records from the commander-in-chief of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in France. Included are organization and personal files on Frenchmen and Germans; financial and economic records on matters such as salaries, taxes, and pay lists; files on the Catholic church; material about youth organizations; orders and correspondence of the SD; and documents regarding the resistance.

  6. Fillip Biberman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 4 pages, from Biberman, with description of occupation of his hometown in Ukraine, being moved into a ghetto, escape from killing squads, recapture and imprisonment as forced laborer, and escape into Romanian occupied territory and ghetto of Bershiz, later liberation, and postscript describing post-liberation life in Soviet Union. Dated February 1995. Also includes two photo snapshots of Biberman, his wife, and relatives in New York, 1995.

  7. Antoni Golba memoir

    Testimony. Typescript, 11 pages, dated 1992, describing Antoni Golba's experiences from childhood in Stopnica, Poland, to the German invasion, Golba's enlistment in Polish Home Army and his time as a partisan, arrest and deportation to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and liberation.

  8. Lothar Kahn papers

    The Lothar Kahn papers consist of biographical materials, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting Louis Hane, born Lothar Kahn, of Lollar, Germany, his marriage to Maria Dort, who was not Jewish, the forced labor he performed in Berlin during the Nazi period, and his family’s immigration to the United States in 1946. Biographical materials include a birth certificate, identification papers, a report card, employment records, registration documents, and a testimony of character documenting Louis Hane’s childhood in Giessen, his work in Berlin, and his immigration to the United Stat...

  9. Joseph Kahn letter

    The letter relates to the death of Pesla Kokotek at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943.

  10. Joseph C. Solarz papers

    The Joseph C. Solarz papers include narratives, letters, photographs, and news clippings documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The narratives include a personal narrative by Solarz and a report by an anonymous author. The letters include a 1945 illustrated note to Solarz by liberated prisoners Tadeusz Warsowicz, Jozef Kachel, and Stefan Dziwlik; a letter from “Alex” to his parents recounting his visit to Buchenwald; and a 1957 letter from former Buchenwald prisoner Feliks Grossman. Photographs depict the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, and most bear capti...

  11. Jack Marchick papers

    The Jack Marchick collection comprises letters and photographs collected by Jack during and after his deployment with the United States Army in Europe. The letters are written between 1945 and 1948 by Raymond Weinstein, a former prisoner of the camp Jack Marchick liberated, and discuss the economic and political situation in post-war France. Raymond writes of his struggles to obtain and keep work; his family; his health; and his progress in gaining back his weight after years of malnutrition. Among the 26 photographs are images of a concentration camp, likely Buchenwald, immediately after l...

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Poland during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Writes of family's life in Krakow, German occupation, hiding in Nowy Targ.

  13. Elias Trybuch papers

    Photographs, of donor as partisan in Belarus during WWII, and of memorial to murdered Jews in donor's hometown (Staipitz), along with letter from Neal Sher of OSI thanking Trybuch for assistance in prosecution of John Avdzej, which led to his expulsion/deportation from USA in 1984 for his role in collaborating with Germans as mayor of Staipitz during occupation.

  14. Mary M. Salm and Salm family papers

    Photocopied material from Mary M. Salm papers in archive at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Also photo of Uri Salm, following immigration to Brazil.

  15. Nazi propaganda: home front

    Intertitle: "Ein Film vom Arbeitseinsatz und der Gefolgschaftsfuersorge in Heeresbetrieben" [A film about work's employment and staff's welfare in army firms] This documentary begins with graphics showing the German civilian workforce in Army firms in 1939 and 1943 and highlights the rise of women's involvement. It stresses the importance of a female workforce for 'wrestling for Germany's future'. A 'typical day' is shown: a worker's camp situated in a beautiful landscape, housing in modern buildings, working in healthy conditions, living conditions 'like at home', 'real comradeship' betwee...

  16. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. 02:10:42 Reel 2: Part 3: "Sturm auf Rostow". German forces assault Rostov; boats land, troops billet. Shots of town after German occupation of July 23, 1943. 02:15:07 Part 4: "Kaukasusfront Elbrusbesteigung" Map locates Caucasus Mountains and Mt. Elbrus. German troops and pack animals travel through Caucasus and assemble on Mt. Elbrus. 02:19:15 Part 5: "Kampf um Sewastopol" German tanks, transport vehicles, and artillery advance on Sevastopol. German antiaircraft guns d...

  17. Place called Dachau

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopy of typescript, account by American soldier titled "Place Called Dachau" about liberation of that camp by Allied soldiers.

  18. The only last survivor

    Testimony, over 500 pages, typescript, of Abraham Foxman, originally of Halicz, Poland.

  19. Oral history interview with Thea Eden

  20. A speech relating to experiences at Föhrenwald displaced person camp

    A speech titled "Liberation and the Jewish Displaced Persons Centers in Germany" and given at Temple Israel, Great Neck, NY, on 28 April 1995 providing a historical account by former director of Foehrenwald DP camp.