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  1. Peter L. Hadley papers

    Contains photocopied documents and news clippings about the adoption, in 1949, of Peter Schreiner of Germany, by the Hadley family of Kenmore, NY.

  2. Reproductions of Sachsenhausen and Siberia letters

    Reproductions of two letters. One was written in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in November 1940 by someone named Bronek to his parents asking them to intervene to ensure a debt is settled. The second was addressed to someone's brother from Siberia in May 1941.

  3. Skuodas ( Lithuania)

    Testimony, typescript, 12 pages, titled "Skuodas / Skud, Lithuania," by Esther Schwargit, translated by Elisabeth Keston, about events in Skud after Nazi occupation and killing of inhabitants. English and Hebrew versions available.

  4. Adela Roser collection

    Testimonies (2), one written by and about Adela Roser, and the other written by Roser about her late husband, Grigory, describing both of their experiences during Holocaust. Also includes Roser's poetry about the Warsaw Ghetto, and two broadsides, color, in Hebrew, about a Holocaust commemoration.

  5. "The Brown Terror"

    Consists of one memoir, 99 pages, entitled "The Brown Terror," by Dr. Otto Schorrman, originally of Tarnopol, Poland. He describes the arrival of the German army and the first Tarnopol pogrom, life in the Tarnopol ghetto, and life in hiding.

  6. Lena Gitter collection

    Correspondence. Two letters and one postcard, from various members of a family prior to and during emigration from Austria.

  7. Memoir

    Photocopy of German letter and English translation, from father of Erwin Knoll.

  8. Kindergarten, Concert Party at Belsen

    Kindergarten at Bergen-Belsen. Bus arriving with children. Children leaving bus, entering school. Board reading KINDERGARTEN 9-12 2-5. CU children at desks, drawing. Milk and cookies distributed by Miss S J Reekie, a British trained nurse and child welfare specialist, in a beret. Concert at Belsen. Stage in theater. Band playing to audience. Soldier with children in audience, woman and children in audience. Group of women surround man playing piano. Three girls dancing "Hoki-Koki." Polish woman dancing peasant dance. Girl singing and playing piano. Girl playing violin, CU.

  9. The manuscript of a novel entitled "Yehova's Curse,"

    Contains the manuscript of a novel entitled "Yehova's Curse," which asks the question, "Where Was God?"

  10. Transport list from Auschwitz to Dora-Mittelbau

    Three photocopied items, one of letter to H.J. Hahn of Hildesheim, from director of the Dora-Mittelbau memorial site in 1994, explaining inability to do research because of broken down microfilm readers, but supplying a partial list of passengers on transport from Auschwitz to Dora. Also clippings (copied) from German newspaper with handwritten annotation about Lili Meier recognizing herself in Auschwitz photo album (now at Yad Vashem).

  11. Documents relating to Albert Einstein's activities on behalf of refugees

    Consists of several photocopies of a letter from Albert Einstein to Elmer Reinthaler of New York, written on June 10, 1939, thanking Reinthaler for his work on behalf of refugees. Also includes a copyprint of Einstein at an unknown dinner.

  12. Thomas Szirtes collection

    Contains a copy of a copyrighted videotape which shows John Fulop and Marie Anker receiving the Golden Cross of the Republic of Hungary for their rescue activities during the Holocaust; a photocopy of a news article published in Hungary which shows John Fulop shaking hands with Dr. Thomas Katona, Chief of Protocol of the Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary; photocopy of translation of medal of bronze posthumous award; and a captioned photograph taken of John Fulop at Budapest in 1992. Collection also includes copies of miscellaneous correspondence circa 1990-1992, but not limited to the...

  13. Walter and Erna Brunell papers

    The Walter and Erna Brunell papers contain primarily correspondence related to Walter and Brunell’s attempts to emigrate from Germany in the late 1930s. The correspondence is with various relatives and aid organizations related to their attempts to obtain visas from the United States. Other documents include passports, transit visas, and other various documents related to their immigration. The Walter and Erna Brunell papers contain primarily correspondence concerning the couple’s efforts in obtaining visas to immigrate to the United States. These include telegrams with their son, Ernst Bru...

  14. A memoir relating to pre-war experiences in Germany and the United States

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, by Rennert (1994), originally from Mannheim, Germany. Describes persecution in Germany, immigration to the United States, joining the Army and fighting in the Italian campaign and in southern France, where he was captured by Germans and survived remainder of war as POW and forced laborer.

  15. "Tatters of childhood"

    Testimony, 206 pages, typescript, titled "Tatters of Childhood," about experiences of author in pre-war Czechoslovakia, occupation, and Theresienstadt.

  16. Doris Perlhefter Rauch memoir

    Contains of one notarized typed memoir, in German, 3 pages, written by Doris Perlhefter Rauch, originally of Bruenn, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, she describes her deportation to Theresienstadt in 1941 and from there, to Raasiku, Estonia, in 1942, where her mother was immediately shot and Doris was assigned forced labor doing farm work. In January 1943, she was sent to Tallin for forced labor at the Reval shipyard, where she worked until the summer of 1944, when she was taken by boat to Stutthof and after a few months, to Hamburg. In the final days of the war, she was sent to Bergen-Belse...

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  18. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Information and Press Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy (Sygn. 202/III/1-116)

    Contains information on the activities of the Department of Information and Press; monitoring of Nazi terrorism; monitoring of resistance movements; monitoring of radio broadcasts in Poland; surveys of underground press; and surveys of foreign press. Also contains information on Majdanek and other concentration camps, file # 202/III-12.

  19. Ralph Parker testimony

    The collection includes a one-page testimony by Ralph R. Parker describing his experiences as a forced laborer, deportation to Auschwitz III (Buna-Monowitz) in 1943, forced march to Gleiwitz and Sachsenhausen, and liberation near Schwerin. Also included is a photocopy of a report given by Rolf Pakuscher (Ralph Parker) for a court case in Hamburg in 1946, describing conditions at Auschwitz.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in Budapest and Auschwitz

    Testimony, in form of questionnaire with narrative, 4 pages. Experiences in Hungary during occupation.