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  1. Book Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime

    One volume of From the Last Extermination : Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime.

  2. Oral history interview with Philine Lachman-Polak

  3. Last day of the Belsen trial

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Brief shots of a US experimental cable-assisted aircraft demonstration. Last day of the trial of Bergen-Belsen personnel. Preparations at the court in Nuremberg (visited by Robert Jackson) for the opening of the main War Crimes trials. Interior construction work, workers, views of cells and courtyard where prisoners will be allowed to exercise.

  4. Morris Rosen collection

    Photograph negatives of grave sites of female victims of a death march from Ravensbrück and Gruenberg camps to Volary, Czechoslovakia; information relating to survivors and victims of Volary, Czechoslovakia, Dombrowa ghetto, and an unidentified labor camp in Breslau; photographs of acquaintances who were Holocaust survivors and photocopies of postcards to Gruenberg, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen; questionnaires for Rawa Ruska and Yakub Kalpern.

  5. Office of Special Investigations reports

    Contains three photocopied reports regarding investigations by the Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Dept. of Justice, concerning the wartime activities of Kurt Waldheim (209 pages, plus appendix and press release); Josef Mengele (197 pages); and John Demjanjuk (210 pages plus appendix), 1992-1994.

  6. The severed tree

    Testimony, typescript, 148 pages, about author's experiences in Poland prior to and during occupation.

  7. Cass R. Lewart papers

    Testimony, 19 pages, typescript, titled "My War Years." Also contains envelope in which donor's uncle, Roman Ryterband, sent a letter to his parents in Nowy Sacz, Poland in 1942, only to receive the envelope and letter back, with stamps on the envelope noting that the addressees had been deported.

  8. Without bitterness and unshakable faith

    Typescript of unpublished memoir, "Without Bitterness: An Unshakeable Faith," by Libby Storozum Rosenzweig, 486 pages.

  9. Morton Dannenhirsch papers

    Correspondence, photographs, and other documents about life and WWII military service of Jewish American man from Philadelphia who served in U.S. Army as medic, including typescript copy of letter to parents sent from Antwerp in May 1945.

  10. Teresa Wieselberg memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, Polish with English (volunteer) translation, by Teresa Wieselberg, Israel, 1992, in which she looks back on experiences in Lwow (Lviv) during German occupation.

  11. Bella Sandler collection

    Testimony, 4 pages, typescript, titled "Detailed Description of Persecution," regarding events in Poland (Kalisz, Zdunska-Wola, Czestochowa) after German invasion and during occupation.

  12. Bertold J. Vilner memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Relates experiences in and around Minsk during German occupation, including Minsk ghetto.

  13. A memoir relating to experiences in Sokoly

    Testimony, approximately 50 pages, photocopy of typescript, from Esther Wondolowicz Goldman, of Norfolk, VA, written in 1994. Describes life in Poland during Holocaust.

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 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.

  15. Gerard M. Gert collection

    Correspondence. Two unrelated German letters. One is from office of Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin, addressed to residence of Samuel Gutstein in Berlin, regarding a charge against Gutstein from the corresponding office in Koenigsberg, which is being lifted since Gutstein has been in America since 1938 and is unlikely to return to Berlin. The other letter is from Rudolf von Malzahn, a German diplomat in Belgrade, writing to Alfred Rosenberg to advise him to read a recently published book from the World Jewish Congress, as well as informing him of a popular Italian exhibit in Belgrade that the G...

  16. Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger collection

    The Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger collection contains documents created and collected by Dr. Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, a Romanian rabbi who helped lead the efforts in assisting Jewish refugees escape to Palestine. Documents include budgets, bulletins, and meeting minutes related to the Rescue Committee of Cluj-Kolozsvar (Napoca). Other materials concern Jewish refugees in general, and include copies of articles, lectures, and texts from films documenting the plight of refugees in Romania during World War II. The Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger collection contains items related to the plight of Roman...

  17. Tante Liesa

    Testimony, 4 pages, photocopy of typescript. Reminiscence by unnamed author of his aunt Liese from Berlin, and what happened to her and her family during the Holocaust (author's family emigrated from Berlin to Palestine before the war).

  18. Marching out of the gates of Auschwitz

    Manuscript poem (2 pages), signed by Bertha Weg, and dated Auschwitz, 15 August 1944.

  19. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Internal Affairs records Delegatura Rządu Polskiego na Kraj, Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (Sygn. 202/II)

    Contains information about the activities of the Delegacy of a Government for a Country Poland and its subordinate units during the German occupation. Of special interest is information about prisons in various Polish cities; concentration camps; communist activity; conditions in the Warsaw ghetto; and underground movements.

  20. A poem

    Poetry, one page, typescript, titled "Don't Forget Us" by Marjorie May Svendsen.