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  1. Documents relating to Auschwitz

    Identification documents for Siegfried Goldstein and son, Max, of Frankfurt am Main, post-war, including membership in Jewish Congregation and proof of imprisonment during Nazi era. Also indlcudies documentation of denial of post-war restitution claim, and documents from Auschwitz, including hospital statistics, post-war Polish documents.

  2. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection

    The Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection contains correspondence between Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr., various members of the Schiffman and Marx families living in Germany, and United States government officials. The correspondence relates to the families’ requests for assistance in immigrating to the United States from Nazi Germany in the form of signed affidavits of support and financial assistance. The personal correspondence from the families in Germany provide a sense of growing desperation to leave Germany. Also included are Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr.’s papers relating his activity wi...

  3. Bertha Kanarek collection

    Two postcards, sent by L. Milgram from Poniatowa camp to A. Jagielski, in a town near Kielce, January and February 1943.

  4. Papers of Robert Lissau

    Documents pertaining to Friedrich Lissau, originally of Vienna, including birth, residence and education documents, letters of reference about his work as an apprentice welder in Vienna and Zagreb, 1938-1939, and similar documents (birth, marriage, education records) about Edith Lissau, nee Goldmann.

  5. Wolf Hochman memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, handwritten, recalling author's experiences as child of British father and German mother in Leipzig, internment in camp on Bodensee for several years, reuniting with father, and family's emigration to England.

  6. Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Information and Press, Western Section Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy. Sekcja Wschodnia (Sygn.202/III/135-173)

    Contains reports, surveys, decrees, a thesis, essays, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Department Information and Press and its gathering of materials relating to the reorganization of the Polish government and programs planned for territory to be recovered at the end of World War II. Includes information about reorganization of industry, economic systems, education, school systems, and real estate and property in recovered territories. Also contains information about Polish public opinion during the German occupation, Germanization of Poles, surveys of the Germ...

  7. Letter relating to the fates of the Gershen Buschel family during the Holocaust

    Photocopy of letter, circa 1946, from unidentified family member (name is cut off at bottom of photocopy), addressed to "Fannie" in Philadelphia, informing her of the fate of the family of their uncle Gershon.

  8. Jan and Irena Otrebski collection

    Contains a memoir, Mauthausen concentration camp publication, and video tape of oral history relating to fate of Jehovah's witnesses.

  9. Maximilian and Martha Koessler collection

    Published material, containing articles written by Maximilian Koessler and published in law reviews/journals in Europe and the U.S., 1929-1964. Some deal with Holocaust and WWII related legal issues (e.g., trial of Ilse Koch, of perpetrators of Malmedy massacre, of Vichy regime), most do not.

  10. Odessa Oblast Archive records from the collections of Yad Vashem

    Contains documentation of the Romanian occupation of Transnistria and the fate of the Jews on that territory. Subjects include the evacuation of Jews from Odessa; Aryanization; the activities of the gendarmerie; the forced labor of Jews, including physicians, pharmacists, and dentists; transports to ghettos, with name lists; support for Jews in Transnistria from the Jewish community in Bucharest; and public health matters.

  11. Roza Borukhovich memoir

    Testimony, four pages, handwritten, about author's experiences in occupied Moldova, ghetto of Chechelnik/Rabnitza.

  12. A memoir and documents relating to Holocaust experiences

    Testimony, plus documents, photocopied, in Russian, with some English translation and an inventory, about the author's experience during the German occupation of Kiev, including an eyewitness account of mass killing at Babi Yar.

  13. Katz family papers

    The papers consist of documents and materials relating to H.W. Katz, his wife Friedel (née Kramer), and their daughter, Eve. Includes identity papers, demobilization papers, receipts, letters of recommendation, safe conduct passes, visa information, and correspondence related to the family's escape from Paris to Marseilles, life in Marseilles, and escape in 1941 to Lisbon to await the ship that took them to the United States.

  14. Oral history interview with Irene Shur

  15. Oral history interview with Jakob Uszerowicz

  16. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Rada Pomocy Żydom "Żegota"; Rada Narodowościowa; Sekcja Finansowa, and Biuro Delegatura Rządu (Sygn. 202/XV-XVIII)

    Contains information about the activities of the Department for Aid to Jews, and other offices.The bulk of the materials consist of reports, publications, interviews, lectures and financial documents relating to topics of concern for the exile government including the Polish economy, propaganda, and foreign policy.

  17. Max Fossner letters

    Contains photocopies of three camp letters sent from Max Fossner to his family in Slovakia, from Majdanek (1942) and Sachsenhausen (April 1944).

  18. Report on the Czar Boris III participation in war crimes against Macedonian Jews during the Holocaust

    One letter, from Ezra Benjamin to Milton Shapiro of the Jewish National Fund, protesting the latter's involvement in raising contributions for a memorial to Bulgarian King Boris III, for his activities in saving Bulgarian Jews, which Benjamin contradicts.

  19. A doctor talks My experiences in Sachsenhausen concentration camp last November

    Contains narrative descriptions of antisemitic incidents that happened to Hermon Preuss (b. 1911) as a youth during his school years in a Berlin's medical school and his later experiences in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  20. Oral history interview with Rose Szabo