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  1. Selected records relating to war criminals

    Copies of documents sent to USHMM from NARA, after declassification review and redaction of contents. Documents were from Headquarters, European Command, Intelligence Division, dating from 1951, and appear to deal with extradition of Nazi war criminals.

  2. Thomas Baruch papers

    The papers consist of correspondence from Edward Remey [family friend] and the Westchester Committee for Refugees, Inc. to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baruch [donor's parents] confirming the deaths of Marianne Ziegler [donor's aunt], Thekla Baruch Ehermann [donor's aunt], and Gerda and Fritz Hammerstein during the Holocaust. The papers also include a postcard from Marianne Ziegler to her brother, Richard Baruch, informing him of her impending deportation from Berlin, Germany, to Poland.

  3. Rysia Edelman papers

    The Rysia Edelman papers consist of identification papers issued to Mindla Frenkel and Salomon Edelman; photographs of Edelman family members and friends in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany; and a 4 page testimony recounting Rysia’s experiences under the German occupation of Tomaszów Mazowiecki and as a forced laborer in Pionki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and other camps.

  4. Helen Kirshner family collection

    Photocopied correspondence, primarily related to efforts of Isidore Kirschner of Philadelphia, to help people in Austria and elsewhere in German-occupied Europe get visas to immigrate to the United States.

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in Satoraljaujhely and Auschwitz

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, describing author's experiences in in Hungarian village (unnamed) where her family lived, impact of antisemitic laws, movement to ghetto of Sátoraljaújhely, deportation to Auschwitz, and as forced laborer in Magdeburg until liberation.

  6. Jewish Labor Committee records

    Records contain correspondence, office files, press releases, minutes, convention reports, and printed material relating to the efforts of the Jewish Labor Committee to mobilize opposition to Nazism and offer relief and assistance to its victims. Included are eighteen volumes of clippings scrapbooks documenting the work of the Committee, 1936-1947. Among the persons represented are Baruch C. Vladeck, founder and first chairman of the Committee, Adolph Held, chairman after Vladek's death in 1938, Jacob Pat, Executive Secretary, and David Dubinski, Treasurers. Among the prominent corresponden...

  7. Postcard advertising antisemitic exhibition

    Postcard advertising antisemitic exhibition arranged by Nazi officials. The postcard depicts a caricature of man, wearing black coat and hat, holding out right hand, gold coins visible; in left hand, he bears whip and arm folds around piece of map with hammer and sickle visible on map "Der Ewige Jude" written across the bottom; "Grosse Politisch Schau im Biblioteksbau des Deutschen Museums/Zu MuenchenAB 8. November 1937Taeglich Geoeffnet von 10-21 Uhr" printed.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences as a hidden child in France

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written 1994. Describes experiences of the author's family, Polish emigres in Paris, during the German occupation, including their arrest and internment of parents at Drancy, their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz, and Kranowski's own survival in OSE orphanages and with family members.

  9. Affidavits and memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz and Mauthausen

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript, of Burekhovich, who gives a brief summary of his deportation from Hungary to Auschwitz and subsequent camps, along with notarized document from fellow camp survivor, who attested to the veracity of Burekhovich's account, Los Angeles, 1989.

  10. Correspondence relating to the persecution of Jews from Drohobycz

    Photocopied correspondence. Once letter, in Polish, with English translation, and one postcard, sent from I. Karliner in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to another Karliner family member in Russia, reporting on news she has heard about the family; all of them had been deported and no news since.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages. Brief account of Hungarian Holocaust survivor.

  12. Contribution to the history of Slovakia The so-called "Jewish question"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Contribution to the History of Slovakia (The So-called 'Jewish Question' - Partial Autobiography)" relating to the experiences in Slovakia from 1925 to 1947. In the memoir Georg Keleti discusses childhood in Slovakia, local antisemitiesm, the history of the Hlinka Guard, and the Free Slovak Republic. The memoir was written in or after 1991and ends with a note about the author's 1991 visit in Slovakia.

  13. Letter, requesting assistance for refugees, addressed to the Finnish Consul General in Yugoslavia

    The handwritten letter in German was written by Robert Klueger, an Austrian Jew from Donji Lapac, Croatia, to Paul Berkes, the donor's husband and Honorary Consul General of Finland in Yugoslavia (later Croatia), requesting assistance.

  14. Charles Corn collection

    Contains the Holocaust related publications in English, French, and German, a published portrait of Adolf Hitler, and two blank Fire Brigade Commendation certificates dated April 20, 1937 , signed by Heinrich Himmler.

  15. Nazi propaganda: Military

    The pseudo-documentary depicts the military actions of a parachute battalion participating in the occupation of the Netherlands beginning on May 10, 1940 - the action that opened the western front of WWII. It starts with an address to the parachutists by their officer, who evokes the historical importance of this 'hour of decision' which determines the fate of the German people 'for the next thousand years.' The soldiers are also told that after the defeat of Poland the new enemy of Great Britain would threaten the western borders of Germany from its 'bridgehead' of the Netherlands. Later o...

  16. Mikuláš Gaško letter

    The collection consists of a photocopy of a typed letter from Mikuláš Gaško, originally of Košické Hámre, Slovakia, to his colleague Ladislav Alexander in 1983. The letter provides testimony describing deportations of Jews from Košice (now Košice, Slovakia, referred to as Kassa) to Auschwitz II-(Auschwitz-Birkenau) in 1944, and the actions by police official Dr. Csatáry with regard to the deportations. Also included is a detailed list of deportations of Jews to Auschwitz II-(Auschwitz-Birkenau) by train with Kassa highlighted. The list was obtained through Istvan Vrancsik, a soldier assigne...

  17. Oral history interview with Ralph Altman

  18. "The gray coat"

    Contains a memoir which Alice Shragai [donor] describes as a kind of diary about her experiences growing up in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, her experiences with anti-Semitisim, and involvement with a Zionist organization called Betarim. She discusses her life in the Riga ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz along with her return home and eventual emigration to Israel and later the United States.

  19. Eric Kahn papers

    Photocopied documents pertaining to Erich Kahn and his family, including copy of form excluding Kahn from work in his native Cologne, Germany, since he was Jewish (1940), and telegrams and correspondence between family members, 1940-1942, regarding emigration and transport to camps.

  20. Lászlό Erős papers

    The Lászlό Erős papers include an English translation of his joint memoir with his wife, I Will Never Let Go of Your Hand! The memoir covers the period from 1940-1946 and consists of three parts: Blanka’s experiences with deportation and concentration camps, a diary account of Lászlό’s escape from his labor battalion and his eventual reunion with Blanka, and an account of how the survivors from Gyergyόszentmiklόs were memorialized at the local synagogue. The manuscript is accompanied by the original photographs published in the Hungarian version of the memoir and a list of 986 Jews transpor...