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  1. Seymour Z. Mann collection

    The Seymour Z. Mann collection includes reports, correspondence, a diary, cultural programs, questionnaires, and printed materials documenting the Evangelical Church and the Social Democratic Party in Ludwigsburg, Germany before, during, and after the Nazi years and Nazi cultural programming in Ludwigsburg during World War II. Adolf Dörrfuss (1875-1948) was a pastor in Ludwigsburg and his 157-page 1946 report describes the Evangelical Church in Ludwigsburg during the Nazi years. The report is interspersed with historical documents such as articles, bulletins, and pamphlets about the Church ...

  2. Oral history interview with Rudolf Gutman

  3. Oral history interview with Denise Toros-Marter

  4. Memoirs of Irene Arnold

    The Memoirs of Irene Arnold consist of a 71 page testimony in which she describes her childhood and upbringing in New York, work with the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) as part of a team sent to Lisbon under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM) in 1942, and postwar work with UNRRA in Europe.

  5. Kendall Taylor collection

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, apparently by Ida Shkolknik (nee Chaja Pintow), 12 pages, recounting her experiences in Holocaust, apparently in Poland.

  6. Personal karte from Buchenwald

    Photocopies of prisoner ID cards for Jozsef and Dezso Zelig, Buchenwald.

  7. Oral history interview with Morris Jacobs

  8. Courting, rehabilitation, and the sick at Belsen

    British officer speaks to British MPs sitting in chairs in front of a building, smoking. VAR views, CUs. Sign reads HEADQUARTERS BELSEN CAMP. Women walking in street. Another tree-lined street with pedestrians, mostly soldiers and women. Entering building. Board reading, ARMY WELFARE SERVICE TONIGHT. Women in courtyard of camp. INT, British rehabilitation workers (women) providing survivors (women) with new clothing, shoes, hats. Woman helping boy with clothing. Survivors exiting, boarding truck, driving away, waving to camera. More similar sequences. British MPs and civilian women, courtin...

  9. The Stories of Eric Haas and Marga Schlamm Haas

    Contains a memoir about Eric Haas (born: July 3, 1917 Offenbach/M. Germany) and Marga Schlamm Haas (born: February 5, 1921 in Berlin, Germany) and their experiences in Amsterdam, Holland, when the Germans invaded, their internment in the Westerbork transit camp, S'Hertogen Bosch (called Vught for short) concentration camp, and in Bergen Belsen, Switzerland, Marseilles, and an UNRRA camp in North Africa.

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine and Romania

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of manuscript, written using USHMM form from Survivor's Registry. Describes life in occupied Odessa.

  12. Autobahn construction; German town, market scenes; Hitler Youth

    Autobahn construction: big crane, digger and dirt, rocks for construction, workers. 00:02:24 Marketplace scenes in Dinkelsbuehl town square: women selling and buying apples. Church entrance, timbered houses, crowds of civilians. VCUs, townspeople. Swastika hanging from building. Cows walking up cobbled street towards camera. 00:04:17 Woman with glasses and cat leaning from window, statue of Christ in niche on house wall. VS, views of river, tower. Woman leading animals through arch. 00:05:11 Men examine pigs, pull them out of baskets by hind legs. VS, pigs, carts, handling animals. Cobbled ...

  13. The Częstochowa Council of Elders (Judenrat) Rada Starszych w Częstochowie (Sygn. 213)

    Records pertains to the administration of the Częstochowa ghetto. Included are statistics on the Jewish community and ghetto; a census of Jews in Częstochowa, with name lists; duty rosters for and instructions to Jewish ghetto police; and a book of events and regulations for the Jewish ghetto police.

  14. Robert Bonsignore collection

    Contains a remembrance pin and card with Hebrew text, also photographs of Genia Silkes from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  15. Oral history interview with Sami Sadak

  16. Oral history interview with Arnold Friedman

  17. Oral history interview with Curtis Whiteway

  18. Testimony

    Photocopy of typescript report, 37 pages, "Special Report on the Concentration Camp Buchenwald, by Father Heribert Froboese, O.F.M., former prisoner…" written by someone at SHAEF for transmittal to White House.

  19. "Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors"

    Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors, formerly entitled "Legacy: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors" was a project began by Evvy Eisen in 1992, which sought to photograph Holocaust survivors and accompany their portraits with a biography of their life during the Holocaust. The portraits are taken in black and white silver gelatin prints. While most of the portraits are 11"x14", some of the later portraits are 8"x11." The biographies are generally several pages long, and tell the stories of each individual’s story through the Holocaust. The United States Holoc...

  20. Memoir

    Testimony, circa 40 pages, typescript, concerning author's experiences in Gleiwitz, Buchenwald, Auschwitz.