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  1. "My camp diary"

    An English translation of Rosa Mayer-Murr's German language diary, "Meine Campzeit, 1940-1944," 29 pages. Author describes her experiences in Gurs and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  2. Oral history interview with Fela Grynbaum

  3. Henry W. Propp collection

    Contains two translations of Michal David Shapobersky's foreword to a book by his brother, Mordechai Slapobersky. The 1994 translation is entitled "Mordechai's Collected Writings" and the1997 translation is entitled "Mordechai's Shroud." Also included is an essay entitled "The Propp Ancestral Shtetl in Lithuania," the author of which is not given.

  4. Documents Relating to the Peoples' Court Trial of Wilhelm Schumann et al

    Consists of a photocopy of an indictment, dated November 18, 1944 in Berlin, Germany, which describes charges brought against men and women who were arrested as Jehovah's Witnesses, including Gerhard and Wilhelm Schumann. Also includes a photocopy of a letter, dated October 17, 1944, sent to Gertrud Schumann (Gerhard's wife) informing her that he has been sentenced to death.

  5. "Through the Wall Into the World."

    Contains a manuscript entitled "Through the Wall Into the World," relating to experiences in Berlin and Vienna, 1933-1938; England, 1938-1949; and Berlin after 1949.

  6. Abram Pinczowski papers

    Consists of four post-war identity cards and one photograph, all for Abram Pinczowski (or Pinczewski).

  7. Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History records relating to Jewish partisan resistance in the Soviet Union

    Contains name lists, case files, photographs, interrogations, reports, memoranda, and various other documents relating to both Jewish and non-Jewish partisan resistance movements in all areas of the occupied Soviet Union during World War II; biographical information on individual partisans, their promotions, awards, and activities; persecutions of Soviet Jews during the German occupation; atrocities committed against Soviet Jews during the German occupation; the establishment of ghettos in the Soviet Union; counter-intelligence by the Gestapo to combat partisan activity; and the role of the...

  8. Never again

    Contains a book titled "Never again," about the Holocaust experiences of Heddy Spitz in her birthplace, Muncachevo, Czechoslovakia, and the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  9. Oral history interview with Freda Silberberg Wineman

  10. Papers of Harry S. Rowe

    Testimony, news clippings, text of speech, photocopied documents. Relate to Harry Rowe, and a speech he gave at the newly reopened Neue Synagogue in Berlin in 1995, a news account of his visit, the text of a speech he gave there at his bar mitzvah in 1937, and his testimony of his wartime experiences, as well as photos of him and his wife visiting the synagogue in 1995.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in Kraków

    Testimony and one photograph describing Rosa Shoshana Taubamn Budick’s (later Shoshana Budick) family and childhood in Kraków as well as life in the Kraków ghetto.

  12. Selected records from the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine (Former Ukrainian Communist Party Archive), L’viv

    Contains records of the Extraordinary Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory. The materials pertain to the L’viv oblast, including reports on atrocities and mass killings and name lists of victims.

  13. German Military and Para-Military Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe

    Contains several different types of records, including finding aids for the records of numerous German units (e.g., SS-Artillerie Ersatz-Regiment, München; SS-Artillerie Ausbildungs- und Ersatz-Regiment, Prag), held by the Czech Military Historical Institute. Included are individual documents from various files, such as monthly reports and faxes, German personnel reassignment name lists (Veränderungsmeldungen), and brief Czech-language outline descriptions of various camps.

  14. SHAEF newspaper announcing Hitler's Death

    Numerous headlines printed on newspaper, same information repeated in four languages. Headlines include "HITLER IS DEAD/DOENITZ PROCLAIMED HIS SUCCESSOR..."; "THE WEEK/IN REVIEW"; "MAY DAY, 1945"; "THE FIRST 2,500,000"; "BRANDENBURG AND STRALSUND/FALL TO THE RED ARMY"; "HORTHY IN U.S./CUSTODY"; "RADIO"

  15. A postcard from Łódź

    Postcard (1) sent from Siegmund Klein, in Łódź ghetto, to his brother Leo in New York, May 1941.

  16. A memoir relating to experiences in Podolsk and Pechora

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopy of handwritten text. Describes German occupation in Mogilev-Podolsk.

  17. Theodore Sargent memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, account of experiences of Theodore Sargent in U.S. Army, and at liberation of Dachau. Compiled by Curtis Whiteway.

  18. Bar soap

    Soap given to Rabbi Abraham Klausner from Eugeniusz Motz, Munich, Germany.

  19. Oral history interview with William Skobac

  20. Jews and Judaism in post-war Amsterdam manuscript

    The Jews and Judaism in postwar Amsterdam manuscript was written by Dr. Malcolm D. Rivkin in 1954 while on a Fullbright Scholarship in the Netherlands. The report studies the Jewish community in Amsterdam in the postwar period and pays particular attention to the history of the Jewish community in Amsterdam, attitudes of the Dutch non-Jewish population toward the Jewish population, and includes questionnaires filled out by over 125 Holocaust survivors. The manuscript titled "Jews and Judaism in postwar Amsterdam" is comprised of the original typescript of the manuscript and a photocopy. The...