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  1. Wanda Ewa Rut papers

    Testimony, 5 pages, containing recollections of Wanda Rut and Aleksandr Schwarz, plus programs and news clippings about an art exhibition that Rut organized in Miami in 1990, titled "Jewish Themes in Polish Art."

  2. Lillian Levy papers

    The Lillian Levy papers consists primarily of articles and correspondence written by Levy from the period of 1960-1963, as she worked as she served as the Bureau Chief for the National Jewish Post and Opinion. The majority of the articles she wrote during this time cover the topic of ex-Nazi medical doctors who performed experiments on Jewish prisoners during World War II. These doctors were able to escape trial and continued to practice medicine in Germany. Levy’s correspondence from this time is mostly to publications requesting to run her articles, but also included is a letter to First ...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 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.

  4. Gouverneur des Distrikts Radom records (Sygn.158)

    Contains correspondence, reports, criminal case records, and various other documents relating to water management in Radom, Poland; economic matters in the Radom district; the military and political situation in Radom; the defense of Lublin; regulation of work time for General Gouvernement offices; the criminal case of Wladyslaw Stefanski; police protection of prisons; and leaflets prepared by the German Army to entice Poles to fight the "Jewish Bolsheviks."

  5. Oral history interview with Henry V. Cumoletti

  6. Lawrence Cane correspondence

    A letter relating to atrocities at Buchenwald written by Lawrence Cane to his wife, April 15, 1945.

  7. Documents containing information relating to Raoul Wallenberg

    Correspondence (photocopy) between James McCarger of Washington, DC and the Raoul Wallenberg Association in Beer-Sheva Israel, 1993. Correspondence was occasioned by an alumni note about McCarger in the Stanford University alumni magazine, which occasioned Ann Witztum, also a Stanford grad, to contact McCarger to ask about his activities with the U.S. Embassy in Budapest during the 1940s relative to Wallenberg.

  8. Abraham Duke papers

    The Abraham Duke papers consists of copyprint photographs of Abraham Duke and his family. Also included is an untitled memoir of Duke's wartime experiences in various ghettos and labor camps, as well as photocopies of articles relate to his childhood in Minsk, Poland (now Mir, Belarus).

  9. Benjamin Geist collection

    Contains a list of Jews who perished in labor camps around Buchenwald, and a Hirschenhauser family history.

  10. Joseph Stone war crime trial collection

    Contains, but is not limited to, trial transcripts, copies of evidence documents, and trial summaries, relating to the war crime trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1946 to 1948. Several of the documents relate to Joseph Stone's involvement in the "German Industrialists Case" and matters relating to the use of prisoners of war and slave labor.

  11. Yesa Gudzij collection

    Letter of May 1939, from Moshe Zaks in village in Lithuania, to son and family in U.S., in Yiddish. Includes envelope letter was sent in, and two photographs.

  12. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj. Departament Informacji i Prasy (Sygn. 202/III/174-213)

    Contains information about activities of the Department of Information and Press; occupation policies of the Nazis; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; radio broadcast monitoring in Europe; conditions in various regions of Poland during the occupation; relations between Poles and Ukrainians; propaganda; and communist activities in Poland.

  13. Ida Nathan papers

    The papers consist of two passes issued to Jacob Weisman [donor's uncle] in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  14. Lissberger family papers

    The Lissberger family papers contains mainly identification and documentation papers for Moritz, Bettina, Klara, and Emil. Included in this collection are marriage, birth, and death certificates, certificates of good conduct, inoculation papers, transport orders, witness declarations, and school records. Other items include correspondence with foreign consulates and post-war restitution paperwork. Also included are personal items, including correspondence, photographs, a wedding invitation for Moritz and Bettina, and Bettina’s school diary, memory book, and Hebrew lesson notebook.

  15. Alexander Entin memoir

    Testimony, three pages, manuscript, recounting experiences in Lugansk, Ukraine, and Kiev, after German invasion, including murder of his family, mobilization in Red Army, capture, passing himself as Muslim rather than Jew, work as forced agricultural laborer. Written in 1993.

  16. Hanka Gorenstein papers

    The Hanka Gorenstein papers consists of a photograph of Hanka Gorenstein as a young woman and a re-transcribed memoir describing her experiences in Kamieniec Podolski and the Łuck ghetto, escaping the ghetto liquidation, hiding under a non-Jewish identity and working as a farmhand in Wołyń, and returning to Łuck after the war. In addition to the Polish version of the memoir, the collection also includes an English translation of the same.

  17. Louis Russ papers

    The papers consist of two letters from Jews in Vienna, Austria, Anna Stein and Georg Doctor, seeking affidavits of support so that they can immigrate to the United States as well as an accompanying envelope and a photograph of Anna Stein. The letters are addressed to Samuel Doctor [donor's maternal grandfather] in the Bronx, N.Y.

  18. Anna Tabor papers

    The papers consist of letters and postcards written by concentration camp inmates to people in Paris, France, and New York. Three of the postcards are photocopies sent from a father to his son.

  19. Lotte Rosenbaum Herz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, circa 1990s, written by Lotte Rosenbaum Herz, describing the arrival of Erich Rosenbaum's family in the United States in 1938.

  20. In memoriam Margarete Volinsky

    Obituary. Photocopy of typescript, one page, memorial to Volinsky (1891-1978), with annotations from her daughter, Helena.