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  1. Oral history interview with Joseph Csillag

  2. Anne Frank diary mono-opera musical score and related documents

    Bound volume of musical score for an opera based on the "Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. Title (Russian) is "Dnevnik Anni Frank, monopera, v 4 stsenax, 21 epizody," with libretto and music by Grigori Frid. Parshitura, 1969. Inscribed with Frid's (Fried) address in Moscow. Second folder contains concert programs from performances in Kislovodsk and Pyatigorsk in 1976-77; Rotterdam, 1979; Stockholm, 1997; Syracuse, NY, 1978; with English summary of opera.

  3. Oral history interview with Lucy Horn

  4. Toni Heller collection

    The Toni Heller collection contains documents relating to Harry and Toni Heller, who both were imprisoned in Westerbork transit camp from 1940-1945. Items include travel and work passes from Westerbork, certificates of good conduct, and a newsletter from the refugee camp. Other items include an interview with Commander Gemmecke of Westerbork, a testimony on life in the camp, and a brief biography and testimony written by Toni Heller. The collection also contains photographs of the Hellers and postcards.

  5. German occupation of France and Holland

    Surrendered German soldiers are issued PG coats; PG is painted on by a French officer. CU, statue of Joan of Arc, German troops marching in front. German troops marching down street; dead horses and ruined carts cover street. German troops marching, on carts and motor vehicles. Civilians welcoming German troops, shaking hands with German officers. POWs marching down street. German prison camp. CU, various nationalities of POWs, some African, some Russian. Two POWs eating food from bowl, dancing, faces are tattooed, from North Africa. German troops marching into a town. Horse-drawn vehicles ...

  6. List of persons accused or suspected of crimes against humanity and KZ Sachsenhausen documents. (Includes photographs.)

    Booklets: One, "Preliminary List of Persons Accused or Suspected of Crimes Against Humanity," issued by Nehemiah Robinson and the World Jewish Congress in 1961. Other item, titled "KZ Sachsenhausen," is a 156-page booklet compiled by Zentralstelle of Nordrhein-Westfalen in 1961, containing a list with photographs of individuals identified as having worked on prison staff at Sachsenhausen, to help in investigation and capture of remaining war criminals from there, circa 1962.

  7. My nightmare in hell

    Testimony, 19 pages, typescript, titled "My Nightmare in Hell," by Harold Spear (Hercko Szpiro). Describes childhood in Poland, invasion by Germans, labor camp in Lublin, Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and death marches.

  8. Pages from a notebook and return from the gate of death relating to conditions at Melk

    Testimony. Two photocopied documents. First is photocopy of a manuscript, 4 pages; the other is one typescript page (photocopy), both have accompanying note, presumably from donor, explaining that contents of both are from former prisoners at camp in Melk, Austria. Describes beating and mistreatment of prisoner at Melk, the other describes transfer of prisoner from Melk to Mauthausen.

  9. Romanian State Archives records relating to the "Jewish Question" in Romania

    Photocopies of documents in Romanian from the Romanian State Archives.

  10. Yom HaShoah Commemorative Ceremony collection

    Printed program (5 copies), from event held at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, 30 April, 1995.

  11. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, typewritten, in form of letter, in which author describes her experiences in German occupied Ukraine, in the hopes this will help her with restitution claim via the Claims Conference.

  12. Fanya Vaysman memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, eight pages, Russian, by Fanya Vaisman (Weisman), of Chicago, in June 1994. Originally from a village (Shpikov) in Vinnitsa district, Ukraine, Vaisman describes experiences in Pechora camp and Shargorod ghetto, as well as hiding in forest after escape.

  13. Henry and Gertrude Wegner papers

    Photocopied materials about Theresienstadt from 1990s.

  14. Linda L. Preston collection

    Consists of five photographs from the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Contains mass produced images of bodies.

  15. Ilse Rothschild papers

    The Ilse Rothschild papers consists of Rothschild’s postwar Belgian identification card, a 1940 letter from her brother, Ludwig Cohn, describing his railroad ordeal from Belgium to Saint Cyprien as an interned enemy alien, his 1942 Red Cross letter indicating that Les Milles was being liquidated, four photographs of Cohn at the Les Milles internment camp, and four photographs of Rothschild’s husband, Erich Rothschild, working with oxen and potatoes at the Gordola labor camp in 1942. Fritz Tockus, Ilse Rothschild’s brother-in-law, and Freddy Horn are also identified on a May 1941 picture pos...

  16. Chernivtsi Jewish Survivors Organization affidavits

    The collection consists of 901 affidavits, solicited by the Chernivtsi (Ukraine) Jewish Survivors Organization. The organization collected the affidavits in order to press the Soviet government for stipendiary pensions in restitution for the atrocities the survivors suffered during World War II. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the organization continued to receive the affidavits. Presumably, the survivors hoped that a successor government would honor the request. Though the entirety of the affidavits originate from the Chernivtsi region, the majority relate to events that occurred in ar...

  17. Lea Evron collection

    Consists of a baptismal certificate for Sophia Balitzer, originally issued in 1935 and reissued in 1947; a marriage certificate, dated 1936 at the parish of Sw. Magdaleny in Grodno; a 1945 identity card with photograph issued to Regina Balitzer, originally of Radom; and a postcard sent from Z. Baltizer in the Tarnow ghetto to his sister, M. Adout, in Lausanne, Switzerland, dated 1942. The baptismal and marriage certificate were forged in attempts to aid the Balitzer family of Radom to survive the Holocaust. Includes a memoir dated 1994, written by Lea Balitzer Evron, the daughter of Regina ...

  18. Moe and Phillis Leftin papers

    Testimony (one page) with accompanying International Tracing Service forms, with explanatory letter, relating to Holocaust experiences of Moe Leftin (1918-1993, born Turek, Poland, died Denver, CO). Includes photo of Leftin (circa 1990).

  19. Rampart "Szaniec"

    Szaniec (Rampart) was a weekly newsletter devoted to Poles in captivity. This collection contains articles about forced labor, the massacre of Polish intellectuals, resettlement, news from the front, and the German occupation of other countries.

  20. Episodes of my childhood

    Testimony. Typescript, 36 pages, titled "Episodes That I Remember Out of my Childhood," by Rebekha Perel, reminiscing about her experiences as a child in the Netherlands during the occupation, during imprisonment with her mother, and her subsequent release.