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  1. The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz

    Contains a draft manuscript entitled "The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz," 76 pages plus diagrams, written as an update or revision to the author's conclusions in an earlier book, based on review of newly-available documents from Russian archives after 1991.

  3. Maria Ungar Haas memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, one page, titled "My Story" by Maria Ungar Haas. Briefly describes live in Slovakia, Hungarian and then German occupation, arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, and later Stutthof, then liberation, life as DP, and immigration to U.S.

  4. Memoirs relating to Raoul Wallenberg

    Photocopy of letter sent by donor's grandmother, Eleanor Halpern, after she had been deported from Budapest to a labor camp in Ukraine, 1944, along with English translation of same and explanatory note from donor.

  5. "Svenska Dagbladet" article by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).

    Contains a news article from the Swedish newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet," written by consul Sigvard Kruuse, relating to rescue efforts of the Royal Swedish Consulate in Brussels (Belgium).

  6. Julia Gejdenson collection

    Various items, including tear sheet from Forward (Forverts) newspaper (in Yiddish), dated 1966; program from Yom Hashoah commemoration in Spain, 1989; clipping from French magazine with article about persecution of Jews in France during war, and photos from book about Nazi war criminals.

  7. Emanuel Scherer collection

    The collection consists of a badge, scrip, correspondence, documents, negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Emanuel Scherer as a member of the Bund in Warsaw, Poland, and of Jewish people in Germany and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.

  8. David Klein collection

    The collection consists of stamps, stamped envelopes, scrip, correspondence, receipts, etc. to/from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz Birkenau, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Mauthausen Natzweiler, and internment camps in Mauritius and Westerbork, and official post-war documents from Bergen-Belsen and Feldafing displaced persons camps.

  9. “League of Front Soldiers” Day of the Steel Helmets 1927 Berlin

    German newspapers, The Red Flag and the Steel Helmet, headquarters, officers marching, celebration, fireworks, aircrafts, crowds, Old Dithmarschen flag

  10. Podbierski family photographs

    Consists of four photographs of pre-war Jewish life; photographs are of the family of Jenny Podbierski, who immigrated to the United States in 1905 from Wilczyn, Poland. The photographs were taken between 1924 and 1937.

  12. Letters from Rabbi Albert B. Belton to Denis Silagi

    Contains letters Rabbi Albert B. Belton (a.k.a. Bela Berend) sent to Munich- based journalist and historian Denis Silagi about his alleged activity in the Hungarian Zionist movement before and during World War II.

  13. Irwin Magad collection

    Consists of one postcard sent by Icek Wajntraub in Dombrowa to Hanna Sara Wajntraub, who was interned in a women's work camp in Grinberg. The postcard is dated March 18, 1942.

  14. Shmuel Elhanan collection

    Collection of telegrams and family photos sent from Minsk and Kovno, including a Polyfoto of Shmuel Elhanan [donor] and his brothers in Kovno.

  15. Mr. Dario Navarra negatives

    Contains photographic negatives from La Scuolo di via Epili in Milan, Italy (1941-1942). The Jewish school was opened after racial laws forbade Jewish children from attending public schools.

  16. Esther Flam collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken at displaced persons camps in Schauenstein and Peppendorf, Germany, and two "temporary travel documents" issued to Esther Zoberman donor and Raisl Zoberman by the military government for Germany. Also included are a food knife and blanket issued at the displaced persons camp in Emden, Germany.

  17. Raul Hilberg collection

    The collection consists of ten piece of Łódź Ghetto scrip, 2 commemorative stamps, and an envelope relating to the experiences of Dr. Raul Hilberg as a scholar of the Holocaust as well as one piece of Theresienstadt scrip given to him by Frank Petschek, who had to flee Czechoslovakia after its annexation by Germany in fall 1938.

  18. Certificate

    The certificate issued on April 20, 1941, in Germany recognizes the induction of H. Seyb into the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth).

  19. Oral history interview with Agnes Hertzer

  20. David Friedman collection

    Archival material documenting the legacy of artist David Friedman (donor's father) including artist's scrapbook with photographs, correspondence, exhibit brochures and catalogs, press clippings, magazines book and DVD (for Library) and "Warsaw Ghetto Aufstand" (pen and ink drawing with color)