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  1. Lehmann family papers

    The Lehman family papers document the experience of Arthur Lehmann and his son, Richard, through their imprisonment at the Ferramonti concentration camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in Fort Ontario. Included in the papers is Arthur’s handwritten memoir, entitled "Scenes of Life in Ferramonti." Another memoir, from Ruth Gruber, titled "I Went to the Soviet Arctic", is also in the papers. Other items include drawings of the room Arthur stayed in while at Fort Ontario, originals and copies of correspondence, autobiographical notes, photographs, and various newspaper clippings. The ...

  2. Oral history interview with Saba Wenger

  3. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by a Danish resistance fighter

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Mogens Kofod-Hansen, a Danish resistance fighter, on May 4 or 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treated by military forces. Denmark was occupied by Germany on April 9, 1940...

  4. "To Calm My Dreams"

    Testimony. Typescript, 24 pages, titled "To Calm My Dreams" by Kazimierz Tyminski, translated from Polish by Maria Tyminska-Marx.

  5. Letter relating to the tracing of missing Jews

    Photocopy of a letter dated 26 Sep. 1945 from Ida Solwan and Eva Richter.

  6. Star of David badge

    Worn by Meir Yelin in Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto.

  7. Soviet farming and industry; Fighting in Stalingrad

    Titles: "All for the Front, All for Victory"/ "Film-Reporting on the Country back to front" Opening shots of women and children in the Tajikistani fields, harvesting cotton. CUs of the plants. Several shots of sacks of cotton being emptied into large piles, emphasizing mass quantity. ELSs of large processions of horse drawn carts carrying goods. ELS of sea and fishing vessels. CUs of nets bringing up large quantities of fish. ELSs of oil well fields and workers heading to work. CU pool of oil with reflection of towering oil well. ELSs Ural mountains, coal mining. Conveyer belts and trains h...

  8. Memoir of Holocaust experiences in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany

    Contains a memoir relating to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany.

  9. Fighting in Stalingrad

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "80"/ "Moskow"/ "November 1942"/ "Directed by S. Gurova"/ "All for the Front, All for Victory" Series of shots of women harvesting grains, feeding chickens, painting farm building, men inspecting vegetables. Pan across a sign promoting a regional economic exhibition. Over the shoulder shots of men and women looking at vegetables. ELS of procession of carts carrying vegetables to Leningrad. Trains loaded with good for Leningrad. Scenes in a gun workshop. MSs and CUs of women sanding rifles. MS of boy fitting barrel into wooden rifle. 02:13:57 Titles: "Film-reportin...

  10. Board of Jewish Population Delegation in Będzin Centralna Rada Starszych Gmin Żydowskich w Będzinie (Sygn. 212)

    Contains instructions issued by Chaim Israel Merin, “chairman of the board” of the Judenrat in Będzin (Zarząd Przedstawicielstwa Ludności Żydowskiej w Będzinie); lists of the names and addresses of Jews in Będzin; reports of Jewish police activity; identification cards and photographs of some Jews from Będzin; a list of Jews deported during liquidation actions in the Będzin area; a list of Jewish intellectuals killed by the Nazis; notices to German firms in Będzin concerning the employment of Jews; an alphabetical population list of Jews in Będzin from 1942 to 1943; a list of Jews sent to t...

  11. Richard Schiff collection

    Contains a "Wehrpass" of a German soldier named Fritz Meininger (born, Goettingen, 1913).

  12. Records of the Feldkommandantur Radom (Sygn.161)

    Contains correspondence, reports, orders and various other documents relating to administrative matters handled by the Feldkommandantur in Radom, Poland, from circa December 1944 to circa March 1945. Includes promotions for military personnel; special operations for German military formation Korük 532; distribution of weapons; building of trenches and defenses; dismantling of businesses in Radom; and report of "bandit" or partisan attacks on German soldiers.

  13. "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor"

    Testimony, eight pages, typescript, with copies of photographs. Titled "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor," by Jack Fleischer, about experiences at Bergen Belsen. Originally from town near Kielce, and discusses experiences after invasion of Poland, time at Skarzysko camp, and later camps.

  14. Oral history interview with Gita Frankel

  15. Anti-Bolshevik exhibition; Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg): Armed Forces Day

    Overhead shot of crowds waiting, SS men. Wide view of exhibition building with crowds in front, swastika banners, and the building-wide exhibit title: "Grosse Antibolschewistische" [Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition] (pan, words shown one at a time). Men exiting exhibition building. 00:06:29 EXT stadium with Nazi banners. 00:06:58 Nuremberg parade grounds, crowds at seats, swastika flags. Marching (mostly trims of reasonable length). 00:07:40 Group of Italian officers, talking, laughing. 00:08:59 Trims of young men with SS badges eating. Flags with swastikas and SS. CUs, faces, men in SS swea...

  16. Photographs relating to Buchenwald and Ebensee

    Consists of seven photographs showing various scenes of the U.S. Army in Germany at end of World War II, including tanks and troops moving through a village, liberated concentration camps prisoners, a performance perhaps by Marlene Dietrich, Gen. Patton meeting with a Soviet counterpart, and ruins of German city. Likely copies of Signal Corps photographs.

  17. Adam Rogowski memoir

    Typescript memoir, bound, 264 pages, titled "Lost and Found," an English translation of Adam Rogowski's Hebrew-language memoir of his Holocaust experiences, titled "B'Akalton Yelech Adam."

  18. Lorenz Schmuhl papers

    The Lorenz Schmuhl papers consist of correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, and documents relating to Major Lorenz Schmuhl's service as the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also includes information about Karl Koch, Kommandant of Buchenwald during World War II, and his wife, Ilse Koch, as well as testimonies and writing about Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Correspondence includes letters, announcements...

  19. A memoir entitled "The Survivors of Buchenwald" relating to Nicholas Burliuk's experiences with survivors on a Hospital Ship

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, five pages, by Nicholas Burliuk. Recounts Burliuk's experiences as a U.S. Army medic at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  20. Oral history interview with Joe Dobryman