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  1. Jeannette Hahlo papers

    The collection includes a post-war letter and diary kept by Jeannette "Jet" Hahlo during her time in Germany where she served as an interpreter with the United States government during the Nuremberg trials. The diary consists of transcribed correspondence written by Jet to her sister, Sylvia Hahlo.

  2. Menashe family collection

    Consists of documents, identity cards, photographs, and haggadot related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Menashe family, originally of Thessaloniki, Greece. Includes birth certificates, marriage certificates, and United States naturalization certificates, as well as two family copies of the haggadah. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of members of the Menashe family. Of the nine children of Issac (Ino) and Sara Menashe, only four survived the war: Pauline immigrated to the United States before the war, Oro and Sylvia survived Auschwitz, and Ni...

  3. Gasul children at home near Chicago

    Title: "And here is 'Home Sweet Home' and the Children." Short sequence of the three Gasul children. CU, baby with bonnet (Judy, the donor) in carriage. Sister (Sandra) in red velvet dress plays with Judy. MS, three girls sitting on the bench. Oldest sister (Gloria) in same red velvet dress holds Judy on her lap with Sandra at right.

  4. "Sophia's Story"

    Consists of one DVD-ROM containing "Sophia's Story," an oral history interview with Sophia Miszkowski, born Zissel Kurcharski in Bȩdzin, Poland, in 1915. Sophia tells the story of her experiences in pre-war Poland and her experiences in slave labor camps in Germany during the war. The oral history is mostly in Yiddish, with a little bit of English.

  7. Leslie Aigner photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of Leslie (Laszlo) Aigner with his immediate family in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, in May 1944. Soon afterwards, Leslie was deported to Auschwitz where his mother and little sister, Marika, were murdered, was transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and was liberated from Dachau. His father and sister, Elisabet, were taken to a forced labor camp in Hungary, where they survived the war. In the photographs, Leslie is wearing the Star of David.

  8. Tadeusz Ciekata and Benedykt Bielski letters

    The Tadeusz Ciekata and Benedykt Bielski letters consists of letters sent by Benedykt Bielski to his family from the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1940 and 1941. The letters are written on camp stationery were sent by Tadeusz Ciekata to his family and his girlfriend, Wanda Bilska from the Wiener Neudorf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp. Wanda Bilska is the sister of Benedykt Bielski, who was killed in the Holocaust. Tadeusz Ciekata survived the war. The letter dated May 11, 1945 describes Tadeusz’s his liberation experiences and how excited he is to be reu...

  9. Russian civilians dig up German graves

    Men unearth the corpses of German soldiers in a snow-covered graveyard. They pull German helmets out of the graves and throw them onto the snow. Shots of the men digging up the corpses and dragging them out of the graves. They toss the corpses onto a burning pyre.

  10. Nammering Massacre collection

    Consists of one report, dated May 16, 1945, by Robert Schoenfeld, a member of the 5th Infantry Division, regarding the Nazi massacre of transported prisoners in Nammering, Germany, from April 19 to April 23, 1945. Also includes five photographs of the mass grave of the Nammering victims, including two photographs of the citizens of Nammering visiting the site.

  11. Simon Goldman photographs

    The Simon Goldman photographs include 17 photographs of Simon Goldmand and his friends at the Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp in Austria. The collection also inclues a floppy disc.

  12. Emergence of East & West Germany after WWII

    OMGUS censorship slates state that the film has been approved for public screening in the American zone of Germany. Words superimposed across an aerial view of Berlin state that this film is dedicated to the men women and children of Berlin, without whose loyalty it would not be possible to relate the following. Over scenes of the destruction of Berlin and people working among the rubble the narrator says that without an architect, without a plan somehow something new and strong emerged from the ruins in the summer of 1945. Crowds of West Berliners and a shot of SPD representative Franz Neu...

  13. Oral history interview with Maurice Frydman

  14. Bidding farewell at New York harbor

    MS, SS Champlain ship (overexposed) at New York harbor. Pan, Jacoby family members, smiling as they bid farewell to Samuel, Marie, Willis, and Mark Jacoby on a trip to visit family in Biecz, Poland and other sites in Europe.

  15. Metal badge with the letter Ž to identify a Croatian Jew

    Jewish identification badge with a Z for Zidov (Jew) that Alfred Grunhut was forced to wear in Zagreb, Croatia, from 1941-1945. Grunhut was a well known cabaret and theater actor. He survived the Holocaust despite the zealous persecutions of Jews by the independent state of Croatia. This government was run by the fascist Croatian organization, Ustasa, whose rule was endorsed by the Germans after they partitioned Yugoslavia in April 1941. By May, the Jews of Zagreb had to register at the community center and wear badges. There were frequent deportations to the concentration camps established...

  16. Henryk and Dorota Francuz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of both of the donors in the Łódź ghetto, their imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and later in other camps. Also includes one manuscript in which Henryk described his experiences in the ghetto, camps and his survival from the "Cap Arcona" catastrophe.

  17. Crowds in Vienna during Anschluss; Hitler motorcade and at Hotel Imperial

    Leaflets and newspapers litter a Vienna street and swirl around in the wind. Pro-Schuschnigg graffiti and the Vaterlandisches Front [Fatherland Front] symbol are visible on the pavement near Hotel Atlanta. The scene shifts to show crowds of people on the street. They appear to be shouting slogans and some give the Nazi salute. At 01:04:49 the German travel agency "Deutsches Reich" on Kärtner Strasse is visible, complete with Nazi eagle. This was a notorious meeting point for NS followers; eyewitness testimony at the DÖW Austrian Archive indicates that on March 11 the staff was broadcasting ...

  18. Sol Brivik photograph collection

    Collections consists of 16 photographs depicting members of the Brivik family from Kaunas, Lithuania; all of whom were taken from the Kovno ghetto and executed.

  19. Selected records from the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung (R 26 IV)

    Contains records pertaining to Aryanization, activity reports of the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung, statistics on the Carpathian countries, social politics in Slovakia, emigration in Hungary, organization and structure of the University of Zagreb, and forced laborers in the agricultural sector.

  20. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France

    The collection pertains to the activities of the American, British, and French Quakers in France and North Africa, from 1933-1950. The collection encompasses the Paris-based office of the Commissioner for Europe, the AFSC's liaison with the Allied occupation governments in Germany, Austria and North Africa as of 1943; and the Quaker delegations in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, Perpignan, and Toulouse. The materials consist of official correspondence, minutes of meetings, interviews with officials; weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly reports from delegatio...