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  1. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Savoie

    Contains material pertaining to anti-Jewish legislation, illegal border crossings, Freemasonry, foreign residency requirements, and humanitarian relief work in and around the Haute-Savoie.

  2. Selected records from National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Interior, London, MV-L (JAF 828)

    Contains records relating to confiscation of Jewish properties, charges against Nazi leaders. Includes index cards and material on deportations mainly from Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

  3. Selected records of the Reichsfrauenführung and the Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft (NS 44)

    Contains rating sheets with applications and resumes from members of training courses at the Reichsschule I of the NS-Frauenschaft in Coburg. Also contains correspondence of the Reich women’s leadership with various other departments including the mother's service, emergency service, financial management, and youth groups.

  4. Silberman and Seelenfreund family photographs

    Consists of nine pre-war and wartime copyprints of photographs of the family of Yosek and Salka Silberman. Includes photographs of Yosek and Salka; their children Chana, Benek, and Daniel; Salka's parents, Laura and Ludwig Seelenfreund; as well as photographs of Sala and Gimbel Silberman and Ota (Othkar) and Emanuel Seelenfreund. The original photographs were taken between 1928-1942.

  5. Aurich, Germany collection

    Consists of an extensive list of victims of the Holocaust who were from Aurich, Osfriesland, Germany. Also contains newspaper articles regarding the dedication of a memorial to the victims in Aurich in 2002 and also supplemental notes about the community.

  6. Regis Gignoux papers

    The Regis Gignoux papers include a three-page typed letter and three photographs documenting Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. The letter was written by Gignoux’s commanding officer, a pilot who flew reporter Percy Knauth and photographers Marguerite Higgins, Margaret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945. The letter describes their arrival at the camp and the conditions they found there. The photographs depict victims in Buchenwald.

  7. Aleksander Kulisiewicz photographs

    Consists of 13 large black and white publicity photographs of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, probably taken during the 1970s.

  8. Selected files from collections of the Polizeipräsident and Polizedipräsidium, Berlin

    Contains personal files; court records; charges against Jewish people; reprieves; release papers and reports; and records related to the banning of Jewish institutions and reports such as the automobile club and student organizations.

  9. "Growing up on Three Continents"

    Consists of one memoir, 49 pages, entitled "Growing up on Three Continents", by Henry Culman, originally of Liegnitz, Germany. Mr. Culman describes his childhood in Nazi Germany, the family's escape to Shanghai in June 1939, the family's life in Shanghai from 1939-1947, their immigration to the United States in 1947, and post-war life.

  10. Oral history interview with Margit Subak Elsohn

  11. Hannah Koblentz Shulman collection

    Contains one copyprint of a wartime photograph of Hannah Koblentz Shulman, originally of Albany, NY, in a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps uniform, and a copy of the July/August 1998 issue of "The Jewish Veteran" magazine. The magazine contains an article entitled "Jewish Women in the Military: Hannah Koblentz" and describes Mrs. Shulman's experiences in the armed forces and her experiences as a Jewish woman touring the newly liberated concentration camps.

  12. Visiting Lucerne lake and glacier

    Train, mountains, Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. 00:12:40-00:12:49 Black. Jacoby family touring Garden Glacier in Lucerne, snow, hiking, waterfalls, mountains. LS, city of Lucerne from boat.

  13. Sheindel Trebits Sussman papers

    The Sheindel Trebits Sussman papers include a diary, ID card, and photographs relating to Sheindel “Bella” Trebits Sussman’s experiences during the war. The diary begins on July 8, 1945 and relates Sheindel's memories of her hometown of Bácskossuthfalva, Serbia, the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, her deportation to the Bácsalmás ghetto and Auschwitz, working in a munitions factory, and liberation on April 14, 1945. The last entry is dated September 1945. The collection also includes a color copy of the diary and a membership ID for Poalei Agudat Israel issued to Isak Scharf, Scheindel’...

  14. Speeches on the occasion of the opening of the antibolshevist exhibition in Nuremberg

    Coverage of the opening of the Great Antibolshevist exhibition in Nuremberg. The narrator announces the exhibition, which shows the danger to the world posed by bolshevists and Jews. A group of men in uniform are greeted by Julius Streicher. The narrator introduces the guest of honor, General Maggiore (? Melchiori?), leader of the fascist delegation. The camera pans over the uniformed men and spectators. The delegation and the spectators salute as a band plays. 01:02:26 The general gives a speech in Italian. The camera pans over uniformed Nazis as they listen. 01:05:00 The camera pans aroun...

  15. Hitler's visit to Rome, May 1938

    A group of Italian school girls, escorted by nuns, followed by a group of young boys in uniform. Uniformed men with feathered hats march down the street. Women in native costume. A panning shot shows a huge building surrounded by Nazi flags and a crowd of spectators behind a barricade. Uniformed young girls march down the street. Uniformed boys, some with rifles and some playing drums. Long shot of men on motorcycles as they perform some kind of routine on a large field. More marching men on the streets of Rome, followed by Hitler's motorcade. Hitler is briefly visible, as is Goebbels, who ...

  16. Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection

    Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection consists of nine photographs documenting the experiences of Zofia Zajd Berkowitz and of Cecia Berkowitz (Zofia's niece) during the time period surrounding the Holocaust dated 1930-1946. Zofia Zajd Berkowitz survived the war working forced labor at the Hasag labor camp in Czestochowa. Her niece Cecia Berkowitz survived in hiding with the assistance of Genowefa Starczewska-Korczak, a Polish Christian woman who was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1986.

  17. Oral history interview with Julia Pirotte

  18. Evelyn Arzt Bergl papers

    Papers consist of three documents, two passports, and two letters illustrating the efforts of Hermine and Eduard Artz [donor's parents] and their children, Heinz and Evelyne [donor], to flee Vienna, Austria following Eduard's arrest and subsequent internment in concentration camp Buchenwald; his release and the family's flight to Italy; their internment in the Ferramonti-Tarsia camp; and then in hiding, where they survived.

  19. Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova collection

    The collection contains two items: a photocopy of a typed interview with Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova on April 24, 1982, and a photocopy of a printed version of her personal 1941-1944 diary during the Nazi occupation of Kiev. Ms. Khoroshunova, an ethnic Ukrainian (then 28 years old) provides a detailed account of the events in Kiev under Nazi occupation, including the September 1941 Babi Yar massacre, activities of the Communist underground, shortage of food, Nazi repressions against civilians and her own family.

  20. Chamber for disciplinary actions Selected files from the collection : Disziplinarkammer (of the Bezirksvervaltungsgericht Berlin) (A Pr. Br. Rep. 031-04)

    Contains trials against Jewish people or related to Jewish matters. Also includes records relating to private and professional relationships to Jews; bribery on behalf of Jews; provision of public benefits for Jews; Jewish medical doctors; false statements about the ethnic background; patronage of Jewish-owned businesses; providing shelter to Jewish people; unauthorized respectful treatment of Jews; financial business with Jews; unauthorized promotion of Jewish employees; sharing residence with Jews; and tolerance of race defilement.