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The task of the International Tracing Service (ITS) Historical Section, which had existed until 1978, consisted primarily of so-called „document acquisition“, i.e. collecting general records on those groups of persons the ITS is responsible for, thus both for victims of persecution and terror of the Nazi Regime as well as „foreign laborers“ and Displaced Persons. Focus was on the documents concerning ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Eva Mills and her mother Gertrude Najman. Eva was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1938 whilst her parents fled Germany separately aiming to reach Palestine. Eva's father, Jankiel Najmann, managed to get to Haifa in 1944 after spending several months at Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp in Italy. Her mother, Gertrude Najmann, became a prisoner ...

Consists of a variety of files pertaining to the civil administration of the Loire-Atlantique, a department in France, together with documents related to the administration of the camps housed there, anti-Jewish legislation, and documents related to the assassination of Lt. Col. Hotz (Feldkommandant of Nantes) and subsequent German reprisals.

Consists of one copy of a memoir, 143 pages, in Hebrew with English translation, entitled "From Hell to Home," written by Matisyahu Goldberg, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. In the memoir, Mr. Goldberg describes his family, childhood and religious life in Lithuania; his involvement with the Irgun Zvi Leumi; life in the Kovno ghetto; forced labor in Kaišiadorys and in Kazlų Rūda. In 1944, ...

The collection consists of a Torah-style scroll, correspondence, a manuscript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Harold Fishbein, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's (UNNRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, after the war.

Garrison hat worn by Ruwen Basel during his work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as a camp supply officer.

Hanna (Hannah) Henrietta Lenschitzki was born on November 6, 1922, in Halberstadt, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Paul and Rosa Beermann Lenschitzki. Hannah had a brother, Manfred, who was born on September 7, 1920, in Halberstadt. Hannah’s father Paul was born in approximately 1887 in Sandersleben. His father was Isidore Lenschitzki. Hannah’s mother Rosa was born on January 22, 1891, in Sandersleben, ...

Consists of a copy of the transcript of the oral history testimony given by Richard Glazar at the Center for Holocaust Studies on 26 October 1981. The transcript includes Glazar's remembrances of life during and after the Holocaust. Glazar devotes a major part of the testimony to his experiences in the Treblinka concentration camp. He describes in detail the administration of the camp, the various ...

Contains United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) child welfare reports, 1946 Jan.-1946 June, relating to psychological evaluations of children and youths at Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. Also includes a 1988 memoir by Henry Holland entitled "Second Chance." The memoir contains information about Holland's childhood in Kusnica (Kushnitsa, Ukraine) and Bergszasz in Hungary; ...

Polish newsreel footage from 1946 to 1947 of the trial of Hans Biebow, including scenes of the courtroom, atrocity footage, testimony, judges, and spectators at the trial.