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Wooden traveling wagon made for a Lovari family, a Romani people, who specialized in horse dealing in the Czech and Slovak regions. The wagon with metal hoops for a canvas covering was custom-made for members of the group in the mid-1930s. In 1939, there were about a million Roma in Europe. The Roma were judged as racially inferior by Nazi ideology and singled out for persecution by Germany, in ways ...

Letters sent to Dr. Rudolph Ferdinand Kurz (donor’s maternal grandfather), a physician in Cincinnati, OH, from three different Jewish Viennese families, all with the last name Kurz, pleading for financial support and assistance in immigration to the United States. Ultimately, one family made it to Australia and the other two families made it to New York.

Collection of ceramic decorations made by Béla Fekete and Éva Barta in their ceramics workshop. Béla Fekete, who was not Jewish, and his wife Éva Barta, who was Jewish, made these decorations by day and sold them to make a modest living. At night they forged identity papers with Béla creating the documents and Éva making the official looking stamps to go with them. Hundreds of people benefitted from ...

The collection includes: - Ernest/Ernst Bock (1922, Vienna-1943, Mršeča vas/Šentjernej), Dnevnik (Diary) 28. IV.-9. VIII. 1943 (original is at Museum of Dolenjska, Novo mesto); - Robert Kukovec (1910, Innsbruck-1945, Ljubno ob Savinji), Dnevnik (Diary) 1944-1945 (original is at Museum of National Liberation Maribor); - statement/testimony by Emerik/Mirko Hirschl/Hiršl (1908, Vanča vas-1985, Murska ...

“Ruitergevecht naar middeleeuwse trant bij Stuivezand (6 oktober 1624)”, getypt artikel. “Iets uit de geschiedenis van Made en de Worp, samengesteld uit het artikel van W. van Ham: de bedijking van de Emiliapolder en haar voorgeschiedenis, jaarboek van de Oranjeboom, deel 19, 1966, getypt artikel. “Enkele bijzonderheden betreffende het Waterschap “De Emiliapolder, naar aanleiding van het 300-jarig ...

Consists of one typescript article, 9 pages, in English, entitled "Afternoon in Buchenwald" by Richard Daughtry, written by Henry F. Tonn. In the article, Tonn describes World War II veteran Richard Daughtry's experience visiting Buchenwald in April 1945 after the liberation, including his tour of the camp, where he witnessed the victims still in the crematorium, emaciated survivors, and items made ...

There are 12 pages of the paper copies from the Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial database. The information of the database is based on jpeg copies made from the microfilm in Federal Archives Berlin, which microfilmed it from the National Archives in Washington, DC, in 1967. The copies consist of names of 207 Jews deported from Lithuania. There are also 14 pages (of 17) of the paper copies of ...

Part 2: Preparations are made for the Yalta Conference in Russia. Supplies arrive and communications lines are strung. Delegates arrive and are shown in conferences. Personages: Anthony Eden, Secretary of State Stettinus, Ambassador Harriman, Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin. According to UN contents sheet: "The three parties reach a firm accord on military and political points. ...