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<p>The Oppenheimers of Schwedt were a Christian family of Jewish heritage. The father, Ernst (Emil) Oppenheimer (1866-1942) converted to Christianity in his late 30's and married Magdalena Lewinsohn whose mother was Christian and father was Jewish. As the race laws in Germany affected all 'non-Aryans', all but two of the eight children left the country in 1939. Two emigrated to Sweden with the help ...

Collection of administrative material relating to Flossenbürg collected by the US Army in connection with war crimes trials. Includes alphabetical lists of over 100,000 inmates. The information on each inmate consists of prisoner number, category of prisoner, family and personal name, date and place of birth, date of arrival and date and nature of fate, i.e., died, transferred, released, etc.

Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs and two tapes; relating to the de Boton family; Dr. Yves de Boton, donor’s father, who was one of the leaders of the Resistance in southern France and who was executed by the Germans in August 1944; Esther de Boton (donor’s mother) died in 1940 and Aline, born in 1937 was taken care of and later adopted by her paternal aunt Alice de Boton and her ...

Contains information about the Majdanek killing center near Lublin, Poland; included are a transport list of Polish Jews who arrived in May 1942 and fragments of lists of Jews of various nationalities who died at the camp during May to September 1942.

(Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Continuation of Walter Neff testifying and identifying pictures in book of evidence. When asked whether experiments were made on prisoners other than those condemned to death, he answers in the affirmative. Neff admits that out of 70 prisoners who were not condemned to death, 40 died when they ...

The Rein sisters, Marta and Wanda, lived in Łódź, Poland, and together with their mother were imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto. Stella Rein, Marta and Wanda's mother, was a teacher before World War II and in the ghetto. Marta Rein died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Contains postcards and notes handwritten by Marcus [Uszer] Selig Wittman (donor's father) in the Drancy internment camp near Paris, France, addressed to his family in Paris; last correspondence dated March 31, 1942. Marcus was deported from Drancy on April 29, 1942 to Compiegne, France and from there on June 5, 1942 to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was admitted to Block 28 on July 7, 1942 and was ...

THe collection consists of a letter from the Movement for the Care of Children From Germany in London to Mrs. A. Baecher in Bronham, England concerning her son Ivan and his disposition. Dated July 3, 1940, signed by Barbara Winton. Metal tag usd in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Josef Fleischer, Ivan’s grandfather, who died in the camp in 1943. Tag was kept by Ivan’s Grandmother, Jenny who did ...

The writer's account of the suffering of children she witnessed as a concentration camp inmate. She does not indicate the name of the camp, but another version of the memoir makes clear that it was Riga-Kaiserwald.

Chaim Melamed (1925-2011) was born on March 10, 1925, in Zelechow, Poland. He was one of seven children of Mendel and Chana Melamed. His siblings were: Fajga Frymet (Fruma, b. February 5, 1916); Rachel (b. circa 1920); Sura (later Sara Lipka, b. October 12, 1922); Chumele (b. circa 1930); Isuchor (b. 1929); and Izrael (b. January 5, 1932). The Melameds were a very religious orthodox Jewish family, ...