Pin, “America first last & always / Home Mission Board / N.B.C. Inc. / Cleveland 1941” with image of soldier in front of American flag; from “T. Theo. Lovelace / 4834 Vincennes Ave. / Chicago”

Contains articles from the Chicago Tribune within an envelope marked "I Knew Hitler," and a "Life" magazine (missing cover) with articles on the war crimes trials and the end of World War II.

The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between ...

From opening credits of the film: "United Nations Film Board presents...Produced by the Office of Public Information of the International Refugee Organization, A specialized agency of the United Nations." UN appeal for WWII Refugees, an "inside look" at life in a DP camp. A day in the life of a DP.

Title: "Warsaw, Poland. Military Parade in Memory of Pilsudski." MSs, CUs, parade in streets of Warsaw with Polish soldiers on horses, cannons, and soldiers on bicycles.

The collection consists of three books titled: "Die Juden," "Liturgie fuer die Einfsegnungsfeier in der Juedische Reform=Gemeinde," and "The University of Chicago Round Table: A Radio Discussion of the Jews."

The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Asna Hirschmann, born 1922, Pinsk, Belarus and Max Lutwak born 1922 in Dortmund, Germany. Collection documents their individual experiences during and after the Holocaust. Asna was interned in the Kovno Ghetto, the Vaivara camp in Estonia in August 1943, then Stutthof concentration camp in ...

The papers consist of letters sent by the Goldman family in Łódź, Poland, to their daughter and sister, Zosia Sophie Perlman, in Chicago, Ill.

Lillian Schachter (1927-2005) was born in Subotica, Serbia to Endre and Ilona (Jelene) Lederer. Her family was forced into the local ghetto from April to June 1944 and briefly transferred to the Bàcsalmàs ghetto in Hungary. She and her mother were deported to Auschwitz in June, transferred to Langenbielau in July 1944, and liberated in May 1945. Her father also survived. She married Alexander Schachter, ...

Special ed. 62 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany
 
 This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English.
 
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Testimony, handwritten, eight pages, Russian, by Fanya Vaisman (Weisman), of Chicago, in June 1994. Originally from a village (Shpikov) in Vinnitsa district, Ukraine, Vaisman describes experiences in Pechora camp and Shargorod ghetto, as well as hiding in forest after escape.

The papers consist of postcards written in Nazi-occupied Poland. The majority of the postcards were written by Jacob Holschutz in Brody, Poland, to Louis Holschütz in Chicago, Ill. See numbered list in accession file.

Arthur L. Zegart (1917-1989) was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. During World War II, he was part of a U.S. Army Air Force combat photography unit. He covered postwar relief and refugee efforts by UNRRA and the JDC in Czechoslovakia and Austria. He became chief of the United Nations film division in the late 1940s. Later, Zegart was involved in the production of 125 documentaries, ...

Three letters written to Sylvia Simon, from her cousin in Vienna (and subsequently of Chicago), Siegfried Feiger, describing his family's experience prior to and following their immigration in 1939.

The papers consist of an envelope and a letter, dated May 22, 1939, written by Walter Weinberg aboard the MS St. Louis and addressed to Alfred Weinberg of Chicago, Il.

Contains correspondence written from various concentration camps and POW camps; photo reproductions (cigarette cards), mass produced by the NSDAP of pro-Nazi propaganda; a copy of the "Chicago Daily News" newspaper, October 31, 1939, with the article "Duce Removes Pro-Nazis."

Index. XII, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Color photograph of President Ronald Reagan (seated) surrounded by standing group at the signing into law of the Genocide Convention; Chicago, Illinois; October 4, 1988. The donor, Mr. Elster, was present at the conference, and stands in the photograph behind Ronald Reagan to his right. The collection also includes the pen used by President Reagan at the signing ceremony.

The papers consist of correspondence and photographs concerning Johanna Jakobs [donor's paternal aunt] and her experiences during World War II, including her deportation from Germany with her husband and her internment and persecution in Theresienstadt concentration camp where her husband perished. She survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to Chicago, Ill.