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Contains a letter of protection issued to Dr. Farago Gyorgi, signed by the Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest, Monsignor Angelo Rotta, dated November 15, 1944.

The letter was written to Julio Herman by a friend describing the sad situation of his parents in Vienna, Austria, in 1943.

Contains English translations of letters from individual survivors describing the ordeals that they experienced in the Minsk ghetto or as partisans hiding in the forest during the Holocaus.

This collection contains photocopies of the personal letters, newspaper clippings, and postcards of Deborah (Nina) Iakovleva Averbukh, who survived the early German occupation of Kharkov in 1941.

Letter, five pages, written by Samuel J. Comisaroff (donors' father), enlisted American Army soldier, to his family in the United States describing his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp on April 20, 1945.

Photocopy of a letter, apparently written in Zborów, Poland, July 1943, but then later sent (with annotations) from Ludwik Krzywonowski from Zborów in 1947, to Wilek Heilmann in Palestine.

Letter from Henrik Deutsch to Gizella Deutsch Pienitz, his sister in the United States. Deutsch asks his sister for finanical help so that the family can emigrate from Budapest to the United States. The letter is in Hungarian and the Hungarian Tourist Board supplied the English translation.

The Albert Cohen letter was written by Albert Cohen, while he was serving in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The letter and envelope are addressed to Cohen’s mother, Estelle Cohen, in Milwaukee, April 26, 1945. The letter describes Cohen’s experiences at the Buchenwald concentration camp shorty after it was liberated.

Contains two letters written in 1946 and 1947 by Mihaly Klein, the only member of the Klein family of Kaszony, Hungary (Kosyno, in present-day Ukraine), who survived the deportation in 1944. The addressee of the letters was Mihaly's cousin, Ilon Klein, sister of Herman Klein.

Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.