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RG-25.020 Selected Records from Romanian Diplomatic Missions
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 265
This collection contains reports, correspondence, and reportage sent before and during
World War II to Bucharest, Romania, from the Romanian diplomatic missions in Rome,
Moscow, Washington, Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul, Prague, Belgrade, Madrid, Warsaw,
Budapest, Sofia, The Hague, Bern, the Vatican, Cairo, Lisbon, London, and Paris. The
Washington records show the concern of American Jews about the treatment of Jews in
Romania in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as documents from 1938 when Romania
denaturalized more than 100,000 Jews.
Language: Romanian, French, English, and German 1920–1950 (bulk 1935–1945)
95 boxes (85,600 pages)
Source of Acquisition: Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs‚ Bucharest
Finding aid: Preliminary Romanian-language folder-level descriptions
RG-26.001 Sender Wajsman Papers, 1936–1991
This collection contains a copyprint of a photograph of a wedding in Vilna, Lithuania; a
brief testimony by Sender Wajsman describing the massacre of Jews in Ponary at the
hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians under the direction of the Gestapo; and a photocopy of a
photograph depicting the memorial to the dead in Ponary.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Sender Wajsman via Jeshajahu Weinberg.
Languages: English
1 folder containing 3 items
Finding Aids: Item-level description
RG-26.009 Jewish Pamphlets and Periodicals from the Library of Vilnius University,
Lithuania, 1919–1938
This collection contains pamphlets and rare periodicals related to the culture, political
life, and educational systems of Lithuanian Jewish communities before World War II.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Collections of the Library of Vilnius University,
Lithuania.
Languages: Yiddish, Hebrew, Lithuanian, and English
1500 photocopied pages and 2 small segments of microfilm (35 mm)
Finding Aids: English-language content list
RG-27 Julius Kühl Collection
Dr. Julius Kühl was born in Galicia but moved to Switzerland in 1929 to pursue his studies,
which he completed at the University of Bern. At the outbreak of World War II he received