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RG-28.011 --- Erwin Marx Papers This collection contains portions of a diary and
correspondence between Erwin Marx and various reparation agencies in Germany. Also
included are newspaper clippings relating to reparations after World War II.
Biography: Erwin Marx (b. 1895, Freiburg, Germany) was a prisoner in Dachau
concentration camp from November to December 1938. He later lived as a political
refugee in Shanghai, China, from 1939 to 1946. He emigrated to the United States in
1946 and resided in San Francisco, California, until his death in 1988.
Languages: German, English 1937–1970
2 linear inches
Source of Acquisition: Ruth Kraemer
Finding aid: Folder title list
See the finding aid for this collection: RG-28.011
RG-02.023 --- Alice and Gerhard Zadek Papers
This collection contains, in scrapbook form, photographs and text excerpts from Ein
Judenjunge vom Alex by Alice and Gerhard Zadek. Included is information about a
resistance group headed by Herbert Baum and details about Zadek family members killed
during the Holocaust. The years covered in the text are 1939 to 1948.
Language: English 1990
1.75 linear inches
Source of Acquisition: Alice and Gerhard Zadek
Restrictions: Published in 1991; protected under copyright
RG-02.005 --- ―My Deportation‖ by Bernard Nissenbaum
This testimony describes Nissenbaum‘s deportation from France and his imprisonment in
several concentration and labor camps. Included in the text are detailed descriptions of
conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared
to that of other inmates, the separation of various nationalities of prisoners in the
Birkenau camp, the situation of the ―Muselmänner‖ in various camps, the relationships
between Kapos and inmates, and conditions in the Warsaw ghetto prior to the uprising.
Language: English N.d.
.25 linear inches
Source of Acquisition: Ida Stern