France combattante. Afrique française libre miscellaneous records
Orders, decrees, and memoranda, relating to Free French military activities in French West Africa during World War II
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William H. Vatcher papers
Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, leaflets, slides, and photographs, relating to South African political parties; Afrikaner and African nationalism; the Afrikaner Broederbond; American, Japanese, and North Korean propaganda and psychological warfare methods…
World War II North Africa Photograph Album, 1941-1945.
Album contains over 130 photographs, sketches, and clippings, mainly images of the western desert and Libya, Egypt, and some of Jerusalem, apparently taken by a British soldier (most likely RAF…
Ralph James Watkins Papers, 1926-1978
Speeches and writings, studies, reports, memoranda, correspondence, notes, and printed matter, relating to economic planning in the U.S., Mexico, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan; and to Allied…
Europe 1930s and World War II North Africa Photograph Album
Photograph album containing more than 185 black/white photographs, with some brief location captions, of a 1930s bicycle tour through Europe, including Germany (Dresden), Venice, Vienna, the Dolomites, Yugoslavia, Roumania (Bucharest),…
Numismatics
The collection is made up of a variety of separate donations to the Cape Town Holocaust Centre. It contains different examples of currency in Germany following the First World War.…
Survivor and Victim List Collection
The following is an assortment of listings of survivors of the Nazi regime in the immediate post-war period. It serves as an example of the efforts to reunite families and…
Abramowitz Collection
The letters glean some information related to the experience of the Abramowitz family, originally from Halle in Germany. Three of four brothers, including Martin (and his wife Gertrude), Kurt and…
Alexandre Michaux Collection
The collection contains the Dachau prison identity card, shoe receipt and original concentration camp jacket worn in the Dachau concentration camp. The blue and white striped jacket belonged to Alexander…
David Wilken Collection
It consists of a photograph of David Wilken taken while he was in the medical corps of the South African Army. It also contains a Nazi flag, which was taken from…