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  1. Envelope postmarked Warsaw and New York 1940 saved by a Jewish Lithuanian concentration camp survivor

    Airmail envelope received by the Jaffe family in New York, relatives of Nesse Galperin Godin. It was postmarked December 1940 and sent from Warsaw in German occupied Poland to New York. In June 1941, Siauliai, Lithuania, where Nesse lived with her closeknit family, was occupied by Nazi Germany. Nesse, her parents Pinchas and Sara, and her brothers, Yechezkel and Menashe were soon forced into the ghetto. When Nesse turned 15 in 1943, she had to report for forced labor. That November, her father was deported to Auschwitz, and gassed upon arrival. In July 1944, the ghetto was emptied. Menashe ...

  2. Jean B. Rosensaft photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depictiong the Wiesbaden displaced persons camp and the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation.

  3. Bookburning

    07:15:44 Amateur footage of bookburning. Includes scenes of many others making speeches, students in their uniforms (of dueling societies?) and with swords, SA men, band with brass instruments and xylophone. 07:19:07 "The Nazi Plan" version of bookburning coverage, title reading "The Burning of Books." Ends with brief title regarding the dedication of the von Hindenburg, "Christening of the New German Aircraft." (no footage)

  4. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the MS St. Louis

    The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the S.S. [sic; actually M.S.] St. Louis were prepared to coordinate fundraising in support of individuals and families once the ship returned to Europe after an unsuccessful attempt to land in Cuba in 1939. The cards contain passenger information including names, locations, occupations, and status of immigration applications to the United States, if any. The cards also document the names of relatives in the United States and elsewhere, as well as money on deposit with the National Refugee Service on behalf of individual refugees.

  5. Salomon Pfeffer papers

    The Salomon Pfeffer papers consists of a Military Government Residence Certificate for Salomon Pfeffer, dated August 7, 1945; an image of Salomon Pfeffer taken in fromt of the Landsberg hospital in 1949; and 1 roll of negatives of an unidentified concentration camp taken by Salomon Pfeffer.

  7. Jakob Altaras papers

    The Jakob Altaras papers consist of one copy print of a photograph of Jakob Altaras with a group of Jewish refugee children in Split, Croatia just before their departure for Italy in April 1943, two copy prints of a photograph identified as a synagogue in Laubach in 1936, and one copybook that appears to contain copies of business letters written by Max Stein and H. Hirsch Nachfolger in Ruppertsberg (near Laubach) between 1900 and 1920.

  8. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish woman in multiple concentration camps

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket, winter issue, provided to 31 year old Mania Ganzweich in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and worn from 1943 to 1945 in Birkenau, Ravensbrueck, Malchow, and Taucha concentration camps. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Mania and her second husband, Szlama Ganzweich, moved from Czestochowa to her hometown Sosnowiec, joining her daughter from her first marriage, Halina Merin, and her parents Pinchas and Chana Grandapel. Mania’s first husband Moniek Merin was head of the Judenrat. After Moniek was sent to Auschwitz in June 1943, Mania paid a Polish farm...

  9. Annie Rubenstein autograph album

    Autograph book owned by Annie Rubenstein (donor), circa 1930s, Antwerp, Belgium. Contains signatures and illustrations. Includes a list of names of family members and the dates on which they were deported (between 1942 and 1943).

  10. Trotsky in Exile

    Leon Trotsky stands at a podium in a library-like setting. Trotsky speaks from notes in English about his trial. The scene is a bit disjointed but then moves to shots of Trotsky coming down a narrow staircase outside, with another man, and then walking towards water. Trotsky reads in English from a piece of paper and denounces Stalinism.

  11. Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee speak

    The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee members stand at podium and appeal for the world to oppose Hitler. Solomon Mikhoels, director of Yiddish Theater, is first to take the stand. Peretz Markesh, the poet, speaks briefly. Sergei Eisenstein, film director, speaks from notes in English on the same theme. Larger group seen as they sign a document calling for world Jewry to oppose Hitler. Signators include Ilya Ehrenbourg.

  12. Oral history interview with Morris Zaidband

  13. "Journey Over Glass"

    Personal recollection of Kristallnacht in Berlin, Germany, printed in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday magazine.

  14. Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt / Terezin

    Excerpts of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of inmates. They look well-dressed and well-fed and keep smiling. No SS guards or other armed Germans are shown. Gardening scenes, young woman with watering can, older man raking in background. Wo...

  15. Sign used to identify the home of a Jew

    Small sign identifying the residence of a Jew. Signs such as this were posted in order to humiliate Jews in Germany.

  16. Bible

    Bible printed by the Vaad Hatzala.

  18. Red Cross magazine (Garden City, New York) [Magazine]

    Issue of the Red Cross magazine which includes the article, "The Greatest Horror in History: An Authentic Account of the Armenian Atrocities," (p. 7-15) illustrated with six photographs, about the Armenian genocide by Henry Morganthau Sr., former United States ambassador to Turkey.

  19. Robert Holczer papers

    The Robert Holczer papers include Hungarian identification and labor papers and Bor labor camp postcards documenting the experiences of Robert, Nelli, and Lajos Holczer during World War II in Hungary and Yugoslavia. Identification and labor papers include Robert’s labor card, a Swiss protective passport for Robert and Nelli, and identification cards documenting Robert’s and Nelli’s work for a medical clinic in 1944 in Budapest. Lajos Holczer’s postcards from the Bor labor camp to his wife and son document his own health and unease at being separated from them.