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  1. Selected records of the World ORT Archive (WOA), London

    Records of the World ORT (formerly World ORT Union), its governing bodies and associate organizations world-wide. The archive include minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, fund-raising and PR, research and development, administrative and financial records (1920s-1950s). Also included are pamphlets and bulletins from various countries; reports, correspondence, and photos of the Berlin ORT school transferred to Leeds (1939-1943), private papers of former students and teachers of ORT; as well as the Shapiro Collection: consisting of materials collected on ORT's history by the American ...

  2. Kenneth C. Myers photograph collection

    Consists of two original photographs and two enlarged copyprints of the same images, which were taken by Kenneth C. Myers, a mechanic with the 12th Armored Division, which participated in the liberation of Dachau. One photograph depicts the landscape of the camp and barbed wire, while the other depicts corpses on a cart.

  3. Hilert family collection

    The Hilert family collection consists of documents, correspondence, and identification cards pertaining to the Hilert family and their postwar time experience in the Stuttgart West displaced persons camp (DP camp) in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection contains an affidavit from Avrom Hiller and Senator Harry Byrd and smallpox vaccination certificates. The documents pertain to Rabbi Samuel Hilert, Rose (Rosa, Raizel) Gutkind Hilert, and their son, Moses Baruch Hilert (Michael, Mike).

  4. Ben V. Codor papers

    The collection consists of letters sent to Ben V. Codor, Director of the Jewish Federation of Delaware, from Albert Einstein, Felix Frankfurter, James H. Meisel (Secretary to Thomas Mann), James G. McDonald, Richard C. McMullen, and Gerrish Gassaway. Also included are letters from Codor to McDonald and Dr. Joseph Barsky, a letter from David Hays Sulzberger to Jacob Billikopf of the National Coordinating Committee, an exhibition label regarding the Einstein letter from the Historical Society of Delaware, and a photograph of Codor with Milton Kutz, assistant general manager of the Electrochem...

  5. Gary Heymann photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs primarily depicting Nuremberg, Germany in 1936-1938 including Nazi rallies and party officials and the aftermath of Kristallnacht. Depictions of Nazi party members include Julius Streicher, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Rudolph Hess, and Joseph Goebbels. Post-Kristallnacht photographs include depictions of crowds, the destruction of a synagogue, SA men, and a Jewish boy being taken away. The collection also includes an itemized list by Gary Heymann sent to the Holocaust Library and Research Center Associates of San Francisco. The photographs were o...

  6. Photograph of James Ford and Earl Browder

    Contains a photograph of James Ford and Earl Browder shaking hands, dated 1940. Browder was the Communist Party nominee for President of the United States in 1940, and Ford was his running mate.

  7. Earl Browder and James Ford 1940 campaign button

    1940 election campaign button with images of Earl Browder and James Ford and the words "For a Free, Happy Prosperous America/Browder for President Ford for Vice Pres./Vote Communist."

  8. Sticker

    Sticker, "Jews are TRAITORS to America and should not be trusted. Buy Gentile"; 1939.

  9. Leaflet

    Leaflet, "Speak Out - Shall it be War or Peace?...No Convoy Rally" Los Angeles; American Peace Mobilization, 1941.

  10. Broadside

    Broadside announcing a strike of University of New Hampshire students against war, Friday, April 12.

  11. Leaflet

    Leaflet, "Do You Want Hitlerism in America?. American League Against War and Fascism; 1936.

  12. Leaflet

    Leaflet announcing a symposium, "The Church & Synagogue in the Next War."

  13. Hena Shupak collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the postwar experiences of Hena Shupak and her daughter, Gucia as well as Kadysh [sic] Shupak (Hena's second husband) in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps and Israel.

  14. Georg and Margarethe Weiss family papers

    The Georg and Margarethe Weiss family papers include two passports ("Reisepass") issued in Vienna, Austria, to Georg and Margarethe Weiss and affidavits and correspondence from Louis Weiss regarding his support of Georg and Margarethe’s immigration to the United States. Louis was not related to the Weiss family. The collection also includes a diary written by Peter Weiss, Georg and Margarethe’s son, from 1938-1940. Peter began his diary when he fled to Belgium in 1938 and his last entry was in June 1940, after arriving in the United States. In his diary Peter writes about boy scouts, leavin...

  15. Battle Squadron 51 "Edelweiss" France

    “III Kampfgeschwader 51” [Fighter squadron 51] “Edelweiss” in France. Luftwaffe Officers. Paris. Terrible damage in French city. On Yugoslavian assignment. Onwards “nach Lezani” Poland. Russia. 11:03:40, Roma/Sinti. General Alexander Löhr. Luftwaffe men grabbing pigs; relaxing. 11:20:27 Roma girls - palm reading, bare breasts, jiggling for men. Russia. Odessa, Nikolajew, Charkow.

  16. French Campaign

    Battle of France, Count Edmund von Rothkirch

  17. Deutsches Jungvolk; KdF parade; Rothkirch in Vienna; Czech border; Refugees; Invasion of Poland

    Deutsches Jungvolk [German youngsters in the Hitler Youth - DJ] Young boys aged 8-14 in training, laughing, bugle, outdoor drills, eating, tent camp with flags. 10:07:40 Boys return to city with rucksacks, hop on streetcars. 10:07:53 Crowds gather for DJ demonstration outdoors near Berlin, boys drumming, tents with DJ flags, family members observe the boys' activities, wrestling. 10:09:30 The boys prepare to march in a parade, bugles with DJ flag. 10:10:28 Count Rothkirch sets up ladder with film camera for demonstration in Berlin. Pan, Brandenburg Gate with banner: "Fuehrer befiel wir folg...

  18. Berlin, Horsemen of the SS Campaign, 1939

    Polish Campaign, war prisoners. Hans Frank. Roma wagon.

  19. German cruiser "Königsberg"

    German cruiser "Königsberg," Laboe memorial site, Everyday life at an airfield, pilot in the cockpit, machines in the air, light railway, Hitler youth BDM (League of German Girls)

  20. Polish troops in Kraków

    Polish Troops, SS, Theodor Eicke, Krakau