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  1. Association of Jewish merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 338)

    The collection contains a complete set of records of the Association of Jewish Merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania), 1919-1940. The collection includes minutes of the meetings of the association, bylaws, applications of the members, membership lists, annual activities and financial reports and books, records and verdicts of the Arbitrary Court, lists of shop owners, and financial records of the mutual aid committee. In addition also includes various correspondence with Jewish organizations and communities in Poland and members of the association, local municipal authorities, Ministry of ...

  2. Selected records from the State Archive of South Kazakhstan Region in Shymkent, related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Selected records related to evacuation of the civilian population to Shimkent region in Kazakhstan during WWII. It includes information about resettlement, employment, provision of food supplies and medical assistance to the evacuees by the local Soviet and Communist Party authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees who arrived in Shimkent region in 1941-1942 as well as statistical reports and correspondence files.

  3. Harry Felzer photograph collection

    Consists of photographic negatives taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp from the collection of Harry Feltzer, who was a photographer in the United States Army. Also includes a negative of a building displaying Nazi insignia.

  4. Peter Kossowsky family papers

    Photographs, documents, German passport, letter, wedding ketubah, invitation, scrapbook, mourning book and report cards documenting the experience of Peter Kossowsky and his family.

  5. Presentation by Leon Levy

  6. Oral history interview with David Novick

  7. "Account of Flight with American Newspaper Editors and Publishers Investigating War Damages and Atrocities in Germany"

    Consists of one photocopy of a typed testimony, 15 pages, entitled "Account of Flight with American Newspaper Editors and Publishers Investigating War Damages and Atrocities in Germany," written by John Whitehead on May 2, 1945. In the testimony, Mr. Whitehead describes flying over the rubble of buildings in Germany, hearing from newspaper editors about their experiences in Europe thusfar, and participating in the tour of the Dachau concentration camp.

  8. Oral history interview with Rina Diamand

  9. Rasela Knezevic papers

    Contains photographs and photograph album, as well as a 1959 report for the US Department of Agriculture written by Rašela Levi.

  10. Samuel and Lola Gotlieb portrait

    Portrait drawing created in displaced persons camp in Germany of Samuel and Lola Gotlieb who married in the Dabrowa Ghetto.They survived in the Holocaust, returned to their town of Dabrowa and then moved to Germany. They lived in Weiden and Regen, German and then immigrated to the United States on the SS Ernie Pyle in 1947.

  11. Drimmer and Gruber families papers

    The collection primarily consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Drimmer and Gruber families of Drohobycz, Poland (Drohobych, Ukraine). Included are childhood photographs of Marcel and his sister Irena, along with their parents Jakob and Laura (née Gruber) Drimmer, and relatives in the Drimmer and Gruber families in pre-war Drohobycz and post-war Walbrzych, Poland. Also included are photographs of Rywka Gruber who was killed in Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) in 1941, and depictions of Jan and Sofia Sawinski, who hid members of the Drimmer and Gruber families in their barn in Mlynk...

  12. Selected records from the Historical Archives of Subotica related to the history of the Jewish community

    Contains selected records related to the history of the Jewish Community of the city of Subotica, part of the Vojvodina province in Serbia. It includes records from the collection of the Senate of Subotica (Fond 41), the executive body governing of the city, Records pertain to the economic and political activities of the local Jewish community, and others, Serbs, Hungarians, Germans in 1918-1941. Contains census statistics, applications for permission to open business, various petitions and certifications, minutes of the Jevrejskog ortodoksnog pobožnog društva (Jewish Orthodox Pious Society...

  13. Bujakowski and Brager families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war lives of the Bujakowski and Brager families of Poland and Germany, including the medical career of Hans Adolf Bujakowski (later Henry Adolph Boyer) and his family’s immigration to the United States from Berlin, Germany in 1938. Included are biographical and identification documents, papers relating to Hans’s medical career, immigration, restitution paperwork, and photographs. Personal papers consist of biographical and identification papers, paperwork related to Hans’s medical career, a small amount of correspondence, immigration documents, and restituti...

  14. George Salamon collection

    Contains three copy print photographs; one portrait of David Rotenberg (donor’s maternal grandfather), who was killed on a death march; one portrait of the donor’s parents Laszlo and Etelka Schonfeld; and a portrait of the donor and his mother in Budapest, c. 1947. George Salamon and his mother survived together in a safe house of the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, while Laszlo Schonfeld was killed while part of a forced labor battalion in Ukraine.

  15. Czech gymnast festival in Prague, 1938

    Blurry iris in on a drawn picture of a large castle (possibly Prague Castle) 01:00:20:05 Title: “Tenth Sokol Congress Praha 1938.” Blurry shot of a poster, featuring three muscular men in various poses in front of the Czechslovak flag, text under them says “X Slet Všesokolsky”. English translation is spliced into the title: “Tenth Sokol Congress” Title: “The American Delegation Arrives.” Two stills: the first of four men and a woman walking towards a camera, with two of whom are holding an American flag, and the second, of two people, one a man with an army beret, and the other a woman in a...

  16. Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938

    B/W aerial shots from a cable car (it’s shadow can be clearly seen), interspersed with shots of the actual cable car system from the ground, CU of a woman pointing at the trees from the cable car. 01:00:58:2 Title: “Hradec Králové.” Pan, a public park. A shot of a group of people admiring topiary. 01:01:22:11 Title: “Moravska Ostrava.” Pan up, a trolley car drives by, as people walk around the city, shots of people going to and fro. 01:01:47:11 Title: “Poland.” Film is now in color, with a shot of farmers working in the field, followed by a brief shot of a parade in a city. 01:02:10:21 Titl...

  17. Horse show

    “Filmováno komorou Ciné Kodak OSM Na Panchro-Filmu Ciné Kodak OSM” A group of men on horseback entering a riding rink. 5 men sitting on a balcony, two of them are wearing Czechoslovak military uniforms, and while the person to the left of them seems to be a major politician (possibly president Benes?). Another group of horseback riders enter the rink, with two white horses leading. Two white horses are also in the rear of the group, and they in turn are followed by six men on what appear to be miniature cars. The horseback riders and the tractor riders line up in the center of the rink. The...

  18. London

    Pan, front of soot covered building, a couple walks by, camera pans up. 01:00:41:05 Large crowd gathered in front of building, man walks in front of the camera, pan up. 01:01:26:06 Pan, “The Old Curiosity Shop. Charles Dickens” (13-14 Portsmouth Street, Holborn, London), groups of people in front, van passes by, “T.H. Bull & Sons Ltd.” 01:01:51:09 Pan, tudor style building. 01:02:04:15 Pan, ornate building. 01:02:47:08 Pan, private garden. 01:03:24:20 Pan, Same ornate building.

  19. Jewish family life pre-war; skiing

    Section 1 and 3: Eric Weyl smokes a cigarette while sitting at a table (continuation of shot in RG-60.1740 at 01:01:17). Two women outdoors in a wool coats and hats, snow on the ground, they walk along a sidewalk. The taller woman is Else Weyl, who later walks with her brother-in-law Paul Weyl, the man with spectacles. They make faces at the cameraman. Family members walk on the city street (shops, tram-lines), probably in Monchengladbach, and pose for the camera. In a park, Gertrude and her mother Elsa (Lieschen) Weyl walk down a path. They push Bernard Weyl, Eric's father, in a wheelchair...

  20. Family in garden; young women in Monchengladbach

    Section 2 and 4: A young woman in a dress twirls for the camera, smiling. A different woman, Hilla Fleischer (later Hildegard von Gumppenberg), shows off her outfit in an outdoor garden. Three people (from left to right: Gertrude Weyl, mother Lieschen Weyl, and Paul Weyl), arms locked, smiling and posing (probably a continuation of the first scene in RG-60.6998 at Monchengladbach). MS, a young person in a dress jumps (possibly Leischen's niece). Peter does forward rolls. 01:00:55 Outside of the entrance to a building, a group of people gather (including Paul, Gertrude, and Leischen) and wav...