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  1. Jewish children at play in Reichenbach and at the beach

    Peter (age 4 or 5) plays with a set of tin soldiers and a toy castle at home in Reichenbach. Peter's younger sister, Doris, waves. She sits in a high chair, and plays with blocks of wood. She and her brother play with a wooden clown doll. Doris in a crib, she reads a picture book. INT, Doris next to a window. 01:01:38 Peter is outside digging in a sandbox (at their home in Reichenbach at Adama Mickiwicza 9 - the house still exists), he has a scooter. Doris plays in a playpen outdoors, Peter joins her and they play. Mother Else helps Doris walk by holding her hands up. Doris sits alone on a ...

  2. Anne Birnbaum collection

    Contains letters written by Annie Zwern in Frankfurt am Main to relatives in the United States before the war; a document dated June 1939 regarding the registration of a family with German police in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; and a newspaper clipping with a photograph of Blanka Zwern and her daughter Anna arriving on the S.S. Marine Marlin in New York.

  3. Friedman family papers

    The Friedman family papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and restitution files documenting the Friedman family from Mukachevo, their prewar lives, the deaths of family members in the Holocaust, the immigration of surviving family members to the United States, and their efforts to receive restitution for their persecution and suffering during the Holocaust. Biographical materials include certificates of birth, marriage, death, citizenship, and good conduct; identification papers, immigration papers, a partial list of former Holleischen inmates, Ruth Cohen’s personal narrati...

  4. Yankele | Ghetto Vilna

    Yiddish recordings. Tslil 1222 448/455. Recorded late 1940s. Performers: Sonia Vronkov (voice); members of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra: Alfred Lunger (conductor) Side A - Yankele. Words and music: Mordecai Gebirtig Side B - Ghetto Vilna. Also known as "Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg" Music: Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass; text: Hirsh Glik.

  5. Treblinke

    Arnold Friedman performs "Treblinke" ["Treblinke dort"], the song probably created in the Warsaw ghetto, in the original Yiddish and in his own English translation. Piano accompaniment by Laura Paglin.

  6. Spitzer family photographs

    The Spitzer family photographs consist of seven prewar, wartime, and postwar photographs of the Spitzer family of Iași, Romania and their relatives. The photographs depict Anton and Fany Spitzer and their children, Sara, Nathan, and Lily as well as Fany’s sister and brother, Chana and Lazar Wax, and a cousin, Simcha Wax.

  7. Selected records from the State District Archive in Jihlava

    Contains records from Jihlava and surrounding towns, including Brtnice, Polná, and Telč, pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish property and assets, anti-Jewish measures, town registers and lists of Jewish inhabitants, emigration and resettlement, as well as post-war trial records from the District Courts of Jihlava, Polná, and Telč.

  8. Major Howard Slade papers

    Contains photographs, newspaper clippings, copies of "Rainbow Reville" and the "Rainbow Division World News" concerning the liberation of Dachau, scrapbook pages, and a portrait of Major Howard Slade, all related to his military service in the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division prior to and during WWII.

  10. Antisemitic leaflets

    Contains four leaflets, published circa 1937, calling on the citizens of Poland not to trade with Jews.

  11. Activity report for the Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder

    Contains a "Praktikumsbericht" [Activity report]; typed document with handwritten corrections; nine pages, concerning 300 boys and girls from Germany who found refuge in Switzerland in what was titled the "300 Kinder-Aktion" in 1939. The report, written by Eli Mangold of the Basel Relief Organization for Emigrant Children (Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder), describes the group, in particular fifty children of Orthodox families; their time in Langenbruck and later Basel; and their daily lives and activities.

  12. Alkalay family photographs

    The Alkalay family photographs consists of two photographs of members of the Alkalay family in Bulgaria. One photograph taken in Haskovo, Bulgaria, dated July 1943, depicts Lora Alkalay with two friends, Suzi and Mali, eating bread and butter given to them by Suzi’s father who worked as a baker during the war. All three girls are wearing the Jewish Star of David badge. The second photograph depicts Nissim Alkalay with his friend, Jacques Safonov, in front a Balkan building opposite the palace of the King in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  13. Rothschild family papers

    The Rothschild family papers include biographical material, printed material, writings, and photographs relating to Salli and Johanna Rothschild and their family before the war in Bremen, Germany, their immigration, and the relocation of their bakery to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1937. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Jack Leiner; a birth certificate and work papers from the Office of Censorship for Ilse Rothschild; a birth certificate, German passport (Reisepass), and a certificate of naturalization for Johanna Rothschild; and a birth certificate, German passport (Re...

  14. Joyce Hay collection

    Contains a carbon copy of a letter, dated June 19, 1940 to “Minister Lammers” in Berlin [Hans Heinrich Lammers, head of Nazi chancellory] from the Archbishop of Freiburg and the Vicar of Rottenburg, Germany stating they have been informed that “mentally ill” are being euthanized and they request that this “procedure which is forbidden through Christian law” be stopped. Also includes a carbon copy of a letter, dated July 19, 1940 to Wilhelm Frick from Theophil Wurm, head of the protestant church in Germany and opponent of the Nazi party, in Stuttgart, in which Wurm states local population ar...

  15. Herbert Steinhäuser photograph collection

    The Herbert Steinhäuser photograph collection consists of eight photographs, printed as 4 photo prints, depicting scenes of Biala Podlaska, Poland and Łosice, Poland photographed by Herbert Steinhäuser (1908-1943?) in June 1941. The photographs depict gave markers in a Jewish cemetery and market scenes in Biala Podlaska as well as residents of the Biala Podlaska and Łosice ghettos.

  16. Selected records from the Division Politica of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina

    This collection consists of records of Argentine embassies and consulates relating to the political situation in all countries between 1933-1955. For example, includes records from the Embassy in Germany relating to persecution of the Jews.

  17. Orbach family papers

    The collection primarily consists of Holocaust-era photographs of the Orbach family, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. Includes depictions of Elias and Dobra Orbach, their sons Heniek (in the center) and Cadok. The photograph of Cadok (on the left) was taken in France shortly after he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is Zeev Orbach’s Association des Anciens Prisonniers Hitleriens Israel card which lists him as a prisoner of the Tschenstochau (Częstochowa) and Buchenwald camps.

  18. Ben and Sylvia Chase collection

    Photographs and documents documenting the experiences of Ben and Sylvia Chase (donor's parents) and their families.

  19. Rinah J. Karson collection

    Contains letters and postcards written in the early and mid 1930s from Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and elsewhere.

  20. George Rosenberg papers

    The collection consists of family letters written to George Rosenberg after he fled his family home in Offenbach am Main, Germany to Brussels, Belgium on a Kindertransport in 1938, where he lived with relatives in the Orbach family. The letters include one photocopy of a letter to George from his parents Emil and Fanny Rosenberg and sister Liesel Rosenberg in 1938. The other correspondence consists of letters and postcards to George and the Orbachs from his parents and sister Ruth in Offenbach, 1941-1942 before they were deported and killed at the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942. Also ...