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  1. Weksler family correspondence

    Includes the memoir of David Weksler, two postcards from Fela Weksler, and letter written from Fela to David Weksler with its English translation

  2. Zelig Wasser diary

    Consists primarily of handwritten diary pages that were kept by Sidney "Zelig" Wasser, a survivor from Kielce, Poland, while he was living in hiding in the woods after his escape from Henryków Arbeitslager, a forced labor camp, in May 1944. The diary pages were hidden in glass bottles and a majority were recovered after the war. The collection also includes correspondence, an illustrated map of Henryków with an identification key, Wasser's various translations of the diary and transcriptions of notes in both English and Polish, and a timeline capturing his experiences from when war broke ou...

  3. Sąd Grodzki w Końskich (Sygn. 704) Court of the First Instance in Końskie

    Files of civil cases from the period of World War II of people of Jewish origin (inheritance and division of property).

  4. Selected records from the State Archives of the Andijan Region related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Collection contains records related to the evacuation of civilians to the Andijan Region of Uzbekistan during WWII. It includes correspondence of the state authorithies regarding resettlement and employement of evacuated civilians, list of factory workers relocated to Andijan, lists of orphans, correspondence related to search of misssing relatives and other documentation

  6. Gotlieb family collection

    The Gotlieb family collection is comprised primarily of documents and photographs the experiences of Szajndla (later Sally) Frydman Gotlieb and her husband, Zacharias (later Sam) Gotlieb [donor's parents] who were both from Radom, Poland, and were both survivors of the Holocaust.The documents include Sally's DP card issued in Germany and paperwork issued by the United States Consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, in April 1946 to serve "in lieu of passports" for both Sally and Sam. There is also a ship ticket for the Marine Flasher from May 1946 and documentation of transportation fee being cover...

  7. Frank and Hilda Sachs collection

    Includes identification documents, such as U.S. naturalization certificates, for Hilda Sachs (b. 1913) and Frank Sachs (b. 1904) in addition to transcripts for oral history interviews conducted with Frank Sachs regarding his experiences in the Czech Republic, including his arrest in March 1939 and how he fled after he was interrogated in January 1940 before meeting his wife in England.

  8. Grycz family postcard

    The final postcard sent by Samuel and Chana Grycz from Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, in December 1940, to their son, Alex Gritz, in Brooklyn, NY. The Polish-language message asks how everyone there is doing, and mentions that Chana was not feeling well. Alex and his siblings, Sophie, Aron, Shifra, and Rhue, has all immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Samuel and Chana were killed during the Holocaust.

  9. German photograph album

    Consists of a German photo album acquired by US serviceman John Racik Jr. (b. 1925) while stationed in the region around Linz am Rhein, Germany. Included in the album are scenes of uniformed German troops at leisure and in the field. Other scenes depict family life, and show party figures such as Adolf Hitler.

  10. Helmut Georg Schreima papers

    Consists of photographs, postcards, and a memoir pertaining to the experiences of Helmut Georg Schreima (1917-1981). Schreima, a Czech-German teenager from Lower Silesia, was arrested as an anti-Nazi teenager on a charge of high treason. Following his release after several years of imprisonment, Schreima later served in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and in France. While in France, Schreima defected and joined the French Forces Interior. At the end of the war, Schreima worked with OSS behind the lines and then immigrated to the United States where he pursued a legal career, becoming bot...

  11. Frima Laub photographs

    Includes photographs and copy prints depicting the experiences of Frima Gleiser Laub and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  12. Esther Fox papers

    Consists of certificates, reference letters, and some photos documenting Esther Fox's (formerly Dr. Ester Nysenhaus) experience as a doctor in the Łódź ghetto and her service as a physician in the United States after 1949. Also includes her writings on her experiences and their English and Swedish translations

  13. Gedenket der Hungernden

    Consists of a donation card from the Shanghai Ghetto printed on behalf of the "Gedenket der Hungernden", or "Remember the Hungry", charitable organization of the Jewish community in Shanghai during WWII. One side has mimeographed text appealing to members of Shanghai's Jewish community, in German. The verso has a small printed donation form to fill out (in German), and the address of the organization (in English). Also includes an imprinted Chinese mailing stamp of Sun-Yat Sen and additional Chinese text in green.

  14. Fruma Broude Gurevich letter

    Consists of a one-page typewritten letter sent by Dr. Fruma Broude (b. 1899, Fruma Broude Gurevich or Gurvich) from Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) in which she explains what happened, who was killed, children who were placed in hiding that she was trying to locate, how she survived, and what their needs are. Also includes a blank envelope with the return address for Dr. M.J. Kardon (donor's father) in Philadelphia.

  15. Court of the First Instance in Szczekociny Sąd Grodzki w Szczekocinach (Sygn. 1846)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.

  16. American National Socialist League postcard

    Consists of a single antisemitic postcard from the American National Socialist League urging gentiles to "fight Jewish Communism"

  17. Ery Magasanik collection

    Consists of US naturalization certificates, identification documents such as Iranian passports and "Shenasnameh," or Iranian identity booklets similar to birth certificates, for the donors' parents, Michael (b. 1900) and Judith Magasanik (nee Bromberg, b. 1908) who left Bucharest in 1940 using the Iranian passports they obtained in the late 1920s as citizens of Iran. They eventually immigrated to the Miami and then settled in New York in 1942.

  18. Testimony of Sidney Finkel

  19. Sygn. 511, County Starosty in Końskie Sygn. 511, Starostwo Powiatowe Koneckie

    Situation reports of the Starosty containing information on, inter alia, the state of public safety, public assemblies, legal and illegal political organizations.

  20. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Documentation, Tashkent, Uzbekistan related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII.

    The collection contains documents of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan and medical hospitals, Tashkent Medical Institute, medical reaserch centers and other state medical agencies active on the territory of Uzbekistan during WWII. It includes records related to the medical assistance given to evacuees, the improvement of the sanitary condition of places where evacuees are resettled, and the measures taken by local medical personnel to maintain and improve the health of the evacuated population. Among the records are financial reports, statistical information, and annual presentations abo...