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  1. Registration lists of the Polish citizens and ethnic Poles repatriated from the Soviet Ukraine to Poland (Fond 3229)

    The collection contains case files and registration lists of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles who applied for repatriation to Poland from Soviet Ukraine. Registration lists include the names of the returnees, gender, nationality, date of birth, marital status, place of residence, occupation and description of movable personal property (cattle, agricultural tools and machinery, etc.). The repatriation of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles was carried out under the auspices of the L’viv Regional Office of the Chief Representative of the Government of Soviet Ukraine on Repatriation Issues. This ...

  2. Spieler family papers

    Papers and photographs of the Spieler family, including pre-war family documents and the military papers of Arthur Spieler who was trained at Camp Ritchie in the US.

  3. "Transylvanian Youth" Erdélyi Fiatalok [Newspapers]

    A "Erdélyi Fiatalok" [Transylvanian Youth] was a journal of the new Hungarian generation in Romania, It contains liberal reviews on political views of young national-liberal Transylvanian politicians during the interwar period. 1930-1940

  4. Hecht family collection

    The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Arthur Hecht and his family, who primarily lived in Hörstein, Germany prior to WWII. Documents include birth and death certificates, a naturalization certificate, military discharge papers, a track award, and a 1946 clipping documenting Arthur’s reunification with his parents after their immigration to the United States. Original and copy print photographs include depictions of pre-war family life in Germany and life in the United States after immigrating, including Arthur’s time in the military.

  5. Oral testimony of Debora “Babciu” Sachs Jacobovits

  6. Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú

    Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú (Israelite Society of Paysandú), Uruguay. Includes correspondence, minutes of sessions; reports and other office documents, 1945-1948.

  7. Irma Maurer memoirs

    Consists of one handwritten memoir, stapled and bound by a red cover with each entry dated 1985, telling the story of her family, childhood, and adulthood, ending with her family’s arrival at the Riga ghetto in 1941.

  8. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note

  9. Presentation by Helen Sperling

  10. Heimann family collection

    Consists of Heimann family photographs, including a framed photo of Herman Heimann and Julie (Samson) Heiman, which was damaged by a bayonet on Kristallnacht. Also includes identification documents, such as several reisepass, or German passports, and the Wehrpass and United States immigrant ID card belonging to Julius Waixel's (Weichsel). Julius Waixel was the father of the donor, and Herman and Julie Heiman were the paternal grandparents of the donor's mother, Julie (Heimann) Waixel (Weichsel),

  11. Eva and Otto Pfister papers

    Accretion to the Eva and Otto Pfister Papers including correspondence, documents, booklet, papers, clippings, translations, pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, writings, tickets, passes, photos, and other materials.

  12. Prewar Zborow

    Zborow in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften.

  13. Oral history interview with Gilbert Ceffa

  14. "Free People" Szabad Nép [Newspapers]

    Communist daily published after the war (in 1956 changed its name to Népszabadság), and until 2016 was the most important Hungarian newspaper This part of the collection contains selection of publications from 1944-1949. It includes articles related to deportations, crimes, and postwar war crimes investigations of war criminals.

  15. Dorothy and Siegmund Schnitman papers

    Consists of two Canadian passports issued in 1947 for Dorothy (nee Segal, 1919-2012) and Siegmund (1919-2005) Schnitman who met in Canada in the 1940s while living in Toronto after escaping Poland and Germany, respectively, in the 1930s. Both passports indicated the dates of their Canadian citizenship, granted in 1946, and their immigration to the U.S. via Buffalo, NY in February 1948 before they settled in New York City.

  16. Congregation Kehillath Yaakov and the Gemiluth Chessed of Greater New York collection

    Archive of minutes, documents and communications regarding Congregation Kehillath Yaakov and the Gemiluth Chessed of Greater New York, both of Washington Heights, NY. Gemiluth Chessed c. 235 pages bound in ledger, with additional loose letters and newspaper clippings. Kehillath Yaakov documents, c. 325 pages. In German and English; Washington Heights, NY; dated 1940s-1970s

  17. Municipal Government in Iłża Zarząd Miejski w Iłży (Sygn. 3025)

    Numerous post-war materials regarding real estate (including those owned by Jews) and decisions regarding their return to their owners or transferring them for use to other people.

  18. Court of the First Instance in in Skarżysko-Kamienna Sąd Grodzki w Skarżysku-Kamiennej (Sygn. 3113)

    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.

  19. Eugene Mielcarek photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of people and their belongings loaded onto open trucks; caption typed verso: "17 / All set to move. / Note the luggage and pots in the total scene. Mass movement"

  20. Tax Office in Starachowice Urząd Skarbowy w Starachowicach (Sygn. 2983)

    Books of industrial certificates (and their index) containing information about Jews running a business in the area of the former Iłża county. In addition, list of businesses run in Starachowice, lists of real estate owners, income tax and industrial tax records.