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  1. Primary School and High School no 1 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Szkoła Podstawowa i Liceum nr 1 w Ostrowcu Świętokrzyskim (Sygn. 2905)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  2. "Hitler's Hangman" promotional photograph

    Promotional photograph depicting a scene from the film “Hitler’s Hangman.” The film was retitled “Hitler’s Madman” and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1943. The film is a fictionalized portrayal of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and its aftermath. Heydrich was Heinrich Himmler’s second-in-command and chief of the Reich Security Main office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA), which was the major implementer of the systematic murder of European Jews. He was especially brutal, earning the nicknames “The Hangman of Europe” and “Hitler’s Hangman.” Under Heydrich’s leadership, ove...

  3. Erdélyi Lapok [Newspapers]

    Selected issues of the antisemitic newspaper Erdélyi Lapok published in Oradea,Transylvania. The paper was published with the financial support of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1936 changed its name to Új Lapok and later to Magyar Lapok,

  4. Oral history interview with Leo Parenti

  5. Operacijska zona Jadransko Primorje (SI AS 1760) Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland (OZAK)

    Selected records on activities of the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK), a district of Nazi Germany created in 1943 after Italian capitulation following the Allied invasion of Italy. Includes a fragmentary list of local residents detailed by German police. The area of the OZAK with its capital in Trieste comprised parts of the territories of present-day Italy, Slovenia, and parts of Croatia (Rijeka region). Odilo Globocnik served as Higher SS and Police Leader of this district in 1943-194...

  6. Oral history interview with Joseph Oppenheimer

  7. Journal of Csík (Ciuc) Csíki Lapok [Newspapers]

    Antisemitic newspaper published in the Szekler Region in the eastern Transylvania. It includes political, social, economic and fiction articles.

  8. Records of the Escuela Integral Hebreo Uruguaya

    Records of the Escuela Integral Hebreo Uruguaya (Uruguayan Hebrew Comprehensive School). Including are proceedings of the Executive Committee, lists of graduates, general meetings, and lists of active partners.

  9. Oral history interview with Martin H. Spiegel

  10. Prefettura di Pesaro Prefecture of Pesaro

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the prefecture of Pesaro, including the 1938 census and lists of foreigners, and foreign Jews in the Pesaro region. Consist of Police Headquarters monthly reports relating to political situation of the region, the visit of Duce in the province, miscellaneous records related to racial problems, assessment of race practices, list of the Jews,1939, office expenses 1939-1940, investigation files; various correspondence and circulars relating to evacuees and distraction due to Allied bombing, etc.; pres...

  11. Emil Spiro papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Emil Spiro, originally of Butzbach, Germany, who survived the Holocaust in Switzerland after arriving there in 1939 on a Kindertransport. The collection primarily consists of Swiss documents, immigration paperwork, and correspondence. Biographical materials include immigration paperwork, restitution files, and documents related to Emil’s life as a refugee in Switzerland from 1939-1947. Swiss documents also include papers requiring Emil to report to an immigrant labor camp in 1945, and letters from the Red Cross regarding his efforts to learn the f...

  12. Visiting family in Pinsk, 1934

    The Lourié family visits relatives in Pinsk, Belarus in August 1934, including shots of the family's plywood factory in Pinsk. Woman looks at large plaques written in Hebrew, outdoors. Two pre-teen girls climb over large logs, walk out of a building and look at another building. Pan of the town of Pinsk and the family factory. Shoreline filmed from a moving boat, and men in canoes. On shore, one of the girls and a woman walk over as men bring large logs onto the shore. 5:02 Three men talk, one in a suit. Lourie plywood factory process: large logs, bark removed from smaller logs by two men w...

  13. Hohenberg and Gottschalk families papers

    Consists of approximately 150 items of correspondence pertaining to the experiences of the extended Hohenberg and Gottschalk families of Helmarshausen, Germany, Haifa, and the United States. The correspondence ranges in date from the 1940s to the 1950s.

  14. Oral history interview with Peter Rein

  15. Unidentified home movies: Palestine

    Home movies probably shot in 1934 of Palestine. Scenes may include street scenes, a synagogue interior, and rural Palestine.

  16. Oral history interview with Jerry Jacobs

  17. Zeilsheim DP Camp (color)

    Color film of Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp taken by Jewish survivor Albin H. White [under the false identity Albin Ostrowski] around June 1947, including shots of the assembly center, an office, outdoor performances, children, the monument to murdered Jews, soccer, school, and machine shops. Opening pan over the countryside, street scene with homes, residential area. Sign: “Zeilsheim/Assembly Center/UNRRA Team 1022” with two stars of David. “Achtung" [announcement] poster underneath dated 25 June 1947. Woman and child walking near to an entrance: “UNRRA TEAM…[1022]” Street scenes in wha...

  18. Belarus, 1934

    Lourie family visits Pinsk and Deniskovichi, Belarus in August 1934. Outdoor market. Crowds walk and stand in the market. Three women with bundles on their backs walking in ankle-high water. Horse-drawn carts in the water. Men and women in boats/raft. Scenery and people on boats filmed from a moving boat. Car drives through shallow water and stops. People are helped onto the shore, men push the car in the water. Three men and one woman stand and talk.

  19. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution

    PDF of an expanded version of Alexander Silbiger's memoir, Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution, 1942-1943 (2020), 73 pages. Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands, describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original version of this memoir was previously accessioned as 2006.27

  20. Deportált Hiradó [Newspapers]

    The rare weekly newspaper published in Satu Mare,Transylvania in July-August 1945. The publication focuses on assistance provided to Jewish Holocaust survivors from Northern Transylvania returning from the Nazi death and forced labor camps.