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  1. Oral history interview with Peter Rein

  2. Suchostaw Association gatherings in New York

    Suchostaw Landsmanshaften association events in New York City filmed by Nathan Okon, including a welcome-home dance for service men after World War II. Film ID 4594 - Suchostower Association, Part I Film ID 4595 - Suchostower Association, Part II (color) Film ID 4596 - Suchostower Association, Part III (30th Anniversary) Film ID 4597 - Suchostower Association, 1941-1946 (color) Film ID 4598 - Suchostower Association, 1942-1946

  3. 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. (3:32) Still photo of committee for the Soup Kitchen: seated left to right: Amalia Nissenbaum (great-grandmother of Eric Silberman), Yenta Kronisch, Helena Lechowicz, Benjamin Reiss, Shmuel Schwebel, Nita Halpern, Mendel Sigal. St...

  4. Marc de Klijn photograph collection

    4 photographs

  5. Schwarz family papers

    The collection documents the Hungarian Holocaust-era experiences of the extended Schwarz family, including George and Magdolna Schwarz, their daughter Mariette, and Magdolna’s sister Klári Kovács (née Haberfeld) and her husband László Kovács. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, and photographs.

  6. Albin F. Irzyk collection

    Albin F. Irzyk, Sr.’s personal account of his unit's liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. He was the Battalion Commander of the 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, Third Army on April 4, 1945 when the discovery was made.

  7. Feingold family collection

    Photo and letter to the editor clipped from the New York Times Magazine. Mark Feinberg is the son of Joseph Feingold's brother, Alexander Feingold. The photo is of a third brother who was killed. Alexander wrote the letter to the editor.

  8. Ullman family papers

    A book about the Konijns and three original envelopes to/from family members (dating back to WWII), which were opened by the Germans.

  9. Ernest N. Strauss collection

    Documents and photographs of Ernest N. Strauss and family from Europe, immigration to the United States and his military service as a Ritchie Boy.

  10. 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.

  11. Unidentified home movies: Palestine and North Africa

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

  12. Abend and Getter families papers

    The collection consists of photographs primarily depicting the prewar and wartime lives of the Abend and Getter families, originally of Przemyśl, Austrian Galicia (Przemyśl, Poland) and Złoczów, Austrian Galicia (Zolochiv, Ukraine), who were all in Paris, France during the Holocaust. Included are prewar family photographs depicting Joachim and Chaya Getter, their daughter Floine Getter, Salomon Abend and his wife Perla Rosiner in Przemyśl, Thonon-les-Bains, France, and Paris, France. Also included are a small amount of wartime photographs taken in Beaune-La-Roland transit camp where Salomon...

  13. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note

  14. Pratiche relative alla campagna razzista, Questura Pesaro e Urbino Practices relating to the racist campaign, Pesaro and Urbino Police Headquarters

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the precincts of Pesaro and Urbino. Include records relating to: race investigations, revocation of citizenship of people of Jewish race Anti-Jewish racial policy; land registry; Montenegrins and Dalmatians Jews to be interned, registration of Jews in the province of Pesaro-Urbino", dated 10/12/1938, prohibition of licensing of businesses and any economic activities of Jews; registration of national and foreign Jews to be arrested, 1943; and collection of any information related to movement of Jews...

  15. Stark family collection

    The collection documents the pre and post-war lives of the Stark and Kornitzer families, respectively from Berettyóújfalu and Szerencs, Hungary. Photographs depict Rozalia Stark (née Kornitzer), her parents Salomon and Miriam Kornitzer, sibling Geza, and Rozalia with her husband Adrian Stark and their daughter Eva. Also included is Adrian’s Hungarian state insurance ID card, 1956. One photograph is original and three are copy prints.

  16. American Jew travels to Poland

    Home movie coverage of a trip to Poland taken by Walter Wiener in 1934. Scenes cover the farewell in New York, on board the ship, arriving in England, touring through France, greeting family members in Panevesz, Poland, a synagogue sponsored by Americans, the market, meeting relatives in Kovno, Lithuania, and returning to the United States. The film includes Yiddish intertitles.

  17. Samuel Comis letter

    Letter, five pages, written by Samuel J. Comisaroff (donors' father), enlisted American Army soldier, to his family in the United States describing his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp on April 20, 1945.

  18. Waldapfel family papers

    The Waldapfel family papers include correspondence, immigration documents, and photographs documenting Irma Waldapfel, her children Valerie, Max, and Karoline, and their Waldapfel and Fischer relatives. Correspondence includes postcards sent from Czechoslovakia to Irma, Valerie, and Karoline during the interwar period and letters Irma and Karoline sent from Vienna to Valeria and Max in New York. Immigration documents consist of a Queen Mary passenger list and handwritten notes documenting Irma’s and Karoline’s itinerary from Vienna to Cherbourg to New York. Photographs depict Irma, Karoline...

  19. Lt Colonel Bruce Hinson photograph album

    The collection consists of an annotated photograph album documenting Bruce Rateliff Hinson, MD’s experiences as an army surgeon during World War II. The album covers his entire military career from 1942-1945. It includes depictions of his family; training at Sioux Falls and Atlanta; and overseas posts in England, Brittany (France), Luxembourg, and Germany (Nuremberg, Bamberg, Passau). There are six photographs taken at Buchenwald the day after liberation primarily documenting piles of corpses and building structures.

  20. Dachau liberation photos

    Dachau liberation photos. The donor's father was at Dachau after liberation.