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  2. Arthur and Ruth Balsam collection

    Collection of postcards, received by Artur and Ruth Balsam in New York City from family in the Łódź ghetto; documents and correspondence relating to the Artur and Ruth (Rosalia) Balsam journey to the United States and attempts to track down the fate of their loved ones.

  3. Okresný úrad vo Vranove nad Topľou District Office in Vranov nad Topľou

    Contains documents of the District Office in Vranov nad Topľou which was the regional state administration body. Besides documents about various social and economic issues, this fond features records on the persecution of the Jews living in the territory of the district of Vranov nad Topľou in 1938-1945. It includes documents on the appointment of governmental trustees of Jewish-owned properties and businesses, records on the dismissal of Jews from public service, and essential documents on the registration of Jews in preparation for their deportation from Slovakia in 1942 such as the only ...

  4. 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.

  5. Oral history interview with Martin H. Spiegel

  6. Presentation by Rachel Bodner

  7. Lob family papers

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Marcel Pierre Lob, originally of Paris, Frace, including his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz II-Birkenau and return to Paris after liberation. It also includes documents related to the experiences of his wife Helene Lob (née Bybelezer), a survivor of Drancy, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen, and tracing documents regarding the Holocaust fates of his mother Lucie Levy Lob, sister Stephanie Carrance, her husband Ernest Carrance, and their daughter Jacqueline Carrance, all of who perished at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. ...

  9. Arnold Grossblatt collection

    Arnold Grossblatt (1924-1945) WWII photograph album, loose photos, letters from him to his family, draft of a letter from his mother Miriam to President Harry Truman, correspondence from the U.S. Army after he was killed in an accident in September, 1945, clippings, pamphlet

  10. 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...

  11. 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

  12. Selected records from the Regional State Archive in Litoměřice

    Features administrative records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets and the enactment of anti-Jewish measures in Litoměřice and surrounding regions of the Czech Republic; Nazi prosecutorial records; and post-war Czech Extraordinary People's Court and Public Prosecutor records. This is ongoing duplication project. Individual collection titles and record groups with archival signatures are as follows: a. Administrative records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets and the enactment of anti-Jewish measures in Litoměřice and surrounding regi...

  13. Visiting Panevesz and Kovno

    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.

  14. 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.

  15. Kaufmann family papers

    German Passports and documents issued to Betti Neckarsulmer Kaufmann and her husband, Ernst Kaufmann who were Jewish and forced to flee Nazi Germany.

  16. Magyar Lapok [Newspapers]

    Selected issues of the antisemitic newspaper Magyar Lapok published in Oradea,Transylvania, 1936-1940. It was a successor of Erdélyi Lapok.

  17. "Hungarian Minority" Magyar Kisebbség [Newspapers]

    Magyar Kisebbség [Hungarian Minority], a journal published during the interwar period in Southern Transylvania expressing positions of the Hungarian elite towards the Jewish community in Transylvania .

  18. Maďarský kráľovský policajný kapitanát v Košiciach Hungarian Royal Police Headquarters in Košice

    Administrative records of the Hungarian Royal Police Headquarters in Košice. Includes records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution, arrest and registration of Slovak Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property and businesses.

  19. 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.

  20. "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