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  1. Primary School in Kozłów Szkoła Podstawowa w Kozłowie (Sygn. 3208)

    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. Oral history interview with Rafael Yachin

  3. Survivors with concentration camp tattoos; USO performance; Russian soldiers

    American soldier walking amongst fly bombs, low buildings in fields with tree cover. CU, bomb,“Nicht Auftreten” Title card: “So well concealed it was never bombed” 01:02:06 Title: “A British plane is consumed by explosion of ammunition train it strafed.” Bombed out plane filmed from vehicle on dirt road. Title: "Trees blown over from blast” Soldiers examine wreckage. “German field piece” Machine and camouflaged fence. 01:04:30 Title card: “Jewish girls from Italy, Belgium, Greece.” Female Jewish survivors near Rostow showing their prisoner tattoos. Girls in dresses, smiling showing their ar...

  4. Municipal Savings Bank of Opatów County, Branch in Ostrowiec Komunalna Kasa Oszczędności powiatu opatowskiego Oddział w Ostrowcu (Sygn. 2950)

    The matter of an agreement between the Municipal Savings Bank and Aron Kupferblum of 1935. The unit consists of declarations, official correspondence, certificates, an extract from a notarial deed.

  5. Oral history interview with Joseph Kanarek

  6. Korunk [Newspapers]

    A "Korunk" is the Hungarian-language cultural journal published in Kolozsvár; a first issue appeared in February 1926; the publication was ceased between 1940 and 1957, and resumed in February 1957. Selected issues od the journal contains left oriented reviews with strong anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi editorial agenda.

  7. Oral history interview with Sherman Ray

  8. Hans Lindemann papers

    Photograph albums, documents, correspondence and writings illustrating the experiences of Hans Wolfgang Lindemann (a German) and Ethel McGloclin (an American) who met in the United States and moved to Germany around 1929 where Hans eventually became a Wehrmacht captain as an automotive engineer. He was discharged in November 1944 and later became a prisoner of war of the Americans in France and after his release, returned with his family to the United States.

  9. Presentation by Ruth Bild Adler

  10. Marc de Klijn photograph collection

    4 photographs

  11. Estate Richard Korherr Nachlass Richard Korherr

    The Nachlass Richard Korherr comprises the personal papers of Richard Korherr (1903-1989), Chief Inspector for Statistics at the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police and at the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German ‘Volkstum’. The collection contains two copies of the Korherr report, created as part of the post-war confrontation with it. In addition to personal documents, the estate consists predominantly of correspondence with individuals and institutions such as H. G. Adler, the Leo Baeck Institute in London, Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg and his wife, ...

  12. Erna Wimbley photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of German citizens entrusted to Erna Wimbley by an American serviceman that depict German citizens exhuming victims immediately following WWII.

  13. U.S. 8th Infantry in the Rhineland

    Title card: "Banen Productions" "8th Infantry Division: Normandy. Northern France. Rhineland. Central Europe." Swastika flag. American soldiers in the Rhineland, smoke in field. Damaged cathedral in Cologne. Ruins. "Cologne air field" Soldiers board U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport plane. Title card: "Crossing the Rhine! surely Jerry won't hold out long now!" American military vehicles cross the Rhine River in March 1945. Traveling in trucks on roads, passing abandoned tanks. Rubble in villages. Road sign for Altenkirchen. 01:07:16 Medics loading wounded military into ambulance "USA 72544...

  14. Lourié family life in 1934

    Title: "5 Jahre Spaeter". Lourié family life in Vienna in 1934. Automobile. 01:01:27 "In der Zwengalle” Lourié’s home address #17, film pans residential neighborhood from rooftop perspective, Leopold Lourié and wife host guests. Family scenes.

  15. Edward E. Harriman report

    Edward E. Harriman's report after the liberation of Dachau (includes tipped in photos); also a photo of Harriman in uniform and another of him in a suit and tie (inscribed to the donor's grandmother).

  16. Selected records from the General State Archives in Chalkis (GAK Euboea)

    The collection includes archival materials from two record groups: 1. Postwar records of the Court of Appeal of Chalkis (Chalkida) - Special Court for theTrials of the Local Collaborators in the area of Chalkis (Euboe/Evia Prefecture) in the former Italian and German Occupation Zones of occupation. It contains court proceedings and verdicts against local collaborators, who took part in the persecution and killings of civilians during the occupation; 2. Selected records from the private archives of Lefteris Ioannidis (1879-1993), a former employee of the Prefecture of Chalkis. It contains th...

  17. Prewar Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland

    Home movies taken by Abraham (Abe) Hershkowitz while visiting family in Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland in 1934 including local villagers, street scenes in Pacanow, family members, water carrier, children's home, and a market.

  18. 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.

  19. Világ [Newspapers]

    Independent liberal daily published immediately after the war. The publication includes many articles related the fate of the Hungarian Jewry and postwar war crimes investigations and trials of war criminals.

  20. Records of the “Joint-Stock Russian-Canadian-American Passenger Company”(RUSCAPA) related to Jewish emigration, Ukraine (Fond P-3066)

    The collection contains records of the “Joint-Stock Company Russo-Canadian-American Passenger Agency” (“Aktsionernoe obshchestvo Russkocanadsko-amerikanskoe passazhirskoe agenstvo”) (RUSCAPA) related to thousands of families emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1926-1930. It includes personal files of emigrants (Jews, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles, Russians), questionnaires, medical certificates, business correspondence with customers, receipts for payment of services, personal letters and telegrams filled out and submitted in order to exit the USSR and enter the USA and Canada, and other impor...