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  1. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich papers Nachlass Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007)

    Private papers of Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007), a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Consists of certificates, photographs, family history, school and studies history, reports, refugee files, documents regarding reparation and inheritance, prizes and honors, articles for books and magazines, press articles, letters to the editor, radio and television articles, teaching material, and correspondence, e.g. with Leo Baeck, Peter Nathan Levinson, Gertrud Luckner, Franz Mussner, Rolf Rendtorff, Julius Schoeps, Albert Speer, Herbert Strauss; correspondence between the Christian-Jewi...

  2. Judith Hershkovitz collection

    Passport and photographs documenting the experiences of Yehudit (Judith) Hershkovitz [donor's mother] and her family, including their prewar experiences, detention in Nyíregyháza ghetto, survival of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and immigration to Israel in 1948 with her spouse Moshe Hershkovitz [1927-2005]. Moshe survived Birkenau and Buchenwald. After the war he returned to his hometown in Transylvania, then moved to Budapest before his immigration to Israel.

  3. Family activities at the house in Bítýška; friend in uniform; children get haircuts

    “The last visit in Bítýška at the yard” in September 1938. Baby Elizabeth Shenk with newspaper. 01:00:39 Michael in shorts with tall socks. Cousins from Prague visit the summer cottage: Felix Landsmann (school-age boy in striped suit, b. 1930, died in Auschwitz) with his mother Lilli (niece of Michael Eckstein) in the foyer. Lilli in trenchcoat plays table tennis with her husband Hans (b. 1898, died in Auschwitz) and her son Gustav (b. 1926, died in Auschwitz). Michaela plays in the yard with stroller; Felix on a tricycle. Michael Eckstein (on left) with his brother Jakob Eckstein (in dark ...

  4. Pluton Żandarmerii w Tarnowie Gendarmeriezug Tarnów (GK 693)

    Circular letters, reports, correspondence on the Home Army (Armia Krajowa)-Polish resistance movement.

  5. Miriam and Ruth Renzer papers

    Collection of correspondence, postcards, and photographs, including letters between Ruth Renzer in Palestine and her sister Miriam in England. Ruth lived at the "Ahava" children's home at Kiryat Bialik, near Haifa, and Miriam was sent to England on a Kindertransport.

  6. Łosice Ghetto photographs

    Collection of three photographs documenting the ghetto in Łosice, Siedlce Region, Lublin District, Poland, 1942. The three photographs are captioned by hand on back: "Łosice". One of the photographs is also captioned "Siedlce St. during the deportation 1942". On the eve of World War II (1939-1945), approximately 2,900 Jews lived in Łosice, Poland, roughly three fourth of the town's population. In December 1940, the Jews of the town were assembled in the ghetto. Many Jews from the surrounding area were brought to the ghetto, and in May 1942, the number of people living in the ghetto reached ...

  7. Franziska Hermann identification card

    Deutsches Reich Kennkarte issued to Fransiska Hermann, born in Vienna, April 1915. The identification document was issued October 19, 1939 and stamped to indicate she was deported to Theresienstadt, October 9, 1942.

  8. Selected records of the Polish Care Committee in Busko Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy w Busku (Sygn. 2170)

    Reports of the Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy w Busku (Polish Welfare Committee in Busko) related to the situation of Busko city's population, 1940-1944 and situation in Pińczów after the fire in September 1939 . Includes posters, announcements, and two issues of the German propaganda magazine “Służba światowa” ("World Service", subtitle "International Information Agency for the Study of the Jewish Question"), July-October 1943. The articles in the newspaper were intended to discredit the Jewish community around the world. The following articles appeared in the October issue: "The leading positi...

  9. A Journey Through Darkness

    Transcript written by Mimi Markus of interview with Nat Glass entitled "A Journey Through Darkness"

  10. Wyższy Dowódca SS i Policji Wschód Der Höhere Schutzstaffeln (SS) und Polizeiführe Ost (GK 901)

    Consists of collection of orders of the Reichsführer-SS regarding the forced labor of Polish workers, 1939-1944, the organizational decree no. 1, 26 June 1942 regarding activities of police authorities in occupied Poland, set of guidelines for general matters, a daily order no. 46 regarding the transfer of officers to other positions, 1943; name lists of associates of SS-Obergruppenführer Krüger , and officers of the WD office, as well as names of civil and military administration institutions, and a name list of Polish and Ukrainian police in the General Government, 1940-1944. Includes a c...

  11. The Day of Fast, Prayer and Cry for Saving Remnants of the Jewish People from Extermination by the Nazis

    A Hebrew-language broadside (mimeographed manuscript) titled "The Day of Fast, Prayer and Cry for Saving the Remnants of the Jewish People from Extermination by the Nazis". It was issued the 14th of Sivan (June) 1944, by the Chief Rabbinate of Haifa, Palestine (now Haifa, Israel). The broadside details the "prayer and memorial service" conducted at the central synagogue in Hadar Carmel Gilad St. The memorial day's agenda included a mandatory fast for every man and woman above the age of 18 years, sitting in silence on the ground for five minutes, "to mourn the holy and pure… who were cruell...

  12. David Friedmann research materials

    Contains research materials relating to the artwork of David Friedmann

  13. Department for the Investigation of Enemy War Crimes by the French Judiciary Police Service de recherche de crimes de guerre ennemis de la police judiciaire (SRCGE)

    Investigations conducted by the Department for Investigation of Enemy War Crimes (SRCGE) into war crimes committed either on the French mainland or involving French citizens in camps outside of France. The investigations were conducted by judiciary police starting in late 1944. They are organized alphabetically by département or by the country where they are presumed to have occurred (Germany, Austria, Poland), and also by subject matter. Investigated activities include arrest, arson, denaturalization denunciation, deportation, execution, expropriation, forced labor, homicide, internment, k...

  14. Easter holidays in Brno

    April 1938. In yard of family home in Brno (regional capital of Moravia), Hlínky 35, young Michaela (age 3) and her brother Antonín (age 2) hunt for Easter eggs in 1938. They are dressed similarly in checkered jackets. They play in the garden, with the toys. 01:01:01 Michael Eckstein stands beside a nanny, and Michaela pulls the wheeled animal toys. 01:01:13 Side view of Antonín kneeling with the toy bunny in the grass. 01:01:37 Michael walks hand-in-hand with his son Antonín. More of the family in the garden celebrating the Easter holidays. Cut. 01:02:12 Michaela holds a doll and plays wit...

  15. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poznań Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Poznaniu (GK 178)

    Investigation records regarding crimes committed in the territory of the Warthegau, such as hearings of witnesses, exhumation, medical and autopsy reports, examination of corpses, correspondence, reports of former concentration camp prisoners, questionnaires regarding mass graves, lists of war criminals, files of the case of Artur Greiser (Reichsstatthalter der Warthegau), a collection of files from criminal proceedings and many others. Records relate to: Poznań, Żabikowo, Chełmno (Kulmhof) Śrem, Kórnik, Łódź, Kalisz, Włocławek, Gniezno, Ostrów, Kepno, Szamotuły.

  16. Children get haircuts and play indoors

    April 1939. The children walk outdoors with the nanny. Indoors at their home on Hlinky 35 in Brno, the children get haircuts. Their room is filled with toys and is decorated with cars/robots on the wall. Michaela kisses her brother Antonin; he hugs her. Michaela gets her hair trimmed by the young male stylist. 01:02:07 The children play and laugh in their room. Antonin is lifted up and down by his nanny. He rides a red tricycle. The nanny puts mittens on his hands, and he spins around a few times for mother (behind the camera). The two children, dressed in different clothing, pose for the c...

  17. Sledding in Brno

    January 1939. Sledding in the snow near home in Brno on the street v Hlinkách (Hlínky 35). 01:00:11 CU Antonín bundled up in the sled with nanny in a checkered jacket. They pass a wine cellar, she waves to the camera, both children pulled in sleds. Poster; restaurant. A lady skis by the family. 01:00:47 Michael Eckstein looks at the camera walking in the snowy streets of Brno, he watches the children race down the street and play in the snow. Snowballs. Quick view of sign for Vystaviště. End 01:02:05 01:02:10 HAS, Playing in the snow at the empty fairground / exhibition area in Brno (Vystav...

  18. Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Warsaw Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Warszawie (GK 453)

    Court investigative files for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  19. American professors in Hamburg, 1939

    The harbor in Hamburg, many people walking around, probably in late Fall 1939. Professor Wm. Schaeffer (the man in a bowtie and trench coat) walks out of a store and down the street. (0.43) Boats sail on the water. (1:32) A family of three walks down the street, and greets Schaeffer. (2:24) People get onto “Hamburg-Amerika Linie” ship. Crew members lean outside a service hatch to watch. (3.14) The back of the boat says: “Robert Ley- hamburg.” Robert Ley was a cruise ship for the Nazi Party, first commssioned in March 1939. (3:50) Schaeffer walks towards town center, then back towards the ca...

  20. Oral history interview with Leo Anspach