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  1. Prewar Suchostaw

    Suchostaw (Suchastov) 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Family visits Panavesz

    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.

  4. Oral history interview with Leo Parenti

  5. Congregation Kehillath Yaakov and the Gemiluth Chessed of Greater New York collection

    Archive of minutes, documents and communications regarding Congregation Kehillath Yaakov and the Gemiluth Chessed of Greater New York, both of Washington Heights, NY. Gemiluth Chessed c. 235 pages bound in ledger, with additional loose letters and newspaper clippings. Kehillath Yaakov documents, c. 325 pages. In German and English; Washington Heights, NY; dated 1940s-1970s

  6. Emil Schattner papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Emil Schattner and his family, primarily in Bobowa, Poland and Vienna, Austria. Included are photographs, birth and marriage certificates, documents regarding Emil’s Austrian pension, report cards, and Emil’s memoir “The Summer of ‘38.” Photographs include pre-war depictions of Emil, his parents Mina and Nathan Schattner, his sister Mary Schattner, Mina’s brothers Shimon and Israel Baldinger, and Nathan’s sister Jente or Jetti Schattner. Also included is a photograph of the Schattner family aboard the SS Batory on their way to the Un...

  7. 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...

  8. 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.

  10. Jüdisches Zentralarchiv des Burgenlandes (Jewish Central Archive of the Burgenland)

    Records of seven former Jewish communities of the Austrian state of the Burgenland, which were disbanded after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. The material consists of official correspondence, protocols of Jewish community board meetings, marriage, birth and death records, decrees, Jewish community records, school records, tax records, military records, records pertaining to Jewish organizations and officials, and other documentation.

  11. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note

  12. Spieler family papers

    Papers and photographs of the Spieler family, including pre-war family documents and the military papers of Arthur Spieler who was trained at Camp Ritchie in the US.

  13. Eugene Mielcarek photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of people and their belongings loaded onto open trucks; caption typed verso: "17 / All set to move. / Note the luggage and pots in the total scene. Mass movement"

  14. Joe Freda papers

    Letters, envelopes, and newspaper clippings. Letters written from donor's great uncle, Joseph Freda, a United States Army soldier, from Germany and France describing his viewing of the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps. Written to his future spouse, "Birdie" Thomas in Pittsburgh, PA in May 1945.

  15. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note

  16. Gitta Simon papers

    The collection consists of a memoir documenting the Holocaust experiences of Gitta Simon (née Kohn), originally of Moson, Hungary, including her deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944, transfer to Altenburg subcamp of Buchenwald. While on a death march, Simon was liberated by the United States Army. The memoir is in Hungarian and was written post-war while she and her husband, Laszlo Simon, were living in Shanghai (1947-1949). A digital English translation of the memoir is also available at the USHMM (DS135.H93 S5968 2000). Also included are a small number of documents including marriage and...

  17. Paul Fairbrook collection

    The collection primarily consists of copies of documents related to Paul Fairbrook’s WWII military service as a “Ritchie Boy” who received military intelligence training at Camp Albert C. Ritchie, and member of the MIRS (Military Intelligence Research Section). Documents include clippings, military paperwork, memos, reports, captured German documents, and poems. Also included are two bound reports: one contains copies of documents regarding Fairbrook’s military career, and the other is a copy of a government report regarding the history and activities of MIRS.

  18. Oral history interview with Peter Rein

  19. 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

  20. 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...