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  1. Forrest J. Robinson, Jr. collection

    Photo: Fritz Kuhn & Gustav K. Elmer look at subpoena, May 29, 1939 Photo: 13 seized when mob attempt to invade Bund meeting in Chicago, October 16, 1938 Photo: Anti-Nazi picketers outside German-American Bund meeting in Long Island City, November 18, 1938 Photo: Fritz Kuhn reading while interned in Apsburg, Germany, 1945 Photo: Anti-Nazi crowd outside Madison Square Garden, February 24, 1939 Photo: “Bund Leader in Court Verbal Battle,” Bay Ridge Court, Brooklyn, NY, March 3, 1939 Photo: Fritz Kuhn appears before House Committee, August 16, 1939

  2. William Rowe collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, Nazi-propaganda journal (newspaper/magazine/leaflet); correspondence between Hans and his son Kurt Seibold dating early 1940s, while Kurt is deployed with the German military under Nazi regime and Hans, also a soldier and WWI veteran, is home in Nuremberg, Germany. Letters from Hans discuss the military events occurring such as Operation Barbarossa, his vague references to current military work, and his affiliation and meetings with Nazi party members. Newspapers, magazines and leaflets included were printed under Nazi-occupied Germany.

  3. Rebecca Knaster papers

    Documents, certificates, identification, correspondence, and restitution papers relating to Baruch and Cyla (Cila) Knaster.

  4. Painting attributed to Edmond Goergen

    Consists of a 14.5 x 18 inch painting attributed to Edmond Goergen (1914-2000). Goergen, a native of Luxembourg, was arrested and later interned at Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps for resistance activities. An artist prior to his internment Goergen created small sketches in camp, and later resumed his career in the postwar era. He is known for a broad range of artworks including those documenting his experiences and scenes he witnessed. Though undated the piece was given (approximately during the 1970s) to friend and fellow Luxembourgian resistance member, Fernand Paulus (1...

  5. Gerald Rosenstein collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and a family book [Stambuch] illustrating Max and Sophie Rosenstein and their children Ernst, Hans, and Gerhard who immigrated to the Netherlands from Bensheim, Germany. Included in the collection are documents surrounding Ernst, who fled to Palestine in the 1930s and then was killed in Action while a soldier for the British. Also included are materials illustrating the experiences of Max, Sophie and Gerhard who were deported to Theresienstadt camp in the Czech Republic. Max and Gerhard were then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and its subca...

  6. The Hildegard Simon Lustig and Herlinger family papers

    Consists of period correspondence and later translations pertaining to the experiences of Hildegard Simon Lustig, a survivor of the Holocaust born in Vienna, Austria who was deported from Nagykanizsa, Hungary in 1944, and her extended family. Letters in the collection were authored by and addressed to Herlinger and Lustig family members of Vienna, Austria, Prague Czechoslovakia, and Nagykanizsa, Hungary.

  7. Hannah Zimmerman papers

    The collection is comprised of affidavits, a passenger list of voyagers on the RMS Queen Elizabeth aboard which Hannah Zimmerman and her parents arrived to the United States, and a luggage tag. It also includes photographs of Hannah Zimmerman as a young child. With the exception of one wartime photograph showing Hannah circa 1 ½ - 2 years of age, the photographs of Hannah were taken while she and her parents lived in Bratislava after the war, and later as displaced persons in Munich prior to their immigration to the United States in 1952.

  8. US Certificate of Citizenship holder

    Holder for Hans Rosenbaum's Certificate of Naturalization, dated May 18, 1944.

  9. Hanukkah lamp

    Hanukkah lamp which belonged to the Altman family in Germany. It was given to Theodore Levite, whose mother was Marie Altman Levite and later to the donor who was a relative by marriage.

  10. Morck and Mayer families papers

    The Morck and Mayer families papers include documents relating to the prewar life and immigration of Anneliese Morck (later Anne Martin) and the extended Morck and Mayer families from Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, Germany. Identification and immigration documents relating to Hugo, Alice, Anne, and Heinz Morck include German passports, certificates of registration for the United Kingdom, certificates of naturalization for the United States, affidavits, visa documentation, packing lists, and passenger booklets for the SS President Harding. Identification and immigration documents relating...

  11. Josef Helfgott papers

    Consists of photographs, restitution-related claims, a business card, newspaper clippings, and photocopies pertaining to the experiences of Josef Helfgott, a Holocaust survivor from Tomaszow Mazowiecki. Among other items, the collection includes a photograph of Josef's wife, Dwora, that he kept with him throughout his internment at various concentration camps, including Auscwhitz. Dwora, and the couple's daughter, Chana, were deported from Tomaszow to Treblinka in 1942 where they were killed. Other documents in the collection concern Josef's extended family as several siblings had immigrate...

  12. WWI medal

    Medal awarded to Hugo Morck for service on the front in WWI.

  13. Spice container

    Spice container which belonged to the Altman family in Germany. It was given to Theodore Levite, whose mother was Marie Altman Levite and later to the donor who was a relative by marriage.

  14. 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.

  15. Margolius family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs surrounding the experiences of the Margolius family during the Holocaust.

  16. 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 ...

  17. The Eckstein family at a fair and playing in their garden

    June 1939. The children in striped jackets outdoors in their garden in Bítýška. Greenhouse. 01:01:13 Pan of the family home at Vev. Bítýška. 01:01:20 The children ride the carousel with the nanny in a checkered jacket. 01:01:54 Michael helps Antonín off the carousel. 01:02:00 The family and nanny pose for a portrait in the funhouse mirror (notice mother Toni with the camera standing at right behind her son Antonín). Very brief shot of only the couple, Toni and Michael, at 01:02:08. [These are the only images of mother Toni across the films]. Antonin and Michaela play in piles of hay in thei...

  18. Selected records of the District Court in Piotrków Trybunalskim Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim (Sygn. 892)

    Court records of civil cases of Jewish population in Piotrków Trybunalski. Includes authorizations, protocols, statements, translations from Russian, court judgments, notices, receipts, marriage certificates related to inheritance, rights of possession, notary acts, acknowledgement of purchase-sales, restoration of property, exclusion of rights of possession, appropriation of land, annulment of last wills, bids, returning of money, divorces and annulment of marriages, ratification of marriage acts, alimonies, determining identity, rectification of register act, criminal acts as homicides, r...

  19. French Anti-Semitic Illustrated Leaflet Issued by Action Française

    A large, illustrated French leaflet (newspaper-format) issued by the political movement Action Française. One of its sides deals with the 40 French kings (Les 40 rois qui, en mille ans, firent la France) and the other side with the Jews "who in sixty years have ruined France": Adolphe Crémieux, Alfred Naquet, Dreyfus, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Blum and more – Marxists, communists, Bolsheviks, and others. The illustrations are by the caricaturist Ralph Soupault. Les Mille Juifs, qui, en soixante ans, ont ruiné la France [The Thousand Jews, who in sixty years have ruined France], Paris:...

  20. Bernard S. Barr photographs

    The Bernard S. Barr photographs include two photographs of Barr during World War II; photographic negatives of the liberation of Dachau, including images of Barr at the camp, along with corresponding prints; and stereoscopic photographs from the 1937 “Reichsparteitag der Arbeit” Nazi propaganda series. The propaganda photographs are numbered 38, 55- 56, 58-61, 64-72, 74, 77, 96, 98-100. They were part of a compilation issued by Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein with photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann and text by Pitter Gern.