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  2. Senate Commission for the Fine Arts 363-2 Senatskommission für die Kunstpflege

    Selected records of organization and administration of the Senatskommission für die Kunstpflege (Senate Commission for the Fine Arts), related to the state and non-state measures of art promotion and care, and scholarship applications. Includes minutes of the sessions of the Senate Commission for the Fine Arts (1925-1933), files of artists (Rée, Anita, painter; Rosenthal, A. von, sculptor); applications of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft for the promotion of fine arts in Hamburg and the replacement of posts in cultural institutions (1930-1932), a report "Die Verhältnisse der bildenden Kunst...

  3. Erwin Berkowitz papers

    Papers relating to Ervin/Erwin Berkowitz who was one of the 50 children rescued from Vienna in 1939 through the efforts of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. Includes a birth certificate, passport of Ernestine Berkowitz (Erwin's mother), passport and U.S. identification, copy of Honorable Discharge, and wedding photograph with Erwin and Marcella Kertzner and photograph of Ernestine with her granddaughter Michelle, circa 1954.

  4. Marga Steiner Smolin collection

    Family photo album that belonged to Marga Steiner Smolin (donor's sister-in-law) which includes pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs, including images of her brother Werner and other men in their SS uniforms. Also includes a card and marriage program with blessing for Marga and Bill Smolin inserted loosely in the back.

  5. Oral history interview with Toni Gass

  6. Prewar Jewish family life in Budapest

    Boy and girl (the Szondi children?) play in a park, with a child’s harness and toys, probably in October 1933 [Dr. Szondi was a famous psychiatrist and friend of Ernö Schiffer’s]. (02:34) Toddlers (János and friend from Mohacs, Zsuzsi Sarvari) play in City Park (Városliget) and pose with their moms for the camera. Boy digs in the dirt. The toddlers run in the grass. János embraces and kisses Zsuzsi; they continue to play in park, dog. (06:26) Marcsa Schiffer (visiting from NY) and other women walking along a path in the park in August 1933 in Janoshegy. Brief view of Gyuri Pinter, the photo...

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  9. Authority for Folklore, Church and Art 363-5 Behörde für Volkstum, Kirche und Kunst

    Selected records of the Behörde für Volkstum, Kirche und Kunst (Office for Administration of Folklore, Church and Art). Records relate to admission of non-Aryans to the Adult Education Center (1934-1936), concerning Olga Cronheim and Oskar Lion; exchange of librarians by the Academic Exchange Service and dismissal of Julia Curjel from the service of the Public Bookshop (1935-1939).

  10. Rothschild family papers

    The Rothschild family papers include biographical material, printed material, writings, and photographs relating to Salli and Johanna Rothschild and their family before the war in Bremen, Germany, their immigration, and the relocation of their bakery to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1937. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Jack Leiner; a birth certificate and work papers from the Office of Censorship for Ilse Rothschild; a birth certificate, German passport (Reisepass), and a certificate of naturalization for Johanna Rothschild; and a birth certificate, German passport (Re...

  12. AJDC emigration transport buses leave from Paris

    EXT two buses loaded with Holocaust survivors and luggage, one with “AJDC TRANSPORT” visible on the side. Luggage from the top of one bus being unloaded. Sign on side of bus: “FRANCE TO SO. AMERICA” Men on sidewalk talk through the bus windows, shaking hands with children on-board. Another bus shows an additional sign, “FRANCE TO AUSTRALIA.” Children can be seen through the bus windows. People shake their hands through the window. Street views. Pan right to newsreel jeep with the sign “METRO JOURNAL.” Closer view of the signs on the exterior of the bus: “AJDC TRANSPORT” and “FRANCE TO AUSTR...

  14. Erich Priebke extradition files from the Federal Court of Bariloche Erich Priebke extradición files (Juzgado Federal de Bariloche)

    Contains documents relating to the Italian government's request for the extradition of Erich Priebke, including newspaper clippings, documents from the Military Tribunal in Rome, Priebke's arrest, and records from the Federal Appeals Chamber.

  15. Oral history interview with Mario Rufo

  17. Antisemitic leaflets

    Contains four leaflets, published circa 1937, calling on the citizens of Poland not to trade with Jews.

  18. Oral history interview with Hans Rosenberg

  20. Selected records of the Landrat Mikulov (A 8)

    Consists of selected files related to the aryanization of Jewish-owned properties in Southern Moravia.