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  2. Antisemitic leaflets

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

  3. Oral history interview with Hans Rosenberg

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

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

  6. List of Polish Jewish orphans

    Contains a list of Jewish orphans from Łańcut, Poland, who immigrated to Palestine with the "Tehran Children." Next to the names of the children appear names of relatives in Łańcut; names of places where they had been lodged (among them Givat Brenner, Beit Yehoshua and the religious youth village by Kfar Hassidim); and general comments. Includes a handwritten copy of a response from Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever about the rules of Mikve, which had been printed in the book "Khikre Halacha She'elot uTeshuvot" published in 1944.

  7. Oral history interview with Lucy Haber

  9. Sightseeing; Skiing

    INTs, the family sits on a couch, drinking coffee. Lion sculpture, female tour-guide. The mates hold hands around a large tree (dark). They visit historic places, gardens, churches in Kolín. Scenic views of a river. Church. Cute kittens. Downed trees. 01:02:19 An elderly man (Solomon) stands in the road, possibly in Czechoslovakia near the family factory in Jihlava. 01:02:23 Outside a hotel or resort (people lounge on chairs), brief shot of Ferdinand Hausner walking towards the camera accompanied by a young man with glasses (who appears in other films). Walter in a dark sui, walks on a wood...

  14. Frances Potts papers

    The Frances Potts papers consists of a two page letter with an addressed envelope written by Frances G. Potts (later Frances M. Grubbs Etherington) of the American Red Cross. The letter is addressed to Captain and Mrs. O L. Grubbs, Jr. in Walla Walla, Washington and is written in English and dated May 3, 1945. The letter congratulates the couple on their pregnancy and describes her visits to the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the atrocities committed by the Nazis. The papers also includes a photograph of Frances Potts, a member of the American Red Cross, stationed in Europe in 1944 and 1945.

  15. Lester L. Thomas photograph collection

    Consists of four photographs depicting scenes of liberation at Dachau that are associated with the military service of Lester L. Thomas who belonged to Company B of the 1st Signal Battalion.

  16. Oral history interview with Salvator Moshe

  17. Bow tie

    Bow tie made for Joseph Feitler to be worn on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah in 1938, Vienna, Austria, which was canceled by his mother after the Anschluss.

  18. Oral history interview with Maurice Behar

  19. Anne Birnbaum collection

    Contains letters written by Annie Zwern in Frankfurt am Main to relatives in the United States before the war; a document dated June 1939 regarding the registration of a family with German police in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; and a newspaper clipping with a photograph of Blanka Zwern and her daughter Anna arriving on the S.S. Marine Marlin in New York.

  20. Schiffer family relatives in a village in Slovakia

    Goats walk through village of Gelnica, Slovakia. (00:44) Three adults (including Ernö and Laci Schiffer’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk on the street. (00:59) Boats in a lake. Golnic River nearby. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”