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  1. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families of Germany, including Else, Max, and their daughter Eva (later Eva Cohn) Rhée’s emigration from Lüneburg, Germany to England in 1938; Max, Ida, and their son Hans Cohn’s flight from Berlin to Shanghai in 1939; and restitution made to the descendants of Marcus Heinemann by the Museum Lüneburg in 2015 for objects acquired by the museum after Marcus’s assets were seized after Kristallnacht. Included are biographical materials, immigration documents and correspondence, and photographs. Biographical ...

  2. Oral history interview with Rina Diamand

  4. Customs Investigation Office Brno Zollfahndungszweigstelle Brünn (D25)

    Investigative files pertaining to the confiscation by the Customs Investigation Office Brno and Gestapo Brünn of assets and valuables of Jews. In many cases, there are arrest warrants issued by the Gestapo for Jews suspected of having fled with their assets or suspected of hiding their assets or having moved their assets abroad in preparation for their emigration. The investigative files feature criminal complaints by non-Jews about their Jewish neighbors, employers and acquaintances whom they suspect of hiding assets, detailed reports about house searches and arrests, interrogation protoco...

  5. Eiland family collection

    Collection of documents, certificates, affidavit, and envelopes relating to the Eiland family including Adolf and Cecilia Eiland, and their children, Rudolf and Helen.

  6. Jewish family in Slovakia

    Pan, fenced estate in Gelnica, Slovakia. (01:00) Lola Engel (nee Schiffer) calls on a dog outside the estate. Three people (including Ernö’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk along the sidewalk and wave. Pan, steeple, and other buildings in the small town. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  7. Schiffer family posing for the camera in City Park

    “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest” A continuation of Film ID 4402, adults pose for the camera in a park. (02:02) Gyuri playfully photographs the cameraman, Ernö. Jonas and Jenny Schiffer. “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest”

  8. Jewish Committee and Provincial Jewish Committee in Lublin Komitet Żydowski i Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Lublinie (Sygn 355)

    Minutes of the committee meetings, reports, correspondence, lists of Jewish survivors, committee statutes, circulars, appeals and communications, budgets, lists of people using assistance, personal data of committee staff and other records..

  9. Karl Maramorosch collection

    Collection of correspondence, primarily letters but also includes a postcard, bookplate, and photocopies of correspondence between members of the Maramarosch family.

  10. Jonny's Gang short comedy

    German titles: “Das Ende von Jonnys Gang” “Jonny's Gang: Hans Inderka, Holly Fischer, Friedl Schreier, Holly Adam, Gust Kestranek.” “Jonnys Freundinnen: Thea Herrmann, Tr. Krautschneider, Lari Novotna, Helga Bosraug.” “Das letzte Opfer: Herma Schwammenhofer” “Detektive von Scottland Yard: Fredl Kerpes, Herbert Adam, Walter Schubert, Richard Inderka, Theo Spitzer” “Aufnahmen. Walter Hausner.” “Mitglied des Klubs der Kino-Amateure Österreichs” Comedy film about “Jonnys Gang”. People dancing very closely. A woman hangs her arm over a mustached man. CU, man’s tattoo. Three men around a table, s...

  12. Lt. Colonel Harry E. Malcolm letter

    Consists of a handwritten eight-page draft letter by Lt. Colonel Harry E. Malcolm of the 12th Armored Division to Colonel Julien D. Saks in response to a March 1985 article in "Hellcat News." The letter concerns what Malcolm witnessed and experienced during the liberation of the Landsberg concentration camp in April 1945. Among other scenes, the letter describes Malcolm's discovery of 15-20 prisoners who had been killed by machine gun in the days prior to the liberation of the camp, an act he speculated was to silence potential witnesses to the crimes that had taken place there.

  15. András Pető is born

    Éva is pregnant with András. Éva and György’s first child was born on October 3, 1943, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Reel shows the first few months of András, bathing, eating, playing, tummy-time, bundled up outdoors. Eva holds Andras and pushes him in a carriage in town. Film ends 02:59

  16. Oral history interview with Max Eisen

  17. Oral history interview with Efim Roitenberg

  19. Camhi and Hirtenstein families papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Joseph and Veronika (née Hirtenstein) Camhi, along with his parents Avram and Vida Camhi, in Budapest, Hungary. The bulk of the collection consists of documents regarding Joseph, and includes diplomas, passports and other identification documents, birth and marriage certificates, and business records. There are also documents related to forced labor in Budapest and property stolen by the Gestapo in 1944. Other documents include false baptism certificates for Joseph, Veronika, and their son Janos ...

  20. Torah breastplate

    Breast plate: silver, 19th century, for a Torah scroll entrusted to Lucie Sternberg Rosenberg by her father Manfred Sternberg. Manfred Sternberg was born in 1892 in Slavonska Pozega in the former Yugoslavia. The breast plate was likely carried from Zagreb, Croatia from where the family fled in 1941 to the United States [through Europe] and then entrusted to Lucie.