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  1. 222-10 Erbhofgericht

    Selected auxiliary files of the Erbhofgericht (Hanseatic Higher Regional Court) in Hamburg, Germany.

  2. Siegfried and Katherine Susskind collection

    Affidavits of Identity and Nationality for Siegfried Susskind and Katherine Susskind (née Zappen), who left Germany in 1939, went to Budapest, and were then in Shanghai from 1940-1948 before immigrating to the United States. Also includes Katherine Susskind's "Acknowledgment of Filing Petition for Naturalization" and blank postcards of scenes around Hongkew, China.

  3. Office of Welfare Institutions I 351-12 I Amt für Wohlfahrtsanstalten I

    Selected records of the Amt für Wohlfahrtsanstalten (Office of Welfare Institutions), mostly files related to Jewish inmates, 1901-1940. Consists of correspondence, files and registers of Jewish inmates.

  5. Oral history interview with Hanus Weber

  6. Pieces of a wrought iron railing from a stairwell

    Pieces of a wrought iron railing from a stairwell, along with modern wooden handrails, from a home in Sighetu-Marmatiei, Romania. The home was owned by a Jewish family before their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The pieces of the railing feature a design with Star of David patterns.

  7. The Schiffer family visits Mohács

    The Schiffer family visits Mohács, Erzsébet’s hometown on the Danube, in summer 1932. (00:16) Adults and children in bathing suits. They swim in a wooden structure moored to the shore of the Danube. János and his mother, Erzsébet Schiffer. (01:29) János and his cousins play in Klári and János Molnar’s yard with a toy stroller and ball. (01:53) Nurse-maid (brief). The children play outdoors. (02:42) MS, Erzsébet's mother Jenny Tornai (nee Reicher) and Klári seated at an outdoor table, smile and nod for the camera. Three children sit at a table. The family group eats a meal. The three childre...

  11. Records of the Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    This collection consists of records relating to relief initiatives overseen by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Jerusalem Office (JDC) in the aftermath of World War II in the Yishuv/Israel and internationally. Includes records of the JDC’s partnerships with Jewish communities worldwide, such as those in Australia and South Africa, to send essential supplies to recipients in Palestine, later Israel, and to detainees in the British internment camps on Cyprus; records of shipments of food packages to European survivors, especially to the Soviet Far East, through Teheran and Is...

  13. Der Phew-er Hitler Skunk S(cent) Penny Guitar Brooch

    Der Phew-er Hitler Skunk S(cent) Penny Guitar Brooch; 1940

  14. Ernst Kaufmann law office 621-1/84 Ernst Kaufmann

    Records of the law office of Dr. Ernest Kaufman, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  15. John William Fisher papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of John Fisher (formally Hanus Fischer) and his family, originally from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, and his mother Martha Fischer’s (née Schwarz) family of Pilsen and Cham, Germany. Biographical material of the Fischer and Schwarz families includes identification documents; birth, marriage, and death certificates; report cards; restitution paperwork; employment papers; passport; and Josef Fischer’s naturalization certificate. Correspondence primarily consists of pre-war and wartime letters from Josef and his family in Pilsen and Budapest to...

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-023 : Hungary Mission

    Consist of correspondence, reports, statistics, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to welfare programs of various agencies, displaced persons in Hungary, and repatriation of Hungarians from Palestine, welfare institutions and projects in Budapest, and to Hungarian journalists.

  17. US Army jacket with insignia

    US Army jacket with insignia that belonged to George Topas, a Polish Jewish survivor. He taught himself English while in the camps. After his liberation, an American officer asked him if he wanted to join up as an interpreter and he became a member of the Yankee Division.

  18. UNRRA selected records AG-018-026 : Poland Mission

    Consists of the Central Registry-Subject Files: correspondence and cables; reports of the office of the Chief Mission Welfare and Repatriation Division; financial documents of the Department of Finance, and reports and correspondence of the Departments of Supply. Records relate to welfare of displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare activities of the International Student Service, Save the Children Fund, Unitarian Service Committee, Quakers and other organizations.