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  1. 1946 letters addressed to wife (Augusta) from Eastern European cities, plus letter to Hillel Becker

    Contains 4 letters from Becker addressed to wife (Augusta) from Eastern European cities on July 23, 24, and 26, and August 2, 1946, describing his work through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Also contains a transcribed copy of a letter addressed to son Hillel Becker in June of 1946 from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  2. Holocaust Documentation Project (CJC) programming draft, evaluation

    Contains programming draft and evaluation relating to the Holocaust Documentation Project (associated with the National Holocaust Remembrance Committee), addressing budget, production, educational guides, archives, and historical authentication.

  3. Freda Hoffman Zgodzinski Collection

    Consists of manuscript in Yiddish entitled, "My Struggle 1939-1945 under the Nazi Occupation of Poland" by Freda Hoffman-Zgodzinski.

  4. Lorraine Monk Fonds

    This fonds contains a letter addressed to Lorraine Monk from JPL Director David Rome.

  5. Undzer Zhornl (Our Journal) — Rosh Hashanah 5707 (October 1946) Issue

    Contains the Rosh Hashanah 5707 issue of “Our Journal”—a periodical published by the American Council for Warsaw Jews. Journal contains appeals for donations, articles regarding the situation of Warsaw survivors in Europe, accounts of the Holocaust, and poetry.

  6. National Holocaust Remembrance Committee (CJC) meeting minutes

    Contains meeting minutes for the National Holocaust Remembrance Committee hosted by the Canadian Jewish Congress, for which Shaffer was a consultant for associated documentary projects. Also contains CJC Audio Visual Department meeting minutes.

  7. Holocaust Documentation Project (CJC) meeting minutes, memos

    Contains meeting minutes for, and memos relating to, the Holocaust Documentation Project (associated with the National Holocaust Remembrance Committee) hosted by the Canadian Jewish Congress, for which Shaffer was a consultant. Also contains photocopies of articles related to the project.

  8. Zahraniční tiskový archiv, New York

    • Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066
    • Národní archiv
    • 1066
    • English
    • 1939-1946
    • Textual material 588,62 linear meters

    The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in the Protectorate and also on the Second Czechoslovak Foreign Resistance. The fonds also contains newspaper clippings on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and anti-Jewish measures in the lat...

  9. Rinkinių apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

    • Inventory and Conservation of Holdings Department
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • VŽM
    • English
    • Judaica holdings are classified as primary (VŽM) and academic support (VŽMP) collections under the Museum’s statute with consideration of the extant value of the item as a museum piece. Currently around 30,000 items are being conserved. Primary collection consists of: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. 2. Writings and documents. 3. Photography. 4. Visual and decorative art. 5. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz‘s memorial collection. 6. Archive of Josif Shapiro (collector of ex-libris).

    The collections include: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. Materials include metal, wood, leather, ceramics, precious metals, textiles, bone and other materials. Among these items are around 100 unique artifacts from Paneriai mass killing sites, material from the ghetto period and from prisoners, people who perished and people who survived. There are also artifacts of the Great Synagogue and from Jewish cemeteries. 2. Writings and documents include books, press, manuscripts, posters, documents. There are 5000 items in tot...

  10. Jaunimas pajūry

  11. Koklio fragmentas

  12. Aktorės Doros Šadovskajos-Rubinos portretas

  13. Izraelitų kapai

  14. Ministerstvo sociální péče - Londýn

    • Ministry of Social Welfare - London
    • MSP - L
    • NAD 1007
    • Národní archiv
    • 1007
    • Czech, English
    • 1940-1945
    • 15,8 linear metres of documents from which 15,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 0,3 linear metres unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.

    The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents fr...

  15. U.S. Private David (“Doov”) Stein World War II Letters from Antwerp. Collection

    This collection contains letters written by Private David “Doov” Stein during his first months of service in the US Army in Antwerp, from November 10 to December 31, 1944. There are also letters written by Private David “Doov” Stein during 5 ½ of his 7 months of service in the US Army in Antwerp from January 1 to June 10, 1945, and a similar number of letters from individuals and organizations to him, concerning his relief activities on behalf of the Jewish community of Antwerp following the Nazi occupation. This collection also consists of Stein’s notepad containing names, addresses and so...

  16. Lewkowicz family. Collection

    This collection contains: the IDs of siblings Jakob Lewkowicz and Perla Lewkowicz; six photos of the Lewkowicz family including photos of the Lewkowicz family at the time of their migration to Belgium, photos of youngest daughter Rosine Regine Lewkowicz and photos of the Lewkowicz children with friends.

  17. Items of the Belgian police force. Collection

    This collection consists of: the uniform (trousers, belt, jacket and cap) worn by the Mechelen police corps in 1931-1951 (probably the Interbellum); a war-time white helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps; a black helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps from the First World War until 1942; a white helmet worn by the Deurne police corps from 1942 until the 1960s; a cap introduced by the German occupying authorities and worn by the Antwerp police corps in 1940-1944; a file with documents on the Mobile Police Brigade in Mechelen, 1943-1944.

  18. Gorren-Gelernter family. Collection

    The collection contains: four pre-war photos of Hinda (Henriette) Gelernter including a picture taken at the Université Libre de Bruxelles or ULB (Free University of Brussels) where she studied; a page from Hinda (Henriette) Gelernter's admission papers for the University of Warsaw; a student admission card for the bacteriology course at the faculty of medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles or ULB (Free University of Brussels); a letter with instructions sent by Jean Gorren to his wife Hinda (Henriette) Gelernter while she was detained at the Dossin barracks; copies of Jean Gorren’s ...

  20. Anielewicz family. Collection

    This collection consists of two letters sent by Roza Bronsztajn to her husband Hersch alias Harry Anielewicz while he was detained in an Organisation Todt labour camp, and a postcard sent by Israel Ezryl Anielewicz while detained at the Jawischowitz camp to his wife Lea Maschkivitzan.