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  1. Oral history interview with Salvator Moshe

  2. Israel "Sol" Sokolik papers

    The collection consists of handwritten testimony of the wartime experiences of Israel "Sol" Sokolik, who survived the Holocaust in Slonim (Belarus) in the ghetto and as a partisan. The testimony was used at the 1973 trial of Gerhardt Erren and Lothar Schultz for war crimes committed in Slonim. Also included are two doucments in Polish and Russian.

  3. Oral testimonies of Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss

  4. Benjamin Wajl memoir

    Memoir: "Moje wapomnienia z okewau 2 wosny swiatowej..." [My calamities from the 2nd World War] by Benjamin Wajl; 58 pages. Wajl was a native of Łódź, Poland, who fled east when the war broke out, and fought with the Russian army.

  7. Perel Nagelstein photograph

    Contains a prewar studio photograph of Peryl Nagelstein (née Pinkster), her husband, and three children

  8. Association of Jewish merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 338)

    The collection contains a complete set of records of the Association of Jewish Merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania), 1919-1940. The collection includes minutes of the meetings of the association, bylaws, applications of the members, membership lists, annual activities and financial reports and books, records and verdicts of the Arbitrary Court, lists of shop owners, and financial records of the mutual aid committee. In addition also includes various correspondence with Jewish organizations and communities in Poland and members of the association, local municipal authorities, Ministry of ...

  9. 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”

  11. Oral history interview with Bruno Massa

  13. Remember Commission 1945 testimonies

    Contains five typescript testimonies of Holocaust survivors compiled shortly after World War II, previouly bound together in a binder marked "Remember Commission 1945." Testimonies are identified as: "Dr. A. Weinberger, geb. 5.2.1904 in Auschwitz, mit Frau Bertha und Kind Josef (40 pp); "Max Moses, geb. den 7.12-1900 in Strassburg, mit Frau Batseba und Kindern Renee und Freddy Robert, seit 1919 in Holland (Tilburg)" (66 pp; page number 91 is missing, may also be missing pages after last page marked 108); "Dr. Abraham Wainryb, geb. in 1912, aus Wilna" (16 pp); "Jankiel Koppel Leimer, geb. 24...

  15. Children in Budapest before the Holocaust

    Babies in carriages, János and cousin Zsuzsi Schiffer, in 1932. An adult hands a mirror (or Pathé 9.5mm canister?) to the babies. CUs (dark shot) of mothers. Mothers with babies in carriages in the park, they congregate in front of building. Several views of the babies. One plays with a lipstick case. Nurse-maid strolls baby to elegantly dressed parents on a sidewalk, they ogle over the baby and pose for the camera [the man in the bowler hat is probably a colleague of Ernö’s, Dr Hetènyi, with his son]. (06:15) Cousin Peter Molnar plays with János in stroller outside a home in Budapest. Nurs...

  16. Max and Sala Webb papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Max Webb (born Menashe Weisbrot), a survivor of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and other camps, and his wife Sala Webb (born Sala Schapelski), in Münchberg, Germany prior to their immigration to the United States in 1951. Biographical material includes copies of marriage certificates, a statement regarding the dates of the camps where Max was imprisoned during the Holocaust, affidavits regarding name changes, paper copies of photographs likely taken in Münchberg and an engagement announcement card. Identification papers include a card li...

  17. Ruth Leipziger photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of large group of men, women and children, the majority of whom are in costume (perhaps for Purim); inscription on verso written by Ruth Leipziger; dated New York March 23, 1939.

  18. Oral history interview with Maurice Levis

  19. Herbert C. Whelchel collection

    Contains loose pages of a photo album depicting images of postwar damage to a German city and images related to a war crimes trial at Dachau, as well as an "Elisted Man's Identification Card," a list of humorous euphemisms used in filing or referring documents, and a service record document related to Herbert Whelchel's military service during WWII and in a subsequent war crimes trial.

  20. Jewish County Committee in Żary Powiatowy Komitet Żydowski w Żarach (Sygn. 366)

    Ordinances, announcements, minutes of meetings, official correspondence, registration questionnaires of members, personal files of committee employees, materials related to the Youth Department and others.