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  2. Gara family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Otto and Agnes Gara, both of whom survived the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. The bulk of the collection consists of identification documents and papers related to Otto and Agnes’s immigration to the United States in 1956. Other material includes birth and marriage certificates, education papers, and prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs.

  3. 1934 Vienna street scenes; perfomer's dressing room

    Vienna car repair shop. Franz Hausner with camera. CUs, couple - man in tan hat with monocle and woman with flower hat. Reflection in a shop window of 3 of the friends, CUs. Wiener Staatsoper (opera house in Vienna). "Sirk-Ecke" sign, a popular place for bourgeois people to meet [Karl Kraus wrote about this corner in his "The Last Days of Mankind"] in Vienna. Newspaper stand on busy street corner. Camera follows a man, others tip their hat to him. City street with airlines “Luftverkehr” “Air France” Looking into a shop window: “STEYR. Sonderschau. Verkaufshallen Schwarzenberg Platz 18. 1. M...

  4. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta

  5. 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.

  6. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates

    Consists of selected records related to “Jewish affairs” as documented in French embassies and consulates all over the world, from the Treaty of Versailles to 1956, including: Ankara, Berlin, Bern, Beirut, Bonn, Bucharest, Cairo, Jerusalem, Havana, the Syria-Lebanon Mandate, London, Madrid, Munich, Rome-the Holy See, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Tangier, Tripoli, Vienna, and Warsaw. Records include reports on anti-Semitism during the pre-WW II years, applications for visas or French papers in consulates around the world, conflict in the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his ...

  7. Alexander Dallin papers

    The Alexander Dallin papers document Alexander Dallin and his family’s escape from Europe between 1939 and 1940 and their immigration to the United States through autobiographical materials, family trees, photocopies of certificates and letters, newspaper clippings, and some original documentation. The collection contains a draft of Dallin’s incomplete autobiography-- split into two chapters-- a copy of Dallin’s memoir written in 1941, and a speech memorializing American Journalist, Varian Fry, which all relate to Dallin’s experience in Vichy France after escaping Nazi Germany before he and...

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

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

  11. Herbert L. Winograd collection

    Two envelopes; one sent to donor’s aunt “Beyla Katz…ul. Krasnoarmeiskaia in Pruzhany…Zapadnaia, Belorus, Brestskaia oblast [in Russian]…formerly Poland” from “Winograd, Beechwood…” Ohio, postmarked November 6 [no year] and stamped “RETURN TO SENDER.” One envelope sent from Else Guggenheim in Camp de Gurs to Norbert Guggenheim in Cleveland, Ohio and postmarked January 29, 1942. Else was deported to Auschwitz September 4, 1942.

  12. Prewar Austria: vacation and leisure time

    “Bilder vom staatlichen Skikurs Radstadt Weihnachten 1933” Horse pulls a sled. People walk and ski in the snow. They point and wave at the camera. Others trek up a hill on skis and ski down. Tree with icicles. A person falls. “Allerlei Allotria” The boys do acrobatics. They ski down another hill. Someone waves. More acrobatics. People on a balcony. 01:03:45 Parade of uniformed military men in the snow. “Hotel Pesl Lisl Jasny” CUs of different people, some dark, some smiling for the camera, at the train station. Train departs, kids wave. (01:05:46) Mixed shots of skiing, and a group of peopl...

  14. Schiffer family life before the Holocaust

    Scenes may include Laci Czukor, Gyuri Brody (friend of Erzsébet’s with two daughters) and Sanyi Berkes and his son Andris (cousin of Ernö’s). Éva Schiffer holds her crib and walks around in her room. (01:33) János sits in his bed. (02:36) János learns how to ice skate, and skates with his father. The skating rink in City Park crowded with people, spectators from the bridge. (05:01) János and Erzsébet enter the gate to 33 Pasareti ut. (possibly the home of a great-aunt after grandfather died). CUs, women in courtyard, looking at photographs/letter with János. (06:15) János and his mother pic...

  15. Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Chrzanów collection

    Collection of documents relating to Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Chrzanów, Poland immediately following the Holocaust. Includes list of Jews living in Chrzanów as of August 16, 1945 and a list of survivors who returned to Chrzanów compiled by the Organization of Chrzanów Survivors in Tel Aviv.

  17. 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...

  18. Jewish family in Vienna, 1938

    Helen Hamerman in a hat and long coat on the streets of Vienna. She lived on Mariahilferstrasse. A sign reads, “FONTANA miralulbandlsgeschaft MEZZANIN,” with a small swastika in the upper left corner. She and another woman walk alongside a man, their arms linked. They all smile as they walk down the street. On a busy Vienna street a shop sign reads, “käsebäckerei.” [black for 15 seconds] Man seen earlier stands in front of a shop with a sign that reads, “VOLKSLESEHALLE FILM UND KINO ABTEILUNG.” He walks towards the camera and removes his hat. He observes the city. A couple climb into their ...

  20. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and post-war lives of the Markheim family of Kraków and Bochnia, Poland and relatives in the Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families. Documents include post-war identification papers of Maurice and Michael Markheim as well as restitution paperwork. Photographs include pre-war and post-war depictions of family members in Poland, DP camps, and Israel. Documents of Maurice Markheim include Bindermichl and Regensburg DP camp identification papers, including a card identifying him as a former prisoner of Mauthausen, a driver’s license, copies of his birth c...