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  2. Leaflet

    Leaflet: "I AM SO AN AMERICAN!" / YOU BET, Sonny... / No Matter What Your / Race or Religion! / FIGHT RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HATE"

  3. District Court Hamburg-Supervisory Authority 223-9 Amtsgericht Hamburg-Stiftungsaufsicht

    Selected records of the Amtsgericht Hamburg (District Court Hamburg) relating to finances and activates of the charitable foundations of the Jewish community in Hamburg. Contain mainly correspondence, registers and financial records of the charitable foundations.

  4. Ralph Steinhart papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ralph Steinhart, originally of Hannover, Germany, including his pre-war life in Germany and his immigration to the United States in 1941. Included are a United States alien registration card issued to Rolf Steinhart, 1942; a plastic case to hold the registration card; Ralph’s certificate of naturalization,1950; and pre-war family photographs.

  5. Oral history interview with Eleonore Diamant

  6. Oral history interview with Piotr Zettinger

  7. Family in garden; young women in Monchengladbach

    Section 2 and 4: A young woman in a dress twirls for the camera, smiling. A different woman, Hilla Fleischer (later Hildegard von Gumppenberg), shows off her outfit in an outdoor garden. Three people (from left to right: Gertrude Weyl, mother Lieschen Weyl, and Paul Weyl), arms locked, smiling and posing (probably a continuation of the first scene in RG-60.6998 at Monchengladbach). MS, a young person in a dress jumps (possibly Leischen's niece). Peter does forward rolls. 01:00:55 Outside of the entrance to a building, a group of people gather (including Paul, Gertrude, and Leischen) and wav...

  8. Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski research materials

    Collection of photos (contemporary and copy prints), map reproductions (photocopies), newspaper reproductions (photocopies), and correspondence related to the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. Material contains information related to the town’s Jewish community as well as where Jews were hidden during WWII and the Holocaust.

  9. Jewish children in Budapest; Skiing road trip; City Park

    Éva (János’s sister) plays with a shovel in City Park in summer. Excursion to the country, on a hillside. János carries the camera bag. (01:15) János, Andris Berkes, and Gyuri Quittner race each other on the park pathway and play-wrestle. Along with fathers Sandor Berkes and Emi Quittner in knickerbockers, they hike in the hills and play tag in the grass. (03:52) János, Éva, mother Erzsébet, and the nurse-maid walk along the street in Budapest. János rides a pony at the zoo. (04:30) HAS mountains and countryside. The Schiffers and relatives sit outside overlooking the mountains. (05:06) Ski...

  10. Oral history interview with Joost Lakmaker

  11. Oral history interview with Enrico Bellio

  14. 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...

  15. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office

    Files of the headquarters of World ORT Union in Geneva, which signed an agreement in 1981 with the Central Archives to deposit the material in Jerusalem. The collection includes minutes, organization statuses, correspondence, bank statements, reports and plans, published journals, bulletins, pamphlets, printed booklets, photographs, video materials, and press clippings, and various materials related to emigration, education, welfare, administration of the Jewish communities on international scale.

  16. Dr. Leon Ginsburg collection

    Collection of photographs and a telegram depicting life in the Foehrenwald Displaced Persons camp and at an ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) school in Germany; dated 1945-1948. Also contains pre-war photographs, bearing English inscriptions, documenting Kalman and Pesia Ginsburg (donor’s parents) and their children Leon and Blume Ginsburg, with friends and school groups in Maciejów, Poland, along with a wartime photo of Leon; dated circa 1925-1944.

  17. Oral history interview with Bruno Massa

  18. Presentation by Rhoda Kuflik

  19. Oral history interview with Leonard Hilton

  20. Vicki Miles collection

    Contains photographs taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation; Overseas Service Certificates issued by American National Red Cross to William Swannie; newspaper page with an article entitled “The Nazis Sent Me to a Concentration Camp,” with the testimony of an Austrian refugee, published in The Sunday Oregonian, May 21, 1939.