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  1. Visiting the countryside and Karlovy Vary

    Waterway, bridge in unknown location. EXT of church, painting on facade. City sights, mountains in BG. CUs young woman with a kitten. Train station, views of beautiful scenery from the train window, excursion. The rapids, tunnels, a waterfall, mountains, etc. 01:02:00 The young friends take turns on playground equipment, spinning, seesaw. They crowd into one automobile, and smile for the camera. 01:03:03 They visit a church and dine. CUs, water from moving boat. More scenic shots of architecture, railroads, mountains. An archway, pedestrians on the street, “Triumph Garage” sign. HAS, touris...

  3. Oral history interview with Enrico Bellio

  4. Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler collection

    Collection of copy prints, passport, certificates, documents, identity documents documenting the experiences of Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler (donors’ parents) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Also includes pre-war photo album documenting family and friends, and a scrapbook compiled on the occasion of Ernest Hubler’s Bar Mitzvah in 1933 that contains loose and adhered calling cards, postcards, letters and telegrams. Both Edith and Ernest were originally from Vienna. Edith left via Belgium, arriving in the US with her younger brother Herbert in May 1939. Ernest immigrated to the ...

  7. Irene Reiner collection

    The Irene Reiner collection illustrates the experiences of Irén (Irene) Mondschein Reiner surrounding the war. It includes her passport, original photographs, identification cards, translated correspondence, and original certificates. A hardcover Hungarian passport issued to Irén Reiner in 1946 also includes the name of her son, Robert. A stamped Jewish identification card with an original portrait photo of Irene, issued in 1944, indicates that as a registered nurse, the holder must wear a yellow star and can travel between a set number of hours during the day in Budapest. Documents relatin...

  8. Oral history interview with Eva Lecerof

  9. Association of Jewish engineers in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 326)

    This collection contains minutes of the meetings of the Association of Jewish Engineers in Wilno ( Vilnius), Poland and its board, lists of members and engineers according to their professional qualifications, applications for the membership and copies of their professional diplomas (1932-1939), statistical data, annual reports about association activities, correspondence with other Jewish organizations (ORT, OSE) and branches of the Association in Poland ( Kraków, Lwów), bylaws, financial documentation, and questionnaires of unemployed members of the Assosiation (1940).

  10. Danon family photograph

    Photograph documenting Heskija Danon, and his brothers Major Danon and Leon Danon, Zagreb, Croatia, May 01, 1940.

  11. Fred Tausig papers

    Contains photographs and documents regarding the experiences of Fred Tausig and his family from Vienna, Austria. Includes certificates from the Technische Hochschule in Vienna issued to Fritz Tausig; report cards from the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School; numerous prewar and World War I era family photographs; identification cards and newspaper clippings related to Fritz's experience as a Pathfinder Scout in Austria and Shanghai; identification cards; postcards; and postwar photographs from Vienna including many of the family's housewares business.

  12. Rita Oppenheimer Gelman papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rita Oppenheimer Gelman, originally of Berlin, Germany, including her flight from Germany to Palestine in 1940. Included are postcards, photographs, and a small amount of documents. The postcards are primarily received by Rita’s maternal uncle Arno Lewenberg, who survived the Holocaust in Davos, Switzerland, from family members in Berlin. One postcard received from Jules Malinowski references Jules’s brother Adolf in Buchenwald. There are also two postcards sent by Klara and Moses Oppenheimer from Theresienstadt to Rosette Kahn in Ba...

  15. Oral history interview with Peter Solyom

  16. Sara Nussbacher and Chaim Yeger collection

    Manuscripts in English and Hebrew documenting the experiences of Sara Nussbacher (nee Markowich) and Chaim Wolf Yeger. Includes copy of Hebrew manuscript by Tali Geva in 1989 about Chaim Yeger and the English translation by donors of that manuscript. Manuscript about Sara Nussbacher written in English by donors based on her oral history, and includes original photographs.

  18. Jewish Provincial Committee in Przemyśl Wojewódzki Komitet Żydów w Przemyślu (Sygn.367)

    Minutes of the committee meetings, reports, correspondence, lists of Jewish survivors, committee statutes, circulars, appeals and communications, budgets, lists of people using assistance, personal data of committee staff and some other documents..

  19. Archives of the Jewish Agency Office, Munich, Frankfurt (File L47)

    Contains correspondence relating to the Jewish communities in postwar Germany as well as activities related to heirless property and restitution, including correspondence with the International Trust Corporation, Haavara, the United Restitution Office, various offices of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency and Youth Aliyah, minutes of meetings, statistics and reports. Note: Online description of each folder at: http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/Pages/ArchiveSearchResults.aspx?k=L47&t=T3

  20. Suitcase with handmade cover

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn698902
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 7.630 inches (19.38 cm) | Width: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Depth: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) b: Height: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) c: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)

    Suitcase that Cesia and Kuba Zaifman brought with them when they immigrated from German DP camp to Canada in 1948, and cover for suitcase as well as a Cunard White Star luggage label. The cover was made by Kuba Zaifman, a tailor, after he arrived in Canada.