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  1. Gutmann family papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photograph albums and are part of a collection documenting the experiences of Herbert Gutmann and the Gutmann family in Germany and their immigration to the United Kingdom and the United States before and during WWII.

  2. Kabak family collection

    Contains letters dated 1937, 1939, 1947, 1948 and 1956; a document "Ammecman" which is a school certificate written in Russian, issued to Rachel Chirinskaya, May 28, 1920; and a Dina Kabak family photograph.

  5. Prager-Schultz family collection

    Archive documenting German Jewish family Prager-Schulz, including letters from Germany to Palestine dated 1938-1940s regarding Jewish life in Germany, attempts to leave Germany and requests for help; photographs made in Germany, Palestine and Israel; immigration certificate; identity cards; photo albums; and other papers, letters, notebooks, visit cards, and documents.

  6. Presentation by Leon Levy

  7. Philip and Ruth Markowicz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to and documenting Philip and Ruth Markowicz and their and their families experiences after the Holocaust. Includes several identity cards issued to Fajwel Markowicz, formerly held in Gross Rosen, after the war. Also includes an envelope of photographs documenting the Nordhausen concentration camp after liberation.

  8. Helen Kronenberg Borenstein collection

    Contains a "Displaced persons pass and ex-Political Prisoner from Concentration Camp" document issued to "Helena Borensztajn" (donor) authorizing her to be absent from the Stuttgart West camp; undated.

  10. Herbert Steinhäuser photograph collection

    The Herbert Steinhäuser photograph collection consists of eight photographs, printed as 4 photo prints, depicting scenes of Biala Podlaska, Poland and Łosice, Poland photographed by Herbert Steinhäuser (1908-1943?) in June 1941. The photographs depict gave markers in a Jewish cemetery and market scenes in Biala Podlaska as well as residents of the Biala Podlaska and Łosice ghettos.

  11. Social Welfare Authority I 351-10 I Sozialbehörde I

    Selected records of the Sozialbehörde I (Social Welfare Authority) related to the law for protection of German “blood and honor”, regulations for the Jewish housing, the cost for the care of disabled people, Jewish doctors, and Jewish forced laborers, admission of Jewish "mixed race" in day care homes, resettlement of residents displaced during redesigning of Hamburg, adoption of Jewish children, trainings for NSDAP employees, Jews in the welfare institutions, sterilization of prison inmates, public assistance for needy foreigners, the Association of Hamburg Children's Homes, student suppor...

  12. Pamphlets printed for Berlin Jewish community

    Contains two pamphlets prepared for distribution in the Berlin Jewish community in the mid-1930s. Includes one pamphlet titled "Unterstützungen und Geldgeschenke Aus dem Auslande" [receipt of support and funds from abroad], printed by Berthold Levy in 1937 on behalf of Palästina Treuhand-stelle zur Beratung deutscher Juden [PALTREU Palestine trustees for advising German Jews]. Also includes a promotional leaflet published circa 1935 for the "Palästina Nachrichten" [Palestine News], a periodical published by Ernst Köstenbaum in Berlin.

  13. Poster

    Bergen Belsen memorial poster

  14. Jan Jozef Gasior papers

    The collection consists of an identification card and certificate issued to Jan Josef Gasior, originally of Dukla, Poland, confirming that he was a persecuted Pole who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1942-1945. A photograph of Gasior and his second wife, Maria Grzesik, is also included.

  15. Soltz family photographs

    Contains two family portraits from Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania], of Baila Leibnitz and Fanushka Soltz.

  16. Klein and Dreher families collection

    Letters sent to Helen Dreher (nee Ilon Klein) by relatives in Hungary (original and photocopies); photographs from Helen (Klein) Dreher's family as well as her husband, William Dreher, and his family. Also includes Herman Klein's text about the Jews of Hungary and his own family's story (photocopy).

  17. 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.

  18. Peter Kossowsky family papers

    Photographs, documents, German passport, letter, wedding ketubah, invitation, scrapbook, mourning book and report cards documenting the experience of Peter Kossowsky and his family.

  19. UNRRA selected records AG-018-017 : Denmark Mission

    Consists of monthly reports, statistics, financial records and correspondence relating to assistance to displaced persons, repatriation cases, tracing of war victims, and welfare activities of the Danish Red Cross and other voluntary agencies.