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  1. Albert Cohen letter

    The Albert Cohen letter was written by Albert Cohen, while he was serving in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The letter and envelope are addressed to Cohen’s mother, Estelle Cohen, in Milwaukee, April 26, 1945. The letter describes Cohen’s experiences at the Buchenwald concentration camp shorty after it was liberated.

  2. Drawing

    Card sent by donor's father, Janos Gombosi to her mother, Magda (Rona)

  3. Documents from the occupation of Belgium

    Collection of printed items and handwritten documents from World War II in Anderlecht and Brussels, Belgium. Includes a broadside published on behalf of "Association des Juifsen Belgique" of 1941, announcing an order to concentrate Jews in Mechelen transit camp; four tickets, printed and completed by hand, for compulsory insurance for old age or early death (Carte D'Assujetti), issued for Alta Szajndla Frysz; two "certificates of good conduct" (Certificat De Bonne Conduite, Vie Et Moeurs) issued for Alta Frysz and Chia Percikow; and three handwritten letters, one in the original envelope wi...

  4. Frajda Tauba Birsztajn papers

    The collection consists of photographs of the extended family and friends of Frajda Tauba Birsztajn as well as her mother, Aidla Berlandsztein’s family, before, during, and after the war in Poland and the United States. The collection also includes a birth certificate and Polish passport issued to Frajda and an invitation to the wedding of Lola Birsztajn and Mieczslaw Weintal in 1935.

  5. Drawing

    Postcard with self-portrait in front of brick wall and text by donor's father, Janos Gombosi

  6. Selected records of the Office of War Damages at the Presidium of the Council of Ministers in Warsaw Biuro Odszkodowań Wojennych przy Prezydium Rady Ministrów w Warszawie (Sygn. 291)

    Orders, circulars, correspondence, statements, registers, correspondence diaries, letters regarding losses and war damages in Poland during World War II, destruction of state-owned buildings, industrial objects, forestry and agriculture, as well as material losses of private citizens, and biological losses of population. Included are also materials regarding revindication and compensation of war damages, and war damages in other European countries.

  7. Helga Freeman McNair photographs

    Consists of two loose album pages of photographs depicting Germany in the immediate postwar period, including scenes of Buchenwald shortly after liberation, German prisoners of war, and civilians.

  8. Kirschbaum Family collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Chaim (born in Przemysl, Poland) and his wife Kreindl Kirschbaum (born in Jaroslav, Poland) and their children Anna, Lily, Joseph and Celia who all lived in Vienna, Austria, fled to Switzerland in 1939, and then forced to France where they were eventually sent to internment camps. Celia and Joseph were able to immigrate to the United States in 1940. The remaining family, according to documents included, state that Chaim died in a Paris hospital, too weak to tarvel, and his wife and two daughters were deported from Be...

  9. Young family; holiday with friends; beach

    Baby Karin in her carriage, chewing on a teething ring. Mother Ethel tickles her and she smiles. Sister Oda leans on the side of the carriage. Men sing and march on a wooded road. A sixth man joins, smiling with a closed umbrella resting on his shoulder. They drink coffee and rehearse singing in a courtyard. A man conducts. They walk joyfully down a path, one twirls an open umbrella above his head. The men drink beer at a table by a waterway. People on a boat. They continue drinking. Children play in the sand and water at a manmade beach. "ENDE"

  10. Mordoh Levy collection

    Contains letters, postcards, photographs, identification cards, and other documents illustrating the experiences of Mordoh Levy before and after the war in Salonika, Greece, and his postwar recovery and life in the United States.

  11. Selected records of the County Repatriation Office. Provincial Branch in Warsaw Powiatowy Urząd Repatriacyjny. Oddział Wojewódzki w Warszawie (Sygn. 556) : Wybrane materialy

    Correspondence and other documents relating to searching for families in Warsaw district, and bringing repatriate families from the USSR to Poland. Includes also compensation cases.

  12. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Deportation and arrests of Danish citizens. Name index of arrested and deported persons (Index cards) (Group 84.G.5-A- Ø)

    Consist records relating to German arrests of Danish citizens organized alphabetically in the name index cards. On the index card are listed: Name, birthday, date for arrest, date for deportation, reason for arrest, name of the KZ-camps and record number.

  13. Elizabeth and Bernard Kasmar collection

    Collection of Alzbieta and Bernhard Kasmacher (later Kasmar) in Vienna, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Includes Reisepasses, letters, birth certificates, US naturalization certificates, and newspaper clippings documenting the couple's journey from Vienna to England before arriving in the United States in 1940.

  14. Oral history interview with Ruth Kropveld

  15. Walter and Edith Schiff papers

    The Walter and Edith Schiff papers include biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, and photographs illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Walter and Edith Schiff, originally of Berlin, Germany. Edith was sent to Camp de Gurs in France where she was assigned to work in an office, and Walter escaped while being transported between camps. The couple was reunited in France and hid in the basement of a Catholic church until liberation. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Ernest Moser, Edith Moser, Julius Schiff, and Walter Schiff, a marriage certificate an...

  16. Anna Miller collection

    Collection of correspondence between Isa (Elsa) Feri, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Anna Miller (née Slotsky), in Waukegan, Illinois. Anna often travelled to Europe where she met Isa. Isa writes in October 1938 about being arrested for being Jewish; having to flee her home in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia; losing all her property; and asking for financial assistance and an affidavit of sponsorship so she and her fiancée can come to the United States. Includes a letter dated August 1940, from Gertrude Krumpl (friend of Isa Feri) to Anna Miller asking for affidavit “in place of the one for the w...

  17. District Authority Velké Meziříčí Okresní úřad Velké Meziříčí

    Administrative records of Velké Meziříčí, a town in the Vysočina region, including anti-Jewish measures and decrees and the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Records pertaining to the emigration of Jews. Post-war records pertaining to the restitution and confiscation of expropriated Jewish properties.

  18. Selected records of the District Court in Kalisz Sąd Okręgowy w Kaliszu (Sygn. 2220)

    Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Kalisz District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, active participation in illegal demonstrations in 1931, participation in a ...

  19. Jewish survivors in Yugoslavia photographs

    Collection of photographs depicting groups of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Yugoslavia after World War II. Includes images of survivors standing near empty rail cars that had transported Jews to the camps, as well as photos taken on the train tracks; also includes large group photo of refugees with a flag reading "Lochamei Ha Ghetaot' in Hebrew characters

  20. World Union OSE-Paris Union Mondiale OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)

    Contains administration files of the OSE Main Office Paris. Records relate mainly to the organization activities after World War II, and include: memorandums, correspondence, financial statements and budgets, lists of children treated by the OSE in Belgium, 1945-46, publications and pamphlets from other organizations, OSE newsletters, and audit reports from various countries.