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  1. Witelson and Laks families collection

    The Witelson and Laks families collection includes biographical materials related to Hela Witelson (later Helen Laks) and Richard Laks. The collection includes the Swedish marriage certificate of Hela Witelson and Richard Laks, February 23, 1949; Helen’s reissued Polish birth certificate which states her given name was Chaja Szajndla Witelson, 1998; and Richard Lak’s R.E.M.E. Record of Service card, 1947. The collection also includes a includes a photograph album and loose photographs related to the Witelson and Laks families of Poland. The photographs include pre-war and post-war photograp...

  2. Selected records from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine related to the history of Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv region before and after WWII

    Contains selected records of the Soviet and Communist Party regional bodies related to individual Jews, Jewish families, and Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) region before and aftermath of WWII. Included are statistical information about Jewish population of the region, documents about schools and special reading rooms for Jewish population, promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws of Jewish religious communities and inventories of synagogues, prayer houses, files on Jews who appealed for the reinstatement of their electoral rights, restitution of the nationalized ...

  3. 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.

  4. Fedde and Albert Gozen Van Terwisga collection

    Contains two death announcements for father and son, Fedde and Albert Gozen Van Terwisga, who were not Jewish but but imprisoned in Herzogenbusch in the Netherlands and then deported to the Dachau concentration camp. Family death announcements stating Albert "died February 9, 1945" and Fedde "died" March 5, 1945, both at the Dachau concentration camp, victims of Nazism.

  6. Selected records of the Tuberculosis Institute in Warsaw. Wolski Hospital Instytut Gruźlicy w Warszawie. Szpital Wolski (Sygn. 135)

    This collection consists of hospital records of patients. The records include: surname and first name, religion and age, family status, names of parents, place and date of residence, occupation, reasons for which the sick person was admitted, the ward, date (admission, discharge, death), type of illness, number of hospital days; and financial files: the daily rate, the amount in total for treatment and other services, the amount paid, the number and date of the cash receipt, and remarks. The sections on personal data, except for first and last name, were not always completed in practice.

  8. Dr. Frank Mortara collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, clippings, articles, invitations, fundraising solicitations, memorandum, lists, petitions, pamphlets, broadsides and other material from multiple aid organizations in the United States to assist Jewish refugees including the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, American League for a Free Palestine, Italian Jewish Emergency Committee, United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewish Congress, World Jewish Congress, Gruppo Assistenza Bambini Ebrei d'Italia [Committee for the Wel...

  9. 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...

  10. Handstreich gegen Kowno

    Contains the cover of a German propaganda booklet entitled "Handstreich gegen Kowno" [Coup Against Kovno] about the German invasion of Kovno.

  11. Romanian identity certificates

    Contains an identity card issued by the "District Office for the Jews of Chernovtsy (Czernowitz)" with a yellow Star of David on it, issued to Hermine Euzer; dated 1942; photograph missing. Also includes a certificate of registration of the Jewish community of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), made according to a state law from 1942.

  12. Collection of Egon Michael Zweig and family Sammlung Egon Michael Zweig und familie (P 149)

    Genealogical documents, correspondence, photographs, published materials, records related to the political activities in Zionist movements, and claims of the Zweig family related to losses in WWII. Included are also records related to the Jewish organizations and Israeli religious community Vienna (Austria) and Olomouc (Czech Republic) and other organizations, also miscellaneous materials like: a map of the district Talpioth in Jerusalem with marking of all plots, publications in German newspaper, a bulletin of the Mitteilungsblatt des Heimatverbandes Olmütz und Mittelmähren (Homeland Assoc...

  13. Cecilia Horink papers

    Personal collection of correspondence mainly postcards and other documents sent from Poland during WWII to the family in Argentina.

  14. Lazowski family papers

    The Lazowski family papers consist of photographs documenting Philip Lazowski’s postwar years in Austria, primarily in the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp; photographs documenting Ruth Lazowski’s postwar years in Italy, primarily in Santa Maria di Leuca and Rome; and the letter Philip Lazowski wrote in 1953 to Miriam Rabinowitz, whom he credited with saving his life during a selection in the Zhetel ghetto, after discovering she lived in Hartford, CT. Philip Lazowski’s photographs depict him with other child Holocaust survivors in Austria from 1945- 1947. One copy print depicts his mother...

  15. Yolanda Engel collection

    Contains photographs documenting the experiences of the Helen and Ezra Lebovics and their children Yolanda and Harry [born in Verece, Hungary] and Bela [born in Budapest]. Ezra performed forced labor and when Bela only was 2, Helen was deported in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp. The children were reunited with Ezra in January 1945 and in 1946, Helen, who had survived, came back to Budapest where the family tried to rebuild their lives.

  16. Miklosh Stern collection

    The Miklosh Stern papers consists of several hundred case files with testimonies, questionnaires, correspondence, physician notes, and other materials concerning restitution claims of Holocaust survivors, from the estate of attorney Miklosh (Mordechai) Stern, Israel, dated 1960s-1970s. Files contain documents reflecting correspondence with law and health authorities conducted while handling claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors according to the "Victims of Nazi Persecution Act 1957." Many of the files contain first and second hand testimonies about the lives of Mr. Stern's clients’...

  17. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Denmark during the German occupation (Group 84.G.11-67)

    Selected records consist of the case files concerning police and court of law, crimes against the German occupying power, Danes deported because of religion, ethnicity, political conviction, and activity in the resistance movement, assassination in various cities in Jutland and cities at Fyn, 1944, as well as records relating to entry and exit permits for Danish citizens with Jewish descent and internment of American citizens.

  18. 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.

  19. Judenrat in Przemyśl Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Przemyśl (Sygn.264)

    Records of the Judenrat in Przemyśl. It contains the IDs of Dawid Haupt (born in 1891) and his family: Alicja (born 1894) and Izabela (born 1921)

  20. "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader"

    Consists of one typed manuscript, 65 pages with photographs, entitled "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader," which was put together by the Laders' children in 2001. The manuscript, based on oral and written testimonies of the Laders, is split into two parts. Hyman Lader (born Chaim Lajdor) describes his childhood and family life in Łódź; the immigration of the rest of his family to the United States; working as a professional musician; his escape to the Soviet Union, where he married; his experiences in the Red Army; and post-war immigration with his family to Israel, Canada, and event...