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  1. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Vilnius Urząd Wojewódzki w Wilnie (Sygn. 1182)

    Monthly and weekly reports from the legal socio-political movement and national minorities, guidelines on communist actions among Jewish students; the study of the socio-political department "Jewish political and religious organizations in the voivodship. Vilnius" (1938); letter from the Directorate and District State Railway in Vilnius on the protection of objects in connection with 1 May (1933).

  2. Colman and Jean Steuer papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and post-war experiences of Colman and Jean Steuer, originally of Sosnowiec, Poland. Documents include identification papers, including one from the Feldafing DP camp; immigration and naturalization papers; change of name affidavits; restitution paperwork; and tickets from the United Nations General Assembly, 28-29 November 1947. Photographs primarily consist of pre-war family photographs.

  4. Inspector of the uniformed Protectorate police in Moravia Inspektor uniformované protektorátní policie na Moravě (B 300)

    Includes daily orders and reports from 1943 to 1945; records pertaining to the fight against partisans and paratroopers including lists of anti-partisan volunteers; arrest records; records pertaining to American, British, French, Italian and Russian POWs, forced laborers, black market profiteers, the use of convicts for the removal of unexploded ordinance, the setting up of detention camps, and other relevant records pertaining to the daily activities of the uniformed police and gendarmerie in the Protectorate under German control.

  5. Barban family papers

    Consists of Reisepass passports issued to Andreas, Heinrich, and Olga (née Margulies) Barban of Leipzig, Germany prior to their immigration to Shanghai. Also included is the Reisepass of Bronislawa (Betty) Berljawsky, later Barban, formerly of Vienna, Austria. Original notes found within the passports of Heinrich and Olga discouraging the inclusion of the names "Israel" and "Sara" in future identity documents are also evident.

  6. Selected records of the Rent Office Urząd Rent w Łodzi (Sygn. 214) : Wybrane materiały

    Files on the granting and the payments of pensions to German invalids and to families of fallen soldiers. The Jews listed on the lists are mostly the veterans of World War I (or their families), staying in the Łódź ghetto.

  7. Oral history interview with Helen Laks

  8. Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wola Wereszczyńska (Sygn.270)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska. It contains two work ID cards issued for Ch. Orzech from Andrzejów and Jankiel Szczupak from Wola Werszczanska. Includes information about dates of employment in Judenrat Wola Wrzeszczanska and on a private farm in Dębiec (region Chelm).

  9. Selected records of the Prosecutors Office at the District Court in Kraków Prokuratura przy Sądzie Okręgowym w Krakowie (Sygn. 2240)

    Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Krakow District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of participation in the activities of the local communist parties, dissemination of communist magazines and illegal possession of weapons, editing and dissemination of anti-Polish publications and a secret prison newspaper, distribution of communist literature, slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, participation in...

  10. Second Middle School Men's Society of Jewish Secondary Schools in Łódź II Gimnazjum Męskie Towarzystwa Żydowskich Szkół Średnich w Łodzi (Sygn. 264)

    Consists only of one folder of the prewar school protocols on the secondary exam from the 1928-1929 (Polish "matura"): Fiszel Altman, Henoch Brzoza, Simon Epsztejn, Jakub Fajnberg, Moryc Ferster, Salomon Elimelech Galewski, Leopold Halpern, Wolf Helmer, Jakub Józef Hendlisz, Abram Jakow Karo, Chaskiel Kindzielewski, Chaim Kurz, Mendel Landau, Mojżesz Lipszyc, Chaim Majer Opatowski, Chaskiel Opoczyński, Mojsze Mordcha Pacanowski, Szymon Pfeffer, Oszer Pietruszka, Mojsej Prochownik, Mojsze Załmen Priwes, Bernard Pustelnik, Machel Rajzman, Jakób Dawid Rembiszewski, Fiszel Rotsztajn, Josif Dawi...

  11. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers

    The Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers contain correspondence, identification documents, immigration documents, school certificates, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families living in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) before and during World War II and the Holocaust. The correspondence centers on the emigration of Max and Irma Czerner from Prague to the United States with their infant son in 1939. The correspondence relates their efforts to secure visas and transportation for their young daughters, Helga and Raya Czerner...

  12. David Kovack collection

    Contains an album entitled "Slovakia," with copies of newspapers and documents created by David Kovack (donor's late husband) in memory of the Jews killed in Slovakia from 1939-1945. David Kovack was a survivor and was a member of the partisans in Slovakia for 4 years.

  13. Dr. A. Howard and Lucille Shanberg visit family in Poland and Belarus in 1929

    Town Hall in Białystok in Poland, a commercial district. Woman and young girl on a narrow street as an older woman and man approach along the side of the left building. Horse drawn cart carrying a man and barrels moves through town. Pans right on the town and a row of houses on a tree-lined street. A lake with with floating wood rafts. 01:00:27 CU of four women and one man all smiling and waving to the camera, perhaps in Swislocz, Belarus. Behind them is a wooden structure and the lake with wood rafts. Cows walking. WS of the cows and the man walking into a town. House and trees surrounded ...

  14. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer

    Curtain found by Paula Dash while she was a forced laborer in the city of Bremen, Germany, from 1944-1945. Paula found the curtain in a basement, hid it in her bosom and used it as a towel in the mornings. Later, while living in Bergen-Belsen displaced person’s camp, she used it as a table cloth. Paula was living in Łódź, Poland, with her family when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. A week later, German forces occupied the city and quickly established an enclosed Jewish ghetto in the city. Paula, her parents, and three siblings all lived in one small room. Her younger brother Henry, be...

  15. Kleinfeld family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Isidor and Regina Kleinfeld and their children Hedda and Liane in Vienna, Austria including Isidor’s arrest after Kristallnacht and his brief imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, the family’s emigration from Austria in 1939 to Cuba and to the United States in 1940. Included are biographical material regarding education, employment, and Isidor’s restitution claims against the Hamburg-Amerika Line; immigration paperwork regarding efforts to leave Austria, their stay in Cuba, and the process of receiving visas to immigrate to ...

  16. Family in Dahlem 1932

    In Dahlem, Germany, the family goes for a walk. CU baby in a pram. Street scenes, automobile traffic. They walk and skate on a frozen pond. A child runs around the yard with a toy. The children ride on scooters. More CUs of the three children with their mother.

  17. Alexander Muller collection

    The collection includes a journal, on loose pages, transcribed and recorded by Alexander Muller in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany. The entries include statements and testimony from other survivors.

  18. John Weitz collection

    Contains John Weitz’s historical research for the books "Hitler's Diplomat: The Life and Times of Joachim von Ribbentrop" (published in 1992) and "Hitler's Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht" (published in 1997). Includes copies of primary and secondary source material, newspaper clippings, personal papers, as well as Mr. Weitz’s handwritten notes.

  19. Rose Maklan Ross collection

    Consists of prewar photographs, displaced persons camp photographs, immigration paperwork including naturalization papers, displaced persons camp registration, vaccination and an interview on cassette tape. Also includes personal papers such as identification cards and a birth certificate.

  20. Registers of the judgments delivered by the court of justice of the department of the Seine Registres des arrêts rendus par la cour de justice du département de la Seine (Z/6/2001-2056)

    Consists of handwritten ledgers relating to the trials of French citizens accused of serious collaborationist crimes: policemen, police inspectors and commissioners who were part of the Special Brigades 1 and 2 responsible for tracking down "terrorists," Communists and Jews, and others. French citizens were accused of espionage, treason and furthering the cause of the enemy. The handwritten ledgers contain a summary of each case tried by this court in chronological order, from October 17, 1944 to January 31, 1951 (File of May 1948 is missing.) The ledgers do not include cases of individuals...