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  1. Dachau liberation photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of concentration camp survivors in striped prisoner uniforms unloading corpses from a wagon behind the crematorium at the Dachau concentration camp; the bodies were later interred in mass graves by German civilians from Dachau; no inscription on verso.

  2. Charles Cohen collection

    Consists of documents collected by Sgt. Charles Cohen, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Includes a two-page narrative Sgt. Cohen wrote on May 4, 1945 in Germany after witnessing Jewish religious services and the reaction of local Germans to these services. Also includes a mass-produced copy entitled "War-Crime Trials; Nurnberg, Germany, November 20, 1945--" introducing the reader to the Nuremberg war crimes trial and the defendants, as well as a translated copy of testimony given by Hermann Goering about gifts he gave to Major Paul Kubala of the United States Seventh ...

  3. Zvi Brick collection

    Contains fifteen letters sent to survivor Zvi Brick, the former director of the Jewish Agency office in Kovno, while he stayed in a displaced persons camp in Italy. Addressed from New York, Munich, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, dated 1946-1947, in Yiddish, Hebrew and some English. The letters were sent mainly from official entities and they record the state of the displaced, the difficulties of immigration to Palestine, monetary matters, and more. Includes seven letters from the general secretary of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, Louis Siegal, typewritten on official stationery and signed ...

  4. Broadside

    Broadside, “No A.E.F. Day / November 11th” for Armistice Day Rally “Keep Out Of War”

  5. 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...

  6. Becker family papers

    Biographical materials and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Becker family of Budapest, Hungary. Biographical materials include Ivan Becker’s Swedish protection document issued by Raoul Wallenberg and postwar documents from the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp; identification documents of his father Dezsö Becker, grandmother Frida Becker, and sister Anna Becker; his mother Kato Becker’s handwritten Hungarian cookbook; and a family history. Photographs include depictions of World War I, family photographs, and postwar photographs from Bad Gastein. Biographical ma...

  7. Selected records related to the history of Jews in the Alytus region, Lithuania

    Records of the Alytus State Notary Office and the Alytus Court pertaining to the inheritance, purchase, and sale of the Jewish-owned properties located in the Alytus district, Lithuania after WWII: certificates of the right of inheritance (1947-1948), sale and purchase agreements (1947), and judgments and decisions of civil cases (1945-1950).

  8. German Jewish Aid Committee collection

    The German Jewish Aid Committee collection documents the committee’s efforts to help Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany obtain English visas. The collection primarily includes the correspondence of committee representative Fritz Goldschmidt with refugees from Frankfurt am Main, Essen, Cologne, the Kitchener Camp for Refugees, and other locations. The collection comprises letters, postcards, and supporting documentation revealing the bureaucratic difficulties of receiving visas; efforts to obtain supporting funds from banks, organizations, and private business owners; and the stories of the a...

  9. Print by survivor artist David L. Bloch

    Iimage of roll call at Dachau by survivor artist David L. Bloch

  10. 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...

  11. Jewish Committee in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Komitet Żydowski w Ostrowcu Świętokrzyskim (Sygn. 359)

    This collection includes circulars of the Jewish Committee in Kielce, correspondence (including correspondance with local Polish authorities), a list of Jews from Ostrowiec living in Bergen-Belsen, memebers of the Jewish committee in Munich (Germany), minutes of meetings, numerous documents related to the recovery of property lost during the war, in addition to medical certificates, statistical data of the Jewish population in Ostrowiec.

  12. Candelabra used during Shabbat by Mina Drukman Deac's family

    Candelabra owned by Mina Drukman Deac, born on March 14, 1932 in Chernivtsi, who was deported with her family of five to Transnistria, where her father was killed. This candlestick was taken with them to Transnistria and was used there by the family during Shabbat.

  13. Judenrat in Ujście Jezuickie Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Ujście Jezuickie (Sygn. 273)

    Records of the Judenrat in Ujście Jezuickie. Contains private documents: a letter written by Rozalia Polonecka from Ujście Jezuickie. It is handwritten "Goodbye" letter written before her execution, in the prison Wietrzychowice, September 18, 1942. Includes also a note from Dawid Polanecki explaining circumstances of Rozalia's writing, a note was written in Krakow Jan. 26, 1946.

  14. Selected records of the First Instance Court in Łódź Sąd Grodzki w Łodzi (Sygn. 184) : Wybrane materialy

    Records of the Civil Department of the Sąd Grodzki in Łódź. The records relate to various private cases: estates (e.g. cases concerning portioning out family property), payments of rent and expulsion from apartments, cases concerning dues of different kinds, drafts, and the like. There are files of writ cases and tutelary cases in the Civil Department (e.g. applications for guardianship of a minor).

  15. Admor letter

    Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back of the letter features a prayer in his hand. The letter reads (in translation): "Baruch Hash-m who took us out of the hands of murderers and the netherworld of destruction of the death camps ....

  16. Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam collection

    Contains a letter signed by Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam (1905-1994), the first Admor of Sanz-Klausenberg, is addressed to Admor Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, the "Shefa Chaim" of Klausenberg. Includes questions and observations about various subjects including Shefa Chaim's request from the Argentinian government regarding Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in which he expressed his opinion that it is preferable to leave him in Israel to be judged and not extradite him to Argentina; the Admor of Stropkov said that he doesn't understand why the Shefa Chaim involved himself in the affair.

  17. 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...

  18. Baby Oda playing

    Outdoors at their home in Dahlem, Oda plays with a pinwheel in her crib. Someone holds her hand as she bounces up and down. A woman holds the toys and entertains Oda. Oda dressed in jacket and hat walks around outside. Mother Ethel helps, boy in BG with a bicycle sails a toy boat in the pond. CUs of Oda with a toddler friend.

  19. Lea Derszowicz memoirs

    The collection consists of two handwritten memoirs written by Lea Derszowicz (née Eberstark) describing her experiences in Poland, primarily in Dzików, Tarnobrzeg, the Dębica ghetto, and the Pustków concentration camp. Her writings chronicle some of her personal background and her family’s experiences during the early years of World War II including life in the Dębica ghetto, forced-labor, relatives searching for family after being separated, dressing as a boy to sneak out of Dębica with the aid of others to procure food to smuggle back in, deportation to Pustków, her brother getting shot f...

  20. Short film about the fate of Roma at Lety

    Documentary short film about the fate of the Romani children who were imprisoned in the concentration camp at Lety u Písku and later murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Opens with unique shots of the place where the concentration camp once stood, including the Lipeš fishpond and an empty meadow. Wooden cross with a crown of thorns erected as a memorial. The narration ends with: "Then they took the children away. They took them away to 'save' them. They took them to Auschwitz. They took them to a building with windows. They ordered them to strip and take their shoes off, and then, the...