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  1. British Pathé Gazette -- St. Louis ship anchored off-shore

    Location unknown. Titles read: " REFUGEES WITHOUT A COUNTRY" LSs of the 'St Louis' ship with 900 hundred Jewish refugees on board. The commentator says that "900 Jews have found a haven at last. They crossed from Hamburg to Cuba. But in Havana they were refused entry and had to return to Europe and possibly to Hamburg, the city they dreaded. In every harbor, friends come out to give them words of cheer and sympathy while they appeal by radio to the democracies. Eventually, they are allowed to land in Holland, when some will go to Belgium and France, and others to England. So at last the wan...

  2. Pin

    Pin, “Defend / America / First”

  3. Leaflet

    Leaflet announcing a symposium, "The Church & Synagogue in the Next War."

  4. UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission

    Consist of administrative files related to displaced persons, repatriation, emigration, tracing of people, child welfare, Children's Homes, welfare assistance by various international organizations; special monthly reports and statistics from British, French and American Zones; files of the displaced persons camps, narrative reports, correspondence, and registers from the particular UNRRA teams regarding operations of the displaced persons camps.

  5. Selected records of the Silesian Voivodeship Police Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Sygn. 38)

    Selected files of the Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Silesian Voivodeship Police). Consist of orders and ordinances of superior authorities, situational reports, searching, investigations and detentions of criminals, information about various manifestations of social and political life. Included are records related to “Volksdeutsche" communities, German minority, communist movement, political parties and federations/associations. Among the materials there are documents concerning antisemitic and anti-communist political group, OWP (Obóz Wielkiej Polski), mandatory deportation of the Sinti a...

  6. Cloth doll

    Doll given to Ruth Pollack in the United States in 1937. The doll was a gift from her grandfather Moses Aaron Rozenszain, who was a pharmacist in Pruzhany, and was subsequently killed in Auschwitz. The doll has a Yiddish inscription on the hem from her grandfather.

  7. Edgar R. Hoffman photograph collection

    Consists of four photographs depicting scenes associated with the discovery of the Gardelegen Massacre by U.S. forces in April 1945. The photographs belonged to Edgar R. Hoffmann, a Technician Fifth Grade who served with the 464th Ordnance Evacuation Company. Hoffmann was in service in Europe between May 1944 and November 1945. Original inscriptions are included on the reverse of three of the four photographs.

  8. Oral history interview with Ioan Misca

  9. Broadside

    Broadside announcing a strike of University of New Hampshire students against war, Friday, April 12.

  10. 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.

  11. Mass family papers

    Immigration papers, restitution claims, photographs and other documents related to Moses and Dina Mass, Polish Jews who immigrated to Barbados from the Netherlands in 1932 and later to the United States in 1949. Immigration documents include Moses and Dina’s declarations of intention and letters from the Mizrachi Organization of America, which sponsored several members of the family. Restitution claims relate to inheritance claims of property of Moses’s father and uncles. Other papers include two letters in Yiddish, a newspaper clipping in Yiddish, and documents related to Jack Mass’s educa...

  12. Letter of protection issued by the Spanish Embassy in Budapest

    Contains a "Letter of protection" (Védlevél) issued for a Jewish man named Miklós Hreblay on behalf of the Spanish Embassy in Budapest, dated November 1, 1944. The letter indicates that the bearer of the letter is under the protection of Spain. Typewritten on official letterhead of the Spanish Embassy of Hungary, photo of bearer affixed, stamped with ink stamp of Spanish Embassy and ink stamp of Ángel Sanz Briz, who was later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for his actions assisting Jews in Budapest.

  13. Sax family collection

    Collection of correspondence between Ervin Sax, a Jewish soldier in the British Army, who was captured by the Germans and held in Stalag VIIIB as a British POW, and his wife Gabriella in Palestine. Several letters concern the attempts by both to work with Mandate authorities to secure their house in Czechoslovakia. Several letters were facilitated through the Red Cross.

  14. J. Herbert Nagler papers

    The J. Herbert Nagler papers consist primarily of letters Nagler wrote to his parents in Philadelphia while he was studying medicine in Berlin, Germany and in Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland. His letters include his impressions of the last years of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi party and Hitler’s assumption of power, the situation of Jews in Germany, and the April 1, 1933 anti-Jewish boycott. The collection also includes an electronic typescript of Nagler’s letters and a digital image of Nagler.

  15. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Internal political conditions. Deported communists (Group 120 D.4-5)

    Records relating to the arrest and detention of Danish communists and others in June 1941, the illegal printing of "Land og folk," shipping of food packages, medicine to Danish communists transferred to German prisons, correspondence with relatives, some single case files, as well as relating to the visit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to concentration camps in Germany and Theresienstadt.

  16. Watercolor of Auschwitz painted by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn618170
    • English
    • 1955-1980
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 21.875 inches (55.563 cm)

    Watercolor painting of Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland painted by Holocaust survivor Fred Veston in Albuquerque, New Mexico after his immigration in 1955. Fred was a jeweler who lived in Kraków, Poland, with his wife and two daughters, when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. Within a week, Kraków was occupied and the Germans initiated immediate measures aimed at persecuting the Jews of the city. They took Fred’s store, the family’s apartment, and their valuables. The Germans began searching for Fred after learning he dealt in Jewish jewelry. Fred’s neighbor, a Ca...

  17. 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...

  18. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn. 804) : Wybrane materiały

    Statistical data, correspondence, minutes, registration of war damages, records of the population, records related to the property of Jewish communities, and so-called productivisation of the Jewish population after the war, lists and other materials concerning associations and unions, lists of the mass graves of war victims, and loss or granting of Polish citizenship, documents regarding civil status and the help for the victims of prisons and Nazi camps, as well as other materials.

  19. Gauselbstverwaltung der Reichsgaus Daniz-Westpreusen Namiestnik Rzeszy Okręgu Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie (Sygn. 263)

    Selected records of the office of the Governor of the Reich of the Gdańsk-West Prussia District (Namiestnik Rzeszy Okręgu Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie: Gauselbstverwaltung der Reichsgaus Daniz-Westpreuse). Consist of internal regulations and orders, correspondence, lists of cities and districts with Polish and new German names, and the organizational chart of the office of the Governor of the Reich of the Gdańsk-West Prussia District.

  20. Simon Breitstein photograph

    A photograph of Simon Breitstein taken in the Łódź Ghetto, dated June 6, 1940.