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  1. Nechama Safira photograph

    Contains a photographic postcard, with inscription on verso, of Nechama Paleszek Safira, who survived the Holocaust and then immigrated to Israel (Palestine) in 1947. Nechama was born in 1915 in Kowel.

  2. Canetti family photographs

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting Regine Canetti, her parents Albert and Rachelle Canetti, and siblings Denise, and Maurice before the war in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Also included are depictions of Albert in Israel, 1956, Regine at her graduation ceremony of Notre Dame de Sion school in 1940, and Regine wearing her nun's religious habit after joining the Sisters of Zion in Israel.

  3. British Pathé Gazette -- Lord Runciman arrives in Prague to help settle differences

    Various shots show British politician Lord Walter Runciman arriving in Prague by train, accompanied by Lady Runciman and his staff. A large crowd waits at the railway station to welcome him. Commentator explains Lord Runciman is here to try to solve the differences between the Czechs and the Sudetan Germans. Lord and Lady Runciman are seen getting into their car, followed by numerous photographers, and arriving at their hotel or residence.

  4. Sonia Nusenbaum collection

    Collection illustrating the post-war experiences of Henia Nusenbaum, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915 and her daughter Sonia Nusenbaum, born in Otwock, Poland on January 1, 1944 [while her parents, Moniek and Henia, were in hiding after having fled the Warsaw Ghetto]. The collection includes postwar attestations that Sonia was born in hiding and therefore did not receive a birth certificate, materials in preparation for immigration in 1951 to the United States and naturalization paperwork. Also included are photographs of postwar life of Henia and Sonia in displaced persons camps including Ba...

  5. Larisch family papers

    The Larisch family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Larisch family from Vienna, Austria, their time in England and India during the Holocaust, and their immigration to the United States after World War II. Biographical materials document Kurt Larisch, his wife Ramah, his parents Moritz and Dora, and his daughter Linda. They include identification papers, birth and marriage certificates, and immigration records. Correspondence includes a 1920 letter from Kurt to his grandmother; a 1941 letter from Ernst Polaček in Derventa, Bosnia to Mori...

  6. Stonework from Cyprus internment camp

  7. Police headquarters in Brno Policejní ředitelství Brno (B 26)

    Records pertaining to anti-Jewish measures, the treatment and deportation of Jews and Roma, the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets, lists of Jews and foreigners including prisoners at the Gestapo headquarters on Orlí street, and other relevant records

  8. Hilert family collection

    The Hilert family collection consists of documents, correspondence, and identification cards pertaining to the Hilert family and their postwar time experience in the Stuttgart West displaced persons camp (DP camp) in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection contains an affidavit from Avrom Hiller and Senator Harry Byrd and smallpox vaccination certificates. The documents pertain to Rabbi Samuel Hilert, Rose (Rosa, Raizel) Gutkind Hilert, and their son, Moses Baruch Hilert (Michael, Mike).

  9. Gold bracelet made from melted-down coins owned by an Austrian Lutheran émigré

    Gold bracelet designed by Elizabeth Deutschhausen and commissioned by her parents before she fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. The bracelet was made using 98.6-percent gold from Austrian ducats (coins), which were melted-down and repurposed into panels depicting different Alpine flowers. Elizabeth and her husband, Lutheran Pastor Wilhelm Deutschhausen, were living in Vienna when Germany annexed Austria during the March 1938 “Anschluss.” Many in the Austrian Protestant Church, which included Lutheranism, supported the creation of the “Reich Church” in Germany and a “nazified” version of Christia...

  10. Selected records of the World ORT Archive (WOA), London

    Records of the World ORT (formerly World ORT Union), its governing bodies and associate organizations world-wide. The archive include minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, fund-raising and PR, research and development, administrative and financial records (1920s-1950s). Also included are pamphlets and bulletins from various countries; reports, correspondence, and photos of the Berlin ORT school transferred to Leeds (1939-1943), private papers of former students and teachers of ORT; as well as the Shapiro Collection: consisting of materials collected on ORT's history by the American ...

  11. Pete Pease photograph collection

    The Pete Pease photograph collection consists of approximately 40 photographs showing the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation in 1945. The photographs depict the corpses of victims, the interior of various barracks and camp buildings, the crematorium, gallows, the burial of victims, liberating soldiers, and camp survivors. Many of the photographs were taken by the US Army Signal Corps.

  12. Rosenkrantz family collection

    Contains approximately 40 letters written by Aharon (Arnold) Rosenkrantz and his brother David (Dovid) Rosenkrantz to their parents, Josef and Pesia, in Vienna in 1938-1939, as well as a postcard of the ship Patria, in which one of the brothers, possibly both, boarded. Includes envelopes, with stamps removed. The collection also includes two letters by a brother from a Jewish summer camp in southern Austria in 1936, diary entries from Aaron from 1947, notebooks containing stories and poems written by Aaron, as well as birth certificates and his school and his physics and science studies not...

  13. Judenrat in Nowy Sącz Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Nowy Sącz (Syg. 261)

    Records of the Judenrat in Nowy Sącz, Poland. Consists of a portrait photograph of Boruch Roth (Born June 24, 1874). The photograph was taken before deportation (according to the note in Polish on the verso of the photo.

  14. Wasserman family photographs

    Contains three prewar photographs of members of the donor's family in Joniškėlis, Lithuania. Includes one photo dated December 1935 which bears the inscription "Grandma Muzla & Joselsons/All killed except Chaim - upper center." Photos are inscribed in English and Yiddish.

  15. Nazi photographs

    Contains two photographs: one dated December 1943 depicting several corpses lined up in a forest, covered with broken branches; and the second (undated) of German soldiers burying caskets in a large grave during a funeral.

  16. Max Mittelmark painting

    Painting: created in 1959, illustrating the experiences of Max Mittelmark, born in 1906 in Strojinetz, Bukovina [present day Ukraine] and deported to Transnistria where he was confined to the Bersad ghetto and experienced horrible livingg conditions which are described in his artwork. He and his wife Fanny survived, returned to Romania and eventually came to the United States in the late 1950s.

  17. Paper Israeli flag

    Paper Israeli flag: gift from the Jewish Brigade to Belgian children. [Belgium?, ca. 1945].Single leaf, printed on both sides (hand-printed, not professional). Printed on one side are a Star of David between two light-blue stripes and the verse "The redeemed of the L-d shall return, and come with singing unto Zion" (Isiah, 51, 11). Printed on the other side are a Star of David between two light-blue stripes with the inscription "Gift from the Jewish Fighting Force [Jewish Brigade] to the children of Belgium."

  18. 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.

  19. Shlomo Gorner collection

    Contains papers that belonged to Shlomo Gorner, who immigrated to Palestine in 1925, and in 1927 was called to Bulgaria as a Hebrew teacher. Gorner remained in Bulgaria for 19 years until 1945. The collection includes documents from his time in Bulgaria, some with Jewish and Zionist contact, and a postcard addressed to him that was sent from the Łódź Ghetto in 1940 from A. Michelson. Collection also includes photographs, and Jewish newspapers or newspaper clippings from Bulgaria in the 1930s.

  20. Ostwald family collection

    The Ostwald family collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, diaries and memoirs, photographs, photo albums, and negatives related to the Ostwald family of Dortmund, Germany; the Strauss family; the Tendlau family; and the Weinberg family. The biographical materials series includes genealogy materials, family trees, and research files regarding various branches of the Ostwald family. The file on August Niemeyer (1887-1938), Martin Ostwald’s favorite Latin teacher, includes Niemeyer’s obituary and copy prints of the Dortmund school Martin attended. Materials relating to ...