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  2. Help Keep U.S. Out of War pin back buttons on display board

    Help Keep U.S. Out of War pin back buttons on cardboard display board. The board and buttons are dated 1939.

  3. Zarnicer family collection

    Document issued on behalf of Esther Zarnicer [donor’s maternal grandmother], living in Camp de Gurs [Ilôt L Baraque 14], granting permission for her daughter, Ruth, to be removed from Camp de Gurs for the purpose of immigration to the United States of America. Dated 21 November 1941 and signed by “Ester” and stamped by the camp director. Includes a photograph of Ruth’s parents, Esther and Robert Zarnicer [who died in 1932]. Ruth and her her brother Hugo were placed in the Chabannes children's home before later going into hiding under false names. Esther was deported and killed.

  4. Archive of the Jewish Community in Trebic Archiv Židovské obce Třebíč

    Municipal register books of Jews living in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch) with notes, from the Nazi occupation period, pertaining to individual arrests, revocations of citizenship, deportations and transports to concentration camps.

  5. Bianca Perlmutter papers

    The Bianca Perlmutter papers include two journals, a postcard, and a national registration identification card relating to Bianca Perlmutter wartime experiences in Poland and her postwar life in England. The journals, written by Bianca from 1945-1946, include entries and poems recounting her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, hiding in a convent, in a DP camp in Niederlangen, and her postwar life in England. The collection also includes a postcard from Stanislav Popowski, a non-Jewish neighbor who saved Bianca by hiding her in a convent.

  6. Senat der Freien Stadt Danzig Selected records of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk Senat Wolnego Miasta Gdańska (Sygn. 260)

    Selected records of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk (Senat Wolnego Miasta Gdańska): correspondence related to expulsion of Polish citizens, unlawful arrests and closures of Polish companies, notes about German attacks on Poles and Jews, German newspaper clippings, reports, telegrams, lists of the personnel of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk, and lists of inhabitants of Gdańsk, petitions of the Association of Jewish Academics, various regulations, correspondence with the Jewish community (Synagogen Gemeinde) related to discrimination and atrocities against Jews (Germans ransacked the s...

  7. Rose Goldberg Zarembski papers

    Consists of correspondence written by Rose (Rochel) Goldberg, later Zarembski, to family members in the United States. The letters were authored while Rose was living in a displaced persons camp in Straubing, Germany. Rose was a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, and other camps. Also included are newspapers clippings listing Rose as a Holocaust survivor looking for relatives after the war.

  8. Baby takes first steps in Dahlem

    Moving train, railroad tracks. Ethel sits by the window next to another woman (Piepers?) and smiles. The family stands by their car and stows their belongings in the vehicle. The residence in Dahlem, Germany. The children play in the yard. A toddler, probably Peter, takes some of his first steps. He occasionally receives help. He falls over and recovers.

  9. Kirschbaum Family collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Chaim (born in Przemysl, Poland) and his wife Kreindl Kirschbaum (born in Jaroslav, Poland) and their children Anna, Lily, Joseph and Celia who all lived in Vienna, Austria, fled to Switzerland in 1939, and then forced to France where they were eventually sent to internment camps. Celia and Joseph were able to immigrate to the United States in 1940. The remaining family, according to documents included, state that Chaim died in a Paris hospital, too weak to tarvel, and his wife and two daughters were deported from Be...

  10. Lore and Simon Rosen family papers

    Identification documents, military records, immigration documents, postcards, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Lore (née Baron) and Simon Rosen, both of whom survived in England. Documents include is Lore’s 1939 Kindertransport identification card, British Army pay books and Soldier’s Release Books, Simon’s British passport, documents related to the Rosen’s immigration to Canada from Israel in 1954, and a copy of Simon’s relative Edna Rosine’s immigration paperwork to Liverpool, England in 1918. Also included are postcards of Malemort-sur-Corrèze, France, where L...

  11. Comité Popular de Lucha Contra el Fascismo. Comité de Lucha Contra el Racismo y el Antisemitismo

    Records of the Jewish association in Argentina: the Comité Popular Para La Atuda a Las Mass Judias-Alemanas y para Luchia Contra El fascimo y El Antisemitismo. Consists of correspondence with various Jewish organizations and individuals in Argentina and abroad, and newspaper clippings on antisemitism from Yiddish language newspapers.

  12. Stanisław Kot collection Archiwum Stanisława Kota

    Papers of Stanisław Kot, a Polish historian and politician. The collection includes: official and private correspondence addressed to Stanisław Kot, records on the political, military, economic and social conditions of Polish citizens in Poland during the Nazi occupation, on Polish citizens in exile in the United Kingdom, France, Romania and Hungary, including the USSR (eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic), files related to the organization and operation of the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile, Polish diplomatic missions and other Polish institutions operating on ...

  13. Judenrat in Tarnów Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Tarnów (Sygn. 267)

    Records of the Judenrat in Tarnów, Poland. Consists of court documents and identity cards of inhabitants of Jewish ghetto in Tarnów.

  14. District Authority Velké Meziříčí Okresní úřad Velké Meziříčí

    Administrative records of Velké Meziříčí, a town in the Vysočina region, including anti-Jewish measures and decrees and the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Records pertaining to the emigration of Jews. Post-war records pertaining to the restitution and confiscation of expropriated Jewish properties.

  15. Selected records of the Voivodship Office of Warsaw Urząd Wojewódzki Warszawski (Sygn. 500) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records of various departments of the Voivodship Office of Warsaw: the Technical Department: records relating to the Treblinka camp measurements; the Department of War Compensation: registration of war damages, lists of losses, testimonies of witnesses; the Department of Reconstruction: materials related to war damage (lists, correspondence, graves and war cemeteries, exhumations, list of assets abandoned in Węgrów); the Social-Political Department: materials regarding the Jewish religious congregation and Jewish organizations from the Warsaw region.

  16. Walter and Edith Schiff papers

    The Walter and Edith Schiff papers include biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, and photographs illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Walter and Edith Schiff, originally of Berlin, Germany. Edith was sent to Camp de Gurs in France where she was assigned to work in an office, and Walter escaped while being transported between camps. The couple was reunited in France and hid in the basement of a Catholic church until liberation. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Ernest Moser, Edith Moser, Julius Schiff, and Walter Schiff, a marriage certificate an...

  18. Socio-Cultural Society of Jews in Poland Towarzystwo-Społeczno Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ) (Sygn. 325)

    Selected records contain correspondence with domestic offices and international organizations; minutes and reports from meetings and events; records of the Department of Education such as curricula in schools in Hebrew or Yiddish; reports from dayrooms for pupils; personal files and correspondence of the Towarzystwo-Społeczno Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ), branch in Lublin. Note: Reproduction of this collection is ongoing.

  19. Association of survivors of the Nazi Persecution in Argentina. Archive of Sherit Hapleitá of the Moskovits Archive Asociación de Sobrevivientes de la Persecución Nazi en la Argentina. Archivo de Sherit Hapleitá del Archivo Moskovits

    Records from the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. Consist of the manifesto, correspondence and publications of the Sherit Hapleita in Argentina collected by José Moskovits. Includes correspondence, letters to the Minister of Defense in Cuba, Raul Castro, office files, press releases, printed material, as well as project folders related to memorial events in Argentina and other activities of Holocaust survivors.

  20. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Martial law, arrests and internment (Group 84.A.21a-b)

    Records relating to martial law in Denmark during the WWII, including: announcements, reports from police districts and local authorities, as well as records relating to arrests of hostages, including lists of arrested Danes and releases, and seizures of buildings and property.