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  1. 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."

  2. La guerra 1939-1940 en mapas

    The "La guerra 1939-1940 en mapas" (The war 1939-1940 on maps) edited by the Giselher Wirsing. It consists of maps and reports explaining German success strategy in the WWII campaign.

  3. 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

  4. Gary Heymann photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs primarily depicting Nuremberg, Germany in 1936-1938 including Nazi rallies and party officials and the aftermath of Kristallnacht. Depictions of Nazi party members include Julius Streicher, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Rudolph Hess, and Joseph Goebbels. Post-Kristallnacht photographs include depictions of crowds, the destruction of a synagogue, SA men, and a Jewish boy being taken away. The collection also includes an itemized list by Gary Heymann sent to the Holocaust Library and Research Center Associates of San Francisco. The photographs were o...

  5. Moskovits Archives Archivo Moskovits

    Various organizational records related to activities of the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. This includes correspondence, project files, press releases, several issues of the German newspaper: Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin (1933), minutes, reports, photographs, printed material, and other documents. Documents and clippings relate to Nazi war criminals who were believed to have or actually had relocated to Argentina after World War II; Project folders relate to memorial events in Argentina and other activities of Holocaust survivors. Con...

  6. Tenenwurzel family photographs

    The Tenenwurzel family photographs consists of photographs of Emanuel Tanay, Betty Tenenwurzel, Bunim Tenewurzel, Ruth Tenenwurzel, and a paternal aunt named Ruth (Olga), and a paternal grandfather’s family. The photographs were taken in Germany; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Miechów, Poland. The image of Ruth Tenenwurzel was taken in Germany immediately following the start of World War II.

  7. Oral history interview with Harold Hicks

  8. Criminal police in Zlín Kriminální policie ve Zlín (B 322)

    Records relating to detained and arrested persons in the city of Zlín during the German occupation. Includes a detailed description of a person, the reason of detention, and lists of persons condemned to death by court martial.

  9. Selected records of the District Court in Łomża Sąd Okręgowy w Łomży (Sygn. 2142)

    Consist of court case files, notes, communist proclamations and newspapers, posters, postcards, arrest warrants, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Łomża District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, like: "Long Live Soviet Russia", "Worship to the chief of the international proletariat and peasantry, Karl Liebknecht,...

  10. Only a soap bubble Caricature of a Jew whispering to Stalin while he blows bubbles

    Anti-Jewish, anti-Communist caricature depicting a Jewish man whispering to Joseph Stalin. This cartoon was likely distributed by anti-Soviet partisans in Soviet-controlled Lithuania in approximately 1947. The image depicts a Jewish man with stereotypical features behind Stalin who is in a military uniform and blows soap bubbles full of anti-Communist slogans. The inclusion of the Jew reinforces war-time propaganda that emphasized the Soviet Union’s role as an aggressor advancing the Jewish-Bolshevik agenda. In June 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, and one year later was occupied ...

  12. Einstein family collection

    Contains correspondence sent and received by Alfred Einstein (donor’s grandfather), co-owner of “La Tribune Juive” Journal in Strasbourg, France; dated 1935-1936.

  13. Children in Dahlem, 1934; Baby Oda

    Boy outfitted with a feathered headdress rides in a toy car and plays in a teepee in the yard in Dahlem. His older sister with braids takes a turn in the car. Father pushes the youngest child in a wheelbarrow. The family walks through a park in Dahlem by the pond. Man with hat and glasses holds a camera case. The youngest child plays in the sandbox and gets ready for another ride in the wheelbarrow. CU of newborn Oda Lindemann (born 1934) in crib. Family members take turns looking at and holding baby Oda.

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-013 : Bureau of Services

    Consist of correspondence, trainning materials, statistics, memorandums, reports of operations, newspapers in DP camps. Records relete to repatriation, welfare services, trainings and education, health of displaced persons, cooperation with the international organizations, health services for military, immigration of European children to USA, and matters of Jewish and other refugees.

  15. Military POW camps Obozy wojskowe-zbiór akt (Sygn.1334)

    Records of the camps of Polish prisoners of war (Oflags and Stalags) and internment camps in Switzerland. Include correspondence, periodical reports, courses, publications, reports for the Red Cross, camp chronicles and other information.

  16. Death cards from the Warsaw Ghetto Karty zgonów z getta warszawskiego (Sygn. 221/15)

    This collection contains death cards of the deceased in the Warsaw ghetto, which were handed over to the Jewish Historical Institute in the 1990s. This consists of more or less a tenth of all cards issued in the ghetto counting 10,052 names, while before the liquidation in 1942 about 100,000 people died. The cards were prepared by the Health Department of the Jewish Council for the Statistical Department of the City Board in Warsaw. The cards were completed and signed by Jewish doctors in the ghetto, mainly from 1941. Note: Digitized cards are available online on the JHI website. There is a...

  17. Diary of Nelly Epstein

    The diary of Nelly Epstein includes entries, drawings, clippings, and maps written from January 1, 1935 - January 18, 1943. Nelly began the diary with entries about friends, family, and activities, such as travel, theater, and life in general in Vienna. In the later years, Nelly documented her journey with her husband Emil (Aryeh) Katscher and other young Zionists fleeing on vessels down the Danube River, across the Black Sea, through the Gallipoli Peninsula to the Aegean, and the Mediterranean Sea, and finally landing in Haifa, Palestine. The diary includes illustrations of their journey. ...

  18. Selected records from the Archivio di Stato di Taranto

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in Italy in the community of Taranto. The archive contain relevant documents within the Prefettura and Questura, e.g. 1938 census, foreign Jews living in Italy, and a list of all strangers living in the Taranto region.

  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. 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.