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  1. Anna and Hans Blüthe photograph

    Contains a pre-war photograph of Anna and Hans Blüthe.

  2. Oral history interview with Gizela Maklan

  3. Elena Fleischnerova papers

    The collection consists of letters received by Elena Fleischnerova, formerly of Prague, after she fled Czechoslovakia for France in 1939 and then immigrated to the United States with her husband Eugene and daughter Danielle in 1940. The bulk of the letters, 1939-1941, are from her mother Emilie Wohryzek prior to her deportation with her husband Moritz to Theresienstadt in 1942. Other letters are from friends and family.

  4. Entartete Kunst leaflet

    Advertising leaflet for the "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibition in Munich 1937. The text of the flyer invites the public to visit the exhibition and "to judge for himself" the quality of the art, describing the artwork as "pathologic, sick and spiritually rotten, torturing the fabric" of German society. The flyer describes the exhibition as free to enter, but "forbidden to youth."

  5. Ole Barfoed collection (Group 860: IV.T.48.O)

    The collection of Ole Barfoed consist of correspondence and reports, mainly from Jews relating to their escape to Sweden during the occupation of World War II, copies of miscellaneous documents from archives, and private notes. During the 1950s Ole Barfoed worked with some 70 Danish Jews who had escaped to Sweden during World War II and persuaded them to write down their accounts of their experiences from that time. The majority of these firsthand accounts were written by Jews who were well connected in society, and who also, for the most part, were above average in terms of personal financ...

  6. Richard Sheppard collection

    Collection of photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp following liberation. Images include piles of corpses of outside the crematorium and uniforms and clothing that was disinfected prior to the liberation of the camp; images were taken by US Army soldier Richard Sheppard, who sent them home in a letter, wrapped in a piece of paper labeled "Photos of / Dachau / concentration camp / Read letter before / opening." Although the letter was destroyed, the paper wrapping is included as part of this collection.

  7. Selected records of the Provincial Headquarters of the State Police in Łódź Komenda Wojewódzka Policji Państwowej w Łodzi (Sygn.183) : Wybrane materialy

    Police reports, include name lists of police officers, surveys and surveillance journals, arrest warrants, and photographs of detainees from the register of the State Police, 1938-1939.

  8. Selected records from Archivio di Stato di Bari

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the community of Bari, Italy. Records trace the cooperation of the Italian administration on all levels in accordance with the Mussolini racial laws. Included are census, monthly reports, birth and marriage certificates, documents on repatriation of Italian Jews, an alphabetical list of Jewish foreign residents, 1938, and more.

  9. Milton Zimmerman photograph collection

    Consists of seven original photographs depicting Dachau at liberation, including the so-called "Death Train," with original inscriptions on the verso. The photographs were acquired by Milton Zimmermann (1921-1948) of Louisville, KY, while serving with the medical detachment of the 283rd Field Artillery Battalion. The collection also includes a copy of a portrait depicting Milton Zimmerman in uniform with his wife Jean.

  10. 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.

  11. Collection of Egon Michael Zweig and family Sammlung Egon Michael Zweig und familie (P 149)

    Genealogical documents, correspondence, photographs, published materials, records related to the political activities in Zionist movements, and claims of the Zweig family related to losses in WWII. Included are also records related to the Jewish organizations and Israeli religious community Vienna (Austria) and Olomouc (Czech Republic) and other organizations, also miscellaneous materials like: a map of the district Talpioth in Jerusalem with marking of all plots, publications in German newspaper, a bulletin of the Mitteilungsblatt des Heimatverbandes Olmütz und Mittelmähren (Homeland Assoc...

  12. British Paramount Newsreel (Reuters) -- American Jewish Congress elections

    Posters for the American Jewish Congress Elections on June 25,26,27 - "Register in Defense of Jewish Rights!" "Vote for Justice and Equality to Jews". People queue outdoors and place ballots in boxes "Vote Here". INTs, synagogue, group of people reviewing ballots at a table, CUs. Crowds outdoors on a busy street, man delivers speech from vehicle, banner on automobile: "Stand Up to be Counted... Hitlerism". Elderly couples place ballots in box. INTs, women speaking German gather around radio, read newspapers. CU, Rabbi Stephen Wise, "American Jews are resolved, together with all other racial...

  13. Oral testimony of William Fertig

  14. Sussman family papers

    The Sussman family papers document the prewar and wartime experiences of Leo and Rachel Sussman in Vienna, Austria and Switzerland. The collection includes a school certificate, an approval for travel from the St. Gallen Foreign Office, an identification card, and a United States war ration book for Rachel Sussman as well as an identification card for Leo Sussman. Also included is correspondence from Chanine Stroh, Rachel Sussman, and Leo Sussman. Sussman family photographs depict Leo’s father Josef Sussman, Leo’s brother, Moritz Sussman as well as Leo and Rachel Sussman. Stroh family photo...

  15. Provinzialverwaltung Oberschlesien in Kattowitz Selected records of the Provincial Government of the Upper Silesia in Katowice Zarząd Prowincjonalny Górnego Śląska w Katowicach (Sygn. 118)

    Selected records of the Provinzialverwaltung Oberschlesien in Kattowitz (Provincial Government of the Upper Silesia in Katowice) relating to the region of two regencies: Regierung Kattowitz and Regierung Oppeln. Consists of correspondence, reports, bills, photographs, newspaper clippings and schedules for trainings. Records relate to organizational and general matters of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP) and Hitler-Jugend parties on these territories. Included are lists of members of the Hitler Jugend organization.

  16. Hadassah Virshup collection

    Contains pre-war family photographs from Lida, Poland and Vilna, Lithuania, bearing inscriptions in Hebrew or Yiddish. One photo postcard shows a school or youth group, dated 1932.

  17. 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.

  18. Selected records of the Tuberculosis Institute in Warsaw. Wolski Hospital Instytut Gruźlicy w Warszawie. Szpital Wolski (Sygn. 135)

    This collection consists of hospital records of patients. The records include: surname and first name, religion and age, family status, names of parents, place and date of residence, occupation, reasons for which the sick person was admitted, the ward, date (admission, discharge, death), type of illness, number of hospital days; and financial files: the daily rate, the amount in total for treatment and other services, the amount paid, the number and date of the cash receipt, and remarks. The sections on personal data, except for first and last name, were not always completed in practice.

  19. Mir Yeshiva collection

    Collection of approximately 50 letters and documents, mostly handwritten from students in the Mir Yeshiva when they were in Shanghai during WWII. Includes certificates, letters, leaves of Torah novellae, passport photographs, a ledger with a handwritten Yiddish-English dictionary, and newspaper clippings.

  20. Dr. Ernest Parker collection

    Binder with typescript memoir by Lothar Ernst Pollak from May 10-December 6, 1940. Details Lothar’s family’s flight beginning in Brussels, Belgium; through France, Spain and Lisbon; arriving in Cuba in December and ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Lothar Pollak was born 1901 in Reichenberg [Liberec], the Czech Republic. In the 1930s, Lothar moved to Germany, where he met his wife Anna. They then moved to Austria and then Belgium for Lothar’s work. In May 1940, with their daughter Erika, they fled ultimately arriving in the United States in 1941 where they changed their n...