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  1. 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...

  2. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers

    The collection includes documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Kurt and Hennie Reiner of Vienna, Austria including their emigration from Vienna in 1939 into Milan, Italy and Marseille, France; Kurt’s internment at Les Milles; and their immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical material includes identification papers of Kurt and Hennie Reiner, Kurt’s grades at the technical school of Vienna, papers related to his employment in the United States, and a copy of the their marriage certificate. Also included is a small amount of paperwork r...

  3. Robert E. Work collection

    The collection contains 2 letters by Joseph and Magda Goebbels written from the Führerbunker in Berlin, dated April 28, 1945, addressed to Harald Quandt, son of Magda Goebbels (held in a Allied POW camp); and an interrogation report of Hanna Reitsch, Hitler's personal pilot, written by Robert E. Work, Captain, Air Corps Chief Interrogator, dated November 1, 1945. The interrogation report gives background on how Hanna Reitsch received the letters, German transcriptions, English translations, and Reitsch's evaluations of their content. Also included is a copy photograph portrait of Robert E. ...

  4. Sticker

    Sticker, "Jews are TRAITORS to America and should not be trusted. Buy Gentile"; 1939.

  5. Selected records of the City Pabianice Akta miasta Pabianice (Sygn.2074) : Wybrane materiały

    Records related to the Jewish population of Pabianice: records of the Jewish religious community, civil registry files, education, participation in the City Council, economic activity, sport, philanthropic activity. Includes also numerous lists of real estates, Jewish property plans for renovations, building permits or reconstruction, certificates from the rabbinate about birth certificates, 1936-1937, as well as other various certificates, census of Pabianice, 1889-1932, voter lists, personal files, lists of elections to the Sejm in 1935, certificates issued by the rabbi, excerpts from rec...

  6. George Junior Groce photograph collection

    Contains an envelope with photographs strung together. Photographs show the reburial of victims of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamp Gusen, in Austria, shortly after liberation. Included are images of civilians [Austrians living near the camp] burying the victims; images of the deceased in piles at the camps; and burning of infested barracks.

  7. Breth family papers

    The Breth family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and a photograph album. The biographical materials document Czech Holocaust survivor Fred Breth and his wife and son, Adele and Steven, who fled Czechoslovakia for Sweden and America. Correspondence consists of letters between Fred and Adele and Fred’s parents, Ernst and Hermine Breth, and his sister and brother, Gertrude and Hans, who were still in Czechoslovakia. The photograph album contains photographs by Adele documenting her and Fred’s prewar travels. Biographical materials include birth certificates, education an...

  8. Judenrat in Rawa Ruska Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Rawa Ruska (Sygn. 232)

    Records of the Judenrat in Rawa Ruska. Contains a name list of craftsmen applying for concessions for running workshops and stores.

  9. 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.

  10. Oral testimony of Clara Robzyk

  11. Ada Sereni collection

    Contains three reports by Ada Sireni, one of the heads of Mossad LeAliyah Bet in Italy, which supported illegal immigration of Jewish refugees to Palestine in the years immediately after the war. The reports concern ships used for the transfer of weapons.

  12. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers

    The Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers include Holocaust-era and postwar correspondence addressed to Ellen in the United States from family and friends in Europe, the memoir Ellen drafted between 1988 and her death, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Holocaust-era letters are addressed to Ellen primarily from her parents and sister Marianne in Mainz and relates family news and good wishes. A letter from a friend of Marianne’s in Montevideo describes an opportunity for Marianne to immigrate to Uruguay. A letter from a...

  13. Breit family collection

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass (passport) issued to Rosa Alice "Sara" Breit (donors' paternal grandmother) marked with red "J" identifying her as Jewish; photo of bearer affixed on page 2; issued in Dresden, Germany on July 4, 1940; includes entrance visas and transit stamps from the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States (issued July 16, 1940). Also includes a Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch (worker's book) issued to Manual Breit (donors' father) in Dresden August 12, 1935.

  14. Gershon Yelin papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and post-war experiences of Gershon Yelin, originally of the Free City of Danzig, including post-war family photographs documenting Gershon with his family in Austria and Israel, with friend Yehuda Nir in Vienna; Report card issued in May 1936 by the Jewish School in Danzig to "Gerson Jelen"; Declaration of Intention form for Gershon Yelin to become a citizen of the United States, June 6, 1962; Letter of support for Samuel Gelles who wishes to bring Dr. Gershon Yellin to the United States, April 16, 1962; Contract between Montefiore Hospital of New York ...

  15. Helen Tichauer papers

    The Helen Tichauer papers consist of subject files and a photograph album of Feldafing displaced persons camp, clippings regarding Auschwitz war crimes trials in Wuppertal, Germany, and a small amount of correspondence. The photograph album was assembled by Helen Tichauer, a survivor of Auschwitz, who was deported there from Bratislava in 1942, and lived in Feldafing after the war. It depicts Helen, her husband Erwin Tischauer, and numerous friends and activities associated with the camp. Correspondence includes letters received from historian Konrad Kwiet and United States Holocaust Memori...

  16. Yehuda Zerzy Singer papers

    The Yehuda Zerzy Singer papers contain a handwritten diary, photographs, and documents relating to Yehuda Zerzy Singer’s experiences in Poland and Russia during World War II and his life in Palestine after his arrival with the "Teheran Children." The collection includes school certificates, a postcard, identification cards, and photographs of Yehuda in Kibbutz Ein Harod. The diary was written, in Polish, by Yehuda from September 1, 1939, the day of the invasion of Nazi Germany into Poland, until the beginning of 1942, about one year prior to his arrival in Palestine. The diary documents the...

  17. Bergen Belsen liberation photographs

    Contains ten photographs of the Bergen-Belsen concentration taken camp after liberation, including images of corpses in an open grave.

  18. Gertner family papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Regina, Lucy, and Samuel Gertner in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Biographical materials include DP camp identification papers, International Refugee Organization documents, immigration papers, marriage certificates, report cards, postcards received at Foehrenwald, and restitution claims. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Regina’s first husband, Hersch Fenster and his sister Scheindale, Lucy as a hidden child in a convent in Czerwonogrod, Ukraine, and the family in Foehrenwald.

  19. 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.

  20. Szklaniewicz family collection

    Contains correspondence and postcards from Aaron Lazar and Manya Szklaniewicz [donor's grandparents] in the Warsaw ghetto to their son Naftali Szklaniewicz (Sklan) [donor's father] and also to Moritz Hanemann in Amsterdam and London. Also includes translations of the letters.