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  1. Hand-made wooden souvenir letter opener

    Painted wood souvenir letter opener given to Lavan Robinson. One side is engraved, "Souvenir from your boys" and the other is engraved, "Post Theatre Dachau 1946. The handle of the letter opener is a four-leaf clover.

  2. Prayer book

    Set of prayer books for different Jewish holidays. The set belonged to Martha and Leo Loeb.

  3. Broadside

    Poster announcing the establishment of the 20th of Sivan as the date to commemorate and memorialize loved ones.

  4. Fonds Abadi (CMXCIV)

    Archives of Moussa and Odette Abadi, two unknown Jews, who created the Réseau Marcel (Marcel network) in Nice, France to save children during World War II. They saved 527 children from deportation with the cooperation of the local authorities, the Catholic Church (Monsignor Rémond), and many humanitarian organizations. The Réseau Marcel was one of the most successful Jewish rescue networks in Vichy France. Odette Rosenstock was a French doctor, she survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, and Moussa Abadi, Syrian-born was a co-conspirator, whom she married after the war.

  5. American Red Cross pin

    American Red Cross service pin received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  6. Carl and Gertrud Lutz in a garden

    Carl and his wife sit close to one another on a set of steps, holding hands and talking, in Chicago (date unknown). She kisses his cheek. He gets up to adjust the camera and rejoins her, putting his arm around her. They smile for the camera. Gertrud in a fur coat and hat. Carl sits with a group of people in rocking chairs. Carl and his wife on a pier, smiling for the camera. The two walk arm in arm on the deck of a ship, looking out over the railing, and in a garden (seen in RG-60.6976). They kiss. Gertrud wears sunglasses and sits with another man (Emil?) on a bench. Carl joins them. CUs, ...

  7. Główny Urząd Celny w Płońsku Main Customs Office in Płońsk Hauptzollamt Ploehnen (Sygn.1058/II)

    Reports and correspondence of custom officials on confiscation of foodstuffs of Poles and Jews and investigations against smuggling.

  8. Josef Baur papers

    The Josef Baur papers consists of correspondence, identification documents, photographs, and two photo albums relating to Josef Baur (b. 1907) and his family. The papers relate to Josef Baur’s military experiences as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police Regiment during World War II. The majority of the correspondence is between Josef Baur and his wife, Agnes Baur (b. 1910) and written from 1940 and 1943. Several letters sent by Josef included photographs. Agnes numbered both the letters and photographs then placed the photographs in albums with the correlating number ...

  9. Shoag family papers

    Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended Shoag family of Wilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Traby, Poland (Traby, Belarus), and Jeannette, PA, between the years 1929 and 1940.

  10. International Red Cross photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs depicting the work of the International Red Cross, primarily in Europe but also in Asia, at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate postwar period. Original Spanish language inscriptions on the reverse describe the scenes captured and provide additional context related to aid efforts undertaken by the organization.

  11. Selected records of the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Berlin Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Berlinie (Sygn. 474)

    Reports, statistics, correspondence, and press clippings issued by Polish diplomatic agencies operating on German territory since 1933, relating to the condition, persecution and emigration of Jews, incidents of arrests and beating of Polish Jews on German territory, interventions by the Polish Embassy and Polish diplomatic agencies on Jewish matters, and legal assistance for Polish emigrants in Germany. Also includes texts of speeches by Hitler, 1935, and German propaganda. Also included are records relating to the organization and activity of the Federation of Polish Jews in Germany, info...

  12. Watercolor

    Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is titled, "Bedroom", and depicts a bed and other furniture within the room. The watercolor is initialed "H" and dated February 1946, in the lower right corner of the verso.

  13. Reichsbanknote

    100,000 Mark bank note dated 1923.

  14. Joseph Barko photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs found by United States Army serviceman Joseph Barko during WWII. Includes photographs taken from a Wehrmacht soldier depicting various military troops and activities, and liberation photographs taken at the Ebensee concentration camp. There are additional liberation photographs from Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Ludwigslust Palace, Solingen-Ohligs, and Dachau.

  15. Wissbrun family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Fritz Wissbrun, his future wife Edith Kahn, and their families in Amsterdam, including Fritz’s deportation to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Vught). Included is correspondence written by Fritz in Herzogenbusch to Edith in Amsterdam, as well as letters to Edith from Fritz’s mother, Melanie Wissbrun, who was deported to the Westerbork concentration camp; identification papers, passports, vaccination documents, restitution papers, marriage certificates, family books, poetry, and material related to Fritz’s education in Germany and th...

  16. Schoenfeld and Mandelbrot families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, papers, negatives, newspapers and clippings, and other assorted materials which primarily document the experiences of Siegfried, Elsa (nee Schonfeld) and Liselotte Mandelbrot of Stuttgart and their friends and family, and the Mandelbrot's attempts to flee Nazi Germany. The family had visas for the United States, but the papers expired before they could get out. They were deported to Theresienstadt on August 22, 1942, and from there to Auschwitz on October 12, 1944 where they were killed. Elsa Mandelbrot is the donor's father's half siste...

  17. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Diplomatic Legation in Budapest Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Budapeszcie (Sygn.501)

    Statistics, studies, historical essays, correspondence, notes, minutes, articles and speeches related to Jewish affairs, political and economic situation of Jews in Germany, Poland, Russia and other countries, antisemitism, Zionism movement and diplomatic protest of Polish Government against German atrocities against Polish Jews in Berlin, support of Polish government of emigration of Jews to Palestine, opening of Polish line to Haifa to facilitate emigration and tourism to Palestine.

  18. Memories and diaries Wspomnienia i pamietniki (Sygn. IZ. Doc II)

    Diaries, memoirs, narratives, questionnaires, correspondence and letters of various individuals, articles, and press clippings. Records relate to experiences of Poles and Jews during the WWII. Included are records relating to German provocations before WWII, the course of the September campaign of 1939, German settlement action and treatment of Poles, forced labor, armed resistance of Poles, intensive germanization, displacement and round-ups, executions of Poles in Mosina and Szamotuły district, working conditions in labor camps, secret teaching, terror and murders of the Poles carried out...

  19. Boder travels overseas on USS Brazil; French village; displaced persons camp

    MS, group of four at railroad station, including David Boder. “United States Lines Car M.” 01:00:51 VAR views of the deck of a large ship, probably the USS Brazil which Boder sailed to Europe on in late July 1946. Boder with the recorder on his shoulder, walks down the stairs on the ship. A man writes in a journal. A man wearing a yarmulke takes off his glasses. Boder with two men. Woman with her young son. More shots of the ship, American flag. 01:03:07. CU, alternating shots of Boder and a man with still camera. Other ships in the water as they approach a harbor. People on deck. 01:05:20 ...

  20. Jung family photographs

    Contains photographs depicting the Jung family in Munkač, Czechoslovakia; Josef Jung (donor's father) ID photo in Israel after the war; and images of Gitta Erbs (later Jung) in Germany after the war and later in Israel. Gitta Erbs was born in Hust, Hungary to Mordechai Erbs and Berta Farkas Erbs. In May1944 she was deported with her family to the Auschwitz death camp and tattooed with the number A-11690; Josef Jung was born on Feb. 16, 1926 in Munkač, Hungary, son of Izak Jung and Rosa Weisskopf Jung. Josef was deported to Auschwitz death camp in May 1944 and tattooed with number: A-17900. ...