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  1. German passport issued to Charlotte Hartmann

    Consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Charlotte Hartmann of Vienna on 19 September 1938. Charlotte's son, Paul (1933-), is also registered on this same passport. Visas stamped inside the passport indicate that the Hartmanns arrived in Shanghai in 1939.

  2. Mordechai Moniek Hanani collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Wassertail family in Rajcza, Poland.

  3. Captain Stuart Cosgriff, MD collection

    Contains correspondence written by Dr. Cosgriff to his mother and a friend/fellow doctor which document his experiences in the Buchenwald concentration camp in the days immediately following liberation, his visit of Ebensee and other locations. Also includes photographs taken by Dr. Cosgriff during his visit to the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Wels, and a Russian POW camp at Nurnberg; dated April - May 1945; in English. Dr. Cosgriff was in charge of the medical setup in Buchenwald after liberation.

  4. Rhine River tour; Württemberg

    “GERMANY” "THE RHINE” Dark shots from from a boat on the Rhine River of the surrounding area. Castle on the hill. Trees. Smokestacks of boats on the water. The castle wall on the edge of a hill. Waterfront. Smaller castle on a terraced hill. “HALL IN WUERTEMBURG” Schwäbisch Hall, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Steep stairs lead up to St. Michael’s Church. Houses line the slanted road. Nazi flag. St. Michael’s Church. Young girl approaches the camera, joined by a young boy and mother.

  5. Torah ark curtain

    Ritual tablecloth /veil for the Torah box from the Gherla synagogue. The Gherla synagogue was used in 1944 as a short-term detention place for Jews before they were interned in the Gherla brick factory which was used as a ghetto. At this point, the Gherla Jewish community is made up of one person, eighty-year-old survivor Zoltan Blun.

  6. Lubomir Skrovina correspondence

    Personal correspondence of Lubomir Skrovina (donor's father) from the period of his deployment on the Eastern Front during WWII

  7. Oral history interview with Max Blumenstein

  8. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Marseilles Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Marsylii (Sygn.464)

    Correspondence, circulars, press clippings, and publications related to the persecution of Jews in Germany, German minorities in Poland, the Polish minority in Germany, repression against Polish citizens, the census in Germany, Ukrainians in France, and guidelines on tracking the activities of organizations. Also included are the instruction of the Polish Embassy in Paris (1938), reports of consulates in Casablanca and Marseille, propaganda materials in Gdynia, Poland, legislative materials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the Free City Gdańsk, and citizenship cases of Gdańsk ci...

  9. Mann and Schwarz families papers

    The Man and Schwarz families papers consist of two family photograph albums documenting the prewar lives of the Mann and Schwarz families in Tarnów, Poland and Vienna, Austria. The albums are titled "1817-1918" and "1927-1937." Included are depictions of family life, vacations, children, relatives and friends, and Lazar and Helene's wedding in 1930. Also included are a small amount of documents, primarily copies of correspondence. The majority of the photographs are annotated by the donor and include descriptions of the fates of family and friends during the Holocaust.

  10. Jewish community of Kastoria, Greece; Sephardic school for children

    EXT pan of a building. Children stand outside. Pan, shopfronts with signs in Greek, crumbling stone wall on Metropole Street. A man with hat walks along the street. Houses over a lake, pan coastline. Residences, laundry hanging from balcony. A woman walks in the street. Another woman steps outside her house. A man walks towards her and they shake hands. Cobblestone streets in Kastoria with local people walking around, including Nona, Sol, and Victor Hazan. A woman does the washing in a body of water. A group of men in hats and long jackets walk towards the camera. Pan, building with balconi...

  11. Monique Trompetter family papers

    The Monique Trompetter family papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Monique Tompetter, her sister Betty, and their parents, Lou and Rose Marcelle Trompetter. Biographical materials include identification papers, postcards, and certificates documenting Betty’s musical education, Monique’s internment at Vittel, and the deportation of her sister, mother, and grandmother to Auschwitz. Photographs depict members of the Trompetter family and document Lou Trompetter’s vaudeville career, Betty’s 1938 visit with her father the United States, Monique’s ...

  12. Jay Janis collection

    Photograph of Berchtesgaden taken by Jay Janis (donor's father) in the postwar period.

  13. Apology letter from residents of Bonbaden, Germany, addressed to Margot K. Stern

    Letter (two leaves, four pages), written and signed by the residents of the village of Bonbaden (part of city of Braunfels), in Hessen, Germany, 9 November 2008, containing an apology to Margot K. Stern and her family, former Jewish residents of Bonbaden, who fled their village and homeland because of antisemitic persecution during the Nazi era. The letter, written following a Christian worship service commemorating the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Bonbaden, expresses remorse for the persecution of Jews in Bonbaden during that era, acknowledges the pain that Stern’s family experienc...

  14. Street scenes in Paris during the peace conference

    In Paris, the American Express building on the corner. A man stands in front of the Conference de la Paix bus.

  15. Selected records of the State Archive in Levoča

    Selected records of the post-war trials and investigative cases of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts pertaining to Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members accused of collaborating with the German security forces. Includes the trial records of individual Slovaks accused of denouncing their Jewish neighbors, the trial records of regional Hlinka Guard commanders responsible for the deportation of local Jews, as well as the trial records of major political defendants. Also consists of wartime files of the local gendarmerie stations pertaining to the arrest and roundup o...

  16. Vilna broadside

    Bekanntmachtung Nr. 19 des Buergermeisters der Stadt Wilna [Notice No. 19, Mayor of Vilnius]; Vilnius, Lithuania; in German, Lithuanian, and Polish; Broadside issued on August 22, 1941 three months after the German occupation of Vilnius, ordering the refugees who arrived in the town after September 1, 1939, and who did not get Lithuanian citizenship until June 1940, to register in the municipal offices. The broadside also calls all of Vilnius residents to register in the police headquarters in their neighborhood and get an identity card. At the end, the broadside states that the decree does...

  17. Fonds FSJF-après-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France

    Records of the Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France (Federation of Jewish Charities in France) FSJF: Correspondence, reports, minutes, leaflets, cultural programs, press articles related to socio-legal assistance for Jewish survivors and the needy, commitment to the memory of the Shoah, support for the State of Israel, promotion of Yiddish language and the renewal of Jewish culture in France.

  18. Kessler family life in 1931

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Osterreichs. Bringtz. “Kino” “Achtung” “Sie sehen: Momentbilder” “Von Sommer 1931” “Herbst 1931” “Winter 1931” “Sommer” (00:00:57) “Jm Voslauer Strandbad”. Families sit on the beach. Aunt Hilde [Hilde Altmann?] hands something to Hans Otto Kessler and smiles at the camera. “Mit Tante Hilde ins Wasser” Aunt Hilde [Hilde Altmann?] and Hans walk down the stairs into the water. Aunt Hilde helps him swim and lightly splashes the water. “An der Quelle” Hans play with the water coming out of the fountain and then walks around in the water ...

  19. Anne Hanken manuscript

    Contains a manuscript written by Anne Hanken (donor's maternal aunt) about different rescuers during the Holocaust.

  20. Selected records from the State Archives in Vratsa related to the history of the Jewish community of Vratsa

    Records of the District Administration of Vratsa, District Court, and District Inspectorate of Public Schools. Included are school reports relating to Jewish students; legal proceedings and court records pertaining to the local Jewish population, and correspondence between the District Court and Department of Police concerning the local Jewish population. The collection also includes surviving records of the Jewish Community of Byala Slatina (municipality in Vratsa District) containing financial records, minutes of the meetings of the Board of the Jewish Community (1943), and requests to re...