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  1. Selected records of the District Court in Kielce Sąd Okręgowy w Kielcach (Sygn. 146) : Wybrane materialy

    Court files pertaining to civil cases of Jewish population in Kielce: Authorization, protocols, statements, translations from Russian, court judgments, notices, receipts, marriage certificates related to inheritance, rights of possession, notary acts, acknowledgement of purchase-sales, restoration of property, exclusion of rights of possession, appropriation of land, annulment of last wills, bids, returning of money, divorces and annulment of marriages, ratification of marriage acts, alimonies, determining identity, rectification of register act, criminal acts as homicides, robbery assaults...

  2. Synagogue in prewar Kastoria; local Jewish families; street scenes

    Façade of the synagogue in Kastoria (built in the 1800s and destroyed after WWII), inside there is a flag with the Star of David and a tablet with Hebrew writing/Ladino [plaque for Bocko Mayo with a poem that speaks to his qualities). A small child picks flowers off a bush. Isaac Elias, Sr. and his wife stand arm in arm and blow kisses to the camera. A young Maurice Russo at far right. Little girls wave at the camera. The outside storefront of Isaac Elias’s sewing machine shop (Isaac is the father of Jack Elias, the patriarch of the last remaining Jewish family in Kastoria today). Isaac sta...

  3. Munich streets; war memorial; Reichswehr

    “MUNICH” “LUDWIGSTRASSE.” People walk along Ludwigstrasse in Munich, some turn to look at the camera. “ODEONSPLATZ.” Funeral wreaths on the stairs of Feldherrnhalle. Nazi soldiers walk down the stairs on the left. Children, pigeons in the Odeonsplatz. “HOFGARTEN” Munich, Germany, white chairs and covered tables in the pavilion. “OKTOBERFEST” Procession of men on horseback, marching band. They are dressed in traditional costume. Spectators and children on the sides. Men in military uniform march. “WAR MEMORIAL” The World War I memorial in front of the Old Army Museum in Munich. Tomb covered ...

  4. David Weyl diaries

    The collection consists of three diaries kept by David Weyl, originally of Erkelenz, Germany, documenting his Holocaust experiences after fleeing Germany to the Netherlands in 1939. The diaries chronicle his deportations to the Westerbork and Theresienstadt concentration camps and span 1942-December 1945. They also include notes on family history and addresses.

  5. Ernest Braun papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Ernest (Eliezer) Braun of Vienna, Austria, including his escape from Austria in 1938 to Yugoslavia and Italy, his immigration to the United States in 1944, and his time living at the Fort Ontario refugee camp in Oswego, New York. Included is a small amount of biographical material; a false identification card from Italy; correspondence from his parents Josef and Gisela Braun and his sister Nelly Braun, all of whom perished during the Holocaust; writings; and photographs. Biographical materials include birth certificates, address books, a...

  6. Anne Haas Jacobson Papers

    Contains a letter received by Harry Haas (donors' grandfather and father) in 1939, sent by Viennese Jewish woman named Rosalie Haas and her Protestant husband Robert, who were trying to flee Nazi Austria.

  7. Charles and Ellen Hill collection

    Contains a handwritten letter, with envelope, from Charles Hill to his wife Ellen about his visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp, dated April 22, 1945; a typed carbon copy of the letter; three photographs and one partial photo, all mounted on paper, of Charles & Ellen Hill while on vacation in Greece and Europe shortly before WWII, dated 1939; and one loose photo of Charles Hill, dated January 1945.

  8. List of Vilnius Residents and Refugees looking for Relatives

    List of residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for relatives. The table includes names of 159 residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for their relatives worldwide with some residing in Palestine and others in Europe, Displaced Persons Camps, Cyprus, and the USA. Source of information is registered in the left-hand side column, such as the Jewish Agency or the Joint Distribution Committee.

  9. Krys family papers

    The collection primarily contains prewar photographs and wartime postcards of the Krys family of Skierniewice, Poland. Included are prewar photographs of Martin and Anna Krys prior to immigrating to the United States, Martin’s sisters and brothers, and other relatives including the Munkabotzki family. There is one postwar photograph of Miriam Ordenas’s (Krys) son Yitzchak (Jack) and his wife in a DP camp. Correspondence consists of two prewar postcards and six wartime postcards addressed to Martin Krys in the United States from his sisters Miriam in Skierniewice and Roiza in Warsaw, both of...

  10. Eleonora Diamand collection

    Contains glass negatives of photographs taken by Eleonora Diamand (donor's maternal grandmother) between 1905-1941, documenting life of her family in Lwow. Eleanora was killed during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944.

  11. Prayer book

    4 volume sete of holiday mazhors: First Days of Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, and Last Days of Passover.

  12. Selected records from the General State Archives, Greece-Archives of Serres

    Postwar records of the Special Court for theTrials of the Local Collaborators in the area of Serres (Eastern Macedonia) in the former Bulgarian Occupation Zone, according to the Law 533/1945 for the collaboration with the enemy. The collection includes registries of collaborators, investigation files, outgoing correspondences concerning investigation, court proceeding and verdicts. The reverse side of some of the papers used for these investigations and correspondence contains documents of the Bulgarian Administration (mostly empty forms, but some with text) during the occupation years (194...

  13. Balas family photographs

    Collection of small individual photographs cut from contact sheet with portraits of members of donor’s family who died in the Holocaust.

  14. Jewish community of Kastoria in 1937

    Title card: “Horpistah, Village Near Kastoria.”Color. People walk in the streets of Horpistah. Men pose for the camera. Outdoor merchants sell their wares. Goats, horses, donkeys, and other livestock. People tend to the livestock. Benjamin Honen, the town crier. Many people walk around at an outdoor market. A cobbler fixes shoes. Black and white. Fabric merchants pose for the camera. More market scenes. Josef Confino with tie. Title card: “The Archbishop of Kastoria.” The Archbishop of Kastoria, surrounded by a small group, walks by. Title card: “Picnic in Do-Pia-Koos.” A large group of peo...

  15. Photograph of Rabbi Jacob and Annie Halperin

    Photograph of Rabbi Jacob and Annie (née Blumberg) Halperin who perished during the Holocaust.

  16. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Polish Embassy in Paris Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Paryżu (Sygn. 463)

    Reports, studies, articles, correspondence and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and other countries in Europe, including Germans, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians and Polish Jews. Included are materials about Jewish matters: Jewish affaires in Poland and other countries, attitudes of the Jewish population to the Polish-Soviet war, Zionist organizations, the issue of pogroms of Jews in Poland, general position of the Jewish population in Poland, 1919-1920; the Universal Jewish Congresses in Gdańsk and Karlsbad, Jewish Memorandum to the Council of ...

  17. Max Kohler letter to Cordell Hull

    Contains a letter from attorney Max Kohler addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, dated 1933.

  18. Adler and Blau families papers

    Passports, documents, correspondence, and related materials documenting the immigration of Richard F. Adler and Alice (nee Blau) Adler to the United States, from Nazi occupied Austria, in the late 1930s, and their experiences as recent immigrants in the United States. Also includes documents related to their lives and those of their respective families in Austria prior to emigration.

  19. Sigmund Neuberger papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Sigmund Neuberger of Hainstadt, Germany as a soldier during World War I and his immigration to the United States from Zurich in 1940. Included are identification documents, a document stating that he was neither a communist nor a fascist in Zurich, immigration papers, German Army papers from World War I, German passports, and photographs. Also included are German military documents from his brother in law, Moritz Rosenbaum, also a World War I veteran.

  20. More Sweat...Less Talk...Makes Enemies Squawk WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "A Seal on Lips Helps Save Ships" on one side and "More Sweat...Less Talk...Makes Enemies Squawk" on the other side.