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  1. 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...

  2. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Odessa region before and after WWII

    Selected records of several regional branches of the Jewish organizations, Odesa Jewish Communist Party (Poalei-Zion), Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, training schools, regional Soviet authorities and trade-union organizations in Odesa region. Including are records related to technical education, implementation of the Soviet national policy toward Jewish population and other ethnic minorities residing in the Odesa region, resettlement, creation of the Jewish agricultural collective farms, statistics, minutes of the meetings of the regional bureau of ethnic minorities, various repor...

  4. Bert Yost letter

    The Bert Yost letter was sent by Bert Yost, an American soldier, to Lt. Dorothy Mosely, a nurse serving in United States military hospitals in Britain and France during World War II. The letter , dated May 10, 1945, describes the military hospital where Yost was stationed in occupied Germany. He also described the former prisoners-of-war and concentration camp inmates who had been admitted as patients to his hospital, the refugees he had seen in the area, and stories he had heard about atrocities committed in the concentration camps include a probably reference to Ilse Koch.

  5. Zilbert Family Collection

    Contains documents related to the donor's father's immigration from Poland, and subsequent correspondence from his family still in Białystok, Poland.

  6. Archive of the Jewish Community Kreuzlingen Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen Archiv (1921-2009)

    Records of the Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen (Jewish Community Kreuzlingen). The collection consists of reports, statutes, circulars, payment receipts, accounting records, various administrative correspondence, and executive correspondence with political authorities, Jewish associations, and Zionist associations; correspondence and other documents on refugee aid, Zionist efforts, welfare commission, Christian-Jewish associations, Jewish cemetery Kreuzlingen-Bernrain, School and Youth Commission, Jewish Women's Association of Kreuzlingen, Jewish communities in Basel, Bern, Genf, Luzern, St, ...

  7. 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.

  8. International Worker's Day poster

    Poster for May 1st, on behalf of the Histradrut (General Organization of Jewish Workers in Palestine). Lin. Z. Bergman, "Achdut" printing press, Tel Aviv, 1943. Illustration of red hammer inscribed "1943 1 May" striking and breaking a swastika in flames

  9. Erna Low memoirs

    Contains two memoirs by Erna Low titled "I was in Oświęcim" and "Visit from Addis Ababa." The first memoir includes a postscript by her son-in-law Alfred Wolkenberg dated November 1983.

  10. Detroit Polish-American Union Committee to Fight Hitlerism Detroit Polsko-Amerykański Komitet do Walki z Hitleryzmem (Sygn. 360/7)

    A list of Polish people (including signed and handwritten entries for name, surname, address and the date of entry) issued by the Detroit Polish-American Union Committee to Fight Hitlerism, supporting the statement of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for assistance to states struggling with Hitler and Nazism. Entries are dated between August and September 1941 (approximately 208 pages)

  11. Displaced persons camp; tattoo numbers

    Young men (displaced persons) crowded on benches outdoors, pan and CUs, at unknown DP camp location. Baby in a carriage. 01:12:44 DPs display the numbers tattooed on their forearms from the Nazi concentration camps. Women sit on a bench and knit. A young man washes his feet under a faucet. Waking on a path. Large group of people stand beneath a castle. CUs, scar on the leg of a man, presumably a result of labor during the Holocaust. Palace grounds. More CUs, portraits of displaced people. A young girl holds a puppy. The group lines up in rows in the courtyard, lowering a Zionist flag.

  12. War Office certificate holder

    War Office plastic certificate holder that originally housed a retirement certificate dating from 1968. The certificate itself is housed with the document portion of the collection.

  13. 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...

  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. Rose Katz collection

    Papers, documents, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rose Reichman Katz's (donor's mother) extended family in Raslavice, Slovakia before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence received by Rose from her family; pre-war photographic images; and receipts dating from the 1930s documenting monies sent from Rose and her husband Milton to her mother and father Hermine and Wolf Reichman and their extended family in Slovakia. Documents indicate Rose's siblings were deported in 1942 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland where they are presumed to have ...

  16. Prayer book

    Sukkot Mahzor, published in 1878, that belonged to Martha Bermann Loeb.

  17. 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, ...

  18. Displaced persons camp at Henonville

    Women working in a garden at Displaced Persons Camp near Paris in September 1946. Children smile and laugh, dance with young woman, Pola Stopnicki (nee Shechter/Schaechter). Pan, David Boder examines a bundle of crops with a group of DPs. Child holds up a freshly picked vegetable. CUs, DP families. Pan, group of men pose for the camera with a religious Jew reading from a book. CUs, women smile, one waves at camera, holding flowers, celebrating. Father with baby. 01:03:33 Sign above the Hénonville chateau doorway for ORT vocational training facility 65km NW of Paris: “Atelier d'Ébénisterie d...

  19. Watercolor

    Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is titled, grüße aus bayern, or "greetings from Bavaria" and depicts flowers, interlacing hearts, and a mountainside gravesite. The watercolor is initialed "H" and dated February 1946, Dachau, Germany in the lower right corner. The watercolor has been taped to a white piece of paper.

  20. Selected records of the Provincial Office in Tarnopol Urząd Wojewódzki w Tarnopolu (Sygn.1180)

    Monthly reports of the Tarnopol regional municipal offices regarding regional security, social and political movement, professional associations, communist organizations; papers from conferences of governors, maps of the voivodship showing the activities of political organizations; correspondence regarding communist propaganda; reports on sabotage actions, and lists of foreigners displaced from the Polish People's Republic (Illegal trips, seeking refugees for deportation).