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  1. Dotnuva, Lithuania photograph collection

    Contains 30 prewar photographs of friends and family of the Leibowitz and Toker families in Dotnuva, Lithuania. Most are photographic postcards with Hebrew or Yiddish inscriptions on the verso.

  2. Visiting prewar Athens

    [Problem with film scanning at head of film reel, likely due to shrinkage or broken splice] MS, friends. They bid farewell at a train station. Large group of young children elders. A friend on a busy city street in Athens tips his hat to the camera. Cars in the BG. Sam H. Elias in dark suit walks in a paved garden, waving at the camera. His friend returns, sitting against a flowerbed. MS, Sam Elias again, smoking by a statue. He walks up the steps of a columned government building in Athens. Three Greek soldiers walk by [film transfer problem, some shots repeat]. A sailor and two other men ...

  3. Provincial Office in Łuck Urząd Wojewódzki w Łucku (Sygn.1181)

    Monthly reports of the regional municipal offices regarding regional security, social and political movements, professional associations, communist organizations; new regulations of the governor, minutes of administration conferences, correspondence and statistics relating to political and cultural activities of Jews, their emigration to Palestine, and correspondence regarding communist activities.

  4. John J. Garvey collection

    Contains photographs taken by John J. Garvey (donor’s father), who enlisted in the US Army in 1939 and served in 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He fought in North African Campaign, in the invasion of Sicily and took part in the D-Day crossing. Corporal Garvey’s unit liberated the Hurlach concentration camp, a Kaufering IV sub camp of Dachau, on April 30, 1945. Includes a photograph showing prisoner corpses, annoted on the verso: “ Camp Hurlach” Germany 1945 – Bodies of human beings”; in pencil.

  5. Photographic print of a grandfather and granddaughter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613481
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 10.940 inches (27.788 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.940 inches (25.248 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a grandfather and granddaughter, Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.

  6. Phyllis Shaw collection

    Collection of photographs taken in a sanatorium in Sweden, depicting liberated Jewish women originally from Rumania and Hungary. Among them is Regina Pollak (donor's mother) born on August 10, 1925. The women were liberated from Bergen-Belsen and gave each other photographs as mementos. Includes two photographs of "Ester" with her family taken in Rumania before the mass deportations, dated February 15, 1944. Other photographs show Josef Ganz (donor's father), born February 21, 1919, who survived Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps. Regina survived Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen c...

  7. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Berlin Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Berlinie (Sygn.475)

    Correspondence, passport applications, passports, and consular letters relating to legal matters of Polish minorities living in Germany, and about Zionist organizations in Germany.

  8. Outdoor celebration; holy communion; Vasilevsky family at leisure

    "AGFA 8 1941" Outdoor celebration with families, many smiling for the camera, eating and drinking. Some men in uniform. 01:04:50 Elizabeth, Emma, and George Vasilevsky pose for the camera. Woman with striped jacket. (This event could be "Mayales in Kvetnica. Liptaks, Stofkos, Strakas, etc" according to the canister). 01:06:28 Emma and George sit on a blanket outdoors, blooming trees. Girls dance in traditional costume. Slovak flag. Families at leisure. 01:09:42 First holy communion for Emma and her friends. The girls pose. Mothers talk. CUs, Emma. George biking in yard. Church of Saint Mary...

  10. Commission for War Refugees Commissie voor Oorlogsvluchtelingen

    The archive consists of minutes and other documents of the Commission meetings related to the organization, and coordination and reception of refugees in the particular provinces in the Netherlands.

  11. Photographic print of a Jewish couple in Warsaw

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613745
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 13.380 inches (33.985 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a Jewish couple in Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.

  12. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Minutes of the Board of Directors Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Reuniones Comision Directiva

    Minutes of meetings of the board of directors of Asociacion Filantropica Israelita, organized by year.

  13. Selected records of the Polish Red Cross Polski Czerwony Krzyż (Sygn. 284)

    Correspondence, reports, registers, bulletin, and photographs relating to the repatriation of Polish citizens, repatriation of Polish children, search for missing persons, and a return of files related to victims of crime in Katyń forest.

  14. Berko family papers

    Correspondence, from Ignatz Berko, sent to family members in New York, circa 1937-1941; among the recipients were son Louis (Lajos) Berkow, and daughters Sadie Grossman and Rose Rubin. Also includes copy of certificate attesting to Andor Lichtman's imprisonment at Mauthausen, 1944-1945; and copy prints of photographs of Ignatz Berko and family (original was from circa 1932), and of a memorial plaque for Ernest Lichtman at the site of the Ebensee concentration camp.

  15. Selected records related to history of the Jewish communities of the Volhynia region, Ukraine

    Records of various regional administrative bodies of the Polish government related to the prewar history of the Jewish community of Volhynia region (Wołyń), Ukraine. Consist of documents relating to the socio-economic history of the Jewish communities of the region before WWII. They include lists of Jewish residents from various localities within the region, vital statistics of Jewish population (birth, marriage, and divorce registry books), lists of Jewish draftees, personal files of Jewish doctors and midwives, statistical information about Jewish property, technical certification of the ...

  16. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : The Legation of the Refugees Administration (Group 17M pk 367-404)

    Records related to the protection of Danish nationals in Europe, Danish refugees in Sweden, including members of the resistance and Jews: includes information on their residence, work, education, support, etc.; reports of activities and financial matters of refugee office. Also consists of a name card index of Danish refugees who arrived in Sweden between 1943-1945. The name index is used as the entrance to the files.

  17. Cyprus internment camp collection documents

    Contains two photographs of the Cyprus internment camp, circa 1949, titled in Hebrew "Regards from Cyprus" and "Souvenir from Cyprus." Also includes an entrance ticket marked: "Seminary for counselors in Israeli camps in Cyprus."

  18. Laszlo Vasilie Nussbaum testimony

    Contains a letter from Holocaust survivor Laszlo Vasilie Nussbaum of Cluj-Napoca, Romania regarding his experiences, and photocopies of documents relating to his and his family’s experiences during the Holocaust.

  19. Archive of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Refugees from Germany Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (BiZa)/Vluchtelingen Duitsland

    Records of the Bureau General Secretariat and Compatibility, the Bureau Armwezen/Vluchtelingen and the refugee camps Westerbork, the Lloyd-hotel (later Oostelijke Handelskade) in Amsterdam, the quarantine station Beneden-Heyplaat in Rotterdam and the Koninginnehoofd refugee camp in Rotterdam. The collection consists of records relating to financial and personnel matter, the construction and the layout of the camps. There are also weekly reports and strength records of camp residents, personal cards, sightings etc., and records relating to the Committee of Jewish Refugees, concerning the med...

  20. Béla Ingber family papers

    The collection consists of correspondence and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Béla Ingber, originally from Munkács, Hungary (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) as a forced-laborer in Hungary during World War II and as a Jewish refugee in Italy from 1945-1947. Correspondence includes postcards to Béla while he was a forced-laborer from his father Kálmán Ingber in Munkács, and post-war letters from his brothers Jóska, Miki, and Oli and his sister Libu. Photographs include depictions of pre-war family life, Béla and his brothers in the Czech Army, Béla as a forced-laborer in Hung...