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  1. Collection of Florian Efraim Sokołów Akta Floriana Efraima Sokołowa (Sygn.103)

    Personal papers of Florian Efraim Gotthold, his wife and son. He was a Jewish lawyer and journalist. The collection includes political correspondence and journalistic work, as well as press services, newspapers and news clippings, collection of postcards, and family private correspondence, telegrams and bills. The smaller group are papers related to the period of his work in the Joint Distribution Committee (Files 9-10) and Jewish issues (Files 11-12). There are contributions to the activities of Zionist organizations in Poland and abroad, a speech of Nachum Sokolow (Florian's father), note...

  2. Private collection of Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner (Sign. P 68)

    Private papers of Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner. The collection consists of correspondence on behalf of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria with American and British Jewish organizations, the U.S. military, and other chaplains regarding WWII survivors and their family members, includes a letter to Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein regarding the arrival of the first child in the Bavarian Zone, Nov 19, 1945, medical reports, list of employees of Jewish Committee in Munich, and other subjects related to situation of European Jews after WWII; also consist of articles, reports, financial stat...

  3. Louis Rubin photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by Louis Rubin (donor's late husband) of Bergen Belsen and elsewhere in Germany during his military service in Europe.

  4. Laiser Ajchenrand papers Nachlass Lajser Ajchenrand (1911-1985)

    Private papers of Lajser Ajchenrand (1911-1985), a Holocaust survivor and author. The collection consists of personal documents, photos, press articles, the vernissage in the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland, correspondence with Max Brod, Marc Chagall, Max Frisch, Hermann Hesse, Abraham Karpinovitch, Jo Mihaly, Carl Seelig, Nelly Sachs, Abraham Sutzkever, et al., poems various texts and reviews relating to Holocaust experiences and his intelectual life and literary work.

  5. George Silviu family papers

    The George Silviu family papers document George Silviu, a Romanian poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Records include administrative and professional documents, official letters, Silviu articles and poems published in journals, personal letters, and press clippings. The collection also includes copies of extensive files now held in the Securitate Archives in Bucharest that document how Silviu was banned from publishing under his true name, arrested, and imprisoned. The collection further documents the family’s Romanian citizenship and the career of Silviu’s father, famous architect Ia...

  6. Miriam and Aaron Gopman papers

    The collection consists of a manuscript by Fern Sharon Ellis entitled "Miriam Gopman: The Courage of a Hero and Her Story of Survival” describing the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Mirian Gopman of Tarashcha, Ukraine. Also included are reparation documents of Miriam and her husband Aaron Gopman, Polish and Russian military identification cards of Aaron, and a document regarding Aaron’s arrest in Tarashcha in 1958.

  7. Prayer book

    Shavuot Mahzor, published in 1884, that belonged to Martha Bermann Loeb.

  8. Hansi turns three; dream sequence with special effects

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Oesterreichs. “Hansi’s Geburtstagstraum” “Momentbilder bis zum dritten Lebensjahr” “Hansi ein Jahr alt.” Hans Otto Kessler [Hansi] runs around a tree, and then eats an apple. A German title reads, “Hier spielt er Sich mit seinem Hund” Hansi holds a shovel, standing over a small dark puppy in a wheel barrow. A German title reads, “Die Gartenarbeit ist gesund” The child gardens holding a rod of some form and has an object in the mouth. The child giggles and smiles in a bath tub as someone rinses them. “Am Telephon, 2 Jahre alt” Hansi ...

  9. Klezmorimlekh | Tif in veldele

    A: Klezmorimlekh; B: Tif in veldele. Folksinger Epelbaum (1894-1957) was imprisoned in 1949. Phonograph record 3 (red label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Mikhail Epelbaum, voice Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Yakov Kukles (Moscow, 1939: Gramplasttrest 9019-9020)

  10. Selected records from State Archives of Blagoevgrad related to the history of the Jewish community of Blagoevgrad

    Correspondence, circular letters, orders and decrees issued by the Ministry of Interior and Health and Bulgarian People's Bank to its regional offices concerning the matters related the Jewish population of the Gorna Dzhumaya (now Blagoevgrad) region. The collection also contains list of Jews relocated from Sofia to Gorna Dzhumya (Blagoevgrad), requests and appeals of the Jewish population addressed to the local authorities; letters, telegrams, lists and other documentation pertaining to the Jewish Labor Units No 9 and No 12 which were stationed in the Gorna Dzhumaya (Blagoevgrad) area.

  11. Yearbook, Walnut Hills High School 1943

    "The Remembrancer" 1943 Walnut Hills High School yearbook, Cincinnati, OH; Includes the theme of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini as puppets both as actual puppets as well in drawings, also includes references to Japan and Hirohito. The yearbook introduction is addressed to "Adolf" and says "You thought by pulling the strings of your millions of little heiling puppets could concur the world. We're grasping those strings ourselves, Adolf. We intend to dangle you and your partners before our little world here at Walnut Hills High School in this proud old Germany city of Cincinnati, Ohio to show y...

  12. Commissioner of Police : Search Service (Group No. 1353)

    Lists of missing Jews, concentration camp prisoners, and various materials concerning concentration camps.

  13. Beit Din in Warsaw collection

    Collection of letters and documents from the Beit Din (rabbinical court) in Warsaw from the latter part of 1939, immediately before the outbreak of the war. Includes handwritten and printed documents concerning family matters signed by the dayanim of the Warsaw Beit Din.

  14. Haganah poster

    Poster issued by the Haganah; titled "It All Depends on You" in English and Hebrew with image of finger pointing at viewer and the Haganah shield in the upper left corner; caption in lower left corner "Haganah Poster No. 2"; published 1947

  15. Betar document collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence recording the operations of Betar commissionership in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Handwritten and typed correspondence sent to the head of the commissionership and the commander of the ship "Pentcho," Yehoshua Halevi Zitron.

  16. Oral history interview with Zsuzanna Lorand Dallos

  17. Mary Berg diary publication papers

    The collection documents the initial publication of Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary by Mary Berg in 1945 and subsequent efforts by S.L. Shneiderman, the original editor and translator of the diary, his son Ben Shneiderman, and historian Susan Pentlin to republish the book. Included is correspondence and documents regarding various efforts to republish the diary, clippings, reviews, interview transcripts, manuscript fragments, photographs, and copies of writings regarding the diary. Diary publication materials include copies of contracts and documents related to subsequent efforts to republish the di...

  18. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Leipzig Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Lipsku (Sygn.479)

    Correspondence and questionnaires relating to the issuance of passports to Polish citizens living in Germany, and a case of the expulsion of a Polish citizen, Mojzesz Wethamer, by the German authorities.

  19. Ruth von Wild papers Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)

    Private papers of Ruth von Wild (August 3, 1912 -April 26, 1983), a Swiss teacher and aid worker for refugees. The collection consists of a diary, diploma, certificates, correspondence, postcards and reports of holiday travels by former employees of the Swiss Working Community for Children of Spain (Ayuda Suiza, SAS) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Spanienkinder], and for the Swiss Working Community for Children with Disabilities (SAK) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kriegsgeschädigte Kinder], personal photo albums on the activities of the children's colony of the Swiss Re...

  20. Kalman Karl Kornfeld collection

    Contains documents relating to Kalman Karl Kornfeld (donor's uncle by marriage), including a provisional identification card for a civilian internee of Mauthausen; a Polish identity certificate; a Polish passport; notice of registration in Cuba; a US certificate of naturalization; a US passport; and a photocopy of his death certificate.