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  1. Selected records of the Worker's Society of Children's Friends. Main Board in Warsaw Robotnicze Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Dzieci. Zarząd Główny w Warszawie (Sygn. 783)

    Statutes and regulations, organizational structure, circular letters, instructions, correspondence, preliminary budgets, minutes and protocols of conferences, lists of children, various questionnaires and official forms, photographs and other records from various Children's Homes, 1945-1950. Included are the “Tutelary Institution Circular Gazette” (Gazetka Międzyzakładowa) of 1947 from the Orphanage in Zatrzebie, 20 articles written by children and refer to their experiences during the Holocaust, e.g. “Warsaw ghetto uprising”, “The hero of human race” (about Janusz Korczak) or “The Korczak’...

  2. Joseph Feingold papers

    The Joseph Feingold papers contain materials related to the family of Joseph Feingold, originally of Warsaw and Kielce, Poland, documenting their pre-war life in Poland, their experiences during the German occupation of Poland in World War II, exile in the Soviet Union, and Feingold’s immigration to the United States in 1948. Included are photocopies of correspondence that Feingold’s father, Aron, sent to his mother, Rachel, while Aron was imprisoned in a labor camp in the Soviet Union in 1940. Other correspondence includes photocopies of letters that Rachel sent from the Kielce ghetto to h...

  3. Seleted records of the Central Welfare Council. Head Office in Cracow Rada Główna Opiekuńcza. Biuro Centrali w Krakowie (Sygn.125)

    Correspondence, minutes of reports, activity reports, lists of population, statistical information and other records created by the Rada Główna Opiekuńcza (Central Welfare Council), RGO, Polish social welfare organization working during the occupation period in Poland. Some of the material concerns the Jewish population and cooperation with the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, ŻSS (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe).

  4. Pastor Paul Vogt papers Nachlass Pfarrer Paul Vogt (1900-1984)

    Private papers of Paul Vogt (1900-1984), Swiss pastor and a refugee aid worker. Consists of manuscripts, press articles, honors, diaries, obituaries, notes by Sophie Vogt-Brenner and Annemarie Vogt, photographs, interviews and publications. Records relate to Paul Vogt's commitment and leadership for charity and assistance to refugees, his work towards understanding between Christian and Jews, and his support for the existence of the State of Israel.

  5. Private papers of Salomon (Shalom) Adler-Rudel (A140)

    Personal papers of Shalom Adler-Rudel (1894-1975): Lists, brochures and leaflets of various schools, and correspondence between Shalom Adler-Rudel, Paul Reiward and the Zionist Federation of Belgium regarding the financial situation and activities of Jewish refugees in Belgium, 1938; a copy of a letter from Reiwald to Adler-Rudel, concerning the economic activities of German refugees, including a list of companies in Belgium owned by refugees; reports on the assistance to Jewish refugees, 1939, in Antwerp, Brussels, and other locations; correspondence between the World Jewish Congress, the ...

  6. Oral history interview with Frieda Navon

  7. Jewish wedding of Holocaust survivors in Salonika, March 1953

    Color. Ocean. Boats. Waves wash over rocks. More boats on the horizon. INT, an older woman clasping a necklace around the neck of a younger woman in white, the bride, a Holocaust survivor from Kastoria, Lena Elias. A little girl sits next to her. They are all fancily dressed. More women, including Kastoria Holocaust survivor Berry Nahmia, join them and tend to Lena, fixing her hair, attaching her veil, arranging it over her face, adjusting her train, etc. Lena paces, smiling. Low-lit shot of Lena sitting surrounded by two young children and other family members. The groom, a Jewish Holocaus...

  8. Activities in France; Kershner speech; children sing

    “American Friends Service Committee.” “Views of some of the activities in and around Marseille May 1942.” “France May 1940.” Flames engulf various buildings, with billowing black smoke. Various collapsed buildings. Civilians leave the city en masse, loaded into trucks or walking. People are carried on stretchers. Large crowds of people sleep in a large, crowded room. CU of various children sleeping, crying, looking upset. AFSC logo. Pan of the AFSC building (the offices weree one floor above Varian Fry's office in Marseille). Howard Kershner, the American head of the Quaker delegation, sits...

  9. Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the Nazis and their Accomplices on the Territory of Volyn Region, Ukraine

    Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the Nazis and their Accomplices on the Territory of the Volyn Region, Ukraine during WWII. Included are records related to the investigation of war crimes ( list of victims, eyewitness testimonies, forensic reports, lists of perpetrators and local collaborators, lists of locals sent for slave labor in Germany etc.) against local population and documentation related to the material and property damage inflicted upon the economy of the region during the Nazi occupation.

  10. Hausspiegel family collection

    Contains postcards that Wolf Hausspiegel received from relatives in the Łódź ghetto; Bertha (Priwin) Hausspiegel's passport; and a Polish/Hebrew document regarding the family.

  11. Joseph Rosenfeld papers

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Joseph Rosenfeld of Vienna, who was able to flee to the United States with the assistance of an American sponsor named Harry Rosenfeld.

  12. Court of the First Instance in Tuszyn Sąd Grodzki w Tuszynie (Sygn. 2290)

    Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to subm...

  13. Charlotte Herzog collection

    Contains photographs and documents related to Charlotte Herzog (donor's mother), and the efforts of her employers to protect her from deportation by proving she was not Jewish.

  14. Photographic print of two sisters

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613480
    • English
    • overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.310 inches (18.567 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of two sisters in a village in Carpathian Ruthenia, ca. 1935-38.

  15. Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc. collection

    Contains a solicitation letter with membership application and return envelope from the Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc.; dated February 1, 1939.

  16. Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn676559
    • English
    • a: Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 35.375 inches (89.853 cm) b: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) c: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue. The local Jews were rounded up in the synagogue before they were transported to the regional ghetto. They were eventually deported to Auschwitz.

  17. Irene Kedroff Kay photographs

    Consists of 17 photographs depicting one of the Dachau trials, a Nazi party event in Nuremberg, and Buchenwald at liberation. Irene Kedroff Kay acquired the photographs in Germany after the war while employed at one of the Dachau trials.

  18. Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement

    Contains a copy of regulations of the Nazi General Government in the German zone of occupation, Krakow: "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement", Nr 51, 20 June 1941. Among the subjects covered include a unification of the zones of occupation; an order given to the [Jewish?] communities of occupied Poland to move to Krakow, and that the city of Krakow will confiscate the property of these communities.

  19. Lavan Robinson papers

    Collection of documents entrusted to 1st Lt Lavan Robinson, who was in the 86th Infantry Division of the United States Army. Robinson worked to bring order to the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany in 1945. In exchange, Robinson received gifts of appreciation from the people he assisted or worked with in the camp. Also included is correspondence received by Robinson after he returned to the United States and a modern letter detailing the events of the time period by Robinson.

  20. A kleinichker vintele | A ganze vokh

    Phonograph record 5. USSR, 2 sides. Tatyana Weintraub, vocalist; State Ukrainian SSR Folk Music and Dance Ensemble, Solomon Feintuch, conductor. Recorded in Kiev, 1939. Side A: A kleinichker vintele (A kleynikhker vintele). Folk song, arranged by Joel Engel. Side B: A ganze vokh (A gantse vokh). Folk song, arranged by Solomon Feintuch. Yiddish singer Tatyana Weintraub (Tatiana Vayntraub) may have been "disappeared" during a Stalinist purge (see Joel Rubin, liner notes to CD "Shalom Comrade"). Solomon Feintuch (1899-1985) was a popular and prolific Soviet-Ukrainian conductor-composer-pianist...