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  1. Broadside

    Broadside: "Kol Kore - Ichud Seidei HaRabanim VehaAdmori’m BePolin" Plea issued by the Organization of Surviving Rabbis and Chasidic Rebbes of Poland seeking help to emigrate to Eretz Israel.

  2. Children at the Sephardic school in Kastoria

    Title card: “Kastorialies out to welcome Mr. & Mrs. Bocko Mayo on their arrival.” Large group of children, with adults in the back, walking towards the camera in an alleyway. More adults, great CUs. Many men, nicely dressed in suits and hats, including Calev Elias, Jack Elias, Russo, Sol Hazan. Mr. and Mrs. Bocko Mayo (with fur). Group shot, including Anna Mayo and Calev Elias. More shots of locals walking around and posing for the camera. Group poses in street, including Allegra Confino and the rabbi (with a fez). More street scenes. Title card: “Mr. & Mrs. Bocko Mayo visiting chil...

  3. Albert Einstein letter

    Letter hand-written in German by Albert Einstein datelined Princeton, October 10, 1938, addressed to his friend Dr. Michele Besso in Berne, Switzerland. In the letter, Einstein describes his attempts to help European Jews by issuing affidavits, his frustration over the fact that he can no longer issue affidavits for fear of endangering ones still pending, and his helplessness to further assist the Jews. He also discusses Hitler’s political and military actions taking place in Europe.

  4. Lista Family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jerry Lista (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1951; his marriage to Gyta Szmulewicz (later Judy Lista) in 1958; and Judy’s immigration to the United States. Also included is a document regarding Jerry’s leg amputation after getting shot and left for dead on a death march in 1945. Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Cymbalista and Szmulewicz families, Jerry in a DP camp, and Judy in Israel. Additionally, there is a Dachau DP identification card o...

  5. Oral history interview with Robert Schubach

  6. Photographic print of David Eckstein and classmates in cheder

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613483
    • English
    • overall: Height: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Gelatin silver print depicting David Eckstein, seven years old, and classmates in cheder (Jewish elementary school), in Brod, ca. 1938.

  7. Karter family collection

    Postcards and envelopes addressed to Gustaw Karter (donor's grandfather) and his daughter Ruth Karter (donor's mother) in Cincinnati, Ohio from various people in Tarnopol and Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1939 and 1940; and postwar letters from Tola Ueberfuhrer and Stella Feiler, displaced persons in Gliwice, Poland and Salzburg, Austria. Also includes envelopes, empty and postmarked, sent from Edmund Wasserberger, Anna May, and Erna and Edita Karter from Poland and the Czech Republic. One envelope returned to Sol Better addressed to Anna Karter in the Ukraine, dated 1940.

  8. The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY

    Title card: “Arriving at Solonika on way to Belgrade, Serbia.” Women, nicely dressed, pose for the camera at a train station in Greece. Anna Mayo and Calev Elias are in the group. People wave from the train windows. Some chat on the platform. The train departs. In different pairs, people walk towards the camera. Pan of station activity. Soldier in traditional garb walks down the street. Brief, donkeys in a field. Three men on the train platform. Title card: “Visiting aunt and other relatives in Belgrade, Serbia.” A nurse holds a baby outside a residence. Anna Mayo greets the baby. The nurse...

  9. Prayer book

    Prayer book owned by Leopold (Lajos) Blum (donor's cousin). He found it at his neighbor's home after he returned to his home town of Sanicoara, Romania after liberation. When he returned, he found his business had been looted and learned that his wife and children had been murdered in Auschwitz. He found this prayer book and a few others at his neighbor's home. Decades later, when Leopold decided to emigrate to Israel, he was told that he could not take these with him, so Leopold left them with his cousin Zoltán (donor) in Gherla, Romania. Zoltán was interrned with Lajos in Mauthausen, and ...

  10. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)

    Records of David Diamant (Aaron David Erlich). Records include personal papers, letters, manuscripts, archives, photographs, drafts, press clippings and work books as well as letters of internees, political detainies and deporties, and testimonies and records of the Union des juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide (UJRE), Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid.

  12. Visiting Italy

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Osterreichs. “Riccione 1932” “Domus Mea. Unsere Pension” (00:00:25) Hans and his father Jakob Kessler walking out in the yard in a rented pension in Riccione, Italy. “Gang ins bad” Hans plays with a dog. Lizzy shows a sign above the gate that says, “Domus - Mea” and Jakob and Hans walk out of the gate under it. “Das meer” (00:01:41) Jakob and Hansi run and play along the beach. “Der strand” Hans and Jakob on the beach. “Badeleben” Lizzy is doing handstands in the water and then practices different swimming strokes. “Wettlauf” Hans a...

  13. American OSE Committee (RG 494)

    Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...

  14. Selected records of the City Jędrzejów Akta miasta Jędrzejowa (Sygn. 1657)

    Minutes of sessions of the town authorities, books of registers of permanent residents of Jędrzejów, documents related to tax and budget matters, and documentation of the occupation authorities of 1939-1945. The prevailing part of the collection includes materials of the construction department relating to construction or reconstruction licenses of estates, blue prints and designs of buildings, etc. Numerous documents refer to the Jewish inhabitants of Jędrzejów and provide details of daily life of the Jewish minority in the town during the interwar and wartime period. In 1939, Jędrzejów wa...

  15. Two short films: Hansi eats; Hansi grows up; amateur film equipment and studio; toys

    Lizzy Film Produktion. “Bei der Sause” Two people, possibly Jakob and mother, talk while a man eats with Hansi [Hans Otto Kessler]. Lizzy? (Hansi’s mother) sits down to eat. The family drinks coffee and breaks bread. “Wenn munt’re reden sie begleiten…” Hans learns how to cut bread. “Speck und jam passen gut zum kaffee” Hans feeds the man. “Die fetten bissen verschlingt der patterbom” The man with a mustache, possibly Lizzy’s father, cuts food for Hans. “Ende” 01:03:09 Lizzy Film Produktion “Dem leben eines” “Filmstars” “1 Teil” “Hansi beschӓftigt sich” “Die morgen lekture” “Hansi ist hier 2...

  16. Star of David badge worn in Romania

    Worn by Anuta Kling Rappaport Mendelovici in Botoşani-Suceava, Romania during the Holocaust.

  17. Vilna broadside

    Meiteilungen für die Truppe. "Battle leaf" Issued by the central command of the Wehrmacht, July 1944 (after "Operation Overlord" and the occupation of Normandy).

  18. William Harris Pysher collection

    Photographs taken by American serviceman, William Harris Pysher, shortly after the liberation of Buchenwald.

  19. Martin Sloan collection

    Consists of identity paperwork, naturalization and citizenship documentation, and restitution paperwork related to the post-war experiences of Mendel Slomovits (later Martin Sloan), a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Also includes testimony written by Albert Hersch (born Adolph Hershkovitz), who survived the camps with Mendel.

  20. German documents Dokumenty niemieckie (Sygn. IZ. Doc I)

    Various German documents regarding German policies in the occupied Polish territories, especially in the “Wartheland”: administration, economy, the police bodies and German settlements in the Wartheland. Records mostly relate to germanization and atrocities against Polish and Jewish population, in addition, to the activity of "Rechsuniversität Posen" created in Poznań. Included are trials against Poles who offended the so-called Volksdeutsche, directives for Germans how to behave towards Poles, a list of names that Polish parents were allowed to choose for their children [File 48], Germaniz...