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  2. Oral history interview with William Kornbluth and Edith Kornbluth

  3. Tadek Korn papers

    The Tadek Korn papers include photographs, clippings, and a biographical statement by violinist Perec Brand that were formerly housed in an album and scrapbook. Photographs from the album primarily depict Tadek Korn, his family, and other displaced persons at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp between 1945 and 1948. Additional photographs from the album depict the Korn family in America and on vacation in Eilat, Israel and Corinth, Greece. Photographs from the scrapbook include one depicting Tadek Korn wearing the clothing he had on upon arrival at the Zeilsheim DP camp, one depicting him...

  4. Felix Lilienthal family papers

    The collection contains pre-war and wartime correspondence between members of the Lilienthal family of Wiesbaden, Germany. Pre-war correspondence includes letters sent to Saul Lilienthal, a cantor and teacher, from when he was living in Posen (present-day Poznan, Poland); Freiburg, Germany; and Wiesbaden; as well as general family correspondence. Wartime correspondence primarily contains letters sent to Felix Lilienthal, who immigrated to Treinta y Tres and then to Montevideo, Uruguay in 1938. Included are letters sent by Saul and Bertha Lilienthal from Wiesbaden in 1938, and then from Amst...

  5. Watercolor

    Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is unttitled but depicts a view of the living room.

  6. Rezső Rudolf Kasztner collection

    The Rezső Rudolf Kasztner collection comprises letters, documents, certificates and protocols given to Holocaust researcher Dov Dinur by the Kasztner family that document Kasztner’s activities as a member of the "Vaad Ha-Ezrah veha-Hatzalah be-Budapest " (Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest). Letters, reports, and an aide mémoire from July-August 1944 pertain to the early stages of negotiations Kasztner conducted with Adolf Eichmann, Kurt Becher, Hermann Krumey, and other senior Nazi leaders on behalf of the committee in an attempt to secure the liberation of hundreds of Hungarian Jews. In...

  7. Fonds Anny Latour (DLXI)

    Records collected by Anny Latour, a doctor of philosophy, historian and author of a book on Jewish resistance: La Résistance juive en France, 1940-1944, Paris: Stock, 1970. The archives constitute testimonies and general correspondence collected by Anny Latour in the framework of the research and writing of her book about Jewish resistance in France. She donated her archives to the CDJC and disappeared. There was no trace of her to ask for authorization to use a testimony she recorded, or notes she took.

  8. Keren Alexandria collection

    Contains documents concerning the commemoration of the Aleksandria community in the region of Wolyn, Ukraine. Includes handwritten and typewritten letters; a memorial article about the town; an announcement about searches for relatives; a names list of victims; material from Yad Vashem; and documents and notebooks listing letters and donations to the association.

  9. Miniature ceramic mug

  10. Selected records of the State Archive in Prešov, branch Humenné

    Selected records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property and businesses in the towns of Humenné and Medzilaborce in Slovakia. Also includes a proposal from 1929 for the appointment of members of an election commission, among them several Jews, and records pertaining to detention camp for prisoners of war (Serbs and French) in Humenné.

  11. Jack Cherniss papers

    The collection primarily consists of letters written by Jewish American soldier Jack Cherniss to his wife Shirley while he was serving in the United States Army during World War II. His frequent letters describe his training in the United States and his deployment overseas in December 1944. Significant letters include one from 11 January 1945 describing an altercation with an antisemitic fellow soldier, and his letter from 27 April 1945 contains his account of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation. Also included are administrative papers regarding his military career an...

  12. Allied propaganda leaflet, "Ein Deutsches Flugblatt"

    Leaflet dropped by the RAF over Germany in July 1943. The leaflet quotes from the "Manifesto of the Munich Students" attributed to the White Rose resistance group.

  13. Anne Heineman-Beer collection

    Collection of documents, receipts, correspondence and other papers relating to the restitution claims of Anne Heineman-Beer (donor's grandmother) and her family's experiences during the Holocaust.

  14. 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.

  15. Torah scroll with cover and box

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn562912
    • English
    • a: Height: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 7.130 inches (18.11 cm) c: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 18.310 inches (46.507 cm)

    The scroll was used by Rabbi Ralph M. Weisberger during his military service in the Persian Gulf, circa 1944.

  16. Klein, Leikach, Schonebaum family history

    Contains a family history of the Leikach, Schonebaum and Klein Families including family trees, maps, illustrations, photos and a roster of family members; also includes photocopy of proclamation by Mayor Martin O’Malley designating April 1, 2006 as “Leikach-Glick-Shanis Day” in Baltimore. Includes a memoir dated c. 1992; in English.

  17. Ministry of Interior. Prisoner cards, labor camps Nováky, Sered, Vyhne and other camps Ministerstvo vnútra. Karta zaistenca, Pracovný tábor Nováky, Sereď, Vyhne

    Card files of Jewish inmates of forced labor camps in Slovakia for the years 1942 to 1944. In addition to the three main labor camps of Nováky, Sereď, Vyhne, the collection also includes the card files for several smaller camps (commonly referred to as Pracovné stredisko pre Židov), as follows: Degeš, Tehelňa HSĽS Nitra (brick factory), Ilava, Kraľovany, Kostolná, Devínska Nová Ves, Vyhne, and Žilina.

  18. Photographic print of a boy with earlocks, Warsaw

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613749
    • English
    • overall: Height: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.380 inches (33.985 cm) | Width: 10.630 inches (27 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a boy with earlocks (payos), Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.

  19. Isaac Mevorah collection

    Consists of discharge papers documenting Isaac Mevorah's release from Dachau in 1945 and a photograph of a Maccabi soccer team in Salonika, Greece circa 1936.

  20. Collection of materials relating to World War II Zbiór materiałów z lat i dotyczących II wojny światowej (Sygn.271)

    Various materials relating to the World War II, including patriotic and anti-German poetry, prophecies referring to the future of Poland and Europe, an open letter to the General Gub. Dr. Hans Frank, condemning the inhuman crimes of the occupiers (1940), a list of Polish citizens saved from German concentration camps as a result of the action of Count Folke Bernadotte, provisions of German police equipment (Ordnungspolizei, ORPO), and reports of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost., HTO (1939-1942).