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  1. Lorna Adelman photographs and papers

    Contains photographs and copy print images of Gil and Lorna Adelman in various displaced persons camps, primarily Zeilsheim, Lindenfels, and Wiesbaden. Incudes a pamphlet for the dedication of Synagogue Center of Wiesbaden, December 1946, and a document entitled “Programm der Purimfeier” by the Jewish Community of Wiesbaden.

  2. Rosmarie Meldola Haarburger letter

    Contains a letter written by Dr. Rosmarie Meldola Haarburger [donor's maternal aunt] on August 1, 1945 in Amsterdam, immediately after her liberation and recuperation from the Aschersleben concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Dr. Meldola was deported to Auschwitz in August 1944 and tattooed with prisoner number A-25140. In December 1944 she was transferred to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, and in March 1945 she was taken to the subcamp of Buchenwald. Dr. Meldola wrote this letter to her three sisters in the US: Erika, Grete and Were Luise (donor's mother) in which she described h...

  3. Russian campaign; burning villages

    Russia. Mud. Smolensk. Winter Russia. German soldiers. Fires. Attacks. March 1943. Civilians. Simferopol. Romania 1944. Entertainers. 01:09:36 Seven hanged Jews (two women, five men) wearing yellow stars, near Minsk in November 1941. WS, MS, MC, CUs. With a printed sign: "Diese Juden haben gegen die deutsche Wehrmacht gehetzt!" (see RG-60.1281). Brief views of Roma camp in Tiraspol.

  4. Luftwaffe bomber squadron

    Film material collected regarding the Boelke squadron ('Kampfgeschwader' 27 Boelcke was a Luftwaffe medium bomber wing of World War II). Including shots of Roma/Sinti, Königsberg after the air raid of August 8, 1944. 10:00:12:20 Dr. C. Keller, medical officer of III./KG 27 Boelcke.

  5. Cerne Lichtenstein collection

    Contains a Lithuanian passport issued to Cerne Lichtenstein (donor's grandmother), containing transit visas from Kovno, Lithuania through Europe enabling her to leave in 1940. Includes a visa granted by the Japanese Consulate in Kovno allowing Cerne to pass through Japan. Includes three photographs of Cerne, her daughter Esther (Lubocki), Esther's husband Meilach Lubocki, and their two children, all who perished in the Holocaust.

  6. Marta Goldschmidt Neuhaus collection

    The collection contains two diaries written by Marta Goldschmidt Neuhaus in Esslingen, Germany. One diary, dated 1935-1936, describes her life in Germany including her family’s efforts to leave. The second diary, dated 1936-1937, begins at the point of the family's departure in January 1936 through July 1937.

  7. Notice to ghetto residents to turn over all jewelry

    Notice to residents of Łódź Ghetto that they must turn in all their jewelry. It was issued by Mordechai Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat [Jewish Council] that administered the Ghetto for the German occupation authorities..Łódź was occupied by Germany a week after the September 1, 1939, invasion of Poland. It was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1940, the Jewish population, about 160,000 people, was confined to a small sealed off ghetto. Due to the severe overcrowding and scarce food, disease and starvation were common. In January 1942, mass deportations to Chelmno killing center be...

  8. Selected records of the Tax Office in Końskie Urząd Skarbowy w Końskich (Sygn. 1030)

    The registry of misconducts, records of newly constructed houses, tax books, a list of Jewish estates in the town of Końskie, and other rural communities.

  9. Odessa tombstone

    Odessa tombstone of Elis Danilovici, who died on October 4, 1929. The tombstone belongs to a group of funerary stones brought to Romania during World War II by the Romanian occupation authorities of Transnistria. The Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities (FCER) found them on a train and brought them to the Giurgiucui Jewish Cemetery.

  10. "Po'alei Zion," Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party Żydowska Socjaldemokratyczna Partia Robotnicza "Poalej Syjon" (Sygn. 1213)

    Records from the Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party „Poalej Syjon” including program proclamations, a proclamation on the occasion of Labor Day (1th of May), and others documents.

  11. Russia 1942; POWs; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 8.1942: Russia, population in the market place in Landser, village is on fire. 10:02:30 Landser, burning place in the background, Russian prisoners of war. 10:04:16 heavy gun fires. 10:04:33 soldier on typewriter, advance. 10:06:30 JU 52 in flight. 10:08:39 Air Force: bomb loading, various repairs to machines, bullets in the tail unit. 10:17:00 Paris, usual pictures. 10:22:36 Aerial photos: shadows of the machine on the ground, bomber loading. 10:24:57 train station, RK sisters, flash girls, bomb loading.10:29:08 aircraft in the air, view into flight cabin, pilot and gunner. 10:32:21 P...

  12. Lida Duciak and Wasyl Iszczenko collection

    Contains an “Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer” (employment record book for foreign workers) issued to Lida Duciak (donor’s mother), who was forced to work on a farm in Germany; an “Arbeitskarte” (worker’s ID card) issued to Lida Daciuk on May 13, 1942; a birth certificate (copy), issued for Lida Duciak, certifying that she was born on September 12, 1922 to a Ukrainian Orthodox family, issued on August 3, 1942; a “Good Conduct Statement” for Wasyl Iszczenko and Lidia Iszczenko, residing in a Stephanskirchen DP camp, issued on October 20, 1949; a copy of a birth certificate issued to Wassyl Iszczenk...

  13. Oral history interview with Tania Lefman

  14. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee

    Wooden chain carved by Hillel Szajner, of Plauen, Germany, before his death in 1924. Hillel taught one of his sons, Max, how to carve chains from a single piece of wood. While imprisoned in a French transit camp during the Holocaust, Max used this skill to make decorative chains, at least one of which began as a broomstick handle. Max’s wife snuck the chains out of the camp in a loaf of bread. Two of his chains are on permanent display in Israel, at Yad Vashem and Lochamei Hagetaot. Max’s sister, Dora Szajner Faktor, carried their father’s chain when her family immigrated to Australia durin...

  15. German army, Winter 1941

    Agfa 8. Winter of 1941. Wehrmacht, probably in Russia. Bunker, sawing wood, sleigh

  16. German soldiers in Karelia and Lapland

    Winter, soldiers, sauna, patrol, dead man on sledge, motorcycle in snow, lake, wounded man on stretcher.

  17. Files of the bailiff of Grójec Akta komornicze w Grójcu (Sygn.1325)

    Files of the bailiffs of Grójec region, Poland, related to the recovery of Jewish debts. Selected cases relate to Jews from different towns and villages of the Grójec county (Mogielnica, Zbrosza Duża, Błędów, Broniszew, Winiary, Głowaczów, Jadwiga, Otalążka, Miechowiec,Tarczyn, Goszczyn, Ryszki, Łatanka, Daszew, Wola Karolewska, Tomaszów gmina Konie, Trzylatków, Dąbrówka Stara, Dobiecin, Pielinów, Wilhelmów,Goliany, Worów, Świdno, Daszewice, Łychów and other places, as well as from the Grójec itself). The files generally contain documents typical for the execution of debt: a motion to the C...

  18. Dr. Rosa Seidmann Waldinger papers

    Contains a grade book from the Vienna medical school for the years 1923-1925, which belonged to Rosa Seidmann (donor's relative) who was born in Vinitza, Bukovina. Incldues a certificate of service issued to Dr. Rosa Seidmann Waldinger for her work in a pulmonary clinic for children and youth who suffered from tuberculosis from July 24, 1930 untill November 15, 1935, signed by the chief doctor and director of the clinic.

  19. UNRRA selected records AG-018-036 : Latin America-Procurement Offices

    Selected files of the Latin America Procurement Offices: Correspondence of the government officials of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador; financial reports and budget planning; displaced persons matters and press information.

  20. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Kielce Sąd Grodzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 1159)

    Court files of civil and criminal cases from 1939-1944 as well as indexes to the cases. Many cases refer to evictions and cases against Jewish inhabitants of Kielce by the Social National Insurance for outstanding payments.