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  1. Giorgio Perlasca correspondence with Eva and Pál Lang

    Correspondence, sent between Giorgio Perlasca, of Padua, Italy, and Eva and Pál Lang, of Budapest, Hungary, 1988-1992. and with Perlasca's family, 1992-1997. The Langs, who were among the Jews saved by Perlasca's actions in Budapest in 1944-1945, when Perlasca provided over 5,000 people with safe conduct passes through the Spanish legation in Budapest to prevent their deportation by the Nazis, contacted him in 1988 to express their gratitude. The Langs remained in contact with Perlasca in the following years, visiting him in Italy and hosting visits in Hungary, which are documented in this ...

  2. Labor Court in Warsaw Sąd Pracy w Warszawie (Sygn.1944)

    Selected court record of cases from the Labor Court of Warsaw, Poland, related to payments of compensation for work, unused leave, disability pensions, etc. The records relate to everyday life and working conditions of Jews in Poland prior to 1939; Records also contain personal data of applicants.

  3. “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939

    “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939. Police festival. Winter Relief. SS-Standarte Germania gives public concert. Day of Commemoration of Heroes. Carnival in 1939. May Day celebrations in 1935

  4. Pair of straw boots with felt liners

    Straw boots with felt liners acquired by Ruth Felzer, a member of the Women's Army Corps [WACs] stationed in Europe, primarily in Germany.

  5. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949

    Personal letters, petitions, and newspapers published by the deportees. Records contain accounts of the aid activities of the AJJDC in the British detainee camps, including correspondence with the British authorities, medical care, educational programs, welfare activity, immigration to Mandatory Palestine and Israel, and eyewitness accounts of conditions in the camps written by the AJJDC administration. It also consists of many documents related to activities of the British soldiers.

  7. Card catalog of evacuees from Latvia

    Card index of citizens evacuated from Latvia in 1941.

  8. Activities of the 257th German Infantry

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. Men working in a quarry, soldiers eating, exploring, playing soccer, training, testing weapons, examining a destroyed bridge, bouncing on broken traintracks.

  9. Terrence Des Pres papers

    The Terrence Des Pres papers consist of biographical materials, course material, United States Holocaust Memorial Council materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, subject files, and writing documenting professor and author Terrence Des Pres, his 1976 book on survivors and the Holocaust, the literature courses he taught at Colgate University, including one on the literature of the Holocaust, his service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council during its early years, his extensive interest in matters relating to poetry, politics, and oppression in literature an...

  10. Elmer Jesse Fisher papers

    Contains a multi-paged report titled "We Saw Dachau" (V. 1 No. 6) dated "Mon. 14 May 1945." Report written by numerous soldiers, but primarily by Elmer J. Fisher (donor's grandfather). Signed by him, upper left corner of cover. Includes three photographs of post-liberation of trains with corpses, taken near the Dachau camp, dated May 1945.

  11. Blue and white Zionist flag with a Star of David from the ship Exodus 1947

    Blue and white Zionist flag taken down from the mast of the Exodus 1947 on July 18, 1947, by Mike Weiss, a Jewish American crew member, after the ship was forced into the port in Haifa. Weiss removed the flag before the passengers and crew were forced to disembark. This flag design was later adopted as the Flag of the State of Israel, which was created on May 10, 1948. Weiss had volunteered for the clandestine effort to smuggle Holocaust survivors from Europe to Palestine. He was a boatswain-carpenter on the ship, which was under the command of Haganah, an underground Jewish paramilitary or...

  12. Oral history interview with Frederick Terna

  13. Records of Rawa Mazowiecka Akta miasta Rawy Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1022)

    Various records related to the town of Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland, mostly from the period prior to World War II, including minutes of the sessions of the Municipal Council of 1926-1939, examination of estates, lists of men who were recruited into the army, certification of craftsmen, and lists of businesses and their owners of 1941-1945.

  14. Harry Reese photograph collection

    Collection of black and white photographs and copy prints, some loose, some fused together, which document atrocities committed during the Holocaust at a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp; dated circa 1945. Acquired by Harry Reese (donor's father) while serving with the US Army in Belgium during WWII.

  15. Courtland Vincent Guerin, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of photographic postcards in an envelope documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation; images taken by US Army photographer and brought home from the war by Courtland Vincent Guerin, Jr. (donor’s father) who served with the First Army, 175th Signal Battalion

  16. Adam Leczycki photograph collection

    The collection contains prewar photographs of Adam Leczycki (born Abram Leczycki) and his family in Łódź, Poland, and postwar photographs of him in Israel.

  17. Selected records from the State Archives of the Dodecanese Islands, Greece Carabinieri collection

    Records of the Central Special Bureau of the Italian Carabinieri in Rhodes (today Greece, between 1912 and 1946 a part Italy) and the card index of the surveillance files. Archives of the Italian Carabinieri include information on individuals, businesses, citizenship, ethnic groups, spies, important events and political personalities. A high number of these 100,000 files concern the local Jewish community in Rhodes, following the creation of the central governing body of the Italian Jewish communities in 1931, to the deportation of July 1944. The Carabinieri recorded information on their li...

  18. Charles R. Lord papers

    The collection contains photographs and correspondence documenting Charles R. Lord’s trip aboard the SS Carroll Victory “Cattleboat I” to deliver livestock to Greece as part of a relief mission by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) from November 1946 to March 1947. The correspondence is primarily between Charles and his wife Josephine. The photographs document the livestock delivery as well as trips to villages and cities in Greece, Palestine, and Africa. An itinerary of the SS Carroll Victory is also included.

  19. Nora Orchan collection

    The Nora Orchan collection includes a autograph book that Nora carried with her during her emigration with her siblings from Germany to Israel in 1938. Autographs and entries date 1935-1941 and include poems and drawings as well as diary entries, perhaps by Nora. The collections also includes pre-war photographs of Nora and her family.

  20. Touring Northern Spain and the French riviera

    With intertitles in English. Shots from up above of the coast and a village below. 0:41 “Cathedral of Notre Dame de la Garde at Marseilles- France.” Shots of the cathedral, two fashionably-dressed women pose and smile for the camera in front of the beach. 1:02 “In the Courtyard of a former Count’s Estate.” The same two women and a man stand before a building with a large rose window. 1:19 “Hotel D’Angleterre in Biarritz.” A well-dressed woman and man exit the Hotel D’Angleterre and walk around the gardens. 2:00 “A drive to St. Jean Pied de Port.” Shot of a flowing river. Car stopped on the ...