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  1. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Barneveld. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.

  2. Fritzi and Elizabeth Zinger correspondence

    Correspondence, consisting of four letters and a postcard, the majority sent by sisters Fritzi and Elisabeth Zinger, originally of Vienna, following their immigration from Austria to the United States as two of the"50 children" sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, of Philadelphia. The correspondence, dating from June and July 1939, is chiefly from the two sisters, sent to their parents, who were still in Vienna, and were sent from the children's home Brith Sholomville, in Pennsylvania.

  3. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949

    Records include: correspondence with Jewish communities throughout Turkey, Romania, and Palestine; extensive documentation regarding shipments of food packages and other supplies to concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen (including a postcard sent by Rabbi Leo Baeck, the renowned German scholar, from Theresienstadt acknowledging receipt of a AJJDC care package); cables and news releases; lists of survivors, including thousands of files from the Central Location Index; wartime testimonies; and correspondence regarding Joel Brand’s and Rudolf Kasztner’s negotiations in 1...

  4. Oral testimonies of Lilly Malnik and Nesse Godin

  5. Oscar Stein papers

    Collection of manuscript texts of poetry copied from underground periodicals, circa 1938, which had originated in Germany during the period from 1933-1936, along with a typescript memoir by Stein, circa 2015-2016, which describes his family's experiences following the German annexation of Austria and the family's subsequent escape. The underground publications were received and copied by Oscar Stein while he was employed at the Palästina Amt in Vienna. Approximately 80 leaves, containing over 100 poems, from authors such as Bertolt Brecht, Stefan Heym, Oskar Maria Graf, Walter Mehring, Eric...

  6. Drawing by a Theresienstadt inmate of a castle near Prague

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn533520
    • English
    • 1943
    • overall: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) pictorial area: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Drawing of the Prague townscape featuring the Prazsky Hard castle created on wood by an unknown inmate in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1943. It was once owned by Ales Jermar, a Czech-born pianist.

  7. Robert Dreyfus papers

    Correspondence and other documents from Rabbi Robert Dreyfus, a native of Alsace, and primarly related to his experiences during the occupation of Belgium and France during World War II, including his own imprisonment as a prisoner-of-war from 1940 to 1945, including postcards and letters that he received from his wife, father, and other family members during the period when he was interned. Also includes a small amount of post-war correspondence.

  8. Agricultural works

    Potatoes, horse-drawn wagons, plows, women carrying bundles of straw, rural women drinking from a bottle, motorcyclist, straw shovelling, grain sacks

  9. Poster satirizing world leaders

    1 poster "150 Heads of Worldwide Politics"

  10. Collection of selected posters and proclamations Zbiór afiszów i plakatów (Sygn. 808)

    Posters, ordinances and proclamations issued and disseminated in Poland, dating from the inter-war period, the German occupation and the Communist regime. There are proclamations, ordinances, and posters related to Jews, including those of the establishment of the ghetto in Końskie, as well as the proclamation of 1946 condemning the Kielce pogrom.

  11. Cooperative Bank of Industrialists and Merchants in Częstochowa Bank Spółdzielczy Przemysłowców i Kupców w Częstochowie (Sygn. 1419)

    Financial records of one of the Jewish banks in Częstochowa, included are: the records of the opening balance during liquidation of 1941, and other liquidation files of the bank.

  12. Shmul and Szajndla Borensztajn collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to Shmul Borensztajn, from Warsaw, and Szajndla Lojwasser Borensztajn, from Izbica (donor's grandparents), who fled German-occupied Poland to Soviet territory with their children, Zygmunt, Jakob, Hershel, and Fela, along with Shmul’s parents, Sender and Chava Borensztajn. Zygmunt joined the Mir Yeshiva and reached Shanghai; Jakob was sent by the Soviets to Archangelsk, where he died. The rest of the Borensztajn family were deported to a forced labor camp in Siberia. Shmul and Szaindla were married in the camp with a ketubah, ...

  13. French Campaign

    Guards, Paris, jockeys, cabaret, women with hats

  15. Germans awaiting deportation from Horovice; Soviet soldiers arrive in town; funeral procession

    Brief shot filmed in the 1960s of a group of young children and people standing in the street in Hořovice. 00:12 Town hall in Palacky Square in 1945 with a group of Germans awaiting deportation. German troops leave. Trucks. Soldiers walk along a road, carrying gear. A member of the Revolutionary Guard on the phone. They set up a machine that acts as a telescope/binocular for them to enhance their sight of the surrounding area and monitor airspace. They look over a map. Two soldiers look out other tools used for better vision. Armed civilians in the square. Soldiers on the rooftop. Men in a ...

  16. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers

    The collection contains correspondence, identification papers, photographs, testimonies, and restitution claims documenting the experiences of Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres in Poland, Lithuania, and Italy during the Holocaust, and their post-war experiences in Italy prior to immigrating to Canada. Included are papers regarding their time as displaced persons in Bari, Italy; and their work with the Joint Distribution Committee; their immigration to Canada; testimonies; and restitution claims. The restitution papers also reflect Regina's attempts to reclaim funds from a Swiss bank that her f...

  17. Personal case files from the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, Sydney

    Personal case files of Jewish refugees who immigrated to Australia between 1937-1960s. Records include photos, emigration questionnaires, registration cards, requests for landing permits, personal documents, correspondence with Joint & HIAS, some information about personal experiences during the war, and family search requests.

  18. Occupied Paris in color, North African campaign in color, Greece, The country and people of Russia

    Airforce, transport aircraft, Meditteranean Sea, water tap, soldiers writing and smoking, shelter, hospital ship, wounded people, peasant women

  19. German and Austrian mountain hunters

    A propaganda film by Wolfgang Gorter. The 1st Mountain Division Mittenwald in the Caucasus 1939 - 1942. The footage for this film comes from the camera of a mountain hunter of the former 1st Mountain Division Mittelwald. Includes fight at 50 degrees below zero, flagging on the 5,633 meter high Elbrus and daily life of the soldiers in an occupied country.

  20. Judische Kultusgemeinde in Prag Gmina Żydowska w Pradze Jewish Community in Prague Židovská náboženská obec v Praze Żidovska Nabożenska Obec v Pradze (Sygn.102)

    Correspondence from the Foreign Department of the Jewish Community in Prague (Transfer Auslandsabteilung Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Prag), November 1939 to July 1940. The Jewish Community staff had to send copies of replies to the Head Office of Emigration of Jews (Zentralstelle fuer Auswanderung der Juden). The letters from the Jewish Prague community had to be concise and refer only to emigration matters: including possibilities of departure, the route, information about affidavits, visas and other required documents, fees, transportation costs, lodging, deposits, etc. Included is co...