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  1. Oral history interview with Zoltan Weisz

  2. FDR campaigns for NY governor; Morgenthau family home movies

    Franklin D. Roosevelt swimming in the pool at the Morgenthau residence. Henry III holds up fish. The three children, Elinor, and another boy roast marshmallows outside. Women's luncheon (possibly a Vassar reunion organized by Elinor) outdoors at the farm, views of the property and a river. The Morgenthau children play on rings, swim in the pool, play ball, and sail toy ships in the swimming pool. Airplanes fly overhead. The children help build a dock in the summer at the farm; playing with the family dog, whose name was Puddles. A large group of people on the farm with a stable in the BG wh...

  3. Selected records of the City of Otwock Akta Miasta Otwocka (Sygn.1)

    This collection contains minutes of sessions of the town government and council, as well as records relating to taxes, matters concerning the Jewish community and Jews in general, all aspects of economic and cultural life, health care and schooling, registers, lists of electors, budget, permissions for house construction, e.g. technical project of edifices, and reports of the town government and council activity.

  4. Ring hidden by a Polish Jewish girl while in a concentration camp

    Engagement ring given to fourteen-year-old Sala Silberstein (now Sally Chase) by her mother, Estera, when they were interned in the Radom ghetto in Poland in 1942. Sala was given the ring to use as money, and managed to hide it throughout her imprisonment in concentration camps. Sally, her parents, her five brothers, and two sisters were forced into one of Radom’s two ghettos in April 1941 by the occupying German administration. Two of Sala’s brothers walked east, but after becoming separated, one of them returned to Radom. The other found work in a town near the Soviet border where he was ...

  6. Print

    Linoleum print, "Nazi Prison: Victims of Internment", 4/6, created by Charles Quest in New York or St. Louis.

  7. Jewish family life after the war; Altalena ship on fire

    Hannah and baby exit a home (Israel?). Baby pushes a pram. 09:11 MS, crowd of people on the street, palm trees in BG. Menachem (?) plays with a collection of porcelain dolls and rides a carousel [poor VQ]. 10:18 Children play on a balcony (in Israel?). 11:34 MS, a ship on fire [probably the Altalena in June 1948], billowing smoke. 12:16 Child (sister of Menachem?) plays on the balcony, rides a tricycle, and pushes a toy wheelbarrow; the flowerpots contain mini flags of Israel. Some celebration (nursery school graduation?), women carry flowers and children eat an assortment of desserts.

  8. Henny Wenkart papers

    The Henny Wenkart papers includes passports, postcards, photographs, and printed material, related to the childhood and emigration of Henny (Henriette) Wenkart from Nazi-occupied Austria as one of the "50 Children" on the transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in June 1939. Includes childhood photographs of Wenkart and her family, German passports for Wenkart and her mother, Rose (Rachela) Wenkart, postcards sent by Wenkart's father, Hermann, including those sent to family members during World War I, and several publications containing poetry written by Wenkart reflecting on her e...

  9. Selected records from the State Archive of Foligno

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Foligno.

  10. Anti-Hitler toothpick holder

  11. Selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Poland in London. Office for War Crimes Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie. Biuro ds. Zbrodni Wojennych (Sygn. GK 159)

    This collection contains materials related to the research and investigation of perpetrators of war crimes such as: witness testimonies after the invasion of Germany in September 1939, reports of crimes committed against Poles on Polish territory and in Germany, lists of local German officials, Gestapo chief officers, guards of concentration camps, data related to concentration camps, German police authorities, accounts of Polish refugees about the conditions of life in Poland and crimes committed against civilians by the occupation authorities and Wehrmacht in the initial period of occupat...

  12. The Schmidt and Englander families collection

    Contains documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of the Schmidt and Englander families in Stuttgart and Konstadt, Germany and their flight from Nazi occupation.

  13. Gertrud Oppenheimer collection

    Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received permits to move to a transit camp in Marseille. In January 1942 Leo was transferred to a forced labor camp in Augagne, and in July he came to Marseille directly to a hospital. In August 19...

  14. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    Slim, rectangular leather identification card case received by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Pa...

  15. New York American newspaper issue

    Partial newspaper, "New York American"; headline states "Hitler Lists 46 Dead in 'Blood Purge,' but Estimate Number Slain at 200"; dated July 8, 1934.

  16. Book written by an Austrian Jewish refugee rescued as a child and brought to the US

    Copy of a book written by Peter Linhard, who, as a six year old, was one of "50 children" brought to America from Vienna, Austria, in 1939 by Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  17. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  18. Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)

    The collection contains correspondence, notes, press clippings, articles, regulations, speeches, reports, and correspondence. Materials relate to the following subjects: Aid rendered by Schwarzbart to the Jewish emigrants and war refugees from Poland; Jewish emigration, editing of the Jewish newspaper “The Future” in France in 1940 and newspapers in other countries; and Schwartzbart’s activity in the National Council of the Republic of Poland in France during 1939-1940.

  19. Questionnaires, related to Ktav-Heter and Agunot, post-Holocaust Hungary

    Nine questionnaires recording testimonies of men and women whose spouses were killed during the Holocaust, and who were seeking to record documentation of such, in order to obtain a writ of permission (Ktav Heter) to remarry. Stamped and signed by rabbis in various locations in Hungary, approximately 1946-1952.

  20. Sieraczek family papers

    The Sieraczek family papers include biographical material, correspondence, and photographs relating to Henryk Sieraczek and his son Jerzy Sieraczek’s (Jerome Sears) experience living in the Warsaw ghetto, going into hiding, and living in the Zeilsheim DP camp. The collection also includes papers relating to their immigrating to the United States. Biographical materials include Henryk’s passport for stateless persons and identification card as well as Jerzy’s identification card for his school in Lodz. Correspondence include letters from Henryk to his family about his experiences during the ...