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  1. Oral history interview with Angele Maranian

  2. Selected records of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice Browar Parowy w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 922)

    Books of recipients, debtors, incomes and expenditures of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice, owned by Polish businessman, Władysław Strakacz. The brewery’s clientele included many Jews.

  3. Rabunski family collection

    Contains a typed carbon copy of autobiography of Wolf Rabunski (donor's grandfather) from Kurzeniec (Kurenets), Belarus, dated 1965, in German; family photos; documents from German government, dated 1965-1970; and letters from World Jewish Congress, dated 1964.

  4. Major Julian S. Perry collection

    Consists of one anonymous typed poem, circa spring 1945, describing the liberation of Buchenwald from the point of view of a liberated prisoner. The poem was given to (or typed by) Major Julian S. Perry while he was serving in the European Theater as part of the 516th Quartermaster Truck Battalion. Also includes correspondence, photographs, and narrative documenting Perry's experiences during World War II.

  5. Textile with embroidered names

    Burlap patch embroidered with a series of names and the dates 1940-1946.

  6. Szajndla Rajs work card

    Consists of one forced labor work card from the Łódź ghetto, on onion skin without backing. The signed card, which is missing a photograph, was issued to Szajndla Rajs, born in 1935, listed as an apprentice milliner. The card is undated. Szajndla (Szaindla, Szaindle) Rajs perished in the Holocaust.

  7. Simonne Youkobovitch Wodka collection

    Contains an invitation for the 1946 wedding of Simonne Youkobovitch (donor) and Pierre Wodka.

  8. Selected records of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Sygn. GK 162)

    This collection contains correspondence, lists of documents, copies of lawsuit files, personal files, minutes of sessions, reports, as well as materials collected in the course of the work conducted by the Main Commission such as: name lists of German officers; materials related to the notes of Sonderkommando (including snapshots) found on the area of Birkenau in 1961; writer’s studies of Stanisław Płaski, Janusz Gumkowski, Szymon Datner, Tadeusz Kułakowski, Leszczyński, Mieczysław Roman, Hubert Jan Urbasik, Leon Popławski and Stanisław Krośnicki; list of ordinances of General Government (G...

  9. Aron Lutwak photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and photograph postcards depicting the deportation of Jews from Coesfeld, Germany to Riga, Latvia on 10 December 1942; post-Holocaust memorials and historic sites in Germany and Poland, including the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp; and a tunnel for an unidentified camp.

  10. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Nowe Miaste on Pilica Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn. 1837)

    Court civil cases of the post-war period in Poland. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą and include records of possession, reconstruction of acts of marital status (certificates of birth, marriages and deaths), finding dead persons, and cases of inheritance.

  11. Selected records of the Province of Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn.166)

    Correspondence, reports and other documents relating to granting of Polish citizenship, passport matters, religious matters, establishing cemeteries, Jewish religious community of Łódź, some hundreds of associations or federations or other Jewish organizations from Łódź and its entire province (mainly of mutual help, education and sport), as well as physicians’ personal files and from the Department of Social and Political Issues, Voivod’s reports of 1926-1939, which constitute documentation of the social and political life of the entire region of Łódź, including Polish-Jewish relations dur...

  12. Telegraph machine part

    Part of a telegraph instrument from a post office in Toulouse, France, circa 1960s, acquired by Arlette Benichou. It reminded Arlette of the one she used at the Post Office in Tunis, then part of the French Protectorate of Tunisia. She worked there sending and receiving telegraphs before and during the early years of World War II, before Jews were banned from civil service jobs.

  13. Stuffed bear

  14. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  15. Wasservogel Wellerson families collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in 1940 they were placed in internment camp in Atripalda in Forino, Italy, not far from Naples. From October 1943 Forino was under Allied control. In July 1944 the Wasservogel family joined approxim...

  16. Joseph Bookowich photographs

    Consists of photographs from the collection of Joseph Michael Bookowich (later Brooks), a member of the 339th Ordinance Depot Company, depicting the capture of Hermann Göring and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs taken in Dachau depict prisoners showing various aspects of camp life, while the photographs of Göring depict him posing and talking to his American captors. Also includes mass produced photographs of women mourning the death of children, who appear to have died in a bombing raid, possibly in eastern Europe.

  17. Werner Krumme collection

    Cntains a copy of a three page letter, dated August 1945, written by Werner Krumme, a Polish man who was arrested and interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. Krumme's wife, Ruth, perished in the camp, and Werner worked in a clerical position in the camp until July 1944.

  18. Max Landwirth papers

    Correspondence, affidavits, tax returns, telegrams, photographs and other documents primarily related to the efforts of Max Landwirth (1863-1943), of Michigan City, Indiana, to assist relatives in Germany and Austria with immigration to the United States, as a result of Nazi persecution in those countries, 1938-1939.

  19. Alexander Gleis papers

    The Alexander Gleis papers consist primarily of Gleis' firsthand accounts of his experiences surviving the Stanisławów ghetto, hiding in an underground shelter at the home of a Polish Catholic named Staszek Jackowski, being liberated, and moving to Israel. The papers also include retellings of the Jackowski story by Ruth Gruber and in clippings, biographical materials documenting Gleis and his wife, maps of Stanisławów, photographs of Gleis and his family before and after the war, and two letters to Gleis from the Bayerisches Landesentschädigungsamt.

  20. Leszner family collection

    Collection of French newspaper and magazine pages saved by Julius and Margaret Leszner (donor's parents) during WWII. Some of the pages include their daughter Liliane's birth announcement, a photograph of Margaret Leszner and other refugees from Luxembourg heading to France, an announcement searching for Margaret Leszner posted by her husband, along with other pages saved by the Leszners. Julius survived in hiding, while Margaret and Liliane survived posing as Catholics.