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  1. Hinda Saul collection

    Consists of one folder of typed English language translations of letters sent from Nochum Berman in Šeduva (Lithuania), Lithuania, to Hinde Zarachaite (Zarkey), who immigrated to the United States in 1937. The letters are dated 1937-1940, and the later letters describe the beginning of the persecution of the Jews in Lithuania. Nochum Berman most likely perished in August 1941 as part of a roundup in Seduva. Also includes three facsimile autograph books, based on Hinda Saul's own autograph books, dated from 1934 in Widze (now Vidzy, Belarus) and 1936-1937 in Šeduva, and after her arrival i...

  2. Irwin Newman collection

    Contains prewar photographs of the family of Nathan Katz (donor's cousin) in Poland and postwar photographs of Nachman Katz in a DP camp.

  3. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin-back button, "Hang all Facist"

  4. Contemporary painting by a Holocaust survivor

    Painting created by Jiri Konta in 2007. Dr. Konta was a political prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943-1945 and liberated there. The painting depicts a prisoner in concentration camp uniform carrying a large stone covering his face.

  5. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  6. Kathleen M. Dorry collection

    Postcard: black and white photograph of Adolf Hitler saluting as he is walking up steps with three other men, soldiers in a row in front of them saluting back, crowds and Nazi flags on poles behind them; captioned across bottom “Appell der Politischen Leiter”; Nürnberg, Germany; not dated; in German.

  7. Kornspan family collection

    The Kornspan family collection consists of documents, photographs, and correspondence from Leon and Mendel Kornspan and others from Poland and Palestine to Fannie Ebert and her husband Sam. Fannie and her brother Joseph (Yusha) immigrated to the United States before 1926 but Mendel and Leon did not, and they did not survive.

  8. Rosanna M. Gatens photograph collection

    Collection of black and white photographs depicting victims and survivors found in the concentration camps immediately following liberation, and other scenes around the camp; includes images from Mauthausen concentration camp and it’s sub-camps; dated circa May 1945.

  9. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button. "Jap Hunting License/Open Season/No Limit." Lettering around image of a Japanese person with stereotypical features and a red star on his military cap.

  10. American nurses attend to wounded German POWs

    Campsite with Red Cross vehicles. The 51st Field Hospital attends to a massive number of wounded soldiers in early September 1944, most likely in St. Erme in Northern France, where the 51st Field Hospital had too many German POWs to treat under tents.

  11. J.S. ("Jim") Willis photograph album

    Contains a photograph album owned by U.S. military serviceman J.S. ("Jim") Willis, possibly captioned by his wife Sally A. Willis. Includes wartime photographs of England, immediate postwar photographs of Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Gardelegen, and postwar military activities.

  12. Fred Lifschutz papers

    The Fred Lifschutz papers consist of biographical materials, a personal narrative, photographs, postcards, and three photograph albums documenting Fred Lifschutz from Vienna, Austria, his family and friends, and his immigration to the United States as one of the "50 children" sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The biographical materials document Moritz, Bertha, and Fred Lifschutz and especially Bertha and Fred Lifschutz’s immigration to the United States. Bertha’s brief personal narrative describes her childhood, her experiences during World War I and the interwar years in Galicia and ...

  13. Selected records of the Tax Office in Pruszków Urząd Skarbowy w Pruszkowie (Sygn. 86)

    The collection includes financial books and a list of debtors and depositors of the Municipal Administration of Pruszków, Poland. The records relate to the Jews and the Jewish Community in Pruszków.

  14. Selected records of the district of Grodzisk Mazowiecki Starostwo Powiatowe Grodzisko-Mazowieckie (Sygn. 243)

    Correspondence and statisctis of minorities living after World War II in the county of Grodzisko-Mazowieckie, the register of cemeteries, real estate properties owned by Jews and Germans before the war, the records of the Jewish community in Grodzisk, testimonies of witnesses about German crimes committed against Poles in the county during the war, registers of war criminals.

  15. Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Sygn.158)

    Selected records of the Polish Communist Party (KPP). Central Jewish Office. The collection contains minutes, resolutions, reports, analyses, instructions, articles, correspondence of the organization, and a list of Jewish communist newspapers in Russian. General reports relate to various districts in Poland: Łódź-Częstochowa-Radom, 1935-36; Ciechanów, Płock, Włocławek. 1932, 1934-35; Wołyn, 1923; Łódź and its district, 1931-1935; Piotrków district, 1932; Radom and Lublin, 1931-1932; Siedlce, 1932, 1934, 1935; Warszawa, 1931 and 1935; Kutno, Włocławek, Płock, Mława, Ciechanów, 1931-1932; Cz...

  16. Children's Crusade for Children fundraising collection can

    Metal fundraising collection can used by the Children’s Crusade for Children. The Children’s Crusade for Children was a penny sharing relief program with the purpose of providing assistance to the war stricken children of Europe. The program was organized during the winter of 1939-1940 under the leadership of Marion G. Canby and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The program was supported by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and special tin collection cans were decorated with artwork designed by Norman Rockwell and distributed to schools around the country. The children were instructed to give as many pen...

  17. Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus collection

    Consists of photographs, copyprints, identity paperwork, publications, and typed proceedings related to the work of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to bring 50 children (later referred to as "the 50 Children") from Vienna to the United States in 1939. Includes photographs and copies of the trip and arrival of the children, original identity paperwork (including visas and passports) for the children, and publications and typed proceedings related to the 1939 and 1940 Brith Sholom annual conference. Also includes a wartime story handwritten by Ellen Kraus (daughter of Gilbert and Eleanor) about her...

  18. Walter Rockler papers

    Consists of legal briefs and opinions, publications, transcripts, memorandums, correspondence and artifacts relating to Mr. Rockler's work as a prosecutor for the Office of the Chief Counsel for War Crimes in Nuremberg, Germany, and later as the Director of the Office of Special Investigations of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

  19. Ruins

    Destroyed homes and buildings filmed from a moving vehicle, probably in France in summer 1944. Small children stand by the road, while adults rummage through the rubble for their possessions. More pans of the devastation and ruins of buildings.

  20. Lea Blumenkrantz Fried collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the wartime experiences of Lila Blumenkranz, who survived the war in hiding in a convent in Przemyśl.