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  1. Shirt worn by a Hungarian Jewish child in hiding

    Offwhite button-down shirt that was worn by Gyorge Bence, in 1944 when he was a young child living in hiding in Budapest and in the countryside.

  2. American League for Free Palestine letter

    Contains a mass-mailed, typed letter from Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) and Samuel Merlin with an appeal for financial support of the American League for Free Palestine; in English. Verso is a full page of handwritten text in German; not dated.

  3. Correspondence of Jewish citizens (Fond 247)

    Correspondence of Jewish families during the German occupation of the Netherlands and their deportation. This collection includes (copies of) letters that relatives and acquaintances wrote to each other, often supplemented with photographs, identification cards, diaries and other personal documents. The emphasis is on the period of the occupation, but some files of correspondence dates from the 1930s through the late 1940s

  4. Postwar Berlin; theaters in Steglitz; US Air Force planes landing

    Four men operate a machine to demolish a city building. Men at work. 01:34:49 Train. Men at work again. Airplane lands. Rubble. 01:35:44 Street scene in Berlin with traffic, trams, and pedestrians. Max Kuehl sign. Couple walks towards camera, woman returns with flower bouquet. Outdoor market. Street scenes. EXT, "Ratskeller Steglitz" and "Albrechtshof Lichtspiele" (a theatre). "Titania Palast" theatre. Red Cross vehicle passes by. More street scenes. Café tables. 01:38:40 Dog walks towards camera. Puppies. 01:38:53 Women with aprons. Older couple with hats. Man in back of pickup truck waves...

  5. Selected records of the Holy Ghost Public County Hospital in Rawa Mazowiecka Publiczny Szpital Powiatowy Św. Ducha w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1080)

    Records related to the registration of inpatients (ledgers of inpatients)–many Jews are among the inpatients, inhabitants of the counties. The ledgers contain personal data: first and last name of a patients and names of their parents, age, religious denomination, whereabouts, occupation, marital status, kind of illness or disease, date of admission and discharge from the hospital, who financed the treatment, number of days spent in the hospital, total costs.

  6. Gilberte Guez Khayat certificate

    Certificate of Primary School Studies issued to Simcha Gilberte Guez (donor) in Tunis, Tunisia.

  7. Johanna Dahms collection

    Contains a "Sonderausweis" (postwar identification document) issued to Johanna Dahms (donor's grandmother) who had been interned in Theresienstadt concentration camp, and a membership card issued to Johanna Dahms in Stuttgart, Germany as a victim of the Nazi regime.

  8. Court of the First Instance in Kozienice Sąd Grodzki w Kozienicach (Sygn.1029)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  9. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers

    The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz (1903-1980) at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, dated May 1945 - August 1949. The papers also include five colorized photographs of portraits of the Hipszer family including Rajzla (Rejzla, née Krzesiwo) and her children Machla Hipszer (1931-1943), Gitla Hipszer (1937-1943), and Mina (Minca/Mincz, 1940-1943). The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz dated May 1945 - August 1949. The journals, written while Ilona was l...

  10. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap You're a Sap"

  11. Bergen-Belsen photograph collection

    The collection is comprised of a small album of spiral bound photographs and loose photographs which document the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following liberation. The black and white photographs are dated April 1945, and depict scenes around the camp, Allied troops, victims and survivors, and a British Rabbi talking with a captain. Some photos are captioned on the verso.

  12. Crossing the Rhine at Remagen

    Dark views of a building along the river. Military personnel aboard a boat, MS of soldier with camera. Pan of buildings along the Rhine riverside at Remagen, Germany. The pontoon bridge crossing the Rhine River at Remagen in March 1945. The first Army nurses to cross the Rhine River were with the 51st Field Hospital on March 14, 1945. Boats and landing crafts dock and corps members move to shore. Another view of the bridge. The first nurses to cross the Rhine on March 13 included: Chief Nurse Lois K. Grant, Ione C. Kinneck, Helen Johnson, Madalyn H. Andreko, Josephine J. Jennis, Beatrice Wa...

  13. Jewish Community of Romania Comunitati Evreiesti din Romana

    Records of the Jewish communities from Focșani, Bucharest, Giurgiu, Botoșani, Ploiești, Bîrlad, etc. and some Zionist organizations. Records reflect the situation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina, discriminatory policies implemented by the government of Romania such as closing businesses, expropriation of properties, internment in camps, the situation of Jews in the Golta region, emigration of Jews from Romania, repatriation of Jews interned in camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish o...

  14. Collection of documents of SS and German Police Zbiór zespołów szczątkowych jednostek SS i Policji (Sygn. GK 91)

    This collection contains a variety of documents of the German police and SS offices from the western territories of Poland, incorporated into the Third Reich following 1939, including: BdO and Kriminalpolizeileitstelle Danzig (Gdańsk), Der Polizeidirektor in Thorn (Toruń), KdS und des SD in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Der Höhere SS-und-Polizeiführer Posen (Poznań), SS-Oberabschnitt Warthe (Warta), Polizei-Revier Posen (Poznań), Gendarmerieposten from Lobau/Luboń near Poznań, Gendarmerie Posten Wollstein, Krmiminalpolizeileitstelle Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and others. There are also lists of gendarmes...

  15. Hermansdörfer family papers

    The Hermansdörfer family papers consist of correspondence relating to the efforts of Jennie Hermansdörfer Bieber and her daughters Sophie Acker and Dorothy Nomberg to bring the Hermansdörfer family from Łąka, Poland (Luka, Ukraine) to the United States before the Holocaust. Correspondence includes letters of support from Adra Day, Elise Gilman, and Philip Acker to the American Consulate in Warsaw; a letter from Leon Hermansdörfer to the Acker family; a rejection letter from the Consulate; and a postwar letter from a cousin in Poland indicating that none of the Hermansdörfer family survived ...

  16. Laszlo Bohm Collection

    Photographs, marriage license, postcards, and other correspondence relating to the experiences of Laszlo Bohm in Fonyod, Hungary.

  18. Dr. Henry P. Limbacher photograph collection

    Collection of seven black and white photographs, mounted on an album page with typed captions, documenting the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. The photos were taken by Major Henry P. Limbacher, MD, who headed the medical unit at the camp following liberation, and was head of a MASH unit under General Patton.

  19. Mentesh and Tarabolous families photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of the Mentesh and Tarabolous families from Sofia and Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lazer Mentesh was sent to a slave labor camp where he worked in a quarry and building roads; dated 1942-1943.

  20. Dienemann family collection

    Photo album and loose photographs depicting the Dienemann family from Breslau and Waldenburg, Germany, sent to Lilo Dienemann (donor's mother) who left Germany on a Kindertransport to Sweden; photographs showing Lilo in Sweden. Includes a partial envelope in which the photo album was sent to Sweden. Documents include original and copies of birth certificate for George Dienemann (donor's maternal grandfather) (b. Boguszyce on 10/29/1895); birth certificate of Liselotte Dienemann (b. 10/3/1929 in Breslau); marriage certificate of George and Emma Johnsan Dieneman, married on 3/18/1926 in Walde...