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  1. Selected records from the State Archive of Assisi

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

  2. Display board with pins

    Display board with series of American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back buttons. Display board reads "Wear a Button/Remember Pearl Harbor/Buy War Bonds", and each identical pin has the words "Remember Pearl Harbor" and an American flag. The board is dated 1942.

  3. Fiszelow family papers

    Consists of postcards and letters, in Yiddish, written mostly by Josef Fishelov (Fiszelow) near Pinsk, Poland (now Belarus), from 1920-1948. The postcards are colorful and depict Yiddish greetings and artistic scenes, including of emigration. The correspondence, most of which is undated, was sent to his mother and siblings, many of whom immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Includes several letters written 1939-1941 and two postwar letters, written in 1945 and 1948 by Josef's son, Nachum, who emigrated to Palestine after the war; in these letters, he explains what happened to the Je...

  4. Selected records of applications for distinctions for SS and police officers in the General Government Zbiór wniosków na odznaczenia dla funkcjonariuszy SS i Policji w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (Sygn. GK 107),

    This collection contains legal regulations concerning the granting of distinctions and applications of SS and police chief officers of various ranks submitted to superior authorities in order to decorate subordinating officers with: crosses and war medals, the Iron Cross, distinctions for “courage,” “gallantry," and “fighting bandits.” Also included is correspondence related to the confirmation or rejection of applications. The applications for distinctions contain the following data: last and first names of the officer to be distinguished; date and place of birth; service attachment (home ...

  5. Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers

    The Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers contain correspondence, forms and other records pertaining to the Holocaust-era restitution claims of Jack Heisler and Sylvia Stern Heisler, filed against the West German government between 1958 and 1970, and related to their internment as forced laborers at Auschwitz, Sömmerda, and other camps. Jack Heisler’s earliest compensation claims in these files date from the late 1958 through 1961, when he filed claims on behalf of himself and his brother Edward, at the office that handled compensation claims for the state of Rheinland-Pfalz in Trier, Germany. He ...

  6. Suwalki street scenes, orphanage, and cemetery

    Lottie Bland at the Suwalki cemetery. Ritual washing house [Taharah] by the entrance of the cemetery, plaque on wall with Biblical verses recited during the ritual washing, the washing table. Locals gather around the Bland family's car. Zlotke poses for the camera with a family member. Scenes on Kasciuszko Street, crowds. Suwalki city hall. A man collecting for the Talmud Torah. Harold pumps water at a well while his father Herman helps him. Two peasant women with a cart. Dr. Erdreich's apothecary store on Kosciuszko Street. Women wash clothes on a canal off of the Czarna Hancza River. Scen...

  7. Chil Turek papers

    The Chil Turek papers primarily contain identification cards, employment and testimony documents, photographs, and restitution papers that document his time in displaced persons camps at Feldafing and Stuttgart, Germany from 1946-1948. The employment and testimony papers relate to Chil’s work as a locksmith instructor and his testimony that he was in concentration camps in Lublin, Radom, Auschwitz, Vaihingen an der Enz, and Dachau. The identification cards include papers issued from the Political Prisoners Committee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; the International Information Office – Da...

  8. Relli Glowinski Robinson collection

    Contains a letter, dated April 30, 1938 on letterhead of M. Glowinski company, addressed to Mrs. Glowinski in Palestine, notifying her of sending a check for £12 and describing the situation in Danzig as “not rosy”; a photograph depicting Beniek Fersztendik (donor’s maternal uncle), dated April 20, 1930; a letter written by the donor’s parents in Warsaw ghetto to friends in Vilna thanking them for a food parcel and asking them to convey to family in Palestine to arrange for foreign documents and not to forget them; a photograph of Relli Glowinski, dated January 28, 1941; a letter, dated Nov...

  9. Nurses at field hospital

    The 51st Field Hospital at a campsite (in France?). Beatrice takes of her helmet and glasses and poses for the camera near other corps members and a cluster of tents. Pan of tentsite, corps members, and an ambulance. 01:08:13 Man in glasses exits a tent and smiles for the camera. Laundry hanging to dry outside. 01:08:22 Large group of military personnel sit in the grass for a meeting. Beatrice (on the right) and two women sunbathe. 01:08:34 Beatrice sits on a jeep and poses for the camera before helping another nurse sort laundry items in the grass.

  10. Selected personal files of the beneficiaries of the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) Teczki osobowe beneficjentów Fundacji Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP)

    This collection contains copies of 20,534 personal files of those assisted by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP). These files often contain beneficiary’s application (with individual call number) which details the places and conditions of work (forced labor); statements; accounts or testimonies; letters from the period of occupation and/or other documents (most often copies) in support of a claim; doctor’s certificates; notarized copies of archival documents; photographs; certificates from various institutions; and correspondence with the Foundation.

  11. Lifschitz family photographs

    Two (2) pre-war family photographs: black and white portrait of Chaya Sara and husband Zeev Gorin (donor's father's sister), both of whom perished on October 24, 1927; black and white portrait of Aharon Lifschitz (donor's father) and his younger brother Leibl, 1937, who perished in the Holocaust.

  12. Rose Shwarz collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Rose Shwarz in postwar German Displaced Persons Camps Bergen-Belsen and Mergentheim in Germany, and the United States, circa 1945-1948. Thesis written postwar by physician who interviewed survivors in Hocking.

  13. Files of Szymon Zachariasz Akta Szymona Zachariasza (Sygn. 476)

    Collection of files relating to Szymon Zachariasz and his political activities. Contains resumes, surveys, certificates, identity cards, memories of Zachariasz; memories and reports of the Komunistyczana Partia Polski (KPP) and its activists, records on the cooperation with the editorial committee of the dictionary "Słownik Biograficzny Działaczy Polskiego Ruchu Rewolucyjnego", articles published in the "Folks Sztyme", and other unpublished speeches and articles, 1941-1968; papers, historical sketches, instructions, clippings and extracts from the press issued on the celebration of the anni...

  14. Jewish religious and philanthropic associations, Kaunas (Fond 1143)

    Correspondence and other records of various Jewish religious and philantropic organizations active in Lithuania before WWII.

  15. Morgenthau family visits a dude ranch; Lindbergh welcome home parade in NYC

    Quick shot of an ocean liner. Henry Jr., Henry III, Robert, and Joan Mogenthau sail model ships in their swimming pool at the farm. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning in a town, parade. The children and their father ice skate on a frozen pond. In a warmer season, the children drive a battery operated toy car (red bug) in the street in front of their house, and the boys let Joan drive. The family practices horseback riding while adults race horses, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains at a dude ranch. Scenes of the mountain range in Wyoming. The family visited Grand Teton Park before it was open ...

  16. "One in 6,000,000" One Woman's Story of Survival

    Consists of one memoir, 36 pages, entitled, "One in 6,000,000: One Woman's Story of Survival," by Hilde Geisen. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Cologne; her memories of Nazi persecutions; her failed attempt at immigration to the United States; the deportation of her parents; life in Theresienstadt; post-war life in Deggendorf; and immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a copy of her identity card and a 2002 portrait.

  17. Kahn family papers

    The collection documents the Kahn family’s experiences in Germany, France, and Switzerland during the Holocaust. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Ruth Kahn in Switzerland from her parents Leo and Elfriede Kahn and her sister Marga Kahn in Sulzburg, Germany and internment camps in southern France at Rivesaltes, Gurs and Les Milles. Also included is other correspondence, identification papers, restitution paperwork, immigration documentation, and a photograph album. Biographical material includes Ruth’s birth certificate, a religious school report card, and a registra...

  18. Florence Leeds photograph collection

    Two photographic prints. First print is a post-war black and white image of the Death Wall in the yard of Block 11 at the Auschwitz concentration camp; stamped on verso by the Auschwitz Museum and the photographer; in Polish. Second print is a black and white image of unknown piece of artwork, likely from the collection of the Auschwitz Museum.

  19. Hugo Zulawski papers

    Consists of photographs, a photograph album, documents, and correspondence, owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Zulawski immigrated to the United States in 1939 on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport). Prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs include those Hugo took while in the United States military (1944-1947) and images of his parents while they were at the Kitchener Camp in England. Documents include restitution paperwork for property confiscated in Poland.

  20. Heilpern Family Collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, passports and identity papers illustrating the experiences of Hans and Sidonie Heilpern and their three children Gertrude, Felix and Wilhelmine all of whom fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. Included is correspondence from Hans to Sidonie from concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in Germany, where Hans was interned from June 1938 to April 1939. Passport issued to Sidonie states family arrived August 1939, except Felix, who arrived separately. Also included are various documents issued to family in the United States, and pre- and postwar photographs of the...