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  1. Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR Związek Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR (Sygn.130)

    Selected records of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR (ZPP) and the Organizing Committee of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union Included are minutes, correspondence, personal files of organization activists and members, various name lists, newsletters related to the repatriation of the Polish population, statistical data on field work, regional and local units of the Union of Polish Patriots, memories, albums and photographs of Polish emigrants in USSR.

  2. Torchlight parade

    Torchlight parade circling around a bonfire.

  3. Selected records of the city Żyrardów Akta miasta Żyrardowa (Sygn. 2)

    This collection contains selected records of the city Żyrardów in Poland, e.g. registers of permanent inhabitants and houses, birth certificates, circular letters and other documents issued by the German authorities (1940-1943); witness testimonies relating to the crimes committed by the Gestapo and gendarmerie; documents relating to the changing of surnames, social welfare in the wartime including a list of victims, and documents of the WWII Committee of the Exhumation of those Murdered by the Nazis.

  4. Selected records of the county department in Skierniewice Wydział Powiatowy w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 879)

    Protocols, correspondence, accounting reports of the county of Skierniewice; records related to the electoral committees, and registers of candidates for councilors, including Jewish candidates.

  5. Margot Lichtenstein collection

    Consists of loose photographs, original documents, photograph album pages, and a biography documenting the Holocaust experiences of Margot Schoenherz Freudenberg Lichtenstein, originally of Berlin. Includes identity documentation for Margot Freudenberg and her husband, Hans, loose photographs, and photograph album pages with images of their immigration from Italy to Shanghai via the Suez Canal, Eritrea, India, and Hong Kong, and of life in Shanghai. Also includes a biography of Margot Lichtenstein written by her stepdaughter, Ruth Dunkinson, incorporating Margot's stories about her experien...

  6. Ceramic figurine of a skunk with Adolf Hitler's face

    Figurine of a skunk painted in black and white with the frowning face of Adolf Hitler and the words "Japan's Rising Sun" painted in gold lettering along the tail. There is also an image of a gold sun underneath the letters.

  7. Kahn family collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Fanny and Werner Kahn (donor's grandmother and father) documenting their life in Gemmingen, Germany and their immigration to the United States via Italy in 1939-1940. Collection includes pre-war family photographs, their German passport (Deutsches Reich Reisepass), and a receipt attached to the passport.

  8. Dr. Gerald Holton Collection

    Contains a Kindertransport lottery ticket for England.

  9. British dignitaries visit DC; FDR and Churchill join the Morgenthaus at their farm to relax; Henry Morgenthau films a spot on war bonds

    The Morgenthau family vacations in Hawaii in 1937 - hiking, waterfall, horseback riding, the beach. 00:36:35 Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his wife Elinor pose for photographs, perhaps upon their return from France aboard the SS Normandie. Horseback riding, back at the Morgenthau family farm. Scenic views of Hawaii from a ship; a speedboar. 00:38:11 In June 1939, King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Union Station, Washington, DC, and are formally greeted. The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt enter an automobile for transit to the White House. President Roosevelt and his guests b...

  10. Selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki Akta gminy Żyrardów-Wiskitki (Sygn. 3)

    Consists of selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki, Poland, e.g. registers of foreigners; files on inhabitants of Teklinów, Feliksów, Henryków, Kozłowice, Ruda Guzowska and Wiskitki; a list of 937 Jews from Wiskitki, 1937-1940; various correspondence of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki; registers of homeowners; birth and death certificates; records of the "Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy" in Wiskitki, 1941-1942; records of Jewish community in Wiskitki; records of Judenrat and registers of Jews permitted to travel, 1940; correspondence relating to Jewish Holocaust survivors, reco...

  11. Matricule 49859 / Temoignage de Pierre ARNAUD Ancien Resistant Deporte

    Contains unpublished memoirs of Pierre Arnaud (donor's grandfather), a resistance fighter deported to Buchenwald. Manuscript entitled "Matricule 49859 / Temoignage de Pierre ARNAUD Ancien Resistant Deporte."

  12. John Henry Weidner papers

    Correspondence, speeches and writings, government documents, printed matter, audiovisual material and memorabilia, relating to an escape route through the Netherlands and France from Nazi-occupied Europe, for political refugees, Jews, and Allied servicemen, which was under the leadership of John Henry (Johan Hendrik) Weidner (1912-1994). The collection consists of microfilm copies of the originals, which are owned by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University.

  13. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  14. Russell Blixt collection

    Contains a photograph of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken soon after liberation. The image depicts cart of deceased bodies stacked and people standing in the background, one wearing concentration camp uniform and the rest appear in civilian clothing. Includes an envelope pre-printed "censored photographs" and addressed to "Capt. Russel [sic] G. Blixt-0373750/705th.TD.Bn..."

  15. Nazi propaganda slides regarding America

    Consists of eleven published photographic slides produced by the NSDAP, Dienststelle Rosenberg Amt Lehrmittel, depicting Nazi propaganda of American Jewish life. Includes nine slides of politicians (Jewish and non-Jewish) with Jewish constituents (including Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia, Frank Knox, Felix Frankfurter, and Herbert Lehman), images of New York City, of unemployed Americans, and of a synagogue in the city. Also includes one slide depicting a snowball fight and one of a German barn.

  16. Przewodniczący Rady Żydowskiej w Warszawie The Chairman of the Jewish Council Warsaw Der Obman des Judenrates in Warschau (Sygn.483)

    This collection consists of records created by the Office of The Chairman of the Jewish Council in Warsaw (Der Obmann des Judenrates in Warschau), 1940-1942. Included are numerous statistical documents (diagrams and tables), records of population, reports, correspondence, information about forced labor, food supply, deaths, financial and economic plans, taxes payments, etc. The most valuable is a set of reports of the Chairman of the Judenrat from Oct. 7, 1939 through Feb. 27, 1941. Other materials of the Warsaw Judenrat are available in the Ringelblum Archive from the Jewish Historical Ins...

  17. Frank Caplan collection

    Contains a typewritten statement given by former political prisoner Rudolf Hess of Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart), Germany, to Lt. Frank Caplan (donor’s father) at Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, on May 18, 1945. The report documents former Hess’s arrest by Nazi authorities in 1943 and his imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was subjected to medical experimentation. Hess was then transported to another concentration camp and, after an eight-day journey, arrived at Neuengamme concentration camp where he was a forced laborer. Hess was transferred to Stuttgart to be interrogated and t...

  18. Harmon James collection

    Consists of printed photographic postcards with handwritten descriptions, a printed article, and a map of Obersalzberg, all collected by either Clifton or Clinton James and mailed to a brother, Harmon James, in the United States. The printed postcards depict images of the Dachau concentration camp after liberation and have been annotated by the sender (who sent them to his brother to avoid upsetting his wife with the images); the article, in German, is "Das Krematorium in Dachau," by Willy Furlan-Horst; the map of Obersalzberg identifies the homes of Hitler, Bormann, and Goering, and was ev...

  19. Anti-Roosevelt campaign button

  20. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Swat the Jap"