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  1. Orthodox Gemilas Chesed Association tzedakah box

    Wall mounted / desk placed tin tzedakah charity container of the Orthodox Gemilas Chesed Association, Budapest, with a plaque depicting the "Biró Daniel" Orthodox Jewish Hospital. On the 14th January 1945, a special unit of the Arrow Cross Party Militia raided the hospital. During the attack, approximately 150 patients, doctors and nurses were present at the hospital. Almost all of them were executed, and their corpses were burnt on the spot. The building was later demolished.

  2. Invitation to a Purim festivity, General Organization of Zionists "Theodor Herzl," Shanghai, 1940

    One printed leaflet, announcing a Purim event hosted by the youth of the General Organization of Zionists, "Theodor Herzl," in Shanghai, China, on 27 March 1940. The event was to take place at the Broadway Theatre on Wayside Road, and likely included the performance of a play titled "Zion and Ourselves" by Bruno Guttentag, a synopsis of which is given on the verso of this leaflet.

  3. Collection of posters, announcements and leaflets Zbiór afiszów, plakatów i druków ulotnych (Sygn. 206)

    This collection includes ordinances from the Labor Office of Radom in Poland during the German occupation, as well as notices of identity cards for Jews, creation of a ghetto for the Jews of Radom, notices for registration for Jewish labor, antisemitic posters, and declarations of assets.

  4. Jewish quarter in Suwalki; Market in Filipow

    The Jewish quarter of Suwalki including Schul Gasse, the Big Synagogue of Suwalki. Market and Wesola streets with locals. The bi-weekly outdoor market in Suwalki. 00:03:02 Harold Brenner in dark jacket and hat holding birds with another young man. Pan, good CUs. 00:06:32 Herman, Lottie and Harold stand underneath the fishermen's stalls, conversing with the locals. Farmers bring in goods for the market by horse and wagon. An ice cream vendor's machine and a market stall containing horse shoes, wooden wash tubs, peat and logs for heating. 00:09:41 Livestock market scenes outside of Filipow. H...

  5. Peter Lande papers

    The Peter Lande papers include photograph albums, journal entries, and loose photographs documenting Peter Lande’s family in 1925-1926 and Lande himself as a baby in Berlin in 1932-1933. The first photograph album is titled “1926” and primarily includes photographs of Lande’s parents and grandparents in 1925 and 1926 in Braunlage, Münster, Hildesheim, Braunschweig, and Wolfenbüttel in Germany, and on vacation in La Grave and Malcesine. The second photograph album is titled “Wolfgang 1932-33” and includes baby photographs of Lande during his first year in Berlin interspersed with journal ent...

  6. Mildred Reeves photographic collection

    Photo album with collection of mounted photos and loose photographs documenting the Dachau concentration camp after liberation; images include survivors, victims, scenes from around the camp, the Dachau death train, victims' belongings, and German officers who were killed in retaliation; some images captioned on verso; dated April-May 1945; in English

  7. Star of David badge

    Star of David badge worn by Tibor Fisch in Budapest during the Holocaust.

  8. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka Sąd Grodzki w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1011)

    Files of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka, such as: correspondence, financial reports, notary files, files of the bailiff, Władysław Nagórki, and civil cases (litigations) investigated by that court, such as: conferring judicial authorization to a draft, paying off debts, evictions. The Jews from Rawa Mazowiecka town and county were the parties in those lawsuits; there are many personal data about the participants of those lawsuits.

  9. Phillip Greenglass family papers

    The collection consists of letters written to Phillip Greenglass in the United States from his family in Babruĭsk, Belarus. A select few letters in Russian also include donor-provided translations. Also included are pre-war photographs of Phillip’s family in Babruĭsk and depictions of his visit with his family in Babruĭsk in 1938.

  10. Lore Hillman papers

    Documents, correspondence and photographs regarding the Baumgarten family during the Holocaust.

  11. Selected Records of the commune Skorosze Akta gminy Skorosze (Sygn.167)

    Vital records, including the marriage certificate of Hannah Drajer, and the registration books of Jewish residents.

  12. No Third Term campaign button

  14. American anti-Japanese "hunting license"

    American propaganda document: anti-Japanese "hunting license." Satirical "Japanese Hunting License" document with no names filled in.

  15. Jewish children at play after the Holocaust

    Little girl (Menachem’s sister) waves flags outdoors besides car, plays with two older boys and mother (in Israel).

  16. Teofila Kotlewski sings

  17. Schmerzler and Igel family collection

    Collection of photographs and correspondence relating to the Schmerzler family from Stanisławów and the Igel family from Solotwina. Also includes correspondence, documents and photographs relating to Shemer family in Yerevan, USSR, Dzierzoniow, Poland and Israel, 1935-1952.

  18. Selected records of the social insurance institution in Żyrardów Ubezpieczalnia Społeczna w Żyrardowie (Sygn.105)

    Contains registers of people employed by Jewish enterprises: brick factories, sawmills, bakeries, tanneries in Biała Góra, Błonie, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Izabelin, Milanówek, Skierniewice, Sochaczew and Warsaw, and the people employed by the Board of Jewish Religious Communities.

  19. Landscape painting with buildings

    Oil painting made by Imre Deutsch before the war in Budapest, Hungary.

  20. Eleanor Kraus memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, 166 pages, written by Eleanor Kraus in the 1960s. In the memoir, she describes her experiences, with her husband Gilbert, traveling from Philadelphia to Vienna in 1939 to bring 50 children (later referred to as "the 50 Children") to the United States with the support of the Brith Sholom organization.