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  1. 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...

  2. Licco Haim and friends hike in Bulgaria

    AGFA 8 1939. Title, "Herbst 1940." Title in Bulgarian (Cyrillic characters) with 4 August date, "By car near Simeonovo" (a village near Sofia in the Vitosha Mountains). Licco Max Haim drives a car up a steep incline. Title with 11 August date, "And in the defile of Iskar". Car along the road built by Licco and others in the labor camp. Title with 8-9 September date, "Mussala" (highest mountain peak in the Rila mountains) with Anny, Kete, Pual, Hans, (Licco). [COLOR] Pan of Rila mountain range with a waterfall. Two women at the falls. [B/W] Mountains. A group of five hike the mountain, it is...

  3. 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.

  4. Print

    Linoleum print, "Nazi Prison: Victims of Internment", 4/6, created by Charles Quest in New York or St. Louis.

  5. Four Freedoms postal cover

    Envelope, first-day issue of envelope and stamps commemorating the "Four Freedoms." "Freedom of Speech and Religion, Freedom from Want and Fear" hand-cancelled on February 12, 1943. Envelope bears silk-screened imagery and four stamps in upper right corner bearing repeated statement "Freedom of Speech and Religion…" as well as postage-sized photograph of the Statue of Liberty and world flags and statement "The United Nations Fight For Freedom," addressed to Jack Middleton in Hubbard, Ohio.

  6. Replica of a pair of sandals like those worn by a Jewish Polish family in hiding

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn600714
    • English
    • a: Height: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) b: Height: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Replica of the type of sandals worn by Evelyn Romanowsky, her sister and her father in the forests around Lachva, Poland (now Lakhva, Belarus). They were called lapti and were made from the reed bark and worn over cloth bindings wrapped with strings and wound around the foot and leg.

  7. Sijes Research: Zigeuners [Romani] (Fond 263b, 4a-4c)

    This collection contains research materials collected by Dr. B.A. Sijes and his students at the University of Amsterdam: Thera de Graaf, Annemarie Kloosterman, Annelies Visser, Jos van Loenen and Gertjan van Setten. Materials relate the Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti. Part of the collection contains interviews with Roma and Sinti. At the end of the 1960s, B.A. Sijes focused his research on Dutch Roma and Sinti, but was not able to work with the material collected through unforeseen circumstances, and asked five of his students to continue his work. As a result of this work, Dr. Sijes pu...

  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. Selected records of the Investigation Office of the Capital City of Warsaw Urząd Śledczy M. St. Warszawy (Sygn.1642)

    The collection contains approximately two thousand personal files of Jews suspected or accused of various crimes (e.g. thieves, crooks, forgers, etc.) listed by the Investigation Office in Warsaw. Files contain the dossier of a person, information sheet, which includes the following data: name, alias, date and place of birth, place of residence, marital status, parents' names, personal data spouse, names of children, information about the lovers, people with whom a person maintains contact or collaborate in criminal activities, occupation, religion, military service, description, additional...

  10. Fridling Family collection

    Contains photographs of donor's family in Schlachtensee DP camp and their immigration ship, the General W.G. Haan, in Bremerhaven; newspaper clipping from unknown German publication, which includes the photograph of donor being held by General Lucius Clay in Schlachtensee DP camp.

  11. Marketa Grunfeld Peltz collection

    Correspondence, documentation and recorded translation of claims filed on behalf of Marketa Grunfeld Peltz (donor's mother, later Margaret Peltz), originally from Vylok, Czechoslovakia, who survived multiple camps; also included are immigration documents.

  12. 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...

  13. Simonne Youkobovitch Wodka collection

    Contains an invitation for the 1946 wedding of Simonne Youkobovitch (donor) and Pierre Wodka.

  14. Nurses treat the wounded at a hospital

    Military man walks toward the camera along a road, smoking. The 51st Field Hospital is relocated to a hospital complex, likely in Belgium or Germany. The 51st Field Hospital was stationed in Germany after February 1945. Pan of hospital complex buildings and gardens. 01:22:11 Beatrice, wearing a traditional nurse's uniform, poses with three patients in robes outside the hospital.

  15. Rollin Kirby political cartoon comparing US isolationism to the Spanish Inquisition

    Editorial cartoon, Torquemada, created by Rollin Kirby and probably published in the New York Post. The drawing portrays the isolationist US Senator Gerald Nye as a modern day Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor who cleansed Spain of Jews in the 15th century. In Kirby's portrayal, Nye, in judicial robes, is accusing a movie producer of hating Hitler. Nye chaired a committee in the 1930s that sought to tie US entry into World War I (1914-1918) to the influence of war profiteers. He was strongly opposed to US involvement in any foreign wars and was a drafter of the 1936 Neutrality Act forbidding...

  16. Kolczyki and Goldberg families photograph collection

    Collection of 14 photographs depicting Mae and Jacob Goldberg (donor's maternal grandparents) who visited their relatives Chana and Marcus Kolczycki and their children Natan and Miriam Kolczycki, daughter Zofia Kolczycka (later Flajszman) and Estera Kolczycka-Plotkin and her family in Łódź, Poland. The visit took place in June 1939 as part of a business trip of Jacob Goldberg from the United States. Dr. Zofia Kolczycka Flajszman and her paternal uncle were the only survivors from the Kolczycki family in Łódź.

  17. Gilberte Guez Khayat certificate

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

  18. Morgenthau family vacations in Mexico, the Alps, and Israel and at leisure at their farm in New York

    Various exterior shots in color: boat on an ocean, apple orchard on the Morgenthau farm at springtime, the pump house, trees and rivers in a forest and the flowers in front of one of the Morgenthau homes. Elinor in a car. 00:48:39 Bullfight in Mexico, around 1946. Scenes in Mexico, where Henry Jr. brought Henry III on vacation following his release from the Army. Henry Jr. and Henry III ride horses. 00:49:44 In 1938, the family vacations at a seaside resort in Cap D'Antibes on the French Riviera, then in the Alps in southern France. Villa with paintings in Switzerland. 00:51:35 Henry Jr. so...

  19. Selected records of the Ministry of Culture and Art. Department of Museums and Memorials Commemorating Polish Martyrdom Ministerstwo Kultury i Sztuki. Wydział Muzeów i Pomników Martyrologii Polskiej (Sygn. GK 185)

    Documentation and indexes of places of execution in the Polish provinces and in the city of Warsaw ("Kroniki bestialstw niemieckich: The Chronicles of German atrocities"), lists of camps on Polish territory, questionnaires of people arrested and testimonies of witnesses of war crimes.

  20. Günther and Kohlmann families correspondence

    Correspondence, family tree, articles and copies of photographs, related to the family of Camilla Günther-Kohlmann, originally of Brodenbach a.d. Mosel, Germany, and her husband, Walter Kohlmann, of Kirchheim a.d. Eck, both of whom left Germany to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s, and who subsequently met and married in New York. Includes correspondence from her parents, in Brodenbach, 1937-1941; correspondence from friends and other family members from her hometown during the same time period, and some correspondence from the family of her husband, Walter Kohlmann, dated 1940-1942...