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  1. Flescher family correspondence

    Correspondence sent by Kalman and Sala Flescher of Stanisławów, Poland (modern-day Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Ukraine), to their son, Joachim Flescher, who was living in Italy, during the period 1936-1942. Also includes correspondence from Flescher's sisters, Zofia Flescher Uhrman and Gusta Flescher. Joachim Flescher attended medical school in Italy and remained in close contact with his family and with his girlfriend Klara, who apparently visited him in Italy. All the plans of rescuing the family through Costa Rica didn't materialize and Dr. Flescher had to hide in Italy with the help of his futur...

  2. Synagogue in Moscow, Jews praying

    A crowd of people gather for the High Holidays. A woman places something into a man’s palm. The crowd continues to move around. Men and women exit the Moscow Choral Synagogue en masse. A group of men stand together listening to something. Men and women exit the synagogue. Four men and one woman stand still, looking at the camera. A young boy smiles at the camera, and then a bearded man. People keep walking past, some look up and smile at the camera. Others just glance. Some stop and stare. Men exit, some wearing prayer shawls. Stained glass eight-point star above the doorway. Four women and...

  3. Czarny family papers

    Travel documents, photographs (71), and correspondence relating to the Czarny (also spelled Charney or Chorney) family in Baranowicze, Poland (present day Baranovichy, Belarus). Includes pre-war photographs, corresopndence between Mojzesz Czarny and his family in Poland, including following his immigration to the United States, as well as correspondence sent from his family after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, and travel documents related to his immigration. Mojzesz Czarny immigrated from Poland to the US in 1938 leaving behind his parents Leib and Henia, and his two sisters Rywa ...

  4. Hank Freedman collection

    The collection includes a color copy of a journal written by Hank Freedman while a POW in Germany, first at Stalag IXB in Bad Orb and then Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain. In the journal Hank keeps lists of foods to eat, things to do after liberation, names and addresses, and notes about his experiences as a Prisoner of War. The collection also includes two copy prints of Hank Freedman taken during his military service with the US Army during WWII, serving with the 106th Infantry Division.

  5. German Jewish family life and leisure activites, 1931-1934

    01:00:02 Roll 1. Renate plays with a framed photograph. Mother Johanna (Hanna), partially in frame, shows her various objects to play with. Renate holds a piece of paper with the date written on it: 20.III.32. [March 20, 1932] Otto and Hanna hold Renate. 01:02:15 Roll 2. HAS, train station, 1932. Elizabeth, Otto's sister, holds her baby. Sign for train from Dresden to Hamburg. Waving on the train platform. Renate walks in a park with Mother Hanna, Aunt Elizabeth Plaut Hamburger, and baby cousin Eleanor Hamburger. Brief shot of Renate sitting up in bed. 01:04:43 Roll 2A. In a public park, Ha...

  6. United Nations War Crimes Commission records

    This collection contains the records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission including the following: charge files consisting of formal charges submitted to the Commission, lists of war criminals, suspects, and material witnesses; summary minutes of meetings; documents, reports, and related material; correspondence; reports of national military tribunals, including US military courts; transcripts of proceedings and documents of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo trials); international prosecution section documents; as well as index cards of war criminals, 1942-1...

  7. Selected records of the district of Częstochowa Starostwo Powiatowe Częstochowskie (Sygn. 60)

    This collection comprises selected records of the County Starosty in Częstochowa, 1919-1939, towns of: Częstochowa, Krzepice, Mstów, Olsztyn and Przyrów, as well as 22 rural communes. Consists mainly of monthly reports related to political and social situation, to antisemitic propaganda and activities of the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe) and other right-wing organization's fighting squads. There are also reports of other starosties: Piotrków, Radomsko, Wieluń, Włoszczowa, Zawiercie. The collection includes also records on Jewish associations and organizations and Jewish religious co...

  8. Lustig family papers

    Two (2) photo albums of the Lustig family (donor's maternal family), documenting their life in Augsburg, Germany with family and friends between the years 1919-1931; collection of photographs (56) of the Lustig family in Germany and US before and after the war. Correspondence between Ludwig Lustig and different people in Chicago, IL regarding immigration visa to the US, c. 1938-1939; Passenger list: for the U.S.S. Vandyck which sailed from Liverpool, UK to New York on September 1, 1939 and includes the names of the Lustig family; Passport issued to Ludwig Grunbaum which has been marked with...

  9. Exodus passengers at Port-de-Bouc in southern France

    Newsreel film of Exodus passengers at Port-de-Bouc near Marseilles. After Exodus passengers were forcibly disembarked at Haifa, they were loaded onto three British ships and returned to Europe. On arrival in France, they refused to disembark and spent three weeks during a heat wave at Port-de-Bouc in August 1947. Amid worldwide publicity, British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin then decided to return the passengers to Hamburg, where they were re-incarcerated in refugee camps. The three British ships outside harbor entrance at Port-de-Bouc. Runnymede Park ship and probably Ocean Vigour and Em...

  10. Paula and Samuel Schäffer letters

    Consists of five letters sent by the family of Paula and Samuel Schäffer in Poprad, Slovakia, between the years 1920 and 1939, to their daughter, Bertha Wicks, who emigrated to the United States prior to World War I. Paula and Samuel died prior to deportation, after a forced march, and the four Schäffer children--Gisella, Cidi, Ethel, and Jeno--who remained in Europe all perished in the Holocaust.

  11. Oral history interview with Helen Trenkler and Kazimierz M. Lamparski

  12. Camp in Czestochowa Obóz w Częstochowie (Sygn.1041)

    This collection contains a register of Jews prisoners employed in the Camp of Częstochowa during April 10-12,1943. The register contains 23 cards.

  13. Selected records of the district of Grodzkie Częstochowskie Starostwo Grodzkie Częstochowskie (Sygn.3)

    This collection contains selected records, correspondence, reports, registers and minutes related to activities of the World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers-Po'alei Zion ("Poale-Sjon") in Częstochowa, the matters of foreigners, such as public order and registers, the Jewish religious community, including correspondence, minutes of the community sessions, financial reports, fees for ritual slaughter and ritual baths, a list of community members, and payments of membership fees in 1938. There are also files of Jewish craft guilds operating in Częstochowa: tinsmiths and roofers, tailors, fur...

  14. Stanley Sarnack letter

    The Stanley Sarnack letter consists of one handwritten letter from Stanley Sarnack, to Stella Wells of Utica, New York, dated May 2nd, 1945, and written from "somewhere in Germany." In the letter, Sarnack, a member of the 102th Infantry Division of the Ninth Army, mentions German atrocities he had witnessed, including a building where bodies were burned alive [likely the Gardelegen atrocities].

  15. Bergman family photograph collection

    Contains a photograph album which belonged to Harry Bergman (donor's father), who was born in Kraschen, Germany (today Krosnice, Poland) on March 1, 1909. He lived in Berlin and was married to Alice Simon; he was an athlete and hoped to compete in the 1936 Olympics. They moved to Brussels, Belgium to escape persecution, but on September 12, 1942 they were both deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau; Harry survived Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. After the war, Harry married Bronia Abramowicz and the two lived in New York.

  16. Tschenstochauer Knopffabrik vorm. J. und St. Grosman A.G. Częstochowa Button Factory, of the late Jan i Stanisław Grosman S.A. Częstochowska Fabryka Guzików, dawniej Jan i Stanisław Grosman (Sygn.149)

    This collection contains selected related to the operation of the Częstochowa Button Factory, of the late Jan i Stanisław Grosman S.A. Selected units include copies of statutes of the Częstochowa Button Factory Incorp., minutes of stockholders’ assembly meetings, and minutes of meetings and resolutions of the Board. There are also complete payrolls from the years 1928-1940. The files concerning the staff contain interesting materials related to the everyday life of the factory worker, relating to accidents at work, wages, employment, and the like. The Factory was established by Jews and rem...

  17. Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp barracks

    Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks had no insulation from the cold or heat, the wooden roofs often leaked, and the straw sometimes supplied as bedding was soon filthy and wet. The only toilet facility was a single bucket, and dia...

  18. Henry M. Heinrichs photographs

    Consists of 20 copyprints from the collection of Private First Class Henry M. Heinrichs documenting his experiences as an American soldier, mainly as an ambulance driver, during World War II, particularly his experiences witnessing the Dachau concentration camp. Includes portraits, Heinrichs posing with his ambulance, piles of corpses at Dachau, the corpse of a guard dog, and liberated prisoners riding in a military jeep with a banner thanking the Allies.

  19. Country Security Division, Prague Zemský odbor bezpečnosti Praha (300)

    Miscellaneous records related to evidence collected by the Czech secret police in the course of the investigation of Nazi crimes committed in the occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The following file is a small sub-collection within the larger collection of 9.5 linear meters. A large accretion of the files to follow at a later date.

  20. Imre Winkler collection

    Consists of three photographs of Imre Winkler, circa 1940, while he was part of a Hungarian forced labor batallion. Includes photographs of laborers on a train and walking in the mud. Also includes a handwritten note from Winkler to his wife letting her know that he can't come home, dated January 3, 1944.