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  1. Levy and Lazar family collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the Levy and Lazar families from the area of Boćki, Poland. Most of those pictured perished in the Holocaust. Also includes a wedding invitation in Yiddish, from 1933 in the Biaystok, Poland area for the marriage of Rózy Lazarównej and Abramem Seleckim [Raizl Lazar and Avrum Seletsky].

  2. Hashomer Hatzair in Bulgaria (RG-7-2) השומר הצעיר בבולגריה

    Contains newspapers "Itoneynu", "Halapid", "Hashofar", and "Medura", the information bulletin published in Sofia in 1931; programs of activities, statistics and reports on the situation in "kenim" (branches), 1931; the central leadership reports in Bulgaria; correspondence, circulars, and minutes regarding Aliyah Bet (Alyah "B"), Plovdiv,1932; articles and lectures of the Hashomer Hatzair leaders translated to Bulgarian language; and records from "ken" (branch) in Ruse, 1923-1939. Includes also records on activities after WWII.

  3. Lithuanian Jewish charities Lietuvos Žydų labdaros draugijos (Fond 1147)

    Contains records of Lithuanian Jewish charity organizations who provided aid to the Jewish repatriates from Russia expelled from Lithuania during the WWI, and to Jewish refugees who fled from Poland, 1939-1940 (ca, 12,000 refugees). Includes also files relating to the activities of Jewish charities in Vilnius (Vilna), Kaunas (Kovno) and other cities in Lithuania; minutes, reports, financial and statistical reports of Jewish organizations "Ezra", OZE; lists of Jews who applied for the financial aid and medical treatment, and individual forms with personal data of Jewish refugees.

  4. Polish Red Cross, Regional Agency in Częstochowa Polski Czerwony Krzyż. Oddział Terenowy w Częstochowie (Sygn.1050)

    This collection contains lists of Polish civilians murdered by the Germans during the occupation. The booklet contains lists submitted by the families of people killed in Częstochowa and during the September campaign, and the German occupation. Contains also a list of widows, orphans and other family members of fallen participants in the resistance movement. The lists include also Jewish names. Lists were compiled in 1945-1946.

  5. Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars collection

    Contains a Dutch passport issued to Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars donor's great aunt), and loose photographs and three photo albums illustrating the pre-war and postwar life of Elisabeth Steinhardt. The photographs primarily consist of vacation images from travels through Italy, Switzerland, France, London, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and include postwar photographs of South America, particularly Bolivia, where Elisabeth's immediate family immigrated. Elisabeth, who survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands, ultimately immigrated to Argentina after WWII.

  6. J.D. Neighbors photograph collection

    Contains 49 photographs of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany taken immediately following the camp's liberation on April 29, 1945 by American forces. Includes images of American troops in action in Germany and Austria, moving through bombed and destroyed communities and bridges, downed airplanes, and tanks. Also includes a photograph of Bob Hope and Frances Langford and some Nazi propaganda photos.

  7. Fenyves family recipe book

    The Fenyves family recipe book was prepared by Klári (Klara) Fenyves and is written in Hungarian. After the Fenyves family was forced to leave their apartment before deportation in May 1944, the family’s cook, Maris, entered the apartment and saved this cookbook and some of Klári Fenyves’ artwork. The cook returned the artwork and the recipe book to the surviving family members after the war.

  8. Oral testimony of Roland Levi

  9. Selected records from the collection Polish Welfare Committee in Częstochowa Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy Oddział w Częstochowie (Sygn.15)

    This collection contains files of the Polish Social Welfare Committee (Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy) in Częstochowa during the Nazi occupation, includes mainly records related to social welfare rendered to the poor, orphaned children, refugees, and individuals deported from the USSR during 1939-1940, or who left Warsaw after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Apart from the above, some file fragments refer to matters of the Jewish community.

  10. Robert Middleton, Sr., photograph collection

    Contains photographs of Gusen, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, immediately following the camp's liberation on May 5, 1945 by the American forces. Images depict liberated prisoners, Austrian citizens burying corpses from the camp, the cemetery for camp victims, and the hanging of an SS soldier.

  11. Market and Jewish quarter of Krakow

    In Krakow, various adults and children in the lively Jewish quarter. A street sign in Hebrew letters is visible, men sleep sitting on the threshold of a building. A uniformed carriage driver talks to the camera. A throng of people crowd around a man dressed in a hat and coat, putting their hands out as though asking for something. Men carry heavy loads through the street on their backs. A crowded open-air street market. A younger man plays a joke on an elderly woman, covering her eyes with her kerchief. Good shots of Jews, market vendors, and children. Inside, a woman washes her hands in fr...

  12. Oral history interview with Samuel Kessel

  13. Postcard for the 1934 Bavarian State Gymnastics Festival

    Unused postcard with an image of an eagle with an oak branch and acorn above the Bavarian coat of arms issued to commemorate the 18. Bayerisches Landesturnfest Nurnburg [Bavarian State Gymnastics Festival in Nuremberg] which took place July 20-22, 1934.

  14. Donald Swihart collection

    Consists of photographs and a copy of a wartime document entitled "Dachau" by Tec. 3 James W. Creasman from the collection of Donald W. Swihart, a member of the 42nd Rainbow Division, who participated in the liberation of Dachau. Includes photographs of Dachau, including of the Dachau death train and of the surrender of the camp. Includes an article, "Dachau" written by Tec. 3 James W. Creasman, mimeographed, and distributed, which describes the 42nd Division's impressions of the Dachau death train.

  15. Eugene Mielcarek photographs

    Consists of one folder of photographs from the collection of Eugene Mielcarek, a Polish-American member of the United States Army during World War II. The photographs, the majority of which Mielcarek did not take himself, depict the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, destruction in Germany, the collection of displaced persons in Eisenach, Germany, and a hanging of three Polish citizens, dated July 1945. Includes Mielcarek's typed and handwritten commentary on the versos.

  16. "Sara's Story"

    Consists of typed testimony of the Holocaust experiences of Sara Weingram, as written by Sondra Greenberg. The testimony describes Sara's childhood in Pułtusk, Poland, the German invasion, and her family's forced evacuation east to Russia. The family was briefly split, but reunited near Orsha, in Belarus. After the German invasion in June 1941, Sara was separated from her family during a German bombing raid and found an orphanage. She eventually found her family in Magnitogorsk, where the family suffered from illness and hunger. After the war, Sara married her boyfriend, lived in the Milan ...

  17. William L. Ward, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of 23 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and prisoner clothing; dated April-May 1945.

  18. "See you Soon Caroline!"

    Consists of one manuscript entitled, "See you soon Caroline!" by Bernard Wilson. The manuscript is a fictionalized account of a family researching the history of a grandfather, who was born at Rivesaltes and later adopted. The manuscript highlights the work of the American Friends Service Committee in southern France, particularly the work of Irish Quaker Mary Elmes (referred to in the manuscript as Marion Oakes).

  19. Brig. Gen. Harry J. Huff, II photograph collection

    Collection of photographs (17) taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation and annotated by Harry J. Huff, II (donor's father) who served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot with the 107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. He flew 47 missons.

  20. "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey"

    Consists of one memoir written by Magda Altman Philip entitled "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey." The typed memoir details accounts of her family's life in pre-war Hungary, her arrest in Budapest, Hungary, as well as her time in Auschwitz and Oranienburg where she was liberated. The memoir includes copies of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs.