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  1. Florence Hodel papers

    The Florence Hodel papers consists of photographic portraits, printed reports, correspondence, and clippings related to Hodel’s work as a member of the staff of the War Refugee Board and her post-war work on the International Monetary Fund. The portraits include graduation portraits of Hodel, portraits of Hodel and her sisters ca. wartime, portraits of Hodel taken in 1945, and portraits, ca. 1960, of Hodel in her office at the International Monetary Fund. The War Refugee Board materials include a transcript of a meeting between Moses Leavitt of the Joint (JDC) and John Pehle, Florence Hodel...

  2. Oral history interview with Doris Roe

  3. Gessner returns to ruins in Egypt

    Men rowing a boat along a river. A young boy stands on rocks, looking at the camera. Other boys float along in small boats. Some swim through the water. People on the banks of the river walk past, looking at the camera. A boy jumps from a wall into the water and swims towards the boat. 01:07:19 A man looks at the Aswan Dam from ground level. Water forcefully runs through the dam. Gessner’s friend on top of the dam points outwards. Another boy jumps into water. Young children use hand paddles to move their small boats along in a line formation through the water. 01:08:17 Gessner? rides a don...

  4. Selected records of the district of Częstochowa II Starostwo Powiatowe Częstochowskie II (Sygn.318)

    This collection contains selected files from the County administration of Częstochowa from 1945-1950, including the town of Częstochowa, as well as towns and rural communes incorporated in the County of Częstochowa, a part of the Province of Kielce. Selected files contain such materials as: situational reports (1946-1947), correspondence concerning people of other ethnic origins, matters of citizenship, information about graveyards (1946), registration of artisans, wartime graves, lists of civilians murdered, arrested and sent from the county to forced labor during the German occupation, as...

  5. Watercolor portrait of a man created in Theresienstadt

    Watercolor portrait created by Julie Wolfthorn in Theresienstadt in 1943.

  6. Michael Lowenthal collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating Alfred and Herta Gotthilf Levy and their son Heinz. Included are receipts and correspondence between Alfred Levy and his colleague Andreas van Mierlo, who sent packages to the family in Vught, s'Hertogenbosch, and Westerbork concentration camps between 1943-1945; post-war correspondence concerning Heinz, who survived, mainly to the van Mierlo family from Klara Gotthilf, Heinz's maternal grandmother in Switzerland; and accounting, through an attorney of possessions left in Edem, the Netherlands upon the family's deportatio...

  7. Nathan Rapoport personal archives (RG-95-80) נתן רפופורט

    The collection consists of diaries, an interview with Nathan Rapoport conducted by Ellen Kurtz, his biography by Stella Corraine-Lieber, a list of his work, notebooks, newspapers clippings, articles and correspondence. Includes also photographs of the artist's works.

  8. The Archives of the Jewish Community of Ecuador

    Contains records of various Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Ecuador. Includes records of the laws and constitution of Ecuador mainly dealing with immigration regulations, minutes and reports of the Board of Directors, correspondence with and between community members and Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and other organizations, lists of community members, commemoration books, circulars, photographs of various festivities, reports and invitations from the B'nai B'rith Lodges in Asuncion, Bogota, Caracas, Havana, La Paz, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Pa...

  10. Deutsche Strafanstalt Tschenstochau German Penalty Court in Częstochowa Niemiecki Zakład Karny w Częstochowie (Sygn. 47)

    This collection contains 3,794 personal files of prisoners. Included are arrest forms containing personal details such as the last name, first name, date and place of birth, nationality, religious denomination, occupation, education, last whereabouts, marital status, when brought before the court (date), reason of accusation (the main reason was: politics or leaving the ghetto, hiding and helping Jews, lack of arm band, theft, and the like). There is also a description of the prisoner (appearance) with such data as: age, size, posture (e.g. weak), hair (e.g. matted), hair growth (shaved, un...

  11. Joseph Schäfer certificate of Aryan descent

    Certificate of Aryan descent, issued to Joseph Schäfer (born 14 March 1863), of Mühlheim, Germany. The certificate, issued in Frankfurt am Main on January 16, 1936, consists of a typescript copy with stamps and signed by an official of the justice of peace in Frankfurt, and attests to Schäfer's parentage and his baptism in the St. Marcus Catholic parish in Mühlheim on 16 March 1863.

  12. Mirski family papers

    Collection of documents, photographs, drawings, writings, newspaper clippings relating to Klara and Michal Mirski (donor's grandparents). Klara Mirski was born in 1901 as Chaja Fichman and grew up in Warsaw; she was a teacher. Michal was born in 1905 in Kowel as Mosze Tabacznik; he was a teacher and principal in Jewish schools before the war. Due to his Communist activity, he was incarcerated in Bereza Kartuska concentration camp. Michal and Klara married on June 4, 1926 in Skidel. Their daughter Maja was born in 1927. They managed to flee Warsaw in September 1939 to Kowel and in June 1941 ...

  13. Abe Bortz photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, depicting a pile of corpses under memorial wreathes, and soldiers examining the camp gallows. Also includes a portrait of the photographer, Abe Bortz, a member of the 503 Quartermaster Car Company, First Army.

  14. The Brust family on winter holiday before the Holocaust

    “Kékestetõ 1940. Február 12~23-ig”. People holding skis walk across a snow covered ground. Ski lodge and the surrounding snowy area. A car is parked. Another drives past. The branches of trees are weighed down with snow. 01:01:04 A man faces the camera and smiles. People on the snow covered road get their skis down from the top of the van parked in front of the building. A man (Elek) walks through a snowy path, and his wife Lilly and daughter Eva skate around a cleared path of ice. The lodge. Eva skates up to the camera, hair in braids. ECU of her smile, with gaps from two missing front tee...

  15. Oral history interview with Micheline Levy

  16. "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 70 pages, in English, entitled "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life" by Edward Klein, originally of Sieradz, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Klein, describes his pre-war family and religious life; escape to Warsaw and then to Łódź after the German invasion; life in the Łódź ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer to Sosonowiec; forced march to Mauthausen; and liberation from Gunskirchen. The memoir also includes information about his post-war life, including his 1945 legal immigration to Palestine; fighting and teaching mechanics during the War of ...

  17. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of Ohrdruf by an unknown photographer. Includes images of the burial of corpses, of a damaged building, and of an American military unit.

  18. Waffen-SS recruiting poster

    Waffen-SS recruiting poster designed by Mjolnir.

  19. Gary Abernathy collection

    Consists of two wartime photographs: one was likely taken at Brenner Pass in October 1940, and depicts Keitel, von Rundstedt, Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, while the second photograph depicts a pile of corpses at Buchenwald in April of 1945.

  20. Eric Otto Sonneman collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to Eric Otto Sonneman, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes documents for application for a U.S. visa: his resume, school records, letters of recommendation for his work as a pharmacist’s apprentice and for his role as leader of the Jewish youth group Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend, character references, and forms prior to his emigration to the United States in 1939. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Sonneman and family, as well as testimony written by his father, Kurt Sonnemann, describing the circuitous journey th...