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  1. Henry Kalmus papers

    The Henry Kalmus papers consist chiefly of correspondence received by Kalmus from Vilmos Forgács, and from other friends and professional colleagues that he knew from his time in Budapest, when he worked as an engineer at Orion Radio (Hungarian Tungsten Lamp Works). Most of the correspondence dates from 1938 - 1948, beginning in the year that Kalmus left Hungary to immigrate to the United States. Initial letters inquire after Kalmus’ life abroad as well as report on day to day events in Budapest. In a few letters, references are made to attempts to emigrate from Hungary, both on the efforts...

  2. Marcel Hodak passport

    Consists of one French passport issued to Marcel Hodak, who was born on August 25, 1937 in Paris. The passport, which includes a photograph, was issued in June 1946.

  3. Supreme National Tribunal Sprawy organizacyjne Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego (NTN), (Sygn.196)

    This collection contains selected records relating to the general organization of the Supreme National Tribunal (NTN), including are lists of completed cases, official correspondence of the NTN Secretariat, reports, minutes, and the logbook of correspondence.

  4. Clearing war debris; military officers make plans

    The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles, "Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen", "Documentaire Film der Verwoesting", "De toegang tot west Z. Vlaanderen Isabellasluis". Allied vehicles move along a cleared road. The surrounding area is heavily damaged. Destroyed buildings. Men and horses work through the rubble. Possible near Breskens. Title, "Nu verrichten deze "heeren" productieve arbeid, waar zij altijd zooveel", "over spraken". Men work to clear debris, probably in Oostburg. Signs in English from the Allied Forces and in Dutch demarcating destroyed...

  5. Buchenwald liberation photographs collection

    Collection of eight prints of photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of victims bodies found in the camp, a memorial erected in the camp in memory of the victims of Buchenwald, and an effigy of Hitler hanging in front of one of the barracks in the camp; some prints include inscriptions on verso. Photos brought home from the war by Sgt. Miller (first name unknown).

  6. Hulda Cassel correspondence collection

    Contains five letters written by Holocaust survivor Hulda Cassel after her liberation from Theresienstadt. She wrote the letters from a refugee camp in Switzerland to her family in Manila between July and December 1945.

  7. German military postcard

    Consists of a Feldpost postcard, postmarked December 7, 1942, written by a member of the German military. The postcard commemorates "Weihnachten in Russland" [Christmas in Russia] and indicates the location where the military unit (as yet unidentified) spent previous Christmases [1939--Hanau; 1940--Caen; 1941--Charkow (Kharkiv); 1942 Woronesh (Voronezh)]. The writing on the postcard is largely illegible.

  8. W. Douglas Schellig photographs

    Consists of 17 enlarged black and white photographs taken by W. Douglas Schellig on the grounds of the former Dachau concentration camp in 1965. The photographs depict the memorials and sculptures on the camp grounds, the museum, and the architecture of the camp.

  9. Michelle King collection

    Consists of four wartime postcards: three color postcards of artwork depicting (respectively) the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; Pennsylvania Avenue; and "New Government Buildings on Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues Triangle;" and one photographic postcard of the newly erected Pentagon. Also includes one ration book holder advertising Imperial Dairy Products, containing four original wartime ration books, circa May 1942.

  10. Certificate of compulsory contribution

    Certificate of compulsory contribution for the sum of 30 zloty by the German authorities in Warsaw; a sum of 100 million zloty was a penalty levied on the Polish population of the city of Warsaw and the vicinity for an attack by the underground on the German occupier; this certificate is a blank; in Polish; dated February 1944.

  11. The Demjanjuk Trial (Series 31.0/23) The hearings in the District Court of Jerusalem

    Correspondence, minutes of meetings and court hearings, judicial inquiries, evidences based primarily on survivor identifications, from the File 373/86 State of Israel, against John (Ivan) Demjanjuk. The trial opened in Jerusalem on February 16, 1987, before a special tribunal comprising Israeli Supreme Court Judge Dov Levin and Jerusalem District Court Judges Zvi Tal and Dalia Dorner. The Israeli court convicted Demjanjuk on April 25, 1988, and sentenced him to death. John (Iwan) Demjanjuk was the defendant in four different court proceedings relating to crimes that he committed while serv...

  12. Crowd outside of synagogue in Moscow

    People of all ages stand on the steps outside of Choral Synagogue in Moscow, located at Bolshoy Spasoglinishchevskiy lane, 10, during the High Holidays. Multiple people wear the tallit. A man using crutches moves down the front steps of the building, unable to use the lower part of his right leg. People move out of the synagogue, men put out their hands, begging for money and some give. As more people file out of the synagogue, the beggars continue to put out their hands, becoming very aggressive with one woman. She attempts to push them back. People stand in the streets while others keep m...

  13. Ida Marcus collection

    Consists of photographs and portraits, mostly pre-war, of members of the extended family of Ida Marcus (née Vanowsky/ Yarnilyski, also known as Chaie Marksfeld, later Fentel), originally of Russia. The family members pictured, some of whom lived in Łódź, all likely perished in the Holocaust. Also includes copies of Ida Marcus's naturalization papers and a copy of her daughter Minna's birth certificate.

  14. Presentation by Kenneth R. Goldsmith

  15. Dr. George Mandl papers

    This collection relates to a dentist and physician who, due to property laws in Hungary and increased anti-Semitism in Vienna, pursued his profession in Italy. After the passage of Italian racial laws in 1938, he left a successful practice in Italy and, in 1941, gained entry to the United States, where he reestablished himself as a traditional family doctor in Bethel, Connecticut. The collection includes documents from various aspects of Dr. George Mandl’s career between 1908-1977, including family records from Miskolc, educational records from Miskolc and the University of Vienna Medical S...

  16. Collection of Nathan Rapoport prints and sketches (RG-94-4) נתן רפופורט

    The collection contains Nathan Rapoport prints for his monument "Scrolls of Fire," and his other skeches. The monument "Scrolls of Fire" found in the Jerusalem hills, and it commemorates Jewish history from the Holocaust until Independence. The monument was inaugurated in 1971. The sculpture is made of bronze and is eight meters high. It is in the shape of two scrolls, a gesture to the Jewish nation being the "People of the Book." One of the scrolls describes the Holocaust and the other describes independence. It tells the story of the rebirth of the nation from the Holocaust up to the Six ...

  17. Henry Weil testimony

    Consists of one testimony, four pages, written by Henry Weil in 1995 (and revised in 2001.) In the testimony, Weil describes his experiences in the Polish Army, in Kraków, Lwow, the Wolbrom ghetto, and the Stalowa Wola forced labor camp. After escaping forced labor and returning to Kraków, he was sent to Płaszów where he worked for the Schindler Emaillewaren Fabrik. When Płaszów was liquidated and the men temporarily sent to Gross-Rosen prior to the factory's move to Brünnlitz, Weil changed places with his brother Wovek in order to save him. Wovek began to work for Schindler, while Henry sp...

  18. Selected records from the collection of the District Court in Piotrków. Regional Branch in Częstochowa Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie. Wydział Zamiejscowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 44)

    Contains records related to the history of Częstochowa and its industries, and social and economic activities at this time. Includes files relating to mortgages, estate property, allocation of property, alimonies, indemnities, draft debts, cancellations of draft agreements, and the cancellation of notary acts. Also included are files of civil cases such as the clarification of certificates of marital status, adoptions of children, death certificates, auctions of estate property, and concessions of the rights of the poor. Includes commercial registration files which contain the date of the e...

  19. The Jewish quarter and cemetery in Prague

    Prague, the facade of a large clock tower. The facade of the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. A street in Prague's Jewish quarter. The exterior of Prague's Maisel synagogue, and the surrounding street activity. A street sign reads "Jidelna Hirsch Bilkova 19," or "Hirsch Cafeteria". The old Jewish cemetery, CU of a gravestone shows engraving in Hebrew script.

  20. Poster of a Jewish Bolshevik bully shaking his fists in defense of NYC

    Anti-Semitic, anti-American Nazi propaganda poster issued in German occupied Italy ca. 1943, with a cartoon of a Jewish Bolshevik shaking his fists at all comers. The threat of the Jewish Bolshevik or Judeo-Communist conspiracy was a cornerstone of Nazi Party ideology. The 1917 Communist revolution that brought down the Russian Empire shocked the world. The prominence of Jews in the Bolshevik leadership fueled this imaginary merger of international conspiracies between the Communists and the Jews to destroy civilization and take over the world. In July 1943, Allied forces invaded Sicily. Mu...