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  1. Lazega family collection

    Documents, photographs, papers, correspondence documenting the experiences of Jacob and Leah Lazega, and their children Fanny (donor), Eva, and Max before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Lazega family fled their home in Brussels during the German invasion of Belgium and went to Paris temporarily. When the Germans arrived in Paris, the family fled first to Vannes and then south to Marseilles. Jacob was taken to Camp des Milles, where the family could occasionally visit and bring him food and supplies. Leah was able to help her husband escape from the camp, and he then went into hiding....

  2. Leonard Burrows photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The photographs, which depict corpses and a crematorium oven, likely belonged to Flight Lt. Leonard (Bunny) Burrows, a member of the British military who took part in the liberation.

  3. Wiesel family collection

    Collection of family photographs documenting Frieda and Louis Wiesel (donor's parents) and their sons Jacques and Irving (donor and his brother) while living in Belgium and Casablanca during World War II.

  4. Family explores Northern Slovakia

    The Brust family visit Slovakia from their home in Budapest. A man with a cane walks on uneven terrain (some damage to film). Emblem in concentric circles on the front pediment area of a building roof. Camera pans right, showing trees and the mountains behind. A waterfall flows. 00:00:39 pans left to show a man sitting in front of a larger waterfall. He smiles and poses for the camera. CU of water rushing down the river. More views of the river, the waterfall, and the rushing water. 00:01:12 A woman and the man with the cane attempt to step down a rocky path away from the river. River and t...

  5. Walter Kamlet papers

    Consists of original pre-war, wartime, and post-war documents, restitution paperwork, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences of Walter Kamlet, originally of Berlin, Germany. The collection includes information regarding Kamlet's life as a teenager at the Château de la Hille children's home run by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), as well as a large number of photographs of the other children in the home, and documents regarding his escape into Switzerland in April 1944. Also includes documents about Kamlet's parents, Benno and Mila Kamlet, who survived the Holo...

  6. Hashomer Hatzair in France (RG-14-2) השומר הצעיר בצרפת

    Contains activity records, minutes of meetings of the Hashomer Hatzair Council, work plans, educational publications : Ha kvutza, on summer camps in France, articles Hashomer Hatzair leaders, a report on the World Zionist Federation, brochures of the "Lapidim" group, newspapers clippings "Al Hamishmar" (newspapers been published in France by the Hashomer Hatzair publishing house in 1931-1949).

  7. Selected records from the collection Court of the First Instance in Częstochowa Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie (Sygn. 45)

    Contains selected records of the Civil and Criminal Departments of the Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie. The records relate to various cases: estates (e.g. cases concerning portioning out family property), payments of rent and expulsion from apartments, cases concerning dues of different kinds, drafts, and the like. There are files of writ cases and tutelary cases in the Civil Department (e.g. applications for guardianship of a minor). In the Criminal Department, there are files concerning theft, assault and battery, defamation, ignoring regulations concerning health, evasion of paying alimonies,...

  8. Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp

    Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The tag was picked up by an American soldier on a tour of the camp in the spring of 1945, after the camp’s liberation. A numbered tag was placed with each corpse to be able to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers on the tags did not correspond to prisoner numbers. Produced in large quantities, not all the tags were used. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi government in 1933, originally for political prisoners. Over time, other groups were interned at Dachau, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, ...

  9. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of piles of corpses, of bone fragments, and of soldiers and survivors looking at the corpses.

  10. Wilno Great Synagogue area (Shulhoyf)

    Men, women, and children walk through a market square in Vilnius (Wilno, Vilna) outside Vilnius Old Town. Many hold flowers. One woman holds a large basket. People move through a large outdoor market. A woman buys goods. A young man walks through a residential street, glancing back towards the camera. 0:44 CU, facade of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius, the camera moves around the Shulhoyf (courtyard of the Great Synagogue) alleys and streets. Sign in Polish: “CHEMICZNA PRALINE i FARBIARNIA” [Chemical dry cleaning and coloring of Cloth) with Yiddish words beneath. A horse-drawn carriage moves...

  11. Dr. Thomas R. Fister photographs

    Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The photographs, which were taken by Dr. Thomas R. Fister, a member of the US Army Medical Corps, depict corpses and the landscape of the camp. Also includes a CD of digital images of the same.

  12. Garzynski family photographs

    Collection of photographs illustrating the Garzynski family in Poland before the war and Andrew and his older brother Stanislaw Garzynski after the war in a DP camp near Munich and in Polish Company guarding German POWs in Mulsberghoffen. Andrew and Stanislaw were both prisoners in Auschwitz in Spring 1944 when they were transferred to Leitmeritz, a sub-camp of Flossenberg.

  13. Before the Bath Porcelain figurine of a seated female acquired from Adolf Hitler’s Munich apartment

    Painted porcelain figurine of a woman in a swimsuit, taken in 1945 from Adolf Hitler’s Prince Regent Square apartment in Munich, Germany, by Daniel Jacobson, a Jewish-American soldier. On April 30, 1945, Daniel arrived in Munich with the 179th infantry, 45th division. The apartment was untouched by the war and was visited by several American servicemen from Daniel’s division. Daniel visited the apartment on May 6, and left with the figurine and Hitler’s personal stationery. The figurine was designed in 1913 by Rudolf Marcuse, a German-Jewish artist. He was persecuted by the Nazi authorities...

  14. Oral history interview with Hannah Stein

  15. Records of the town of Kłobuck Akta miasta Kłobucka (Sygn.495)

    This collection contains minutes of the Municipal Council meetings of the town Kłobuck. Meetings were held during the year 1927, and years 1932-1939. Records relate to various matters of the town Kłobuck: budget, planning new construction of public objects, city taxes, and public regulations.

  16. Jewish businesses in Vienna

    Close pan of shops, in Vienna, on a sunny day. Filmed at Seitenstettengasse and Judengasse. 01:07:40 "Judengasse" street sign above shop in Vienna. Soldier with rifle on street corner at 01:07:45. Doors of a synagogue (?). Views of Judengasse from an upstairs window guarded by a soldier. 01:08:21 Local men pose for the camera, pigs roam the streets (location unknown, possibly outside Berlin).

  17. Ladenheim family collection

    Correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Julius and Yetta Ladenheim and their children Marcel and Henry in France and the United Kingdom before, during, and after the Holocaust. Contains pre-war, wartime and postwar images including image of Marcel in hiding with Olga Masoli, who along with her sister Esther hid him in Paris and cared for him until 1948. Includes letters from Marcel to his mother and to his rescuers, Olga and Ester Masoli, around 1948 after he was removed from their home by a maternal aunt and her husband and brought to the United Kingdom. His father d...

  18. Adolf Adam and Ryszarda Rosenstrauss Luks collection

    Collection of documents relating to Adolf (Dolek) Adam Luks (b. March 27, 1912 in Krakow) and Ryszarda Rosenstrauss Luks (b. April 28, 1917 in Nadworna). The documents relate to the imprisonment and return of Dolek and Ryszarda from concentration camps including Ryszarda's time in Płaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lichtenwerde and Dolek's experiences in Gross Rosen, Buchenwald, Sonneberg (sub-camp of Buchenwald), Krakow, and their later time in Walbrzych and their subsequent emigration to Australia in September 1947. Includes two Polish passports; an ID photograph Adam Luks; an undated manuscrip...

  19. Ladislaus (Louis) and Friederike Reisz papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and papers relating to the experiences of Ladislaus (Louis) and Friederike Reisz (donors' parents) from Vienna, Austria and their families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes birth certificate, academic records from the University of Graz, and letters of reference and other documents related to the career of Ladislaus Reisz as an attorney in Vienna; educational records documenting the training Friederike Kohn (later Reisz) received as a pharmacist; financial records and other materials related to Heinrich and Julie Kohn, including effort...

  20. Moskovits Archive: Court cases against Dierig Holding Company Archivo Moskovits: Prozess gegen Firma Dierig Holding

    Legal cases and correspondence related to the trial against Dierig Holding AG company that used forced and slave labor during Nazi era. It consist of lawsuits of Holocaust survivors and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps against Dierig Holding company who worked as forced labors at company's branches in Nazi Germany. The trial took place in 1999.