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  1. Harry and Lili Topolansky photograph collection

    Collection of photographs showing the Topolanski family in Grodno and the Schwarcz family in Munkacs before the war, and Lili Schwartz and Hersz Topolanski, who were married in the Landsberg DP camp. Hersz Topolanski (later Harry Topolansky) resided in Krasnik during the German invasion. He was imprisoned in Płaszów and transferred to Leitmeritz concentration camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg, on April 8, 1944. Lili Topolanski was deported with her family to Auschwitz Birkenau on May 20, 1944. Two months later Lili was transferred to Hunsfeld, a subcamp of Gross Rosen, where she was forced to ...

  2. Eugene A. Stehle photograph collection

    Collection of photographic prints depicting the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps immediately following liberation. Includes images from the series taken by former Yugoslavian prisoners documenting the cremation process in Dachau, the crematorium and victims in Buchenwald, reburial, and forced confrontation; dated April- May 1945.

  3. Hashomer Hatzair in Austria (R-9-2) השומר הצעיר באוסטריה.

    Contains name lists of the Holocaust survivors (1946-1947), members of the Hashomer Hatzair in Austria (1946), materials on the 22nd Zionist Congress (1946), a notebook "Son's Rebellion " in Yiddish, correspondence with other branches, the central leadership and MAPAM organisations, circulars of Linz branch, a speech of Andrei Gromyko on May 14, 1947 on Palestine partition plan in Yiddish and Polish. Also contains reports, notes on activities of the Omer and Magen groups (gari'in) (1959-1966), issues of the magazine "Hevrateynu" (1961-1978), and brochures of Vienna branch (ken), 1981-1985.

  4. Dr. John Karabin collection

    Consists of photographs and glass slides of images taken by Dr. John Karabin, a member of the United States Army attached to the 91st/93rd Evacuation Hospital who participated in the liberation of Dachau. The images depict the Dachau hospital, corpses, the Dachau death train, and the area surrounding the camp.

  6. Garden; prewar Zionist youth group

    Color film of park or garden. Flowering trees. Pan up windmill. Dutch flags flying from buildings on a narrow street. Women and children, including Herman and Sarah Vleeschhouwer, play and eat outdoors. Large group gathers to hear Zionist youths with blue and white clothing sing under director, probably in 1938 or 1939 in the Netherlands. Large Zionist flags. Man speaks from podium. More flags. Kids carrying flags and wearing uniforms parade.

  7. US War Bonds poster of three small children under the shadow of a swastika

    U.S. War Bond poster designed by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, after America's entry into World War II. It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. The poster was distributed by the United StatesTreasury Department and implied that purchasing war bonds would keep the children safe from the Nazi threat. War bonds were offered by the United States Government for purchase by the public; purchasers would keep the bond and be reimbursed for its return at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and ...

  8. Schiller and Binder families collection

    Contains letters written by the Schiller and Binder families in Kitsman (Cotman) and Chernowitz, Romania, to their children Sara Schiller (donor's mother) and Moshe Schiller, and Shmuel Binder (donor's father) and Arie Binder in Palestine. The Schiller family from Kitsman and the Binder family from Chernowitz were deported in the fall of 1941 to Transnistria. According to testimonies, the Schiller family was thrown off the barge in the middle of the Dniestr River and drowned. The Binder family was deported to Transnistria at the same time, and no one survived.

  9. Alter and Dora Edelman Skwarny Collection

    The collection consists of photogrpahs depicting the Skwarny and Edelman families and documents regarding Alter and Dwora Skwarny's immigration to Canada in 1948.

  10. Nachum Bone personal archives (RG-95-79) נחום בונה - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Nachum Bone (1913-2012) contains his identity documents, memoirs, correspondence, research papers and articles on the Jewish community of Pińsk including papers on the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Pińsk and names lists of members of the community. Includes also papers and reports as the Hashomer Hatzair emissary to Poland in 1946-1947 .

  11. Records of the commune Wałowice County Rawski located in Niwna Akta gminy Wałowice powiatu Rawskigo z siedziba w Niwnej (Sygn.1106)

    General correspondence of the commune Wałowice, including the registration of Jewish inhabitants, regulations related to Jewish families deported from Germany and Warsaw, and statistics of local properties, farms, and household goods. Also includes registers of Polish people murdered and arrested.

  12. Engraved silver cup given to Erwin Rösener by Heinrich Himmler

    Silver cup engraved with the names of Erwin Rösener and Heinrich Himmler and SS bolts, manufactured by the A. Frisch firm in Oslo, Norway. Rösener joined the SA in 1926, and was accepted into the SS in 1930. He quickly advanced through the ranks, and was promoted nine times between 1930 and 1944. Rösener attained the rank of Gruppenführer (Major General) on November 9, 1941, and his final rank of Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General) on August 1, 1944. On December 16, 1941, he was assigned to be the Higher SS and Police Leader for Upper Section Alpenland, which was located in southern Aust...

  14. Gauleiter speaks; parade for NSDAP convention in Bad Zwischenahn

    Title, "Vorbeimarsch vor dem Gauleiter". A parade on June 4 at 3:30pm marches past Carl Röver, the Gauleiter of Weser-Ems from 1929 until his death in 1942. He is standing in a blue Mercedes. The Nazi District Administration headquarters building is behind the Gauleiter and adorned with Nazi flags and eagle insignias. 00:03:42 A street sign points toward "Fährhaus." The parade includes World War One veterans, the Hitler Youth, mounted cavalry and soldiers from various military branches, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, and the SS. 00:07:47 Title, "Der Gauleiter spricht". Gauleiter Carl Röver spea...

  15. Nina Gitler poem

    Consists of one typed poem, dated February 1942, entitled "Kadysz," written by Nina Gitler in the Warsaw Ghetto. In the poem, Gitler, who was sixteen-years-old, complains of hearing that American Jews are saying Kaddish for the Jews of Europe, though they are still alive and suffering. The poem was collected and identified by Simon Weber, the long-serving editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, and was published in the Forward.

  16. Court of the First Instance in Częstochowa II Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie II (Sygn. 626)

    This collection contains records related to the civil cases investigated by the court, i.e.: cases related to estates, various kinds of dues, inheritance, recognition of debts, files of cases transferred to the Courts of Conciliation, and the like. This collection provides information on Jewish life during the wartime period.

  17. Carl Lutz commemorative material

    Consists of a first-issue commemorative stamp and envelope, issued on September 29, 1999, featuring Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. Also includes a post-war photographic print portrait of Lutz, and a printed program for a ceremony at George Washington University, dated March 3, 2014, at which Lutz was posthumously honored with the University's President's Medal for his work in Budapest in 1944.

  18. Amtsgericht Guttentag District Court of the Town of Dobrodzień Sąd Obwodowy w Dobrodzieniu (Sygn.584)

    This collection contains selected files from the German District Court in the town of Dobrodzień (Guttentag). Selected materials refer to the Roman-Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious communities. Contains statistical reports prepared at the behest of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. (NSDAP), and the official German regulations issued for religious communities. The records were unprocessed and documents are in poor physical condition.

  19. Red Orchestra correspondence collection

    Correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Helmut Roloff (donor's father), a German musician and educator, imprisoned in Germany in 1942-1943 for his actions as part of the resistance group nicknamed the Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, by the Nazi party. The letters are primarily between Helmut and his parents. Also included is post-war correspondence between Helmut and Annemarie Kuttner, a Jewish survivor who was in hiding and whose family was assisted by Helmut.

  20. Arnold Mechur papers

    Consists of documents and a photograph related to Arnold Mechur's pre-war schooling and training as a tailor in Berlin, Germany. Also includes a 1937 photograph of three boys, Mechur's immigration documents for his 1940 emigration from Europe to Cuba, his naturalization papers for the United States, and a program noting his participation in a 1974 art show in southern Florida.