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  1. Ambassador George Landau collection

    Consists of one Austrian passport, issued in 1936 to Georg (now George) Walter Landau, which includes stamps, visas and an affidavit in lieu of a passport, relating to his 1938 emigration to Colombia and 1941 emigration to the United States; one photocopy of his 1920 birth certificate; and a 1938 Heimatschein.

  2. Poster announcing a postwar event in memory of thuose who perished in Vilnius

    Broadside for a 1947 memorial event for the victims of the Holocausr in Vilnius, Lithuania, to be held by the Union of Immigrants from Vilnius and the vicinity for Assistance and Rescue, in Tel Aviv, Palestine. It wa to be held on September 8, 1947, in Ohel assembly hall, with speakers including Rabbi Unterman, Joseph Klausner, and Aba Kovner. It was published by A. Strod and designed by M. Behlfer and Moshe Vorobeichic.

  3. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers

    The collection contains German military documents relating to the military careers of non-Jewish Germans Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Also included are financial documents relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and Warsaw, Poland. The biographical materials in this collection are organized into two subseries of materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl include a military identification booklet, 1910-1919; a passport “Wehrpaß,” ...

  4. Sondergericht Litzmannstadt Special Court Litzmannstadt Sąd Specjalny w Łodzi (Sygn.196)

    This collection consists of files of the Special Court in Łódź, as well as the files of the Landgericht (District Court) and Amtsgericht. Along with the court files there are also reference files of the prosecutor. The collection consists of selected files: all cases related to the resistance movement have been copied, as well as those related to political activity, religious activity and, widely considered Jewish matters. Other cases were illustrated as examples in some dozen cases. Thus, for example,. illegal trade, illegal slaughter, illegal manufacture of vodka and other crimes of econo...

  5. Jan and Helena Bodakowski photographs

    Consists of three photographs Jan and Helena Cenkar Bodakowski in the Wildflecken and Schwarzenborn displaced persons camps. Includes photographs of the couple's June 6, 1946 wedding in Schwarzenborn, and a 1948 photograph of Jan Bodakowski chopping wood at Wildflecken.

  6. Woodblock print depicting Jewish internees at High Holiday services

    Woodblock print depicting Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services in the synagogue in the Central Promenade Camp on the Isle of Man.

  7. And they do not toll the bells... The story of the family of Dr. Hillél Friedmann, Chief Rabbi of Dombóvár

    Consists of one memoir, 243 pages, entitled "And they do not toll the bells...": The story of the family of Dr. Hillél Friedmann, Chief Rabbi of Dombóvár," written by Erzébet Rab Friedmann, circa 1945-1948. In the memoir, Mrs. Friedmann describes the family's 1944 deportation from Dombóvár to the Kaposvár ghetto. In great detail, she describes her memories of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, forced labor at an aircraft factory near Leipzig, and a forced march to Theresienstadt from which she was liberated. She and her daughter Judit, who remained together during these experiences, returned to Hung...

  8. Gessner visits Italy

    In Pompeii, three men, two in uniform and one in a suit outside of the entrance. The building reads “ENTRATA IN POMPEI”. 01:02:53 A man in a suit (friend of Gessner) walks along the entry road to Pompeii. 01:03:01 Gessner faces the camera and takes a photo before walking up the road and waving for the his friend to follow him. The friend stands in the ruins of the basilica at Pompeii. 01:03:15 Gessner in the ruins of the basilica. 01:03:25 Sign reads “TEMPLUM APOLLINIS”, the Temple of Apollo. Gessner stands on a block next to a colonnade, bronze sculpture. The other man walks across elevate...

  9. US anti-Nazi boycott stamp with a Star of David and a Nazi wolf

    Red, white, and blue single poster stamp or sticker issued to promote a boycott of Hitler. It depicts a snarling Nazi dog barred from entering a chained gate marked brotherhood of man, guarded by an American eagle. After Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, several organizations in the United States sponsored campaigns urging people to not buy or support Nazi related products. Among the groups calling for boycotts of Nazi Germany were the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, and the Joint Boycott Council.

  10. William C. Smith photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints documenting victims found in the Dachau and Nordhausen concentration camps immediately following liberation; one photo captioned on verso in English; dated April-May 1945. Photographer unknown, prints were given to donor by a fellow American soldier while serving in Europe following World War II.

  11. Embroidered blouse worn by a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    Embroidered blouse selected and worn by Ruth Gold immediately after her liberation from Malchow concentration camp by the Soviet Army in 1945.

  12. Israel Glazer personal papers (RG-95-47) ישראל גלזר

    Personal archives of Israel Glazer (1919-1970) contains documents with his biographical information, records of the Hashomer Hatzair in Poland, Jewish organizations after WWII, correspondence (1945-1947), a list of the members of the Hashomer Hatzair, articles, interviews, speeches, lectures, documents on the kibbutz Tel Amal.

  13. Municipal Government and Municipal Council in Częstochowa Zarząd Miejski i Miejska Rada Narodowa w Częstochowie (Sygn. 2)

    Contains situation reports, correspondence, and reports relating to the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946, as well as attempts to organize anti-Jewish riots in Częstochowa where two persons were shot. The majority of materials includes situation reports, materials of the Jewish Committee of 1945, records relating to the establishment of the Religious (Mosaic) Association, lists of Polish and Jewish children in orphanages (1940-1947), correspondence related to mass graves and war crimes and restitution of estate property and enterprises.

  14. Collection of photographs from the Kazerne Dossin Archives

    This collection contains more than 19,000 photographs of Jewish deportees and Romanies living in Belgium and deported from Belgium and France to concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.

  15. Selected records from the State Archives in Osijek, Croatia

    Records related to the history of the Jewish Community of Osijek, and the Osijek region, Croatia, which includes the towns of Nasice, Donji Miholjac, Čepin, and Baranja county. This collection includes selected records from various archival collections related to the confiscation and nationalization of Jewish property (houses, shops, factories etc.), inventories of Jewish property, petitions of local Jews to free members of their families who are imprisoned in concentration camps (Djakovo, Jacenovac and other), discriminatory orders and decrees of the local municipalities related to the Jew...

  16. US propaganda poster reminding Americans of the urgent need to support the war

    Propaganda poster A-25 designed by Ben Shahn for the US War Production Drive to promote popular support for World War II. The colorful lithograph has an image of men with their hands raised in the air. The poster protests the oppression of worker's by the Vichy government in unoccupied France, and warns, one worker to another, of even more terrible things to come. The workers stand before a broadside of the Official Vichy Decree which forced French workers to perform any work which served the interest of the nation. The US government originally supported this regime, established in 1940 und...

  17. Ketubah from Deggendorf displaced persons camp

    One ketubah, recording the wedding of Moshe Wasserman and Rachel Landa, at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, 20 October 1945. Text in Hebrew, with ink stamp from "Jewish Committee, D.P. Camp 7, Deggendorf." The groom is listed as being the son of Meir Wasserman, and the bride as being the daughter of Mordechai Landa, with witnesses Mendel Gorski and Meir Blumshtayn present, and Rabbi Refael ben Yehudah Halevi officiating.

  18. Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers

    The Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers consist of correspondence, copied documents, interview transcripts, trial transcripts, notes, typescript texts, and other similar materials compiled during the research and writing of a book to be titled “Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust,” an examination of the leadership of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Congregation of Vienna, or IKG) and the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt, and in particular the roles of Benjamin Murmelstein and Josef Löwenherz, in response to Nazi persecution of the Jewish community following the annexat...

  19. Stadthauptmannschaft Tschenstochau Selected records of the district of Częstochowa Starostwo Miejskie w Częstochowie (Sygn. 4)

    The records of Starosta of Częstochowa survived only partially, and include records of the financial department and partial records of the internal department. During the German occupation Częstochowa was a separate town (county) in the Radom district. The selected files of this collection contain mainly correspondence with Judenrat regarding Jewish matters. Includes records of the Jewish community during 1939-1944 and consists of correspondence on such matters as: confiscation of Jewish property, displacements and deportations, orders concerning the ghetto of Częstochowa, permissions to le...

  20. Gusen liberation photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Gusen concentration camp. The photographs depict the burial of corpses in mass graves, the burning of barracks, a soldier standing in front of the sign for the Gusen cemetery, and the painted corpse of former commandant Franz Ziereis impaled on a barbed wire fence.