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  1. Warner J. Nelson, Jr. photograph collection

    Contains 15 photographs documenting the liberation of a concentration camp.

  2. Werner Siegbert Oster collection

    The collection consists of correspondence of the Oster family of Boppard, Germany. Included are letters sent to Werner Oster, who immigrated to the United States in 1939, from his parents Ferdinand and Rosa Oster and sister Gisela Oster in Boppard; letters to Werner from “Aunt Alice and Uncle Ernst" in Westerburg, Germany; and letters from Rosa and Ferdinand Oster to Elma Katz in Brussels, Belgium.

  3. Haika Grosman personal archives (RG-95-69) חייקה גרוסמן, ארכיון אישי

    The collection includes personal documents, correspondence with Hashomer Hatzair leadership and personalities as Meir Ya'ari (1897-1987), the leader of Hashomer Hatzair, Kibbutz Artzi and Mapam; and Ya'akov Hazan (1899-1992),the Israeli politician and social activist; also includes documents from Grosman's activities as a Knesset member (1969-1988).

  4. Menachem Bader personal archives (RG-95-23) מנחם בדר - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Menachem Bader (1895-1985) contains documents with his biographical information, memoirs, records on the mission in Turkey and activities of the Rescue Commettee in Istanbul, articles, speeches, poems in Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish.

  5. Collection of newspapers published by the Jewish communities of Ukraine

    Collection of the newspapers published by the Jewish communities of Ukraine.

  6. Heilborn and Fassberg family papers

    The Heilborn and Fassberg family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and family research related to the family of Theodor and Recha Bloch Heilborn, originally from Berlin, Germany and Harold Fassberg, from Ohio. The collection documents the Heilborn family’s history in Germany from 1840-1939 including Theodor Heilborn's career as an attorney, being stripped of his position in 1933, and the family's emigration documentation. Also included is extensive correspondence between the Heilborns’ only child, Vera, and Harold Fassberg, a member of the American military during Wor...

  7. Isenberg family visits relatives in Gilserberg; cemetery; synagogue

    Man riding bicycle through town, past stacks of timber. Horse-drawn wagon. More logs and pan of houses. 01:16:00 "Jakob Stern" sign on a house [see notes about Stern family], men on wagon. Mailman closes door to truck. Man walks down street with a cane. Muddy trail in a field. 01:16:52 Cemetery - gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions - family names: Stern, Marx, Isenberg, Stahl. Family rides in a horse-drawn wagon in town. Jacob and Sophie Stern and family pose in front of the Stern house. Sigmund, Rosa, Julie, unknown women, and Isenberg family work on a farm. Sigmund leads oxen. 01:19:15 M...

  8. Selected records of the Directorate of Police, Bulgaria (Fond 370K)

    Letters, correspondence, articles, deportation lists, applications, and reports related to situation of immigrants, eviction and displacement of the Jewish population in Bulgaria and other various issues. Included are letters from the county governors for the deportation of Turks, Greeks, Jews, and others; correspondence about migrant issues, 1934-1940; articles about Palestine and the Jewish question; correspondence with the Directorate of Religious Affairs and the district police chiefs to extend the residence of the Catholic, Jewish and Armenian priests, monks and nuns, 1937-1943; press ...

  9. Julius Messer collection

    Collection of correspondence (postcards and envelopes) and birth certificate relating to Julius Messer (donor's cousin) who fled from Krakow, Poland to Shanghai, China during the Holocaust; Newspaper from Polish Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, dated December 1945. An accretion including: photographic portraits of Julius Messer and his wife Irena (nee Cynamon); photographic print of the Board of Directors retirement luncheon for Superintendance LTD, UK of which Julius Messer was Chairman of the Board; certified copies of the death certificate of Julius and Irena Messer; certificates re...

  10. Klajner and Taubman family papers

    Collection of photographs of the Klajner family in Boryslaw, Poland before the war; the Taubman and Klajner families in the Soviet Union during the war and after the war in Boryslaw, Walbrzych and other localities in Poland; Documents and correspondence: letter written to Dolka and Jurek Taubman in 1945 and December 1945, in Russian; School report card and student ID cards issued to Dora Kleiner and Jerzy Taubman in USSR

  11. Memoirs. Forced Labor in III Reich Pamiętniki. Przymusowa praca na terenie III Rzeszy

    Collection of testimonies submitted for a contest "Przymusowa Praca na Terenie III Rzeszy" (Forced labor in the Third Reich). The contest was organized in Poland in 1965 by the weekly "Zielony Sztandar", the publishing house Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza , and the Główna Komisja do Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes). 334 testimonies were accepted for the contest but only 125 were preserved (winning testimonies are missing, except a testimony of Jan Uskwarek).

  12. Abraham Bohrer photograph album

    Contains a WWII photo album from the US Army 45th Signal Corps.

  13. "A Life of Rebellion"

    Consists of one memoir, 181 pages, entitled "A Life of Rebellion," by Hans Apel, as told to Stefan G. Meyer. In the memoir, which was written based on extensive audio interviews with Mr. Apel (originally Appelbaum), Mr. Apel describes his childhood, antisemitism in Konitz, life in the German army in World War I, and the rise of Nazi influence in his brewery firm in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1935, he and his family emigrated to the Netherlands, to England in 1936, and to the United States in 1937. During World War II, he taught German language and history to army officers ...

  14. Polizeipräsident in Stettin Prezydium Policji w Szczecinie (Sygn. 93)

    Records created by the General Department and Department on Foreigners of the Police President in the province of Pomerania (Stettin), which supervised lower level entities: including regencies and counties. This collection contains orders and correspondence of the Gestapo related to foreigners, and records of the Department on Foreigners with the card files of foreigners, mainly Polish and Jewish people. Includes regulation for Germans how to behave towards Polish workers, name lists of Polish workers, indexes of private firms employed Polish workers, a list of foreigners sought by the Ges...

  15. Dr. Arthur Leser collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence regarding Jakob Leser (later Arthur Jack Leser), who obtained a medical degree in Vienna, Austria, before emigrating to England, Scotland, and finally the United States in 1938. Includes documentation regarding Dr. Leser's struggle to obtain his licensure and to find employment in the United States as a Jewish refugee physician.

  16. Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges Diukan na’arah ‘im shnei tla’im tsehubim Portrait print by Esther Lurie of a young woman wearing a plaid dress with two Star of David badges

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn59171
    • English
    • 1941
    • overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm)

    Print of a portrait drawing by Esther Lurie of a young woman in checked dress with two Star of David patches. It is print 19 of 20 and is signed the artist. This print is a version of the drawing, Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges, which Lurie did in the Kovno ghetto and for which she was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in 1946 in Palestine. In 1934, Esther and her family emigrated from Latvia to Palestine. She went to Europe in 1939 for advanced art training and was visiting relatives in Lithuania when World War II began with the September invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. In s...

  17. District Court in Łódź Sąd Okręgowy w Łodzi (SOŁdz), Sygn. 261

    Contains selected files of the Sąd Okręgowy w Łodzi (District Court in Łódź) during the years 1945-1956. These trials refer to the Decree of August 31, 1944 ("Sierpniówka"), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of war criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish nation. The "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This decree also applied to soldiers of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) whom the Co...

  18. George C. Gross photographs

    Consists of photographic negatives of images of the "death train" from which concentration camp prisoners from Bergen-Belsen were liberated near Farsleben (near Magdeburg, Germany) in April 1945. The prisoners had been placed on the train and departed Bergen-Belsen prior to the camp's liberation though the train had no intended destination. The images were taken and acquired immediately by George Gross, who was part of the 743rd Tank Battalion which secured the train while others in the unit sought provisions for the newly liberated prisoners.

  19. Ungar family photographs

    Consists of copyprints of the family of Alfred and Stefa Ungar, who lived in Krakow, Poland, with their children Adam and Kuka (now Helen). Includes pre-war copyprints of the family, copyprints of the family at the labor camp of Krakow-Prokocim, and copyprints of Alfred Ungar in his concentration camp uniform, alone and with other prisoners, after their liberation from Buchenwald. Also includes a copyprint and published article about the memory of Adam Ungar, who was remembered at the bar mitzvah of Daniel Pyser.

  20. Reinsch family papers

    Consists of legal, financial, taxation, construction, and restitution documents and correspondence related to the efforts of the Reinsch family, particularly Hannie Reinsch, to regain the property her family owned in Berlin and Leipzig prior to World War II. Includes some family documents regarding the pre-war lives of the family, including participation in World War I and the purchase of investment properties, which were confiscated before and after the family fled Europe. Also includes digital images of the family's pre-war, wartime, and post-war photograph albums. The vast majority of th...