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  1. Records of the Association of Former Prisoners of the Lublin Castle and the "Under the Clock" Prison Zbiór akt Stowarzyszenia byłych Więźniów Zamku Lubelskiego i Więzienia "Pod Zegarem" (Sygn. XXV)

    The collection contains prisoners' correspondence, including secret letters and postcards, diaries, personal documents, as well as notices and orders from German authorities, dating from the years 1939 -1944; as well as lectures and studies about the prison that were conducted after the war. Altogether the collection includes 923 units and 3339 former prisoners’ surveys.

  2. Julius Kohn letter

    Contains a letter from Julius Kohn, of Vienna, dated July 25, 1939, sent to Mrs. Sedonia Kohn in New York, seeking an affidavit that would allow him and his family to immigrate to the United States. Mr. Kohn did not know Mrs. Kohn, and likely wrote to her because of the shared last name. Ultimately, Mr. Kohn did not receive an affidavit and he and his family were deported to Maly Trostenets in 1942, where they were killed.

  3. Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt Tajna Policja Państwowa w Łodzi. Oddział w Łodzi (Sygn. 201)

    Contains mainly Gestapo investigations relating to violation of discipline of labor and prohibited blood relations between Polish and German people, as well as statistical reports of Gestapo office, a list of the staff, information about the political status and attitude of Polish population during 1942-1944, investigations concerning the illegal trespassing of the ghetto Litzmannstadt (Łódź), information about deportations of Poles to concentration camps and the labor camp at Sikawa, as well as official journals of Kripo in Łódź.

  4. Sightseeing in Germany

    EXT and INT of a church. In Dresden, the Zwinger Palace and Equestrian Statue of King John. River. Large garden and estate. City square with some traffic and pedestrians. German family walks through a park. 01:10:03 Bustling street with traffic in Berlin. Brandenburg gate. Barracks of a building under construction. 01:10:44 Pan of a building guarded by German soldiers and pedestrians walking about. MSs, the city's cathedral domes, docks and boats on the Spree River, the Berlin Zoo, an airplane taking off, the Siemens factory, a busy outdoor street market, and a courtyard with graves.

  5. Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Organization and Control Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Organizacji i Kontroli (Sygn. 303/II)

    Contains various documents of the Department of Organization and Control (WOiK) of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP): mainly reports, minutes, circular letters, correspondence concerning control of the branch offices and personnel matters.

  6. Jozefine Markstein and Georg Spitz papers

    Photographs and correspondence concerning the experiences of Jozefine Markstein and George Spitz (donor’s parents). Includes correspondence from American soldiers, Don Reagan and Sergeant Cletus King, to Jozefine’s relatives stating she had survived, as well as photographic prints of the wedding of Jozefine and Georg in 1940 and a postwar image of Jozefine with her son John (donor) in 1946. Also included are portrait photographs of Jozefine taken before her 1944 deportation. Jozefine survived multiple camps and reunited with George after World War II.

  7. Henry and Edith Wertheimer collection

    Collection of letters written by Heinz Ludwig Wertheimer (b. May 22, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany). He was sent by his parents Dr. Max and Rosel Wertheimer to England on the Kindertransport. The parents joined their son Lutz in August 1939 and a year later they immigrated to the US. using a false identity of Edith Adler (b. 1924 in Ulm, Germany) issued under the name "Edith Aubert" who was a member of the French underground.

  9. Gorodiscas family papers

    Consists of Bencelis Gorodiscas's passport from Lithuania, issued in 1921; the "livret de famille" family book documenting Bencelis's marriage to Malka Mendrzycka (originally of Warsaw) and the births of their children, Marguerite in 1933 and Gilbert in 1944. Also includes a certificate of liberation issued to Bencelis Gorodiscas from the Gurs internment camp in April 1943 and a bill for their immigration to the United States in 1961.

  10. Rainès-Lambé family papers

    Collection of documents and correspondence documenting the experiences of Anna and Leon Rainès-Lambé (donor's parents), the expropriation of their livelihood, and their efforts to evade Nazi collaborators and deportation in France during the Holocaust. Documents include an announcement for Leon to appear for "special transport" as well as a post-war document indicating that Wehrmacht officials occupied their home and appropriated personal possessions; the letter indicates where the family could retrieve their personal belongings.

  11. Paul Frank postcard

    Contains a postcard, dated January 8, 1940, sent by Paul Frank to his family, stating that he is happy his family avoided his fate and he will write again when he will receive permission to do so. Paul Frank was deported from the Ostrava region in Slovakia in the so-called Nisko Plan, in October 1939.

  12. Nazi National War naval ensign acquired by a US soldier

    National War naval ensign with a swastika and a cross on a red field, obtained by an American soldier during his service in Germany in 1945. This type of flag was used aboard German warships from November 7, 1935 - May 8, 1945. The US soldier who brought the flag home landed at Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and helped liberate and secure the city of Paris, France in late August. He fought with General Patton's Third Army in the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December. While searching for German soldiers on a farm in Germany, he was struck by a barn ...

  13. Judith Weiszmann collection of stamps

    Contains postage stamps issued in Canada and Sweden in 2012, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg on the centenary of his birth. The graphic design of both stamps incorporate a "Schutzpass" that was issued to Judith Weiszmann, nee Kopstein, in Budapest in 1944. Included are postage stamps, first day covers, and souvenir sheets; as well as copies of news articles about Weiszmann and the issue of the Canadian postage stamp, that appeared in publications in Canada, Germany, and Hungary.

  14. Jerzy Głowacki and Ludwika Lacheta papers

    The collection includes documents relating to the official name change of Lota Lam, Marzena Rola’s grandmother, to Ludwika Lacheta; a letter from the Swiss Bank Association to Jerzy Głowacki, Marzena Rola’s father, in which the Association agreed to search for the Swiss bank deposit by Simon Hubner on the condition that the petitioner will provide a death certificate and other documents; and a photograph depicting Jerzy Głowacki with a group of other liberated prisoners.

  15. Selected records from the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, Russia

    Selected records from several archival collections related to the prewar history of the Jewish community of the Petrograd-Leningrad region and archival records related to the German occupation of this region during World War II. Prewar records contain: Correspondence, minutes of the meetings of the Jewish Committee in Petrograd (EKOPO) and others, statistics and reports of the Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs (Moscow) for January-March 1918, various records of Jewish organizations to assist the Jewish population, 1917-1938: correspondence with Jewish organizations in the US, Germany...

  16. Meir Shapiro family photographs

    Photographs relating to the experiences of Meir Shapiro and his family surrounding the Holocaust in Poland and Germany. Included are pre-war photographs of Meir's mother Jenta and father Chaim as well as post-war photographs of Meir and his sister Judith in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany. Also included is an image of David Ben-Gurion speaking to a group at the Zeilsheim camp in 1947 and group photographs of a Zionist youth organization, or kibbutz in Łódź, Poland, in which both Judith and Meir are pictured as well as a photograph of Miriam and Musia Brodzky, Meir’s cousins,...

  18. Selected records related to evacuation from the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation

    Contains various records and correspondence files created by the Soviet Government and Communist Party authorities related to the evacuation of civilians to the Republic Mari El during WWII. It includes lists of evacuees, statistical data, information about food and medical supplies etc provided by the above-named authorities to the evacuated population.

  19. Henri Maizels photograph collection

    The collection includes a photograph of Henri Maizels's parents in Paris before WWII and a photograph of Henri's aunt and uncle, who he lived with after WWII, dated 1947.

  20. Feuerlicht and Grussgott family papers

    Contains photographs (70), letters, passports, and other documents illustrating the experiences of Abraham Grussgott and Nelly Feuerlicht (donor). Abraham (b. 1924 in Bardekov, Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia), survived in the woods of Czechoslovakia, running and on false papers; Nelly (b. Berlin Germany) fled with her mother Yetti Friedman [Feuerlicht] and father to Belgium, from where Nelly and Yetti were able to depart for the United States. Collection documents their unsuccessful efforts to get Ignatz [Nelly's father] a visa to enter the United States in 1942. He was deported and p...