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  1. Stettner family papers

    This collection relates to the lives and emigration attempts of the Stettner family. As the family members were all born in different countries—Maximilian and his daughter Ilse in Czechoslovakia, Kathe in Austria, and Walter in Italy—they were under different refugee quotas and had different opportunities for immigration. The collection illuminates the hardships imposed by circumstances of birth and the difficulties each family member faced. The correspondence between the family members—in the United States, Trieste, the Netherlands, and Shanghai, is a highlight of the collection for resear...

  2. Touring Germany

    In the mountains (Alps?). A man and a woman talk before a tree and look at the camera. Several young men smoke and pose for the camera at the foot of a ski slope. Guesthouse. Visiting the traditional frescoed facades of the Bavarian village Oberammergau and the Ettal Monastery. Pan across the mountain landscape and small towns below. Three men pose near the summit mount with their skis. People ski and ride in cable cars. Large church. 01:02:07 Pan and LS of an ice rink. A villager herds his sheep. Cut back to ice skating, mountains and people hiking. More aerial views, the ski slopes, and a...

  3. Cesia Frymer diary

    Diary written by Cesia Frymer after she reached her hometown of Krakow, Poland, after liberation from Lichtenwerde. Frymer began the diary in Krakow in January 1945, and compiled entries there and elsewhere in Poland and Czechoslovakia until May 1947. Frymer survived the Krakow Ghetto, Płaszów, and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. She participated in an attack on the Cyganeria Cafe in December 1942 in Krakow. She was a member of Hashomer Hatzair.

  4. Selected records from the Portuguese National Archives

    Contains selected records of Portuguese agencies under António Salazar's regime. Included in this collection are correspondence, reports, mostly relating to Jewish refugees and trade relations with other nations, the question of sending German Jewish refugees to Portuguese colonies, and the Salazar’s personal archives.

  5. Zyndorf and Rosenbaum family collection

    Collection of photographs, correspondence and document (Registration/Identity Card) of the Zyndorf and Rosenbaum families in Bedzin and Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland before the war, during the war in the Srodula ghetto, in the Bobrek concentration camp a sub-camp of Auschwitz, ILAG XVVII in Austria, and after the war in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Fela Zyndorf (donor's mother) was imprisoned in the Bedzin ghetto, the Bobrek forced labor camp, and in the Peterswaldau forced labor camp. Szlamek Rosenbaum (donor's father) survived nine forced labor and concentration camps, including Buche...

  6. Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Special Commission Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Komisja Specialna (Sygn. 303/VIII)

    Circular letters, protocols, minutes, orders, correspondence, as well as personal and financial files of the main office and regional branches of the Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP), Specjalna Komisja in Poland.

  7. Ida Dancyger family photographs

    Consists of a large portrait, taken in the 1920s, of a young man (possibly her brother) and older woman who were family members of Malka Finkelstein, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Also includes a post-war photograph of Ida Flint, the daughter of Malka Finkelstein and Mendel Flint, with her father at the Hallerin displaced persons camp in post-war Austria.

  8. Géza and Margarete Fisch family papers

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Géza Fisch, his wife Margarethe Goetzl Fisch, their daughter Eva Johanna (donor), and son Heinz (Heinrich) as they fled Vienna, Austria in November 1938. Géza, born in Detta, Hungary, was unable to immigrate to the United States with his family, and went to Ecuador. His family immigrated to the U.S. and then in 1939, joined him in Ecuador, where they then remained.

  9. Isenberg family greets townspeople

    Unknown people in a carriage in an unknown location. Isenberg family gets out of a car. Artur, Sigmund, and others gather in the street, talking to folks through windows of brick homes.

  10. Annual harvest festival at Bueckeberg

    Large groups of civilians travel along a road to the harvest festival in Bueckeberg on October 6, 1935. Germans heil officials and watch a large procession. Tillman describes in his diary how one million people traveled by special trains and by foot to the rally. "The whole mountain... was alive with people, hardly room for more... People of different parts of G[ermany] with their native costumes marched in procession until 12:00 when the Fuehrer arrived - walked through the crowd to platform on top of mountain to watch the battle - very realistic." In his manuscript "Meine Herrschaften" (i...

  11. Visiting Switzerland

    People smile and wave for the camera aboard a boat. People smoke and talk aboard a train platform and wave from the train cars. Tour group in Arth-Goldau, Switzerland. Scenic views of the town and a river. Back on the boat, people pose for the camera.

  12. American troops help a wounded German soldier in the aftermath of a counter-assault

    Card: "German G.I. Shot in Counter-Attack, Bonn." Two soldiers in full gear stand in front of a brick house with rubble. Soldiers kneel in the forest with a gun. Trees. Fence post with wire. Plane in the sky. Soldiers in a ditch with guns. Plane. Wounded German soldier on the ground, face bloodied, covered in a camouflage makeshift blanket; he looks toward the camera. American soldier lights a cigarette and gives it to the wounded man. Two soldiers cut open his camouflage layer/poncho and pat him down. The Americans help him drink from a canteen.

  13. Loeb and Gundel family photographs

    Consists of 21 pre-war photographs of the family of Rudolf and Caroline Loeb of Boppard, Germany, and the family of Emil and Trude Gundel, of Ulm, Germany.

  14. Scrapbook of the Invasion of France

    Consists of one scrapbook, bound with fabric and a red wooden spine, containing mounted aerial military photographs of areas of France, circa 1940, likely taken during the May 1940 invasion of France by a member of the German military. Also includes photographs of the aftermath of ground warfare; many of the images are captioned and some of the aerial photographs are marked.

  15. Selected records from the State Archives in Płock

    Contains selected records from towns (Płock, Gąbin, Gostynin, Sierpc, Raciąż and Wyszogród), and counties (in Gostynin, Płock and Sierpc) in voivodeship Mazowieckie (Poland), both those group of records are from the pre-war, and post-war period. Records from the pre-war period include: minutes of sessions of the Town Hall, budget books, reports and various matters of social and economic character, as well as minutes of sessions of the Jewish Religious Community Council in Płock from1932-1933, and reports from the sessions of the Rabbinical Judgement in Drobin. Records from the period of 193...

  16. Edith Beer collection

    Photographs (99) of the Borger family in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia: Alfred Borger, Hermina Geduldig Borger and their children Karel (b. 1925) and Edith (b. 1929). In July 1939 Karel and Edith were sent to the UK by their parents on the Kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. Both parents and Hermina's mother Ruzena Geduldig were deported to Theresienstadt on September 30, 1942; Alfred and Hermina Borger were deported to Treblinka death camp on October 10, 1942. Edith returned to Czechoslovakia in 1946 and immigrated to Israel. She married Pavel Zvi Beer (b. 1923) who survived Auschw...

  17. Paul W. Himan Jr. narrative

    Narrative typescript text, one page, written by Paul Himan, a soldier stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army, describing his responses to his visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation. The text, dated 6 May 1945, and sent to his mother in the United States, describes the living conditions of prisoners at the camp, how a liberated prisoner gave him a tour of the camp and described his own experiences there, the crematoria at the camp, and Himan's feelings about Germans following his tour of this camp.

  18. Records of the Jewish community of Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) (Fond 325)

    Contains records relating to activities of the Jewish community of city of Chernivt︠s︡i (Czernowitz, Chernivtsi, Cernauti) and Bukovina region in Ukraine. Included are Jewish correspondence of community officials’ with local authorities, financial and budget reports of the Jewish community of Chernivt︠s︡i, inventories of the property of the local synagogues, reports of their activities; bylaws of the local Jewish public organizations and charitable foundations, applications of the Jewish students requesting financial aid, correspondence regarding the budget allocations for the stipends for ...

  19. Collection of questionnaires of the former prisoners of KL Majdanek Kwestionariusze osobowe byłych więźniów Majdanka (Sygn. VII/134)

    Contains questionnaires, diaries and other documents of the former prisoners of the concentration camp Majdanek. Questionnaires contain information relating to imprisonment and work performed at the camp. Includes also a name list of people transported from Radom, and lists of arrests.

  20. Eva Weiss collection of Heinrich Grüber correspondence

    Correspondence, news clippings, postcards and printed material sent by pastor Heinrich Grüber of Berlin to Mrs. Eva Weiss of Givatayim, Israel, 1965-1975. Includes responses by Grüber to birthday wishes and other honors he received, and open letters by Grüber about events relating to Israel during the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Six Day War in 1967, the murder of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in 1972, and the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. File also includes his obituary in 1975 and a letter from his family in response to condolences received.