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  1. Eva Rosemarie Feigl collection

    Consists of documents, eight pre-war family photographs, and two books written in German and Hebrew entitled, "Gebetbuch and Stunden der Andacht" from the estate of Ms. Eva Rosemarie Feigl. The documents included in the collection are: Eva Feigl’s naturalization certificate, Alien Registration card, high school diploma, birth certificate, and a photocopy of an affidavit in lieu of a passport, issued by the U.S. consulate in Marseille, 1940. Also included are handwritten genealogical charts by Feigl, a handwritten copy of a text related to Feigl's departure from Europe in 1940, and a printed...

  2. Eliezer Yerushalmi papers

    Collection consists of several manuscript and typescript drafts of writings by Yerushalmi describing events in the Šiauliai (Shavli) ghetto during the German occupation as well as other topics. Includes a manuscript text in a notebook, titled "Di geshikte fun Shavler geto un fun zefon Lita bekitzur;" manuscript drafts of several plays, including "Profesor Shuster;" and a draft of a novel, "Man iz im mekane di dira, a novele fun plitim in Italye," which is based on the lives of Jewish refugees in post-war Italy.

  3. Nachlass Samuel Jean Richard (1912-2002)

    The collection consists of personal papers of Samuel Jean Richard, primarily from his time as head of refugee work camps, refugee homes and as the inspector of the central camp administration. The collection includes a sub-collection of 403 colored pencil drawings done by Jewish refugee children. In addition, contains 140 forms that include personal information about the refugee children. These forms were indexed by Samuel Jean Richard and added by the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ) to its refugee databank. The collection also contains an additional 319 drawings done by unknown children fo...

  4. Katie Miller photograph collection

    One photograph album, containing 67 prints, depicting displaced persons camps operated by UNRRA in and around Linz, Austria, 1946-1947. Also contains 25 loose snapshots depicting Holocaust memorials in Germany, concentration camp sites, aid workers, and activities to smuggle Jewish refugees out of Europe to Palestine.

  6. Vilma Grunwald letter

    Consists of one letter written by Vilma Grunwald to her husband, Dr. Kurt Grunwald, on July 11, 1944, while she was imprisoned in the Czech family camp at Auschwitz. The letter was written shortly before Vilma and her 16 year old son, John, were taken on trucks to the gas chambers. In the letter, she describes that she is aware of her impending fate, that she is calm, and thinking about him and about their son, Misa [later Frank Grunwald]. Also includes the blank piece of paper in which the letter was wrapped.

  7. Spuścizna rodziny Halpersonów (Sygn.363)

    This collection consists of 164 letters written by Janina Halperson (later Ludawska) from 1939-1942, and various family photographs. The Halperson family lived in Warsaw; Janina left for Stockholm in August 1939 for a language course and stayed there until the end of the war. Her family was in the Warsaw ghetto during that time. Her parents, brother and his wife and distant relatives wrote post cards and letters to her and sent photos. Part of the photographs Janina Halperson took with her in 1939; another part was sent in the letters or she regained them after the war. The first letter was...

  8. Henryka Wagner Goldsher papers

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, correspondence, and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Henryka Wagner (also known as Hencha/Henrica, later Henrietta Goldsher), originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes pre-war documents, postcards dated 1940, and post-war displaced persons documentation for Henryka, who survived Auschwitz and Majdanek. Also includes documentation related to Selma Goldsher and her brother Saul, who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s; Henryka was a longtime friend of Selma Goldsher and later married Saul.

  9. National Investigatory Commission Decree-Law 479/55; Commission 45: Ministry of Foreign Relations Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Decreto-Ley 479/55; Comision 45: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

    Contains dispatches and confidential reports from Argentine embassies in Europe, the Middle East and South America concerning Nazi and fascist activities and refugee matters; correspondence with the Minister of Foreign Relations Jerome Remorino and other ministers about immigration and refugee matters. Includes Jewish refugee applications and special cases; reports on an underground political group led by Ante Pavelic and Radu Ghenea in South America; a report from the Argentine Embassy in Peru on antisemitic activities of the "Lions Club International"; confidential reports from the Embass...

  10. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Building Department Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce. Wydział Budowlany (Sygn. 303/X)

    Contains records of the Building Department (known also as a Department of Engineering and Construction) of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP), which was established on March 1,1946. The most valuable part of this collection is the materials documenting the search for the Underground Archive of The Warsaw Ghetto (The Ringelblum Archive) (1949-1950) in the ruins of the estate located at 34 Świętojerska Street. The collection contains the following subject files: Minutes and reports (1 file); Archives of dr. E. Ringelblum (2 files), Edifices, ...

  11. Jakob Widawski photographs

    Two photographs: depicting Jakob Widawski (donor’s father) born on May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, 55 miles WNW from Czestochowa, together with seven other survivors of the town in which 2,400 Jews lived before the war. Jakob Widawski survived the forced labor camp near Poznan, the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his prisoner number was 141687, and a death march to Gleiwitz, Langebilau camps from which he managed to escape.

  12. The Naimark Family Collection of Letters Kolekcja listów rodziny Naimark (Sygn. 236)

    This collection contains 62 letters written to Dawid Naimark and his cousins: D. Solarz, A. Naimark and Rabbi A. Kronenberg in New York City from his relatives and acquaintances in Poland and other countries starting on November 2, 1938 through October 1941. Most of the letters written to Dawid Naimark were from his siblings and other relatives in Poland. Before the war, the family lived in Warsaw, Miedzeszyn and Góra Kalwaria. Part of the family remained in Warsaw during the war; one brother and one sister fled to Białystok and one brother escaped to Grodno. The letters were written in Yid...

  13. Jewish community in Wrocław Synagogen Gemeinde zu Breslau Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu (Sygn.105)

    Contains records of the Jewish Community in Wrocław from 1796-1944 (Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu). Includes Board minutes,1922-1939; Board correspondence with offices,1796-1939, communities and Jewish associations as well as private individuals, including correspondence concerning the protection of refugees from Russia, Romania, Galicia, the Grand Duchy of Poland, 1867-1874, 1892-1907, 1914-1930; documentation on preparations to the Third Convention of the Association of German Jews in 1909, the District Association of Jewish Communities in Prussia in Breslau,1926-1933; correspondence with t...

  14. Department of State Security, Šarišsko-zemplínska County Slovakia Štátobezpečnostné oddelenie, Šarišsko-zemplínska župa

    Contains administrative records from the State security department in Šariš-Zemplín County, including anti-Jewish orders and regulations as well as reports of anti-Jewish activities and the persecution of Jews.

  15. Earthworks Print 5 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a guard preparing to drop a large rock on a prisoner that has collapsed out of a line of prisoners carrying rocks at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel...

  17. Gymnastics Print 9 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting guards watching a group of prisoners, during an abusive exercise period, on their hands and knees being attacked and punished by Kapos and dogs at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both me...

  18. David Trocki-Musnicki postcard collection

    The collections includes postcards sent to Mr. and Mrs. David Trocki-Musnicki, from friends and relatives in Brussels, when the couple was interned at Caserne Dossin (Malines), February through April 1944 as well as a family photographs.

  19. Justice Ministry : Files of the Chief State Public Prosecutor's Office Vienna-until 1938 ; 1938-1945. Justizministerium : Akten der Oberstaatsanwaltschaft Wien-bis 1938; 1938-1945

    Administrative files of the Chief State Public Prosecutor's Office Vienna, such as personnel matters, arrest reports, and miscellaneous criminal cases for Vienna, Lower Austria and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Also features administrative records pertaining to the attempted Nazi putsch of July 1934.

  20. Adam Lityński collection

    Collection of documents including a matriculation diploma, identity card, and health insurance book issued to Władysław Lipszyc (donor’s father), in Łódź, Poland, and a marriage certificate issued in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to Władysław Lipszyc and Lea Tiger, on October 12, 1944. Also includes a collection of family photographs of the Lipszyc family in Łódź and during vacation in Ciechocinek, Poland. The donor’s parents later changed their last name to Lityński.