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  1. Ancestry registration form, Tunisia

    One document, issued by the Vichy French government of Tunisia, 1941, used to determine the ancestry of Jewish residents. Completed by Victor Assal, of Tunis, in September 1941. Also includes census of family members, history of employment, and list of property owned by Assal family.

  2. London

    London street scenes with automobile and bus traffic, circa 1935-1939 when Kurt Ehrenfeld had been living there to attend high school while his family remained in Nazi Germany. MS, in Hyde Park on Oxford Street. Bus advertising "Give Havana Cigars" passes the Marble Arch. Crowds at Speakers' Corner. Camera follows a tall man with a hat as he crosses the street. CU of Kurt's mother, Alice, smiles as she walks toward the camera in Hyde Park. Families feeding the birds from the Old Stone Bridge at the lake in the Hyde Park. Quick LS of a group gathered in front of a gated house, cars parked al...

  4. Max and Fritzi Adler collection

    Consists of correspondence and photographs related to the family of Max and Fritzi Lustig Adler, who were able to emigrate from Prague to England and later to Canada in 1939. Includes pre-war photographs of the Adler and Lustig families, and wartime and post-war photos of Max, Fritzi, and daughter Doris, who was born in 1940 in Canada. Also includes correspondence from 1939-1940 from Max's sister, Marianne, and mother, Emma, both of whom later perished in the Holocaust.

  5. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Department of Youth Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Młodzieżowy (Sygn.303/XI)

    Records of the Wydział Młodzieżowy of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP) ( Department of Youth of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland), regarding efforts such as boarding houses, vocational courses, scholarships, Jewish sports clubs, and the like. Records include: organizational files, circular letters, meeting minutes, reports, work plans, correspondence; personnel files, scholarship applications, lists of scholarship recipients; financial files such as budgets and cash records; publications including the Bulletin, clippings, materials of Ojfgang, the Bulletin’s successor;...

  6. Bina Bojman Friedman collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to Wigdor Bojman (donor's father) and Benedykt Friedman (donor's late husband); donor's identification documents and a collection of photographs of children and youth given as a memento to Bina and her brother Hersh Zvi in Bielsko children's home in 1946-1947; Krakow in 1946; Paris and Combault, France in 1947.

  7. "Survivor"

    Consists of one testimony, two pages, in English, written by Brian Greenberg regarding his father, Samuel Greenberg, orginally of Schumsck, Poland. In spring of 1942, Samuel escaped the mass shootings of Jews of his town while he was gathering food. He was in various hiding situations, including hiding in hay stacks, before joining the Russian army in 1944 as a mine sweeper. In1945, he marched from Warsaw to Berlin with the Red Army and was wounded in battle. He survived the war and immigrated to the U.S. and married Brian's mother, Ethel, in 1950.

  8. Umwandererzentralstelle Posen Centrala Przesiedleńcza w Poznaniu (Sygn.1009)

    Records of the Posen (Poznań) office of the Umwandererzentralstelle, which organized expulsions of Poles in preparation for German colonization. Incomplete documentation includes lists of Poles scheduled for displacement.

  9. Anti-Semitic election campaign poster

    Anti-Semitic election campaign poster, "Elections Legislatives du 22 Septembre 1889/ Ad. Willette/Candidat Antisemite."

  10. Cantor Henry Butensky testimony

    Consists of a copy of written testimony, 5 pages, by Cantor Henry Butensky, a member of the 66th Infantry of the 71st Division of the United States Army. In his testimony, written in 1989, Butensky described his experiences liberating a labor camp near Wels, Austria, the Straubing concentration camp, and the Gunskirchen concentration camp. Cantor Butensky, who spoke Yiddish, reflected on the liberations in the context of his own Jewish background.

  11. Selected records from the collections of the Covasna branch of the National Romanian Archives

    This collection includes records of the Jewish Democratic Committee, 1945-1950 containing various reports, proces-verba, and other statements. Within this collection are also various official documents relating to deported Jews, the administration of goods of Jews who were deported, official proof concerning deportation, death certificates of Jews who perished in Auschwitz, and various other papers relating to Jews who died in Auschwitz and their goods.

  12. Selected records from the Sąd Wojewódzki we Wrocławiu (SWWr), (Sygn.GK 319)

    Selected records of trials at the district court in Wrocław, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as German collaborators.

  13. The stake Print 10 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 watching six individual prisoners being punished by standing outside in the snow and cold until they collapse 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 N...

  14. Neufeld and Milgrom family papers

    Documents and photographs relating to Selig Neufeld and Mania Milgrom Neufeld (donor's parents) who were in the Buczacz ghetto and later hid in Buczacz but were discovered. Both Selig and Mania were imprisoned in concentration camps, and after liberation they went to Italy, where their son Leon was born in 1946 and their daughter Henia Helene was born in 1949. Mr. and Mrs. Neufeld immigrated to Baltimore, MD in 1950.

  15. Dr. Alain Goldschläger collection

    Consists of three photograph albums and a memoir collected by Dr. Alain Goldschlager. Includes a photograph album of copyprints of liberation photographs, including those from the Strasbourg University Anatomical Institute, and a photograph album of images of commemorative structures at the location of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Also includes a photograph album containing photographs and captions of a female youth Reichsarbeitdienst camp in Bernstein am Wald, Germany, between 1938-1939, as well as a memoir written from 1958-1981 in German shorthand by Ludwig Link, who spen...

  16. Concert program, performance by Mischa Elman, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 1939

    One concert program, for a performance of a violin concerto of Mischa Elman, at the Teatro Municipal in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, August 1939. Elman was accompanied on piano by Vladimir Padwa, and the concert was sponsored by the Asociacion Cultural de Bahia Blanca. The program is signed by Elman on the right margin of the cover page.

  17. Jewish Brigade patch

    Jewish Brigade patch: square with blue and white striped background and yellow Star of David in center

  18. Polish Red Cross, District of Lublin Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okręg Lubelski (Sygn. XI)

    Files of the Polish Red Cross documenting assistance to prisoners in the Lublin-Majdanek camp and the Lublin castle: approximately 10,400 card files (first and last names, date and place of birth, names of parents, camp numbers) of prisoners who received parcels (1943/1944), lists of prisoners receiving assistance, correspondence with families of prisoners; 150 postcards and letters of prisoners to the Red Cross; list of 2,750 prisoners who died in Majdanek camp (compiled by Lublin parish); documents related to prisoners of the Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, and Ra...

  19. Margaret House letter

    Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.

  20. Sold family correspondence

    Contains letters written by Szymon and Hinda Sold in Lwow, Poland, to their daughter Regina Sold Bauer and son-in-law, Dr. Artur Bauer in Palestine. In 1941 they left Lwow and moved to Stryj to avoid deportation to Siberia. The last communication was dated July 3, 1942 and was sent via Red Cross to Dr. Artur Bauer in Petah Tikva, Palestine.