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  1. Dr. Marcel Petiot photographs

    Consists of 46 enlarged copyprints related to Dr. Marcel Petiot, a French doctor and serial killer who operated in Paris, France, during World War II. Includes mugshots of Petiot and his collaborators, photographs of his victims, photographs of evidence (including human remains) found after his arrest in Paris, and phtoographs of his trial. Dr. Petiot attracted many of his victims by promising them a way to escape from the occupying forces to safety outside of France.

  2. Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker

    Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker: "Genossen es geht / abwarts" depicting 2 Jewish men being kicked by a boot that has a swastika on it. Red, white and red ink on paper with adhesive backing.

  3. Book

    Booklet, Dachau, inscribed by a US soldier, James G. Brookman, of the 6833rd Regulating Company, T.C. The pamphlet was published by the 7th Army to illustrate the atrocities committed under the Nazi regime in Dachau concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  4. Jewish Community in Lódź. Card files of community members Gmina Żydowska w Łodzi. Karty ewidencyjne członków (Sygn.135)

    Contains card files of the pre-war Jewish community in Łódź (approximately 1,200). The cards contain the following data: address (current and previous), surname, first name, father’s name, date of inhabiting the community, occupation, date of birth, and marital status.

  5. Jacqueline Levy-Geneste collection

    Consists of photographs and a photograph album from the collection of Jacqueline Levy-Geneste, a German-Jewish woman who worked as a kindergarten teacher in various French internment camps, including Limoges, Rivesaltes, and Gurs. Includes photographs of life in the internment camps and the children with whom she worked, many of whom were Spanish Republicans. Also includes a small photograph album entitled "Le Petit Monde" depicting life in the Petit Monde OSE children's home in post-war France, of which Jacqueline Levy-Geneste was the director.

  6. Reinhart family papers

    Collection of primarily restituion claims paperwork documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Lola and Israel "Jake" Reinhart.

  7. Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Okręgowego w Lublinie (Sygn. GK 418)

    Selected files from investigations by the prosecutor’s office of the district court in Lublin, 1945‒1950, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. 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 punishing crimes of World War II .Decree also applied to former partisans of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  8. Postcard, "Mander s'ischt Zeit!"

    Postcard: Recto: color image of three men, one of whom is a caricature of a Jew, a woman and a child running from Nazi flags with caption "Mander s' ischt Zeit!" printed across bottom; Verso: postcard addressed to Franz Eglauer in Linz from "Karl" and signed "Heil Hitler!" postmark dated September 21, 1938 and advertises the "Der Ewige Jude" exhibition in Vienna; in German

  9. Legacy of family Feldhorn Spuścizna rodziny Feldhorn (Sygn. 368)

    Consists of various personal documents, correspondence, notes and other mementos of a Jewish family from the circles of the assimilated intelligentsia. The collection is divided into four series. The first series contains literary works, mainly by Juliusz Feldhorn, the poetry of Stella Landy and memoirs of Maria Krawczyk which contains information about the family’s fate, and photographs. The second series, which is the largest, contains personal documents of the Feldhorn family’s members: Mojżesz, Michał, Juliusz, Stella, Maria and Cecylia, as well as Maria Krawczyk, Marcel Schauer, and Ma...

  10. Nachlass Dr. h.c. Paul Schmid-Ammann Dipl. ing. agr. ETH

    Contains personal papers of Paul Schmid-Amman, a chief editor of "Volksrecht." The collection includes correspondence with public figures and representatives of the Swiss-Jewish community, publications, manuscripts, and reviews. Consists of correspondence with: Konrad Akert, Hermann Böschenstein, Robert Bratschi, Willy Bretscher, Hans Conzett Emanuel Dejung, Emil Egli, Jonas Frankel, David Frankfurter, Erich Gruner, Walter King, Ernst Laur, Leonhard Ragaz, Willy Spühler, Paul Trautvetter, Werner Weber, Hans Wildberger, and many others.

  11. Oral history interview with Herta Frieberg

  12. Jack (Isaac) Groner collection

    Contains a poem written in Yiddish by Alter Albert Groner on the occasion of his youngest brother Jacques (Isaac) Grober's (donor) fourth birthday on June 2, 1941; written in the Pithiviers camp three weeks after the author was arrested in Paris, and three weeks before we was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Includes a passport issued to Jacques Isaac Groner on March 8, 1946; Jack, his parents and siblings survived in hiding in France.

  13. Justice Ministry : State Public Prosecutor's Office at the Superior State Court Vienna-General files Justizministerium : Staatsanwaltschaft beim Oberlandesgericht Wien-Generalakten

    Contains miscellaneous documents relating to regulations and administrative and legal matters addressed by the Justice Ministry in Vienna on a variety of issues, such as: punishment of sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews living in the Protectorate; convictions of females by the state court of Vienna for forbidden contact with prisoners of war; treatment of foreign laborers; confiscation of assets ("Vermögensbeschlagnahme"), control of incoming and outgoing assets ("Devisenfahndungsamt") in Nazi Germany and the Ostmark as well as the Nazi occupied territories; secret investigations ("...

  14. Jewish News: the JUNA archive and documentation belonging to the press office of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Communities Jüdische Nachrichten: JUNA Geschäftsarchiv und Dokumentation der Pressestelle des SIG

    Contains JUNA records, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, original documents as correspondence, reports, court documents, etc. Includes correspondence and other documents on Benjamin Sagalowitz; and collection of documents compiled by the defense in the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur 1936; documents on the Holocaust in European countries, persecution and extermination of European Jews, eyewitness accounts on concentration and extermination camps, Jewish resistance, reactions abroad, number of victims; the book project "The Way Maidanek" by B. Sagalowitz, personal dossiers, perse...

  15. Selected records from the collections of the Brăila branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains the Prefecture of the District of Brăila records related to the "religious sects," nomadic Roma, confiscation of Jewish properties, ethnic Bulgarians, repatriation from Bessarabia and Bucovina (1940) from various subdistricts in Brăila, treatment of Jews, forced labor of Jews, deportation of Jews between Siret and Prut Rivers (1941), Iron Guard, forced labor of Jews in Lacu Sărat and Baldovineşti, name lists, local Aryanization activities (CNR), expelling of Jews from various institutions, travel authorizations for Jews, Jewish detachment of forced labor for road repairs, rights ...

  16. Sirkis family papers

    The Sirkis family papers include records and photographs documenting Theodor and Frida Sirkis and their relatives in Moldova and Kazakhstan during the Holocaust. Documents include Theodore Sirkis’ Iasi student identification card, records documenting the evacuation of members of the Sirkis family to Salsk (Rostov oblast) and Tyulkubas (Kazakh SSR) in 1941, and a letter Frida composed but never mailed to the NKVD demanding justice for her mother and brother. Five photographs depict members of the Sirkis and Gore families and Theodore Sirkis with medical staff in an identified location.

  17. Blanche Wanda and Leon Hochbaum papers

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Blanche Wanda and Leon Hochbaum (donor's parents) who survived living under false identities in Vienna during the Holocaust. Collection also includes post-war DP papers.

  18. Stal family collection

    The Stal family collection consists of documents related to Moszek-Aron (Mordka) Stal (now Morris Stal) and Rosa Stal. Three documents relate to Moszek Stal's health while he was in the Feldafing displaced persons camp (DP camp). Two document relate to Rosa Stal, including an IRO (International Restitution Organization) certificate certifying her abilities as a seamstress and a mirror-image of a photostat of her IRO certificate of incarceration noting that she was imprisoned in Flossenbürg concentration camp and Auschwitz concentration camp.

  19. Helena Rubinstein affidavit

    Consists of one typed affidavit, in English, dated May 27, 1941, attesting that Helena Rubinstein (born Helena Gourielli), president of the cosmetics company Helena Rubinstein, Inc., was submitting the affidavit in support of the immigration of Rubin and Dina Lewinson, who where then in Cannes, France. The affidavit lists other refugees sponsored by Ms. Rubinstein and describes her means to support them should they be given American visas. The Lewinsons did not ultimately immigrate to the United States, though they did survive the war.

  20. Samuel Gotz collection

    Consists of loose photographs, photograph albums, and documents related to pre-war Zionist Congresses and of photographs related to young Zionists in Latvia and Lithuania. The photographs depict groups of men and women in formal and informal settings. Includes a photograph album of the 18th Zionist Congress, held in Prague in 1933, and documents from the 14th Zionist Congress, held in Vienna in 1925. The material was collected by Samuel Gotz.