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  1. Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Poland Hebrajskie Stowarzyszenie Pomocy Imigrantom (HIAS) (Sygn.351)

    This collection includes postwar files from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and its branch offices in Poland. Records include organizational files, Information bulletins, news releases, correspondence abroad and with branch offices, monthly reports on activities, personal files and indices of staff relating to emigration, personal search files, indices, and cards relating to efforts to trace survivors and family members.

  2. Richard Markiewicz collection

    Contains one copyprint of a photograph, dating circa World War I (1914-1918), of a couple sitting in a field, surrounding by uniformed soldiers. Also includes two documents issued by the American Joint Distribution Committee, certifying that Paja Kaplans (adult) and Mosze Kaplan (child) have passed a health examination, dated 1948.

  3. Sara B. Hull photograph collection

    Collection of fourteen photographs documenting the atrocities found at Gardelegen after liberation.

  4. Irena and Manes Wysoki papers

    Repatriation identification: issued to the Drimmer family from Drohobycz, allowing them to leave the USSR for Poland, as Polish citizens. They arrived in Walbrzych, Poland on January 13, 1946. Collection of photographs: images of the Wysoki family after their escape from German occupied Poland to Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union and after the war in Walbrzych, Poland. Report card: issued to Manes Wysocki in the USSR for the year 1944-1945 and 1945-1946; two letters written by the niece of Perla Wysoki, who survived the Auschwitz death camp, dated 1947

  5. Father Antoni Gerwel collection

    Consists of a typed transcript copy of a letter, with translation, describing the Holocaust experiences of Father Antoni Gerwel, a Polish Catholic priest who perished in the Dachau concentration camp on August 31, 1942. The letter was written on July 22, 1977 by Father Jan Żelaźnicki to Father Gerwel's nephew, Jędrzej Gerwel. In the letter, Father Żelaźnicki explains that Father Gerwel was a priest in Kadzidło, Poland, and that they were deported together to Dachau in April 1940. Both were sent to Gusen and separated, but reunited again in Dachau. Father Gerwel volunteered to go to a specia...

  6. The Call Print 2 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 prisoners, including those that had died, being accounted for during roll call 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”, individuals presenting a threat ...

  7. Zoltan Mathe collection

    Consists of one photograph of Zoltan Mathe at age 13 in Budapest, Hungary, wearing a Magen David. The photograph is dated August 10, 1944. Also includes an essay entitled, "Toward the Precipice" by Mr. Mathe, in which he describes the German invasion of Hungary, his bar mitzvah in April 1944, and watching his father and older brother be taken away for forced labor. When the Arrow Cross took control of Budapest, Zoltan, his mother and sister were rounded up, but released due to the intervention of Jewish friends posing as soldiers. The family assumed the identities of Christian refugees from...

  8. Edward Kean collection

    Consists of a note written by Mordicae Kozlowski of Radom, Poland and handed to Edward L. Kean after the liberation of seven sub-camps of the Kaufering concentration camp in the Landsberg region, Germany, April 1945.

  9. Annemarie Warschauer papers

    The Annemarie Warschauer papers document the pre-war lives of the Israelski, Munter, and Warschauer families in Berlin, Germany and as refugees in Shanghai, China during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material, immigration papers, a small amount of correspondence, restitution papers, and photographs. Materials include passports, birth and marriage certificates, Yahrzeit memorial books, forced labor documents, restitution paperwork, dental profession papers, immigration and naturalization papers, and family photographs. The biographical material includes passports, drive...

  10. Alexander Kipnis papers

    Two letters from Kipnis, sent to composer Max Wolff, in London, October 1938; plus one concert program from a performance by Kipnis at the Synagogengemeinde Düsseldorf, March 1935.

  11. Lillian and Avrum Feintuch collection

    Photographs, Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) and immigration papers illustrating the experiences of Livia Rosenfeld and Avrum Feintuch (donors) during the time period surrounding the Holocaust in Hungary and Germany. Included are images from Avrum's pre-war life in Desz, Hungary as well as Livia's pre-war life in Balmazujvaros, Hungary and post-war lives in Western Europe. Both Livia and Avrum were in slave labor camps during the Holocaust. Avrum was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then to sub-camps of Mauthausen. Livia was deported to the Strasshof and Florisdorf slave labor camps in Au...

  12. Selected records from the collections of the Prahova branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains correspondence of the members of Jewish communists from Ploiești, relating to war criminals, creation of the People’s Republic of Romania,1948 elections, meetings, and study circles. Also includes records of the National Committee for Romaization (Aryanization) for the Prahova district containing tables of confiscated Jewish real estate, correspondence relating to the expropriation of Jewish properties, registers, instructions on buildings confiscated from Jews, lists of confiscated Jewish real estate in 1943, procès-verbaux of confiscated Jewish real estate property by address.

  13. Prayer book

    Megillat Esther, the scroll of Esther, read on the Jewish holiday of Purim carried by Anton Spitzer when he moved to Iasi, Romania, in 1931. Shortly before he was taken away by the Nazis in 1944, Anton hid the scroll in a cellar in the Iasi ghetto. He recovered it when he returned to Iasi after the war in 1945. The family would read from this scroll on Purim in Iasi until they immigrated to Israel in 1950.

  14. Selected records from the collections of the Mehedinţi branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from Orsova, consisting of records related to requests and changes of citizenship, firing of Jews, expropriation of Jewish properties -- including orders and lists of names.

  15. Smietanowski family papers

    Contains fifteen photographs, identification documents, and one postcard, documenting the experiences of Jozef and Irena Smietanowski, of Warsaw. Includes German-issued identification card for Irena Smietanowska (1942), two identification cards issued to Jozef in 1939, and one issued to the couple in 1938. Also, one postcard sent to Irena Smietanowska from friends in Rovno, 1940.

  17. Legation of the Republic of Poland In Madrid Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Madrycie (A. 45)

    Contains documents of the concentration camp Miranda del Ebro, Spain including arrests and internment records of Polish and Jewish people, 1940-1943.

  18. "Afternoon in Buchenwald"

    Consists of one typescript article, 9 pages, in English, entitled "Afternoon in Buchenwald" by Richard Daughtry, written by Henry F. Tonn. In the article, Tonn describes World War II veteran Richard Daughtry's experience visiting Buchenwald in April 1945 after the liberation, including his tour of the camp, where he witnessed the victims still in the crematorium, emaciated survivors, and items made of human skin, which he was told were made under the orders of Ilse Koch.

  19. Hilzenrad family papers

    The Hilzenrad family papers consist of a diary written by Adela Hilzenrad, in which she describes the events in Drohobycz, Poland from the German invasion in 1941 until liberation in 1944. The collection also includes pre-war and post-war photographs depicting the Lantner and Hilzenrad families in Drohobycz, Stryj, and the United States including images of Adela Hilzenrad, her son Josaf Hilzenrad, her husband Dr. Mordechai Hilzenrad, her sister Chana Lantner, and her brother Dr. Henry J. Lantner.

  20. Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste (L48)

    Contains records of the Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste, and a branch of the Jewish Agency’s Aliyah department. The Palestine Office was involved in distributing Aliyah certificates, financial matters, transferring immigrants’ luggage and property to Israel and documenting information regarding Jewish property from Italy which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. The collection also contains correspondence with other Jewish Agency offices in Italy and various name lists of immigrants, hospitalization records before immigration, correspondence and agreements wi...