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  1. Brunner and Albin family collection

    Consists of a collection of identity cards, documents, and immigration paperwork related to Robert and Alice Albin Brunner, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes documentation related to their 1938 immigration to Bolivia, and immigration in 1944 to the United States. Also includes one typed testimony, 5 pages, written by Peter Brunner in 2011. In the testimony, Mr. Brunner describes his parents' Holocaust experiences; this testimony was prepared to assist Mr. Brunner in obtaining Austrian citizenship. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Brunner and Albin famili...

  2. Commercial for ladies stockings

    Title card: “Perlen der Ostmark | Ein Rudolf Mayer Film.” Clouds over mountain tops. Snowy mountains. People skiing. A village in the valley of a tall mountain. A boy rock-climbs. Village in the valley. Panoramic shot of a village spanning across a river. A procession of people in fancy dress. People sailing sailboats. Men drill into rocks. A crane moved the rocks. Smoke billows out of a factory. Industrial shots. A boat goes down the river between mountains. Buildings in the village in the valley. Grapes. Various shots of the Stephansplatz in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere Palace. The Frey...

  3. Robert Waitz collection

    Consists of articles written by Dr. Georges Hauptmann regarding the work and Holocaust experiences of Professor Robert Waitz. Professor Waitz, a hematologist, was deported to Auschwitz in October 1943, where he worked as a doctor in the prisoner's hospital in Monowitz. He was liberated from Buchenwald in April 1945. Professor Waitz was later president of the International Auschwitz Committee between 1960-1967 and the collection contains speeches he made in that capacity as well as speeches and articles regarding his research on the consequences of deportation and medical experimentation, pa...

  4. Selected papers of Georges Theunis

    Contains selected papers of Georges Theunis, former Prime Minister and ambassador in New York during the German occupation of Belgium and one of the most influential representatives of his country. Collection includes records relating to the World Jewish Congress, Joint Distribution Committee, refugees, the Belgian War Relief Society, the situation in the occupied countries 1940-45, and repatriation of displaced persons.

  5. Eva Shlamovitz photograph collection

    The Eva Shlamovitz photograph collection consists of 232 photographs from Braunschweig, Germany and one copy print from Nuremberg, Germany documenting the experiences of Eva Shlamovitz, who was a relief worker with the Jewish Hospitality Committee, part of the Council of Voluntary War Work in the British Zone following the Holocaust.

  6. 804 Research collection Sobibór Jules Schelvis

    Contains source materials for research of Jules Schelvis, a Holocaust survivor, on the death camp of Sobibór. Includes articles; reports; copies of evidence; documentations, illustrations; and eye witness reports. He published his findings in his work "Vernietigingskamp Sobibór /Death camp Sobibór " (Amsterdam 1993) and "Sobibór: A History of a Nazi Death Camp- Jules Schelvis" (New York, 2007, Published by Berg Publishers in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

  7. "Surviving the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust" by Dr. Ilse Leeser, originally of Cologne, Germany. In the memoir, she describes her memories of Kristallnacht, the arrest of her father and uncles, and being sent, with her sister, to live with family friends in the Netherlands in 1939. Her parents later joined them and she describes the occupation of the Netherlands and going into hiding with the Verhoevens family in Utrecht. Her sister joined an underground organization while her parents were deported and killed at Sobibor before they could go into hiding. She describes...

  9. Helen Sternlicht Jonas photograph collection

    Contains three photographs: one of Adam Sztab that was saved by Helen Sternlicht upon arrival at Auschwitz by hiding the photograph in her mouth while they were in the showers; one copy photograph of Szymon Sternlicht (Helen's father), the original of which was also saved by Helen Sternlicht in her mouth upon arrival at Auschwitz; and one copy print of a pre-war photograph of Helen Sternlicht, her sisters Betty and Sydell, and her mother Lola, original dated circa 1934, at Wawel castle, Krakow, Poland.

  10. The Flack family in Vienna before the Holocaust

    Includes: Erika Flack, Gertrude Flack, Peter Flack, Susanne Flack, Alexander Flack, Erna Flack, Hans Flack, Emil Flack, Alfred Flack, Mathide Flack, Annie Flack, and Johann Flack.

  11. Ingeborg Price collection

    The collection consists of a printed leaflet containing a wartime poem, "La Terrible Epreuve"; a leaflet with an image of Marshal Petain on a horse, with a handwritten message to a child, addressed to Therese Majewski and counseling her to work hard, persevere, and be loyal; a broadside containing a mock testament from Adolf Hitler; and a copy of a French newspaper ("La liberte du centre"), announcing the surrender of the German army, May 1945.

  13. Arnstein family collection

    Collection consists of documents relating to Arnold Arnstein, who was arrested on Kristallnacht in Stuttgart, Germany, and imprisoned for three weeks in Dachau. Also includes identity documentation, including a German passport for Elizabeth (Nelly) Arnstein, which was also used for her children, Georg (now George) and Susanne, which was stamped with a "J" and issued on November 9, 1938 in Stuttgart. The family emigrated to the United States in December 1938. Includes a series of articles and chapters written by George Arnstein, in English, about his family's experiences.

  14. Youth Aliyah Department, Continental/European Office, Geneva - Paris, L58

    Contains records of the immediate post-war period of the Youth Aliyah. These records include correspondence regarding orphanages in Italy and France, records from the orphanages “Cambous” and “Rocquefort La Bedoule,” correspondence with the Youth Aliyah offices in Geneva, Marseille, Paris and Jerusalem, personal files, and other material. Also includes correspondence with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. and the World Zionist Organization. Types of documents include lists of children, questionnaires, and various certificates (health reports, exit and entrance visas, em...

  15. Hashomer Hatzair World Headquarters Warsaw (RG 2-ה)

    Contains records pertaining to the Hashomer Hatzair Supreme Leadership - Center in Warsaw, Poland. Includes correspondence with the envoys from the Zionist Organization and Gordonia, from countries such as Cuba, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Greece, England, Romania, Egypt, Argentina, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Germany, and Austria. Main subjects relate to kibbutzim, colonies, immigration, the youth alliance, scouting, the global Zionism movement and education, Jewish communities, trainings, pioneer conferences, the Zionist Congress, the camp in Belgium, Zionist workers, and the establishme...

  16. Selected papers of Prime Minister Hubert Pierlo in London

    Contains selected records from the papers of Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of the government- in-exile in London during the German occupation of Belgium, and one of the most influential representatives of his country. This collection includes records on Belgian Congo and Belgian refugees in Portugal, many of whom were Jews.

  17. Henry Wasmer papers Nachlass Henry Wasmer (1901-1992)

    Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Includes reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, speeches and various articles relating to the mission of the “division de secours;” aid to POWs during World War II, POW camps in Germany, and correspondence with Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Roger Gallopin, Max Huber, Albert Lombard, Robert Macduff, Heinrich Zangger, and others. The collection contains also biographical files, personal papers, autobiographical summaries, visual material of the ICRC, and Second World War artifacts. Includes a rare map printed on silk. This ...

  18. Krakauer family collection

    Contains photographs related to the Krakauer family and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a family portrait showing (from left) Chaja Brajna (mother), Gisela, Chaim (father) and Malvine, taken in Vienna, Austria, c. 1932; a photograph of the Krakauer and Schwadron family, with Malvine in the front, c. 1935; a photograph of Malvine Krakauer and her best friend Anita Maibaum walking in the street in Brussels, Belgium with their Stars of David visible on the coats, dated June 1942; and a business card of Chaim Krakauer, who manufactured work clothes. In July 1942 Anita and anoth...

  19. Family films, 1938

  20. Henry Schimmel collection

    The Henry Schimmel collection consists of documents, affidavits, and correspondence related to Henry Schimmel's post-war assistance with the emigration efforts of his relatives who had survived the Holocaust. Mr. Schimmel, who immigrated from Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, contacted various relief organizations and government officials to intervene and assist with the immigration of his sister, Jolan Rozenbaum, her children Andy, Ella, and Katherine, and his nephew, David Silberstein, all of whom had survived the Holocaust.