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  1. Tova Strauss photograph collection

    Contains seven photographic images of Tova (Gittel) Strauss (nee Wolmerman) of Pirtan, Germany, while living in a Jewish orphanage or children's home near Kremberg, Germany. Gittel Wolnerman was a child passenger on board the Exodus.

  2. Evan R. Luskin collection

    Contains a concert program for the performance of the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra at the Opera House in Nürnberg, Germany on May 7, 1946; interior of the program lists 11 selections that they will be playing along with a composite photograph of the members of the orchestra; dated May 1946.

  3. Vera and Max Klueger collection

    Collection of two (2) Deutsches Reich Reisepass passports issued in Vienna, Austria to Vera Degen and Max Klüger (donor and donor’s husband); stamped with red ink “J” identifying them as Jewish. Max’s passport was issued March 29, 1939, Vera’s was issued on December 12, 1938; both immigrated to the United States in April 1939; in German, French, English.

  4. Teresa Matuszewska Stiland (Matla Rozenberg) collection

    Consists of a photograph of Chaim Rumkowski and two photographs taken at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. One depicts survivors in 1946, and one depicts a memorial tombstone in 1947. Also includes three poems written in Polish after the war about Holocaust experiences.

  5. U.S. soldiers stateside; providing first aid to German prisoners; war damage in France; refugees load carts; captured Germans; softball

    (b/w) Amphibious landing drill at Martha's Vineyard (1943). U.S. soldiers stand on a beach and load a small artillery piece and a jeep onto an amphibious transport. The jeep hood is marked with a star, and the transport is marked LCV68. The transport takes off. Another boat marked LCV92 comes to shore and soldiers step off. Camera pans across the beach as similar transports arrive. One very large transport, marked 494, lands and unloads trucks and larger artillery pieces. 01:02:07 (color) Military drill (1943). U.S. soldiers in uniform (not battle dress) stand at attention outside camp tent...

  6. Stanisław Paprocki collection Stanisław Paprocki (Kol. 30)

    Contains fragments of addresses of Prime Minister Sikorski of November 14, 1940, the list of Jewish journalists and reporters abroad, letters from and to President of the New Zionist Organization in London, the report of the World Jewish Congress, and press clippings.

  7. Kenneth L. Schwartz collection

    Contains correspondence addressed to Jakob Schwarz in the United Kingdom from his mother, Taube Schwarz, in Vienna, Austria, including numerous Red Cross letters, and correspondence to Jakob from his brother Norbert in Vienna, before Norbert's emigration from Vienna. Includes report cards for Jakob in Viennese Jewish Torah School.

  8. W.B. Curtis, III collection

    Photo album: containing photographs primarily taken by William Bostwick Curtis, III (donor's stepfather) documenting the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp; images show victims, newly liberated prisoners, rockets and munitions built at the factory, American soldiers at work and rest, as well as general scenery; dated 1945

  9. The District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Częstochowie

    Contains diverse records relating to the activity of the District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate Nazi Crimes in the Częstochowa region. Includes files related to the investigation of German crimes; administrative files, including lists of the members of the commission and day-books; questionnaires with information about places and facts of German crimes; name lists of the people sentenced for death by the German Sondergerichte; name lists of the people shot or deported from Częstochowa it's vicinity to concentration camps; name lists of the German officers of the Częstochowa town ...

  10. District Court in Kielce Sąd Okręgowy w Kielcach (Sygn. SOK)

    Contains selected records of criminal trials conducting at the District Court in Kielce, Poland during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles by Germans and their collaborators during the German occupation.Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals their collaborators guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the w...

  11. Rosemarie Palliser collection

    Consists of two testimonies written by Rosemarie Palliser, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes one testimony, 2 pages, entitled "Our Flight From Germany, 1939," in which Ms. Palliser describes her father's role as the director of a vocational school for Jewish boys and his determination to have all the children immigrate to safety. In August 1939, Ms. Palliser and her family, along with the boys from the school, were able to immigrate from Berlin to Harwich, England. Also includes a testimony, 4 pages, about the family's arrival in England, adjusting to new customs and reestablishing th...

  12. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Vosges

    Contains documents concerning “Jewish Affairs,” arrests and round-ups on March 6, 1943 and March 14, 1944, the transfer of Jews to the Ecrouves internment camp near Nancy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Aryanization and later restitution of Jewish property and belongings, foreigners, the loss of French citizenship concerning the deputy to the National Assembly, Camille Picard, registers showing entries to the Epinal prison, documents concerning accounts held by Jews at the local branch of the Banque de France, lists of Alsatian-Lorrain refugees, and list of prisoners released from the prison...

  13. Jewish census cards

    Consists of two registration certificates for the Jewish Citizens Population census, which occurred in Romania in 1942. One certificate was filled out by Leiba Strul on June 14, 1942 in Iasi, while the other certificate was filled out by Cecilia Goldschmidt on May 31, 1942 in Arad.

  14. "Ash Camp" photograph album

    The Ash Camp photograph album is a leather bound photograph album, black with embossed horses, which includes 326 mounted and labeled photographs. The photograph album's owner is unknown but includes photographs of the Gabe family, the Saul family, the Jake family, and the Elais family. In addition to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely a camp for Jewish refugees in Shanghai in 1945, and the distribution of food delivered by parachutes by “Yanks.”

  15. District Court in Radom Sąd Okręgowy w Radomiu (SORd) (Sygn. GK 281)

    The collection contains selected files of criminal trials conducted in the District Court in Radom during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 ( “Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. “Sierpniówka” was one of the world's first legislation on liability for ...

  16. Rivka Feigen collection

    Contains a photographic print showing members of Judiska Ungdom in Jewish Youth Club in Malmö, Sweden; dated 1942.

  17. Siegfried Abraham collection

    Consists of one CD containing scanned images of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Siegfried Abraham, originally of Hamburg, Germany. The family, who were living in Amsterdam, were deported to Bergen-Belsen in 1944, but were part of a prisoner exchange in January 1945 in which they were taken first to Switzerland, and then to Algeria. Includes copies of travel documents, family photographs, identity documentation as residents of the UNRRA camp at Jeanne d'Arc at Philippeville, the family's Haitian passports, which they were able to obtain from family friends to ...

  18. Surveillance of Zionists in Romania

    Contains records relating to the surveillance of Zionists in Romania.

  19. Booklet

    Booklet published on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the Jewish Gymnasium for Girls. The school was named after its founder, Józef Lajb Ab, who was the principal and the owner of the school which he established in August 1910. Over time, the school changed its curriculum from vocational to liberal arts elementary and middle and high school for girls. Ab served as the principal until 1931. The position was then held by Mrs. Stella Rein. The school continued to operate in the Łódź ghetto until September 1941.

  20. "Der Grager: Geşriben in Lager"

    Consists of a booklet entitled "Der Grager: Geşriben in Lager," written by Samson Först and published in Bucharest, Romania, in 1947. The booklet is a parody written on the occasion of Purim for survivors of the Holocaust in Bucovina and Transnistria. The parody includes the text of stories, songs, and parodies about Haman, Hitler, and Jewish life in Romania during and after the Holocaust. The booklet is written in German designed to be an imitation of Yiddish with a Romanian accent.