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  1. "From Rue Vieille du Temple to Limoux"

    Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, entitled "From Rue Vieille du Temple to Limoux" by Perla Hauszwalb Nunez, who survived the Holocaust in Limoux, France. Mrs. Nunez escaped to Limoux as a teenager after the deportation of her mother and siblings during the Vel d'Hiv round-up in Paris in July 1942. Includes copies of family photographs, correspondence with people who helped her, and information about the fates of the members of the Hauszwalb family.

  2. Ahlem commemorative collection

    Consists of two commemorative books related to the history and liberation of the Ahlem concentration camp. One book, entitled "Memorial Book for the victims of KZ Ahlem made by Hauptschule Ahlem; Hannover, Germany" contains photographs, newspaper clippings, survivor testimony, and names lists compiled by students regarding the history of Ahlem and documenting various commemorative events. Also includes one book entitled "Ich bin Gewesen in Ahlem" showing artwork by students commemorating individual victims who perished at Ahlem. Each piece of artwork gives the name, birth, and death dates o...

  3. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Chief Clerk's Department and successors: Records (FO 366)

    Contains general correspondence from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Chief Clerk’s Department relating to the employment of local Jews in British Middle East missions, 1945. These records consist of accounts and internal affairs of the Foreign Office, the Messengers, and the Diplomatic and Consular Services.

  4. Hajos family collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Hajos family during and immediately following the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. Collection includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, the papers issued to Neje Hajos (donor's mother) from the Swiss embassy foreign interest representative in Budapest.

  5. Polish Consulate General in Dublin Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Dublinie (A.25)

    Contains selected records from the Consulate General of Poland in Dublin of the Polish government-in-exile. The Consuls of the Consulate were Wacław Dobrzyński (1929-1948), Ludwik Teclaff (1948-1952), and Zofia Zaleska (1952- ). These documents relate to studies of the deportation of Poles to the USSR during 1939-1941, and annexation of the Polish eastern territories to USSR entitled “Counting Polish citizens deported to USSR during 1939-1941” and “Soviet deportation of the inhabitants of Eastern Poland in 1939-1941”.

  6. Fischgrund family letters

    The Fischgrund family letters consists of two letters, one each in German and English, written to Adolph Fischgrund of New York City in 1939. The letters, one written by a member of the family of Moritz Fischgrund of Bratislava and the other written by Otto Fischgrund of Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic), describe the plights of the families and ask Mr. Fischgrund, who may or may not be a relation, if he would consider sponsoring them for immigration or to give money to help them.

  7. Dorrit Westheimer collection

    Contains documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Dorrit Feuerstein, born 1936 in Ústí nad Labem, the former Czechoslovakia, and her parents Marianne and Edmund Feuerstein, who fled persecution to France in 1939 and then ultimately to the United Kingdom, where the family remained through the end of the second World War.

  8. Amateur film club visits Dachau, 1942

    Title onscreen indicates that the footage shows an outing of the Munich amateur film club to Dachau, 1942. See Stories 1282, 1284, and 1285 for related footage. Very bluish color. A slate reads: "Special train (Sonderzug) for the amateur film club leaves at 7:45 am for Dachau." Members of the film club ride the train to Dachau. A clock indicates that they are arriving at Dachau train station at 8:19. They arrive at the station and begin filming in the residential/commercial areas of the town (NOT the camp). It appears to be summertime, based on their clothing. Club members film using a trip...

  9. Dr. Joseph Antognini collection

    Consists of a small photograph album entitled "From out of the Dachau Concentration Camp," which was sold in June 1945 in a photography shop owned by Hans Uschold in Munich, Germany. The album, which contains thirty mass produced photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau, was purchased by Corporal Joseph Antognini, who was stationed in Munich with the 38th AAA Brigade.

  10. Maria Seidenberger papers

    Collection of photographs of Dachau prisoners and death marches on Münchenerstrasse in Hebertshausen, Germany; and documents concerning Maria Seidenberger's post-war history in Prague

  11. Bloch Brothers (Fond 293)

    Contains correspondence and other documents relating to Jewish emigration and Jewish refugee help.The correspondence refers often to the Dutch Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen (Committee for Jewish refugees). Max, Lippmann, and Albert Bloch, Jewish businessmen were born in Breslau, now Wroclaw, where they owned a large company until 1933. Forced by the Nazis, they emigrated to Amsterdam with their company. More or less immediately after their emigration to Amsterdam the Bloch brothers started helping other Jewish refugees who tried to leave Germany or other countries and looked for refuge...

  12. Sam Szyja Braun collection

    Contains a displaced persons certificate issued by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) to Szyja Braun in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, dated 1949; photographs depicting Szyja Braun, his brother Salomon Braun and friends they met in the displaced persons camp; and a declaration of intention filed by Sam (Szyja) Braun on February 21, 1950 regarding his intention of becoming a U.S. citizen. Szyja Yeshajahu Sam Braun was born in Breslau on May 18, 1919. He was a son of Eliasz and Gusta Alstock Braun. The family lived in Brody. Szyje and his two brothers, Salomon and Willie were the only survivors...

  13. Halberstadt family collection

    Contains five letters written by donor's paternal aunt and uncle, Jonas and Frieda Halberstadt, to their children, Leo and Bessy, in England after their arrival via the Kindertransport. Also contains thirty-nine family photographs of the Halberstadt and Strauss families in Germany and the U.S.

  14. Baran family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of the Baran family in pre-war Vilna, Poland; Nancy, France; hiding near Vilna; and after the war in Łódź, Paris, and Israel during the years 1929-1950.

  15. Polish Consulate General in London Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (A.42)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Consulate General in London of the Polish Government in Exile relating to deprivation of the Polish citizenship 1938-1944, deserters (mainly Jews), passport matters, Polish citizens in foreign armies (Foreign Legion), polices towards Jews in different countries, major Jewish political and social organizations in UK. Includes list of recruits (many Jews), lists of Polish citizens including Jews interned or imprisoned by the British, copies of dispatches, correspondence with the Polish Jewish Refugee Found, correspondence with the Rabbi Union and the Co...

  16. Center of Financial Institutions of Hungary (MOL Z 91-93, etc.)

    Files of the Pénzintézeti Központ (Financial Institutions Administration): reports, board minutes correspondence; records on violations of the anti-Jewish laws, deposits of valuables, loans, deposits; records of the Jewish Community of Pest for 1944; records of pension funds; documents of various departments and offices.

  17. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Ardennes

    A collection of materials concerning antisemitic actions and legislation carried out in the Ardennes with name lists, including information on expropriation of Jewish property and businesses. It also contains name lists of French Freemasons in the Ardennes.

  18. Manya and Abraham Lebensold collection

    The Manya and Abraham Lebensold collection consists of two CDs containing scanned images of documents and correspondence related to and written by Manya and Abraham Lebensold while imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto. The bulk of the material is correspondence written by the Lebensolds between 1939 and 1942 to their children who were living in England.

  19. Rhoda Levine collection

    Consists of production material, newspaper clippings, and programs related to the original production of "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" which was composed by Victor Ullmann while imprisoned in Theresienstadt (Terezin). Includes an audiocassette of the first performance of the opera, performed in Amsterdam in 1975, copies of the musical score, and photographic prints of the first production. Also includes newspaper clippings and programs regarding subsequent venues where the original production was performed. Ullmann was murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944.

  20. Ronald Cohen collection

    Program for Die Zauberfloete [The Magic Flute] performed under the auspices of the "Reichssender Berlin" the Nazi-controlled radio. Stated at the bottom of the program is the sentence "JUDEN haben Keinen Zutritt!" [Jewish not admitted]; dated December 13, 1937; Four (4) Photographic postcards of three of the performers: Willi Domgraf Fassbaender, Erna Berger, Herbelt Alsen, and a New Years card of Tiana Lemnitz bearing her photograph.