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  1. Almanacs

    Almanac containing information about the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, addresses and general information.

  2. Roman Ryterband letters

    Consists of a collection of letters written to Roman Ryterband by members of his family in Poland between 1938 and 1943. Mr. Ryterband spent the war in Switzerland, and received letters from his parents, Abram and Golda Riterband (Ryterband), who were deported from Łódź in 1939, imprisoned in the Nowy Sacz ghetto and deported to a death camp in 1942. Also includes letters from other members of his extended and immediate family from the Warsaw and Łódź ghettos, including his brother Stasiek Ryterband and wife Luba from the Warsaw ghetto, who were murdered towards the end of 1942. Some le...

  3. Capture of partisans in Crimea

    Waffen SS members search for partisans in the Crimea. Soldiers walk through wooded mountainous territory (at 1200 meters) in search of "Soviet soldiers in civilian clothes, Jews, and Soviet agents" who have allegedly been terrorizing the population. The Germans throw grenades and shoot at a stone and wood structure. They capture the "bandits," all in civilian dress. The narrator says that "these rabble can expect no mercy." The prisoners are led away by armed Germans.

  4. November 1945 Dachau negatives

    Consists of 8 photographic negatives taken on November 28, 1945 in the former Dachau concentration camp. Includes negatives of various structures and signs, and includes photographs of recreated scenes in the camp. Also includes a description of each negative.

  5. French occupation of the Ruhr

    Graphic of a boot coming down on a Ruhr skyline, followed by a quotation from William Tell. A map shows the Ruhr area and the towns that are occupied by the French. A title onscreen asks why the French occupied the Ruhr in the first place, followed by shots of the bustling coal industry. Shots of French troops on the streets. Panning shot of stationary rail cars filled with coal.

  6. The Striker, Number 32, August 1938, 16th year 1938 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Der Stuermer, dated August 1938, Number 32, anti-Semitic newspaper published by Julius Streicher.

  7. Tarshish family collection

    Correspondence among members of the Tarshish family members in the Łódź ghetto; the Warta ghetto; the POW camp in Radziwilow; Karaganda, USSR; Moscow; and Kovno during the Holocaust and immediately after liberation. Photographs depict Itzchak Katzenelson (1886-1944) who opened a secular Hebrew school in Łódź and served as its principal until the outbreak of the war.

  8. 1983 American Gathering volunteer materials

    Consists of three round buttons worn by volunteers at the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, held in Washington, DC from April 11-14, 1983. Also includes three small cards used as nametags by Steven Frank, a volunteer at the event.

  9. Emil Hischler collection

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Emil Hischler and Margarethe Broeder (Bruder), who fled Nazi-occupied Slovakia (Emil) and Vienna (Margarethe) via Rhodes (on board the "Pentcho," which sank off the coard of Kamila Nisi, Rhodes in 1940) and the Ferramonti camp in Italy.

  10. Collection of various testimonies, diaries and memoirs (O.33), 1942-1992

    This collection consists of miscellaneous statements containing, primarily, written testimonies, memoirs and diaries handed over by private individuals to Yad Vashem since its creation.

  11. Portrait of a Polish female inmate drawn by a fellow inmate in a Soviet labor camp

    Pencil portrait of Roza Holcman created by Jozia Berko in March 15, 1944, when both women were political prisoners in a Soviet labor camp in Samarka (Temritau), Kazakhstan. Jozia was an underground delegate for the Polish Government in Exile. She was imprisoned by the Soviets at the camp by 1944 and died there in the late 1940s. Roza was arrested by the Soviets in 1942 for doing military recruitment for the Polish Home Army in the east and sentenced to fifteen years. She had a daughter, Aurelia, in November 1944, with an American medic, Phillip Rosenblith, who was later transferred to Mosco...

  12. Rivka Durlacher collection

    Contains sixteen original photographs showing Rivka Nordheim, at the age of 4 and 5, while being hidden by Cor and Lourens Lutgendorf in the small town of Apeldoorn in Holland, 1943-1945. Includes a photograph showing a Yad Vashem ceremony for the Lutgendorf family and two color photographs of family events.

  13. Eva Baumohl papers

    The Eva Baumohl papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, and photographs documenting Eva Baumohl’s family in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Antwerp; her father’s and brother’s expulsion into Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband, Naftali Baumohl. Biographical materials include Eva’s wartime and postwar foreigner identification card in Belgium, her Belgian travel card for foreigners, and her son Bernard’s business card. Correspondence include letters and postcards among Eva Baumohl, her parents, and her siblings in Berl...

  14. Jehudit Batelman collection

    Collection consists of photographs documenting the experiences of the Surkis and Pressman families during the Holocaust in Romania.

  16. Main technology office, NS Reich administration of the association of German technology Selected records of the Hauptamt für Technik, Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Bundes Deutscher Technik (NSBDT) (NS 14)

    The records contain correspondence with different offices of the Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Bundes Deutscher Technik (NSBDT) and documents about the education/propaganda-work. The collection also contains records related to prohibition of Jews in the BDT; list of Jewish engineers; technical publications by Jewish publishers; and some files mention Jewish participation in various fields on engineering or science.

  17. Kippah buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding

    Yarmulke, a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males, buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In December 1944, a few months after the li...

  18. Paul Reisman collection

    Collection constists of 5 photographs, 2 postcards, 1 memoir and 1 transcript documenting the experiences of Livia (Lilly) and Nicholas (Miki) Reisman [donor's parents] and their experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The memoir was in two parts and the second part "After the War" arrived incomplete. The third part of the transcript "Family Histories" is listed on the custody receipt. A copy of the postcards and translations of the postcards listed on the custody receipt are in the donor file.

  19. Schoolteachers receive instruction in racial theory

    Daily life at a Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund (NSLB) school. The NSLB was founded in 1929 in association with the NSDAP. Its task was to indoctrinate teachers into the Nazi worldview. Title on screen: Weltanschauliche Schulung [education in the [Nazi] worldview]. A group of men, presumably schoolteachers are instructed by Stadtradt Fink, who is speaking. They are outside under a tree. Title on screen: Stadtrat Pg. Fr. Fink spricht ueber die Judenfrage [Fink speaks about the Jewish question]. Interior shot of Fink, standing in front of a swastika flag and speaking animatedly. The camera...

  20. Helena Piasecka collection

    The collection contains photocopies of documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Helena Piasecka, a Roman Catholic woman originally of Żuromin, Poland, who was imprisoned at Ravensbrück, and was a victim of medical experimentation.