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  1. Ezriel Reitzfeld identification card

    Collection consists of an identification card issued July 1, 1948, to Ezriel Reitzfeld, in the "Exodus" Police force in the Sengwarden displaced persons camp.

  2. 1939 Deutsche Automobilclub map of Germany

    Consists of one large folded color map of Germany, entitled "Strassenzustandskarte von Deutschland," published by the Deutsche Automobil club in Munich in 1939. Includes areas which had been incorporated into or were controlled by Germany. The map is stamped as having been owned by Major John Hinkel (later Colonel), a paratrooper who fought in the Italian campaign during World War II.

  3. SS Auschwitz album

    The album consists of 116 photographs taken during the last six months of Auschwitz, between June 1944 and January 1945. The album shows Auschwitz during its most lethal period, coinciding with the murder of 400,000 Hungarian Jews. However, these events are alluded to only indirectly. The album was compiled by Obersturmführer Karl Höcker, the adjutant to Richard Baer, the last commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This album also depicts other noted SS camp officers, including Rudolf Höss, Josef Kramer, Franz Hössler and Dr. Josef Mengele. These are the only known photographs of...

  4. Swastika shaped pin commemorating the reintegration of the Saarland with Nazi Germany

    Pin created to commemorate the March 1, 1935, reintegration of the Saar region into Nazi Germany. This German industrial region on the border with France and Luxembourg had been removed from German control and placed under a fifteen year League of Nations mandate by the Treaty of Versailles following the end of World War I. The French controlled the coal mining operations as part of the reparations owed by Germany under the treaty. On January 1, 1935, there was a plebiscite to determine the future of the country and an overwhelming ninety percent of the population voted to reunite with Germ...

  5. Frieda and Johanna Gross collection

    Consists of photographs, official documents, and papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Frieda and Johanna Gross, who were passengers on the MS St. Louis. Also includes photographs and papers related to the sisters, who went into hiding in Belgium after their return to Europe and before their immigration to the United States. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the family and their ancestors, prewar postcards, and naturalization papers.

  6. Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar wedding photograph

    Consists of the wedding photograph of Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar, taken in 1919 in Foldes, Hungary. Both perished in Auschwitz.

  7. Tami Ben Or collection

    Consists of four photographs pertaining to donor's life in prewar Budapest. The donor survived the war using false name of Marishka Lenart in the village of Rakocz Ligett, Hungary.

  8. Morris Gabrielides collection

    Collection consists of a photograph of donor with his family taken at the Port of Pireaus, Greece on March 7, 1951, a day before the family left Greece for the United States. Also includes two copy prints, one of the donor and his father and sister circa 1938, and the other of donor and sister (Effie) with parents and paternal grandmother, circa 1939, both in Athens, Greece.

  9. Plastic Star of David button worn to identify a Bulgarian Jew

    Star of David button made of Bakelite that Linka Nathan, or her mother, Rebecca, were required to wear to identify them as Jews in Sliven and Sofia, Bulgaria, from 1942-1944. Her father, Jacques was issued a circular, yellow button to identify him as a veteran of World War I. Beginning in July 1940, the Bulgarian government initiated anti-Semitic legislation that prohibited Jews from holding certain jobs, living in certain areas, or marrying non-Jews. Linka's father was one of the attorneys selected to interpret the new legislation to members of the Jewish community in Sofia.

  10. Erich Oppenheim collection

    Contains a passport issued to Erich Oppenheim upon his leaving Germany in January 1935, and documents and photographs relating to Mr. Oppenheim's family in Nentershausen, Germany. His parents and two brothers were murdered, and his sister left Germany on Kindertransport in 1939.

  12. Ruth Ronner collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and other materials documenting the Baumgart family in Breslau, Germany and Ruth Ronner's emigration from there to New York in 1937.

  13. Leizer Ran collection

    Consists of two booklets from the collection of historian and author Leizer Ran; one, a songbook entitled "Jidische Melodier af Ch. Ritterband Kobenhavn" in Yiddish, published in Vilna in 1935, and the other, entitled "Lest You Forget," a description and history of the Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre in Paris, in English, published in 1949.

  14. The Attorney General against Malkiel Gruenwald (RG 30) The Kasztner Trial

    Contains records from the libel trial against Malkiel Gruenwald who had accused Dr. Rudolph (Rezsö) Kasztner, a well-known official in the Israeli government, of being a traitor, charging that Kasztner, as the former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis and had allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with 600 (including 19 of his own family, and 300 from his home town of Cluj).

  15. Berkowitz family photographs

    Consists of photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of the Berkowitz family, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes photographs taken in pre-war Latvia, as well as photographs of family members in Shanghai and in Kobe in the 1930s.

  16. Else Levy Billin collection

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Else Levy Billin, originally of Konz, Germany, near Trier. Includes her pre-war and wartime vaccination records, and work certificates from Theresienstadt, (Terezin) where she spent the war. Includes postcards sent from Else Levy and her mother, Gerta Levy, from Terezin to various family members. Also includes one letter, 1983, from Else Levy Billin to the mayor of Trier asking for his assistance in returning to Germany to see her hometown once more.

  17. Gabriel Lawit collection

    Consist of nine original photographs relating to the donor's family in Łódź, Poland before the war; one letter written by the donor's father to his wife, written on an official letter by his supervisor, dated 1940, in Novoshtice, Bielorussia.

  18. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet of poetry by Joost van den Vondel, a pseudonym used by Albert Helman. Helman was a member of the Artist's Resistance in the Netherlands and wrote poetry about the Resistance. Joost van den Vondel was a famous poet in 17th century Holland. Helman wrote "Rei van Smeeckelingen" in the style of a 17th century poem and it deals with the deportation of the Jews, names of occupiers and leaders in Germany and collaborators in Holland. It also has religious undertones like Joost van den Vondel's poetry. Helman did this because if his writings were published and displayed under Joost van den...

  19. Lucien Rosenfeld letter

    Consists of a photocopy of a letter written by Lucien Rosenfeld to his cousins on August 7, 1945 from Veregeze, France. In the letter, Mr. Rosenfeld writes that he has recently discovered the fates of his immediate family, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. He describes the circumstances surrounding the deaths of his sisters, daughter, and wife, and writes that he has given up hope that his son, nephew, and brother-in-law, will return.

  20. Alexander and Aviva Bartal papers

    The Alexander and Aviva Bartal papers primarily consist of photographs documenting Polish Holocaust survivors Alexander and Aviva Bartal and their family and friends before the Holocaust in Poland and after liberation in Germany, Italy, and Israel. The papers also include photocopies of 1970s correspondence about Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, between World Jewish Congress representative Hilel Storch and historian Gerald Fleming. Photographic materials include loose photographs, a photo album cover dated 1947, and loose photo album pages documenting Alexander and Aviva Bartal and their...