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  1. Municipal Office in Wroclaw Zarząd Miejski Miasta Wrocławia (Sygn.334)

    Contains records relating to social, political and cultural life of the Polish Jews in the Lower Silesia and in Wroclaw. It includes information about the German Jews and Jewish religious congregations. Also contains a list of marriages concluded in 1946, and a deportation list of German Jews from Wroclaw in 1945.

  2. Authur Born collection

    Collection consists of documents, poems and 29 photographs concerning the experiences of Arthur Bornstein [donor], born in Oświęcim, Poland, interned in Sosnowiec ghetto in Poland and ultimately deported to Gruenberg and Kittelitztreben (sub-camps of Gross-Rosen) and Buchenwald concentration camps, where he was liberated and taken to Switzerland by the Red Cross to recuperate. Inlcuded in the collection are pre-war images of donor's family in Oświęcim, poems transcribed immediately after liberation by donor who learned them in Buchenwald, and postwar documents and images of his experience...

  3. Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique documents

    Consists of documents related to anti-Jewish employment ordinances issued in 1941 and how they related to the staff of the Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique in Paris, France. Includes a blank questionnaire used to determine Jewish ancestry.

  4. Print 9

    Print 9 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  5. Olga Wachtenheim collection

    Collection consists of two composite photographs from the Munkacs Jewish Gymnasium, one of the last graduating classes in 1943 and the fourth grade class from 1943. Olga Wachtenheim is pictured in graduating class photograph; her brother was a teacher of the fourth grade class. Also includes one photograph of the Wachtenheim family after the war; 1946.

  6. Szlezyngier-Wiernik family photographs

    Consists of 13 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Szlezyngier family of Wojkowice, Poland, and the Wiernik family of Sosnowiec, Poland. Benjamin Szlezyngier and Chana (Hanka) Wiernik both spent the war in various labor camps and survived death marches. They married in Cyprus and emigrated to Palestine in 1946.

  7. Thea Lange Spiegel collection

    Consists of materials related to the experiences of Thea Lange Spiegel, originally of Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland). Includes wartime letters from Thea, who went to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to her mother and sisters, who were interned in Mauritius after a failed attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1940; post-war letters to Thea from her mother and sisters in Israel; two copies of "Diskretion..Ehrensache!", published by the Jakob Lange (Thea's father) publishing house. Also includes a copy of a memoir entitled "A Free World? No Concentration Camp, but Behind Prison Walls" by ...

  8. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Maine-et-Loire

    Contains records pertaining to the systematic harassment, imprisonment, and spoliation of Jews in the Maine-et-Loire as well as records pertaining to the Jewish internment camp at Clefs and the Roma-Sinti internment camp at Montreuil-Bellay.

  9. Heinz Hesdörffer memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 293 pages, written by Heinrich (Heinz) Hesdörffer, born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany and raised in Fulda, Germany. In the memoir, Mr. Hesdörffer describes his childhood, his evacuation (with other children, including his younger brother Ernst) to the Netherlands in March 1939, Ernst's deportation (despite Heinrich's efforts to protect him), his own deportation in March 1943 to Westerbork, and his subsequent deportation, first to Theresienstadt in February 1944, and then to Auschwitz in May 1944. Mr. Hesdörffer was transferred to the Schwarzheide subcamp, where he was...

  10. Book

    Book: "Der Hitlerjunge Quex", by Karl Schenzinger; 1935; in German

  11. "A Memoir"

    Consists of one memoir, 54 pages, entitled "A Memoir", by Richard Mayer, originally of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. The memoir, which was edited by Mr. Mayer's grandson, Ron Gery, describes the experiences of Richard and Hella Weiskopf Mayer who escaped, with their young daughter, Astrid Miriam Mayer (later Miriam Gery), from Yugoslavia to Palestine during the Holocaust. Mr. Mayer describes his memories of the German invasion of Yugoslavia, the confiscation of goods and property, and the difficulty both in traveling and in leaving the country. The Mayers eventually managed to escape Yugoslavia and...

  12. 'Tran und Helle' dialogue re. listening to foreign broadcasts on radio

    Tran and Helle admire Tran's radio. Helle notes that Tran can hear all sorts of great programs from throughout the Reich. Tran says that he can also hear foreign news broadcasts, to which Helle replies that Tran could go to prison for such behavior. Even if Tran is not caught, says Helle, good Germans do not do such things. Helle continues to berate Tran for believing that foreign broadcasts tell the truth. Tran answers that he is old enough to tell if something is true and he turns on the radio. The voice of the radio announcer says that someone was just sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison ...

  13. Dr. Leon Cytryn collection

    Photo album from Marburg, Germany assembled by Dr. Leon Cytryn while he was in medical school. Documents relating to Dr. Leon Cytryn’s liberation and stay in Landsberg DP camp, circa 1946. Included is a group of loose photographs.

  14. Ljubica Sarolic papers

    The Ljubica Sarolic papers consist of a November 2, 1944 mailing label from a package sent via the Slovenian Red Cross to Ljubica in the Auschwitz concentration camp by her mother Kati Rozman in Ljubljana; a copy print of a portrait of Ljubica shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16; and a photocopy of a September 18, 1944 list of prisoners selected by Dr. Josef Mengele for his medical experiments and signed by him. Ljubica appears as prisoner number 75744 at place 45 on the list.

  15. Morris and Rosa Goldfeld naturalization papers

    Consists of the 1955 United States naturalization papers for Holocaust survivors Morris (Mozek) and Rosa (Ruzia Kurtz) Goldfeld. Both Goldfelds were originally from Poland, and are survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  16. Kazimierz Laski collection

    Collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the Cygler and Wolfowicz families before the war in Częstochowa, during the war in hiding, and after the war in Warsaw, Poland. Cygler was Professor Kazimierz Laski's original last name, and Wolfowicz was Professor Laski's late wife's maiden name.

  17. Records of the city Sosnowiec Akta miasta Sosnowca (Sygn. 776/I)

    The collection contains approximately 1,500 files from the German occupation period from the Sosnowiec City Hall.

  18. Ettore A. Peretti, PhD, pamphlets

    Contains thirty-one pamphlets, most of which had been distributed on the streets in Nazi Germany; copies of "Das Jahr im Bild," "Der Stürmer," "Berliner Zeitung," "Berliner Tageblatt"; a speech delivered in the Reichstag by Adolf Hitler; "Dr. Goebbels auf dem Reichsparteitag 1935: Kommunismus ohne Maske"; "Max Schmelings Sieg-ein deutscher Sieg"; and "RAK." The material was collected by Ettore Peretti, an American student living in Germany in 1935-1936. Some of the leaflets were also published in English to show English-speaking visitors examples of what was being published in Nazi Germany.

  19. Cesia Fater collection

    Collection of photographs, papers and brochures (including music scores) pertaining to the life of Issachar Fater, cantor, composer and music teacher before the war. In 1940 he was a refugee in Soviet Baronovice and worked as an inspector for teaching of music. After being freed from labor camp in Siberia he became the director of the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Tadjikistan. Returning to Poland, he moved to Paris, Belgium, Rio de Janeiro and in 1962 immigrated to Israel. Includes a birth certificate in the name of Elizbieta Ritkowska issued August 27, 1938 and used by donor during the war.

  20. Goering visits wounded soldiers on train along his route, Eastern front.

    A map shows the location where Hermann Goering is visiting wounded soldiers on the Eastern front. The men are on a train travelling back to Germany. CUs of Goering and smiling wounded troops. Goering is accompanied by a large entourage of officers and several nurses.