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  1. Ruth Salmon Seltzer papers

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Ruth Salmon Seltzer, originally of Lambsheim, Germany. Ruth was sent on a Kindertransport from Germany to France in 1939, and lived in the OSE home of La Guette, before being sent to the United States in 1941. Her mother and sisters spent part of the war in the Rivesaltes and Gurs concentration camps, and emigrated to the United States after the war. The collection includes wartime paperwork, identity cards, and restitution documentation, including correspondence regarding the decision to legally declare the deaths of Ruth's older b...

  2. Bernard Rosenthal photograph collection

    Contains three photographs of the donor's sister-in-law, Rachel Krygier Gottleib (b. February 10, 1926, Warsaw, Poland) and her experience on the "Exodus" ship, 1947.

  3. T. Scarlett Epstein diary

    Consists of a diary kept by T. Scarlett Epstein (Trude Grünwald), originally of Vienna, Austria, in the summer of 1937 and in the summer and fall of 1938. A teenage girl, Epstein records her visit to the World's Fair in Paris in 1937. In the summer of 1938, she describes her escape from Vienna into Yugoslavia, made possible through Epstein's friendship with the ex-ambassador of Yugoslavia to Austria. From Yugoslavia, Epstein traveled to Albania in November 1938. Throughout the diary, Epstein inserted train tickets, maps, photographs and other pieces of realia she collected.

  4. Print 3, Fara w Chelmnie na Pomorzu, a building in Pomerania

    Print 3 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  5. The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series E. Culture Department

    The Series E (Culture Department) consists of correspondence of the department directors, Simon Federbush and Wolf Blattberg, together with reports, publications, and other material pertaining to the activities of the New York branch of the Culture Department. Material in the series includes correspondence of the first director, Simon Federbush (1945–circa 1950) and the second director, Wolf Blattberg (1950–1958), who joined the department in 1945. After Blattberg's death in 1958, Greta Beigel assumed his responsibilities for cultural work. Included in Blattberg's files is correspondence wi...

  6. Propaganda film about the improved life of the German people under Hitler

    Well-known scenes of interwar unrest, including street riots and communist rallies, interspersed with caberet performers and people in nightclubs. Shot of a bearded Jew walking down the street in Berlin. A brief shot of Hitler speaking is followed by Otto Braun, Prime Minister of Prussia, speaking against National Socialism in March, 1932. He speaks of a secret Nazi document that details plans to seize goods from farmers; those who resist will be shot (uncertain translation). The next scenes show Hitler among joyous crowds at a rally of some kind (presumably of farmers) and a brief shot of ...

  7. Central Historical Commission : Questionnaires of the Regional Councils-Landraete (M.1.L)

    The collection contains approximately 542 questionnaires which were distributed among the regional and municipal authorities, mainly in the zone occupied by the Americans in Germany, to be filled out by them. The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich distributed questionnaires for the purpose of gathering information about the plight of Jews under Nazi in the various localities.

  8. Vera Salomon Hecht photographs

    Consists of photographs of the family of Vera Salomon, originally of Valea-lui-Mihai, Romania. Includes pre-war and wartime photographs of her father, Martin, and brother, Imri, and members of her extended family. The collection also includes wartime photographs of Hungarian forced laborers, including Vera's father, as well as her future husband, Francisc Hecht.

  9. Stephen Olesnevich papers

    Collection of more than 280 photographs taken by Stephen Olesnevich in Warsaw and other cities in 1945-1946. Documents include his passport and his nomination to serve as Vice Consul of the Unted States in Poland.

  10. Itta Keller Ben-Haiem collection

    Collection consists of 46 photographs of Itta Keller and her family in Stary Sambor, Poland (now Staryĭ Sambir, Ukraine) before the war, in Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) during the war while in hiding, and after the war. Testimony of Tadeusz Kobylko, a Polish man, who hid Itta and her maternal aunt during the Holocaust. Letters and documents illustrating donor's family's experiences during the war in Poland.

  11. Ottenheimer family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ottenheimer family including photographs taken in pre-war Germany, a book on the genealogy of the Moos family, a pre-WWII advertisement for Ludwig Ottenheimer's clothing store, a photocopy of the same advertisement after the Aryanization of the store, postwar correspondence. and a small siddur (daily Jewish prayer book) carried by Ludwig Ottenheimer during his military service during WWI and with him to the United States. Ludwig Ottenheimer was arrested after Kristallnacht and spent one month in the Dachau concentration camp. Aft...

  12. Propaganda film of Jews in Stuttgart; food distribution; claim that rations are the same as for German citizens

    Title: Lebensmittel Sonderverkaufstelle fuer Juden in der ehem. Gastwirtschaft "zum Kriegsberg" [Special food purchasing location for Jews in the former inn "Zum Kriegsberg"]. Jews wearing stars stand in line outside the former inn. Title: Liefertag [distribution day]. People in white coats remove boxes of food from trucks and take them into the store. A shot of the side of a car with an advertisement for Dr. Whilhelm Kraft's crispbread. People continue to unload goods, giving the appearance of abundance. The image is grainy and high contrast. 01:21:57 "Im Gegensatz zu den Behauptungen der ...

  13. Alice Lonsdale collection

    Collection consists of 18 pre-war photographs from Austrian Jewish families, Loeffler [donor's immediate family] and Loeb [maternal relatives]. Depicted in the images are the Alice Loeffler, her brother Hans, and her parents, Alfred and Dora Loeffler, who did not survive; dated circa early 20th century; mainly in Vienna, Austria. Alice went on the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom in 1939.

  14. Pauline Widder Fabri memoir

    Consists of an English-language, typed translation of Pauline Widder Fabri's memoir, which she wrote immediately after the war, in Budapest, Hungary. She describes her experiences between March 1944 and the end of the war, focusing particularly on the dates between November 16, 1944 and January 18, 1945, as she took detailed notes of her activities between those dates. She describes the anti-Jewish ordinances established after the German invasion, her move into the area of Budapest protected by Raoul Wallenberg and the Swedish embassy, her daily activities in the winter of 1944- 1945, and h...

  15. Isidor and Liviu Librescu collection

    Collection of documents belonging to Liviu Librescu and his father, Isidor Librescu, relating to their experiences in Romania during the Holocaust.

  16. Ludmila Monastyrska memoir

    Contains one memoir, 12 pages, about Ludmila Monastyrska's experiences during the Holocaust hiding with neighbors, her father helping Jewish families to escape into the forest, and the fate of her family during the Holocaust.

  17. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Aube

    This collection contains documents from the Special Police Commissariat. It includes lists of refugees by nationality, materials on internment facilities, and documents of the Bureau of Liaison with the German authorities and of the Renseignements généraux (the police agency watching foreigners). Also included are documents on the persecution of Jews in the communes of Isle-Aumont and Ramerupt, and materials of the post-liberation Historical Commission on the Second World .

  18. T990, Mauthausen Death Books (RG 238)

    Contains publication of the Mauthausen Death Books, T990. This is a chronological listing of deaths at the Mauthausen concentration camp indicating each person's number, full name, date and place of birth, occupation, cause of death, day and time of death and comments. There are approximately 7,000 names on each roll.

  19. Esther Shudmak collection

    Contains photographs and oral history transcripts related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Julius Shudmak (1913-1992) and his wife Esther Shudmak (born Eva Bittman, 1927-2020). Includes one large pre-war photograph of the Shudmak family, originally of Poland; most of the family perished in the Holocaust. Also contains copyprints of photographs of the Bittman family, originally of Rakhiv, Czechoslovakia (Rakhiv, Ukraine). The photographs include descriptions on verso provided by the donor. Also included are transcripts of oral history interviews with Julius and Esther Shudmak as par...

  20. Personal archives of the Yiddish writer, Yiehiel (Ikhil) Shraybman

    The bulk of the collection consist of letters received by the writer from Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union, Poland, Israel, United States, and France, as well as from readers of his books. This collection also includes letters received by Yiehiel Shraybman from various Jewish cultural institutions and Yiddish periodicals.