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  1. Reconciliation: displaced persons and emigration

    Contains selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons, including administration and policy records, reports on movements of DPs, nominal rolls and statistics, as well as the post war situation in Europe and restitution.

  2. "My Life--Memoirs by Sophie Weiss"

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, written by Sophie Ritterband Lewartowicz Weiss, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Weiss describes her family, childhood, and marriage to Zygmunt Lewartowicz. When the Germans invaded Poland, Mrs. Weiss (then Mrs. Lewartowicz) and her family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. In Decemeber 1939, after witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, the family returned to Warsaw and went into hiding as Catholics. The family lived as Aryans outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mrs. Weiss and her ...

  3. Antisemitic float in parade

    Scenes from the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the town of Schneeberg. SA men on horseback carry banners with the town's symbol on it. Close-ups on a parade float show a caricature of a Jew paying wages to a German citizen. In the other hand the "Jew" holds a bill of huge denomination. A caption along the bottom of the float states: The Jew led the nation into hunger, poverty, and inflation. In the next scene, men wearing Prussian helmets assemble in formation and then march. A brief shot of people working on a float, then a shot of another float labelled, Schluss d...

  4. Print 8, Kosciol Sw. Jana w Toruniu, a church in town

    Print 8 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  5. Selected records from collections of the Bistriţa-Năsăud branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. It includes selected files from the following organizations: Mayorship of Bistriţa - restitution of Jewish property; statistics; and confiscation of Volksdeutch property, 1945-1947; Legion of Gendarmerie of Năsăud city - correspondence between Romanians and Jews; religious cults, 1940-1944; Democratic Jewish Committee in Năsăud - Various reports, 1946-1950.

  6. Albert Palatnik collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting the Palatnik family in Odessa before the war; all the members of the family were murdered in Odessa ghetto. Also includes a report card issued to Albert Palatnik stating that he is Jewish; issued in Balta, after the war.

  7. Trials of the National Court of Slovakia

    Contains the postwar trials of the Slovak National Court, including the cases brought against Jozef Tiso, János Eszterházy, and others accused of crimes against Slovakia. The collection includes selected microfilms and two sets of scans: the first set consists of black and white access scans made of the selected microfilms; the second set is a complete set of high resolution color scans.

  8. Ms. Vered Kater photographs

    Black and white photographs of Vered Kater’s family before and after the war in Eindhoven, Netherlands, hiding in Hoofdorp during the war, and at a tree planting at Yad Vashem in honor of Joanna Kuiper-Henkelmans (1915-1998).

  9. Aszkenazy and Rosenberg family photographs

    Consists of two photographs of the Aszkenazy family in Warsaw, Poland, one taken in 1939 and one taken in 1946. Also includes one photograph of the Rosenberg family in Zakopane, Poland, in 1927.

  10. Selected records from the Deutsches Staatsministerium für Böhmen und Mähren (R 30)

    Contains records pertaining to aryanizations and deportations, passport issues, restrictions on Jewish passports, administrative reports, and reports on conditions for the Jewish population of Bohemia and Moravia.

  11. Agnes Vertes collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the Weisz family [donor's husband's family] in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence between Imre Weisz [donor's husband's father] and his wife, Dora, and son Miklos [donor's husband], while he was in a forced labor battlion from which he did not return and was presumed killed in 1943. Also included are safe conduct passes issued by the Swiss government for Miklos, Dora, and her mother, as well as documents concerning efforts of relatives in Cleveland, Ohio, to apply for affidavits of support for...

  12. Malwina "Inka" Gerson Allen papers

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518794
    • English
    • box oversize folders 1 3 32 photographs, 11 ration cards, 1 booklet, 55 documents, 65 notices, 1 identification card, 19 newspapers, 1 newspaper clipping, 5 postcards,

    Collection consists of documents and photographs from the Łódź ghetto; collection of ghetto newspapers and collection of ghetto announcements. All the items were collected and recovered from the ghetto by the donor, Malwina Gerson Allen, and her parents, Dora and Gustav Gerson.

  13. Joseph Ansell papers

    The Joseph Ansell collection consists of research material, correspondence, articles, artistic prints, and slides collected by Joseph Ansell while researching Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole which was published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in 2004. The collection includes photocopies of original documents and secondary source material collected from libraries and research collections regarding the life and art of Arthur Szyk, the Polish-born artist and caricaturist, who was best known for his anti-Nazi political cartoons, involvement with groups in the United States protesti...

  14. Trzebinia collection

    Contains photocopies of articles, photographs, and documents related to the Holocaust in Trzebinia, Poland, and of the family of Elimelech Gross of Trzebinia in particular.

  15. Doris (Dee) Muschel Schwartz collection

    Collection of papers, identification cards, a ship passenger list, clippings and correspondence documenting the experiences of Isidor, Ida and Doris Muschel [donor's parents and donor] and their journey fleeing Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1938.

  16. "A Man, Who Conquered Death"

    Consists of a Russian language original, and two copies of an English language translation, of an article entitled "A Man, Who Conquered Death," written in 2007 by Gennadiy Gelfer. In the article, Mr. Gelfer describes the wartime experiences of Mr. Naum Levin, a member of the Red Army who was captured by the Nazis and, as he was Jewish, sent to the Minsk ghetto. There he married, and he and his wife joined the anti-Nazi resistance movement and managed, with other partisans, to escape the ghetto. While hiding in the forests, the Zorin partisan group continued in their attempts to disrupt the...

  17. Print 10, Deby Rogalinskie, depicts trees

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

  18. "Andzia"

    Consists of one typed testimony, four pages, entitled "Andzia," written by Hania Stromberg in 2007. In the testimony, Mrs. Stromberg relates the story of Andzia (last name unknown), who was the Roman Catholic nanny for the Rom family, of Warsaw, Poland. By World War II, the children were grown, and all but the youngest, Tadek and Dorota, were safe in the United States. Tadek and his family perished in the Holocaust. Dorota spent much of the war in the Warsaw ghetto and Andzia sneaked food to her, nursed her when she became ill, and ultimately helped her escape the ghetto before it was liqui...

  19. Kerkhoven family collection

    Consists of papers related to the wartime experiences of Dr. CLM Kerkhoven and his family, originally of the Hague in the Netherlands. Includes identification paperwork, ration stamps and ration books, a travel permit, a British propaganda leaflet addressed to the German people, Dr. Kerkhoven's request for exemption from post-war military duty, and a copy of the May 5, 1945, edition of "De Margriet", an underground paper, celebrating the end of the war.

  20. Black velvet embroidered tefillin bag buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Black velvet pouch used to hold his tefillin, prayer boxes worn by Jewish males during morning prayer services, 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 he...