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  1. Schenkelbach and Feldbau family collection

    Contains documents, passports, correspondence, and photographs related to the wartime experiences of the families of Otto Schenkelbach and of Margaret (Gretl) Feldbau, both originally of Vienna. Includes Otto's correspondence from his imprisonment in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1938-1939, Gretl's correspondence regarding her 1938 immigration to the United States and her attempts to support the immigration efforts of both her parents and of Otto, and correspondence between Otto and Gretl. The couple married in New York in 1940. Also includes Otto's pre-war, wartime, and ...

  2. Victor and Melinda Swiecicki papers

    Papers consist of a train ticket issued to Klara Perl and her son, Benjamin Perl Melinda (Swiecicki's step-father), for travel from Vienna to Trieste in Italy in October 1939. Also included in the papers are six photographic images of Franek Swiecicki (Victor Swiecicki's father) in the Polish Anders Army.

  3. Otto Katz collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war documents, identity cards, and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Otto Katz, born in 1905 in Budranów, Poland. Though his family was able to emigrate, Mr. Katz, who spent much of his pre-war life in Vienna, was arrested in 1939 and sent to Buchenwald where he remained until liberation in 1945. Includes pre-war diplomas for Mr. Katz, who was a jeweler and silversmith, documentation identifying Mr. Katz as a survivor of Buchenwald, and photographs, including a photograph of Mr. Katz in Buchenwald.

  4. Headquarters of municipal authorities Selected files from collection: Magistrat Generalbüro (A. Rep. 001-02)

    Contains records relating to the renaming of streets; expropriation of Jewish property; discriminatory regulations against Jews at work and in public places; financial support for schools; local political issues; and statistics from the local registry office. Also contains correspondence, certificates, and other documents such as: birth, marriage, and death certificates; and local correspondence (claims) between the authorities of Berlin and other districts; correspondence between the Jewish community and the Reichsbund (Reichs Union) of Jewish front-line soldiers.

  5. Selected records from Ministerul Economiei Naţionale

    Contains selected records from Ministry of National Economy. Records include following subjects: implementation of legislation regarding Jewish and non-Jewish staff of industries; expropriation of Jewish goods; the antisemitic polices of the Iron Guards; Iron Guard control of Jewish companies; surveillance of Jewish commerce; regulations concerning food packages sent to Jews in Transnistria; reports on Jewish commerce; forced labor of Jews in Ilia, in the Hunedoara district; aryanization of Jewish enterprises; memos of W. Filderman about the Jewish star (star of David); orders concerning fo...

  6. Jewish Trade Unions in Lithuania (Fond 1141)

    The collection contains statues, correspondence files, membership lists, circular letters, minutes of the board meetings, applications for membership of the trade unions, professional, cultural , emigration and health organizations active in the prewar Lithuania: Artisan Union “ Ezras Paolim” in Telsiai, Lithuanian Jewish Coop Enterprises Association, ORT, “Education and Work”, Jewish Teachers Association “Hamore”, OZE, Jewish Refugee Support Committee and Jewish Theater and Art Support Association etc.

  7. Renee Fainas Wehrmann collection

    Collection consists of one Sauf Conduit pass issued for donor's grandmother Yetta Fainas in May 1943 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. Donor was living in this area with her parents and grandmother diring World War II. All members of her family survived.

  8. Leah Elerant Kreimer Derera papers

    Contains documents concerning the experiences of Leah Elerant Kreimer (donor) and family, including her first husband, Mechel, who did not survive the Holocaust, as well as her second husband, Lazar Derera, during the Holocaust in Romania, dated 1930s-1940s.

  9. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection

    The Lindenbaum and Landau families collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and Belgium. The photographs feature friends and family members and include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Photographs of Tobiasz and Curtla Lindenbaum include the couple around the turn of the century; a portrait of Tobiasz, undated; Curtla holding an umbrella at an unknown resort, undated; Curtla, two of her daughters, and a grandson riding in a droshky, undated; Cur...

  10. Selected records of the Executive Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 148)

    Contains parliamentary interpellations (e.g., by the Nyilaskeresztes Párt (Arrow-Cross Party) MP Kálmán Hubay or the anti-Nazi MP Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky) to the Minister; the latter's responses; reports to the Minister regarding Jewish individuals (e.g., the Communist Endre Ságvári) and communities (e.g., of Békés county); the citizenship of Jews; the 1941 deportation of “stateless” Jews; exemptions of Jewish doctors from anti-Jewish measures; residence of Jews and Romanies; the November 1944 creation of the Budapest ghetto; war casualties; and others.

  11. Linen poster with the song and lyrics to Schnitzelbank

    Large Schnitzelbank linen poster for the popular German call and response song. It is printed with the music and lyrics for the song "Schnitzelbank" and features 12 sets of cartoon images with captions for the rhyming sets used to vary the short verses. This version includes a stereotypical caricature of a Jewish man with the name "Judenmeier" paired with "Grose Eier" (Large Eggs), and 11 other rhyming pairs with drawings. The Schnitzelbank is a popular German drinking song often sung at carnivals, Octoberfests, and other festivals. A poster with cartoons and captions for the rhyming sets i...

  12. Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families, originally of Beverungen and Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The collection primarily documents the emigration of Lilly Goldschmidt (née Mannsbach), her husband Bernhard Goldschmidt, and their son Fred to the United States in 1938, the emigration of her brothers Heinz, Otto, and Richard to South America, and her parents Karl and Luise Mannsbach, who remained in Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of official documents, including birth, marriage, and death certificates; pre-war, wartim...

  14. Court records of the Reichsjustizministerium (R 3001)

    This collection contains files on thousands of investigations and court cases from 1933 to 1945. Among the charges were Rassenschande (“race shame”), treason, arson on synagogues, and attacks on German Jews. The accused included communists, social democrats, and members of the clergy. Defendants included both Jews and Gentiles.

  15. Dead and dying at Dachau

    Closeup footage of the dead and dying in Dachau. MS pan of bodies in small room. Some clothed, some not. CU of hand clutching ribbon. Pan back over same bodies. CU of some of dead. MS of room in brick building bodies piled in long narrow space between two concrete partitions. CU of dead mans face, CU of water trough, CU of shoe floating in trough. MCU of bodies in camp uniforms visible through entryway in brick. CU of face of dead man. MS through brick entryway of stack of clothed bodies. MS and CU of dead men on floor. MCU Body of man half covered by blanket lying on straw in barracks room...

  16. Nicole Rose collection

    Consists of a photographic postcard written from the Pithiviers concentration camp, 1941, by Wulf Salomon Finkielsztejn; a photograph of prisoners in the Pithiviers concentration camp, 1942, including Wulf Salomon Finkielsztejn; and one copyprint depicting Kopel Kaufman in a concentration camp uniform clutching a bowl. This copyprint is of a recreated scene in a concentration camp.

  17. Ration stamps for occupied France

    Consists of two sheets of ration stamps issued in German occupied France in 1944. One set of blue stamps entitled the bearer to cheese, meat, and fats, while a set of red stamps entitled the bearer to bread. The stamps are marked for use by family and friends of members of the Wehrmacht.

  18. Roma in the Soviet Union

    Excerpt from a film which compares traditional Roma life unfavorably with the life of the Roma under the Soviet system. Intertitle in English and French reads, "Awards for the Best Workers." Romani people on a kolkhoz (collective farm) receive awards at a ceremony. People clap and cheer as a woman is awarded three geese and a young boy receives a pig. A woman and a man lead a bull through a crowd of cheering people. A large portrait of Stalin hangs from the building. Intertitle in English and French reads: "The Century-Long Wanderings of the Gypsy." A Roma woman dances in front of a large c...

  19. Felicia Carmelly papers

    Consists of Felicia Steigman Carmelly's drafts and notes from her research on the history of Transnistria during the Holocaust. She includes a detailed account of her own wartime experiences. Includes two drafts of "After 50 Years of Silence: Transnistria Remembered," and two drafts of "Shattered! 50 Years of Silence: Voices from Romania and Transnistria," both by Felicia Steigman Carmelly.

  20. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Economic Renewal (JAF 786)

    This collection mainly consists of administrative records of the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorat of Bohemia and Moravia). These include documents on the persecution of Jews, the expropriation of Jewish assets, the deportation of Jews to Theresienstadt, the internal workings of the German administration, forced labor, political prisoners, the Nazi security apparatus, resistance activities, and the like.