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  2. Papers of the Roth, Halász, and Klein families

    The collection consists of documents created before and during the Holocaust by an observant Jewish family living in various parts of Hungary and Transylvania. It includes extensive correspondence, a notebook used by its owner in a forced labor company, and two documents from the Swedish Legation in Budapest, Hungary, carrying the signature of Raoul Wallenberg.

  3. "Around the World in Ten Years"

    Consists of a memoir, 68 pages, entitled "Around the World in Ten Years," written by Dr. Frank J. Parnes. Dr. Parnes describes his experiences escaping Vienna and working as a physician in internment camps in Belgium and France. Upon his return to Belgium, he made and sold cigarettes but was arrested and deported to the Malines concentration camp, where he worked as a physician until his liberation in 1944. He emigrated to the United States and lived in New York City until his death in 1996.

  4. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in North Africa

    The collection documents work done by the Refugee Service and the Displaced Persons Service of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), to provide humanitarian relief to refugees and displaced persons in North Africa. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence of AFSC delegates in North Africa with AFSC representatives in Europe and America and with committees and organizations working with the Quakers. The collection further includes reports documenting the Quakers' projects in North African camps, and financial and administrative issues. The reports may contain name l...

  5. Annette Morros photographic collection

    Collection of 35 black and white photographs taken by U.S. Army soldiers documenting the Nazi atrocities in Gerdelegen, where prisoners evacuated from the Rottleberode labor camp, a sub-camp of Dora-Mittelbau, were murdered; dated April, 1945. Stamp on back of most of photos, "Passed by U.S. Army Examiner, 33955/ Not For Publication."

  6. Budapest after liberation

    Budapest after liberation by Soviet forces. Quality varies. A Soviet soldier writes "Budapest" in Russian on a sign. Shots of burning, partially destroyed buildings. A corpse lies in the foreground. More shots of corpses. Soviet soldiers walk across a snow-covered square. Soviet and Romanian (?) officers meet and confer. Soviet soldiers with captured flags. Soviet soldiers arrest Hungarian soldiers. Soldiers are led out of a cellar while other are forced to march down the street with their arms up.

  7. Joseph L. Norby papers

    Contains a letter, written by Joseph L. Norby from Austria to his family in the United States, about the sites he encountered during the liberation of Dachau. Includes three photographs presumably taken by Joseph L. Norby depicting scenes from Dachau.

  8. Selected pamphlets from the Australian Jewish Historical Society

    This collection contains pamphlets and files of the United Jewish Overseas Relief Fund from 1943 to 1952, information from Jews in China, and information from the Bermuda Conference on Refugees. Other pamphlets are by the New South Wales Board of Deputies.

  9. "Good-bye Mr. Ghoya" pamphler

    Consists of one pamphlet entitled "Good-bye Mr. Ghoya," published in Shanghai in September 1945. The pamphlet was a denunciation of Sgt. Kano Ghoya, the Japanese ex-vice chief of the Stateless Refugees' Affairs Bureau in Shanghai, and includes seven cartoons by F. Melchoir.

  10. "A Time to Remember"

    Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "A Time to Remember", by Anja Legerstee, born Chana Deborah Kuperman, originally of Lublin, Poland. She recalls pre-war Jewish life in Lublin, the 1939 German invasion, life in the Lublin ghetto and her deportation to Majdanek. After she managed to escape from Majdanek and go to Warsaw, she posed as a Christian until the end of the war. She is the only survivor from her family.

  11. Henry and Fay Bialowas collection

    The Henry and Fay Bialowas collection includes four postcards Fay received from 1942-1943 while she was interned as a slave laborer in Ober Altstadt, a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, from her father, Icek Gerschenowitz, who was imprisoned in Gleiwitz II (Gleiwitz-Steigern Judenlager) and from her mother, Hinda Gerschenowitz, who was confined to the ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. The collection also includes photographs found by Maks Bialowas, Henry's brother, who survived the Łódź ghetto and recovered the images after liberation. One image shows a group including Maks’ wife H...

  12. Dr. Bronek Drozdowicz collection

    Collection consists of a manuscript handwritten in Yiddish by Chana Gorodecka [donor's maternal grandmother], describing the experiences of her family during the Holocaust; dated 1945; typed manuscript of the above; translation of the above manuscript into Portuguese; newspaper, "Yiddishe Shriftn", published in Poland in Yiddish in 1962 with a review fo the book by Chana Gorodecka and an article about clandestine medical schools in the Warsaw ghetto.

  13. Ruth Marx papers

    Papers consist of 12 documents, a letter, a photograph, and a card documenting the life of Elisabeth Bieber before World War II, her immigration from Germany in 1939, and subsequent life in the United States; dated 1915-1942.

  14. Nazi flag from taken from Dachau and signed by over 50 US soldiers

    Nazi flag with over fifty signatures of US soldiers taken from an office at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 by Everett A. Fox, a soldier in the United States Army, 45th Infantry Division. Fox participated in the liberation of Dachau by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. The flag was signed by members of the 158th Field Artillery Battalion and the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army soon after Fox acquired it. The flag was signed by more soldiers at a reunion of the 45th Infantry Division, circa 1990.

  15. The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series B (Political Department)

    Contains records of the Political Department represented the WJC with governments and international organizations such as the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Council of Europe. Records relate to the departmental activities reflected antisemitism, human rights, migration, minorities, genocide, statelessness, prosecution of war crimes, relations between Christians and Jews, peace and disarmament, reparations, the situation of Jews in specific countries (notably the USSR and North Africa). Contains also papers of three persons: Maurice L. Perlzweig, Robert S. Marcu...

  16. Gordon Bronitsky collection

    Telegram sent by Hedwig (Hedy) Alexander Bronitsky (donor's mother) in Brooklyn, NY to her father Robert Alexander in Vienna, Austria informing him that his immigration visa has been approved and he is to be ready to depart immediately.

  17. Ministry of Social Welfare of the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile in London, Repatriation Department (JAF 1007)

    Records of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Repatriation Department, London (Ministerstvo sociani pece, Londýn), and Czechoslovak Red Cross dealing with emigration, matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes materials on "Jewish Question", name lists, registration cards and correspondence, Czech organizations in the USA, UN reports on crimes of Nazis, list of camps, descriptions of camps, repatriations from France, emigration to Chile, Cuba, Paraguay, Venezuela, Caracas, Trinidad, USSR, reports on detainment camps, documents and reports on disp...

  18. Collective farming in the Ukraine

    Clips show different types of collective farms in the Ukraine. Large sign with Hebrew lettering and a Soviet star, shot from below. A man paints Hebrew lettering on a building. English-language intertitle reads, "Jewish collective farmers." A group of people (many women) holding hoes march out into the fields. Nice shot of an old man sitting beside grape vines. Another shot of the sign with the Soviet star. Women in the field harvest grapes, followed by close-ups of some of the women.

  19. Israel Socolar papers

    Two spiral bound notebooks, hand-inscribed by Israel Socolar. The contents possibly describe events and people living in the city of Lukatz, the invasion of the town and Jewish community, events that transpired, and names of those that lived in the community surrounding the Holocaust. Yiddish. Account most likely written as events were described to Israel Socolar, probably written in Baltimore, Maryland.

  20. "Harry's Life"

    Consists of one binder of documents and photocopies, entitled "Harry's Life," regarding the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Harry Goodman (born Heinz Gutmann in 1926), originally of Munich, Germany. In the memoir enclosed in the binder, Harry recounts memories of his childhood in Germany, of leaving his family and immigrating to the United States alone in 1938, of joining the United States Army and being sent back to Europe, and of his post-war life. Mr. Goodman discovered after the war that his parents and sister had been deported to Riga, Latvia, in 1941 and had perished in ...