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  1. Drawing

  2. Grynfeld and Grynglas families' papers

    The papers consist of a registration form ("Anmeldung") and eight photographs 2 of which are adhered to documents that contain text relating to the experiences of the Grynfeld-Grynglas familes in Łódź, Poland, and the displaced persons camp in Leipheim, Germany.

  3. Mirko Tuma collection

    Consists of material regarding the life and work of Mirko Tuma, a poet, playwright, and critic who survived the Theresienstadt ghetto. Includes photographs, program and script copies, a book entitled "Ghetto našich dnů" about Terezin, and a book of poetry entitled "Rust on a Weather Vane." Also includes newspaper clippings of his post-war theater career and articles about Terezin.

  4. Boleslaw Kalinski papers

    The collection consists of two documents and a copy print relating to the experiences of Boleslaw Kalinski. Includes an identification card ("Arbeitskarte") number 61156 issued to Artur Gliksman [donor's younger brother, born May 20, 1930, who was killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944], residing at 14 Brzezinska Street, Apt 19, in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, stating that he is employed in the electrician workshop in the ghetto; a membership card issued to Boleslaw Kalinski on October 27, 1945, and stating that he is a member of "Zwiazek Walki Mlodych," a Communist youth organization...

  5. Radio as a propaganda tool during wartime

    Radio as a means of strengthening the community during wartime. Behind the scenes at a radio station. A woman checks on the progress of a record; a man and woman in white lab coats monitor wires in a large room filled with broadcast equipment. A man in a party uniform reads a message from a wife to her soldier husband. A large map of Europe hangs on the wall behind the man. Another man reads the war news into a microphone. A telex machine types out a news story. The camera pans downward, seemingly through the floors of the building to an orchestra playing on a lower floor. The scene changes...

  7. Selected records from collections of the Galați branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. The collection includes selected records from the mayors' offices of Galați and of Tecuci; the prefectures of Covurlui district and of Tecuci district; the police headquarters of Galați; the Gendarmerie of Covurlui and of Tecuci districts; the Covurlui district office of the Centrala Evreilor; the Jewish Democratic Committees of Galați and Tecuci; and the Centrala Evreilor office in Galați. Also included are postwar records of the Jewish Democratic Committees of Galați and of Tecuci.

  8. Records from the Jewish community in Iraq

    Consists of photocopies of documents from the Jewish community in Iraq, including marriage records, property records, and death records for Jews living in Iraq from 1934-2000.

  9. "Mutti"

    Consists of two DVD-ROMs entitled "Mutti," produced by Ralph Harpuder. "Mutti" tells the life story of Gerda Lewin Harpuder Stummer, born in Berlin, Germany in 1905, through the use of documents, family photographs, and home movies set to music. Mrs. Stummer escaped Nazi Germany through Shanghai before making her way to the United States and settling in California.

  11. Drawing

  12. Halina Gozdzik Milich photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs depicting Halina Gozdzik Milich and her relatives before World War II in Łódź, Poland, and after liberation.

  13. Drawing

  14. Lea Schneider photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs: five photographs collected by Wolf Goldsztajn [donor's stepfather] depict Siegmund "Zisha" Breitbart, a Jewish strong man of the 1920's, and one photograph shows Jewish refugee youth in Munich, Germany, marching in an anti-British demonstration protesting Palestine policy in 1947. Zelig Gorszkiewicz [donor's father] is second from left in the first row.

  15. Agro-Joint colonies of Nowaja-Zarza and Voroshila

    Intertitles provide information. Very good CUs and pan of a group of men and women vineyard workers (former ghetto inhabitants). MS of men coming out of building at Voroshila. Young boy (visiting from Leningrad) poses for camera. Poultry farm house with chickens wandering about.

  16. Roza Schevchenko photograph collection

    The collection consists of three portraits of Roza Schevchenko and her family taken in Mogilev Podolski (Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ), Ukraine, before the Holocaust and following her mother's death and her father's arrest and exile and in Czernowitz (Chernivt︠s︡i), Ukraine, after liberation.

  18. PFC George F. Seigman photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken by PFC George F. Seigman after the liberation of Gardelegen. Includes photographs taken of the corpses of victims and from within the trenches which were dug to bury the victims. PFC Seigman was a member of the 89th Chemical Mortar Battallion, which went through Gardelegen on May 8, 1945, while traveling to attach to the 102th division of the Ninth Army.

  19. Der Sturmer's Kampf Booklet

    Anti-Jewish propaganda booklet published by Der Sturmer. There is an insert with the publication of a letter on Der Sturmer letterhead dated March 1937. Der Sturmer was a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's frequent subtitle was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945....

  20. Etlya Katzman Fisher photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs relating to Etlya Katzman Fisher and her family's life during the Holocaust in Bender, Moldova (Tighina, Romania) and Krasnodarskiĭ kraĭ, Russia. The photographs include images of Etlya Katzman Fisher's classmates at girls' schools in Romania and the Soviet Union.