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  1. Lewitzky family photographs

    Consists of 25 mainly wartime photographs taken of the Lewitzky family: Sigi and Jetti Lewitzky and their children Inge and Gerhard. The family emigrated from Vienna, Austria to Degersheim, Switzerland in 1938 and remained there throughout the war. Sigi was sent to a labor camp from 1940-1945, but was reunited with his family after the war; collection includes photographs of the family in Switzerland as well as photographs of Sigi Lewitzky and his forced labor group.

  2. Wilheim family papers

    The papers consist of 18 photographs and a manuscript written by Leopold Wilheim [donor's father] relating to the Wilheim family in Vienna, Austria, their emigration in 1938, and their eventual settlement in the United States.

  3. Hanna Ben-Yami collection

    The collection consists of three copyprints of pre-World War II photographs of the donor's family, one original photograph of the donor's family, one purchase coupon from Theresienstadt concentration camp, and one transport order from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz with the donor's name on it.

  4. Victor Aronstein commemorative paper

    Consists of an article commemorating what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Victor Aronstein. The authors, Thomas Friedrich, Daniela Fuch, and Christa Hubner, give an extensive biography of Dr. Aronstein, including the hardships he faced from pre-war antisemitism and his experiences in the Łódź ghetto, where he probably perished in 1944, along with his wife and assistant, Lotte Korn.

  5. Scharlack family correspondence

    Consists of correspondence from the Dannenberg family, of Kassel, Germany, to the Scharlack family in the United States. Hugo and Blanka Dannenberg Scharlack emigrated from Germany to the United States with their children in 1938, but Mrs. Scharlack's family (consisting of her mother, Emma Dannenberg, and sisters Johanna and Berta Dannenberg, and Hedwig Amster), for financial and emigration reasons, were unable to escape. They write to her of the conditions in Germany and of their desires and frustrations regarding the emigration process.

  6. Holcman family photograph collection

    The collection consists of seven photographs documenting the Holcman family in Gąbin (Gombin), Poland, before and during the Holocaust, including depictions of forced labor in Gąbin.

  7. Photographs of Jewish Youth and Zionist Groups in Da̜browa

    Consists of nine pre-war and wartime photographs of Jewish youth and Zionist groups in Da̜browa, Poland. All are group photographs; those photographed have been identified on the backs of most of the photographs.

  8. Memel vote

    Map showing the area surrounding the region of Memel, situated between Lithuania and Germany. The narrator speaks of the elections to the provincial government, which had voter turnout of almost one hundred percent, despite the terror inflicted on the Volksdeutsch by the Lithuanians. Shot of a pro-German banner on a street in Memel. View of the Queen Luise Bridge and the plaque designating the border between Memel and Germany. Memel was annexed to Lithuania in 1923. Low aerial shots of Memel and the river and the bridge in the distance. Brief shot of election posters on a post. Long line of...

  9. Jay Becker newspaper clipping collection

    Collection of 17 laminated newspaper clippings pertaining to World War II.

  10. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 1 Greve Folke Bernadotte leaves for mission to Germany, plane takes off. Red Cross personnel get off a white bus. In Malmo they take a ferry to Copenhagen. Happy, freed prisoners board the boat at the dock. Poles and French land in Sweden. Old women. Small children. Womenfolk. Wagon rolls inland from ferry. Countess Maj-Lis from Eichstedt, born Luening, greets them welcome home. Boarding ambulances, taken to curatorium/convalescent home. Old woman greets her stretcher ...

  11. Wehrmacht exercises ("greatest since 1913")

    Soldiers on horseback traveling along a road. Narrator: "Im Gebiet um den Vorwaerts Berg in Oberhessen" the great exercises of the Wehrmacht in Fall 1936 occurred.... They were the greatest German maneuvers since 1913. More soldiers along the road, marching into a village. A banner hung in the town greets the Wehrmacht. Soldiers on horseback receive drinks from smiling women leaning out of the windows of their house; young girls and women rush up to soldiers carrying plates of food. Men marching along road and signing, shot from above. Sign reading "Frankfurt am Main 69 KM" Soldiers perform...

  12. David Glick's trip to Europe 1936/37

    Reims, France. CU of a man with a long beard, and loose fitting clothing, holding a pigeon in his hand and feeding it, another pigeon rests on his other arm. MLS of a street in the city, a street lamp hangs from the corner of a building, and a sign above a doorway reads: "Champignons". VS, of the neighborhood, a cat running along a ledge of a building, rows of houses, three women dressed in traditional costumes with white pointed hats, a street corner with a restaurant called "Restaurant Jeanne-D'Arc," men sitting in a bar raising a glass to the camera, the owners of the bar smile and wave ...

  13. Gabriella Alter papers

    The papers consist of photographs and documents relating to the experiences of Gabriella Knöbel (now Gabriella Alter), originally of Nowy Sącz, Poland, with the Teheran Children in Russia, Iran, and Palestine. Included are depictions of children in a school near Irkutsk, the arrival of the Tehran Children in Palestine, and former Tehran Children in Kibbutz Givat Brenner.

  14. Meyer Strossberg photograph

    Consists of photograph of the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp Jewish police force.

  15. Egon Berg papers

    The Egon Berg papers consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration papers documenting the marriage of Karl and Rosa Berg, their relocation to Kenya with Egon in 1939, and their immigration to the United States in 1947. Records include a wedding certificate, Rosa Berg’s German identification card and Kenyan certificate of registration, Kenyan customs forms, orders and restrictions to which the Bergs were subject in Kenya, and a letter of recommendation in lieu of passport for the Berg family.

  16. Rita Sloan collection

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Slepian family of Warsaw, Poland. Included are documents, photographs, and a photograph album related to the Wasseralfingen displaced persons camp where Nathan Slepian was the director.

  17. Henri Levenheck photographs

    Contains photographs from the collection of Henri Levenheck, including a photograph of Paul Levenheck, a Jewish member of the FFI (Forces Francaises de l'Interieur), and photographs of children, including Henri, who spent the war in the care of the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants). Also includes one copy of a postcard from Ephraim Levenheck to Dora Asher (the donor's parents) on 25 Jun. 1916 when he was imprisoned in Siberia as a Hungarian prisoner of war.

  18. Weisz family papers

    The collection consists of documents, including a postcard, identification cards, certificates, and affidavits, relating to Laszlo and Ibolya Weisz and their family members and experiences in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  19. The Southern Israelite (Atlanta, Georgia) [Newspaper]

    The newspaper includes the headline article, "Joint Distribution Committee Speeds Aid to 300 Refugees in Tirana, Albania."

  20. Kohn family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war photographs of the Kohn family of Kosice, Czechoslovakia; includes photographs of Marishka Englander Kohn, her husband (name unknown) and children Dvora Bluma Kohn and Pinchas. Also includes only known photograph of Adolph Englander, Marishka's father. The family perished in Auschwitz.