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  1. Arno Nadel collection

    Consists of material regarding the life, poetry, art, and music of Arno Nadel, a German Jewish poet and musician who perished in 1943. Collection includes books written by and from the collection of Arno Nadel, some inscribed. Also includes postcards depicting his artwork and sheet music written by Arno Nadel.

  2. Ilse Lichtenstein Meyer collection

    Consists of correspondence, official documents, and photographs relating to the Holocaust experiences of Ilse Lichtenstein Meyer, originally of Volkmarsen, Germany. Includes correspondence written while Ilse was in the Netherlands, as well as photographs of the various children's homes in which she lived. Also includes a notebook in which Ilse wrote recipes for a class on housework at a children's home in Utrecht and a handkerchief which was given to her as a Hannukah present while she was in Rotterdam Kloster.

  3. Bierzonski family papers

    The Bierzonski family papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Viktor, Bronia, and Gerda’s attempts to immigrate to the United States and Cuba and Bronia and Gerda’s time in hiding. Included in the collection is a German Fremdenpass for Viktor, a diary kept by Gerda while attending a Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee Germany, and pre-war and wartime photographs of the Bierzonski and Lefkowitz families. Gerta began her diary during her stay at Pensionnat Marta Marcus, in Clarens-sur-Montreux, Switzerland...

  4. Joseph F. Jeppi photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photographs depicting the bodies of concentration camp prisoners killed by the SS near Gardelegen, Germany. The corpses had been pulled out of a nearby barn by German civilians under the supervision of the U.S. Army. Captions are written on the verso by John Jeppi [donor's father] who served with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II.

  5. Goldman family papers

    The papers consist of letters sent by the Goldman family in Łódź, Poland, to their daughter and sister, Zosia Sophie Perlman, in Chicago, Ill.

  6. Documents and letters from Solomon Golbrikh Archives

    Contains a copy of the personal file (lichnoe delo) of Solomon Golbrikh from the Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, that includes ID’s and membership cards, background information attesting his service as a cameraman who participated in the creation of several documentary movies during the war (Stalingrad, Battle for the Soviet Ukraine; Liberation of Budapest, etc.), Golbrikh’s autobiography, copies of the travel authorizations assigning to Golbrikh work at the front line, etc. Also includes letters of Solomon Golbrikh from front (1943-1944) addressed to his wife (nee Kucherov...

  7. Phia Vos family photograph

    One photograph of Phia Vos with her extended family (1938-1939) in Zwolle, Holland. The adult women from left to right are Tehudit, Sophia and Luisa. Phia is on her grandmother's lap. Her brothers Hans and Louk are behind her.

  8. Selected records and publications of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants

    Contains documents related to the history of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) and the different homes it operated around France. Some of the personal archives and general correspondence of key figures of OSE such as Georges Garel, the founder of the "reseau Garel," a resistance network that ferried children over the French border into Switzerland, and Vivette Samuel are included. Personal files of individuals who were raised by OSE as their legal guardian are not included.

  9. Blanka Kronenberg memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs, each 2 pages, by Blanka Kronenberg, originally of Poland. In the first, she describes her memories of working in a woodworking factory run by the Germans, of the transport of Jews to the ghetto, and of a death march from Auschwitz in 1945. In the second, entitled "The Evacuation of the Jews of Wierzbwik-Starachowice," she describes the establishment of the Wierzbwik-Starachowice ghetto, life in the ghetto, and the 1942 selection and deportation of its' residents.

  10. Elly Moses photographs

    The Elly Moses photographs consist of pre-war, wartime, and post-war original and reproduction photographs of Elly van Leeuwen Moses, her sister Rachel (Chellie), and her parents, Isaac and Judith, as well as of one of the families who hid her during the Holocaust.

  11. Felice Zimmern Stokes collection

    Consists of correspondence written by Felice Zimmern [donor] from the Taverny, France, OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) orphanage as well as a report card issued by the orphanage. Also includes two copyprints of wartime photographs taken of the donor while in hiding with the Patoux family, as well as two post-war copyprints, one of the donor and her sister with the Patoux, and one of friends at the Taverny OSE orphanage.

  12. Selected records from the Milan prefecture

    Contains documents related to the formulation and implementation of anti-Jewish racial laws in and around the area of Milan, Italy.

  13. Bela Herskovits collection

    Consists of one long playing 33 1/3 RPM record entitled "Two Cantors at Carnegie Hall: Eddie Cantor and Bela Herskovits," released by Tikva Records. This record was probably recorded around 1958. Also includes articles regarding the Holocaust experiences of Bela Herskovits, the former chief cantor of a synagogue in Budapest, Hungary; included are articles entitled "Cantor of the Ghetto" and "He poisoned his wife to save her life!."

  14. Prevention of rickets (osteomalacia) in German children

    The title appears superimposed over a British flag. Children with rickets (osteomalacia) are superimposed over a map of England. The narrator claims that the English tried to use rickets as a war weapon against the Germans. A doctor examines a child with the disease. The narrator explains the cause of rickets over an animated diagram of a bone. More children and infants with rickets are shown and symptoms explained, and the narrator explains that for women the condition can preclude vaginal delivery of children. The narrator explains what prevents rickets, as a woman is shown breastfeeding ...

  15. Selected records from the Deutscher Gemeindetag collection (R 36)

    Contains selected documents of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Organization) which was responsible for the systematic exclusion of German Jews and other targeted groups from government welfare programs.

  16. "Atlantis" commemorative installation

    Consists of photographs and articles regarding the "Atlantis" exhibition in a former synagogue in Poznań, Poland, and a videocassette of the ceremony dedicating the exhibition on the Polish Day of Judaism in 2004. The installation, designed by Janusz Marciniak, consists of memorial candles floating in the middle of a swimming pool in the shape of a Star of David.

  17. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 13 photographs taken by Jay C. Christensen, a member of the Air Corps from Elk Horn, Iowa, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of survivors of the camp.

  18. Atrocities - reburial of slave laborers

    Reel 2: MS German civilians digging up dead slave laborers that were buried in woods. Trees in BG. CU Two German civilians remove a corpse from grave. German civilians look at the dead slaves that were dug up and laid in lines under trees. MS German civilians in Nuremberg, Germany make coffins for the dead slave laborers. MS German load coffins on carts. German civilians walking from Nuremberg to the area where the corpses are. The dead are placed into coffins and German civilians carry them to cemetery. MS Various scenes of German civilians carrying coffins to cemetery in Nuremberg. MS, re...

  19. Winterstein-Reinhardt family photograph collection

    The collection consists of 72 photographs and copy prints that document the experiences of two Sinti families, Winterstein and Reinhardt, before, during, and after World War II. The images depict family members, domestic life in Romani camps, and Romani musicians and dancers. One of the photographs was taken when the donor and her twin sister, Rolanda, were released to their parents for a propaganda photo shoot of Sinti parents strolling with their babies along the Domstrasse in Würzburg, Germany.

  20. Suzanne Marshak photographs

    Consists of five pre-war portraits of Albert Bleich of Hungary, and Josef, Szerena, and Cecelia Bleich of Romania. Also includes one photograph, 1939, of Suzanne Rosenbaum with her parents, Leopold and Sidonia Rosenbaum, in Paris, France.