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  1. Organization of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  2. Ketubah

    Contains a Ketubah issued for the marriage of Sara Gitel Pollack (Gitta Pollack) and Yehuda Lev Goldberg [Leo Goldberg] married December 12, 1946 in Milan.

  3. Book

  4. The Liberated

    Contains two newsletters entitled "The liberated" that were published under the auspices of the Chaplain Section Headquarters Command USFET by the Frankfurt Jewish GI Council, an unofficial organization sponsored by Chaplain Joseph Miller, Headquarters Command USFET, APO 757.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- troops; May Day celebration

    Czechoslovakian President Benes inspects troops. Troops marching, tanks, anti-aircraft machinery, planes. 01:18:29 May Day at Wenceslas Square in Prague (apparently all political parties faithful to the government assembled that day). 120,000 people on the square.

  6. Joseph Wajsblat collection

    Contains five black and white family photographs, eleven copies of family photographs, and poems and songs written and sung in Yiddish by Yenkel Herzkowitz in the Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp.

  7. David and Nina Fox collection

    The David and Nina Fox collection consists of two photographs taken Foehrenwald, Germany, likely at the Foehrenwald DP camp; a newspaper clipping regarding Jozef Schmidt, 1904-1942, a lyric tenor; and a newspaper clipping regarding Nazi atrocities and ghetto scenes, 1945; in Yiddish.

  8. Drancy children's index file Fichier des Enfants internés à Drancy

    Contains bibliographical card files for the Drancy camp prisoners and children. Information overlaps with the Drancy File: Families.

  9. Lenore Khan collection

    The Lenore Khan collection consists of photographs, correspondence, passports, advertisements, announcements, and other documents relating to the Neustaetter family of Munich and Stuttgart, Germany.

  10. Under Providential Guidance

    Contains a memoir about June Friedman and her family's experiences in the Borislaw Ghetto, her experiences with a Polish family and an uncle after the suicide of her parents, June's training in preparation for kibbutz life in Israel, and her eventual emigration to the United States.

  11. Berlin street scenes (1936 Olympics)

    Various shots of Berlin street scenes during the 1936 Olympics. Olympic rings, banners. CU, statue. Flags. Sign: "Der Gruessen, Die Gaeste, Der Welt." Olympic rings. Flags. Torch, flame. Flags. Motorcade. Double-decker bus. Decorations erected in Berlin for Olympic ceremonies. Underground subway station. Flags. Putting flags up. Band playing. Crowd. Bicycles. Torch. MCU, street scene. Flags. Shot of street through reflection on automobile headlight. Auto traffic. CU, license plates. CUs, cars moving slowly, shot at street level (tires). Policeman directing traffic. Civilians walking, CUs fe...

  12. Painting

  13. Herbert Loewenthal letters

    Contains one photocopy of a postcard, one photocopy of a photograph of Alex and Hermine Lowenthal, and three letters, addressed to Egon Lowenthal pertaining to his efforts to locate his father, Alex Lowenthal who was deported to Theresienstadt.

  14. Doris Jacobson papers

    Papers consists of one Identity card (Ausweiskarte) issued to Olga Jacobsohn, dated 1935-1936; a letter, written by Olga Jacobsohn, on the back of a concert program; and a newspaper page from "Berlin Blatt der C.-V. Zeitung;" dated 4 April 1935. Also included are documents and correspondence regarding restitution claims made by Dr. Gerald Jacobson (Doris S. Jacobson’s late husband), dated 1953-1960.

  15. Julius Strassburger family correspondence

    The Julius Strassburger family correspondence documents his family’s immigration to the United States with the help of his cousins in Pittsburgh. The letters describe his increasingly constrained life in Germany, his cousins’ efforts to secure him a position in Delaware in the leather industry as well as affidavits for him and his family, and the family’s arrival in 1936. The correspondence also includes a 1940 postcard from Selma Strassburger that her father never received, correspondence from 1941 documenting the family’s unsuccessful efforts to bring Julius Strassburger’s sister and brot...

  16. Louis Shulman collection

    Contains black and white photographs of Louis Shulman and his family's pre-war life in Grodzisk, Poland, and post-war stay as displaced person in Salzburg, Austria. Also contains driver's licenses issued in Austria in 1947.

  17. Peter Ney letter envelope

    Envelope in which a letter written by Peter Ney was sent, addressed to his parents.

  18. Book

  19. Arthur Gross photographs

    The Arthur Gross photographs consist of ten black and white photographs of Arthur Gross and his family and friends in Poland before the war posing for pictures and partcipating and Maccabi sports clubs. The collection also includes one photograph of Aleksander Gross' grave in Straubing.

  20. Fred Oestreicher collection

    Consists of one passport, "Deutsches Reich Reisepass," issued to "Ferdinand Israel Oestericher," with a red ink "J" stamped on the first page, cover detached, issued on 2 Mar. 1939; one black and white photograph, dated Nov. 1939, hand colored, taken by the donor, of the interior of a synagogue in Landau, Germany; and one clipping of the images, including the one that the donor took, above, of three synagogues in Landau, Glogau, and Beuthen, Germany.