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  1. Purple and gray padded satin cover

  2. Max Michelson photograph collection

    The Max Michelson photograph collection consists of photographs depicting the Michelson family, the Kretzer family, and the Griliches families before the war in Riga, Latvia and in Moscow, USSR; and photographs relating to Max Michelson's emigration from Germany to the United States in 1947.

  3. German colonies in Africa postcards

    Contains 17 postcards from German colonies in Africa, World War I era.

  4. Israel, Jewish refugees, relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Animated stills, followed by live action. CU, smiling woman. LS, people on ship waving, old woman eating, child, doctor. Man hammering, training cobblers, blacksmiths. Refugees at dock. Tractor plowing. Irrigation trench. House with Star of David on roof. Construction of building, pouring metal. Soldiers on horseback. Railways, building a road, more animated stills.

  5. Deutsch family papers

    The Deutsch family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Stella Deutsch’s family and their immigration to the United States, her Pollitzer and Gerova relatives’ survival in Žilina and Vienna, and her parents’ deportation to Theresienstadt. Documents include Stella Deutsch’s passport, a postcard to Stella from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, her Austrian social security card, three French ten franc notes, correspondence, and black and white photographs. Correspondence includes letters from Stella Deutsch’s aunt and uncle ...

  6. Josef Broniatowski correspondence

    The Josef Broniatowski papers include two typewritten letters from Plauen, dated July 1938, documenting Broniatowski’s efforts to immigrate to the United States and two handwritten letters Broniatowski wrote from Częstochowa in November 1938 to his sons in the United States describing his family’s expulsion from Germany during the so-called Polenaktion and the news of Kristallnacht.

  7. Samson family collection

    The Samson family collection contains correspondence between Esther Fluck, in Cheltenham, England, and her mother and sister, Amelia Samson and Marie Samson-Blik, while the latter were living in the Netherlands during the German occupation. The correspondence is mainly in the form of letters sent via the Red Cross, and cover the period between 1940 and 1944. Other correspondence includes letters from the British Foreign Office to Esther, dating from 1964-1966, and giving her instructions on how to collect reparations for the death of her mother at Bergen Belsen. The Samson family collection...

  8. Book

  9. Prayer book

    Daily prayer book given to Jewish woman living in Podomkly immediately following World War II.

  10. Estelle Gerson collection

    Consists of four Jewish New Years cards; one photograph of a young woman seated at a table; two letters, the first dated August 1, 1947 and second dated October 28, 1948; and eight envelopes.

  11. Prewar Jewish life

    Documentary of Jewish life in Nowogrodek, Lithuania. Scenes include the countryside, the marketplace, a crowded synagogue courtyard just after Sabbath prayers, a children's summer camp, sporting events, the local fire brigade at work, a vocational training class, a yeshiva in session, the local theater, hospital, orphanage and cemetery. The film centers on a visit by the Yiddish lexicographer Alexander Harkavy to the town. With Yiddish and English subtitles, including: 1. The film crew 2. General view of the city of Novogrodok 3. Castle Hill and the surrounding panorama: (a) Parashika, (b) ...

  12. Kaunas Lithuanian Railroad Police, Fond R-703/1

    Contains copies of orders from the Kaunas police chief.

  13. Book

  14. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht

    Two pieces of a candelabrum from a synagogue in Mödling, Austria, destroyed by Nazi supporters during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. A large broken piece of the candelabrum was found in the backyard of Mrs. Martha Roth, who had salvaged it from the ruins of the burned synagogue. These sections of the candelabrum were given to Henry Freund, a former congregant of the Mödling synagogue, by his wife, Betty, originally from Vienna, who broke off a small piece of the candelabra and brought it to him in San Francisco when she fled Austria in 1939.

  15. Bronze sculpture of a briefcase with initials R.W. made to honor the memory of Raoul Wallenberg

  16. Stalinist trials of the Romanian Zionists

    Contains records related to the Stalinist trials of Romanian Zionists. Contains information on Zionist leaders who were under the Securitatea's investigation and the Stalinist trial of Avram Leiba Zissu and Misu Benevenisti. Also includes data relating to the activities of the Centrala Evreilor (Romanian Judenrat) and to World War II and post-war Jewish emigration.

  17. Croisiere de l'Euxin

    Contains a photocopy of information about the ship, the Euxin, which traveled from Romania to Palestine.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- UNRRA in Berlin; Berlin during liberation

    1251 V: UNRRA-Berlin, August 2, 1945. UNRRA office in Berlin. Waiting room, job applicants, interviewing German woman, UNRRA officials. CU of application. 1251 W: 01:24:01 US Army(?) officials arriving at Berlin airport. Shots of bombed and destroyed Berlin. People in park selling food to Russian soldiers. Berlin stadium. Sign, "US Headquarters-Berlin District."

  19. Book

  20. Corpses carried in wagons, piled in shed, buried in pit

    Men load bodies onto wagon, pushing wagon down street by wall; little boy helps. More shots of corpses, loading on wagons. Wagon brought to central, primitive morgue, bodies unloaded. CU of piles of bodies. Line of hand carts with corpses brought to burial ground, bodies put into pit, as religious men look on. Putting layer of paper and dirt on bodies.