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  1. Samuel Schwarzberg papers

    Collection contains the correspondence and receipts for Samuel Schwarzberg's restitution claim against the German government. Collection also includes two handmade kipots belonging to Samuel Schwarzberg.

  2. Oral history interview with Eugene Fellner

  3. "Six Million? How could it be done?"

    Contains a memoir describing the donor's Holocaust related experiences. The memoir also contains copies of original art completed by the donor.

  4. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  5. Bookmark

    Bookmark found in a book on eugenics, 1997.7.2.

  6. Joseph Komito memoir

    The Joseph Komito memoir is a typewritten memoir of Joseph Komito in which he describes life in Mielec, Poland, before and during the German occupation; his experiences as a forced laborer first in an unnamed airplane factory and later in Wieliczka, Auschwitz, Flossenbürg, and Leitmeritz concentration camps; and his postwar life in the United States.

  7. Howard A. Tanenbaum collection

    Collection contains original correspondence between Shirl Lea Kur and her daughter Sophiain Cordoba, Argentina (with annotations and English translations); original correspondence between Shirl Lea's brother, Cantor Schein, from New York, to Sophia in Argentina (with English translations); original family photographs.

  8. A blueprint for Hebrew freedom:a letter from Peter H. Bergson to Dr. Ch. Weizmann, 1945 April 2

    Collection contains this published letter regarding the Jews and antisemitism in the aftermath of the Holocaust; the difficulties being encountered by Jews when trying to emigrate to Palestine; the proposal of a "Jewish Commonwealth" and the role of Zionism; and proposals to establish a successful Jewish community.

  9. Singer style Soviet treadle sewing machine and table of the type used in Kovno ghetto

    Treadle sewing machine produced in the Singer factory in Podolsk, Soviet Union (Podol’sk, Russia), which was nationalized following the Bolshevik October Revolution in 1917. The machine is mounted to a wooden table, which served as both work surface and storage container for the machine and sewing accessories. This mass produced machine was very durable and affordable. This specific machine was in use in Lithuania until the late 1990s. This type of machine would have been used by Jewish forced laborers in the Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto in German occupied Lithuania. There were about forty worksho...

  10. Photograph album page

    Page from a Jewish family album that depicts pre-war life in Yugoslavia. Recto bears two black and white photographs; verso bears two photographs. Found in front of photo album [Ref 1]

  11. Eric S. Marmorek collection

    Contains a copy of the music score of "Buchenwaelder Marsch," composed by Hermann Leopoldi, with a handwritten dedication to Dr. Gerhardt Wollner, dated 1939, saying the score is "my last composition in Vienna;" typed copies of the lyrics in German and English; a letter of release, in German with English translation, dated January 27, 1939, stating that from June 3, 1938, to January 27, 1939, Erich Marmorek had been retained in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps and was now released to Vienna; and a sound cassette recording of the march sung in German by William Federer, a Dachau con...

  12. Portfolio

    Inreodcutory page of text for a portfolio of lithographs created by Stephen Horski, Oranienburg concentration camp, Germany

  13. The Izyaslavl ghetto in 1941

    Contains a photocopy of Toiba Shulimovna Shtern's memoir describing life in Izyaslavl, Ukraine following the German invasion in May 1941; her escape with her mother shortly thereafter to Moscow, Russia; and her 5-day visit to Izyaslavl in 1979 during which she went to see the area of the former Yzyaslavl ghetto and several sites of mass shootings of Jews, and spoke with former neighbors and friends who told her about the liquidation of the Izyaslavl ghetto in the fall of1941.

  14. "The story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"

  15. Philip D. Vock papers

    The Philip D. Vock papers consist of biographical material, a journal, and photographs relating to Philip Vock’s wartime experiences hiding in France, as a prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, as well as his post-war experiences in France and the United States. The collection also includes certificates and membership cards for Marguerite Vock, Philip’s mother, Leon Leonoff, Philip’s uncle, and Estreia Leonoff, Philip’s aunt. Biographical material for Philip Vock include a certificate ("Certificat de Bonne Conduite") issued by the French Air Force, a membership card issu...

  16. Hans R. Fliegel memoir

    The Hans R. Fliegel memoir, "The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel", describes Fliegel’s childhood in Vienna, the Anschluss, Isidore Lipschutz’s help securing Belgian visas for the Fliegel family, their year spent in Antwerp, immigration to the United States, and difficulties in starting a new life and establishing a career in New York. The memoir includes recollections by Fliegel’s brother Fred (Fritz), biographical sketches of family members, family trees, and photocopies of Austrian, Belgian, and American records documenting Fliegel’s story.

  17. The Jewish Community of Wadowice (Poland)

    Contains photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, report and similar information, in Polish, Hebrew, and English, compiled by Dr. Cecilia Berkowitz on behalf of a union of Jews born in and around Wadowice (Poland), relating to the history of the Wadowice Jewish Community and commemorative activities on behalf of Holocaust victims from that area.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Cross operations in Switzerland

    International Red Cross (IRC), Central Agency for War Prisoners. Mail arriving (the Agency received 3,000 letters a day from prisoners, refugees, missing persons, or governments and are sorted by object or country). Meeting of the IRC Committee. Etienne Clouzot, head of the IRC secretariat, has his back to the camera. To his left is Rodolphe de Haller, treasurer of the IRC, Lucie Odier, principal of the Home Nursing Service of the Geneva Red Cross, Carl J. Burckhardt, ex-High Commissioner for the League of Nations, Jacques Cheneviere, head of the Central Agency, Max Huber, former President ...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jerusalem, 1945

    In front of the Palestinian Police Headquarters in Jerusalem with guards, arrival of car of Gen. Inspector Rymer-Jones. Rymer-Jones exits car. Rymer-Jones at desk in his office, makes a telephone call. Group of men looking at a map of Palestine. 06:12:05 Horses with flags, car, military officers, soldiers lined up for inspection, camels. Marching in military procession, military vehicles, soldiers begin marching. Sign at far right reads "Palestine Police...and Training School."

  20. Moritz Schranf postcard

    Contains one postcard to Mr. Eckstein from a priest named Moritz Schranf at St. Ottilen who stated that he helped to save Mr. Kleiner and his friends during the Holocaust.