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  1. Eric Goldstaub scrapbook

    Contains information documenting the Jewish Community in Shanghai, 1940-1948 through newspaper clippings. Newspapers include the North China Daily News and the China Press (each article is dated and cited).

  2. Everett Goldstein collection

    The Everett Goldstein collection consists of a 35 page typescript report entitled "Program of general measures of Relief and Rescue of Jews threatened with extermination by the enemy," made by the World Jewish Congress and submitted to the War Refugee Board in 1944 regarding measures and policies that should be enacted in order to help with Jewish refugees and victims of Nazi persecution. Also includes the program to a radio show made in May 9, 1943, entitled "The Truth About Refugees," on which Everett Goldstein was one of the panelists.

  3. Oral history interview with Eva Grin

  4. Susan Grosser papers

    The papers consist of a summons ("Borladung") from the state police ("Staatspolizei") in Vienna, Austria, issued to Karl Grosser donor's father and the envelope that held the summons.

  5. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942

    Contains a 28 page memoir by Saul M. Bergman. Written in 1997, this memoir relates the author's experiences as an adolescent during the German invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the author's escape to Switzerland, where he was reunited with his mother and sister in Geneva in 1942.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jaffa, Nablus. Palestine, 1938

    Jaffa-Jerusalem road, the proposed "corridor" in the British partition scheme. Driving on the road from Jerusalem to Jaffa. Several scenes from a moving vehicle showing road lined with cactus and orange groves. Road sign reading "JERUSALEM-LYDDA-RAMLE." Shot of the main highway from Jerusalem to Jaffa from above. 01:14:58 Policeman directing traffic in Jaffa, street scenes, square in Jaffa. Good view of Jaffa from Franciscan monastery, homes. Harbor at night. 01:16:11 Jaffa's biggest cinema "Alhambra." Jaffa street scenes, people, shops. Brief shot, EXT of printing press for "Falastin" (the...

  7. Liza Kotler Katz papers

    Contains identification cards, affidavits, personal narratives, and correspondence relating to Liza Kotler Katz (born in 1908), her husband, Yudel Kotler, their son, Szmerek (Stanley) Kotler, and their lives in Wilno, Poland, and ghettos and concentration camps during World War II. The bulk of the materials contain information about Liza Kotler Katz's claims for restitution against the Bayerische Landesentschaedigungsamt for the death of her husband.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hungary: Munkacs, troops, Yiddish sign, National Front meeting

    750 F: Count Pal Teleki in his office. Teleki was a Transylvanian aristocrat and geographer who was appointed premier by Horthy in 1920 and retired in 1921. He committed suicide in 1941. He is shown looking at maps at his desk. The next scene shows (from the dope sheet): "Andre Jaross, minister of Freed Regions." He is described as one of the youngest leaders of the "rather pro-Fascist" Magyar Elet organization. Jaross and another man stand at a desk and look at maps. 750 G: March/April 1939. Munkacs, Province of Ruthenia, Hungary. 04:34:25 LS, Munkacs showing Czech-built barracks, now occu...

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hebrew University

    Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Rector of the University, Professor L.A. Mayer of art and archaeoogy in the Middle East in his office. Joined by Dr. D.W. Senator, Administrator of the University, and Mr. Ibn Sahaw, registrar (re-shot 3 times). 06:26:41 Crowded lecture room. Physics lecturer writing on board. Course on English lecture. 06:28:51 People looking at manuscript page on which Einstein established the principle of relativity in glass box. Woman pointing and talking. 06:29:22 Professors in office, passing papers about the revival of the Hebrew language and literature in the modern wor...

  10. Oral history interview with Marie Rosenberg

  11. Richard Poston collection

    Certificates issued by Le Secretaire General de la Commission de Gouvernement du Territoire de la Sarre, reports, affidavit, etc. Donor picked them up in an area north of Nurenberg.They relate to Jews named Neumark and Cahnmann, who at one time resided in Bischweiler and Frankfurt am Main. It appears they emigrated to France in 1934. There are blank Nazi forms associated with this collection.

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  13. Bar of soap issued in a concentration camp

    Bar of soap issued in a German concentration camp. Irving Klapper survived Bergen Belsen and acquired the soap after the war.

  14. A Lublin family remembered

    A Lublin family remembered consists of one postcard, one pamphlet, and one videorecording (not digitized), all relating to the unveiling of a memorial to the Zajfsztajn family of Lublin, Poland, at the Glusk Jewish cemetery in June 1995.

  15. Etched kiddush cup received in exchange for bread

  16. Rudolf A. Haunschmied collection

    Two cassettes with music and a discussion regarding the concentration camp Gusen I and II. Cassette 1, Side A: Names of musicians: Herbert Strobel (sp?), Bernard Offen (sp?), Kurt Neumayer (sp?). Program is a memorial event, possibly at the Gusen site; narration in English and German. Sound quality is adequate for 40 seconds only and largely inaudible thereafter. Main speaker is a Polish-Jewish survivor of Mauthausen visiting from California; he tells his story at 16:00. Musical interludes: 07:35 "hasidic nigun" (a textless tune) sung by the men. 12:00 cello solo and male voice perform unid...

  17. "80574"

    Consists of one typed portion of a memoir, 37 pages, entitled "80574" written by Simha Naor, born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which was written based on the diary she began immediately after liberation, Simha describes her arrest in southern France in 1943, her deportation to Drancy and almost immediately thereafter, to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arriving at Auschwitz, the architecture of the barracks, and life with fellow prisoners. The memoir, which is incomplete, contains a preface by Tisa von der Schulenburg. The original Ger...

  18. Book

  19. Lilach Gruenfeld collection

    Contains an untitled typescript memoir in Hebrew.

  20. Sharon Muller collection

    Contains information on the following: an original printed program commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and an original journal of the Zionist Youth Movement containing articles about the third anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.