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  1. Selma Wideroff papers

    The Selma Wideroff papers consist of correspondence, reports, and photographs documenting Selma Wideroff’s work for the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Germany from 1945‐1946 in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Blankenese children's center on the Warburg Estate near Hamburg. Correspondence and reports include descriptions of Wideroff’s work in Europe, the use of the Warburg estate, activities in the British Zone, displaced communities in cities around Germany, directives for education programs. This series also includes JDC letters of introduction and of recom...

  2. Letters relating to the deaths of family members during the Holocaust

    Correspondence, 3 letters, signed "Josef" and sent from Reichenberg (Liberec) in 1938, and two others from Britain and Canada, 1946, discussing the fate of the Treulich family.

  3. Ernst Puttkammer letter to Jens Paulsen

    Photocopy of letter, 3 pages, unsigned, addressed to Paulesen (of Kiel, Germany), March 20, 1933, in which Puttkamer responds to Paulsen's enthusiasm for rise of Hitler by disagreeing with him, and citing recent removal of Bruno Walter as conductor of Leipzig Philharmonic.

  4. Jonah B. Wise letter

    Consists of an original fundraising letter sent from Rabbi Jonah Wise to Rabbi Charles Rubel of Long Island, dated May 18, 1933. In the letter, Rabbi Wise explains that he recently returned from Germany where Jews are being persecuted by the German government, and asking for a contribution to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

  5. Friedel Guttman memoir

    Testimony, three pages, typescript, describing experiences of author as a Kindertransport child who was sent to Scotland, later worked on a "Hachshara" in Britain, moved to London to get training in child care, and eventually immigrated to U.S.

  6. Oral history interview titled "Bearing Witness"

  7. Prague Jewish Religious Community and Council of Elders Internal Circulars

    The collection consists of two directives regarding the legal status of Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942 and 1943 for internal use in the Jewish Religious Community Prague and by the Council of the Jewish Elders Prague.

  8. Germans push through Luxembourg

    UFA Newsreel with German narration and triumphant music. Light tank on village street. Tank barriers on Maginot Line. Troops running through street. German soldiers tearing down stone wall. German soldier leading prisoners. Cars on village street. Mobile artillery pass through with motorcycles. Trucks towing anti-tank gun and artillery through streets. Barbed wire. Train. German troops traveling at high speed. German troops marching down street, smiling, laughing, receiving food from civilians. Marching through village, civilian cools them off with water hose. Horse-drawn cart towing guns. ...

  9. Abraham and Rachela Melezin collection

    Typescript text in Hebrew, from 1940s.

  10. Memoir

    Testimony, typescript, three pages, unsigned/undated, describing events in Zvenigorodka and Bershad during German occupation (July 1941 - March 1944).

  11. Herman Osnos correspondence

    The Herman Osnos correspondence contains letters and telegrams written and received by Herman in his quest to assist Jewish refugees between 1936 and 1947. The majority of the collection documents his communication with the Stark family of Munich, Germany, specifically, the eldest son Walter (1919-), who was attending school in England, and Hermann, the father and a clothing business owner. Letters between Herman and the Stark family cover a period of nearly two years and is a fairly complete set, documenting their first introductions to their arrival in the United States and plans to meet ...

  13. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  14. Paulina Barak-Birenbaum memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of handwritten, 74 pages, Russian, plus English typescript summary, 3 pages. Concerning author's experiences in Khmelnitsky province of Ukraine during German occupation.

  15. Letter from Leo Baeck and Otto Hirsch to George Rublee, Director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees

    Consists of a photocopy of a letter, dated March 2, 1939, from Leo Baeck and Otto Hirsch to George Rublee, offering gratitude for his work on the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGC) and thanking him on the occasion of his retirement. The letter was written on Reichsevertretung der Juden in Deutschland stationery.

  16. Helen Drazen papers

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Hella Sichel [donor] in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; a classroom photograph of German schoolchildren including Hella Sichel; an American alien registration certificate of identification issued to Friederike Elbau [donor's grandmother]; a vaccination certificate ("Impfschein") issued to Hella Sichel om Frankfurt am Main, and a photocopy of an American affidavit of support entered by Max Hirsch on behalf of Freidel Elbau [donor's grandmother].

  17. Marti Vidor Nitrini and family papers

    Testimony, in form of 4 page summary of interview with Marti Vidor Nitrini, 1995. Also contains recent (1990s) newspaper clippings about Nitrini, and family photographs. Places covered in Nitrini's testimony include Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz.

  18. Preliminary meeting of War Crimes Tribunal members

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Brief shots of the Hamburg amusement park. In Berlin, the preliminary meeting of Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal members.

  19. Ruth Kantor collection

    The Ruth Kantor collection consists of pre-war photographs of family members of Joseph and Ruth Kantor in Poland, as well as a photograph of the Kantors, circa 1980s-1990s. The collection also includes two postcards sent from the Birkenau concentration camp, 1943. One postcard appears to be addressed from Ruth’s mother to Ruth Kantor.

  20. Shanghai echo

    Bound issues of eleven volumes of the newspaper "Shanghai Echo," from 1945-1949.