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  1. Sonia Nusenbaum collection

    Collection illustrating the post-war experiences of Henia Nusenbaum, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915 and her daughter Sonia Nusenbaum, born in Otwock, Poland on January 1, 1944 [while her parents, Moniek and Henia, were in hiding after having fled the Warsaw Ghetto]. The collection includes postwar attestations that Sonia was born in hiding and therefore did not receive a birth certificate, materials in preparation for immigration in 1951 to the United States and naturalization paperwork. Also included are photographs of postwar life of Henia and Sonia in displaced persons camps including Ba...

  2. Helen Tichauer papers

    The Helen Tichauer papers consist of subject files and a photograph album of Feldafing displaced persons camp, clippings regarding Auschwitz war crimes trials in Wuppertal, Germany, and a small amount of correspondence. The photograph album was assembled by Helen Tichauer, a survivor of Auschwitz, who was deported there from Bratislava in 1942, and lived in Feldafing after the war. It depicts Helen, her husband Erwin Tischauer, and numerous friends and activities associated with the camp. Correspondence includes letters received from historian Konrad Kwiet and United States Holocaust Memori...

  4. Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), Turkey (Sign. JCA/TR)

    The collection consists of 95 files relating to a colony and an agricultural school set up by the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) in Turkey and Cyprus. The collection is organized according to the regions and colony names in Turkey and Cyprus: Anatolia, Or Yehuda, Maamoure, Sazilar, Messila Hadacha, Fethy Keuy, Tikfour Tchiflik (Cyprus).

  5. Jewish communities in Mexico

    Consists of records of Jewish communities of Mexico City and Guadalajara. Includes records of Jewish organizations, schools, and also includes periodicals.

  6. Erwin Schattner family papers

    The Erwin Schattner family papers contain documents and correspondence related to the career of Dr. Erwin Schattner, a Polish-born physician in Vienna, his wife Ernestine, and their two daughters, Ruth and Hannah. Includes birth, education, residency, citizenship, academic, legal, and professional documents related to Erwin Schattner’s education and career in Austria, his emigration with his wife and daughters from Vienna to the United States in 1938-1940, his establishment as a physician in New York, and attempts to gain restitution in the 1960s. Also contains correspondence related to eff...

  7. Rubel family papers

    The Rubel family papers consist of letters and postcards exchanged between Ferdinand and Else Rubel, originally of Steinbach am Donnersberg, Germany, who had immigrated to the United States, and loved ones in Nazi-occupied Europe. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Ferdinand and Else Rubel in New York by friends and family members imprisoned in the Gurs, Rivesaltes, and Noé internment camps. The letters and postcards relay gratitude for letters, packages, and money transfers; describe the poverty and illness in the camps and worries about relatives selected for labor detail; and...

  8. Simai Győrgy photographs

    Contains eight photographs, dated 1939 to 1947, showing Simai Győrgy, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She was arrested and eventually deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp and then Spandau to perform slave labor, before being transffered to Oranienburg slave labor camp, where she was liberated in May 1945. After returning to Budapest, Győrgy met and married Ference Polgar, ultimately immigrating to Venezuela in 1956 with their daughter Eva.

  9. Witelson and Laks families collection

    The Witelson and Laks families collection includes biographical materials related to Hela Witelson (later Helen Laks) and Richard Laks. The collection includes the Swedish marriage certificate of Hela Witelson and Richard Laks, February 23, 1949; Helen’s reissued Polish birth certificate which states her given name was Chaja Szajndla Witelson, 1998; and Richard Lak’s R.E.M.E. Record of Service card, 1947. The collection also includes a includes a photograph album and loose photographs related to the Witelson and Laks families of Poland. The photographs include pre-war and post-war photograp...

  10. William Rowe collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, Nazi-propaganda journal (newspaper/magazine/leaflet); correspondence between Hans and his son Kurt Seibold dating early 1940s, while Kurt is deployed with the German military under Nazi regime and Hans, also a soldier and WWI veteran, is home in Nuremberg, Germany. Letters from Hans discuss the military events occurring such as Operation Barbarossa, his vague references to current military work, and his affiliation and meetings with Nazi party members. Newspapers, magazines and leaflets included were printed under Nazi-occupied Germany.

  11. Max Mittelmark painting

    Painting: created in 1959, illustrating the experiences of Max Mittelmark, born in 1906 in Strojinetz, Bukovina [present day Ukraine] and deported to Transnistria where he was confined to the Bersad ghetto and experienced horrible livingg conditions which are described in his artwork. He and his wife Fanny survived, returned to Romania and eventually came to the United States in the late 1950s.

  12. Wooden hearse used to bury Jews in the local cemetery of Piatra Neamt, Romania

  13. Szyfman and Rozental families collection

    The collection contains correspondence sent by Dr. Leon Szyfman in the POW camp Oflag VI B Dössel between September 25, 1943 and November 3, 1944 to Helena and Henryk Rozental in Bern, Switzerland; a Red Cross letter sent by Stephanie Pitzele in Kibali, Congo to Helena Rozenthal; a letter from M. Rappaport in ILAG to Helena Rozental regarding Dr. Szyfman; a wedding announcement of Paulette Ouvrard and Joseph Cukier, 1944; calling cards of Atalia Singer; and miscellanous notes.

  14. Pamphlets printed for Berlin Jewish community

    Contains two pamphlets prepared for distribution in the Berlin Jewish community in the mid-1930s. Includes one pamphlet titled "Unterstützungen und Geldgeschenke Aus dem Auslande" [receipt of support and funds from abroad], printed by Berthold Levy in 1937 on behalf of Palästina Treuhand-stelle zur Beratung deutscher Juden [PALTREU Palestine trustees for advising German Jews]. Also includes a promotional leaflet published circa 1935 for the "Palästina Nachrichten" [Palestine News], a periodical published by Ernst Köstenbaum in Berlin.

  15. Einstein family collection

    Contains correspondence sent and received by Alfred Einstein (donor’s grandfather), co-owner of “La Tribune Juive” Journal in Strasbourg, France; dated 1935-1936.

  16. Robert Kaldeck papers

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of Dr. Robert Kaldeck, including his emigration from Vienna, Austria in September 1938 with the intention of going to Mexico, where he had been granted asylum; his denial of entry into the United States and Mexico; his stay in Havana, Cuba, where he was given refuge after meeting with Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista in February 1939; and his immigration to the United States in September 1939. The collection also documents his medical career in Austria and the United States, his efforts to rescue his parents Mo...

  17. Hans Steinitz papers

    The Hans Steinitz papers include a diary written by Hans Steinitz from 1940 to 1942 during his time in the Gurs and Les Milles concentration camps in France. He typed the diary on a small typewriter that he smuggled into the camps and made entries while working in the administration offices of the camps. This collection also includes a Reisepass (German passport) issued to Lore Oppenheimer, Hans' wife.

  18. Hitler Youth flag

    A Hitler-Jugend Organisationsfahne (Hitler Youth Organization flag).The Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) was founded in 1926, as one of several youth organizations in Germany. It was a branch of the Nazi party’s paramilitary group, the Sturmabteilung (SA, also called Stormtroopers), until May 13, 1932, when it became an independent organization. Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, the many other German youth organizations began to disband or merged with the HJ. The HJ divided its male members into two main groups: those between ages 10 to 14, a...

  19. Photograph of a deportation action in Łódź

    Consists of a single photograph depicting a deportation action in Łódź, showing Jewish men, women, and children wearing star badges and carrying bundles as they are forced to the Fabryczna railway station under armed guard. Buildings on Składowa street as well as towers of the Hotel Polonia Palast are visible.

  20. Louis Oppenheimer papers

    The Louis Oppenheimer papers include a memoir written in 1939 by Louis Oppenheimer recounting his four-week internment in Buchenwald concentration camp as well as a transcription of a questionnaire answered by Eleanor Oppenheimer, Louis' daughter, relating to her family history.