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  4. Streator Times Press newspaper article

    Contains a newspaper clipping from the Streator Times Press, dated June 12, 1944. Headline reads: "Jews Still Being Killed by Germans." The article details President Roosevelt's comments to Congress with his submission of a report on caring for war refugees. "Knowing they have lost the war, the Nazis are determined to complete their program on mass extermination." He then details the work of the War Refugee Board.

  5. Lotte Bacharach papers

    Contains correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Lotte Bacharach [donor], born in Kaltennordheim, Germany in 1931 and placed by the Oeuvres de Secours aux Enfants in Eaubonne, Montintin, and Montmorency, France, as a refugee and then into hiding until fleeing to Switzerland in 1944, where Lotte was interned in Lager Ringlikon and then with family friends in Baden, Switzerland. Correspondence included is from Lotte to her parents and brother who were reunited with Lotte in the United States in 1946.

  6. Kobrinski and Chrystowska family photograph collection

    Consists of pre-World War II photographs of the Kobrinski family of Wilno (Vilna), Poland, and of the Chrystowska family of Pabianice, Poland. Many of those pictured perished during the Holocaust. Also includes one displaced persons identification card issued by the IRO (International Refugee Organization) in Austria to Emanuel Kobrynski on September 29, 1948.

  7. Elinor Gabriel collection

    The collection consists of 92 slides taken by unknown photographers in Jewish DP camps in Europe and Israel after World War II. Included in the slides are images of Jewish displaced persons preparing or learning various vocations through the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT).

  8. Henry Sarna collection

    The papers consist of seven photographs of refugees at the displaced persons camp, Bad Reichenhall, and on the military transport ship, "General McCray," which was headed for the United States in October 1949, as well as release papers from the Bad Reichenhall DP camp and a Polish repatriation document.

  9. Leo Meyer passport

    The British passport permits Leo Meyer to enter Hong Kong and Macau with the Shanghai soccer team in 1947.

  10. Uriel Hanoch photograph collection

    The photographs document the experiences of the Hanoch family in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, before World War II and the experiences of Uriel Hanoch and her brother in a displaced persons camp in Germany and Italy after their liberation from concentration camps.

  11. Esther Flam papers

    1. Esther Flam collection

    The papers consist of photographs taken at displaced persons camps in Schauenstein and Peppendorf, Germany, and two "temporary travel documents" issued to Esther Zoberman donor and Raisl Zoberman by the military government for Germany. The photographs are identified on the reverse in Yiddish.

  12. Tibor Stern papers

    1. Tibor Stern collection

    The papers consist of 16 photographs, documents, and a postcard related to Tibor Stern's experiences living as a displaced person at the Cinecittà DP camp in Italy immediately following the Holocaust and his immigration to the United States.

  13. Saba Baicher papers

    The papers document Saba Baicher's and Israel Baicher's [donor's husband] experiences in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. Included are photographs and identification cards related to Saba's work for the newspaper, "Jidisze Cajtung," an identification card and ORT certificate for Israel, and a wedding invitation for Saba and Israel dated November 12, 1946.

  15. Benjamin Mintz collection

    Contains a collection of documents from Rabbi Benjamin Mintz (later Benjamin Minister), including notes in 1943 and 1945 regarding a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen; a Union of Czechoslovakia certificate indicating that a refugee is in Hungary; a February 1944 postcard from a refugee in Iran confirming the receipt of a food package from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint); a message from a Budapest survivor sent through HICEM to family members in May 1946; a certificate for a displaced Jewish person traveling to Lithuania in August 1944; and a Red Cross leaflet about trac...

  16. COHASCO collection

    Contains six documents that include a letter of "representation of Polish Jews," regarding Dr. Emil Reich of Oświęcim, a Hapoel Hamizrahi rescue letter for a Czech Jewess refugee in Hungary, a small broadside to donate funds to 150 rabbinic refugee families who escaped from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, a letter to a committee for Polish affairs from a Polish war invalid in Israel, an International Red Cross letter regarding a missing mother and aunt, and a UJA-JNF tree card with a portrait of Theodore Herzl.

  17. Souvenir book of remembrance from the Liebenau displaced persons camp

    Souvenir remembrance book of inmate signatures compiled by the inmates of the Liebenau displaced persons camp on September 7, 1945.

  19. Ministarstvo skrbi za postradale krajeve Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Welfare for the War-Affected Areas of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC)

    The collection holds pleas for help from refugees within the ISC. Note that the refugees in question mostly are non-Jewish, as the dates point it is towards the end of the war, but the collection might be interesting to appraise the general atmosphere of social welfare after the collapse of Italy in 1943. It is not excluded some of the cases handled within the collection refer to the remaining Jews in Croatia.

  20. [Chart showing Personnel Figures and Production Figures since Jan. 1, 1951]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a chart showing the personal figures and production figures of the ITS since January 1951. Added is an empty application form for the IRO Assistance from the International Refugee Organization, Headquarters Geneva.