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  1. Central Jewish Committee in Poland, Education Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Oświaty (Sygn.303/IX)

    Contains files of the Central Committee's Education Department, including correspondence, reports, inspection reports, minutes of meetings, statistics, I.Q. tests, school programs, text books, song lyrics, programs for community centers, school certifications, index cards of surviving Jewish children, indexes of found and hidden children in Germany and other European countries, adoption documents, index cards of children in orphanages, and financial statements. Accretion of 2018 includes documentation of several departments: Organizational files (1717-1756): Lists of childcare facilities, i...

  2. Freddy Markovits collection

    The Freddy Markovits collection consists of twenty documents relating to Markovits family's experiences in the Netherlands in the Herzogenbusch Main Camp (Vught) concentration camp and the Westerbork concentration camps, in Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, and in Switzerland during the Holocaust and immediately after the end of the war; and four photographs depicting Julia Hermer Markovics, in her school in 1933 and the "Hollandia" factory, which belonged to Miklós Nico Markovics. The Markovics family, as part of a prisoner exchange, arrived in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on 9 Febr...

  3. Robert Goldberg papers, 1943-1946

    The Robert Goldberg collection contains material collected and created by Robert Goldberg during his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, as well as his post-war experiences serving as an administrator in displaced persons camps. His primary responsibility was the monitoring and procurement of supplies for the Pocking displaced persons camp, and Included in the records are military orders and a notebook pertaining to the shipment of supplies. Goldberg’s papers include a typescript memoir, a letter to his family, clippings, and army directives and orders. His memoir details the admi...

  4. Alexander Schenker papers

    1. Alexander Schenker collection

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Alexander Schenker’s father, Oskar Schenker, as a Polish Jewish refugee who fled Europe to Japan in 1940 with the help of a transit visa stamped by the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Chiune Sugihara, and later immigrated to the United States. Included is Oskar’s Polish citizenship certificate with the Sugihara transit visa stamp, U.S.S.R. State Travel Company Intourist tickets from Kaunas to Vladivostok, Trans-Siberian Express suitcase label, and Argentinian tourist visa issued to Oskar; M.S. Tatua Maru ship ephemera including ...

  5. Gold finger ring made from earrings saved by a non-Jewish neighbor

    1. Friedl Herzfeld Wollmerstedt collection

    Finger ring made from gold earrings owned by Bertha Herzfeld. A non-Jewish German woman kept the earrings for the family during World War II. She returned them to Bertha's daughter Friedl after the war ended in May 1945.

  6. Gold finger ring made from earrings saved by a non-Jewish neighbor

    1. Friedl Herzfeld Wollmerstedt collection

    Finger ring made from gold earrings owned by Bertha Herzfeld. A non-Jewish German woman kept the earrings for the family during World War II. She returned them to Bertha's daughter Friedl after the war ended in May 1945.

  7. Libby Flumenbaum collection

    Consists of eight postcards written by donor's family in the Łódź ghetto to the donor in Lvov and later in a labor camp in Siberia; and 31 pre-war photographs depicting the donor's classmates in the private Jewish gymnasium, the Maria Hochstein school, in Łódź.

  8. Mina Perlberger papers

    1. Mina Perlberger collection

    Includes a typescript of "Buried Alive: A Diary" written by Mina Glücksman Perlberger in 1984. "Buried Alive" describes Perlberger's experiences as a young Polish Jew in hiding during the Holocaust. Also includes a compilation of eight poems by Perlberger relating to her Holocaust experiences and a list of family members deported and/or murdered during the Holocaust.

  9. Heinz-Egon Glass papers

    The papers consist of three letters written by Susi Cohn (later Susi Cohn Podgurski) in the United Kingdom to Heinz-Egon Glass in Shanghai. The letters describe school, her life in England, and asks Mr. Glass to tell her parents not to worry about her.

  10. Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers

    The Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers consist of biographical materials, a memoir, photographs, and a postcard documenting Jack Glotzer’s family in pre‐war and wartime Rohatyn and Jack and Beatrice Glotzer’s immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical materials include the meal card Beatrice Glotzer used during her passage to the United States, an International Refugee Organization medical tag issued to her when the ship reached Boston Harbor, and two report cards issued to Edmund Glotzer in 1938 and 1939. Jack Glotzer’s memoir, I Survived the German Holocaust Against All Odds: A ...

  11. David Beitner photographs

    The photographs depict relatives and friends from David Beitner’s hometowns of Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, and Sławków, Poland, before World War II and of David and his friends in the Preibitz DP camp in Germany after the war. Some of the photographs have captions in Yiddish and Polish.

  12. Janos and Marta Beer papers

    The János and Marta Beér papers consist of five photographs by Tom Veres; three lists of Jews in different localities (prison camps) who fall under the protection of the Swedish Legation in Hungary; a letter signed by Raoul Wallenberg to free Dr. Georg Ballint (a Swedish citizen); a document issued by the Royal Swedish Embassy in Budapest stating that János Beér is a permanent employee of the Humanitarian Department; an identification card for János Beér issued by the Office for Jewish Issues; and a work identification card signed by Raoul Wallenberg.

  13. Zvi Griliches photograph collection

    The collection consists of thirty photographs relating to Zvi Griliches' childhood in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and after World War II in the DP camp in Feldafing, Germany, and Israel.

  14. Roman Haar collection

    The Roman Haar collection contains documents from Roman’s childhood, growing up in Poland. The photographs in the collection are mainly of Roman, but some show him posing with his father Salo, and his mother Erna, and his half-brother Joachim Fritsche. The larger photograph taken in 1943 is of Roman while he was hiding in Rzeszow, and one photograph from 1946 is of Roman, Erna, and Joachim. Another photo is from a children’s Purim holiday play put on while at Foehrenwald displaced persons (DP) camp. Also within the collection is a document ordering Roman to be separated from his mother and ...

  15. Double-sided drawing created by a hidden child

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    Two-sided colored pencil drawing done by 4 year old Charly Weingarten circa 1944-1945 while living in hiding with his mother. Charles was born in 1941 in Italian occupied Nice not long after his mother Margarethe's release from Gurs internment camp. She was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who had resided primarily in France since the early 1930s. In 1943, the Germans, who had occupied northern France since May 1940, assumed control of much of southern France. Margarethe went into hiding with Charly under assumed identities as Catholics. They lived in poverty on the grounds of an estate a...

  16. Colored pencil drawing created by a hidden child

    1. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    Colored pencil drawing done by 4 year old Charly Weingarten circa 1944-1945 while living in hiding with his mother. Charles was born in 1941 in Italian occupied Nice not long after his mother Margarethe's release from Gurs internment camp. She was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who had resided primarily in France since the early 1930s. In 1943, the Germans, who had occupied northern France since May 1940, assumed control of much of southern France. Margarethe went into hiding with Charly under assumed identities as Catholics. They lived in poverty on the grounds of an estate and Charly ...

  17. Drafting kit used by Mayer Altarac whose family fled from German occupying forces

    1. Jaša and Enica Frances Altarac families collection

    Drafting kit used by Mayer Altarac in his stonework/home design business in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (later Serbia) before fleeing with his wife Mimi and seven year old son Jasa in September 1941 following the German occupation in April. They went to Skopje, Macedonia, then under Bulgarian control, as Yugoslavia had been dismembered by the Axis Alliance. A month later, Mayer encountered a man from Kosovo who recognized him as Jewish and the Altarac family fled that night to Pristina, which was under Italian control. There as a large Jewish refugee population there, as the Italians did not regul...

  18. Heart shaped carved stone ashtray acquired by a British officer

    1. Cyprus detention camp collection

    Handcarved ashtray in the shape of a heart made by an internee at a British detention camp on Cyprus. It was given to or found by Lt. D.P. Grehan, Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army, an officer at the Karaolos camp from March 1947 to June 1948. This piece was made from the local limestone, a frequently used material. Their tools were often made of recycled materials, such as tin cans, or nails and wood. The Joint Distribution Committee set up craft workshops to alleviate the boredom of confinement and the British encouraged it as a way to occupy the inmates. The internees were Ma'apilim, i...

  19. Carved stone book with an inscription made for a British officer by a Jewish internee in Cyprus

    1. Cyprus detention camp collection

    Carved stone book made by an internee at a British detention camp on Cyprus with a dedication for Lt. D.P. Grehan, Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army, an officer at the Karaolos camp from March 1947 to June 1948. The signed inscription also has a Biblical quote from Leviticus about showing kindness to strangers. This piece was made from the local limestone, a frequently used material. Their tools were often made of recycled materials, such as tin cans, or nails and wood. The Joint Distribution Committee set up craft workshops to alleviate the boredom of confinement and the British encourag...

  20. Carved stone book with a painted map of Cyprus and Palestine acquired by a British officer

    1. Cyprus detention camp collection

    Small, carved stone book with painted maps of Cyprus and Palestine made by an internee at a British detention camp on Cyprus. It was given to or found by Lt. D.P. Grehan, Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army, an officer at the Karaolos camp from March 1947 to June 1948. This piece was made from the local limestone, a frequently used material. Their tools were often made of recycled materials, such as tin cans, or nails and wood. The Joint Distribution Committee set up craft workshops to alleviate the boredom of confinement and the British encouraged it as a way to occupy the inmates. The int...