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  1. Gleitman family collection

    Collection of documents, copy prints, photographs and correspondence documenting the experiences of Joseph Gleitman, his wife Sura (Sally) Lazega, and their friends before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs; a large pre-war school photograph of Polish and Jewish students in Slakow; post-war documentation relating to the marriage of survivors Joseph Gleitman and Sally Lazega, and Joseph Gleitman's work managing a mill after the war; a pre-war letter written to Joseph Gleitman; documentation acquired prior to Joseph Gleitman's immigrat...

  2. Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi and local press and from letters, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, November-December 1942

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות - חומר להרצאה על מצב היהודים בארצות הכיבוש הנאצי - מס. 16

    Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi and local press and from letters, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, November-December 1942 Poland: Orders regarding the establishment of ghettos in the Generalgouvernement and putting the ghettos into use; division into 53 ghettos in the 5 districts: Warsaw; Lublin (assuming that the Lublin Ghetto has already been liquidated); Krakow; Radom and Galicia; granting of freedom of choice of ghetto in the district to the Jews; exemption of Jews working in war-related occupations from living in the ghetto; imposition of...

  3. Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transfer on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957
    • Ahogy egy asszony látta

    Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transport on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more Life in Szabadka during the German occupation; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; sewing of valuables inside clothing; assembly of 350 men, including her husband, Ödön Lederer, and her brother, Ernő, night of 13 April 1944; deportation of the men, apparently to Germany, April 1944; receiving a farewell letter from her husband and a request to take care of their d...

  4. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such as the Jewish Agency, the U.S. War Refugee Board, and the International Red Cross--in rescue operations and in large-scale enterprises to identify and locate survivors during and after...

  5. Rothschild - Fränkel family papers

    1. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    Correspondence, official documents, photographs, and memoirs pertaining to the experiences of the maternal (Rothschild) and paternal (Fränkel) branches of the family of Ed Francell, and how they were impacted by the events of the Holocaust. Includes documents about Yvonne Redgis (Rothschild) and her life in pre-war France, during the occupation of France, as a forced laborer at Auschwitz, and her post-war immigration to the United States. Collection also contains correspondence, photographs, identification documents, and other items about the Fränkel family, originally of Danzig, and later ...

  6. ha-Torah v'ha-Lashon The Torah and the Language Prayer Hebrew prayer book, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish refugee Das erste Buch Moses The first book of Moses Sefer Breishit The Book of Genesis

    1. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    Die Thora und die Sprache book, owned by Horst Abraham and carried from Germany to Ecuador in the late 1930s. Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, anti-Jewish decrees and persecution made life in Germany increasingly difficult. Horst Abraham immigrated to Ecuador from Leipzig, Germany, in 1937, after hearing a rumor that he might be arrested. Horst's parents, Nanette and David, and one of his two brothers, Kurt, joined him there later. In 1942, Horst met Ilse Brilling, who immigrated to Chambo, Ecuador in 1939 with her parents, Hedwig and Isidor, an...

  7. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers

    1. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz collection

    The Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers consist of an autograph book, diary, biographical materials, Dachau letter, photographic materials, and subject files documenting the Schulmann, Golnick, and Klarmann families. The collection focuses on Sonja’s father, his birth in a small town in Belarus, his capture as a German prisoner during World War I and subsequent release, the establishment of his family in Germany, his imprisonment in Dachau, and his immigration to the United States with Sonja. The autograph book belonged to Sonja Schulmann and contains signatures, poems, and dedications from her...

  8. Jesode Hatora and Beth Jacob school, Antwerp. Collection

    This collection contains prewar, wartime and postwar parts of the administrative archive of the Jesode Hatora and Beth Jacob school in Antwerp. KD_00037_0001 : General documents regarding expenses and teaching staff, letters with blessings by Isaac Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel, and Eliezer Silver, rabbi of Ohio, promotional leaflets, speeches and magazines of the parent association and the pupils. KD_00037_0002 : Attendance lists of the teachers, 1934-1966 KD_00037_0003 : Attendance lists of the pupils, 1941-1983 KD_00037_0004 : Student count based on the municipal register, 1936-1960 KD_0...

  9. Gert (Gerhard) Lilienthal. Collection

    KD_00059_0001 : Judaica concerning Jewish emancipation and the German liberal revolution of 1848 ; remains of the looted collection of Berlin banker dr. Heinz Lilienthal, father of the donor. KD_00059_0002 : Prewar Lilienthal family documents, including vaccination certificates, birth certificates, marriage certificates, documents related to dr. Heinz Lilienthal’s business, a household inventory and household budget. KD_00059_0003 : Wartime Lilienthal family documents, including three letters sent from the Dossin barracks by Hilda Kirschstein and Minni Marie Fabian, mother and maternal gran...

  10. Else Raesener. Collection

    This item is a short letter sent by Else Raesener, living in Brussels, to her daughter Lea Raesener, living in Palestine, via the Red Cross only a few weeks before Else's arrest and deportation. It would be her last sign of life.

  11. Klein-Silberstein family. Collection

    This collection contains twelve photos, among which a wedding photo of Josef Klein and Lotte Silberstein, photos of Silberstein and Kantorowicz family members including one under the Eiffel tower, photos of the Klein sisters including one taken at the monastery in Sugny where they were hidden and a post-war photo of the Klein sisters taken upon arrival in Canada.

  12. Orenbuch-Aspich family. Collection

    This collection contains four photos of the Orenbuch family, depicting Benjamin Orenbuch and his wife Rywka Laja Aspich, their daughters Tauba alias Thérèse Orenbuch (married Paciorkowski), Fajga alias Fanny Orenbuch (married Ajzenberg) and Roza Orenbuch, and their granddaughter Josiane Ajzenberg (married Traum).

  13. Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, Station for Province of Moravia, Brno

    The fonds contains documents of the supreme political administration of Moravia documenting the Germanisation intentions of the Nazis, their penetration into and attempt to gradually control all areas of life. Materials have been preserved concerning Germanisation, the determination of domicile and citizenship and race, occupation, price economics and also Aryanization. In the fonds we can find much material relating to the history of the Jews in Moravia during the Protectorate and Second World War. For example, these materials are kept here: Report of NSDAP in Brno from September 1941 abou...

  14. Alfred Traum papers

    The Alfred Traum papers consist of identification papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and Palestine, and a brief personal narrative documenting the Traum family from Vienna, and the family’s separation when Alfred and his sister, Ruth, were sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and their parents were killed three years later in the Holocaust. Alfred’s personal narrative describes his memories of leaving his parents, staying with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griggs of London thro...

  15. Cloth badge depicting a flag owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré

    1. John Honig collection

    Cloth badge depicting a flag related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  16. Badge constructed from ribbon owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré

    1. John Honig collection

    Badge depicting a flag made from ribbon related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  17. Olive green cloth badge owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré

    1. John Honig collection

    Olive green cloth badge related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  18. Badge depicting Finland's coat of arms owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré

    1. John Honig collection

    Badge depicting the Finnish coat of arms related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  19. Cloth badge depicting an American flag owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré

    1. John Honig collection

    Cloth badge depicting an American flag related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  20. Cloth badge depicting a flag owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré

    1. John Honig collection

    Cloth badge depicting a flag related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.