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  1. Running jersey worn by a German Jewish runner in pre-Olympic training

    1. Dr. Gerhard Neubeck collection

    Athletic jersey worn by Gerhard Neubeck, 17, a German-Jewish runner, who, in 1935, participated in the Jews-only Olympic training camp in Germany. The Nazi regime established the camp as a public relations ploy to present the country as tolerant and open minded. No Jewish athletes were selected for the 1936 Olympics n Berlin. During the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, Gerhard and his father were severely beaten by Nazi thugs and the family's home was destroyed. Along with his mother Emmy, they soon fled to the Netherlands. On January 21, 1940, they sailed for New York aboard the SS West...

  2. Running shoes worn by a German Jewish runner in pre-Olympic training

    1. Dr. Gerhard Neubeck collection

    Running shoes worn by Gerhard Neubeck, 17, a German-Jewish runner, who, in 1935, participated in the Jews-only Olympic training camp in Germany. The Nazi regime established the camp as a public relations ploy to present the country as tolerant and open minded. No Jewish athletes were selected for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. During the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, Gerhard and his father were severely beaten by Nazi thugs and the family's home was destroyed. Along with his mother Emmy, they soon fled to the Netherlands. On January 21, 1940, they sailed for New York aboard the SS Weste...

  3. Ludwig Wertheim papers

    1. Ludwig Wertheim collection

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, family books, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ludwig Wertheim and his family in Würzburg, Germany, and France during the Holocaust. Also included in the collection are documents relating to Ruth Chotzen and her work with the Jewish Agency for Palestine organizing illegal immigration of refugees to Palestine.

  4. Emil Oettinger papers

    The Emil Oettinger papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs documenting the family of Emil Oettinger from Hamburg, Germany, and his plans to emigrate with his wife Käthe in 1939. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting their parents as well as emigration and immigration files including some of the records they needed to prepare in order to emigrate. Biographical material include announcements and poems documenting the wedding of Martin and Bertel Cohn and of Emil and Käthe Oettinger; notices, memory cards, and a mourning album documenting the deaths...

  5. Norbert Landecker family papers

    The Norbert Landecker family papers measure 1.0 linear foot and date from 1912‐1942, 1957‐1969, and 1988‐1992. The collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, a photo album, and printed materials documenting the Landecker family, their military service, medical careers, immigration to the United States, and efforts to receive restitution. The collection also includes a copy of Heinrich von Trietschke’s Deutsche Geschichte im 19. Jahrhundert published in 1933. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates, a sports club membership bookl...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Herbert Gutmann papers

    The Herbert Gutmann papers contain primarily correspondence relating to Herbert Gutmann, a former Jewish-German banker who immigrated to the United States in 1938. The correspondence is mainly between Herbert and his mother’s cousin Edgar Stein, who wrote the affidavit of support for Herbert’s immigration. The other group of correspondence concerns Herbert’s lawsuit against the state of Bavaria for damages caused to his father’s cattle business as a result of anti-Jewish measures promulgated in Germany during the 1930s. Other documents include identification and immigration papers, such as ...

  9. Heimer family papers

    The Heimer family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Heimer family from Vienna, Henry and Ralph Heimer’s immigration to the United States in 1938, their parents’ relocation to Brno and efforts to emigrate, and return trips to Austria and Czechoslovakia by one of the brothers in the late 1960s. Biographical materials include Henry Heimer’s bicycle touring club membership card, Austrian passport, calling cards, university student identification card and registration booklet, tax clearance certificate, and immigrant identification card (ph...

  10. Chaim Posner papers

    The Chaim Posner papers consist of correspondence and notes documenting Chaim Posner, his work as director of the Palästina Amt in Geneva in the 1940s, and his work for the State of Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. Correspondence comes from Basel, Geneva, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, and correspondents include several offices of the Palästina Amt, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Barlas, Richard Lichtheim, Edgar Salin, and Samuel Scheps. The collection also contains biographical materials including a student registration document for Posner from the University of Basel, Palestine ...

  11. Text only program the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra acquired by an American soldier

    1. Arnold Gladstein collection

    Bifold program received by 18 year old Arnold Gladstein, a Jewish American soldier, for a concert by the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany, on July 21, 1946. This orchestra had been formed at the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp near Schwabenhausen, Germany, in 1945 and relocated to Fuerstenfeldbruck in 1946. Also known as the Shearith HaPleitah Orchestra, or the survivor’s orchestra, it was founded by former members of the Kovno ghetto orchestra, and expanded as other musician/refugees, such as Fania and Henia Durmashkin. arrived in the camp. From 1945-...

  12. Markon family papers

    1. Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

    The papers consist of documents, identification cards, photographs, and correspondence relating to the Markon family during the Holocaust.

  13. Janina Prot papers

    The papers consist of 68 photographs relating to Janina Prot's family before, during, and after World War II and 6 photographs relating to Janina's maternal aunt, Jadwiga Deiches Beres, and her son, Krzysztof Beres. The collection also includes a Kennkarte, an Ausweis, a certificate, an Ausweis that belonged to Janina's cousin, a document cover and a praying card.

  14. Edith C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith C., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928, one of two children. She recounts her family's poverty; their orthodoxy; moving to Genoa in 1937; initiation of anti-Jewish "racial" laws after the German-Italian alliance; traveling to Nice illegally via Ventimiglia; obtaining political asylum in April 1939; assistance from a refugee committee; attending school; her father's incarceration as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war; German invasion; his release; his and her brother's incarceration in Gurs, then Rivesaltes; her brother's escape; hiding him on a nearby...

  15. Janine Gimpelman Sokolov papers

    1. Janine Sokolov collection

    The papers consist of 21 photographs and documents relating to Ursula Klipstein (later Janine Gimpelman Sokolov), her life in Frankenhausen, Germany, before World War II, and her experiences in the Kindertransport, at the Kinderheim orphanage in Brussels, Belgium, and in hiding at a convent near Braine-L'Allend, Belgium.

  16. Selected records from Ministerul Economiei Naţionale

    Contains selected records from Ministry of National Economy. Records include following subjects: implementation of legislation regarding Jewish and non-Jewish staff of industries; expropriation of Jewish goods; the antisemitic polices of the Iron Guards; Iron Guard control of Jewish companies; surveillance of Jewish commerce; regulations concerning food packages sent to Jews in Transnistria; reports on Jewish commerce; forced labor of Jews in Ilia, in the Hunedoara district; aryanization of Jewish enterprises; memos of W. Filderman about the Jewish star (star of David); orders concerning fo...

  17. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection

    Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

  18. Nathan Schwalb papers/Hechalutz Office Geneva

    The collection contains correspondence, reports and photographas related to the situation and fate of Jews in Europe during the Second World War and the rescue activities of the Hechalutz movement. Mainly includes correspondence with Hechalutz members in the Nazi-occupied territories and the JOINT; reports about the situation of Jews in various countries; reports about the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Westerbork; and miscellaneous internal records pertaining to the activities of the Hechalutz headquarters in Geneva.

  19. Peçi family collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, and two photograph album from the collection of Louis Pechi, born Ljubomir Peçi in 1934, in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). Includes photographs of pre-war Yugoslavia, documents related to the family's escape and life in wartime Italy, and post-war photographs, correspondence, and documentation. Also includes photographs and documents related to family members from the Sidon and Tkalčíč families, including cousins who were killed in Jasenovac.

  20. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)

    Records of David Diamant (Aaron David Erlich). Records include personal papers, letters, manuscripts, archives, photographs, drafts, press clippings and work books as well as letters of internees, political detainies and deporties, and testimonies and records of the Union des juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide (UJRE), Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid.