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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 14 and 15 -- Testimonies of Z. & M. Grynszpan, B. Cohn, A. Lindenstrauss

    Sessions 14 and 15. Witness Zindel Shmuel Grynszpan is called to the stand. The story skips after a blip at 00:02:13. Witness Mordechai Eliezer Grynszpan, son of prior witness Zindel Grynszpan, is called to the stand. Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bar-Or questions Mordechai about his brother, Herschel Grynszpan. After a blip, Mordechai explains his reservations for writing to Herschel in France as the Nazis occupied. Mordechai details his actions during the 1940s and describes his search for his brother after the war. The witness is dismissed. A blip at 00:06:33 backtracks to Hausner rea...

  2. Fonds Communauté israélite de Vichy (CMLV)

    Records of the Jewish Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the World War II. Records include correspondence with the General Union of Jews of France (Union générale des israélites de France, UGIF), lists of deportees, missing persons information and requests, a book of marriages of the French Central Consistory at the Vichy Synagogue, 1939-1943, the original bill of the Statutes of the Union of Israeli Cultural Associations of France and Algeria dated 1909; correspondence between the State police and the Chief Rabbi of France...

  3. Polish refugee children

    Title: "P.I.C. Films, Inc. Presents: Children in Refuge" "A film dedicated to children who suffer because of war" American children in classroom. Ruins in Warsaw (Julien Bryan footage from "Siege" of Warsaw in 1939). Relief packages for Polish children. National War Fund. Polish War Relief. American children reading thank you letters from Polish children. Scenes from refugee camps in Iran, Palestine, South Africa, Kenya, military school in Scotland. Unique shots include footage of emaciated boys in tattered clothing (at 01:11:13 and 01:11:27). These are Polish children deported to the Sovie...

  4. Rudolf Abraham papers

    The Rudolf Abraham papers contain correspondence and other items related to Rudolf Abraham. A Jewish man from Germany, he was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen before being freed and fleeing to Shanghai, where he eventually procured a visa to travel to the United States. Included in the collection are primarily correspondence from family and friends, as well as identification papers including a passport, identity cards, and citizenship certificate. The Rudolph Abraham papers contain primarily correspondence from family and friends to Rudolph Abraham and his wife, Maeta. The letters from f...

  5. Klopstock family papers

    The Klopstock family papers include biographical material, emigration and immigration material, correspondence, publications, and photographs documenting Johanna Klaus and Norbert, Hilda, Ruth, and Liselotte Klopstock’s immigration to the United States from Berlin in 1940. The collection also includes documents and correspondence from Norbert Klopstock while imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and the Kitchener internment camp in Richborough, Kent. Biographical materials include a copy of Hilda Klopstock’s birth certificate and a German passport and identity card for J...

  6. Harold Alden Hornbeck papers

    1. Harold Alden Hornbeck collection

    Consists of original post-war photographs of Harold Alden Hornbeck in Germany, France, and Scotland while part of the United States military. Also included are liberation photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp, a photograph of displaced persons returning home and of German POWs, and United States certificate of recognition

  7. Records of the Israelite Community of Uruguay Kehilá Ashkenazí (Comunidad Israelita del Uruguay Kehilá Ashkenazí)

    Marriage and death registers, minutes of the General Assembly, (Yiddish), minutes of the Board of Directors, proceedings of the General Council, records of the Commission of Education, and minutes of the Plenary Council,.

  8. Book

    1. Isaac Ossowski family collection

    Book codifying Jewish law concerned with "Life Ways," and the Passover liturgy, and also a loose page from another work found inside the book, from the library of Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany.

  9. Lilly Geringer Drukker memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 95 pages, written by Lilly Geringer Drukker, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, she describes the history of her parents' families in Poland, Greece, and Austria, her own childhood in Vienna, the effects of the German annexation of Austria on her family, her emigration to Great Britain in 1939 as part of a Kindertransport, and her emigration to the United States in 1940 at age 13. In addition, she describes her family's life in New York during the 1940s, her brothers' service in the military, and her father's search for work as a musician. She ...

  10. Dina Pollak Gabos photographs

    1. Dina Pollak Gabos collection

    Five studio photographs depicting siblings of Rifka Musafia Pollak; Efraim, Solci, Rahela and Menashe.

  11. Kurt Bigler papers Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)

    Private papers of Kurt Bigler (1925-2007), a Jewish-German-Swiss pedagogue. The collection consists of his diaries, reports, family history, school and study documents, refugee files, adoption and Swiss citizenship files, restitution records related to his childhood, adoption by Joseph Bergheimer and later Berta Bigler, deportation to internment camps Gurs and Rivesaltes; private correspondence, and official correspondence related to professional activities, as teaching and political involvement in various associations, committees and commissions (e.g. Social Democratic Party of Switzerland...

  12. Pető family papers

    The Pető family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, a personal narrative, photographs, property records, a newspaper, and a ticket documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her family, her early career in handbag design, her uncle’s experiences as a refugee in Nice, her family’s survival in Budapest, the confiscation or loss of her relatives’ property, and efforts to recuperate it. Biographical materials include birth and marriage certificates; education and employments records; and identification papers documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her parents, sister, grandparents, an...

  13. The anti-Nazi forum

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The publication is a compilation of articles on the propaganda and threats emanating from Nazi Germany. Frank J. Hogan, President of the American Bar Association provides an overview of the stance of the Catholic church towards Nazi ideology and dismisses the prejudice that Jews financed the Russian revolution and are overrepresented in the communist party. The creation of boycotts by individual companies and movements is discussed in the following chapters. The contribution of Judaism to progress and the contrast of Democracy vs. Nazism are discussed next. W. Burckhandt recounts a meeting ...

  14. Gina Gotfryd collection

    The Gina Gotfryd collection contains photographs and a memoir of Gina Gotfryd, a Jewish child during the time of the Holocaust, who survived the Radom ghetto, labor camps, and Auschwitz. Also included is an identification card of her father. The Gina Gotfryd collection contains a memoir, written by Gina Gotfryd about her experiences surrounding the Holocaust. Also included are photographs of her family prior to the war and some photographs while she was in Stuttgart displaced persons camp. Additionally, there is an identification card given to Gina’s father, Shamai, after his liberation fro...

  15. Meilach Lubocki memoir

    The memoir of Meilach Luboski of Kaunas, Lithuania describes his memory of the German invasion, life in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto, and his time in the Stutthof concentration camp. Included in this collection is the original copy of Meilach's memoir, written in Yiddish during the period when Lubocki was living in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany (circa 1945). Also included is a translation written by his brother, Charles Lubock, dating from the mid-1990s, and edited by Charles' son Paul Lubock.

  16. Berkowicz family collection

    The Berkowicz family collection contains records pertaining to Joseph and Eugenie Berkowicz of Warsaw, Poland. These include identity cards, marriage and birth certificates, and items related to Joseph’s cannery business; Fabryka Konserw “Original.” Also included are photographs of the family and announcements of family member’s deaths. The Berkowicz family papers contain records relating to Joseph and Eugenie (Gene) Berkowicz. The records are primarily certificates and identification, including identity cards, marriage and birth certificates, and Gene’s fake ID under the name Irena Janisze...

  17. Sommer and Bloch family papers

    The Sommer and Bloch family papers primarily document Ralph Sommer, a Jewish refugee who was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles internment camp and later was a member of the French resistance and the French military. Another major portion of the papers contain correspondence from Fred Hanauer, who was a cousin of Ralph's living in the United States and who coordinated efforts with other family members in assisting relatives imprisoned in concentration camps in Europe. Included in the collection is correspondence, identification papers, military papers, and travel visas. The Sommer and Bloch ...

  18. Paula Balkin correspondence

    Paula Balkin correspondence is comprised of letters between Balkin and her family and friends. Letters and postcards document the lives of Paula Balkin; her parents Abraham (Otto) and Gertrude (Trude) Grünbaum and her sister Edith; Balkin’s grandmother Rose Schmulewitz; Balkin’s uncle and aunt Leo and Eva Schmulewitz; Balkin’s uncle and aunt Abraham (Adolf) and Clara (Clärchen) Koppold and their children Harold, Siegmar, and Zilla; Balkin’s aunt Yette Ribetzki Pietrkowski and her daughter Vera; and family friends Marjane Mitdank and Johanna (Hanni or Hans) Wagner in Leipzig. Most of the cor...

  19. Zalman Lubocki memoir

    The memoir of Zalman Lubocki of Kaunas, Lithuania is his eyewitness account of the German invasion in June 1941, life in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, imprisonment at Stutthof, hard labor, liberation, and his arrival as a displaced person at Landsberg, Germany. The collection is comprised of the original copy of the 100 page memoir written in Yiddish in 1945 when Zalman was living in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  20. Arnold H. Einhorn papers

    Photocopied identity documents for Arnold Einhorn including a Spanish immigration document, French documents attesting to Einhorn's service in the Jewish Brigade, and documentation that he was enrolled at University of Montpellier, in France.