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  1. Selected records of the Auxiliary Police. Battalion No 202 Kraków Schutzmannschaft Bataillon 202 Kraków (Sygn.GK 658)

    This collection contains personnel files of Polish police officers assigned to the Auxiliary Police Battalion No 202 P in Kraków and serving in the practice camp in Kochanówka near Debica.

  2. Jewish societies in Lithuania (Fond 1140)

    Correspondence and other records of various Jewish Zionist and public organizations active in Lithuania before WWII.

  3. Rosa Wicygster collection

    Contains postcards written by Rosa Wincygster (donor's paternal grandmother) in Busko Zdroj and Warsaw, Poland to her husband, Chaim Hermann Wincygster (later Winchester) who managed to escape from German occupied Poland, first to Italy and later to Tangier, Morocco. Rosa Wincygster stayed in Poland with her youngest son Benjamin (b. 1926) while her daughter Gusta survived in the USSR and her son Marek, who studied textile engineering in Belgium, managed to reach England in 1940. Rosa and Benjamin Wincygster were most probably deported from the Busko Zdroj ghetto to the Treblinka death camp...

  4. Ernest H. Bennett photograph collection

    Collection of eight photographs depicting the Dachau concentration camp following liberation; dated April-May 1945; brought home from WWII by American serviceman Sgt. Ernest H. Bennet (donor's father) who was a member of the 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion Radio Section, XXI Corps of the 7th Army.

  5. B'rit Milah in displaced persons camp

    Young boys outside on a patio, waving Israeli flags, goats, and a dog. The boys play in a field (in Israel?). Man from behind inside a booth. 01:16 Hannah holds newborn Menachem. 01:26 The Rabbi performs his B’rit Milah, INTs. 02:21 A group swims in a pool, picks fruit, hikes in the desert [some dark scenes and sprocket damage]. Hannah blows bubbles outside.

  6. Benesch and Reininger families collection

    Documents and copy documents relating to Elisabeth Benesch (donor's mother), her parents Robert and Helena Benesch, and her grandparents Adolf and Emilie Gesmai. Includes a photograph depicting Helena and Robert Benesch in New York in front of their store in 1943, and three German passports, each stamped with red "J" marking bearers as Jews, issued to members of the Benesch family, dated February 18, 1938. Also includes a United States immigration Declaration of Intention of Oscar Reininger (donor's father).

  7. Torchlight parade and fireworks

    LS, torchlight parade. Fireworks.

  8. German military training

    At a military site (possibly Berthold's school), a large gun is fired several times.

  9. Telegraph machine part

    Part of a telegraph instrument from a post office in Toulouse, France, circa 1960s, acquired by Arlette Benichou. It reminded Arlette of the one she used at the Post Office in Tunis, then part of the French Protectorate of Tunisia. She worked there sending and receiving telegraphs before and during the early years of World War II, before Jews were banned from civil service jobs.

  10. Selected records from the Archives of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR

    Reports, correspondence, statistical data, etc. related to the evacuation of civilians to Kazakhstan during WWII; includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. Also includes correspondence between the Communist Party and Soviet government officials, lists of evacuees who arrived to Kazakhstan from various regions of the former USSR.

  11. Licco Haim and friends on a ski adventure in 1941

    Handwritten title "Hochwinter 1941". Title with 9 February date, named friends, and a figure on a ski slope, "The Black Peak". Group with Anny, Belka, Vania, Shatsi, Konovaliko, and others climbs up a slope. Mountain hostel on Black Peak. Snow-covered hills. Skiing. 01:06:53 Title with 16 February date, "On the Jumping Hill" (?), Shtainke and Licco. Snowy mountainous scenery. Licco and his friends ski, some in slow motion. 01:14:18 [COLOR] Skiing. CUs of the group of friends, including a young girl. 01:20:17 [B/W] More skiing. 01:23:28 Title with 8 March date and two names, "Istene Kal", An...

  12. Jewish family at DP camp in Italy

    CU of toddler Menachem Shapiro in driver’s seat of a truck. EXT of the truck with a star and young men, playing and posing for the camera. 01:05 INT, Menachem and another baby play with a ball. 02:22 Outside, the toddlers run after birds, Menachem picks fruit with his parents, Hannah and Moshe, and experiments with walking. VAR shots of children at play outdoors in the street, and adults with bicycles, smiling. Three small children seated on a blanket and in a crib (at DP camp?). 06:22 Children hold hands outside the stairwell. 07:03 “Gelati” stand, children eat ice cream, ECU of Menachem w...

  13. Herbert Klein papers

    The Herbert Klein papers consist of identity, education, employment, and immigration records related to Herbert Klein of Vienna, Austria and his parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the expropriation of the family's automobile garage and repair shop in Vienna, "Berthold Klein and Co."

  14. New York American newspaper issue

    Partial newspaper, "New York American"; headline states "Hitler Lists 46 Dead in 'Blood Purge,' but Estimate Number Slain at 200"; dated July 8, 1934.

  15. Oral testimony of Fanny Fogel Hollander

  16. British dignitaries visit DC; FDR and Churchill join the Morgenthaus at their farm to relax; Henry Morgenthau films a spot on war bonds

    The Morgenthau family vacations in Hawaii in 1937 - hiking, waterfall, horseback riding, the beach. 00:36:35 Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his wife Elinor pose for photographs, perhaps upon their return from France aboard the SS Normandie. Horseback riding, back at the Morgenthau family farm. Scenic views of Hawaii from a ship; a speedboar. 00:38:11 In June 1939, King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Union Station, Washington, DC, and are formally greeted. The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt enter an automobile for transit to the White House. President Roosevelt and his guests b...

  17. Oral history interview with Sam Neger

  18. Selected records of the Province of Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn.166)

    Correspondence, reports and other documents relating to granting of Polish citizenship, passport matters, religious matters, establishing cemeteries, Jewish religious community of Łódź, some hundreds of associations or federations or other Jewish organizations from Łódź and its entire province (mainly of mutual help, education and sport), as well as physicians’ personal files and from the Department of Social and Political Issues, Voivod’s reports of 1926-1939, which constitute documentation of the social and political life of the entire region of Łódź, including Polish-Jewish relations dur...

  19. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture: Second World War Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto: Segunda Guerra Mondial

    Diplomatic dispatches, cables, and confidential reports sent by the Argentine embassies and consulates in Europe to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture in Buenos Aires during World War II and in the immediate postwar years. Includes information about Jewish refugees and visa applicants, the political relationship between Argentina and Nazi Germany, a list of the crew of the German battleship "Graf Spee", and situation reports from various Argentine diplomatic posts around the world. This is an ongoing digitization project.

  20. Chaim Feierman photograph collection

    Photographic postcard: black and white image of four men wearing matching caps, star of David badges and cuff band reading “Ordnungsdienst” visible on three of the four; dated verso June 15, 1941; Łódź ghetto, Poland; Chaim “Hy” Feierman (donors’ father) stands second from right Photographic print: black and white image of large group of men and women seated and standing together, American soldier seated in front center; presumed to be in the Landsberg DP camp; Chaim Feierman stands to the right of the woman standing behind the soldier with a “3" visible over his shoulder; not dated.