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  1. Templom Űlės Kőnyv

    Register book of the Hungarian Jewish community in Montevideo.

  2. Canetti family photographs

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting Regine Canetti, her parents Albert and Rachelle Canetti, and siblings Denise, and Maurice before the war in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Also included are depictions of Albert in Israel, 1956, Regine at her graduation ceremony of Notre Dame de Sion school in 1940, and Regine wearing her nun's religious habit after joining the Sisters of Zion in Israel.

  3. Selected records of the Trade Union of Journalists of the Republic of Poland. The Main Board in Warsaw Związek Zawodowy Dziennikarzy Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. Zarząd Główny w Warszawie (Sygn. 544)

    Protocols, correspondence, statements, resolutions, press clippings regarding court hearings against journalists accused of working with Germans during World War II.

  4. Ernst Reis letter

    Contains an antisemitic letter, with envelope, addressed to William Ries in Pittsburgh, PA from his cousin Ernst Ries in Köln, Germany; dated January 6, 1936, In the letter, Ernst writes about how things are "looking up" for Germany thanks to the Führer and the "cleansing" of the population of Jews.

  6. Oral history interview with Günter Cordier

  7. Rose Maklan Ross collection

    Consists of prewar photographs, displaced persons camp photographs, immigration paperwork including naturalization papers, displaced persons camp registration, vaccination and an interview on cassette tape. Also includes personal papers such as identification cards and a birth certificate.

  8. Samuel Sobel collection

    Collection of cigarette cards of Nazi propaganda, produced and sold in cigarette packages and then collected to be placed in pre-printed albums. Cards are a variety of Nazi propagandistic imagery such as peaceful Nazi party rallies, construction of infrastructure [building new roads, farming] done in Germany titled on reverse “The State of Work and Peace”, military imagery and troops titled on reverse “Fight for the Third Reich”, images of German actors and directors, and receipt to retrieve cards.

  9. Judenrat in Rawa Ruska Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Rawa Ruska (Sygn. 232)

    Records of the Judenrat in Rawa Ruska. Contains a name list of craftsmen applying for concessions for running workshops and stores.

  10. Dr. Ernest Parker collection

    Binder with typescript memoir by Lothar Ernst Pollak from May 10-December 6, 1940. Details Lothar’s family’s flight beginning in Brussels, Belgium; through France, Spain and Lisbon; arriving in Cuba in December and ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Lothar Pollak was born 1901 in Reichenberg [Liberec], the Czech Republic. In the 1930s, Lothar moved to Germany, where he met his wife Anna. They then moved to Austria and then Belgium for Lothar’s work. In May 1940, with their daughter Erika, they fled ultimately arriving in the United States in 1941 where they changed their n...

  11. Oral history interview with Eleanor Weile

  12. Milton Zimmerman photograph collection

    Consists of seven original photographs depicting Dachau at liberation, including the so-called "Death Train," with original inscriptions on the verso. The photographs were acquired by Milton Zimmermann (1921-1948) of Louisville, KY, while serving with the medical detachment of the 283rd Field Artillery Battalion. The collection also includes a copy of a portrait depicting Milton Zimmerman in uniform with his wife Jean.

  13. Municipal National Committee in Třebíč Městský národní výbor Třebíč

    Consists of municipal records from the Nazi occupation period featuring an alphabetical list of Jews living in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch), a register of persons arrested, and a register of executions and deaths, 1939-1945, with information about the races of prosecuted persons.

  14. Colection of Rabbi Aaron Barend N. Davids (Aaron Barend) Collectie Rabbijn Aaron Barend N. Davids (P-122)

    Private documents, correspondence, announcements, articles, sermons, speeches, and lectures of Rabbi A.B.N. Davids (Aaron Barend). Included also are notices, separate numbers of some Jewish periodicals, as well as newspaper clippings and some brochures with scientific dissertations about Dr. D. Feuchtwang, a chief rabbi of Vienna, 1897-1957, a publication the "In Memoriam for the chief Rabbi A. Ascher Ezn", as well as a bereavement of A.B.N. Davids, a commemorative book on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Groningen synagogue, 1931, documents received from the University Library i...

  15. Minna Karp photograph collection

    Contains four photographs depicting Minna Karp and her friends in Davos, Switzerland after the war.

  16. Broadside against owners of Jewish business in Poland

    Wlasciele firmy Bracia Mund agenci hitlerowscy zmarli śmiercią cywilną dla Społeczeństwa żydowskiego, a broadside denouncing the owners of a Jewish business ("Mund Brothers"), blaming them for cooperation with the Nazis following their participation in a trade show in Leipzig. No note of printer, publisher or date, [Poland, 1930s]. Polish. A broadside denouncing the owners of "Mund Brothers", a Jewish business in Lvov. The notice was printed following their participation in a trade show in Leipzig and blames them for cooperation with the Nazis, "in the most difficult time for the Jewish peo...

  17. Zvi Brick collection

    Contains fifteen letters sent to survivor Zvi Brick, the former director of the Jewish Agency office in Kovno, while he stayed in a displaced persons camp in Italy. Addressed from New York, Munich, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, dated 1946-1947, in Yiddish, Hebrew and some English. The letters were sent mainly from official entities and they record the state of the displaced, the difficulties of immigration to Palestine, monetary matters, and more. Includes seven letters from the general secretary of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, Louis Siegal, typewritten on official stationery and signed ...

  18. Eskanazi family photographs

    Photographs of Lena (Eskenazi) Morris; her siblings Eli, Sylvia and Emmanuel Eskanazi; and their friends. Also includes photographs from the Vittel internment camp in France. Miriam and Israel Eskenazi emigrated from Salonika, Greece to the United States circa 1917, where their children Eli and Lena were born. The family returned to Salonika circa 1922 where their children Sylvia and Emmanuel were born. In the spring of 1943, Miriam, Israel, Sylvia and Emmanuel were among the thousands rounded up in Salonika and deported to Auschwitz, where they died. Because Lena and Eli were American citi...

  19. Judenrat in Theresienstadt Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Theresienstadt (Sygn. 268)

    Records of the Judenrat in Theresienstadt. Contains a milk card for Moses Grinbaum, issued in 1941.

  20. Becker family papers

    Biographical materials and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Becker family of Budapest, Hungary. Biographical materials include Ivan Becker’s Swedish protection document issued by Raoul Wallenberg and postwar documents from the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp; identification documents of his father Dezsö Becker, grandmother Frida Becker, and sister Anna Becker; his mother Kato Becker’s handwritten Hungarian cookbook; and a family history. Photographs include depictions of World War I, family photographs, and postwar photographs from Bad Gastein. Biographical ma...