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  1. Anne Haas Jacobson Papers

    Contains a letter received by Harry Haas (donors' grandfather and father) in 1939, sent by Viennese Jewish woman named Rosalie Haas and her Protestant husband Robert, who were trying to flee Nazi Austria.

  2. Selected records from the State Regional Archives in Burgas related to the history of the Jewish community of Burgas

    Registration records and correspondence of the Jewish-owned commercial companies from the Burgas Regional Court, and records of the branch of the Bulgarian People's bank in Karnobat pertaining to the application of the discriminatory "Law for the Defense of the Nation", Article 26 that restricted personal or capital participation of Jews in the economic activities in Bulgaria during WWII.

  3. Selected records of the town Starachowice Akta miasta Starachowice (Sygn. 2684) : Wybrane materialy

    Minutes of sessions and resolutions of the Municipal Council of Wierzbnik (a part of Starachowice) related to a number of matters affecting the inhabitants of the town, including documents related to control of migration, correspondence and other documents related to trade, craft and industry. Also included are materials from the German occupation consisting of official orders, announcements and correspondence, including a document from 1940 (File 46) which refer to Jews, and a list of Jews with compulsory employment (948 people).

  4. Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (Sygn. 185) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), including: A list of the members of the PKWN, and others, who left Moscow for Chełm in 1944, reports of the PKWN delegates of the Department for Jewish Affairs regarding the security of the so-called liberated areas and the organization of Jewish communities, correspondence with the Central Jewish Committee, newsletters of the Jewish Press Agency, 1944, records of the Department of Justice discussing matters of the restitution of property to Jewish survivors, records on the war crime trials, articles written by staff of...

  5. Selected records of the town Włoszczowa Akta miasta Włoszczowa (Sygn. 1809) : Wybrane materialy

    Correspondence concerning schooling and out of school education, emigration and re-emigration of refugees, minutes of sessions of the Municipal Government and Municipal Council, budgets and reports, population books of permanent inhabitants of town of Włoszczowa, and the list of people murdered by the Germans in Włoszczowa and Krasocin, 1941-1942. The list includes 105 people.

  6. Humanitarian Federation "Brotherhood B'nai B'rith" in Warsaw (Sygn. 674)

    Founding documents of the "Brotherhood of B'nei B'rith," in Warsaw, Poland, as well as the minutes of sessions of the board and members, briefs of the operation and financial records, correspondence, registers of membership, reports and notes referring to the organization and operation of the federation.

  7. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Embassy in Ankara Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Ankarze (Sygn.499)

    Reports, correspondence, Polish and Turkish press, statistics, circulars related to Turkish emigration policy, situation of refugees from Armenia, evacuation of Polish people from USSR to Iran, relocation of Jews in Hungary, and German dependent countries, and activities of international organizations.

  8. Photographic print of a porter resting, Warsaw

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613748
    • English
    • overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 10.630 inches (27 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a porter resting, Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.

  9. Translation of George Byfield wartime diary and album ("Oroszfront, 1942/43")

    The collection consists of an English translation of the wartime diary and album created by György Beifeld (later George Byfield), titled “Oroszfront 1942-1943: Munkaszolgálat Oroszországban” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001.156). George Somorjai, the donor and translator, included his translations, annotations, and additional explanatory texts to each page of the album. Also included are essays on the historical background and context of the album, which describe, among other things, the participation of the Somorjai’s father, Dr. Lajos Somorjai, in the same labor battalion...

  10. Fonds Alice Ferrières (MDXXXIII)

    Diary, correspondence,and testimonies from the archives of Alice Ferrières, who ran a network (“Roseau Ferrières”) in WWII to save children. The collection includes a list of people with whom Alice Ferrières corresponded as well as testimonies of former hidden children. In the summer of 1943, as the situation for Jews in France worsened, the leaders of the Jewish Scout movement decided to close the children’s home in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, in southwestern France, and disperse the girls living there. Some of the girls were housed in a private girls’ school in Murat, in the département of Can...

  11. Court of the First Instance in Zgierz Sąd Grodzki w Zgierzu (Sygn 2207)

    Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to subm...

  12. Cederbaum family collection

    Contains a certificate identifying Ryszarda Cederbaum, born in Łódź on June 28, 1922 (donor’s mother), daughter of Maurycy or Moszek Cederbaum and Frymeta Wislicka Cederbaum; issued in Zamość; Dated: April 3, 1941 in Polish; Certificate; identifying Marianna Jasińska, false name of donor’s mother, who was employed by the Warsaw regional labor and social welfare office in Otwock, Poland; dated: February 12, 1945; in Polish; Permit; for the official name change of Bronisław Epsztajn, son of Stefan and Anna, born in Zamość, on March 4, 1923, to: Rałowiecki; this new last name conveys to his ...

  13. Katz family collection

    Contains letters and postcards sent by Josel and Sheine Katz (donor’s paternal grandparents) in Naumiestis, Lithuania, to their sons Eliahu Arie Katz and Louis Katz (donor's father), in the United States. Also includes correspondence from Louis’s siblings, Zlata, Mendel and Enoch, to their brother and his family. The last postcard was written on March 16, 1943, by the youngest sister of Louis Katz, Rivka (or Riva) Katz, who was in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan; Rivka was the only member of the family in Lithuania who survived, and she joined her brother in the United States in 1948.

  14. Kalmar family collection

    Collection of certificates (two with translations) and photographs documenting the experiences of Laszlo Kalmar, his wife Erzsebet Halasz, and their daughter Zsuzsanna (donor) in Hungary during the Holocaust. Includes Laszlo's birth certificate, their marriage certificate, a translation of Zsuzanna's birth certificate, photos from Hungary, and a photo of the family in Australia.

  15. Dotnuva, Lithuania photograph collection

    Contains 30 prewar photographs of friends and family of the Leibowitz and Toker families in Dotnuva, Lithuania. Most are photographic postcards with Hebrew or Yiddish inscriptions on the verso.

  16. Photographic print of a teacher and students

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613473
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 8.880 inches (22.555 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 8.690 inches (22.073 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a teacher and students in cheder (Jewish elementary school) in Slonim, ca. 1935-38.

  17. Filantropia: Official organ of the Jewish Philanthropic Association Publicacion de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita [starting in 1980] Filantropia: Organo de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita

    Monthly serial of the Asociación Filantropica Israelita, published in Spanish and German in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previous title: Mitteilungsblatt (Hilfsverein deutschsprechender Juden).

  18. Watercolor

    Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is titled, "Living room", and depicts a desk, table, and other furniture within the room. The watercolor is initialed "H" and dated January 1946, in the lower right corner of the verso.

  19. Amalia Willinger Gordeski papers

    The collection contains letters written to Amalia (Mali) WIllinger, who immigrated to the United States prior to World War II, from her parents and siblings in Hungary. The letters date from 1940-circa 1950s and are in Hungarian. Also included is a self-published book, "A Century of Love" by Marian Farago. The book describes the history of Marian's parents, Martin Willinger (later Martin Farago) and Edith Schwartz (later Edith Farago) including their experiences during the Holocaust and the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.

  20. Charlotte Herzog collection

    Contains photographs and documents related to Charlotte Herzog (donor's mother), and the efforts of her employers to protect her from deportation by proving she was not Jewish.