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  1. Court of the First Instance in Koziegłowy Sąd Grodzki w Koziegłowach (Sygn.587)

    This collection contains five legal cases in which one of the parties was Jewish. Cases relate to restoration of property, acknowledging the right to inheritance, and finding a person deceased.

  2. Basia and Morris Rubinstein papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Basia (née Zajaczkowska) and Morris Rubinstein, who met and were married in the Kielce ghetto in 1942, in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg, Austria from 1946-1951. Included are photographs of Basia in the refugee camp in Solberga, Sweden after her liberation from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and two telegrams regarding her house in Kielce and one from her brother Leon Zajaczkowska informing her that he and her husband Morris were alive and in Italy. An accretion includes a 1939 letter from Basia’s mother Ides and sis...

  4. Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania (RG-4-2) השומר הצעיר בליטא

    Circulars, publications, activities reports, Benjamin Grinboim archive, including reports on the situation of the Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania in 1938 and his correspondence, the kibbutz training (Hakshara), information brochures and journals "Ziv", "Al Hamishmar" from 1927-1930, Akiva Wonhozker 's papers on children's house (Kinderhaus) in Kovno, reports on Jewish scouts movement in Kovno, Yaakov Amit's correspondence and legacy, Yekheskel Ben Tour memoirs on Ponevezh (Panevėžys ), 1922-1934, and national conference reports.

  5. SS concentration camp officer testimony

    Consists of one typed testimony, eight pages with some additional pieces, written by an unknown author, about the testimony of an SS officer regarding his work in concentration camps, including Treblinka. The author describes begins the essay by describing his surprise when one day in 1943, he ran into an old acquaintance on a street in Berlin. The friend, who had previously been imprisoned on account of his activities with the Confessing Church, was wearing an SS officer's uniform, much to the author's surprise. The friend confided in the author that he was using this position to record in...

  6. Oral history interview with Rubin Minsky

  7. Charles Ansenberg collection

    Collection of documents, map, clipping, brochures, photographs, envelopes, and negatives acquired by Charles Ansenberg during his service with the American Army in Europe during World War II.

  8. Wiesel family collection

    Collection of family photographs documenting Frieda and Louis Wiesel (donor's parents) and their sons Jacques and Irving (donor and his brother) while living in Belgium and Casablanca during World War II.

  9. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Jacket belonging to Chaim Smitskovitz from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  10. Ha Shomer Hazair in Poland, Galicia (RG-2-1) השומר הצעיר בפולין, גליציה

    Contains records of the Histadrut (trade union of Jewish workers) of the Hashomer Hatzair in Galicia, includes census data of movement members, name lists of candidates for the "Youth Aliya", a diary of "Shalhevet" group (branch "Vilna") in the years 1924-1935, census data of graduated members of the movement according to the regions: Baranovichi, Białystok, Grodno, Włoclawek; records of the Central leadership in Warsaw in 1935: forms of referendum and circulars, minutes of meetings of the Chief Council, correspondence of the Central leadership in Lviv with its branches (kenim).

  11. Herman Williams photograph collection

    Contains 22 post-war/liberation photographs taken in Germany and possibly Austria and brought back to the United States by American serviceman Herman Williams. Includes four printed postcards produced by the 13th Armored Division, U.S. Army, showing post-combat scenes in Belgium and Germany, circa 1944-1945, and post-liberation scenes from unidentified concentration camp, showing corpses and crematoria.

  12. Court of the First Instance in Janów Sąd Grodzki w Janowie (Sygn.312)

    This collection contains three civil cases concerning Jews, which were selected out of 29 civil cases judged by the Court of the 1st Instance in Janów. The Court had the following communes in its jurisdiction: Olsztyn, Przyrów and Złoty Potok. The files of criminal cases did not survive.

  13. Camp in Czestochowa Obóz w Częstochowie (Sygn.1041)

    This collection contains a register of Jews prisoners employed in the Camp of Częstochowa during April 10-12,1943. The register contains 23 cards.

  14. Before the Bath Porcelain figurine of a seated female acquired from Adolf Hitler’s Munich apartment

    Painted porcelain figurine of a woman in a swimsuit, taken in 1945 from Adolf Hitler’s Prince Regent Square apartment in Munich, Germany, by Daniel Jacobson, a Jewish-American soldier. On April 30, 1945, Daniel arrived in Munich with the 179th infantry, 45th division. The apartment was untouched by the war and was visited by several American servicemen from Daniel’s division. Daniel visited the apartment on May 6, and left with the figurine and Hitler’s personal stationery. The figurine was designed in 1913 by Rudolf Marcuse, a German-Jewish artist. He was persecuted by the Nazi authorities...

  15. Municipal Government and Municipal Council in Częstochowa Zarząd Miejski i Miejska Rada Narodowa w Częstochowie (Sygn. 2)

    Contains situation reports, correspondence, and reports relating to the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946, as well as attempts to organize anti-Jewish riots in Częstochowa where two persons were shot. The majority of materials includes situation reports, materials of the Jewish Committee of 1945, records relating to the establishment of the Religious (Mosaic) Association, lists of Polish and Jewish children in orphanages (1940-1947), correspondence related to mass graves and war crimes and restitution of estate property and enterprises.

  16. "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey"

    Consists of one memoir written by Magda Altman Philip entitled "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey." The typed memoir details accounts of her family's life in pre-war Hungary, her arrest in Budapest, Hungary, as well as her time in Auschwitz and Oranienburg where she was liberated. The memoir includes copies of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs.

  17. Ruth Salm Perlman collection

    Consists of materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Ruth Salm Perlman, including a 1942 postcard sent to her from her family in Germany, while she was living in Denmark; postcards from the family who had sheltered her in Denmark (Aage and Signe Davidsen), sent to her after her deportation to Theresienstadt; a typewritten memoir by Ruth Salm Perlman; a copy of a document from the Danish Red Cross, attesting to her arrest and interment during the war; and a post-war book with photographs, compiled by Aage Davidsen, and describing their wartime experiences. Also includes pre-war fami...

  18. Jewish businesses in Vienna

    Close pan of shops, in Vienna, on a sunny day. Filmed at Seitenstettengasse and Judengasse. 01:07:40 "Judengasse" street sign above shop in Vienna. Soldier with rifle on street corner at 01:07:45. Doors of a synagogue (?). Views of Judengasse from an upstairs window guarded by a soldier. 01:08:21 Local men pose for the camera, pigs roam the streets (location unknown, possibly outside Berlin).

  19. Prewar Jewish life in the Netherlands; Haamstede Airfield; Jewish orphanage

    Street scenes in the early 1930s in Rotterdam. Salomon Schaap (on far left) and Naatje Keizer Schaap (in middle), the cameraman's parents, walk together in the streets, arm in arm. Shop sign. They enter the cheese shop they owned. The family lived behind this shop. The man in the light-colored suit who follows them into the shop is Emanuel Schaap (died in Mauthausen in 1944). Maurits exits the car and gets a hair cut in barber shop. Man waves. Visit to a vegetable garden owned by a sister or aunt. Older man with a yarmulke and Naatje. They walk towards the camera. Louis Schaap, the camerama...

  20. Alfred and Hertha Friedheim collection

    Diaries kept by Alfred and Hertha Friedheim, with some loose documents inserted between pages; dated 1939-1941; in French and English. The Friedheims were passengers on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939. When the ship returned to Europe they disembarked in France, and were in the Rieucros concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS Winnipeg, but were detained in Port of Spain, Trinidad after the ship was commandeered by the Dutch navy. While in Port of Spain, their US visas expired. They were successful in getting their visa...