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  1. Gertrude Gottfried family papers

    Contains information about Gertrude Gottfried's Holocaust experiences; includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs and embarkation cards for her emigration to the United States. Also includes affidavits of support, naturalization information, identification paperwork in lieu of passports, passenger tickets for the SS Marine Marlin related to the post-war immigration of Josek and Guta (later Joseph and Gertrude) Gottfried.

  2. Ehren-Chronik

    Consists of a black book illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Nazi leaders and propaganda events. It also contains forms pertaining to family genealogy and personal history, which have not been filled out. In tissue paper, book contains one triangular cloth patch and one b&w photograph of a woman feeding geese, dated 1958.

  3. Berek and Cywia Rosner collection

    Consists of documents regarding Berek and Cywia Rosner's time in the Foehrenwald Displaced Persons Camp and subsequent emigration to Canada in 1951. The majority of the documents are restitution papers filed by the Rosners and include medical reports, testimonies from fellow forced laborers, and forms as well as receipts for restitution received.

  4. Victim reburial photographs

    Photographs show the exhumation and reburial into coffins of corpses by uniformed and non-uniformed men and women. The location and date of these photographs is unknown.

  5. Henry Haas collection

    Consists of one blue booklet, entitled "The Haggadah of Passover for members of the Armed Forces of the United States," published by the New York National Jewish Welfare Board, 1943, and one photograph of a family being pulled in two carts, taken in Shanghai. Inscription in the booklet reads "In memory of the gathered Passover Seder on the way from Shanghai--USA on board S.S. "Marine Lynx", April 4th, 1947.

  6. Leon Rajninger collection

    Consists of six photographs of members of the Reininger family of Czernowitz, Romania, taken in the displaced persons camps of Hofgers, Landsberg, and Kassel, and one book, 91 pages, entitled "The Rajninger Tree of Life and the Jewish Faith," by Leon Rajninger, 2000. The book traces Mr. Rajninger's family through the war to the present day and includes family trees, photographs, copies of historical documents, stories, and maps.

  7. Wolman family collection

    Contains pre-war posed photographs of the Wolman (now Wohlman) family in Białystok. Collection also contains one enlarged photoprint of the Don Kanel's [donor] extended family, and one postcard, written in Yiddish, to the donor's family in New York City. The donor has described each photograph.

  8. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Contains seven photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation; includes photographs of the entrance to the camp, gallows, corpses outside barracks, and burial preparations.

  9. Paul Goodman photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs taken in Warsaw, Poland, of Pesl Goodman, Pesl Prizant, and Joshua Prizant; also contains copyprint of a portrait of the Goodman family, labeled "Maniewicz, Poland, pre-war."

  10. Norbert Vos-Obstfeld photograph

    Contains photograph of a little boy sitting on a big block with an older girl standing beside him; described as "Norbert Vos-Obstfeld 1943, in hiding in Courtrai (Belgium); Norbert with Raymonde."

  11. Jean Haas photograph

    One photograph of Jean Haas, his twin brother Pierre, and their little sister Jacqueline. They are in swimming attire and the photograph is dated as August 20, 1943. Pierre is wearing his mother's glasses. This photograph was taken while the family was living with false Aryan papers in Couzon Mont d' Or, France.

  12. Zelów photographs

    Collection contains 14 pre-war portraits of various families from the town of Zelów, near Łódź, Poland; includes portraits of the Fyle, Gliks, Szmulewicz, Kuperwasser, Granat, Zysman, Rosenblum, Bresler, and Pieniks families.

  13. Bronia Landau papers

    The collection consists of two copies (one each in English and Hebrew), of "My Lost Childhood", a memoir by Bronia Bratt Landau, originally of Kromołów, Poland, which details her experiences between 1942-1945 in the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The memoir also discusses her escape from a death march in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1945. Also included are two copies of a photograph of the Bratt family from 1941. Both c...

  14. Elly Moses photographs

    The Elly Moses photographs consist of pre-war, wartime, and post-war original and reproduction photographs of Elly van Leeuwen Moses, her sister Rachel (Chellie), and her parents, Isaac and Judith, as well as of one of the families who hid her during the Holocaust.

  15. Phia Vos family photograph

    One photograph of Phia Vos with her extended family (1938-1939) in Zwolle, Holland. The adult women from left to right are Tehudit, Sophia and Luisa. Phia is on her grandmother's lap. Her brothers Hans and Louk are behind her.

  16. Stamm family papers

    The Stamm family papers consist of correspondence and lists documenting Anna and Gustav Stamm, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and Silbermann and Stamm family members and friends they left behind in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. The correspondence describes loneliness; employment and health issues; hopes and plans for immigration to America, Brazil, Australia, and Shanghai; requests for financial help; gratitude for packages; and the birth of a baby boy. A 1939 list details the contents of one of the suitcases Anna Stamm brought to America, and a photocopy of a 1942 Theresie...

  17. Stuttgart and Łódź school photographs

    Consists of six post-war photographs of children in the displaced persons camp schools in Stuttgart, Germany and Łódź, Poland.

  18. "Euxin: A Brave Voyage to Freedom" memoir

    Memoir tells the story of Lilly Shalit (nee Roth, ex-Abramovici) who tried to escape Romania in 1942 on the sailing boat "Euxin" with her husband, sister, and brother-in-law. The journey took them six months, as they travelled through the Black Sea and the Bosphorus towards Palestine. Turkish authorities would not let them land in Izmir, and they spent two months on the ship in the Bay of Izmir before the British consulate obtained visas for them to Cyprus. Although they wished to go to Palestine, they accepted the visas and spent Sep. 1942-April 1944 in Cyprus, until they were allowed to l...

  19. Marie Winkelman collection

    Collection consists of seven pre- and post-World War II photographs of the family of Marie Lubowski Winkelman; also includes one false "Kennkarte," for Maria Lisiecka used while in hiding in Warsaw, Poland.

  20. Kloster-Indersdorf displaced persons camp photograph collection

    Consists of six photographs of young men at the Kloster-Indersdorf displaced persons camp, holding chalk boards with their names on them. Pictured are Hil Kadyziewicz, Tibor Munkacsy, Mosche Birnbaum, Julius Wiess, Chaim Geller, and one unknown young man. Also includes one photograph of people standing outside the children's home for Jewish orphans in Dumbarton, Scotland, taken in 1945.