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  1. Henry "Hank" Mayer memoir

    Memoir, photocopy of manuscript, 13 pages, written by Henry "Hank" Mayer, of Bridgeport, CT, describing his family's experiences in their native Germany during the 1930s, including antisemitic persecution, their immigration to the United States in 1939, his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and his post-war life in Bridgeport as the owner of a military supply business.

  2. Jewish Community Hannover after the Second World War Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Sign. D-Ha2)

    Official records of the National Association of the Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony (Landesverband der jüdischen Gemeinden von Niedersachsen) as well as the official records of the Jewish Community in Hannover (Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover) from the postwar period until the late 1960s. The collection consists of correspondence, financial documents, questionnaires, circulars, registers and reports relating to Jewish Holocaust survivals and the organization of their life after WWII.

  3. Prayer book

    Siddur given to Frank Lyons by his maternal uncle Chaim A. Kaplan on the occassion of Frank's Bar Mitzvah on August 20, 1921 in Framingham, MA. Chaim Kaplan came to the United States in May 1921 to visit his siblings residing in the USA and participated in the celebration of the Bar Mitzvah of his nephew Frank, son of Ida Trombly Liansky and Samuel Liansky. The prayerbook was published in Vienna in 1857 by Jos. Schlesinger and is in both Hebrew and English. It has an inscription inside from Chaim Kaplan to Frank Liansky.

  4. Beit Din in Warsaw collection

    Collection of letters and documents from the Beit Din (rabbinical court) in Warsaw from the latter part of 1939, immediately before the outbreak of the war. Includes handwritten and printed documents concerning family matters signed by the dayanim of the Warsaw Beit Din.

  5. Frances Whitney collection

    Contains a Christmas card and photograph received by Frances Seeds Whitney from Lajos Krausz, an acquaintance she met while traveling through Europe before World War II, circa 1928. The photograph is labeled on verso: "1929...on the farm." Lajos lived in Subotica, Hungary, when he sent this card and photograph; he did not survive the Holocaust.

  6. Bronze Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 3rd Class Order

    Cross of Honor of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter), 3rd class order, Bronze medal issued by the Nazi Party between May 1939, and the end of World War II in May 1945. More commonly known as the Mother’s Cross (Mutterkreuz), the medal served as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy of glorifying family life and increasing population levels. It was a civilian award instituted following a December 16, 1938, decree by Adolf Hitler to encourage German woman to bear more children. Recipients were nominated by the Nazi Party or government officials,...

  7. André Waksman collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Jacob and Suzanne Waksman of Antwerp, Belgium including their flight from France to Italy and as refugees with their son André at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York from 1944-1946. Included are identification documents, affidavits in lieu of passports, a telegram, documents granting visas for the Waksmans to enter the United States from Fort Ontario, and naturalization certificates. The bulk of the collection consists of materials related to André Waksman’s documentary film 1943, Le temps d’Un répit (A Pause in the Holocaust), including ba...

  8. Pair of brown suede woman's shoes

    Pair of brown suede shoes with laces bought by Chana Scharf immediately after returning to Poland from Siberia.

  9. Collection of proclamations of Jewish organizations Zbiór odezw organizacji żydowskich (Sygn. 1313)

    Proclamations and occasional leaflets of the various Jewish organization in pre-World War II Poland: Komitet Centralny Młodzieży Poale-Sjon Lewica, Komitet Wyborczy Żydowskiego Bloku Narodowego, Nowa Organizacja Sjonistyczna, Organizacja Sjonistów-Rewizjonistów w Lublinie, and Związek Żydowskiej Socjalistycznej Młodzieży Robotniczej "Frajhajt"-"Wolność." Included are also circular papers and training materials of the "Frajhajt."

  10. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Memel Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kłajpedzie 1939 (Sygn. 471)

    Political reports, correspondence,and circulars related to Jewish property and reparations in Germany, German political relations with Poland; Lithuanian and German relations, and the withdrawal of Polish citizenship for Jews residing in Germany.

  11. Collection of Marian Godziszewski concerning crime in Wawer Zbiory Mariana Godziszewskiego dotyczące zbrodni wawerskiej (Sygn.1583)

    Materials related to the Wawer Massacre on December 27, 1939. Archives were collected by Marian Godziszewski, whose father was murdered in Wawer Massacre. The collection includes, among other materials, extracts from the trial of Max Daume accused of crimes (copies of court files), outlines of articles, exhumation descriptions, lists of executed people, including Jews, lists of people who were murdered in the first months of the war near Wawer, surveys of families of victims of Wawer massacre, correspondence with publishing houses, backstage of the book about the Wawer crime, parts of the a...

  12. Haganah poster

    Poster issued by the Haganah; titled "It All Depends on You" in English and Hebrew with image of finger pointing at viewer and the Haganah shield in the upper left corner; caption in lower left corner "Haganah Poster No. 2"; published 1947

  13. Oral history interview with William Kornbluth and Edith Kornbluth

  14. Karter family collection

    Postcards and envelopes addressed to Gustaw Karter (donor's grandfather) and his daughter Ruth Karter (donor's mother) in Cincinnati, Ohio from various people in Tarnopol and Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1939 and 1940; and postwar letters from Tola Ueberfuhrer and Stella Feiler, displaced persons in Gliwice, Poland and Salzburg, Austria. Also includes envelopes, empty and postmarked, sent from Edmund Wasserberger, Anna May, and Erna and Edita Karter from Poland and the Czech Republic. One envelope returned to Sol Better addressed to Anna Karter in the Ukraine, dated 1940.

  15. Clogs

    Clogs: found in the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany by donor who was a member of the United States Army Ambulance Corps and was visiting Buchenwald after liberation. He found them in Buchenwald and sent them back to his family in New Jersey.

  16. Munich; Degenerate Art exhibition; Koenigsplatz; Deutsches Museum

    "GERMANY" "Lunch at Ettal" Beer hall in Ettal. Locals. The American family sits outdoors at cafe. "Munich" "American Express Co. Bavarians" Shops. People in Bavarian dress gathered outside the American Express store. "The Hofgarten" Outdoor cafe, waiter prepares meal. 01:02:32 "The Exhibition of Degenerated Art" INTs, Degenerate Art exhibit at the Archeological Institute in Munich in 1937 [ENTARTETE KUNST]. Modern artwork, sculptures, and paintings declared by the Nazis to be "degenerate" on gallery walls. Museum visitors. 01:03:34 "Haus der Deutschen Kunst | House of German Art" Building e...

  17. Veit Wyler papers Nachlass Dr. iur. Veit Wyler (1908-2002)

    Private papers of Veit Wyler (August 28, 1908 - October 18, 2002), attorney, Swiss refugee aid worker, Jewish community official, and Zionist delegate. The collection consists of photographs, certificates from schools, doctoral studies, military service records, records of his early activities as a lawyer, files of the federal prosecutor, documentation of his commitment to Jewish refugees and of the David Frankfurter trial, autobiographical writings and reports, private and business correspondence, honors, press articles, obituaries, a diary, poems, records of his family history, edited new...

  18. Displaced persons camp at Funk Caserne and Dachau; ruins

    01:00:00 Sign: “Funk Caserne, Emigrant Assembly Center, Repatriation Center, Infiltree Center.” Soldier in front of a gate. Signs: “Deutsche Ungaren Rumanen Bulgaren Dürfen das Lager nicht betreten,” and “Übernachtungen von Gasten und Enzelnen durchreisenden im Lager sind nicht erlaubt.” Displaced men, women, children, one carries a funeral wreath. Men and women in uniform smile for camera. WS, ambulances, bombed out buildings in a city (Munich?), piles of rubble next to remains of buildings. A woman in uniform looks at the camera. Man with hat shakes her hand. VAR, several people waiting w...

  19. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in New York Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nowym Jorku (Sygn.493)

    Selected records of Polish Consulate General in New York, reports, correspondence, press clippings, notes, consular letters, and minutes related to minorities in Poland and in foreign countries, mainly Polish Jews in the US, activities of Jewish organizations and their contacts with the Polish authorities, protests in USA against the persecution of Jews in Germany and Poland, reports on persecution of Poles in Germany, a report of the Polish Consulate General in Chicago, 1940 related to cooperation between Polish and Jewish immigrants in the USA, protest of Jewish organizations against anti...

  20. Izak and Rachel Herzhaft collection

    Contains photographs illustrating the experiences of Rachel Moskowitz, born in the small Carpathian town "Behutz" in Hungary/Czech area of Slovakia and Izak Herzhaft from Rutke, Poland (Galicia). Izak escaped and ended up in Budapest. Rachel moved to Budapest and both were on the Kasztner train in Bergen-Belsen then Switzerland, eventually moving to Palestine where they married.