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  1. Judenrat in Kobierzyn Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Kobierzyn (Sygn.259)

    Records of the Judenrat in Kobierzyn, Poland. Consists of blank banking forms of the Staatliche Irrenanstalt in Kobierzyn (State Mental Institution) used as the proof of payments for particular people. Name of people are handwritten on the top of the forms: Salomea Gdańska, Estera Goldbrrim vel Spitzberg, Rozalia Mendel, Paula Messner, Antonina Mink vel Adler, Szwajer Munk, Filip Rieger, Chaja Schwarz, Laja Szwajcer, Siegbert Tichlauer, Elsa Wechsberg.

  2. Karl Otto Herz memoir

    Contains an unpublished manuscript entitled "Auschwitz: ein Tatsachenroman" by Karl Otto Herz (typescript; approximately 500 unnumbered pages; forward dated 31 December 1945 in Linz). Given to the family of Walter Vogel (donor's husband), probably by the author.

  3. Selected records of the Office of War Damages at the Presidium of the Council of Ministers in Warsaw Biuro Odszkodowań Wojennych przy Prezydium Rady Ministrów w Warszawie (Sygn. 291)

    Orders, circulars, correspondence, statements, registers, correspondence diaries, letters regarding losses and war damages in Poland during World War II, destruction of state-owned buildings, industrial objects, forestry and agriculture, as well as material losses of private citizens, and biological losses of population. Included are also materials regarding revindication and compensation of war damages, and war damages in other European countries.

  4. Police headquarters in Brno Policejní ředitelství Brno (B 26)

    Records pertaining to anti-Jewish measures, the treatment and deportation of Jews and Roma, the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets, lists of Jews and foreigners including prisoners at the Gestapo headquarters on Orlí street, and other relevant records

  5. Inspector of the uniformed Protectorate police in Moravia Inspektor uniformované protektorátní policie na Moravě (B 300)

    Includes daily orders and reports from 1943 to 1945; records pertaining to the fight against partisans and paratroopers including lists of anti-partisan volunteers; arrest records; records pertaining to American, British, French, Italian and Russian POWs, forced laborers, black market profiteers, the use of convicts for the removal of unexploded ordinance, the setting up of detention camps, and other relevant records pertaining to the daily activities of the uniformed police and gendarmerie in the Protectorate under German control.

  6. Oral history interview with Jakab Vag

  7. Selected records of the District Court in Kalisz Sąd Okręgowy w Kaliszu (Sygn. 2220)

    Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Kalisz District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, active participation in illegal demonstrations in 1931, participation in a ...

  8. Moshe Shertok ticket

    Ticket for reception in honor of Moshe Shertok of Jerusalem, at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1943. Text: “Reception in honor of Moshe Shertok/of Jerusalem/Chief of Political Department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine/Wednesday evening, March 17th, 1943…Carnegie Hall….Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Chairman/Auspices: American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs…(This will be Mr. Shertok’s only public address in this Country)”

  9. Lindemann family and friends

    CU, woman, outdoors on city street (probably during Christmas 1934). She approaches the camera with a man and girl; each with a metal medallion affixed to their jacket lapel. The couple kisses; their daughter kisses her parents. Baby Oda sits on Ethel’s lap shaking a rattle and eating (probably on February 7, 1935). People sled down a hill. Oda bundled in the carriage. Ethel takes her for a stroll through the snow-covered park.

  10. Ship passengers depart New York for Europe, 1930

    Port. “HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE,” “UNITED AMERICAN LINES,” “COSULICH LINE.” Harbor, smoke stacks. Large passenger ship. New York skyline from the Hudson River, including the Empire State Building, Queensboro Bridge, etc. Statue of Liberty. Steam blows out of one of the ship’s funnels. A man hugs two women on deck. Other passengers relax on lounge chairs. A smaller boat in the water. “CLEVELAND” on the bow of a different ship. Luggage hoisted from a lower deck. Aerial views of passengers on the top deck, waving goodbye. Italian flag. Steamliner cruises through the water, smoke rises out. Flag w...

  11. World War I veterans in Braunschweig, 1934

    Flag with the Iron Cross. Barrels of four guns rest together. Cannon. Small planted shrubs, artillery. A crowd gathers in a square. Men in uniform on horseback. German World War I veterans wearing the Pickelhaube, followed by others, such as men with flags and sashes. A man carries a sign: “L.Eskadron Husaren-Regt. 17.” More marching, spectators. Men salute, and soldiers respond. “ENDE” (reverse)

  12. Albert Einstein letter to Maja Winteler-Einstein

    A hand-written letter from Albert Einstein, addressed to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein, dated December 14, 1938, in which Einstein encourages his sister to visit him in America on a visitor’s visa and describes the relief work he is undertaking on behalf of persecuted victims of Nazi Germany.

  13. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s

    Correspondence, reports, and files relating to Jewish residents and refugees in Belgium before, during, and after World War II that document the Communauté Israélite de Bruxelles and its president Max Gottschalk, the Comité d’aide et d’assistance aux Réfugiés d’Allemagne, the Comité d’assistance aux enfants juifs réfugiés d’Allemagne, and the La Ramée agricultural school for Jewish youth. The collection also includes index cards documenting Jewish community in Brussels during the Second World War, individual files on child refugees, and files and drawings documenting Dina Dreyfus, the daugh...

  14. Cloth doll

    Doll given to Ruth Pollack in the United States in 1937. The doll was a gift from her grandfather Moses Aaron Rozenszain, who was a pharmacist in Pruzhany, and was subsequently killed in Auschwitz. The doll has a Yiddish inscription on the hem from her grandfather.

  15. Judenrat in Kielce Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Kielce (Sygn. 274)

    Records of the Judenrat in Kielce, Poland. Consists of a protocol of the Judenrat meeting, Nov. 17, 1941. Includes names of its participants.

  16. Commandant of the order police Moravia Velitel pořádkové policie Morava Kommandanteur der Ordnungspolizei Mähren (B 314)

    Miscellaneous reports, memos, correspondence, registers of police personnel, and administrative records of police regiments in Moravia, including reports of events from commanders of SS of the 21st SS Police Regiment (Polizei-Regiment Mähren) to the Commander of Orpo, and an organization chart of the General Commandat of the Police with a register of personnel.

  17. Sightseeing in Washington, DC

    The Lindemanns visit Washington, DC. US Capitol building. The White House with autombile traffic and visitors by the fence. Fountains at the Washington Monument. The reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial. More sightseeing. Pan of the Union Station. A friend approaches the camera coming down stairs. Cherry trees in full bloom at the Tidal Basin, train passes by in the BG.

  18. Stonework from Cyprus internment camp

  19. Lindemann family at leisure

    Sister Oda swings at a playground. Her mom pushes her down a slide. She plays on the seesaw and smiles. Children play in the sand at a lake. Adults on beach blankets. A younger boy joins. Thee kids play in a small garden, using miniature tools including a wheelbarrow and a trowel. The girl picks fruit from a bush and puts it in her bucket. “ENDE"

  20. Frank Bearse collection

    Contains a document marked “…large examination document of the confessions of the former Camp Commander, Mauthausen, Standartenfuerhrer Franz Ziereis”; 3 pages typed recto and verso; dated 24 May 1945. Also includes a two-page typed document titled “Record of Events Co. “E” 260 Infantry”; an envelope addressed to German Jewish Children’s Aid in New York, NY, postmarked May and November 1940, with some stamps have detached from the envelope, thought to have been used to send birth certificates of Jewish children for immigration or purposes.