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  1. Watercolor created in Theresienstadt

    Artwork: 'Mizrach' artwork, watercolor created by Hilde Zadikow in Theresienstadt concentration camp. The artist was born in 1890 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and deported to Terezin with her husband Arnold (who died there) and daughter Marianne. While there, Hilde created this Mizrach [a work of art placed on a wall facing Jerusalem] in 1943. Hebrew translates to "The Lord shall grant strength to His people; the Lord shall bless His people with peace" and "For You light my lamp; the Lord, my G-d, does light my darkness." Dictated to her by Leo Baeck. Hilde and Marianne survived and immigrated...

  2. District Authority Velké Meziříčí Okresní úřad Velké Meziříčí

    Administrative records of Velké Meziříčí, a town in the Vysočina region, including anti-Jewish measures and decrees and the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Records pertaining to the emigration of Jews. Post-war records pertaining to the restitution and confiscation of expropriated Jewish properties.

  3. Barban family papers

    Consists of Reisepass passports issued to Andreas, Heinrich, and Olga (née Margulies) Barban of Leipzig, Germany prior to their immigration to Shanghai. Also included is the Reisepass of Bronislawa (Betty) Berljawsky, later Barban, formerly of Vienna, Austria. Original notes found within the passports of Heinrich and Olga discouraging the inclusion of the names "Israel" and "Sara" in future identity documents are also evident.

  4. Selected records of the Rent Office Urząd Rent w Łodzi (Sygn. 214) : Wybrane materiały

    Files on the granting and the payments of pensions to German invalids and to families of fallen soldiers. The Jews listed on the lists are mostly the veterans of World War I (or their families), staying in the Łódź ghetto.

  5. Oral history interview with Helen Laks

  6. Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wola Wereszczyńska (Sygn.270)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska. It contains two work ID cards issued for Ch. Orzech from Andrzejów and Jankiel Szczupak from Wola Werszczanska. Includes information about dates of employment in Judenrat Wola Wrzeszczanska and on a private farm in Dębiec (region Chelm).

  7. Selected records of the Prosecutors Office at the District Court in Kraków Prokuratura przy Sądzie Okręgowym w Krakowie (Sygn. 2240)

    Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Krakow District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of participation in the activities of the local communist parties, dissemination of communist magazines and illegal possession of weapons, editing and dissemination of anti-Polish publications and a secret prison newspaper, distribution of communist literature, slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, participation in...

  8. Second Middle School Men's Society of Jewish Secondary Schools in Łódź II Gimnazjum Męskie Towarzystwa Żydowskich Szkół Średnich w Łodzi (Sygn. 264)

    Consists only of one folder of the prewar school protocols on the secondary exam from the 1928-1929 (Polish "matura"): Fiszel Altman, Henoch Brzoza, Simon Epsztejn, Jakub Fajnberg, Moryc Ferster, Salomon Elimelech Galewski, Leopold Halpern, Wolf Helmer, Jakub Józef Hendlisz, Abram Jakow Karo, Chaskiel Kindzielewski, Chaim Kurz, Mendel Landau, Mojżesz Lipszyc, Chaim Majer Opatowski, Chaskiel Opoczyński, Mojsze Mordcha Pacanowski, Szymon Pfeffer, Oszer Pietruszka, Mojsej Prochownik, Mojsze Załmen Priwes, Bernard Pustelnik, Machel Rajzman, Jakób Dawid Rembiszewski, Fiszel Rotsztajn, Josif Dawi...

  9. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers

    The Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers contain correspondence, identification documents, immigration documents, school certificates, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families living in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) before and during World War II and the Holocaust. The correspondence centers on the emigration of Max and Irma Czerner from Prague to the United States with their infant son in 1939. The correspondence relates their efforts to secure visas and transportation for their young daughters, Helga and Raya Czerner...

  10. David Kovack collection

    Contains an album entitled "Slovakia," with copies of newspapers and documents created by David Kovack (donor's late husband) in memory of the Jews killed in Slovakia from 1939-1945. David Kovack was a survivor and was a member of the partisans in Slovakia for 4 years.

  11. Dr. A. Howard and Lucille Shanberg visit family in Poland and Belarus in 1929

    Town Hall in Białystok in Poland, a commercial district. Woman and young girl on a narrow street as an older woman and man approach along the side of the left building. Horse drawn cart carrying a man and barrels moves through town. Pans right on the town and a row of houses on a tree-lined street. A lake with with floating wood rafts. 01:00:27 CU of four women and one man all smiling and waving to the camera, perhaps in Swislocz, Belarus. Behind them is a wooden structure and the lake with wood rafts. Cows walking. WS of the cows and the man walking into a town. House and trees surrounded ...

  12. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer

    Curtain found by Paula Dash while she was a forced laborer in the city of Bremen, Germany, from 1944-1945. Paula found the curtain in a basement, hid it in her bosom and used it as a towel in the mornings. Later, while living in Bergen-Belsen displaced person’s camp, she used it as a table cloth. Paula was living in Łódź, Poland, with her family when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. A week later, German forces occupied the city and quickly established an enclosed Jewish ghetto in the city. Paula, her parents, and three siblings all lived in one small room. Her younger brother Henry, be...

  13. Baby takes first steps in Dahlem

    Moving train, railroad tracks. Ethel sits by the window next to another woman (Piepers?) and smiles. The family stands by their car and stows their belongings in the vehicle. The residence in Dahlem, Germany. The children play in the yard. A toddler, probably Peter, takes some of his first steps. He occasionally receives help. He falls over and recovers.

  14. Oral history interview with Gizela Maklan

  15. Needlepoint

    Needlepoint stitched by donor's grandmother Eszter and aunt Ilona, which was discovered by donor's father Bela Ingber, when he returned to Munkacz after WWII.

  16. Alexander Muller collection

    The collection includes a journal, on loose pages, transcribed and recorded by Alexander Muller in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany. The entries include statements and testimony from other survivors.

  17. John Weitz collection

    Contains John Weitz’s historical research for the books "Hitler's Diplomat: The Life and Times of Joachim von Ribbentrop" (published in 1992) and "Hitler's Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht" (published in 1997). Includes copies of primary and secondary source material, newspaper clippings, personal papers, as well as Mr. Weitz’s handwritten notes.

  18. Hans and Ethel get married in Philadelphia, 1929

    Open outdoor area. Car with license plate “D617” pulls up and parks. Hans Wolfgang Lindemann and Ethe McGloclin smile and kiss. CUs, Ethel sitting on a concrete planter with bare trees behind her. She smiles as her beau joins. They kiss again. In Philadelphia city, “RITTENHOUSE,” the couple wed in 1929. The newlyweds consult with their wedding party - men have flowers on their suit jacket lapels, and women hold bouquets and wear cloche hats. They meet with the priest, everyone shakes hands, the women joyously throw rice. The couple is getting married. They kiss once again. More hand-shaking...

  19. British Pathé Gazette -- St. Louis ship anchored off-shore

    Location unknown. Titles read: " REFUGEES WITHOUT A COUNTRY" LSs of the 'St Louis' ship with 900 hundred Jewish refugees on board. The commentator says that "900 Jews have found a haven at last. They crossed from Hamburg to Cuba. But in Havana they were refused entry and had to return to Europe and possibly to Hamburg, the city they dreaded. In every harbor, friends come out to give them words of cheer and sympathy while they appeal by radio to the democracies. Eventually, they are allowed to land in Holland, when some will go to Belgium and France, and others to England. So at last the wan...

  20. Gertner family papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Regina, Lucy, and Samuel Gertner in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Biographical materials include DP camp identification papers, International Refugee Organization documents, immigration papers, marriage certificates, report cards, postcards received at Foehrenwald, and restitution claims. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Regina’s first husband, Hersch Fenster and his sister Scheindale, Lucy as a hidden child in a convent in Czerwonogrod, Ukraine, and the family in Foehrenwald.