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  1. Berariu family papers

    Contains 15 archival documents, four postcards, and two identification cards related to the Holocaust-era experiences of the Berariu family.

  2. Szyfman and Rozental families collection

    The collection contains correspondence sent by Dr. Leon Szyfman in the POW camp Oflag VI B Dössel between September 25, 1943 and November 3, 1944 to Helena and Henryk Rozental in Bern, Switzerland; a Red Cross letter sent by Stephanie Pitzele in Kibali, Congo to Helena Rozenthal; a letter from M. Rappaport in ILAG to Helena Rozental regarding Dr. Szyfman; a wedding announcement of Paulette Ouvrard and Joseph Cukier, 1944; calling cards of Atalia Singer; and miscellanous notes.

  3. Collection of Florian Efraim Sokołów Akta Floriana Efraima Sokołowa (Sygn.103)

    Personal papers of Florian Efraim Gotthold, his wife and son. He was a Jewish lawyer and journalist. The collection includes political correspondence and journalistic work, as well as press services, newspapers and news clippings, collection of postcards, and family private correspondence, telegrams and bills. The smaller group are papers related to the period of his work in the Joint Distribution Committee (Files 9-10) and Jewish issues (Files 11-12). There are contributions to the activities of Zionist organizations in Poland and abroad, a speech of Nachum Sokolow (Florian's father), note...

  4. Budapest: city views; bathhouse; rose gardens

    Film Nr. 38. Title card: “Budapest – wie es war!” [Budapest – how it was!]. Parliament building in Budapest from across the Danube. Views of the Buda side of the river. Views of the Danube and the buildings along the water on the Pest side. The Parliament building from afar. Driving in a car across the Szechenyi Chain Bridge. A streetcar. Flowers and gardens on Margaret Island. Title card: “Im Palatinus Strandbad.” [In Palatinus Bathhouse] EXT of the bathhouse. Gardens around the baths. Thermal baths. People swim in the baths. Fountains. Flowers and gardens. People sunbathing. Groups of peo...

  5. Red Cross ribbon bar

    American Red Cross ribbon bar received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  6. R.C. Slater collection

    Contains a booklet, liberation photographs, and combat images belonging to a soldier named R.C. Slater, who later gave the materials to the donor.

  7. Berko family papers

    Correspondence, from Ignatz Berko, sent to family members in New York, circa 1937-1941; among the recipients were son Louis (Lajos) Berkow, and daughters Sadie Grossman and Rose Rubin. Also includes copy of certificate attesting to Andor Lichtman's imprisonment at Mauthausen, 1944-1945; and copy prints of photographs of Ignatz Berko and family (original was from circa 1932), and of a memorial plaque for Ernest Lichtman at the site of the Ebensee concentration camp.

  8. Vasilevsky family in Slovakia

    KODAK. Quick pan of workers in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia. The Vasilevsky family exits an automobile, including mother Elizabeth, daughter Emma, and son George. CUs. The children pick flowers and dance with George (the cameraman). Four schoolgirls on sidewalk and in town. An elegantly dressed man waves to the camera. Boy cries. Elizabeth and her children exit a building (possibly the Kvetnica Sanatorium where they visited Dr. Madziuk). Walking in the large park in the center of Kvetnice. Children, including Vitia and Peter Kalina, play in the garden with a rabbit at home in Spišská Nová Ves...

  9. Selected records from the Panevėžys Branch County Archives in Lithuania related to restitution of Jewish property

    Records of various county agencies (State Notary, County Executive Council, People's Court, etc.) related to the restitution and inheritance of the individual and communal Jewish property located in the Panevėžys County, Lithuania after World War II.

  10. Fred Weiss collection

    Contains photographs, letters, and documents related to the wartime and postwar experiences of Wilhelm (William) and Regina Rusinek Weiss. Includes photographs showing Regina Rusinek in Volary, Czechoslovakia, soon after the liberation by the US Army in May 1945; later photographs depicting William and Regina in the Feldafing DP camp, in the Berlin Zoo and with their newborn son, Samuel, born 1946; documents related to the imprisonment of Regina in Grunberg forced labor camp and on a forced march to Volary; documents related to their immigration and sailing on the SS Gen. Heinzelman; and a ...

  11. Prayer book

    Set of prayer books for different Jewish holidays. The set belonged to Martha and Leo Loeb.

  12. Paul Blank photograph collection

    The collection consists of post-war photographs depicting Holocaust survivor Paul Blank standing with fellow survivors and American soldiers in front of the memorial monument at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Zeilsheim, Germany.

  13. Jung family photographs

    Contains photographs depicting the Jung family in Munkač, Czechoslovakia; Josef Jung (donor's father) ID photo in Israel after the war; and images of Gitta Erbs (later Jung) in Germany after the war and later in Israel. Gitta Erbs was born in Hust, Hungary to Mordechai Erbs and Berta Farkas Erbs. In May1944 she was deported with her family to the Auschwitz death camp and tattooed with the number A-11690; Josef Jung was born on Feb. 16, 1926 in Munkač, Hungary, son of Izak Jung and Rosa Weisskopf Jung. Josef was deported to Auschwitz death camp in May 1944 and tattooed with number: A-17900. ...

  14. Records of Jewish communities and institutions in Paraguay Paraguay-Legajos de Comunidades e Instituciones Judías

    Records from the Jewish community in Asunción and several Jewish institutions in Paraguay, including the "Sociedad Templo Israelita Latino del Paraguay," "Unión de Israelitas pro Socorro Mutuo," "Unión Hebraica del Paraguay," "WIZO," and others. Features board minutes, protocols, statutes, correspondence and reports, account ledgers, newspaper clippings, commemoration records, publications and articles, photographs, questionnaires and lists, and other documents.

  15. Pastor Paul Vogt papers Nachlass Pfarrer Paul Vogt (1900-1984)

    Private papers of Paul Vogt (1900-1984), Swiss pastor and a refugee aid worker. Consists of manuscripts, press articles, honors, diaries, obituaries, notes by Sophie Vogt-Brenner and Annemarie Vogt, photographs, interviews and publications. Records relate to Paul Vogt's commitment and leadership for charity and assistance to refugees, his work towards understanding between Christian and Jews, and his support for the existence of the State of Israel.

  16. Rezső Rudolf Kasztner collection

    The Rezső Rudolf Kasztner collection comprises letters, documents, certificates and protocols given to Holocaust researcher Dov Dinur by the Kasztner family that document Kasztner’s activities as a member of the "Vaad Ha-Ezrah veha-Hatzalah be-Budapest " (Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest). Letters, reports, and an aide mémoire from July-August 1944 pertain to the early stages of negotiations Kasztner conducted with Adolf Eichmann, Kurt Becher, Hermann Krumey, and other senior Nazi leaders on behalf of the committee in an attempt to secure the liberation of hundreds of Hungarian Jews. In...

  17. Rose and Max Schindler collection

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Rose Schwartz Schindler and Max Schindler, Holocaust survivors who met and married in the United Kingdom after World War II. Max’s family was deported from Cottbus, Germany to Poland in October 1938; Max, his father Benjamin, and brother Alfred performed slave labor in numerous concentration camps including Płaszow, Litoměřice, and Theresienstadt, where Max and Alfred were liberated in 1945. Rose and her two sisters, Helen and Udka, were deported from Seredné, Czechoslovakia, to Auschwitz. They survived together and returned...

  18. Chaim and Sarah Levitan papers

    Contains documents, identification cards, and certificates related to the experiences of Chaim and Sarah (Skirsky) Levitan. Contains a membership card for the Union of Jewish Students in Grenoble, France issued to Sarah Skirsky (later Levitan), dated December 15, 1927; a French identity card for Sarah Levitan, bearing stamps of Le Havre, France and noting Lithuanian citizenship, dated 1930; a French identity card for Chaim Levitan, noting Lithuanian citizenship; an identification card from the University of Grenoble, France, dated 1928; two certificates from a students' organization of Ghen...

  19. Historical Committee of the Temporary Social Insurance Board in Warsaw Komisja Historyczna Tymczasowej Rady Zakladu Ubezpieczeń Społecznych w Warszawie (Sygn.158)

    Questionnaires and analyses of the Historical Committee of the Temporary Social Insurance Board in Warsaw. The Committee conducted special surveys directed to insurance workers. The collection contains the responses of the insurance workers to the questionnaire on the fate and activity of social insurance during the occupation and its summary and analyses. Answers to the questionnaire concern the following data: place of work and the position of the author of the answer; organizational changes in insurance investments; staffing; healthcare; property and financial matters. Included are worke...

  20. Wedding; picnic celebration with local Greek Jews; marketplace

    Title card: “A Wedding in Kastoria.” A band walks towards the camera and down a set of stairs (not visible) for this Jewish wedding. Wedding guests follow behind in a procession, including Lena Elias and Allegra Confino. Everyone is nicely dressed. Brief shot of the synagogue with a sign in Hebrew above. Guests. Title card: “Picnic in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Bocko Mayo tendered by Mr. & Mrs. Calif H. Elias at Mavryotsas.” Adults dance the hora. Others relax on the grass. People sitting at a table toast, celebrate, and smile for the camera. Large group poses for the camera. Title card: “...