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  1. Dotnuva, Lithuania photograph collection

    Contains 30 prewar photographs of friends and family of the Leibowitz and Toker families in Dotnuva, Lithuania. Most are photographic postcards with Hebrew or Yiddish inscriptions on the verso.

  2. Photographic print of a teacher and students

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613473
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 8.880 inches (22.555 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 8.690 inches (22.073 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a teacher and students in cheder (Jewish elementary school) in Slonim, ca. 1935-38.

  3. Filantropia: Official organ of the Jewish Philanthropic Association Publicacion de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita [starting in 1980] Filantropia: Organo de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita

    Monthly serial of the Asociación Filantropica Israelita, published in Spanish and German in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previous title: Mitteilungsblatt (Hilfsverein deutschsprechender Juden).

  4. Watercolor

    Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is titled, "Living room", and depicts a desk, table, and other furniture within the room. The watercolor is initialed "H" and dated January 1946, in the lower right corner of the verso.

  5. Amalia Willinger Gordeski papers

    The collection contains letters written to Amalia (Mali) WIllinger, who immigrated to the United States prior to World War II, from her parents and siblings in Hungary. The letters date from 1940-circa 1950s and are in Hungarian. Also included is a self-published book, "A Century of Love" by Marian Farago. The book describes the history of Marian's parents, Martin Willinger (later Martin Farago) and Edith Schwartz (later Edith Farago) including their experiences during the Holocaust and the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.

  6. Charlotte Herzog collection

    Contains photographs and documents related to Charlotte Herzog (donor's mother), and the efforts of her employers to protect her from deportation by proving she was not Jewish.

  7. Nikolaj Benno Mahler collection

    Collection of photographs, passports, scrip, documents, testimony, certificates, registration card, identity cards, depositions, travel authorization, application for reparations and correspondence relating to and documenting the experiences of Nikolaj Benno Mahler (donor's husband) during the Holocaust.

  8. Mendel and Rachel Zehnwirth papers

    Contains correspondence and documents related to obtaining an immigration visa to the United States for Mendel and Rachel Zehnwirth, dated 1946-1947. Among the documents is a letter signed by the secretary of Va'ad Ha'Hatzala, Rabbi Ya'akov Karlinski; a letter by Rabbi Shmuel Shechter; and letters sent to government officials by relatives of the couple, citizens of the USA, describing the couple's financial situation and their concern for relatives who had survived the Holocaust.

  9. cloth table covering

    One embroidered table cover for end table made by Emma Di Capua Honig (donor's mother)

  10. Portfolio cover

    Portfolio cover for set of four watercolor and ink drawings depicting different rooms within the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany in February 1946. The front and back cover pages are adhered together with a strip of red and white gingham fabric, and a matching piece of fabric ties the cover together on the right. The front cover depicts the outside of the officer's quarters, with a small inset in the lower right corner showing a portion of the building titled "my corner!." The inside of the back cover shows a man and woman in traditional Bavarian dress along with other smaller drawings.

  11. George Silviu family papers

    The George Silviu family papers document George Silviu, a Romanian poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Records include administrative and professional documents, official letters, Silviu articles and poems published in journals, personal letters, and press clippings. The collection also includes copies of extensive files now held in the Securitate Archives in Bucharest that document how Silviu was banned from publishing under his true name, arrested, and imprisoned. The collection further documents the family’s Romanian citizenship and the career of Silviu’s father, famous architect Ia...

  12. Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement

    Contains a copy of regulations of the Nazi General Government in the German zone of occupation, Krakow: "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement", Nr 51, 20 June 1941. Among the subjects covered include a unification of the zones of occupation; an order given to the [Jewish?] communities of occupied Poland to move to Krakow, and that the city of Krakow will confiscate the property of these communities.

  13. Picture postcard, "Villa Saint-Cristophe"

    Consists of a photographic postcard depicting Villa Saint-Christophe in Canet-Plage (now Canet-en-Roussillon), France. The villa was later the site of a children's home where Jewish children from nearby Rivesaltes were sheltered by Lois Gunden Clemens (1915-2005).

  14. Imre Fleischman Faludi collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the donor's father, Imre Fleischmann Faludi, born on August 24, 1920 in Kesckemét, Hungary, the son of Zsigmund Fleischmann and Roza Schwimmer Fleischmann. Imre Fleischmann was conscripted by Hungarian authorities to serve as a train engineer in forced labor battalions. He was later transferred to the Bor concentration camp in Yugoslavia.

  15. Private collection of Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner (Sign. P 68)

    Private papers of Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner. The collection consists of correspondence on behalf of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria with American and British Jewish organizations, the U.S. military, and other chaplains regarding WWII survivors and their family members, includes a letter to Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein regarding the arrival of the first child in the Bavarian Zone, Nov 19, 1945, medical reports, list of employees of Jewish Committee in Munich, and other subjects related to situation of European Jews after WWII; also consist of articles, reports, financial stat...

  16. Kurt Weiser collection

    Collection of documents, photograph albums, and correspondence related to Kurt Weiser's experiences during World War II. Born in 1922 in the Czech Republic, Kurt was raised in Chorzow, Poland and deported or forced to flee to Siberia and further east into the Soviet Union. After the war, Kurt settled and worked in the New Ulm displaced persons camp, and eventually immigrated to Buffalo, NY.

  17. Selected records of the town Skalbmierz Akta miasta Skalbmierza (Sygn. 2219) : Wybrane materialy

    Records concerning registration and control of migration of population in the city Skalbmierz, including a book of the permanent inhabitants of Skalbmierz (File No 261) and notices about their migration. Also includes records relating to Jewish property (1946), and industry matters during WWII (1943).

  18. Reichsbanknote

    100,000 Mark bank note dated 1923.

  19. A kleinichker vintele | A ganze vokh

    Phonograph record 5. USSR, 2 sides. Tatyana Weintraub, vocalist; State Ukrainian SSR Folk Music and Dance Ensemble, Solomon Feintuch, conductor. Recorded in Kiev, 1939. Side A: A kleinichker vintele (A kleynikhker vintele). Folk song, arranged by Joel Engel. Side B: A ganze vokh (A gantse vokh). Folk song, arranged by Solomon Feintuch. Yiddish singer Tatyana Weintraub (Tatiana Vayntraub) may have been "disappeared" during a Stalinist purge (see Joel Rubin, liner notes to CD "Shalom Comrade"). Solomon Feintuch (1899-1985) was a popular and prolific Soviet-Ukrainian conductor-composer-pianist...

  20. Natan Huppert postcard collection

    Three postcards, sent from family members and acquaintances living in Auschwitz (Oświęcim) Poland, to Natan Huppert, living in Lwow, Soviet-occupied Poland, and later in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia, 1940-1941. Two of the postcards, from February and March 1940, were sent to Huppert in Lwow from his father, Heinrich Huppert, the latter of whom was living in Auschwitz. The third postcard was sent from Erna Bachner, living in Auschwitz, and addressed to Huppert in Arkhangelsk, Russia, in February 1941. All three postcards also are addressed to Dora, who was presumably Huppert's wife and...