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  1. Selected records of the City Grodzisk Mazowiecki Akta Miasta Grodziska Mazowieckiego (Sygn. 36), 1869-1950

    Consists of ordinances of German authorities, registers of physicians and Jews obligated for forced labor; files of the Commissioner’s Administration of Jewish Properties, the resettlement of Jews to the "Jewish Housing Quarter”, and personal files of Jewish municipal workers, including Bernard Kampelmacher, who later was a member of “Oneg Szabat” (The Ringelblum Archives).

  2. Rabbi David Eliach collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the "Teheran Children," a group of approximately seventy observant children out of a group of 861 Jewish orphans, who were placed in the "Motza" children's agricultural colony under the leadership of David Eliach.

  3. Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, and transcripts concerning the experiences of Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin (donor's great aunt), who served as a stenographer and court reporter for the US Army during the Dachau War Crimes Trials following WWII.

  4. Bernard Beckerman photograph collection

    Contains a hand-made photo album and six loose photographs, assembled by Bernard Beckerman (donor’s father), who served in the 45th "Thunderbird" Infantry Division. Includes comments from Sergeant Beckerman about what he witnessed upon the liberation of Dachau in April 1945.

  5. Andrássy family collection

    Consists of correspondence, agreements, meeting minutes, and notes related to the ownership and management of the Friss Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1940-1944, and the purchase of the Kincses Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1941-1944. Many of the documents relate to the sale of the Friss Ujság from the Zolnay family (who were Jewish) to Count Imre Andrássy, and Andrássy's payments to Lászlo Zolnay. Also includes documents, 1943-1944, related to the newspaper's purchase of extensive amounts of wine to serve as a future distraction to Russian troops; family history about Count and ...

  6. Selected records of the district of Skierniewice Starostwo Powiatowe w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 877)

    Reports relating to warfare, devastation and atrocities, the deportation of Jews, and persecution on the dwellers in different localities during World War II; correspondence and registers of minorities; confirmation of citizenship and residence, registers of people changing names.

  7. 51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp

    Daily life of the 51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp, possibly in the US or in England. Captain Beatrice Wachter (the donor's grandmother) enlisted in June 1943 and departed from Europe on February 26, 1944. A group of men in military uniform and women uniformed as nurses laugh and joke around for the camera. The man with a moustache wears the eagle pin on his cap and the caduceus insignia on his collar, indicating that he is a colonel in a medical corps. Several people in a small boat cross a pond. Two women and two young girls walk and pose for the camera by a large stone wa...

  8. Textile with embroidered names

    Burlap patch embroidered with a series of names and the dates 1940-1946.

  9. Third Term - Third Reich campaign button

  10. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  11. Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie 1940 presidential campaign button

    Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie campaign button for the 1940 Presidential Election. Several variations of this button were manufactured at a rapid pace. Some had different background colors, while others had different text size and font styles. The campaign button was used to build awareness, and encourage positive word of mouth for the Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie, while simultaneously discouraging support for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). FDR was running for an unprecedented third term, which was a major factor the Republicans pressed during the campaign...

  12. Dictators don't debate campaign button

  13. No Third term campaign button with Uncle Sam

  14. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap Hunting License" with outline of map of United States, a "Keep Out" sign and a likeness of Uncle Sam, holding a rifle.

  15. Give Roosevelt his rest campaign button

  16. American propaganda poster depicting Mussolini, Tojo, and Hitler listening for information

    Poster depicting the heads of Axis leaders, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hideki Tojo of Japan, and Adolf Hitler of Germany, above a clear warning. Each man is holding a hand cupped to one ear, suggesting that he is listening carefully for any careless talk revealing valuable information about the United States or their allies. The poster was designed by Ralph Iligan, an artist working for the Graphics Division of the United States Office of War Information, in 1942. The need to manage information about the war on the home front led to the establishment of the OWI in June 1942. This office con...

  17. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Japs Get Out!"

  18. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  19. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  20. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button. "Jap Hunting License/Open Season/No Limit." Lettering around image of a Japanese person with stereotypical features and a red star on his military cap.