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  1. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers

    Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he recounts his family's experiences during the German invasion of Belgium, his family's flight to southern France, and the experiences of him and his sister while at an O.S.E.-administered children's home, and later, as part of a convoy of children who were sent to the United States via North Africa in July 1942 with the help of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). Included are hand-drawn maps of places referenced in the diary, photograph...

  2. Selected records of the County Starosty of Rawa Mazowiecka Starostwo Powiatowe w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1074)

    Situational reports of the State Police: reports about Jewish organizations, Jewish political activists, a list of aldermen from Rawa, Biała and Nowe Miasto, a list of companies and their owners.

  3. Kornspan family collection

    The Kornspan family collection consists of documents, photographs, and correspondence from Leon and Mendel Kornspan and others from Poland and Palestine to Fannie Ebert and her husband Sam. Fannie and her brother Joseph (Yusha) immigrated to the United States before 1926 but Mendel and Leon did not, and they did not survive.

  4. Major Julian S. Perry collection

    Consists of one anonymous typed poem, circa spring 1945, describing the liberation of Buchenwald from the point of view of a liberated prisoner. The poem was given to (or typed by) Major Julian S. Perry while he was serving in the European Theater as part of the 516th Quartermaster Truck Battalion. Also includes correspondence, photographs, and narrative documenting Perry's experiences during World War II.

  5. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  6. Przewodniczący Rady Żydowskiej w Warszawie The Chairman of the Jewish Council Warsaw Der Obman des Judenrates in Warschau (Sygn.483)

    This collection consists of records created by the Office of The Chairman of the Jewish Council in Warsaw (Der Obmann des Judenrates in Warschau), 1940-1942. Included are numerous statistical documents (diagrams and tables), records of population, reports, correspondence, information about forced labor, food supply, deaths, financial and economic plans, taxes payments, etc. The most valuable is a set of reports of the Chairman of the Judenrat from Oct. 7, 1939 through Feb. 27, 1941. Other materials of the Warsaw Judenrat are available in the Ringelblum Archive from the Jewish Historical Ins...

  7. The Narrow Bridge Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War

    Consists of one typed memoir, 631 pages, entitled "The Narrow Bridge: Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War," written in 2014 by Dr. Zwi Barnea (born Herbert Zwi Chameides), originally of Katowice, Poland. In the memoir, Dr. Barnea describes going into hiding under the direction of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Metropolitan's brother, Klement Sheptytsky, head of the Studite monastic order. He reflects on his childhood before the war; the family's move to Shchyrets' in 1939; life under the Soviet occupation; learning of the aktions, particularly in Lviv and S...

  8. Ucko, Eisner, and Tonne families collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the Ucko family and Eisner family. Includes a photograph and correspondence relating to Salomon Tonne in Telgaua, Latvia, his sister Sara Tonne Boord (donor's grandmother).

  9. Rob Mandel Collection

    Collection of pre-war photographs, copy prints and photographic postcards primarily of the Jankielewicz, Mankiewicz and Reiches families in Lithuania; and a family history book entitled "Roots, Trees, Branches, and Burls" by Michael Jankielewicz (donor's cousin).

  10. Schmerzler and Igel family collection

    Collection of photographs and correspondence relating to the Schmerzler family from Stanisławów and the Igel family from Solotwina. Also includes correspondence, documents and photographs relating to Shemer family in Yerevan, USSR, Dzierzoniow, Poland and Israel, 1935-1952.

  11. Selected records from the State Archive of Orvieto

    Records of discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Orvieto.

  13. Correspondence of collaborators (Fond 241)

    The collection includes correspondence of Dutch volunteers who fought with the Germans on several fronts. Correspondence relates primarily to Dutch volunteers of the Nationalsozialisches Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK - National Socialist Motor Corps), with their families in the Netherlands. It also includes correspondence of members of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB- National Socialist Movement), who emigrated to the German refugee camps after September 1944.

  14. Dagmar Lieblová memoir

    Memoir, typescript, 45 pages, English translation of Czech original, describing the experiences of Dagmar Lieblová, originally of Kutná Hora, Czechoslovakia, in which she describes her childhood in Kutná Hora, the Jewish community there, the German annexation of Bohemia and Moravia, the subsequent introduction of antisemitic policies, the deportation of her family to Theresienstadt, the daily life during her 18 months of internment there, her participation in the children's play "Brundibár," her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and experiences as a forced laborer there, the murd...

  15. Landscape painting with buildings

    Oil painting made by Imre Deutsch before the war in Budapest, Hungary.

  16. Neumann family papers

    The Neumann family papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and restitution files documenting the Neumann family from Vienna, Gertrud and Ernst Neumann’s immigration from Vienna to the United States in 1940, and their children Karl and Greta’s immigration from Sweden via Riga, Vladivostok, Tokyo, Vancouver, and Seattle in 1941. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, registration, immigration, medical, military, and student records. Photographs primarily date from before World War II and depict the Neumann family and their relatives including, among others, Ernst’s bro...

  17. Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort

    Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot machine are Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the ...

  18. Rolleiflex camera taken by an American soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn526520
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) c: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) d: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Standard Rolleiflex 6 x 6 K2 camera, in leather case with accessories acquired by Hilbert Margol while serving with the US Army. Margol took it from a German soldier and then used it throughout the rest of his time while serving overseas.

  19. Postwar Berlin; theaters in Steglitz; US Air Force planes landing

    Four men operate a machine to demolish a city building. Men at work. 01:34:49 Train. Men at work again. Airplane lands. Rubble. 01:35:44 Street scene in Berlin with traffic, trams, and pedestrians. Max Kuehl sign. Couple walks towards camera, woman returns with flower bouquet. Outdoor market. Street scenes. EXT, "Ratskeller Steglitz" and "Albrechtshof Lichtspiele" (a theatre). "Titania Palast" theatre. Red Cross vehicle passes by. More street scenes. Café tables. 01:38:40 Dog walks towards camera. Puppies. 01:38:53 Women with aprons. Older couple with hats. Man in back of pickup truck waves...

  20. Cemetery, daily activity, and synagogue in Filipow

    Country road. Lottie poses with locals and relatives, probably in Suwalki, including Peretz Lansky and his wife Razel, Nahum Lansky (01:00:10), Zawel Borodowski (man with cane), next to Labe Hirsch Borodowsky (man with hat), next to Rivka Borodowsky with her children David and Eliyahu Vinizky at 01:00:16, and Rachel and Shlomo Quint at the end of the group (cousins); some children, probably Avraham and Binyamin Borodowsky, hide behind Zawel. A different group poses for the camera on cobbled streets. The countryside around Filipow, LS of town square. The American Blands arrive in a horse-dra...