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  1. Presentation by Meyer Zar and Rose Zar

  2. Agudas Achim Congregation photograph collection

    Photo album: containing black and white photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps. Contains a variety of images including but not limited to: the reburial of victims of Nazi persecution by German citizens in Nuremberg, food distribution, social and sporting events, behind the scenes at Nuremberg prison and the Palace of Justice, scenes from the Nuremberg Ordnance Depot, a soup kitchen for local children, Army MPs, Nazi war criminals, and visiting dignitaries; all image captioned on verso; dated 1945-1947; in English.

  3. Selected records from the collection of former Archives of Ministry of Defense of Bulgaria in Veliko Tŭrnovo

    The collection contains name lists of Jews drafted to the labor battalions in Bulgaria, military orders and reports regarding the conscription of Jews, and lists of those released due to hospitalization, or who were otherwise granted leave.

  4. Children at school in Palestine; daily life in Holland; Carnival parade; El Al flight

    Titles, "Haifa" and other locations in Palestine. Street scenes. Children in school/nursery in Palestine, wearing costumes, performing a play. Outdoor exercises with teacher. A young couple walks down steps through a yard toward camera. 06:35:15 In Holland, rose garden. Outdoor marketplace crowded with people. Flag of Netherlands flies atop domed building. Elders sit outdoors at the seaside café in the Hague, drinking mineral water. Woman in lab-coat seen earlier with puppies at kennel. Woman looks at dogs. Men gesture to camera near automobile. Man with back to camera speaks on ornate tele...

  5. Adolph Rosenthal correspondence

    Contains three letters, plus two enclosures, between U.S. Representative Herman P. Kopplemann (1st district, Connecticut) and Adolph Rosenthal, of East Hartford, Connecticut, from January-February 1937, concerning the efforts of Mr. Rosenthal to obtain visas that would enable family members in Germany to immigrate to the United States. Kopplemann advised Rosenthal to provide as much information about his personal finances and property as possible, and the correspondence chiefly concerns the type of information needed in order to make the affidavit as convincing as possible.

  6. Ida Marcus collection

    Consists of photographs and portraits, mostly pre-war, of members of the extended family of Ida Marcus (née Vanowsky/ Yarnilyski, also known as Chaie Marksfeld, later Fentel), originally of Russia. The family members pictured, some of whom lived in Łódź, all likely perished in the Holocaust. Also includes copies of Ida Marcus's naturalization papers and a copy of her daughter Minna's birth certificate.

  7. Gary Abernathy collection

    Consists of two wartime photographs: one was likely taken at Brenner Pass in October 1940, and depicts Keitel, von Rundstedt, Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, while the second photograph depicts a pile of corpses at Buchenwald in April of 1945.

  8. Vacationing in Belgium and England

    Titles, "VACANTIE 1939", "HORS D'OEUVRE AAN DE BELGISCHE KUST". Beach on the coast of Belgium. Young boys play in the sand, adults enjoy the sunshine. Artist painting on an easel, Grand Place, EXT of l'Hotel de Ville. HAS of city and buildings. Travel along a waterway, likely Canal du Centre, by boat. Bep and Maurits Schaap on boat. 04:05:46 Flag on top of building. Restaurant. Family sits down for a meal at the coast. 04:06:51 Title over map of England: "Met de Citroen naar Engeland". Road trip in 1939 with Simon Lo through parts of England. Automobiles at a port where a crane lowers cars ...

  9. Hashomer Hatzair in France (RG-14-2) השומר הצעיר בצרפת

    Contains activity records, minutes of meetings of the Hashomer Hatzair Council, work plans, educational publications : Ha kvutza, on summer camps in France, articles Hashomer Hatzair leaders, a report on the World Zionist Federation, brochures of the "Lapidim" group, newspapers clippings "Al Hamishmar" (newspapers been published in France by the Hashomer Hatzair publishing house in 1931-1949).

  11. Beach and farm in Palestine, 1934

    Low quality view of waterfront houses shot from a boat. Other ships in the water. On the shore, men and a young boy stare at the camera. 01:00:28 A man in a striped shirt jogs along the beach. Tel Aviv? Beach chairs and a beach shack that says the words “JUDAN AMITEL BEER”. A man wears a traditional Middle Eastern headdress on the beach and looks at the camera. 01:00:42 The man in the stripes walks behind him waves at the camera. Another man (Gessner?) asks a man on the beach for directions, indicated by their hand gestures. People lay in the sand. A fully-clothed man sits in a beach chair ...

  12. Leonard Burrows photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The photographs, which depict corpses and a crematorium oven, likely belonged to Flight Lt. Leonard (Bunny) Burrows, a member of the British military who took part in the liberation.

  13. "Parcours"

    Consists of one typed memoir, approximately 30 pages, entitled "Parcours," written in November 2012 by Pierre Saragoussi. In the memoir, Mr. Saragoussi describes his family's pre-war lives in Paris. During the war, he and his sister were cared for by the Caron, Guyollot, and Namias families, who hid the children as Catholics in Appoigny, France, during the war.

  14. District Liquidation Office in Częstochowa Rejonowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Częstochowie (Sygn.401)

    This collection contains selected files of the District Liquidation Office in Częstochowa concerning ownership of property in the region of Częstochowa. Records relate to Jewish and German abandoned or deserted property in the post-war period (documents of the so-called "entering into possession," “wprowadzenia w posiadanie”). Included are lists of estates, along with their descriptions, tenancy agreements, applications for purchase or lease of Jewish estates, monthly reports, correspondence, as well as the administrator’s files of those estates.

  15. Records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka Akta gminy Regnów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1105)

    The collection contains vital records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka. Includes reports, police announcements and orders regulating registration of people who had migrated to that region, name lists of firemen, correspondence relating to military cemeteries, and government support of Jewish families after World War II.

  16. Clearing war debris; military officers make plans

    The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles, "Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen", "Documentaire Film der Verwoesting", "De toegang tot west Z. Vlaanderen Isabellasluis". Allied vehicles move along a cleared road. The surrounding area is heavily damaged. Destroyed buildings. Men and horses work through the rubble. Possible near Breskens. Title, "Nu verrichten deze "heeren" productieve arbeid, waar zij altijd zooveel", "over spraken". Men work to clear debris, probably in Oostburg. Signs in English from the Allied Forces and in Dutch demarcating destroyed...

  17. Irvin Boring testimony

    Consists of two essays (2 pages and 5 pages) written by Irvin Boring, a scout with the 26th Infantry Division, describing his experiences discovering and liberating a small concentration camp for women in the area of Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, Germany, and his experiences discovering the site of a mass grave, possibly the victims who could not continue during a death march.

  18. Collection of photographs from the Kazerne Dossin Archives

    This collection contains more than 19,000 photographs of Jewish deportees and Romanies living in Belgium and deported from Belgium and France to concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.

  19. Ostrava Jewish Community collection

    This collection contains materials from 83 families throughout the world originating from Ostrava, including: family photographs, as well as images of pre-war Ostrava, including synagogues and businesses, personal papers such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, school records, newspaper clippings, business advertisements, letters, as well as memoirs, genealogy charts, and testimonies documenting pre-war Jewish life in Ostrava, as well as experiences during the war, and in the postwar period, in many cases to the present: including information and photographs of the survivor's famili...

  20. Oral testimony of Roland Levi