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  1. Verpflichtungsschein issued to Paul Swienty

    Verpflichtungsschein (obligation note) issued to Paul Swienty, who has been released from German captivity on condition that he will perform the work assigned to him by the Labor Office and will not leave that job without permission from the office or the police under penalty of arrest. Black and white photo of Swienty affixed at bottom left with red "J" stamped at top left of photo; issued in Stalag VI-D, Dortmund, Germany. Dated October 21, 1940.

  2. Florence Hodel papers

    The Florence Hodel papers consists of photographic portraits, printed reports, correspondence, and clippings related to Hodel’s work as a member of the staff of the War Refugee Board and her post-war work on the International Monetary Fund. The portraits include graduation portraits of Hodel, portraits of Hodel and her sisters ca. wartime, portraits of Hodel taken in 1945, and portraits, ca. 1960, of Hodel in her office at the International Monetary Fund. The War Refugee Board materials include a transcript of a meeting between Moses Leavitt of the Joint (JDC) and John Pehle, Florence Hodel...

  3. State Repatriation Office, County Branch in Częstochowa Państwowy Urząd Repatriacyjny. Oddział Powiatowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 5)

    This collection contains the remnants of files from the Repatriation Office county branch in Częstochowa in 1945-1950; including telegrams, reports, questionnaires and registration books. Approximately 80 % of the preserved documents are registration books containing the data of each repatriate such as: where the given person came from, the dates of their arrival and departure, the destination, occupation, nationality, date of birth. Jews comprise a minority of these individuals.

  4. Collection of posters and prints from the area of Częstochowa Zbiór afiszy i druków z terenu Częstochowy (Sygn. 59)

    This collection contains posters and prints from the pre-war, wartime and postwar periods. Includes announcements issued by the German authorities with regulations directed to Polish people, farmers and workers for paying taxes, to report to work in Germany, and to work in Poland, etc. Contains several issues of Polish newspaper "Nowiny dla Polskiej Wsi" (April 1942, May-Dec.1943; Jan.-June 1944) with articles related to Katyń massacre, political situation, some are with antisemitic and anti-Bolshevik titles. The newspaper includes a list of Polish generals murdered in Katyń.

  5. Shay’keh Weiner personal archives (RG-95-59) שייקה ויינר- ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Shay'keh Weiner (1912-1979) contains interviews, letters from Poland and Paris, biographical documents and personal papers, minutes of meetings of the World Headquarters of Hashomer Hatzair (1957-1969), correspondence with branches and representatives of the Hashomer Hatzair abroad.

  6. Gessner visits Moscow

    Gessner enters a doorway through two Red Army soldiers after one looks at his papers. 01:05:40 WS of the House of the Unions [Дом Союзов] in Moscow, Russia. Sign beneath reads ““Всесоюзный Съезд Советских писатепей”[All-Soviet-Union Meeting of the Soviet Writers].Three other banners hang from the building with quotes from Maxim Gorky Писатели- Это Инженеры Человеческих Душ [Writers are Enginеers of Human Souls]. 01:05:48 Gessner walks through a doorway again, pulling out his papers to show to the soldier. He looks back at the camera and flashes his papers. A young boy and girl talk to each ...

  7. Amtsgericht Guttentag District Court of the Town of Dobrodzień Sąd Obwodowy w Dobrodzieniu (Sygn.584)

    This collection contains selected files from the German District Court in the town of Dobrodzień (Guttentag). Selected materials refer to the Roman-Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious communities. Contains statistical reports prepared at the behest of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. (NSDAP), and the official German regulations issued for religious communities. The records were unprocessed and documents are in poor physical condition.

  8. Warner J. Nelson, Jr. photograph collection

    Contains 15 photographs documenting the liberation of a concentration camp.

  9. Einhorn family collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Matel Feldschuh Einhorn (donor's great aunt) and her husband, Efraim Einhorn, who managed to leave Vienna in November 1939 and immigrated to the United States. Photographs depict the three Feldschuh brothers in 1924; their mother Pearl; Sabina Feldschuh Korman (donor’s grandmother) and others; documents include two passports with the red letter “J” issued to Matel and Efraim Einhorn and other documents issued to donor’s grandmother and grandfather. Includes a certificate of residence issued to Efraim Einhorn; blank picture postcards with i...

  10. Reunion in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

  11. Synagogues and Jewish businesses in Paris; summer camp for children

    The facade of a synagogue in Paris' 18th Arrondissement. Daily life in the surrounding bustling neighborhood, signs of many businesses include French and Hebrew script. Trash fills the gutters and cars and horse-drawn carts share the street. Scenes of an outdoor flea market at the nearby Porte de Clignancourt. Two uniformed soldiers march through the market. A view of the Sacre-Coeur basilica rising above the rooftops of the neighborhood. 01:02:32 Children on a beach at a summer camp on the Ile de Ré, off the coast of La Rochelle, in France. Their fists raised, interact with filmmaker Rober...

  12. Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families in Yugoslavia. Biographical materials include marriage certificates, two postcards from Alfred Fischer to his wife Elvira Fischer Pisker written while he was imprisoned at the the Stara Gradiška subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp, and written testimony from Elvira describing her wartime experiences. The photographs include pre-war family photographs primarily of the Pisker family; the Pisker and Fischer families in Italian-occupied Crikvenica, Croatia; Elvira Pisker’s weddings to ...

  13. Kornbluh family papers

    Consists of photographs, copyprints, and documents related to the experiences of the Kornbluh family. Includes a photograph of Rivke Kornbluh with her aunt, Tzivia Klein; post-war photographs taken in Bari, Italy; and a photograph of the yeshiva in Bari, circa 1946. Also includes a letter from Rivka written from the Satmar ghetto on May 7, 1944; a postcard from Nathan and Rivka from the Satmar ghetto, dated May 12, 1944; and a postcard from Berel Kornbluh, written from the "Waldsee" camp, dated July 25, 1944.

  14. Carl Lutz commemorative material

    Consists of a first-issue commemorative stamp and envelope, issued on September 29, 1999, featuring Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. Also includes a post-war photographic print portrait of Lutz, and a printed program for a ceremony at George Washington University, dated March 3, 2014, at which Lutz was posthumously honored with the University's President's Medal for his work in Budapest in 1944.

  15. Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of nine photographs taken by Sergeant Al Elias of the United States Army after the discovery of the Gardelegen atrocity. Includes photographs (some with captions on the verso) of victims, of American military personnel, and of the burial of bodies.

  16. Ruth Fischel correspondence

    Consists of one folder of correspondence between Ruth Fischel in Melbourne, Australia, and her distant relatives, Hermine Schwartz of Philadelphia, PA, and Annette Asher, of Atlanta, GA. In the letters, dated between 1947-1949, Ruth explained her family's Holocaust experiences, including the death of relatives in the Holocaust, her escape with her husband to Shanghai, life in wartime Shanghai, and receiving confirmation, in 1948, that her children had also been killed in the Holocaust. The letters also detail the Fischels' immigration to the United States in 1949.

  17. Certificate of compulsory contribution

    Certificate of compulsory contribution for the sum of 30 zloty by the German authorities in Warsaw; a sum of 100 million zloty was a penalty levied on the Polish population of the city of Warsaw and the vicinity for an attack by the underground on the German occupier; this certificate is a blank; in Polish; dated February 1944.

  18. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of 14 photographs taken after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945 by Kenneth E. Nichols, a member of the 89th Infantry Division. Includes photographs of corpses and of American soldiers walking amongst the bodies.

  19. Bustling Jewish life in Berlin

    In Berlin, a statue of a woman with her arm outstretched. Busy street scene, Nazi flags are visible from the upper floors of several buildings, as are Hebrew script signs on many of the ground-floor businesses. "Horst Wessel Platz" underground station sign. 01:05:42 Briefly, the facade of a synagogue located at 32 Grenadierstrasse. Quick cuts of two smiling women and street scenes. A residential courtyard with terraces. Concealed view of the exterior of the Reichstag building and the Siegfried statue of the Bismarck Memorial. 01:06:19 Street sign reads "Grenadierstrasse," more scenes of a b...

  20. Werke des Genrtalgouvernements Aktiengesellschaft Papierfabrik Tschenstocha Factory of Paper and Mill in Częstochowa, A. Kohn and J. Markusfeld Limited Liability Co. (LLP) Fabryka Papieru i Młyny w Częstochowie A. Kohn i J. Markusfeld Spółka Komandytowa (Sygn.151)

    This collection contains records relating to the operation of the Factory of Paper and Mill in Częstochowa. Included are financial documents, a register of employees over 18 years, reports of work accidents to the Social Insurance, and lists of employees’ payroll. These records provide information on the economic life and work at industrial facilities in the inter-war period in Poland.