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  1. Postwar wedding of Jewish survivors; ritual circumcision of their newborn

    Title, "Onze Trouw-Film" [Our Wedding Film]. City streets. At the Roxy Theater. Maurits Schaap and Rebecca (Bep) Bedak, soon to be married, meet and start toward City Hall in August 1945. Title, "Aankomst op het staduis" City Hall (The Hague). Street signs and the general location. There is no filming inside City Hall itself for the signing of the marriage license. The couple exits the building holding the marriage contract. In Rotterdam, Bep wears diamond jewelry just below her neck. The family prepares for the wedding ceremony in a synagogue in Rotterdam. Bep dresses in a gown and veil. 0...

  2. Lübschütz and Urman families papers

    The Lübschütz and Urman families papers consist of documents and correspondence of the Lübschütz and Urman families, formerly of Schönebeck, Germany and Vienna, Austria, and later of the United States. Included is a certificate awarding Julius Lübschütz the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer (Honor Cross); a Kinderausweis (child identity document) issued to Jutta Lübschütz (later Judy Urman); a copy of a document issued by the Japanese Consulate-General permitting Jutta Lübschütz entry to Shanghai; a postwar postcard from the Red Cross informing the Lübschütz family that Ruth Lübschütz Nathan was ...

  3. Personal archives of Ya'akov Hazan (RG-95-30) יעקב חזן, ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Yaakov Hazan (1899-1992) contains his personal documents, correspondence, publications in various newspapers and magazines on Zionism, the HeHalutz and Labor Movement.

  4. Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp

    Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The tag was picked up by an American soldier on a tour of the camp in the spring of 1945, after the camp’s liberation. A numbered tag was placed with each corpse to be able to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers on the tags did not correspond to prisoner numbers. Produced in large quantities, not all the tags were used. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi government in 1933, originally for political prisoners. Over time, other groups were interned at Dachau, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, ...

  5. Helena Bielska Himelfarb papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence, identification papers, affidavits, travel papers, photostatic copies, and a pamphlet which document the experiences of Helena Bielska Himelfarb, her husband Solomon Himelfarb (donor's parents), and her efforts to immigrate to and legally stay in the United States after WWII.

  6. Thomas Ketterman photographs

    Consists of eleven photographs, taken after the liberation of Dachau, which were mass printed and widely distributed, as well as one photograph described as the path to the Eagle’s Nest. The versos of these photographs include descriptions written by Thomas Ketterman, a member of the 136th AAA Gun battalion during World War II.

  7. Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr. collection

    Collection of 12 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and other scenes found in the camp; dated April-May 1945. Collection also contains one newspaper clipping from "The Field Dispatch" published for the 20th Armored Division, dated 29 May 1945, and containing an article lauding the 27th Tank Battalion for their recent performance; and a roster of the 27th Tank Battalion of the 20th Armored Division. Materials were brought home from the war by Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr., of Milwaukee, W...

  8. Selected records of the district of Częstochowa II Starostwo Powiatowe Częstochowskie II (Sygn.318)

    This collection contains selected files from the County administration of Częstochowa from 1945-1950, including the town of Częstochowa, as well as towns and rural communes incorporated in the County of Częstochowa, a part of the Province of Kielce. Selected files contain such materials as: situational reports (1946-1947), correspondence concerning people of other ethnic origins, matters of citizenship, information about graveyards (1946), registration of artisans, wartime graves, lists of civilians murdered, arrested and sent from the county to forced labor during the German occupation, as...

  9. "Sara's Story"

    Consists of typed testimony of the Holocaust experiences of Sara Weingram, as written by Sondra Greenberg. The testimony describes Sara's childhood in Pułtusk, Poland, the German invasion, and her family's forced evacuation east to Russia. The family was briefly split, but reunited near Orsha, in Belarus. After the German invasion in June 1941, Sara was separated from her family during a German bombing raid and found an orphanage. She eventually found her family in Magnitogorsk, where the family suffered from illness and hunger. After the war, Sara married her boyfriend, lived in the Milan ...

  10. Oral history interview with Morton Mattel

  11. Bronner and Kirshenbaum families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Kirshenbaum and Bronner families from Bedzin, Poland, in the Bayreuth DP camp in Germany; photos show their friends and family. Includes a marriage certificate for Sala and Moniek Bronner, a notarized statement of Sala Kirschenbaum, and birth certificates of Sala and Moniek Bronner

  12. Paper Wholesale Company in Częstochowa Ltd. Hurtownia Papieru w Częstochowie Spółka z.o.o. (Sygn.152)

    This collection contains records of the Paper Wholesale Company in Czestochowa including financial books of departments, related to: bookkeeping, sales and employment. The founders of the company were: Leopold Kohn, Józef Markusfeld, Juliusz Schleicher, Gustaw Heyman, Alfred Kohn, Antoni Markusfeld and Stanisław Markusfeld. Initial capital amounted to 35,000 Polish zlotys divided into 100 shares of 350 zlotys each. There were many Jews among the staff and customers of this company who were later victims of the Holocaust.

  13. Nahum Sharon (Strachman) personal archives (RG-95-17), נחום שרון (שטרכמן) - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archive of Nachum Sharon (1912-1976) contains records on the Hashomer Hatzair in Poland, biographical data and description of his hometown Luck (Ukraine), speeches, articles, papers related to his leadership in MAPAM party (United Workers’ Party, Israel) and the Histadrut (General Organization of Workers), issues of the magazine "Al Hamishmar", articles on "German problem"-restitutions from Germany (1951), records from his mission in Cuba (1959-1962) and association of friends Israel-Cuba, the manuscript on Emanuel Ringelblum, the reproduction of his book "Summer 42" (in Hebrew).

  14. Stanley Sarnack letter

    The Stanley Sarnack letter consists of one handwritten letter from Stanley Sarnack, to Stella Wells of Utica, New York, dated May 2nd, 1945, and written from "somewhere in Germany." In the letter, Sarnack, a member of the 102th Infantry Division of the Ninth Army, mentions German atrocities he had witnessed, including a building where bodies were burned alive [likely the Gardelegen atrocities].

  15. Joseph Schäfer certificate of Aryan descent

    Certificate of Aryan descent, issued to Joseph Schäfer (born 14 March 1863), of Mühlheim, Germany. The certificate, issued in Frankfurt am Main on January 16, 1936, consists of a typescript copy with stamps and signed by an official of the justice of peace in Frankfurt, and attests to Schäfer's parentage and his baptism in the St. Marcus Catholic parish in Mühlheim on 16 March 1863.

  16. Kleiner, Wagman and Schmer families papers

    Collection of photographs and documents concerning the experiences of the Kleiner, Wagman, and Schmer families before the war in Boryslaw, Poland; during the German occupation, when Hela Kleiner and her baby son Marian were in the ghetto, and later when Hela asked Michasia Sulik to take her two-year-old son Marian. Hela remained in hiding with Tadzio Schmer (later Tadeusz Gorecki), who lost his wife and children. Includes writings by Tadzio in hiding; correspondence with Jona Kleiner and other family members and friends in the Soviet Union; and postwar correspondence and photographs, includ...

  18. Family takes trips; Jewish doctor's office sign

    01:01:00 Roll 34. Hanna and her mother walk around the town of Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg, in Southern Germany. Church. 01:02:01 Hotel sign with a Star of David hanging from it. The family drives in the countryside and stops by a gas station. They visit an outdoor market and Schloss Meersburg. Town square. Sheep. Hanna's parents consult a map for directions. MS, Otto's reflection as he films the back of one of the car lights. 01:09:07 Roll 35. View from a streetcar in a city. City workers shovel snow, construction. A sign outside of Otto's office reads, "Dr. Otto Plaut," located on Gottsc...

  19. William L. Ward, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of 23 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and prisoner clothing; dated April-May 1945.

  20. Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner papers

    Correspondence sent to Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner, following his emigration to Palestine (1939-1942), from his parents in Vienna, Josef and Regina Flaschner, who were subsequently deported to Maly Trostinec and perished there. Also includes other related correspondence sent to Kurt Flaschner, dating from approximately 1940-1950, from relatives in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and friends in Palestine. Contains news from family members in Austria, descriptions of conditions in Vienna in the months following Kristallnacht, discussions of acquaintances who had emigrated from Austria, and efforts to ...