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  1. Health Insurance Agencies 355-4 Versicherungsbehörden

    Selected records of the Versicherungsbehörden (German Health Insurance Agencies), 1847-1954. Consist of minutes of director's meetings, records of employment of legal advisors, and for civil servant positions concerning German-Jewish community; negotiations between associations of dentists and health insurance companies about contracts and regulations, exclusion of the Jewish Hospital from the treatment of "Aryan" health insurance members, files relating of regulation for care for political prisoners in concentration camps, and compulsory insurance for guards of the concentration camps, and...

  2. RZ 105 Office of the German Under Secretary RZ 105 Büro Unterstaatssekretär 1936-1945

    Records related to diplomatic relations between Germany and foreign countries, including Italy, Japan, Poland, and the Soviet Union, concerning the "Jewish question." Consists of correspondence, telegrams, propaganda materials, articles and newspaper clippings.

  3. Family poses in blooming garden and eats a meal

    AGFA 8. János and Marika Pető with their aunt Rose, playing in the garden, flowering bushes, probably in Summer 1940. CUs as János smells the flowers. Family group sits at an outdoor restaurant, nice CUs. Film ends 01:00

  4. Anne Birnbaum collection

    Contains letters written by Annie Zwern in Frankfurt am Main to relatives in the United States before the war; a document dated June 1939 regarding the registration of a family with German police in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; and a newspaper clipping with a photograph of Blanka Zwern and her daughter Anna arriving on the S.S. Marine Marlin in New York.

  6. Jack Neufeld papers

    Consists of correspondence, restitution and naturalization documentation, pertaining to the experiences of Jack (Jurek) Neufeld, born 1922 in Wolbrom, Poland. The correspondence includes letters from families Schwinghammer and Preis of Eggenfelden, Germany, who Jack knew well from his time living as a displaced person in the community.

  7. Major John B. Calfee collection

    Visitors Pass authorizing bearer to enter any part of the Dachau concentration camp, issued to "Lt. Col. Hogan, Capt. Calfee, & driver."

  11. Jewish family in Slovakia

    Pan, fenced estate in Gelnica, Slovakia. (01:00) Lola Engel (nee Schiffer) calls on a dog outside the estate. Three people (including Ernö’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk along the sidewalk and wave. Pan, steeple, and other buildings in the small town. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  13. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  14. Doll given to a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    A doll given to Esther Rosenfeld as a child by Dorothy Harrison when she was in the United Kingdom. Dorothy Harrison was the mother of the family that was caring for Esther after she arrived on the Kindertransport. She received the doll for Esther from an acquaintance who brought it over to the Harrison's home once she found out that Esther was a refugee living with the family in Norwich, England.

  15. Poster

    Bergen Belsen memorial poster

  17. Sara Nussbacher and Chaim Yeger collection

    Manuscripts in English and Hebrew documenting the experiences of Sara Nussbacher (nee Markowich) and Chaim Wolf Yeger. Includes copy of Hebrew manuscript by Tali Geva in 1989 about Chaim Yeger and the English translation by donors of that manuscript. Manuscript about Sara Nussbacher written in English by donors based on her oral history, and includes original photographs.

  18. Henry (Hank) M. and Marion Rosenwald collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs of Henry (Hank) M. Rosenwald and Marion Marx Rosenwald. Henry M. Rosenwald and his parents Paul Rosenwald and Margarete (Grete) Rosenwald were able to emigrate to the U.S. from Germany with the help of their American Rosenwald cousins. Marion Marx was also an emigre from Germany. The collection includes items from WWI through Hank's death in 2001.

  19. Health Insurance Authority 355-5 Aufsicht über Versicherungen

    Selected files of individual insurance funds (mainly health and death funds). Consists of correspondence, cash registers, and applications.

  20. Ruth Leipziger photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of large group of men, women and children, the majority of whom are in costume (perhaps for Purim); inscription on verso written by Ruth Leipziger; dated New York March 23, 1939.