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  2. Selected records from the State District Archive Znojmo

    Administrative records from the towns of Znojmo, Miroslav in Bohemia and Moravia concerning anti-Jewish measures and regulations and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Includes name lists and registers of local Jews. Selected records originate from three collections at the State District Archive in Znojmo: 1. Archiv města Znojma (Archive of the city of Znojmo) 1281-1945 (1980); 2. Archiv městečka Miroslav (Archive of the town Miroslav) 1783-1945 (1948); 3. Archiv obec jiřice u Miroslavi (Archive of the municipal office of Miroslav) 1783-1945 (1948).

  3. Oral history interview with Zlata Santocki Sidrer

  5. Oral history interview with Bruno Massa

  7. "Equality" Egyenlőség [Newspapers]

    A Jewish weekly newspaper issued in Budapest, Hungary, 1882-1938.

  8. Prayer book

    Prayerbook that belonged to the donor's grandmother.

  9. Herbert L. Winograd collection

    Two envelopes; one sent to donor’s aunt “Beyla Katz…ul. Krasnoarmeiskaia in Pruzhany…Zapadnaia, Belorus, Brestskaia oblast [in Russian]…formerly Poland” from “Winograd, Beechwood…” Ohio, postmarked November 6 [no year] and stamped “RETURN TO SENDER.” One envelope sent from Else Guggenheim in Camp de Gurs to Norbert Guggenheim in Cleveland, Ohio and postmarked January 29, 1942. Else was deported to Auschwitz September 4, 1942.

  10. Title cards

    An assortment of handmade title cards in German prepared by Walter Hausner.

  11. András Pető is born

    Éva is pregnant with András. Éva and György’s first child was born on October 3, 1943, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Reel shows the first few months of András, bathing, eating, playing, tummy-time, bundled up outdoors. Eva holds Andras and pushes him in a carriage in town. Film ends 02:59

  12. Salek and Anny Rosendorn papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Salek and Anny Rosendorn, both originally from Łódź, Poland, including their lives as refugees in the Neustadt displaced persons camp from 1945-1947 and their immigration to La Paz, Bolivia in 1947. The collection primarily consists of identification cards and documents regarding Salek’s work with the Jewish Welfare Committee, the International Welfare Advisory Council, and the Central Jewish Committee. Other material includes poems authored by Anny on Jewish Committee stationary, a certificate identifying her as a former prisoner of Stut...

  13. Siegfried and Katherine Susskind collection

    Affidavits of Identity and Nationality for Siegfried Susskind and Katherine Susskind (née Zappen), who left Germany in 1939, went to Budapest, and were then in Shanghai from 1940-1948 before immigrating to the United States. Also includes Katherine Susskind's "Acknowledgment of Filing Petition for Naturalization" and blank postcards of scenes around Hongkew, China.

  14. Prewar family life in Hungary

    Andris Berkes (the son of Ernö’s cousin) rides horse, probably in summer 1932 at family farm in Zabar. Includes shots of the town as well as other family members horseback riding and jumping. (08:33) Herding sheep, Andris assists the shepherds. Well with long pole hauling up bucket. (09:41) In Mohács, Béla Molnár, the father-in-law of Klári, poses outside their home. Children, Peter and Anni Molnár; Eva Popper rides a tricycle. (10:11) An elderly couple (grandparents) pose for camera. Eva plays with her father and the family’s fox terrier dog. (10:46) INTs, CUs, grandparents Jonas and Jenny...

  15. GR 2 P 123-136-Ministry of National Defense and War, Department of Civil Personnel, 2nd office (Jews), Dismissal from Administrative Jobs or Continuance in Office, (Mainland France) GR 2 P 123-136-Ministère de la Défense nationale et de la Guerre Direction des Personnels Civils 2ème bureau (Juifs). Radiation des Contrôles des Administrations ou maintien en fonction (Métropole)

    Consists of records concerning Jewish civilians in government jobs at the French Ministry of Defense. The decree of the 2nd Statute, June 2, 1941 (a replacement of the Decree, October 3, 1940) defined who was to be considered a member of the "Jewish race" elaborating rules concerning grandparents. The Article 4 of this decree listed the professions and positions that Jews could not exercise (positions in ministries). Exceptions were made when an individual could prove that he and/or his family had provided exceptional service to the French nation. This law applied to all of French territory...

  16. Garbovits family papers

    The collection consists of wartime postcards sent from Arnold and Karolin Garbovits in Budapest, Hungary in 1944. Two postcards were written by Arnold from a labor camp in Budapest to Karolin and his daughter Erzsebet (later Elizabeth), dated 9 and 15 October 1944. Three postcards were written by Karolin on the train as she was being deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in December 1944, one of which was addressed to Elizabeth, dated 12 December 1944; one addressed to a relative called Lainhorn Jolanka, dated 10 December 1944; and one addressed to Ferencz Veiler likely authored ...

  18. Zemský prezident Brno, správa z příkazu Říše (B 252) Landespräsident Brünn-Reichsauftragsverwaltung (B 252)

    Contains records relating to the Germanization and liquidation of the Czech nation, settlement of Germans on Czech soil, restriction of the Czech school system and cultural life, support for the German school system and curricula, support of German theaters, cultural societies and various German organizations and information about various German and Czech offices, top officials, teachers and youth movements, professors as well as nomination of German governmental commissars in Czech cities and towns, and support of Moravian Slovaks. Includes also important records about the partisan movemen...

  19. Records of the Israelite Community of Uruguay Kehilá Ashkenazí (Comunidad Israelita del Uruguay Kehilá Ashkenazí)

    Marriage and death registers, minutes of the General Assembly, (Yiddish), minutes of the Board of Directors, proceedings of the General Council, records of the Commission of Education, and minutes of the Plenary Council,.