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  2. Perel Nagelstein photograph

    Contains a prewar studio photograph of Peryl Nagelstein (née Pinkster), her husband, and three children

  3. Pető prepares a film of the Jewish Labor Company 252/2 in Hungary in fall 1940

    Agfa 8 logo. Hungarian titles throughout. Short prologue film: “Kedves Barátom” (Dear friend,). Text of a letter that Győrgy wrote, ends with his signature. INT doorway, dimly lit, as Győrgy enters through the doorway. CU table, he puts down several items: a box with “E.K. Co. Rochester, NY” (E.K. for Eastman Kodak), two boxes with lightbulbs in them, a box that says “Eumig Klebepresse” on it (Eumig is an Austrian electronics manufacturer, Klebepresse is a splicer), and a camera case. He opens the box with the splicer. He cranks a home movie camera as he leans in to look through it. [Negati...

  5. Harold Green photograph collection

    The Harold Green photograph collection consists of a small photograph album depicting liberation scenes of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. According to an interior inscription the photographs are associated with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. The photographs were given to Harold Green by an unidentified friend and fellow WWII veteran.

  7. Visiting family in Budapest

    Pathex logo. Jonas Schiffer is seated in front of the camera smoking a pipe, indoors. Marcsa (the new wife of Laci who visited the family in Budapest from New York) joins him. Trademark Pathex logo.

  8. Erwin Berkowitz papers

    Papers relating to Ervin/Erwin Berkowitz who was one of the 50 children rescued from Vienna in 1939 through the efforts of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. Includes a birth certificate, passport of Ernestine Berkowitz (Erwin's mother), passport and U.S. identification, copy of Honorable Discharge, and wedding photograph with Erwin and Marcella Kertzner and photograph of Ernestine with her granddaughter Michelle, circa 1954.

  9. Architect Gutschow (Architect for the redesign of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and the office of important mission) 322-3 Architekt Gutschow (Architekt für die Neugestaltung der Hansestadt Hamburg und Amt für kriegswichtigen Einsatz)

    Selected records relating to redesign of the hanseatic city of Hamburg. Contains correspondence, architectural plans, and legal contracts sent to the architect Konstanty Gutschow.

  10. Klein and Dreher families collection

    Letters sent to Helen Dreher (nee Ilon Klein) by relatives in Hungary (original and photocopies); photographs from Helen (Klein) Dreher's family as well as her husband, William Dreher, and his family. Also includes Herman Klein's text about the Jews of Hungary and his own family's story (photocopy).

  12. Pető family in summer 1939

    Kodak Safety film logo. Hungarian titles throughout. “1939. nyara” “Jancsi 3 éves.” János plays with a tricycle. János and Marika with their grandmother, Zseni Krausz (she died in Auschwitz). They visit a park and look at the river. Men play tennis. Nice close shots of the family and friends at leisure in summer, swimming, drinking, eating cake. Includes shots of Pető and his good friend Endre Kardos, among others. The young people in tennis outfits joke and play wrestle in the city. Two men change a flat tire. Tennis match with spectators. 06:09 Workers repair the roadways. Streetcar and o...

  13. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates

    Consists of selected records related to “Jewish affairs” as documented in French embassies and consulates all over the world, from the Treaty of Versailles to 1956, including: Ankara, Berlin, Bern, Beirut, Bonn, Bucharest, Cairo, Jerusalem, Havana, the Syria-Lebanon Mandate, London, Madrid, Munich, Rome-the Holy See, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Tangier, Tripoli, Vienna, and Warsaw. Records include reports on anti-Semitism during the pre-WW II years, applications for visas or French papers in consulates around the world, conflict in the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his ...

  15. Stefan Kowalinski letter

    A letter written by Stefan Kowalinski in Gross Rosen concentration camp is addressed to his wife Marie Kowalinski and their family, dated May 7, 1944. The letter thanks Marie for the package she sent him and inquires about other acquaintances.

  16. Anti-Nazi, zoo animal caricature, printed in Palestine

    Anti-Nazi caricature depicting animals with the faces of prominent Nazi leaders, published in Palestine in the early 1940s. If the instructions on the paper are followed, and the sheet is properly folded, the joined animals will create an image of Adolf Hitler. To escape persecution from the Nazis, many German and European Jews began immigrating to Palestine, which was awarded to Great Britain following World War I. Before and after the British takeover, successive waves of immigration (Aliyots) dramatically increased the region’s Jewish population. However, during this period of immigratio...

  17. Selected records from the Historical Archives of Subotica related to the history of the Jewish community

    Contains selected records related to the history of the Jewish Community of the city of Subotica, part of the Vojvodina province in Serbia. It includes records from the collection of the Senate of Subotica (Fond 41), the executive body governing of the city, Records pertain to the economic and political activities of the local Jewish community, and others, Serbs, Hungarians, Germans in 1918-1941. Contains census statistics, applications for permission to open business, various petitions and certifications, minutes of the Jevrejskog ortodoksnog pobožnog društva (Jewish Orthodox Pious Society...