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  1. Naomi Waldman collection

    Contains four photographs depicting young people, including Holocaust survivors, in Anvers and Brussels, Belgium, dated 1944-1945; all captioned on verso, some with personal inscriptions.

  2. Emil Engl collection

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Emil Engl (donor's father); marked with red "J" stamped on first page; issued in Vienna, Debruary 27, 1939. Emil fled Vienna and immigrated to Palestine in 1939, where he joined the Haganah.

  3. Judenrat in Wilno Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wilno (Sygn. 269)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wilno. Contains private documents of Szlam Prener: a proof of payment, a registration certificate, and a request to pay the tax applicable to the Jewish population in Vilnius.

  4. British Pathé Newsreel -- Austrian and German refugees take part in an Americanization program at a Quaker camp

    RKO-Pathe News. Titles read: "HAVEN - QUAKERS ESTABLISH NY REFUGEE FARM". At West Park American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), several shots of Austrian and German refugees of various ages sitting on steps and chairs outside a building and learning about the American way of life in 'Americanization Classes'. Adults and children work together in picking fruit and vegetables in fields on the Quaker camp. Commentator says the program is designed to re-establish the refugees socially and spiritually. Several shots of young people diving into a lake and swimming about.

  5. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann confesses to his role in the Holocaust

    Various shots inside the courtroom in Jerusalem, where a tape-recorder is being played. This is playing back the confession of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Shots of Eichmann, the judges, etc. Note: The confession is heard in German and then translated by the voice-over. He downplays his role in the Holocaust but admits his guilt and offers to be hanged in public as a deterrent to others. He had fled from Germany to Argentina after the war.

  6. Wendy Ramirez photograph collection

    Set of boxed images with type-written and corresponding printed list of images, all stamped with corresponding number on reverse. Images depict United States Armed Forces.

  7. Ruth Pizyc Berlinger collection

    Contains a memoir (photocopy of an original held by Yad Vashem) written by Miriam Pizyc Flint (donor's sister) regarding the Warsaw ghetto uprising; a letter and envelope written to Ruth in Sweden after the war by Casimier Bieberstein (later Casimir Biebers) in Canada, in English; letter in Polish written to Ruth from a friend dated June 19, 1946; family photographs and copy print of Ruth with her husband and friends in Stockholm after the war; and a glass negative with image of Ruth and her pet dog taken in pre-war Warsaw, circa 1936-1937.

  8. Judenrat in Kobierzyn Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Kobierzyn (Sygn.259)

    Records of the Judenrat in Kobierzyn, Poland. Consists of blank banking forms of the Staatliche Irrenanstalt in Kobierzyn (State Mental Institution) used as the proof of payments for particular people. Name of people are handwritten on the top of the forms: Salomea Gdańska, Estera Goldbrrim vel Spitzberg, Rozalia Mendel, Paula Messner, Antonina Mink vel Adler, Szwajer Munk, Filip Rieger, Chaja Schwarz, Laja Szwajcer, Siegbert Tichlauer, Elsa Wechsberg.

  9. Karl Otto Herz memoir

    Contains an unpublished manuscript entitled "Auschwitz: ein Tatsachenroman" by Karl Otto Herz (typescript; approximately 500 unnumbered pages; forward dated 31 December 1945 in Linz). Given to the family of Walter Vogel (donor's husband), probably by the author.

  10. Selected records of the Office of War Damages at the Presidium of the Council of Ministers in Warsaw Biuro Odszkodowań Wojennych przy Prezydium Rady Ministrów w Warszawie (Sygn. 291)

    Orders, circulars, correspondence, statements, registers, correspondence diaries, letters regarding losses and war damages in Poland during World War II, destruction of state-owned buildings, industrial objects, forestry and agriculture, as well as material losses of private citizens, and biological losses of population. Included are also materials regarding revindication and compensation of war damages, and war damages in other European countries.

  11. Police headquarters in Brno Policejní ředitelství Brno (B 26)

    Records pertaining to anti-Jewish measures, the treatment and deportation of Jews and Roma, the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets, lists of Jews and foreigners including prisoners at the Gestapo headquarters on Orlí street, and other relevant records

  12. Inspector of the uniformed Protectorate police in Moravia Inspektor uniformované protektorátní policie na Moravě (B 300)

    Includes daily orders and reports from 1943 to 1945; records pertaining to the fight against partisans and paratroopers including lists of anti-partisan volunteers; arrest records; records pertaining to American, British, French, Italian and Russian POWs, forced laborers, black market profiteers, the use of convicts for the removal of unexploded ordinance, the setting up of detention camps, and other relevant records pertaining to the daily activities of the uniformed police and gendarmerie in the Protectorate under German control.

  13. Oral history interview with Jakab Vag

  14. Selected records of the District Court in Kalisz Sąd Okręgowy w Kaliszu (Sygn. 2220)

    Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Kalisz District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, active participation in illegal demonstrations in 1931, participation in a ...

  15. Moshe Shertok ticket

    Ticket for reception in honor of Moshe Shertok of Jerusalem, at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1943. Text: “Reception in honor of Moshe Shertok/of Jerusalem/Chief of Political Department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine/Wednesday evening, March 17th, 1943…Carnegie Hall….Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Chairman/Auspices: American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs…(This will be Mr. Shertok’s only public address in this Country)”

  16. Lindemann family and friends

    CU, woman, outdoors on city street (probably during Christmas 1934). She approaches the camera with a man and girl; each with a metal medallion affixed to their jacket lapel. The couple kisses; their daughter kisses her parents. Baby Oda sits on Ethel’s lap shaking a rattle and eating (probably on February 7, 1935). People sled down a hill. Oda bundled in the carriage. Ethel takes her for a stroll through the snow-covered park.

  17. Ship passengers depart New York for Europe, 1930

    Port. “HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE,” “UNITED AMERICAN LINES,” “COSULICH LINE.” Harbor, smoke stacks. Large passenger ship. New York skyline from the Hudson River, including the Empire State Building, Queensboro Bridge, etc. Statue of Liberty. Steam blows out of one of the ship’s funnels. A man hugs two women on deck. Other passengers relax on lounge chairs. A smaller boat in the water. “CLEVELAND” on the bow of a different ship. Luggage hoisted from a lower deck. Aerial views of passengers on the top deck, waving goodbye. Italian flag. Steamliner cruises through the water, smoke rises out. Flag w...

  18. World War I veterans in Braunschweig, 1934

    Flag with the Iron Cross. Barrels of four guns rest together. Cannon. Small planted shrubs, artillery. A crowd gathers in a square. Men in uniform on horseback. German World War I veterans wearing the Pickelhaube, followed by others, such as men with flags and sashes. A man carries a sign: “L.Eskadron Husaren-Regt. 17.” More marching, spectators. Men salute, and soldiers respond. “ENDE” (reverse)

  19. Albert Einstein letter to Maja Winteler-Einstein

    A hand-written letter from Albert Einstein, addressed to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein, dated December 14, 1938, in which Einstein encourages his sister to visit him in America on a visitor’s visa and describes the relief work he is undertaking on behalf of persecuted victims of Nazi Germany.

  20. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s

    Correspondence, reports, and files relating to Jewish residents and refugees in Belgium before, during, and after World War II that document the Communauté Israélite de Bruxelles and its president Max Gottschalk, the Comité d’aide et d’assistance aux Réfugiés d’Allemagne, the Comité d’assistance aux enfants juifs réfugiés d’Allemagne, and the La Ramée agricultural school for Jewish youth. The collection also includes index cards documenting Jewish community in Brussels during the Second World War, individual files on child refugees, and files and drawings documenting Dina Dreyfus, the daugh...