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  1. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Finansowy (Sygn. 303/VII)

    Records of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP). Wydział Finansowy (Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department). Consist of administrative records, minutes, circular letters, ordinances and instructions for post-inspection reports from the field, correspondence on the budget matters, financial records, registers of Jewish children in care facilities, registers of teachers, and the like. Records relate to planning and controlling of the budget of the organization activities: in charities, culture, health, schools for Jewish communities, care of orphan children, publ...

  2. Selected records of the District Court in Łomża Sąd Okręgowy w Łomży (Sygn. 2142)

    Consist of court case files, notes, communist proclamations and newspapers, posters, postcards, arrest warrants, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Łomża 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, like: "Long Live Soviet Russia", "Worship to the chief of the international proletariat and peasantry, Karl Liebknecht,...

  3. Oral history interview with Nathan Burzinski

  4. Weiss family collection

    Contains a Ketuba (marriage license) for Imre and Elizabeth Weiss (donor's parents), Hungarian birth certificate, Hungarian marriage license, copies of photographs, and a copy of a handwritten biography of Margit Gluckman (donor's aunt).

  5. Sticker

    Sticker, "Jews are TRAITORS to America and should not be trusted. Buy Gentile"; 1939.

  6. Selected records of the State Archive in Levoča

    Selected records of the post-war trials and investigative cases of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts pertaining to Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members accused of collaborating with the German security forces. Includes the trial records of individual Slovaks accused of denouncing their Jewish neighbors, the trial records of regional Hlinka Guard commanders responsible for the deportation of local Jews, as well as the trial records of major political defendants. Also consists of wartime files of the local gendarmerie stations pertaining to the arrest and roundup o...

  7. Foreigner Entry Management "First Class Passengers" : Immigration records Gestión de Ingreso de Extranjeros "Pasajeros de Primera Clase" : Expedientes Inmigracion

    801 applications for entry into Uruguay of Jews descent from Europe. The files consist of immigration applications and documentation filled out by family members (and in some cases companies) residing in Uruguay and sponsoring individuals seeking entry into Uruguay, including the names of the sponsored family member(s), their nationality and current address abroad, and other personal data. Also includes the persons' arrival date and ship information. Many of the applications feature the Uruguayan residency permit of the private sponsor, including portrait photographs of applicants. Note: Th...

  8. Apology letter from residents of Bonbaden, Germany, addressed to Margot K. Stern

    Letter (two leaves, four pages), written and signed by the residents of the village of Bonbaden (part of city of Braunfels), in Hessen, Germany, 9 November 2008, containing an apology to Margot K. Stern and her family, former Jewish residents of Bonbaden, who fled their village and homeland because of antisemitic persecution during the Nazi era. The letter, written following a Christian worship service commemorating the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Bonbaden, expresses remorse for the persecution of Jews in Bonbaden during that era, acknowledges the pain that Stern’s family experienc...

  9. Documents of Jewish communities, organizations and schools in Brazil

    Records from various Jewish communities in Brazil, including Amazonas, Belém, Bello Horizonte, Manaus, Niterói, Pará, Porto Alegre, Quatro Irmãos, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Maria, Santos, and São Paulo. Features board minutes, protocols, statutes, membership registries, birth and death records, lists of Jewish residents, correspondence and reports, account ledgers, newspaper clippings, publications and articles, a photo album (digital file BR/BL79), school and pedagogical materials, and other documents.

  10. Selected records of the Office of Revendication in Warsaw Biuro Rewindykacji w Warszawie (Sygn.287)

    Requests of Poles for reparation for forced labor, submitted to the Association of Poles in Lübeck, press releases concerning war damages, materials related the criminal activity of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost (Central Trust Office "East") and German companies (Georg Bunder) in the General Governorship (GG) in 1939-1945; organizational sketch of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost, revindication reports, certificates, correspondence (1947).

  11. Verle H. Brown collection

    Photographs taken at Gardelegen showing victims of the atrocity, the confrontation between American servicemen and local German officials, and civilians being forced to participate in the exhumation and reburial of victims.

  12. Betar document collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence recording the operations of Betar commissionership in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Handwritten and typed correspondence sent to the head of the commissionership and the commander of the ship "Pentcho," Yehoshua Halevi Zitron.

  13. Anne-Gilberte Stemmer Hercberg collection

    The Anne-Gilberte Stemmer Hercberg collection consists of prewar and wartime photographs of Anne-Gilberte Stemmer, a hidden child, and her parents, Charles Salomon Stemmer and Malka Tennebuam. The photographs also include photographs of Jules and Odette Hébrard, who hid Anne-Gilberte during the war by acting as her aunt and uncle on a farm in the village of Lasalle, France.

  14. Sidney Elenberg papers

    Contains documents illustrating Sidney Elenberg's postwar emigration from Italy to the United States. The documents were falsified to gain easier access to the United States.

  15. Watercolor of the Bavarian Alps

    Watercolor titled "Bavarian Alps", signed H.C. January 1946. The drawing, done in both watercolor and pencil, depicts the Alps as well as chalets. The backing originally attached to the frame had the inscription, "With many good wishes for the future! To M. Robbie from Helen" February 1946, Dachau, Germany."

  16. Max Borg correspondence

    Contains a letter, 3 pages, typed, addressed to Mr. Seder in Worcester, MA from Max Borg in Paris, France. In the letter, Mr. Borg thanks Mr. Seder for his kindness and asks for monthly food parcels. He goes on to write about his family's history, businesses in Danzig, finances, the fate of his family, his whereabouts and experiences during WWII

  17. Laiser Ajchenrand papers Nachlass Lajser Ajchenrand (1911-1985)

    Private papers of Lajser Ajchenrand (1911-1985), a Holocaust survivor and author. The collection consists of personal documents, photos, press articles, the vernissage in the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland, correspondence with Max Brod, Marc Chagall, Max Frisch, Hermann Hesse, Abraham Karpinovitch, Jo Mihaly, Carl Seelig, Nelly Sachs, Abraham Sutzkever, et al., poems various texts and reviews relating to Holocaust experiences and his intelectual life and literary work.

  18. Rhine River tour; Württemberg

    “GERMANY” "THE RHINE” Dark shots from from a boat on the Rhine River of the surrounding area. Castle on the hill. Trees. Smokestacks of boats on the water. The castle wall on the edge of a hill. Waterfront. Smaller castle on a terraced hill. “HALL IN WUERTEMBURG” Schwäbisch Hall, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Steep stairs lead up to St. Michael’s Church. Houses line the slanted road. Nazi flag. St. Michael’s Church. Young girl approaches the camera, joined by a young boy and mother.

  19. Prefettura di Napoli, Gabinetto, II versamento Selected records from State Archives in Naples

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in the community of Naples, Italy. Including records related to Jewish refugees, discrimination as a result of racial laws, census of Jews (1938-1943), mixed marriages and marriages to foreigners, and personal files of Jews from the Police Headquarters in Naples. Finding aids include two large databases that contain hundreds of names of Italian Jews from the Naples region.

  20. Archives of the Association of Immigrants from Czechoslovakia (J125)

    Working files of the Association of Immigrants from Czechoslovakia, located in Israel.