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  1. Joseph Rosenfeld papers

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Joseph Rosenfeld of Vienna, who was able to flee to the United States with the assistance of an American sponsor named Harry Rosenfeld.

  2. Isaac Mevorah collection

    Consists of discharge papers documenting Isaac Mevorah's release from Dachau in 1945 and a photograph of a Maccabi soccer team in Salonika, Greece circa 1936.

  3. Maya and Giora Amir collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Wachs and Liebesmann families. Salomea Lusia Liebesmann Wachs, donor’s mother, b. 1909 had three brothers: Benjamin and Mendel, engineers who survived in France and Abraham, physician, who was saved by a German officer and his wife in Stanislawow.; Lusia Wachs and her husband Artur Wachs, b. 1901, an engineer, lived in Stryj and worked for Polish Railways; Giora Jerzyk was born on July 10, 1937. Dr. Włodzimierz Łużecki, Artur’s boss arranged for him baptismal certificate for the name: Hieronim Kozdrowicz. False ID’s were iss...

  4. Irene Borchardt collection

    Contains documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of Irene Borchardt, born January 31, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. Irene was able to immigrate from Berlin to the United Kingdom in 1939. Includes letters from her family [mother Franziska, sister Lilli, father Jaques, brother Helmut]; to Mrs. Shaxson, with whom Irene lived in England; and to aid organizations from Franziska asking for help getting Lilli out of Germany. Includes a Red Cross letter dated October 14, 1942 from Franziska to Irene stating “I am going with Lilli to Papa and Helmut. Stay healthy and brave. God will receiv...

  6. Court of the First Instance in Łódź Sąd Grodzki w Łodzi (Sygn. 2390)

    Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to subm...

  7. Chaim Posner papers

    The Chaim Posner papers consist of correspondence and notes documenting Chaim Posner, his work as director of the Palästina Amt in Geneva in the 1940s, and his work for the State of Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. Correspondence comes from Basel, Geneva, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, and correspondents include several offices of the Palästina Amt, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Barlas, Richard Lichtheim, Edgar Salin, and Samuel Scheps. The collection also contains biographical materials including a student registration document for Posner from the University of Basel, Palestine ...

  8. Visiting prewar Athens

    [Problem with film scanning at head of film reel, likely due to shrinkage or broken splice] MS, friends. They bid farewell at a train station. Large group of young children elders. A friend on a busy city street in Athens tips his hat to the camera. Cars in the BG. Sam H. Elias in dark suit walks in a paved garden, waving at the camera. His friend returns, sitting against a flowerbed. MS, Sam Elias again, smoking by a statue. He walks up the steps of a columned government building in Athens. Three Greek soldiers walk by [film transfer problem, some shots repeat]. A sailor and two other men ...

  9. Selected records from the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture of Chile

    Diplomatic dispatches, cables, and reports sent by the Chilean embassies and consulates in Europe to the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture in Santiago, Chile, including records pertaining to Jewish refugees. Consists of 53 original volumes for the period 1933 to 1945 (non-consecutive). Also features 15 digitized passports of individuals immigrating to Chile from Nazi Germany, including Jewish refugees, and one passport of an individual immigrating to Chile after the war.

  10. Simon Marcks correspondence

    Collection of correspondence written by Simon Marcks (donor's paternal grandfather) in Germany to his children (donor's parents) who were able to leave Germany in 1938 to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); dated February 1940 - January 1942; in German. Simon Marcks was unable to leave Germany due to financial reasons. His wife Zilla (Karoline) died of natural causes, but Simon along with his three sisters, was deported from Dusseldorf to Theresienstadt on July 22, 1942. On September 21, 1942, he was deported to Treblinka and is presumed to have been killed upon arrival, as there were no surv...

  11. Selected records of the City of Chmielnik Akta miasta Chmielnik (Sygn. 2129) : Wybrane materialy

    Records relating to Jewish property and its fate after World War II in Chmielnik, mainly in reference to abandoned property. The collection includes official correspondence, descriptions of estates, verdicts of the Court of First Instance, loans and sale of those estates, registration of war damages, birth and death files, and correspondence concerning the matter of searching for individuals who were property owners. Prior to World War II, Jews constituted about 70% of the total population of Chmielnik.

  12. Anne Hanken manuscript

    Contains a manuscript written by Anne Hanken (donor's maternal aunt) about different rescuers during the Holocaust.

  13. Vera Gutmann collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to Vera Gutmann (donor's aunt) and her family's experiences before, during and after the Holocaust, as well as post-war restitution papers. Vera surived in Berlin throughout the war along with her mother, Lotte Friedman, living and working under a false identity as a secretary. Vera and Lotte emigrated to the United States in 1946 on board the "Marine Flasher," settling in Chicago where Vera's brother Hans Freeman lived with his family.

  14. Odenheimer family papers

    The Odenheimer family papers consist of correspondence, family history and genealogy, immigration files, photographs, and restitution files documenting the history of the Odenheimer family in Odenheim, Germany, Kurt and Ilse Odenheimer’s immigration to the United States in 1939, Marie and Isidor Odenheimer’s deportation to and internment in southern France in October 1940, the deaths of Isidor and Julius Odenheimer in concentration camps, and Marie’s immigration to the United States in 1941. Correspondence primarily consists of letters exchanged between the Odenheimer family in Germany and ...

  15. Visiting America: World's Fair in Chicago; Washington, DC memorials; New York City

    Seven films by Carl Lutz of the 1934 World's Fair in Chicago, St. Louis, Washington, DC, and New York City: Nr. 297 Amerika (Film Nr. 8) [1934] (10:40) Nr. 298 Chicago Weltausstellung (Film Nr. 3) [1934] (12:00) Nr. 299 Eine Reise nach den Vereinigten Staaten - Carl Lutz (Film Nr. 24) [ca. 1930] (13:21) Nr, 300 Reise nach Amerika IV (Film Nr. 25) [1933] (04:49) Nr. 301 St. Louis - Schweiz (Film Nr. 2) [ca. 1933-1934] (15:08) Nr. 302 Besuch im St. Louis Zoo (Film Nr. 1) [ca. 1933-1934] (10:37) Nr. 304 Washington - Schweiz (Film Nr. 23) [1920s-1930s] (09:22) Detailed Descriptions: Nr. 297 Ame...

  16. Oral history interview with Saul Manski

  17. Stefania Hecht collection

    Collection consists of one typescript memoir, 16 pages, written circa 2015, describing the experiences of Stefania Hecht (nee Kohn), originally of Șomcuta Mare, Romania, during her childhood in Romania, the Hungarian occupation of Transylvania, the subsequent German occupation and deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, and her experiences at that camp, as well as her life following World War II. In addition, the collection contains selected photographs of the Kohn and Hecht families, the text of a speech given by her cousin, Mendel (Menachem) Abraham, at the dedication of a Jewish cemetery in Ti...

  18. Rolf Henne papers Nachlass Dr. iur. Rolf Henne (1901-1966)

    Private papers of Rolf Henne (1901-1966), a Swiss attorney and politician of the National Front (NF) and pro-Nazi movements. The collection consists of his personal documents; diaries, 1914-1918, 1920-1924, and 1939-1945; photographs; press releases; documents on various organizations and on political opponents of the National Front and New Front; speeches and lectures, 1932-1939; preparatory work for a never-realized book project on the history of the Swiss Confederation; records on the 04 Jan. 1944 bombardment of Schaffhausen; Swiss demography; press and language policies; the Swiss-Germa...

  19. Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the Nazis and their Accomplices on the Territory of Volyn Region, Ukraine

    Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the Nazis and their Accomplices on the Territory of the Volyn Region, Ukraine during WWII. Included are records related to the investigation of war crimes ( list of victims, eyewitness testimonies, forensic reports, lists of perpetrators and local collaborators, lists of locals sent for slave labor in Germany etc.) against local population and documentation related to the material and property damage inflicted upon the economy of the region during the Nazi occupation.

  20. Oral history interview with Frieda Navon