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  1. More Sweat...Less Talk...Makes Enemies Squawk WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "A Seal on Lips Helps Save Ships" on one side and "More Sweat...Less Talk...Makes Enemies Squawk" on the other side.

  2. Francisc Pap letter

    Letter written from Francisc Pap of Cluj-Napoca, Romania to Radu Ioanid, dated October 2, 2015. In the letter, Mr. Pap relates his experiences escaping deportation from Cluj and their survival in hiding.

  3. Neuman (Nenner) family collection

    Collection of documents of the Neumann (Nenner) family from their time in the Displaced Persons Camp in Lechfeld in Germany and their immigration to Palestine; dated 1940s-1950s. Includes a temporary exit pass from the artillery officers' course taking place in a military garrison, Bucharest, 1943; a civil marriage certificate, Bucharest, 1944; a recruitment certificate to "Va'ad leSherut Ha'Am" in Lechfeld Displaced Persons Camp; a birth certificate of a baby girl born in Ainring (Bavaria), 1947; an import form for merchandise imported by boat, railway, surface mail or by air for use in Is...

  4. Selected records of the City Jędrzejów Akta miasta Jędrzejowa (Sygn. 1657)

    Minutes of sessions of the town authorities, books of registers of permanent residents of Jędrzejów, documents related to tax and budget matters, and documentation of the occupation authorities of 1939-1945. The prevailing part of the collection includes materials of the construction department relating to construction or reconstruction licenses of estates, blue prints and designs of buildings, etc. Numerous documents refer to the Jewish inhabitants of Jędrzejów and provide details of daily life of the Jewish minority in the town during the interwar and wartime period. In 1939, Jędrzejów wa...

  5. Elsbeth Kasses papers Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)

    Private papers of Elsbeth Kasser (1910-1992), a nurse and aid worker for refugees in the internment camp of Gurs and in other places. The collection consists of: photographs; certificates; medals; and correspondence, including various documents relating to childcare in the southern France, refugee rescue, the internment camp Gurs, the medical mission to Finland, and the Swiss assistance to war victims; documentation on occupational therapy in Zurich, former internees, former employees in rescue projects in Spain and Southern France, and on rescue in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland; Also in...

  6. Selected records of the Polish Red Cross Polski Czerwony Krzyż (Sygn. 284)

    Correspondence, reports, registers, bulletin, and photographs relating to the repatriation of Polish citizens, repatriation of Polish children, search for missing persons, and a return of files related to victims of crime in Katyń forest.

  7. Fonds Communauté israélite de Vichy (CMLV)

    Records of the Jewish Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the World War II. Records include correspondence with the General Union of Jews of France (Union générale des israélites de France, UGIF), lists of deportees, missing persons information and requests, a book of marriages of the French Central Consistory at the Vichy Synagogue, 1939-1943, the original bill of the Statutes of the Union of Israeli Cultural Associations of France and Algeria dated 1909; correspondence between the State police and the Chief Rabbi of France...

  8. Selected records of the town Działoszyce Akta miasta Działoszyce (Sygn. 2369) : Wybrane materialy

    Minutes of the Municipal Council sessions of 1920-1950, books of permanent inhabitants containing detailed information about individuals, a register of estates, lists of artisans and merchants, town statistics of 1931-1947 (data about the town and its dwellers), extracts of register acts, 1866-1950 (File 81), post-war correspondence concerning abandoned property, registry of Jews, including family members (files 129-504). Almost all records of the town Działoszyce that survived from the pre-war period relate to the Jewish community. Before 1939, the Jewish population constituted almost 90% ...

  9. The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY

    Title card: “Arriving at Solonika on way to Belgrade, Serbia.” Women, nicely dressed, pose for the camera at a train station in Greece. Anna Mayo and Calev Elias are in the group. People wave from the train windows. Some chat on the platform. The train departs. In different pairs, people walk towards the camera. Pan of station activity. Soldier in traditional garb walks down the street. Brief, donkeys in a field. Three men on the train platform. Title card: “Visiting aunt and other relatives in Belgrade, Serbia.” A nurse holds a baby outside a residence. Anna Mayo greets the baby. The nurse...

  10. American Joint Distribution Committee in Teheran

    Contains three documents regarding the American Jewish Joint Distribution's work in Teheran in the 1940s. Includes a personal postcard sent to the Joint by a Jew from Poland; a registered document, notice about receipt of a parcel in the post office.; and post delivery confirmation.

  11. Selected records of the Ministry of Justice in Warsaw Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości w Warszawie (Sygn.285)

    Selected records of the Polish Ministry of Justice, such as proposals, requests of the Minister of Justice concerning persons convicted of war crimes and political crimes, press releases and press clippings, accusations of war criminals, documents on pardons and extraordinary revisions, materials on the United Nations Commission on War Crimes and the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland, includes materials on Kielce murder of 34 people of Jewish descent.

  12. Hugo Schriesheimer papers Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)

    Private papers of Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989), Holocaust survivor from Konstanz, Germany. The collection consists of school and work documents, passports, identity cards, photographs concerning childhood and youth in Konstanz as well as imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and Gurs internment camp, and asylum in Switzerland; correspondence, lectures, publications, newspaper clippings, and various documents relating to the Memorial Museum in Gurs and the 50th anniversary of the "Reichskristallnacht" in Konstanz.

  13. Fonds Joseph Gottfarstein (MDXL)

    Documents pertaining to the history of Joseph Gottfarstein family, include letters, writings, translations, correspondence, cards, workbooks, literary and scientific texts, and photographs.

  14. Reiter family photographs

    Photographs; depicting members of the Reiter family (donor’s maternal family), from Tyśmienica, 12 km east of Stanisławów; the matriarch of the family, Freyda Reiter, b. c. 1860 perished in the Holocaust. The oldest daughter of Freyda, Rose Reiter, immigrated to the US in 1902; four years later Rose went to visit her family and brought over her youngest brother, Samuel (donor’s maternal grandfather). One nephew of Rose and Samuel, son of Regina Reiter Vogel and her husband Israel Vogel, Salomon or Salo, graduated from medical school in Prague, Czechoslovakia and managed to immigrate to the ...

  15. Mary Berg diary publication papers

    The collection documents the initial publication of Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary by Mary Berg in 1945 and subsequent efforts by S.L. Shneiderman, the original editor and translator of the diary, his son Ben Shneiderman, and historian Susan Pentlin to republish the book. Included is correspondence and documents regarding various efforts to republish the diary, clippings, reviews, interview transcripts, manuscript fragments, photographs, and copies of writings regarding the diary. Diary publication materials include copies of contracts and documents related to subsequent efforts to republish the di...

  16. International Red Cross photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs depicting the work of the International Red Cross, primarily in Europe but also in Asia, at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate postwar period. Original Spanish language inscriptions on the reverse describe the scenes captured and provide additional context related to aid efforts undertaken by the organization.

  17. Fonds Anny Latour (DLXI)

    Records collected by Anny Latour, a doctor of philosophy, historian and author of a book on Jewish resistance: La Résistance juive en France, 1940-1944, Paris: Stock, 1970. The archives constitute testimonies and general correspondence collected by Anny Latour in the framework of the research and writing of her book about Jewish resistance in France. She donated her archives to the CDJC and disappeared. There was no trace of her to ask for authorization to use a testimony she recorded, or notes she took.

  18. Kurt Bigler papers Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)

    Private papers of Kurt Bigler (1925-2007), a Jewish-German-Swiss pedagogue. The collection consists of his diaries, reports, family history, school and study documents, refugee files, adoption and Swiss citizenship files, restitution records related to his childhood, adoption by Joseph Bergheimer and later Berta Bigler, deportation to internment camps Gurs and Rivesaltes; private correspondence, and official correspondence related to professional activities, as teaching and political involvement in various associations, committees and commissions (e.g. Social Democratic Party of Switzerland...

  19. Selected records of the District Court in Warsaw Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Sygn.639)

    Court files in civil cases related to: inheritance, appointment of guardian to the property of an absent person, refunds of money, divorce, recognition of marriage, death and other. Most cases concern property issues. Also included are criminal cases related to: appropriation, extortion, forgery and others. Court proceedings were suspended in many cases due to the "deportation" of a given person, which in fact meant deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp.

  20. Selected records from State Archives of Blagoevgrad related to the history of the Jewish community of Blagoevgrad

    Correspondence, circular letters, orders and decrees issued by the Ministry of Interior and Health and Bulgarian People's Bank to its regional offices concerning the matters related the Jewish population of the Gorna Dzhumaya (now Blagoevgrad) region. The collection also contains list of Jews relocated from Sofia to Gorna Dzhumya (Blagoevgrad), requests and appeals of the Jewish population addressed to the local authorities; letters, telegrams, lists and other documentation pertaining to the Jewish Labor Units No 9 and No 12 which were stationed in the Gorna Dzhumaya (Blagoevgrad) area.