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  1. Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)

    Private papers of Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010), a Swiss helper and human rights activist. The collection consists of biographical materials, school photos, documents concerning honors, film and radio broadcast about Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet, reports from the Swiss Red Cross, applications concerning the child support of the Swiss Red Cross, handwritten and typed manuscripts "La Filière" und "Fluchtweg durch die Hintertür"', newspaper articles, photographs, audiovisual documentation from everyday life at the Château de La Hille, correspondence at the time of the Second World War, corr...

  2. Ernst Graf papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Ernst Graf, originally of Berlin, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his training at Camp Ritchie, and service with the United States Army during World War II. Included are passports; birth, death, and marriage certificates, military records, and restitution paperwork.

  3. Voivodeship Office in Kielce I Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki I (Sygn.100)

    Reports of the voivode and starosts, statistics of population, and census, materials regarding the parliamentary and senate elections, political parties, associations, clubs, societies and organizations (including their censuses and statutes), security of the region, a register and records of industrial plants, materials concerning the Communist Workers' Party of Poland (KPRP), and a large number of records of Jewish religious communities throughout the voivodship: elections of rabbis and examinations of rabbinical candidates, budgets and property matters of Jewish communes, election of aut...

  4. "Avadim Hayinu"

    Contains a copy of the book "Avadim Hayinu," written in Yiddish, about the happenings in the Auschwitz Death Camp; includes the author's original stencil with handwritten glosses.

  5. Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky diaries

    The Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky diaries include two diaries composed from 1942-1947 describing Tamar's experiences in the Kovno ghetto, her escape from the ghetto, recollections of her time in hiding, and brief entries about life after the war. This collection also includes two copies of "Yellow Stars."

  6. Touring Italy: horse race; cathedral

    "The Palio at Siena" Attending the horse race in Siena. HAS of riders dressed in elaborate costumes, marching band on streets. Crowd, balloons. Interiors, ceremony. Large crowd in square. 01:01:55 (switches to color). Procession of riders into the stadium, horses, flag-waving. Costumes represent the different city wards. 01:03:55 (switches to black and white) The cermony proceeds, including elaborate floats. Horse racing. Flag-waving. "The Cathedral at Orvieto" (color) VAR, EXT of the cathedral. 01:06:51 "The Ponte Vecchio at Florence" (color) Scenic views of homes along the river in Floren...

  7. Vilna broadside

    Meiteilungen für die Truppe. "Battle leaf" Issued by the central command of the Wehrmacht, July 1944 (after "Operation Overlord" and the occupation of Normandy).

  8. Frame

    Picture frame: Text in center "Ohrdruf / Concentration / Camp Germany / - 13 April / 1945 / Sgt Fred Curran [?]"; found by donor in her home it is possible that it was brought home from the war by her father, Dr. Randall Henry who was a member of the US Army's 6th Infantry Division during WWII under General Patton.

  9. Yearbook, Walnut Hills High School 1943

    "The Remembrancer" 1943 Walnut Hills High School yearbook, Cincinnati, OH; Includes the theme of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini as puppets both as actual puppets as well in drawings, also includes references to Japan and Hirohito. The yearbook introduction is addressed to "Adolf" and says "You thought by pulling the strings of your millions of little heiling puppets could concur the world. We're grasping those strings ourselves, Adolf. We intend to dangle you and your partners before our little world here at Walnut Hills High School in this proud old Germany city of Cincinnati, Ohio to show y...

  10. U.S. Accidents in '41 Lost Enough Time to Build 30,000 Bombers/We Can't Afford it! WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Tokio Likes Talkio/Don't Help with a Word" on one side and "U.S. Accidents in '41 Lost Enough Time to Build 30,000 Bombers/We Can't Afford it!" on the other side.

  11. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Danish Internal Political Condition (Group 120 D 28c-49c)

    Records of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs relating to the German action against the Jews, case files of Jews who were persecuted, including some who were deported, some who escaped to Sweden, and others referring to Jewish property. Included are lists of arrested Jews, records on the Nazi movement, and the placement of Jewish children from Denmark in Palestine. Consists also records of the Danish Ministry of Social Affairs relating to support of emigrants, and publications relating to Freemasonry, Nazi oppressions, and Danish resistant.

  12. Olympic fencer Helene Mayer demonstrates fencing techniques

    Title card reads: “Distributed by the University of California Extension Division Berkeley.” Techniques of Foil Fencing.” Produced and Distributed by the Extension Division of University of California.” "Prepared under the Supervision of the Physical Education Department for Women University of California Berkeley, California.” "Demonstrated by Helene Mayer U.S.A and World Champion.” "The Salute and the Bout.” Two fencers, a man on the left and Helene Mayer on the right, stand in uniform facing on another. They perform the salute with their swords. They put their helmets on. They fence. Tit...

  13. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Diplomatic Legation in Mexico City Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Meksyku (Sygn.593)

    Notes, circulars, correspondence, memorandums, telegrams, speeches, reports, registers, newspaper clippings relating to search of the opportunities for Polish agricultural settlement and Jewish immigration in Honduras, Santo Domingo, Colombia, Venezuela; social welfare for emigrants and Polish refugees in Mexico, recruitment of Polish workers in Central America, illegal immigration, circulars concerning the forgery of passports, passport regulations of the Free City of Gdańsk, establishment in Mexico of the Committee for the Care of Polish Refugees, negotiations with the Mexican government ...

  14. Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)

    Records of the Kehillat Haharedim (Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews). Consist of correspondence, letters, list of refugees and internees, lists of students, lists of members of Kehillat Haharedim in Paris, bulletin of the organization, financial records, questionnaires, statistical reports, and minutes. Most of records constitute of correspondence with children's homes, internees of camps, rabbis, with the organizations as: the Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF), Hias-Ica Emigration Association (HICEM), World Union OSE (OSE), Federation de ...

  15. Josh Hamerman collection

    Contains a photographic postcard of Garbáty Zigarettenfabrik in Berlin, a Jewish-owned company, decorated for the 1936 Olympics; a photographic postcard of the steam ship Europa; and a postcard, from M. R. Kessel in Kishinev to Mr. M Kessel in care of Mr. Hammerman [not related to donor] and dated April 15, 1940.

  16. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Thessalonikē Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Salonikach (Sygn. 467)

    Correspondence related to Jewish minorities in Greece and Poland, Zionist organizations in Thessalonikē, Palestinian matters, the situation of Jewish emigrants living in Greece, Jewish emigration, ritual slaughter, Polish Presidency of the Thessaloniki Consulate in the face of anti-Polish revolution and claims.

  17. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Honorary Consulate in Zürich Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Zürichu (Sygn.496)

    Reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, instructions and regulations related to the condition of national minorities, mainly Jews, in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and other countries in Europe. Included are materials about matters of visa regulations, Jewish communists, anti-fascist militia, testimony of the refugees, participation of the Polish citizen Lejz Horowitz in the work of the XX Zionist Congress in Zurich, commercial information about Polish Jews in Switzerland, Zionist congresses in Zürich, creation of the Polish-Swiss Export Association and their fraudulen...

  18. Children at displaced persons camp

    Crowd of DPs moves off a field, wild panning shots show faces, volleyball net, camp buildings at a DP camp. The young men and women congregate in a line. 01:19:37 CU, man with two mugs smiles and talks to the camera; two women. DP camp camp building with people in the window. Large residence. VAR CUs, DPs, young girls dancing, schoolchildren. The children stare at the camera, hold hands, dance in concentric circles, smile, play, and chat. 01:22:35 Brief shot of Boder with the children, boy sings for the camera, playing. 01:23:27 Elders pose for the camera. (glimpse of girl with head bandage...

  19. Expropriation files of the Regional Financial Directorate Munich Entziehungsakten der Oberfinanzdirektion München

    Expropriation files of the Regional Financial Directorate in Munich, Germany.

  20. Turquoise bead necklace made in a ghetto-labor camp

    Turquoise bead necklace purportedly made in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The necklace was given to Judith Sardi by her mother Katalin Szönyi. Katalin received it from a friend in Israel who told her that it was made in Theresienstadt. Katalin, her husband, and Judith survived imprisonment in multiple forced labor camps during the Holocaust.