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  1. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by an inmate

    Concentration camp uniform coat worn by David Wharton (Wartonski), born in Kovno, Lithuania, and deported to Dachau concentration camp.

  2. Dachau negatives collection

    Contains two negatives with images of concentration camps following liberation, including one taken at Dachau.

  3. Franka Kampinski collection

    Collection of photographs and a membership card documenting the experiences of Franka Kampinski (donor's mother) during the Holocaust. Photos document friends and family in pre-war and post-war Łódź, as well as in Lenger-Ugol, Kazakhstan during the war; Maccabi Sports Club membership card issued to Franka Kempinski, November 28, 1946, Łódź, Poland.

  4. Seleted records of the Central Welfare Council. Head Office in Cracow Rada Główna Opiekuńcza. Biuro Centrali w Krakowie (Sygn.125)

    Correspondence, minutes of reports, activity reports, lists of population, statistical information and other records created by the Rada Główna Opiekuńcza (Central Welfare Council), RGO, Polish social welfare organization working during the occupation period in Poland. Some of the material concerns the Jewish population and cooperation with the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, ŻSS (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe).

  5. Antisemitism Questionnaires Cuestionario antisemitismo

    A survey on antisemitism conducted by José Moskovits in the 1970s by mailing a questionnaire on antisemitism to almost 5,000 dignitaries in 150 countries worldwide. The questionnaire was mailed to heads-of-state and other leading politicians, authors, journalists, scientists, artists, doctors, as well as corporate, military, civic, and religious leaders. Mr. Moskovits received almost 1,000 filled-out questionnaires back, often with additional letter responses attached. The purpose of the survey was a book to be edited by Dr. Asher Mibashan (1914-2005), the Buenos Aires bureau chief of the J...

  6. Leopoldine and Hermann Rintel collection

    Two (2) Deutsches Reich Reisepass [passports] which had been issued in Vienna to Leopoldine Rintel on January 23, 1939 and her son Hermann “Israel” Rintel on August 9, 1940; Hermann’s passport is marked with a red “J”; both include visas and stamps from Spain and Portugal and immigration visa for the United States dated April 22, 1941.

  7. Boder travels overseas on USS Brazil; French village; displaced persons camp

    MS, group of four at railroad station, including David Boder. “United States Lines Car M.” 01:00:51 VAR views of the deck of a large ship, probably the USS Brazil which Boder sailed to Europe on in late July 1946. Boder with the recorder on his shoulder, walks down the stairs on the ship. A man writes in a journal. A man wearing a yarmulke takes off his glasses. Boder with two men. Woman with her young son. More shots of the ship, American flag. 01:03:07. CU, alternating shots of Boder and a man with still camera. Other ships in the water as they approach a harbor. People on deck. 01:05:20 ...

  8. James Harmon Kirkendall photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Dachau concentration camp at liberation on April 15, 1945. The images were kept by James Harmon Kirkendall (donor's great uncle) who served in the 99th Infantry Division of the US Army and was one of the 15 soldiers sent to the Dachau concentration camp to report on the conditions; dated April 1945.

  9. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Opole (Oppeln) Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Opolu (Sygn.482)

    Correspondence and reports related to antisemitic attacks and special regulations for Polish Jews issued by German authorities in Silesia, and letters from the Jewish community in Łódź and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs protesting antisemitic attacks.

  10. Klainman and Rosenstein families collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Kleinman and Rosenstein families in Czernowitz and Galati, Romania and later in Israel.

  11. Volunteer Now for Civilian Defense WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Each Bond you Buy Makes Hitler Cry" on one side; "Volunteer Now for Civilian Defense" on other side.

  12. Kalman Karl Kornfeld collection

    Contains documents relating to Kalman Karl Kornfeld (donor's uncle by marriage), including a provisional identification card for a civilian internee of Mauthausen; a Polish identity certificate; a Polish passport; notice of registration in Cuba; a US certificate of naturalization; a US passport; and a photocopy of his death certificate.

  13. Käthe Fränkel collection

    Contains an identification card issued by the "International Committee for Granting Relief to European Refugees" in Shanghai, China; certifies that Käthe Fränkel, born in Eisleben, Germany is registered as a “bona-fide Emigrant." Includes a pamphlet entitled “Good-bye Mr. Ghoya,” printed in September 1945 by Friedrich Melchior as a parody of all the stumbling blocks that Kanoh Ghoya, the Japanese civil administrator of the Bureau of Stateless Refugees Affairs in Shanghai, put in the way of the Jewish refugees who were forced to reside in the Hongkew Ghetto in Shanghai from 1943-1945.

  14. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Polish Diplomatic Legation in Vienna Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Wiedniu (Sygn. 453)

    Reports, studies, and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and beyond Poland, including Ukrainians and Polish Jews. Also includes materials about antisemitic riots, quotas at universities, activities of antisemitic organizations, condition of refugees and internees, as well as social relief for them organized by the Polish and International Red Cross. Other selected materials concern ritual slaughter, allowances for Jews, taking care of Polish citizens in Switzerland, passport documentation, as well as correspondence related to searching for individuals ...

  15. Irene Kedroff Kay photographs

    Consists of 17 photographs depicting one of the Dachau trials, a Nazi party event in Nuremberg, and Buchenwald at liberation. Irene Kedroff Kay acquired the photographs in Germany after the war while employed at one of the Dachau trials.

  16. Fink Family papers

    Consists of correspondence addressed to Sgt. Gabriel George Fink (1917-1997) while stationed in France from loved ones in the United States, including a letter inquiring about the fates of Raphael (1879-1943) and Sophie Bakhrakh (1908-1943), as well as two photographs. The photographs depict Sgt. Fink while in Nice and the public humiliation of French women accused of collaboration.

  17. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Embassy in Bucharest Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Bukareszcie (Sygn.487)

    Correspondence, studies, publications and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Romania, Hungary and Poland; records related to education of Jewish and Ukrainian communities, emigration to Palestine, re-emigration to Poland; and reports and statistics representing a numbers of Jewish teachers and students in Poland.

  18. Brick from a Polish ghetto manufactured by the Heiss brick factory

    Brick from the Lwów ghetto in L’viv Ukraine (formerly Lvov, Poland). The brick is from the area that the Lvov Judenrat building was located and is marked with the name of the Heiss brick factory, which was owned by a Jewish family. Before World War II, the Jewish population in Lvov was 110,000. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded, occupied and partitioned Poland and Lvov came under Soviet control. During this time nearly 100,000 refugees fleeing German occupied areas of Poland streamed into the city. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Lvov was oc...

  19. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Stephen Fraenkel of Berlin, Germany including his immigration to the United States in 1938 with the financial aid of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish fraternity at the University of Nebraska, his studies at the University of Nebraska and the Illinois Institute of Technology, his engineering career, his pathway to citizenship, and his efforts to assist his father Max Fraenkel emigrate from Germany. Included are numerous letters sent to Stephen by his father in Berlin from 1938-1942. The bulk of the collection consists of biographical materials, ...

  20. A short film about the Kessler family dogs

    Lizzy-Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Oesterreichs. “Unser Hundeparadies” “Sultan, ein Bernhardiner, 3 Monate Alt” “Waldi, ein bissiger Dackel Eva---Mitze” “Hansi, sein herrl, zwei statisten” “Ort Grinzing” “Freunde” Hans Otto Kessler (Hansi) plays with two dogs. The dogs tug on what appears to be a fabric scrap. “Eva stoert den Frieden” The dogs chase a cat and play in the sun. “Drei Monate spaeter” The dogs play in the snow. “Zeit-Vertrib” A woman (possibly the camera operator and Hansi's mother, Alice) entertains the dogs with a stick and they continue to play in the...