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  1. Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Warszawie (Sygn. 322)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. The materials cover a variety of topics related to political and economic situation in Europe and the world in the years preceding the outbreak of World War II: the League of Nations; Polish policy towards Jewish populations and general issues of national minorities; the ban on ritual slaughter in Poland in 1936; Polish clergy and antisemitism; the politics of the Vatican towards Germany; aid for refugees from Germany; the condition of minorities in Poland, Germany and other countries; Polish Jews in Germany; the emigra...

  2. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  3. Torchlight parade

    Torchlight parade circling around a bonfire.

  4. Westerbork, Jewish transit camp Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager (Fond 250i)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Westerbork Jewish transit camp between 1942-1945, including are reports, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence, and post-war court proceedings. The collections also contains documents on the refugee camp Westerbork between 1939-1942, as it was still under Dutch administration. A special component of the collection is called “Westerbork kartothek” containing lists of name and date of birth of deportees, their last official place of residence before leaving for Westerbork and the date of shipment from the camp. These lists we...

  5. Selected records of the court of the First Instance in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn.1089)

    Court civil cases relating to promissory notes and repayment of debts. Parties in these processes were Jews, residents of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  6. Rubin family collection

    The Rubin family collection contains photographs and immigration papers documenting the lives of the Rubin family in Zambrów, Poland and the United States. Included is the passport and naturalization certificate of Mier Rubin. There is also a family photograph album with photographs of the Rubin family in Zambrów and in the United States. Additionally, there is a new year's card with a message in Hebrew.

  7. Irwin Newman collection

    Contains prewar photographs of the family of Nathan Katz (donor's cousin) in Poland and postwar photographs of Nachman Katz in a DP camp.

  8. Fiszelow family papers

    Consists of postcards and letters, in Yiddish, written mostly by Josef Fishelov (Fiszelow) near Pinsk, Poland (now Belarus), from 1920-1948. The postcards are colorful and depict Yiddish greetings and artistic scenes, including of emigration. The correspondence, most of which is undated, was sent to his mother and siblings, many of whom immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Includes several letters written 1939-1941 and two postwar letters, written in 1945 and 1948 by Josef's son, Nachum, who emigrated to Palestine after the war; in these letters, he explains what happened to the Je...

  9. Licco Haim and friends hike in Bulgaria

    AGFA 8 1939. Title, "Herbst 1940." Title in Bulgarian (Cyrillic characters) with 4 August date, "By car near Simeonovo" (a village near Sofia in the Vitosha Mountains). Licco Max Haim drives a car up a steep incline. Title with 11 August date, "And in the defile of Iskar". Car along the road built by Licco and others in the labor camp. Title with 8-9 September date, "Mussala" (highest mountain peak in the Rila mountains) with Anny, Kete, Pual, Hans, (Licco). [COLOR] Pan of Rila mountain range with a waterfall. Two women at the falls. [B/W] Mountains. A group of five hike the mountain, it is...

  10. Selected Records of the commune Skorosze Akta gminy Skorosze (Sygn.167)

    Vital records, including the marriage certificate of Hannah Drajer, and the registration books of Jewish residents.

  11. Print

    Linoleum print, "Nazi Prison: Victims of Internment", 4/6, created by Charles Quest in New York or St. Louis.

  12. Four Freedoms postal cover

    Envelope, first-day issue of envelope and stamps commemorating the "Four Freedoms." "Freedom of Speech and Religion, Freedom from Want and Fear" hand-cancelled on February 12, 1943. Envelope bears silk-screened imagery and four stamps in upper right corner bearing repeated statement "Freedom of Speech and Religion…" as well as postage-sized photograph of the Statue of Liberty and world flags and statement "The United Nations Fight For Freedom," addressed to Jack Middleton in Hubbard, Ohio.

  13. Replica of a pair of sandals like those worn by a Jewish Polish family in hiding

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn600714
    • English
    • a: Height: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) b: Height: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Replica of the type of sandals worn by Evelyn Romanowsky, her sister and her father in the forests around Lachva, Poland (now Lakhva, Belarus). They were called lapti and were made from the reed bark and worn over cloth bindings wrapped with strings and wound around the foot and leg.

  14. Book

    Set of 9 German-Hebrew holiday prayer books (a-i) taken with Ida Stern when she fled Germany for the United States in 1940. Titles include Mahzor for Day 1 of Rosh Hashana; Mahzor for Day 2 of Rosh Hashana; Mahzor for Erev Yom Kippur; Mahzor for Yom Kippur; Mahzor for the holiday of Shavuot; Mahzor for Shmini Atzeret & Simchat Torah; Mahzor for Days 1 & 2 of Pesach; Mahzor for Days 7 & 8 of Pesach; Mahzor for Sukkot. Also includes a separate cardboard book cover or sleeve (j)

  15. Sijes Research: Zigeuners [Romani] (Fond 263b, 4a-4c)

    This collection contains research materials collected by Dr. B.A. Sijes and his students at the University of Amsterdam: Thera de Graaf, Annemarie Kloosterman, Annelies Visser, Jos van Loenen and Gertjan van Setten. Materials relate the Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti. Part of the collection contains interviews with Roma and Sinti. At the end of the 1960s, B.A. Sijes focused his research on Dutch Roma and Sinti, but was not able to work with the material collected through unforeseen circumstances, and asked five of his students to continue his work. As a result of this work, Dr. Sijes pu...

  16. Court of the First Instance in Kozienice Sąd Grodzki w Kozienicach (Sygn.1029)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those 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 two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  17. Selected records of the Investigation Office of the Capital City of Warsaw Urząd Śledczy M. St. Warszawy (Sygn.1642)

    The collection contains approximately two thousand personal files of Jews suspected or accused of various crimes (e.g. thieves, crooks, forgers, etc.) listed by the Investigation Office in Warsaw. Files contain the dossier of a person, information sheet, which includes the following data: name, alias, date and place of birth, place of residence, marital status, parents' names, personal data spouse, names of children, information about the lovers, people with whom a person maintains contact or collaborate in criminal activities, occupation, religion, military service, description, additional...

  18. Fridling Family collection

    Contains photographs of donor's family in Schlachtensee DP camp and their immigration ship, the General W.G. Haan, in Bremerhaven; newspaper clipping from unknown German publication, which includes the photograph of donor being held by General Lucius Clay in Schlachtensee DP camp.

  19. Marketa Grunfeld Peltz collection

    Correspondence, documentation and recorded translation of claims filed on behalf of Marketa Grunfeld Peltz (donor's mother, later Margaret Peltz), originally from Vylok, Czechoslovakia, who survived multiple camps; also included are immigration documents.

  20. Harmon James collection

    Consists of printed photographic postcards with handwritten descriptions, a printed article, and a map of Obersalzberg, all collected by either Clifton or Clinton James and mailed to a brother, Harmon James, in the United States. The printed postcards depict images of the Dachau concentration camp after liberation and have been annotated by the sender (who sent them to his brother to avoid upsetting his wife with the images); the article, in German, is "Das Krematorium in Dachau," by Willy Furlan-Horst; the map of Obersalzberg identifies the homes of Hitler, Bormann, and Goering, and was ev...