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  1. Johanna Dahms collection

    Contains a "Sonderausweis" (postwar identification document) issued to Johanna Dahms (donor's grandmother) who had been interned in Theresienstadt concentration camp, and a membership card issued to Johanna Dahms in Stuttgart, Germany as a victim of the Nazi regime.

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  3. Balint family papers

    The memoir “Remember it Well: A Father’s Story,” was written by Pal Balint in Jászberény, Hungary from late 1943 until January 1944. The memoir is a retelling of his daughter’s life, and his imagining what her life in New York was like, based on the letters he received from her, and he expressed his own longing for the family to be reunited. In the memoir, he refers to the difficult circumstances in Hungary of that period, and how his only communication with Susan was through infrequent letters via the Red Cross. Two of those letters, from June 1942 and October 1943—the latter announcing Su...

  5. Jeremiah (Jerry) Tax papers

    Correspondence from Jeremiah (Jerry) Tax to his wife, Deborah, and to his parents, Clara and Ben, while Tax was stationed with the 71st Infantry Division, U.S. Army, in the European Theatre, World War II. Includes correspondence describing Tax's impressions of occupied Germany and Austria and of liberated concentration camps, as well as newspaper clippings, a greeting card, and a booklet titled "The 71st Came to Gunskirchen Lager," commissioned by Maj. General Willard G. Woman, for which Tax authored piece titled "And Afterwards . . .." Also includes a map of the 71st Infantry Division's mo...

  6. Dr. Gerald Holton Collection

    Contains a Kindertransport lottery ticket for England.

  7. Roeckle family celebrations over the years

    INT, people eating and dining on Christmas. Gerald and Berthold play with a toy train set. MS, decorated Christmas tree, Elfriede lights the candles. Theo plugs in electrical lights and smokes a cigarette. 01:08:28 Several shots of men shoveling the snowy streets with a pharmacy and other shops or residences behind them. 01:09:06 The two boys set off a toy plane in a snowy park (Gerald was a model plane enthusiast his entire life). 01:09:18 Back inside the family residence, couples dance (camera on tripod). Family dines. 01:10:36 EXT, garden, child approaches camera "goose-stepping". Two wo...

  8. Andrey Freund papers

    Consists of a soldier's passbook and two documents certifying employment and good conduct, which were issued to Mr. Andrey Freund, a member of the British Forces, Jewish Brigade. The passbook notes his World War II inoculations, training, and other pieces of information, though there are few details about his presence in military theatres. Also includes two documents, both dated May 1948, attesting to his good conduct and work ethic.

  9. Selected records of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Sygn. GK 162)

    This collection contains correspondence, lists of documents, copies of lawsuit files, personal files, minutes of sessions, reports, as well as materials collected in the course of the work conducted by the Main Commission such as: name lists of German officers; materials related to the notes of Sonderkommando (including snapshots) found on the area of Birkenau in 1961; writer’s studies of Stanisław Płaski, Janusz Gumkowski, Szymon Datner, Tadeusz Kułakowski, Leszczyński, Mieczysław Roman, Hubert Jan Urbasik, Leon Popławski and Stanisław Krośnicki; list of ordinances of General Government (G...

  10. Roth family papers

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the Roth family, originally of Kraków, Poland. Includes photographs depicting life in the Liebenau and Vittel internment camps (including of poet Yitzhak Katzenelson in Vittel) and biographical materials. The bulk of the collection documents the family's immigration to the United States in 1944, attempts to prove that Chaskiel Roth was born in the United States, repayment for their voyage, and the threat of deportation after the war.

  11. Hermansdörfer family papers

    The Hermansdörfer family papers consist of correspondence relating to the efforts of Jennie Hermansdörfer Bieber and her daughters Sophie Acker and Dorothy Nomberg to bring the Hermansdörfer family from Łąka, Poland (Luka, Ukraine) to the United States before the Holocaust. Correspondence includes letters of support from Adra Day, Elise Gilman, and Philip Acker to the American Consulate in Warsaw; a letter from Leon Hermansdörfer to the Acker family; a rejection letter from the Consulate; and a postwar letter from a cousin in Poland indicating that none of the Hermansdörfer family survived ...

  12. Blessing of Bulgarian military recruits

    Religious procession through a town-square. Locals gather in front of a bank (with sign in Bulgarian) to watch. A military officer greets the line of armed Bulgarian soldier recruits. 01:11:10 Quick CU of priest. Bulgarian military soldiers with backpacks and weapons are blessed by a priest. 01:11:24 CU of priest reading. Locals observe the ceremony. A man leads others in song. Another view, LS, of the blessing. 01:12:24 A Bulgarian officer speaks to the recruits; a civilian dressed in a suit and glasses reads from a paper. CU, the new troops march away. 01:13:15 One by one, the soldiers ki...

  13. Russian War Relief poster

    Lithographed poster after Sergei Nikolavech Kostin issued for the Russian War Relief.

  14. Selected records of the City Sochachew Akta miasta Sochaczewa (Sygn. 90)

    Consists of various records of the Municipal Administration of Sochaczew: protocols and personal files of the candidates to the Municipal Council; files of the municipal properties; lists of owners of animals and agricultural property; applications for a job; various statistics; registration books of population of the city Sochaczew and migration control; files of Jewish properties and the Jewish religious community in Sochaczew; records related to taxes and owners of businesses; ordinances and correspondence of the Starost of the City Sochaczew, and correspondence of the Judenrat relating ...

  15. Photographs of post-war Jewish community in Dzierżoniów, Poland (Reichenbach, Silesia)

    The photograph collection consists of photographs from the post-war Jewish community of Dzierżoniów, Poland (formerly Reichenbach, Lower Silesia, Germany). The images depict a gathering in memory of the murdered Jews of Biala (circa 1946), a New Year's greeting from the committee of survivors from Biala, and various unidentified family photographs. Following the end of the war, some Jews who had survived nearby concentration camps, such as Gross-Rosen, tried to re-establish an autonomous communal settlement in Dzierżoniów, under the leadership of Jakub Egit, a Jewish soldier in the Red ...

  16. Gunther and Harry Rice correspondence

    The Gunther and Harry Rice correspondence consists of letters and postcards received by both Gunther Rice and his uncle Harry Rice, from family members living in Germany, Poland, and England. The correspondence mainly documents the efforts in trying to bring family members from Germany to the United States from 1938-1941. The correspondence collected by Gunther Rice are from his time living in Otwock, Poland and Cardiff, England, and consists mainly of letters written by his parents (Chiam and Lea Esther) and sister, Betti, while they lived in Zbaszyn and Lwow, Poland (L’viv, Ukraine). They...

  17. Miriam Raz photographs

    Contains five photographs depicting Miriam (b. April 10, 1933) and her brother Josef (b. 1935); her father Alter Zunszajn, textile merchant from Wereszczyn, Poland, and portraits of two friends: Moszek Gryff and Ryfka Kuperstok, whom Miriam befriended in Helenowek children’s home.

  18. Selected records of Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune Akta gminy Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Sygn. 19)

    Consists of the book inventory with the list of inhabitants of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune in Poland.

  19. Correspondence of Jewish citizens (Fond 247)

    Correspondence of Jewish families during the German occupation of the Netherlands and their deportation. This collection includes (copies of) letters that relatives and acquaintances wrote to each other, often supplemented with photographs, identification cards, diaries and other personal documents. The emphasis is on the period of the occupation, but some files of correspondence dates from the 1930s through the late 1940s

  20. Marianne Berg papers

    Pre and postwar documents and correspondence from the United States, including elementary school report cards for Marianne Berg, a reference letter, a pre-war 1939 letter with drawing from Marianne Berg, a letter from her teacher in Iowa, and a letter from her parents to Marianne.