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  1. Selected records from the Archivio di Stato di Lecce

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in Italy in the community of Lecce. The archive contains relevant documents within the Prefettura and Questura, e.g. concerning the census of Jews, 1938-1942 and the Displaced Persons camp in Santa Maria al Bagno, 1943-1947.

  2. Fuld family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Arthur Jacob Fuld (Artur Jakob Fuld), originally of Gießen, Germany, including his immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941, his United States Army service as a sergeant with the 970th Counter Intelligence Corps, and his marriage to Ursula Gertrud Erftemeier in 1949. Included are identification papers, army records, birth certificates, historical family documents, post-war archival research and correspondence regarding the Fuld family, Ursula’s naturalization certificate, a postwar personal statement ("Lebenlauf"), and one m...

  3. Edelman family photograph album

    Contains a photograph album of the Edelman, Brender and Tager families.

  4. Selected records of the Staatsanwaltschaft Lyck Prokuratura w Ełku (Sygn.1206) : Wybrane materialy

    Prosecutors' files of cases of sabotage, assault with arms and murder of a gendarme.

  5. Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), Turkey (Sign. JCA/TR)

    The collection consists of 95 files relating to a colony and an agricultural school set up by the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) in Turkey and Cyprus. The collection is organized according to the regions and colony names in Turkey and Cyprus: Anatolia, Or Yehuda, Maamoure, Sazilar, Messila Hadacha, Fethy Keuy, Tikfour Tchiflik (Cyprus).

  6. Visiting Berlin and Potsdam

    Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the Gloria Palast theatre. Cars drive under the overpass as a train moves across it. “HEILIGE FLAMME” Woman stands in a park by a lake. She walks on a small bridge. Four people on horses. Boat on the lake. Hans Lindemann. Men row in a small harbor. Two classical sculptures. Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. Terraced gardens on the palace grounds. Intertitle [mistranslation]: “‘Sans souci’ means ‘I should worry.’” People walk through the Sanssouci gardens. The Orangery Palace, Grand Colonnade of the Palace, Neues Palais with two great curved staircases leading u...

  7. Selected records from State Archives of the Volyn Region

    Selected records related to the German occupation of the Volhynia region during WWII (1941-1944), includes records of the local Ukrainian administration (regional, city and district administration) as well as records of German offices of the Stadtkommando des Ordnungsdienstes, Organisation Todt, Oberfeldkommandantur (O. F. K.), and a local branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)

  8. Mir Yeshiva collection

    Collection of approximately 50 letters and documents, mostly handwritten from students in the Mir Yeshiva when they were in Shanghai during WWII. Includes certificates, letters, leaves of Torah novellae, passport photographs, a ledger with a handwritten Yiddish-English dictionary, and newspaper clippings.

  9. Judenrat in Drohobycz Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Drohobycz (Sygn. 258)

    Records of the Judenrat in Drohobycz, Poland (currently Drohobych, Ukraine). Consists of a private letter from S. Friedmann to "Rózyczka" (a last name is unknown).

  10. Collection of Polish underground press Zbiór polskiej prasy konspiracyjnej

    A collection of 359 titles of the Polish underground press from all areas of the occupied Poland. The collection includes both titles issued by parties associated with peasant parties about the organization of the Peasant Battalions, as well as titles published by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and the National Armed Forces (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne).

  11. Das Kommando der Polnischen Polizei des Kreises Radom (Selected records) Komenda Policji Polskiej Powiatu Radomskiego (Sygn. 695)

    Administrative and personal files, reports about fire and assaults, summons, leading people avoiding the so-called Construction Service (Baudienst) and farmers, people wanted by the Employment Office (Arbeitsamt), operations ordered by German Police and reports about various incidents on the area of the Radom county. The materials constitute remnants of files of the Polish Police (the so-called “blue police”) county command in Radom (within the occupier’s boundaries, i.e. along with a territory of the entire pre-war Kozienice County). The files were excluded from the County Starosty (Kreish...

  12. Short film about the fate of Roma at Lety

    Documentary short film about the fate of the Romani children who were imprisoned in the concentration camp at Lety u Písku and later murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Opens with unique shots of the place where the concentration camp once stood, including the Lipeš fishpond and an empty meadow. Wooden cross with a crown of thorns erected as a memorial. The narration ends with: "Then they took the children away. They took them away to 'save' them. They took them to Auschwitz. They took them to a building with windows. They ordered them to strip and take their shoes off, and then, the...

  13. Jewish Community in Bydgoszcz Synagogen-Gemeine Bromberg Gmina Żydowska w Bydgoszczy (Sygn. 104)

    This collection contains protocols and reports on the meetings of the Commune Management and Council of Representatives, documents regarding elections to the Council of Representatives, donations and foundations for the benefit of the commune. In addition, also included are financial documents such as tax books, revenue and expense ledgers, payment orders for specific persons and correspondence on financial matters. Files 27-30 contains correspondence of the commune on various matters. The last part of the collection consists of documents regarding investment plans and technical works in th...

  14. Selected records of the Police Headquarters of the city of Łódź Komenda Policji Państwowej miasta Łodzi (Sygn.182) : Wybrane materialy

    Applications for a street trade permit, reports on community activities, Jewish and Polish political organizations, communist movements, and antisemitic actions. Includes also registers of ID cards issued by KPP.

  15. Switzer family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and postwar experiences of the Switzer family, originally of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (Croatia) including their flight from Zagreb to Italy in 1941, their trek from Aprica, Italy to the Swiss border in 1943, and their immigration to the United States in 1949. Included are report cards of Arthur Switzer; identification papers including birth, citizenship, and marriage certificates; immigration and naturalization papers; and travel permits used to leave Zagreb for Italy in 1941. Also included is a photograph of Arthur, Frieda, and their son Steven Swit...

  16. Breit family collection

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass (passport) issued to Rosa Alice "Sara" Breit (donors' paternal grandmother) marked with red "J" identifying her as Jewish; photo of bearer affixed on page 2; issued in Dresden, Germany on July 4, 1940; includes entrance visas and transit stamps from the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States (issued July 16, 1940). Also includes a Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch (worker's book) issued to Manual Breit (donors' father) in Dresden August 12, 1935.

  17. Friends and family in prewar Germany

    Friends walk past the camera outdoors. Children pose for the camera and play. Baby cries. The girl smiles and waves. Ethel Lindemann (?) holds the toddler and waves. More shots of the group walking in a park, well-dressed, laughing, man with hat and cane carries a camera. 01:01:21 Pan, family home with parked car, the family exits their home, smiling and waving and smoking. CUs, girl plays, some snow on the ground. Adults and toddler take a walk.

  18. Witelson and Laks families collection

    The Witelson and Laks families collection includes biographical materials related to Hela Witelson (later Helen Laks) and Richard Laks. The collection includes the Swedish marriage certificate of Hela Witelson and Richard Laks, February 23, 1949; Helen’s reissued Polish birth certificate which states her given name was Chaja Szajndla Witelson, 1998; and Richard Lak’s R.E.M.E. Record of Service card, 1947. The collection also includes a includes a photograph album and loose photographs related to the Witelson and Laks families of Poland. The photographs include pre-war and post-war photograp...

  19. Selected records from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine related to the history of Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv region before and after WWII

    Contains selected records of the Soviet and Communist Party regional bodies related to individual Jews, Jewish families, and Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) region before and aftermath of WWII. Included are statistical information about Jewish population of the region, documents about schools and special reading rooms for Jewish population, promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws of Jewish religious communities and inventories of synagogues, prayer houses, files on Jews who appealed for the reinstatement of their electoral rights, restitution of the nationalized ...

  20. Hena Shupak collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the postwar experiences of Hena Shupak and her daughter, Gucia as well as Kadysh [sic] Shupak (Hena's second husband) in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps and Israel.