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  1. Breisacher family photographs

    The collection consists of three photograph albums documenting the Breisacher family of Breisach am Rhein, Germany. The photographs depict the family's pre-war lives in Breisach am Rhein and their wartime and post-war lives in the United States after emigration from Germany in 1938. Wartime photographs include depictions of Walter Breisacher with the United States Army.

  2. Selected records of the Silesian Voivodeship Police Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Sygn. 38)

    Selected files of the Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Silesian Voivodeship Police). Consist of orders and ordinances of superior authorities, situational reports, searching, investigations and detentions of criminals, information about various manifestations of social and political life. Included are records related to “Volksdeutsche" communities, German minority, communist movement, political parties and federations/associations. Among the materials there are documents concerning antisemitic and anti-communist political group, OWP (Obóz Wielkiej Polski), mandatory deportation of the Sinti a...

  3. Card files of the Jewish population of Gliwice Kartoteka ludności żydowskiej Gliwic (Sygn. 112)

    This collection is a part of a larger group of files of the Jewish kehilla (congregation) in Gliwice. The purpose of creating these cards is unknown.The cards contain such data as: name, surname, place and date of birth, profession, citizenship, residence addresses and dates. Note: Digitized cards are availabe online: https://cbj.jhi.pl/collections/552807 [accessed 25 September 2018]

  4. British Paramount Newsreel (Reuters) -- Mrs. Roosevelt purchases a ticket for the Motion Picture Art Fund

    In New York, a group of well-dressed men and women gather around Jack Benny and Eleanor Roosevelt. Artwork on the walls behind them. Mrs. Roosevelt purchases the first ticket for 25 cents for the Motion Picture Art Fund for German Refugees. The First Lady says "I'm very happy to buy this ticket from you..." The tickets are for a drawing of art works from Jack Benny, the radio and movie comedian.

  5. R. Bruce Culbreth collection

    Contains a program titled “War-Crime / Trials / Nurnberg / Germany / Nov. 20, 1945 -” that includes a typed floor plan of courtroom and a list and description of each of the defendants. The program was kept by Pfc. R. Bruce “Slim” Culbreth (donor’s father), a member of the US Army’s 302nd Infantry, 94th Division during WWII and who served as a guard during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.

  6. Simon Breitstein photograph

    A photograph of Simon Breitstein taken in the Łódź Ghetto, dated June 6, 1940.

  7. Leaflet

    Leaflet, "Speak Out - Shall it be War or Peace?...No Convoy Rally" Los Angeles; American Peace Mobilization, 1941.

  8. Selected criminal cases of the Jewish residents of the Lviv region and Jewish refugees from Eastern and Central Europe arrested by the Soviet Security Services of USSR (NKVD) [Fond R-3258]

    This collection contains investigative records (interrogations, verdicts, court hearings, appeals, personal documentation of defendants etc) related to the arrest, interrogation, and subsequent trials of Jews, residents of the Lviv region arrested by the Soviet Security Services (NKVD) after the occupation and annexation of Eastern Poland (present day Western Ukraine) and accused for the Zionist, religious, and political activities as well as for belonging to the category of people who were considered by the Soviet authorities to be "dangerous to the Soviet society." In addition, this colle...

  9. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Deported Danish police officers and "antisocial" repeat offenders (Group 84.A.29a-g)

    Selected records concerning the deportation of Danish police, individual files relating to the repatriation of prisoners from Germany, internment in Froslev camp, case files, arrests of border guards, and deportation of criminals.

  10. Oral testimony of Clara Robzyk

  11. Medical forms from Aliyat Hanoar

    Contains seventeen forms, both typed and handwritten, with medical examinations results, issued by Jüdische Jugendhilfe [Assistance for Jewish Youth], for would-be immigrants to Palestine, in Vienna, Berlin, Zurich, Freiburg, Tachov (Czechoslovakia) and other locations. Jüdische Jugendhilfe [Assistance for Jewish youth] was the official title of "Aliyat HaNo'ar" organization in Germany, meant to mask its Zionist goals. The organization was founded in 1933 by Recha Freier, and acted to unite Jewish youth movements, to give their members professional training and to obtain immigration certifi...

  12. UNRRA selected records AG-018-013 : Bureau of Services

    Consist of correspondence, trainning materials, statistics, memorandums, reports of operations, newspapers in DP camps. Records relete to repatriation, welfare services, trainings and education, health of displaced persons, cooperation with the international organizations, health services for military, immigration of European children to USA, and matters of Jewish and other refugees.

  13. Jewish Congregations in Pitești and Botoşani, Romania collection

    Contains about 730 documents, letters and other paper items, handwritten and printed, concerning Jewish congregations in the towns of Pitești and Botoşani. Pitești, Botoşani and Bucharest, dated 1910s to 1940s (most are from 1920s-30s). The collection includes some 650 items from Pitești, among them: letter on behalf of the "Union of Jewish Congregations of the Old Kingdom" (Uniunea Comunitatilor Evreesti Din Vechiul Regat) to the congregation of Pitești; some 30 letters and booklets on behalf of "Union of Romanian Jews" (Uniunea Evreilor Pământeni); receipt booklet for charity donations, i...

  14. Selected records from Archivio di Stato di Bari

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the community of Bari, Italy. Records trace the cooperation of the Italian administration on all levels in accordance with the Mussolini racial laws. Included are census, monthly reports, birth and marriage certificates, documents on repatriation of Italian Jews, an alphabetical list of Jewish foreign residents, 1938, and more.

  15. Justice Ministry : State Court Linz-Criminal cases against illegal Nazi Party members Justizministerium : Landesgericht Linz-Strafsachen gegen illegale NSDAP Mitglieder (AT-OeSta /AVA Justiz)

    Court cases against illegal Nazi party members in Linz and surrounding localities in Upper Austria before annexation to Nazi Germany.

  16. Moskovits Archives Archivo Moskovits

    Various organizational records related to activities of the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. This includes correspondence, project files, press releases, several issues of the German newspaper: Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin (1933), minutes, reports, photographs, printed material, and other documents. Documents and clippings relate to Nazi war criminals who were believed to have or actually had relocated to Argentina after World War II; Project folders relate to memorial events in Argentina and other activities of Holocaust survivors. Con...

  17. Collection of Rabbi Viktor Kurrein Sammlung Rabbinder Dr. Victor Kurrein (P148)

    Private collection of Rabbi Dr. Victor Kurrein. Consists of private letters, certificates, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the synagogue in Linz.

  18. Rosel Benedikt Neuburg collection

    Cookbook primarily written by Rosel (Ruzena) Benedikt Neuburg (Neuburgova) with other pages inserted most likely written by her mother Elise Rindskopf Benedikt. Inscribed and sent by Rosel to her daughter Elisabeth “Liesel” Amalie Margaret Neuburg in April 1942. In 1938, Elisabeth had been sent by her mother from their home in Vienna, Austria to England, and she remained in London throughout the war. Rosel was deported to an unknown camp from Theresienstadt on May 25, 1942 and did not survive the Holocaust. Includes photographs of Rosel Neuburg and her children Elisabeth and Franz, whose fa...

  19. Selected records of the Der Landrat Des Kreises Litzmannstadt Starosta Powiatu Łódzkiego (Sygn.2122) : Wybrane materialy

    The collection contains: announcements and orders of superior authorities, personal files of employees, reports on the escape of Poles from works and prosecution of fugitives, information about deceased Poles in concentration camps, population traffic statistics, lists of taken over Polish and Jewish property by communes, requests of Poles for return of property, taking over church property and general matters of the Civil Registry Office, rules and regulations regarding entries and granting DVL groups, statistics according to the assigned groups, minutes of management meetings, issuing cer...

  20. Military POW camps Obozy wojskowe-zbiór akt (Sygn.1334)

    Records of the camps of Polish prisoners of war (Oflags and Stalags) and internment camps in Switzerland. Include correspondence, periodical reports, courses, publications, reports for the Red Cross, camp chronicles and other information.