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  1. The Archives of the Jewish Community of Ecuador

    Contains records of various Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Ecuador. Includes records of the laws and constitution of Ecuador mainly dealing with immigration regulations, minutes and reports of the Board of Directors, correspondence with and between community members and Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and other organizations, lists of community members, commemoration books, circulars, photographs of various festivities, reports and invitations from the B'nai B'rith Lodges in Asuncion, Bogota, Caracas, Havana, La Paz, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Pa...

  2. Haika Grosman personal archives (RG-95-69) חייקה גרוסמן, ארכיון אישי

    The collection includes personal documents, correspondence with Hashomer Hatzair leadership and personalities as Meir Ya'ari (1897-1987), the leader of Hashomer Hatzair, Kibbutz Artzi and Mapam; and Ya'akov Hazan (1899-1992),the Israeli politician and social activist; also includes documents from Grosman's activities as a Knesset member (1969-1988).

  3. Prewar and immediate postwar events in the Netherlands; anti-Jewish sign torn down

    The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles: "Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen", "Documentaire Film der Verwoesting", "Vervaardigd met Medewerking van het M.G. Te Sluiskil, Sept. 1944 - April 1945", "Opgenomen en Gemonteerd Door M.S. Schaap". Title "Er Was Eens Een Vrij Nederland". Scenes of prewar Netherlands: cathedral, horses at work, boats on the water, planes at an airport, and people at a beach. Title, "Er Was Eens Een Welvarend Zeeland". Prewar Netherlands, including streets and waterways. A clock tower and "Hotel Nieuwe Doelen." Musicians play ...

  4. Erbgesundheitsgericht Berlin (A Rep. 356)

    This collection contains materials on forced sterilization, euthanasia, and racial research. It documents the racial hygiene administration and organization prior to the implementation of the T4 program.

  5. Neil Hora papers

    This collection includes photographs of Doris and Nicole Hora as well as the donor's father, Morris Hora. Doris and Nicole were related to Morris's family and survived the Holocaust in France. Additional photographs include images of Odette and Suzanne Leon, also survivors in France; an image of Morris in immediate post-war in France; a postcard to donor's mother; and a hand-written note on a photo studio's card.

  6. Paul Janish memoir

    Memoir written by Paul Janish (born Pawel Janiszewski), who survived the Warsaw ghetto. One of just three survivors of his large family, he hid on the Aryan side of Warsaw from September 21, 1942 until the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in September 1944. Memoir consists of two notebooks, manuscript, written in 1978.

  7. Feliks Karczewski letter

    Consists of a copy of letter written by Feliks Karczweski to his mother and to Pauline from the Dachau concentration camp on 1940 September 1. The letter, written on Dachau prisoner stationary, notes that Karczewski is well and asks about the whereabouts of family and friends. Includes an English translation.

  8. Szyja Herszkopf documents

    Consists of an identity card issued by the "Ausschuss ehemaliger Konzentrations-Häftlinge, Hannover," on October 3, 1945, with photograph, stating that Szia Herszkopf is a survivor of a concentration camp, and listing his tattooed prisoner number, as well as noting his food ration allocation. Also includes a processing identity card giving medical information issued by the I.R.O. issued to Szyja Herszkopf, dated August 1948, stamped at the IRO center in Fallingbostel.

  9. Embroidered blouse worn by a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    Embroidered blouse selected and worn by Ruth Gold immediately after her liberation from Malchow concentration camp by the Soviet Army in 1945.

  10. Jan and Helena Bodakowski photographs

    Consists of three photographs Jan and Helena Cenkar Bodakowski in the Wildflecken and Schwarzenborn displaced persons camps. Includes photographs of the couple's June 6, 1946 wedding in Schwarzenborn, and a 1948 photograph of Jan Bodakowski chopping wood at Wildflecken.

  11. Protective pass issued by Royal Swedish Legation, Budapest, 26 August 1944

    One protective pass ("Schutz-Pass") issued by the Royal Swedish Legation in Budapest, for Cecilie Radó, on 26 August 1944. The pass asserts that the above-named person is protected by the Royal Swedish Legation, and has the right to travel to Sweden under the terms of repatriation authorized by the Swedish Foreign Ministry. The pass contains stamps and a signature from the staff of the legation, but is missing the photograph of Radó.

  12. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of piles of corpses, of bone fragments, and of soldiers and survivors looking at the corpses.

  13. Testimony of Józef Kuźba: Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg b. Berlin. As remains in our memory. Materials, experiences, comments. Relacja Józefa Kuźba: Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg b. Berlin. Jaki pozostal w naszej pamięci. Materialy, przeżycia, komentarze

    Testimony of Józef Kuźba (1916-2012), a teacher and wartime inmate of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The testimony contains the author's memoirs together with vast information from historical sources and other archival materials. The typewritten text (356 pages) contains photographs, documents, clippings, etc. Józef Kuźba wrote his testimony in 1995 and entitled it “Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg b. Berlin. Jaki Pozostal w Naszej Pamięci. Materialy, Przeżycia, Komentarze."

  14. Prints of Hitler in a shop window in Germany

    Various sizes of framed prints of Adolf Hitler. Somewhere in Germany. German soldier standing in street wearing the spiked helmet. Nazi soldiers marching through the streets. Trolley cars move past soldiers on horseback.

  15. Polish Red Cross, Regional Agency in Częstochowa Polski Czerwony Krzyż. Oddział Terenowy w Częstochowie (Sygn.1050)

    This collection contains lists of Polish civilians murdered by the Germans during the occupation. The booklet contains lists submitted by the families of people killed in Częstochowa and during the September campaign, and the German occupation. Contains also a list of widows, orphans and other family members of fallen participants in the resistance movement. The lists include also Jewish names. Lists were compiled in 1945-1946.

  16. Hank Freedman collection

    The collection includes a color copy of a journal written by Hank Freedman while a POW in Germany, first at Stalag IXB in Bad Orb and then Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain. In the journal Hank keeps lists of foods to eat, things to do after liberation, names and addresses, and notes about his experiences as a Prisoner of War. The collection also includes two copy prints of Hank Freedman taken during his military service with the US Army during WWII, serving with the 106th Infantry Division.

  17. J.D. Neighbors photograph collection

    Contains 49 photographs of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany taken immediately following the camp's liberation on April 29, 1945 by American forces. Includes images of American troops in action in Germany and Austria, moving through bombed and destroyed communities and bridges, downed airplanes, and tanks. Also includes a photograph of Bob Hope and Frances Langford and some Nazi propaganda photos.

  18. Marlene Steger collection

    Collection of postcards, photographic postcards, and a copy print documenting the Dachau concentration camp after liberation. Images include victims and survivors, important sites in the camp, and reeancted scenes of the cremation process.

  19. Marko Spitzer photographs

    The Marko Spitzer photographs include three photographs of the family of Marko Spitzer’s uncle Sandor in Osijek, Yugoslavia (today Croatia). The photographs depict Sandor, Ema and Ivica with Ema's family in Osijek; Ivica walking in Osijek circa 1939; and Sandor and Ema with Ivica circa 1930.

  20. State Agency for Economical Renewal, branch office in Sarajevo Riznično Upraviteljstvo Ured Za Podržavljeni Imetak Sarajevou

    Records of the state agency for economical renewal in Sarajevo relating to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection contains property records of the Jews in Sarajevo in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in 1941-1945, who were forced to leave and were deported to concentration camps.