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  1. Diaries by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum concerning the journey of Jewish emigrants from Bratislava (Slovakia) via Haifa (Palestine) to Mauritius

    Contain a diary by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum. He traveled on December 1, 1939 from Prague to Bratislava, embarked on September 3, 1940 on the steamship "Helios," transferred in Tulcea, Romania onto the ship "Atlantic" and traveled to Haifa, Palestine where the British authorities arrested the Jewish refugees and deported them to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The diaries consist of various contributions by different authors and artists who were on the refugee transport, such as reports, poems, caricatures and illustrations, hand-drawn maps, and photographs that chronicle the voyage...

  2. French antisemitic literature

    Consists of one book, title unknown, published in France in 1944. The book consists of antisemitic propaganda attesting to a vast Jewish conspiracy to assert negative influence in politics, finance, morality, the arts, education, and warfare.

  3. Zernik/Kaplan family collection

    Consists of copies of birth and death certificates for members of the Zernik and Kaplan families, originally of Berlin-Charlottenberg, Germany. Hans, his wife Lilly Kaplan, and daughter Ursula Zernik, emigrated from Germany in the late 1930s to Santo Domingo. From there, they spent a few years in China before immigrating to the United States after the war. Includes copies of documents needed for citizenship and immigration.

  4. Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers

    The Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers include biographical material, immigration material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to the life of Leonore and her husband, Ernst Goldschmidt, in Berlin, Germany and Folkestone, England before and during WWII, as well as Leonore’s professional career as an educator. The collection also includes documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the establishment, development, and operations of the Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt Schule, a private Jewish school originally located in Berlin, Germany. Biographical materials include a birt...

  5. General State Prosecutors Office of the State Court of Berlin records (Fond A Rep. 358)

    Contains the trial records of over 150,000 criminal cases processed in the vicinity of Berlin during the Nazi era. It includes many “routine” types of ordinary crime, as well as cases where the crime involves being Jewish, homosexual, or “asocial.”

  6. Selected records from the Archives départementales du Rhone

    This collection contains wartime records from various governmental organizations. Topics include relations among the occupation troops, the police, the camp d'internement dans le Rhône, the Service régional de la Police judiciaire, and the Prison de Montluc. Also included is a photo-essay on the Struthof concentration camp, as well as documents of a local historical commission on the history of World War II.

  7. Collection of Jewish pamphlets of contemporary relevance and rare periodicals from the collections of the Library of the Vilnius University, Lithuania

    The collection contains copies of Jewish pamphlets of contemporary relevance and rare periodicals from the collections of the Library of the Vilnius University, Lithuania related to the life, culture, political and educational activities of the Jewish communities of Lithuania before WWII.

  8. Selected records from collections of the Vrancea branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. It includes selected files from the following organizations: District Prefecture of the Town of Putna (1938-1946)-includes records of the revision of the citizenship of Jews, the legal status of the Jewish Community of Focşani, the forced labor of Jews, the confiscation ofJewish properties, including radios, the surveillance of Jews, Jewish hostages, and permits for Jewish travel; Mayor's Office of Focsani (1941-1944)-includes records of the confiscation of Jewish properties, the relocation ...

  9. Selected records from the Archives Départementales des Côtes d'Armor

    Contains information pertaining to the persecution of Jews, Freemasons, Communists, and French Resistance fighters in the area in and around the Côtes d'Armor. Also contains information on post war memorials.

  10. Records of the Regional Shekel Commission in Lwów (Fond 336)

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to the fundraising activities of the local branches of the "shekel commissions" across of the Eastern Galicia, central offices of the Zionist organization in London, list of the delegates to the Zionist Congresses, list of voters of the delegates to the Zionist congresses etc.

  11. Selected records from the Archives Départementales du Finistère

    Contains information on the systematic persecution of Jews and Freemasons in the area in and around Finistère. Also contains information concerning the expropriation of Jewish property in the same region.

  12. Selected records from the Archives Départementales de la Seine-Maritime

    This collection contains documents on émigrés and refugees, including Germans, Austrians, and stateless persons residing in the department in 1940; the operations of the administration dealing with “Jewish questions”; deportations of Jews from the Rouen area; the designation of Aryan administrators for Jewish properties appropriated by Vichy; arrests and search warrants; the supervision of Jewish property in the Dieppe area; the appropriation of properties belonging to Masonic lodges; outlawed “secret societies”; Jews in Le Havre; and a lawsuit concerning the Dreier family’s attempt to reco...

  13. Selected court records from the Military Tribunal of Bucharest territory

    Contains court records, declarations, letters from several ministries, personal files with pictures and finger prints, interrogation files, declarations, and name lists of defendants, reports of national propaganda and files of the special information service. The records pertain to the criminal cases related to the Holocaust.

  14. Dunson family at Christian mission; church picnic

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. MS, man in cowboy hat, swinging rope in front of a large US mailbox on a wooden post. Name on box reads: "Harold L. Dunson." MLS, panning shot, cinderblock church and courtyard. VS, children, women at church picnic. Children filing out of Church hall. Also teenagers, posing for group portrait. VS, youth racing on a lawn, sack races, three-legged races, etc.

  15. Selected records of the Liaison Office (under the Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers) for Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria

    Contains correspondence, various data, minutes of the meetings of the Council of the Ministries and Governors of the three provinces, bills and other materials related to the political, economical situation in Bukovina, Bessarabia and Transnistria under Romanian occupation during WWII. The collection also includes archival documents related to the implementation of the population policies in provinces by the Romanian authorities as well as Romanianization of Jewish properties and assets, plans and proposals concerning transfers of Romanian population to the newly occupied provinces, surveil...

  17. Radio truck seeks listeners; Roma

    Two trucks with the phrase "werdet Rundfunkhoerer" [become radio listeners] emblazoned on their sides enter a small town. Children follow after the trucks eagerly. There is a loudspeaker visible on top of one of the trucks. The children crowd around the trucks as a man distributes leaflets. The truck is shown parked at the base of a rotating windmill. The next part of the clip shows a group of Roma/Sinti gathered around a cooking fire and standing in front of the radio wagon. They laugh and wave at the camera. A group of children plays a ring-around-the-rosy game.

  18. Schlachtensee displaced persons camp photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, circa 1945. The photographs include images of Rabbi Hyatt, an American chaplain; an unidnetified rabbi from Schlachtensee; a group of students; and Phyllis Dunkelman.

  19. Lea Schneider photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs: five photographs collected by Wolf Goldsztajn [donor's stepfather] depict Siegmund "Zisha" Breitbart, a Jewish strong man of the 1920's, and one photograph shows Jewish refugee youth in Munich, Germany, marching in an anti-British demonstration protesting Palestine policy in 1947. Zelig Gorszkiewicz [donor's father] is second from left in the first row.

  20. Metal lid from a cremation urn stamped Dachau

    Container lid with the birth, death, and cremation dates for 28 year old Anton Oleszak. The lid is believed to be from a cremation urn used to return his ashes to his family following his execution in Dachau concentration camp. Oleszak was condemned to death by hanging in Dachau on February 17, 1942. He was a Catholic from Neustadt, Poland. It was a policy of the Nazi government to return the remains of political prisoners to their families.