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  1. The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY

    Title card: “Arriving at Solonika on way to Belgrade, Serbia.” Women, nicely dressed, pose for the camera at a train station in Greece. Anna Mayo and Calev Elias are in the group. People wave from the train windows. Some chat on the platform. The train departs. In different pairs, people walk towards the camera. Pan of station activity. Soldier in traditional garb walks down the street. Brief, donkeys in a field. Three men on the train platform. Title card: “Visiting aunt and other relatives in Belgrade, Serbia.” A nurse holds a baby outside a residence. Anna Mayo greets the baby. The nurse...

  2. American Joint Distribution Committee in Teheran

    Contains three documents regarding the American Jewish Joint Distribution's work in Teheran in the 1940s. Includes a personal postcard sent to the Joint by a Jew from Poland; a registered document, notice about receipt of a parcel in the post office.; and post delivery confirmation.

  3. Selected records of the Ministry of Justice in Warsaw Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości w Warszawie (Sygn.285)

    Selected records of the Polish Ministry of Justice, such as proposals, requests of the Minister of Justice concerning persons convicted of war crimes and political crimes, press releases and press clippings, accusations of war criminals, documents on pardons and extraordinary revisions, materials on the United Nations Commission on War Crimes and the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland, includes materials on Kielce murder of 34 people of Jewish descent.

  4. Hugo Schriesheimer papers Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)

    Private papers of Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989), Holocaust survivor from Konstanz, Germany. The collection consists of school and work documents, passports, identity cards, photographs concerning childhood and youth in Konstanz as well as imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and Gurs internment camp, and asylum in Switzerland; correspondence, lectures, publications, newspaper clippings, and various documents relating to the Memorial Museum in Gurs and the 50th anniversary of the "Reichskristallnacht" in Konstanz.

  5. Fonds Joseph Gottfarstein (MDXL)

    Documents pertaining to the history of Joseph Gottfarstein family, include letters, writings, translations, correspondence, cards, workbooks, literary and scientific texts, and photographs.

  6. Reiter family photographs

    Photographs; depicting members of the Reiter family (donor’s maternal family), from Tyśmienica, 12 km east of Stanisławów; the matriarch of the family, Freyda Reiter, b. c. 1860 perished in the Holocaust. The oldest daughter of Freyda, Rose Reiter, immigrated to the US in 1902; four years later Rose went to visit her family and brought over her youngest brother, Samuel (donor’s maternal grandfather). One nephew of Rose and Samuel, son of Regina Reiter Vogel and her husband Israel Vogel, Salomon or Salo, graduated from medical school in Prague, Czechoslovakia and managed to immigrate to the ...

  7. Mary Berg diary publication papers

    The collection documents the initial publication of Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary by Mary Berg in 1945 and subsequent efforts by S.L. Shneiderman, the original editor and translator of the diary, his son Ben Shneiderman, and historian Susan Pentlin to republish the book. Included is correspondence and documents regarding various efforts to republish the diary, clippings, reviews, interview transcripts, manuscript fragments, photographs, and copies of writings regarding the diary. Diary publication materials include copies of contracts and documents related to subsequent efforts to republish the di...

  8. International Red Cross photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs depicting the work of the International Red Cross, primarily in Europe but also in Asia, at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate postwar period. Original Spanish language inscriptions on the reverse describe the scenes captured and provide additional context related to aid efforts undertaken by the organization.

  9. Fonds Anny Latour (DLXI)

    Records collected by Anny Latour, a doctor of philosophy, historian and author of a book on Jewish resistance: La Résistance juive en France, 1940-1944, Paris: Stock, 1970. The archives constitute testimonies and general correspondence collected by Anny Latour in the framework of the research and writing of her book about Jewish resistance in France. She donated her archives to the CDJC and disappeared. There was no trace of her to ask for authorization to use a testimony she recorded, or notes she took.

  10. Kurt Bigler papers Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)

    Private papers of Kurt Bigler (1925-2007), a Jewish-German-Swiss pedagogue. The collection consists of his diaries, reports, family history, school and study documents, refugee files, adoption and Swiss citizenship files, restitution records related to his childhood, adoption by Joseph Bergheimer and later Berta Bigler, deportation to internment camps Gurs and Rivesaltes; private correspondence, and official correspondence related to professional activities, as teaching and political involvement in various associations, committees and commissions (e.g. Social Democratic Party of Switzerland...

  11. Selected records of the District Court in Warsaw Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Sygn.639)

    Court files in civil cases related to: inheritance, appointment of guardian to the property of an absent person, refunds of money, divorce, recognition of marriage, death and other. Most cases concern property issues. Also included are criminal cases related to: appropriation, extortion, forgery and others. Court proceedings were suspended in many cases due to the "deportation" of a given person, which in fact meant deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp.

  12. Selected records from State Archives of Blagoevgrad related to the history of the Jewish community of Blagoevgrad

    Correspondence, circular letters, orders and decrees issued by the Ministry of Interior and Health and Bulgarian People's Bank to its regional offices concerning the matters related the Jewish population of the Gorna Dzhumaya (now Blagoevgrad) region. The collection also contains list of Jews relocated from Sofia to Gorna Dzhumya (Blagoevgrad), requests and appeals of the Jewish population addressed to the local authorities; letters, telegrams, lists and other documentation pertaining to the Jewish Labor Units No 9 and No 12 which were stationed in the Gorna Dzhumaya (Blagoevgrad) area.

  13. Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)

    Private papers of Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010), a Swiss helper and human rights activist. The collection consists of biographical materials, school photos, documents concerning honors, film and radio broadcast about Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet, reports from the Swiss Red Cross, applications concerning the child support of the Swiss Red Cross, handwritten and typed manuscripts "La Filière" und "Fluchtweg durch die Hintertür"', newspaper articles, photographs, audiovisual documentation from everyday life at the Château de La Hille, correspondence at the time of the Second World War, corr...

  14. Ernst Graf papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Ernst Graf, originally of Berlin, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his training at Camp Ritchie, and service with the United States Army during World War II. Included are passports; birth, death, and marriage certificates, military records, and restitution paperwork.

  15. Voivodeship Office in Kielce I Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki I (Sygn.100)

    Reports of the voivode and starosts, statistics of population, and census, materials regarding the parliamentary and senate elections, political parties, associations, clubs, societies and organizations (including their censuses and statutes), security of the region, a register and records of industrial plants, materials concerning the Communist Workers' Party of Poland (KPRP), and a large number of records of Jewish religious communities throughout the voivodship: elections of rabbis and examinations of rabbinical candidates, budgets and property matters of Jewish communes, election of aut...

  16. "Avadim Hayinu"

    Contains a copy of the book "Avadim Hayinu," written in Yiddish, about the happenings in the Auschwitz Death Camp; includes the author's original stencil with handwritten glosses.

  17. Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky diaries

    The Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky diaries include two diaries composed from 1942-1947 describing Tamar's experiences in the Kovno ghetto, her escape from the ghetto, recollections of her time in hiding, and brief entries about life after the war. This collection also includes two copies of "Yellow Stars."

  18. Touring Italy: horse race; cathedral

    "The Palio at Siena" Attending the horse race in Siena. HAS of riders dressed in elaborate costumes, marching band on streets. Crowd, balloons. Interiors, ceremony. Large crowd in square. 01:01:55 (switches to color). Procession of riders into the stadium, horses, flag-waving. Costumes represent the different city wards. 01:03:55 (switches to black and white) The cermony proceeds, including elaborate floats. Horse racing. Flag-waving. "The Cathedral at Orvieto" (color) VAR, EXT of the cathedral. 01:06:51 "The Ponte Vecchio at Florence" (color) Scenic views of homes along the river in Floren...

  19. Vilna broadside

    Meiteilungen für die Truppe. "Battle leaf" Issued by the central command of the Wehrmacht, July 1944 (after "Operation Overlord" and the occupation of Normandy).

  20. Frame

    Picture frame: Text in center "Ohrdruf / Concentration / Camp Germany / - 13 April / 1945 / Sgt Fred Curran [?]"; found by donor in her home it is possible that it was brought home from the war by her father, Dr. Randall Henry who was a member of the US Army's 6th Infantry Division during WWII under General Patton.