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  1. Watercolor

    Watercolor that forms part of a portfolio depicting the Officer's Quarters in Dachau, Germany. The watercolor is titled, "Living room", and depicts a china cabinet, table, and other furniture within the room. The watercolor is initialed "H" and dated January 1946, in the lower right corner of the verso.

  2. Policja Bezpieczeństwa-Komisariat Kryminalny Garwolin Selected records of the Security Police, Criminal Commissar in Garwolin Sondergericht Sicherheitspolizei Kriminalkommissariat Garwolin (Sygn.1057/II)

    Official newsletter “Nachrichtenblatt” published by the Kommandeurs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD fűr den Distrikt Warschau Abt IV (Kriminalpolizei); incomplete issues from 1940, 1941 and 1942. Newsletters contain reports of criminal activities in the region, information relating to administrative matters, arrest warrants, lists of people sought by the police.

  4. American Red Cross Volunteer pin

    American Red Cross Volunteer pin received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  5. Selected records from the State Archives in Vratsa related to the history of the Jewish community of Vratsa

    Records of the District Administration of Vratsa, District Court, and District Inspectorate of Public Schools. Included are school reports relating to Jewish students; legal proceedings and court records pertaining to the local Jewish population, and correspondence between the District Court and Department of Police concerning the local Jewish population. The collection also includes surviving records of the Jewish Community of Byala Slatina (municipality in Vratsa District) containing financial records, minutes of the meetings of the Board of the Jewish Community (1943), and requests to re...

  6. Outdoor celebration; holy communion; Vasilevsky family at leisure

    "AGFA 8 1941" Outdoor celebration with families, many smiling for the camera, eating and drinking. Some men in uniform. 01:04:50 Elizabeth, Emma, and George Vasilevsky pose for the camera. Woman with striped jacket. (This event could be "Mayales in Kvetnica. Liptaks, Stofkos, Strakas, etc" according to the canister). 01:06:28 Emma and George sit on a blanket outdoors, blooming trees. Girls dance in traditional costume. Slovak flag. Families at leisure. 01:09:42 First holy communion for Emma and her friends. The girls pose. Mothers talk. CUs, Emma. George biking in yard. Church of Saint Mary...

  7. "Claim 201171"

    Contains a manuscript written by Dalia Bogler Frieder regarding her experiences attempting to get reparations for her wartime experiences.

  8. Correspondence from Gurs to Palestine

    Contains correspondence sent from the Gurs internment camp via the Red Cross by Jewish parents to their son, a student in Palestine, 1941-1942.

  9. Greek-American couple visits Bucharest, Istanbul, and Salonika before WWII

    Title card: “Bucherest” [sic] Relatives walk down the street in Bucharest, Romania. Group including four women, Anna Mayo is third from left (dark-haired woman in polka dot dress with white trim down the center). Another group shot with Anna Mayo still second from left and Bocko Mayo second from right. Street scenes, including the young man (appearing earlier) on a bicycle. The visitors walk arm-in-arm down the street, pose around a table. An outdoor market. The visiting men and women walking towards the camera, very nicely dressed. They walk by the waterside. They eat a meal by the water, ...

  10. Mann and Schwarz families papers

    The Man and Schwarz families papers consist of two family photograph albums documenting the prewar lives of the Mann and Schwarz families in Tarnów, Poland and Vienna, Austria. The albums are titled "1817-1918" and "1927-1937." Included are depictions of family life, vacations, children, relatives and friends, and Lazar and Helene's wedding in 1930. Also included are a small amount of documents, primarily copies of correspondence. The majority of the photographs are annotated by the donor and include descriptions of the fates of family and friends during the Holocaust.

  11. Torah scroll with cover and box

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn562912
    • English
    • a: Height: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 7.130 inches (18.11 cm) c: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 18.310 inches (46.507 cm)

    The scroll was used by Rabbi Ralph M. Weisberger during his military service in the Persian Gulf, circa 1944.

  12. American family visits the Balkans

    "Dubrovnik in Jugo-Slavia or Ragusa in Dalmatia" Sailors. Outdoor cafe, including a table with the Major family visiting from Kansas. Local people. Band performs. Pan up, church. Religious procession with young girls and boys. Harbor. "Bled The Summer Home of King Peter" (color) LS, lake and mountains in Bled with villas. Switches to black and white, marching soldiers. Rowboats on the lake in Bled. 01:12:30 KODAK

  13. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by an inmate

    Concentration camp uniform coat worn by David Wharton (Wartonski), born in Kovno, Lithuania, and deported to Dachau concentration camp.

  14. Dachau negatives collection

    Contains two negatives with images of concentration camps following liberation, including one taken at Dachau.

  15. Franka Kampinski collection

    Collection of photographs and a membership card documenting the experiences of Franka Kampinski (donor's mother) during the Holocaust. Photos document friends and family in pre-war and post-war Łódź, as well as in Lenger-Ugol, Kazakhstan during the war; Maccabi Sports Club membership card issued to Franka Kempinski, November 28, 1946, Łódź, Poland.

  16. Seleted records of the Central Welfare Council. Head Office in Cracow Rada Główna Opiekuńcza. Biuro Centrali w Krakowie (Sygn.125)

    Correspondence, minutes of reports, activity reports, lists of population, statistical information and other records created by the Rada Główna Opiekuńcza (Central Welfare Council), RGO, Polish social welfare organization working during the occupation period in Poland. Some of the material concerns the Jewish population and cooperation with the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, ŻSS (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe).

  17. Antisemitism Questionnaires Cuestionario antisemitismo

    A survey on antisemitism conducted by José Moskovits in the 1970s by mailing a questionnaire on antisemitism to almost 5,000 dignitaries in 150 countries worldwide. The questionnaire was mailed to heads-of-state and other leading politicians, authors, journalists, scientists, artists, doctors, as well as corporate, military, civic, and religious leaders. Mr. Moskovits received almost 1,000 filled-out questionnaires back, often with additional letter responses attached. The purpose of the survey was a book to be edited by Dr. Asher Mibashan (1914-2005), the Buenos Aires bureau chief of the J...

  18. Leopoldine and Hermann Rintel collection

    Two (2) Deutsches Reich Reisepass [passports] which had been issued in Vienna to Leopoldine Rintel on January 23, 1939 and her son Hermann “Israel” Rintel on August 9, 1940; Hermann’s passport is marked with a red “J”; both include visas and stamps from Spain and Portugal and immigration visa for the United States dated April 22, 1941.

  19. Boder travels overseas on USS Brazil; French village; displaced persons camp

    MS, group of four at railroad station, including David Boder. “United States Lines Car M.” 01:00:51 VAR views of the deck of a large ship, probably the USS Brazil which Boder sailed to Europe on in late July 1946. Boder with the recorder on his shoulder, walks down the stairs on the ship. A man writes in a journal. A man wearing a yarmulke takes off his glasses. Boder with two men. Woman with her young son. More shots of the ship, American flag. 01:03:07. CU, alternating shots of Boder and a man with still camera. Other ships in the water as they approach a harbor. People on deck. 01:05:20 ...

  20. James Harmon Kirkendall photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Dachau concentration camp at liberation on April 15, 1945. The images were kept by James Harmon Kirkendall (donor's great uncle) who served in the 99th Infantry Division of the US Army and was one of the 15 soldiers sent to the Dachau concentration camp to report on the conditions; dated April 1945.