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  1. Lavoslav Schick (Šik) collection

    Personal papers of Lavoslav Schick (Šik). The collection consists of several hundred of his manuscripts, articles, speeches, reports, and extensive correspondence with individuals and organizations throughout Europe. Lavoslav Schick was a prominent Zagreb lawyer, killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp. He was a Zionist, but of the kind who did not wish to actually leave for Palestine themselves, and a well-known public figure in Zagreb’s inter-war period. Zagreb’s Jewish history cannot be told without talking or examining of his work.

  3. Selected records of the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Berlin Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Berlinie (Sygn. 474)

    Reports, statistics, correspondence, and press clippings issued by Polish diplomatic agencies operating on German territory since 1933, relating to the condition, persecution and emigration of Jews, incidents of arrests and beating of Polish Jews on German territory, interventions by the Polish Embassy and Polish diplomatic agencies on Jewish matters, and legal assistance for Polish emigrants in Germany. Also includes texts of speeches by Hitler, 1935, and German propaganda. Also included are records relating to the organization and activity of the Federation of Polish Jews in Germany, info...

  4. Tallit

    Tallit found in German home by Manfred Hohenemser, an American GI who was a German Jewish refugee. After his unit liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp, they moved on to the town of Eisenbach near the Austrian border. Manfred was ordered to conduct a house to house search, and while doing so, he saw the tallit being used as a tablecloth in one of the homes. Furious, he ripped the tallit off the table and took it with him.

  5. Fonds Serge Klarsfeld (MDCII)

    Personal archives of Serge Klarsfeld, including are correspondence (personal, legal, administrative, telegrams), handwritten and typewritten notes, administrative documents, partial or complete reproductions of works, colloquia, collections of documents, collection of original or reproduced testimonies, collection of press articles and photos gathered by Serge Klarsfeld, and his research on the deportation of Jews from France. The collected administrative documents were themselves produced by the different organs of the Reich, its occupying authorities in France, the administration of the V...

  6. Archive of the Culture Congress. Confederation of Jewish Culture Archivo del Cultur Congres. Confederación Pro Cultura Judía

    The collection consists of institutional records of the Confederación Pro Cultura Judía. Records relate to the arrival of survivor artists, cultural activities and publishing projects of survivors, as well as photographs, newspaper clippings, and organizational records.

  7. Personal papers of Francisco Wichter Archivo personal de Francisco Wichter

    Papers of Francisco Wichter (born Faivel Wichter), Holocaust survivor. The collection consists of Wichter's correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, certificates, and photographs related to his post-war experiences. He survived several ghettos, concentration and forced labor camps, including Bełżyce, Poniatowo, Budzyń, Mielec, and Wieliczka, and was chosen to work for Oskar Schindler's factory complex in Brünnlitz. After the war, Wichter and his wife settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The collection includes photographs and documents depicting Wichter's activities as a member and o...

  8. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Consulate in Nice Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nicei (Sygn. 508)

    Diplomatic correspondence and the invitations of the Société Israélite to the Polish Council in Nicei to honor work of Jewish poet and novelist, Sholem Asch. In 1932 he was awarded by the Polish Republic's Polonia Restituta decoration.

  9. Torah ark curtain

    Ritual tablecloth /veil for the Torah box from the Gherla synagogue. The Gherla synagogue was used in 1944 as a short-term detention place for Jews before they were interned in the Gherla brick factory which was used as a ghetto. At this point, the Gherla Jewish community is made up of one person, eighty-year-old survivor Zoltan Blun.

  10. Oral history interview with Arthur Danziger

  11. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)

    Personal papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (1904-1992). The collection consists of articles, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscript and narrations of Eva Michaelis-Stern concerning her work for the Youth Aliyah in Germany and England; correspondence between Eva Michaelis-Stern and various people, mainly private; agreement between Michaelis-Stern and war veterans organization; newspaper articles, pictures and letters, notes, various booklets, guides and printed material from the Keren Hayesod, the Central Zionist Archives and the Council for Social Services and Voluntarism, inclu...

  12. Otto and Régine Heim papers Nachlass Otto H. und Régine Heim (1896-1978/1907-2004)

    Private papers of Otto Heim (1896-1978) and Régine Heim (1907-2004), a Jewish Swiss aid worker for Jewish refugees. The collection consists of biographical documents as a marriage certificate, testimonies, speeches at private and family occasions, among others, the speech on 70th birthday of Otto H. Heim, the farewell address of Edi Braunschweig, the report on a trip to Israel 1950, documents on the family history of Otto Heim and his wife Régine Fraydenraich [Freidenreich]; articles, essays, among others: "The confessional and national structure of the population of Switzerland"; a speech ...

  13. William Schneider collection

    Immediate postwar photographs of the removal of corpses and reburial in mass grave at Dora-Mittelbau.

  14. 5 Schilling Austrian scrip

    5 Schilling Austrian scrip issued in 1944 by the Alliierte Militarbehorde. Serial number 17H 143310.

  15. Yitzchak Singer papers

    Contains correspondence of Va'ad Ha'Hatzala for a visa to the United States for Yitzchak Singer, a Holocaust survivor and yeshiva student who was found in Bergen-Belsen. Among the documents is a letter signed by Rosalie Stive of the immgiration department of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; and letters from rabbis in the United States to immigration authorities about accepting the boy to the yeshiva with a full scholarship, signed by Rabbi Yosef Shevlowitz and Rabbi Yosef Baumel. After many efforts, Yitzchak immigrated to Israel.

  16. Broadside

    Broadside: "Kol Kore - Ichud Seidei HaRabanim VehaAdmori’m BePolin" Plea issued by the Organization of Surviving Rabbis and Chasidic Rebbes of Poland seeking help to emigrate to Eretz Israel.

  17. Prayer book

    Prayer book given to David Bajer, 25, on a 1947 trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He went inside a synagogue and the rabbi gave him a set of tefillin to use and to keep and David picked up this prayer book as well. David was the only survivor from a very devout family from Kozienice, Poland. Although he lost faith in Judaism during the Holocaust, he kept this siddur with him as a talisman for seventy years. He decided to donate the book to the Museum, but brought the book to the Museum for three weeks in a row before he finally had the courage to donate it on May 31, 2017. Kozienice was occup...

  18. Selected records of the State Archive in Prešov, branch Humenné

    Selected records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property and businesses in the towns of Humenné and Medzilaborce in Slovakia. Also includes a proposal from 1929 for the appointment of members of an election commission, among them several Jews, and records pertaining to detention camp for prisoners of war (Serbs and French) in Humenné.

  19. Albert Einstein letter

    Letter hand-written in German by Albert Einstein datelined Princeton, October 10, 1938, addressed to his friend Dr. Michele Besso in Berne, Switzerland. In the letter, Einstein describes his attempts to help European Jews by issuing affidavits, his frustration over the fact that he can no longer issue affidavits for fear of endangering ones still pending, and his helplessness to further assist the Jews. He also discusses Hitler’s political and military actions taking place in Europe.

  20. Schoenfeld and Mandelbrot families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, papers, negatives, newspapers and clippings, and other assorted materials which primarily document the experiences of Siegfried, Elsa (nee Schonfeld) and Liselotte Mandelbrot of Stuttgart and their friends and family, and the Mandelbrot's attempts to flee Nazi Germany. The family had visas for the United States, but the papers expired before they could get out. They were deported to Theresienstadt on August 22, 1942, and from there to Auschwitz on October 12, 1944 where they were killed. Elsa Mandelbrot is the donor's father's half siste...