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  1. Jack Weiner photographs

    Consists of original photographs and glass slides from the collection of Dr. Jack Weiner, a member of the United States Army who worked at the 115th Field Hospital in Kassel, Germany, in 1945. The collection includes photographs of Weiner and his staff in the summer of 1945, of structures damaged in the war, and original glass slides of the liberation of a concentration camp. The photographs are described on the verso.

  2. Star of David badge with the letter J. acquired by a US pilot

    Star of David badge acquired by Ben Grobman, a US Army glider pilot, in Belgium.

  3. Arnold Mechur papers

    Consists of documents and a photograph related to Arnold Mechur's pre-war schooling and training as a tailor in Berlin, Germany. Also includes a 1937 photograph of three boys, Mechur's immigration documents for his 1940 emigration from Europe to Cuba, his naturalization papers for the United States, and a program noting his participation in a 1974 art show in southern Florida.

  4. German Jewish family life and leisure activites, 1931-1934

    01:00:02 Roll 1. Renate plays with a framed photograph. Mother Johanna (Hanna), partially in frame, shows her various objects to play with. Renate holds a piece of paper with the date written on it: 20.III.32. [March 20, 1932] Otto and Hanna hold Renate. 01:02:15 Roll 2. HAS, train station, 1932. Elizabeth, Otto's sister, holds her baby. Sign for train from Dresden to Hamburg. Waving on the train platform. Renate walks in a park with Mother Hanna, Aunt Elizabeth Plaut Hamburger, and baby cousin Eleanor Hamburger. Brief shot of Renate sitting up in bed. 01:04:43 Roll 2A. In a public park, Ha...

  5. "From Hell to Home"

    Consists of one copy of a memoir, 143 pages, in Hebrew with English translation, entitled "From Hell to Home," written by Matisyahu Goldberg, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. In the memoir, Mr. Goldberg describes his family, childhood and religious life in Lithuania; his involvement with the Irgun Zvi Leumi; life in the Kovno ghetto; forced labor in Kaišiadorys and in Kazlų Rūda. In 1944, he was forced to return to Kovno and deported from there to Dachau, arriving in July 1944. He was liberated by the American military while on a forced march from Dachau. After the war, he attempte...

  6. Maria Rose memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 115 typed pages, written by Maria Rose, originally of Warsaw, Poland, and edited by her son Julian (Julek). In the memoir, she describes her childhood, education, and family life in Warsaw, noting the fates of her extended family and school friends, as well those as in the Communist Association of Polish Youth, of which she was a member. She describes her pre-war arrests as a Communist, her marriage to Herc Dawidson, life in wartime Bialystok, Herc’s arrest, her 1943 return to Warsaw, deportation to Majdanek, and experiences in Auschwitz, Rajsko, and multiple camps i...

  7. 1936 Berlin Olympics torch holder engraved with the torch relay route

    Olympic torch holder used during the 1936 Summer Olympics.

  8. Max Levi memoir

    Consists of two photocopies of photographs and one copy of Max Levi's handwritten memoir, in German, with an English translation. The memoir details his experiences in Germany from April 30, 1933 until December 8, 1938, including the loss of his business and wealth; the family's experiences on Kristallnacht, when Max's business and apartment were destroyed and he was injured; and their arrival in New York on December 15, 1938.

  9. Edwin Dutkiewicz papers

    The Edwin Dutkiewicz papers consists of biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Edwin’s time as a forced laborer in Finland and Norway with Organisation Todt during World War II and his life in Norway as a displaced person after the war. Biographical material includes a Polish passport, fragments of Edwin’s identification card issued by Organisation Todt, which he tore up after the war, and a postcard from the displaced persons camp at Bodø. Edwin’s diary, which he began in 1941, describes his pre-war life and childhood in Poland, his experiences as a forced laborer, lif...

  10. Thomas McFarland, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints depicting victims of the Nordhausen (Dora-Mittelbau) concentration camp immediately following liberation. American soldiers and German civilians are visible in some of the photographs; inscription on verso of one photograph.

  11. Collection of Nathan Rapoport prints and sketches (RG-94-4) נתן רפופורט

    The collection contains Nathan Rapoport prints for his monument "Scrolls of Fire," and his other skeches. The monument "Scrolls of Fire" found in the Jerusalem hills, and it commemorates Jewish history from the Holocaust until Independence. The monument was inaugurated in 1971. The sculpture is made of bronze and is eight meters high. It is in the shape of two scrolls, a gesture to the Jewish nation being the "People of the Book." One of the scrolls describes the Holocaust and the other describes independence. It tells the story of the rebirth of the nation from the Holocaust up to the Six ...

  12. Records of the commune Stara Wies County Rawski Akta gminy Stara Wieś powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1107)

    The collection contains vital records of the region of Biała Rawska, name lists of fireman in various communes, correspondence, reports, police announcements and orders regulating contacts with Jewish people, and medical orders for Jews and Roma to delouse them for prevention of infectious diseases.

  13. "Minerwa" Metal Factory in Częstochowa Zakłady Wyrobów Metalowych "Minerwa" w Częstochowie (Sygn.192/9)

    Contains records relating to opening balance of the "Minerwa" Metal factory in Częstochowa for Jan. 29, 1945. Included are records about the factory equipment, as well as records concerning the trial to regain the property by the heirs of the former owners.

  14. Arnold Lissance family papers

    Typescript copy and translations of the memoirs of Moses Lissiansky (1872-1943), describing his life in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Russia, originally written in Austria in the 1930s, as well as translations and summaries of correspondence that his son, Arnold Lissance, had received from his family in Austria after his own immigration to the United States in the 1930s. Also contains documents produced at the Nuremberg Trials and collected by Lissance during his time working as a translator at the trials, including materials related to the Ministries Trial (Case XI), as well as mimeo...

  15. Yitsḥaḳ Patish personal archives (RG-95-70) יצחק פטיש - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Izhak Patish (1914-2002) contains letters, articles, poetry, extracts from the diary of Ronya Margalit-Git (sister Masha) in Yiddish, songs in Yiddish, papers on Czechoslovakia Jewry, records and correspondence from his mission as an Israeli ambassador in Austria.

  16. Gordon Witte photograph collection

    Consists of an original silver "Kodak" film canister containing a wound strip of photographic negatives depicting a large Nazi rally at which Hitler was in attendance. The negatives were found by PFC Gordon E. Witte, a member of the Company D of the 335th Infantry of the United States Army while he was in Pevestorf, Germany, at the end of the war.

  17. Clotilde Nicoli collection

    Consists of photographs and photographic negatives taken in Germany, circa 1945. Includes photographs of graves of German and Allied soldiers, aerial images, photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau, and photographs of military destruction. Includes an original envelope marked "Germany 1942" (though these photographs were likely taken in 1945). The photographs were sent to Clotilde Nicoli.

  18. Hashomer Hatzair in Cyprus (RG-19-2) השומר הצעיר בקפריסין

    Contains memoirs and other documents of the Jewish refugees and survivors on their stay in Cyprus in 1947. Also includes various publications, correspondence (1947), names lists of kibbutz members, the issue of Hashomer Hatzair journal "Ba Girush" (1947), published in Cyprus, the "exodus" story of "Ma'apilim" (illigal emigrants to Palestine) written by Yehushua Ratman in Yiddish.

  19. German Army procurement documents

    Collection of German Army procurement invoices; used by the Wehrmacht to track shipment of various parts to Cambrai, France; all stamped in upper right corner "Dienststelle Feldpostnummer L 08 723, Luftgaupostamt, Bruessel" (Brussels).

  20. Prayer book

    Small Jewish prayer book carried by Bernard Diczek during his escape from German occupied Poland during World War II.