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  1. Prewar Zborow

    Zborow in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften.

  2. Prewar Zborow

    Zborow in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften. (3:32) Still photo of committee for the Soup Kitchen: seated left to right: Amalia Nissenbaum (great-grandmother of Eric Silberman), Yenta Kronisch, Helena Lechowicz, Benjamin Reiss, Shmuel Schwebel, Nita Halpern, Mendel Sigal. St...

  3. Family visits Panavesz

    Home movie coverage of a trip to Poland taken by Walter Wiener in 1934. Scenes cover the farewell in New York, on board the ship, arriving in England, touring through France, greeting family members in Panevesz, Poland, a synagogue sponsored by Americans, the market, meeting relatives in Kovno, Lithuania, and returning to the United States. The film includes Yiddish intertitles.

  4. Prewar Suchostaw

    Suchostaw (Suchastov) in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften.

  5. Lob family papers

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Marcel Pierre Lob, originally of Paris, Frace, including his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz II-Birkenau and return to Paris after liberation. It also includes documents related to the experiences of his wife Helene Lob (née Bybelezer), a survivor of Drancy, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen, and tracing documents regarding the Holocaust fates of his mother Lucie Levy Lob, sister Stephanie Carrance, her husband Ernest Carrance, and their daughter Jacqueline Carrance, all of who perished at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. ...

  6. Oral history interview with Martin H. Spiegel

  7. Emil Schattner papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Emil Schattner and his family, primarily in Bobowa, Poland and Vienna, Austria. Included are photographs, birth and marriage certificates, documents regarding Emil’s Austrian pension, report cards, and Emil’s memoir “The Summer of ‘38.” Photographs include pre-war depictions of Emil, his parents Mina and Nathan Schattner, his sister Mary Schattner, Mina’s brothers Shimon and Israel Baldinger, and Nathan’s sister Jente or Jetti Schattner. Also included is a photograph of the Schattner family aboard the SS Batory on their way to the Un...

  8. Eugene Mielcarek photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of people and their belongings loaded onto open trucks; caption typed verso: "17 / All set to move. / Note the luggage and pots in the total scene. Mass movement"

  9. Dachau liberation photos

    Dachau liberation photos. The donor's father was at Dachau after liberation.

  10. Gitta Simon papers

    The collection consists of a memoir documenting the Holocaust experiences of Gitta Simon (née Kohn), originally of Moson, Hungary, including her deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944, transfer to Altenburg subcamp of Buchenwald. While on a death march, Simon was liberated by the United States Army. The memoir is in Hungarian and was written post-war while she and her husband, Laszlo Simon, were living in Shanghai (1947-1949). A digital English translation of the memoir is also available at the USHMM (DS135.H93 S5968 2000). Also included are a small number of documents including marriage and...

  11. Joseph Kanarek papers

    Photos, documents, Rosh Hashana card, Yom Kippur card from Mittelbau

  12. Kaufmann family papers

    German Passports and documents issued to Betti Neckarsulmer Kaufmann and her husband, Ernst Kaufmann who were Jewish and forced to flee Nazi Germany.

  13. Fodor family papers

    Documents of Charles S. (Karoly Sandor) Fodor, his father József Fodor, and photographs of Charles, József, his mother, Mathilde Weiler Fodor, and members of the extended family.

  14. Correspondence addressed to Adolf Hitler offering him honorary citizenship to communities across Germany

    Consists of a single folder of correspondence addressed to Adolf Hitler authored by local officials throughout Germany. The content of the letter primarily concerns offers of honorary citizenship and requests for local acknowledgement and visits by Hitler.

  15. Albin F. Irzyk collection

    Albin F. Irzyk, Sr.’s personal account of his unit's liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. He was the Battalion Commander of the 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, Third Army on April 4, 1945 when the discovery was made.

  16. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note

  17. Congregation Kehillath Yaakov and the Gemiluth Chessed of Greater New York collection

    Archive of minutes, documents and communications regarding Congregation Kehillath Yaakov and the Gemiluth Chessed of Greater New York, both of Washington Heights, NY. Gemiluth Chessed c. 235 pages bound in ledger, with additional loose letters and newspaper clippings. Kehillath Yaakov documents, c. 325 pages. In German and English; Washington Heights, NY; dated 1940s-1970s

  18. American Jew travels to Poland

    Home movie coverage of a trip to Poland taken by Walter Wiener in 1934. Scenes cover the farewell in New York, on board the ship, arriving in England, touring through France, greeting family members in Panevesz, Poland, a synagogue sponsored by Americans, the market, meeting relatives in Kovno, Lithuania, and returning to the United States. The film includes Yiddish intertitles.

  19. Feingold family collection

    Photo and letter to the editor clipped from the New York Times Magazine. Mark Feinberg is the son of Joseph Feingold's brother, Alexander Feingold. The photo is of a third brother who was killed. Alexander wrote the letter to the editor.

  20. Der Moment

    The Yiddish journal "Der Moment", an Orthodox Zionist weekly published in Montevideo from the early 1940’s until the early 1960’s.