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  1. Stark family collection

    The collection documents the pre and post-war lives of the Stark and Kornitzer families, respectively from Berettyóújfalu and Szerencs, Hungary. Photographs depict Rozalia Stark (née Kornitzer), her parents Salomon and Miriam Kornitzer, sibling Geza, and Rozalia with her husband Adrian Stark and their daughter Eva. Also included is Adrian’s Hungarian state insurance ID card, 1956. One photograph is original and three are copy prints.

  2. Presentation by Rachel Bodner

  3. Waldapfel family papers

    The Waldapfel family papers include correspondence, immigration documents, and photographs documenting Irma Waldapfel, her children Valerie, Max, and Karoline, and their Waldapfel and Fischer relatives. Correspondence includes postcards sent from Czechoslovakia to Irma, Valerie, and Karoline during the interwar period and letters Irma and Karoline sent from Vienna to Valeria and Max in New York. Immigration documents consist of a Queen Mary passenger list and handwritten notes documenting Irma’s and Karoline’s itinerary from Vienna to Cherbourg to New York. Photographs depict Irma, Karoline...

  5. Heny Hersh papers

    The collection includes about 25 prewar and DP camp photographs documenting the donor's parents: Heny Hersh nee Stern (1926-2017) and Artie Hersh (b. 1927, Osoj – currently residing in Boynton Beach, FL). Heny Hersh survived Romanian ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ober Hohenelbe, DP camps Admund, Salfenden, Rivoli, Barletta, and immigration to the US in 1950. Artie Hersh survived Auschwitz, Hausdorf, Ebanzei, DP camps Rivoli, Kobenz, Bagnoli, and immigration to the US in 1950.

  6. Deportált Hiradó [Newspapers]

    The rare weekly newspaper published in Satu Mare,Transylvania in July-August 1945. The publication focuses on assistance provided to Jewish Holocaust survivors from Northern Transylvania returning from the Nazi death and forced labor camps.

  8. Erdélyi Lapok [Newspapers]

    Selected issues of the antisemitic newspaper Erdélyi Lapok published in Oradea,Transylvania. The paper was published with the financial support of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1936 changed its name to Új Lapok and later to Magyar Lapok,

  9. Oral history interview with Walter Klebe

  10. "Progress" Haladás [Newspapers]

    Radical weekly newspaper edited and published by Béla Zsolt, after WWII. The Haladás was a newspaper of the Magyar Radikális Párt, MRP (Hungarian Radical Party).

  11. A Liberator of Dachau Remembered

  12. Oral history interview with Haim Brill

  13. Society for the Support of Jewish Performing Arts in Vilnius Towarzystwo Popierania Żydowskiej Sztuki Scenicznej w Wilnie (Fond 296)

    Records related to the activities of Yiddish theatre groups that performed in Poland during the interwar period. It includes bylaws of the organization, minutes and resolutions of board meetings, work plans, and activities reports, extensive correspondence related to the organization of performances and tours, cooperation with other Jewish public organizations in Wilno and Poland, applications for permission to hold performances and concerts; financial records related to the support provided to local theaters and unemployed actors, tax exemptions applications for organizing cultural events,...

  14. Registration lists of the Polish citizens and ethnic Poles repatriated from the Soviet Ukraine to Poland (Fond 3229)

    The collection contains case files and registration lists of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles who applied for repatriation to Poland from Soviet Ukraine. Registration lists include the names of the returnees, gender, nationality, date of birth, marital status, place of residence, occupation and description of movable personal property (cattle, agricultural tools and machinery, etc.). The repatriation of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles was carried out under the auspices of the L’viv Regional Office of the Chief Representative of the Government of Soviet Ukraine on Repatriation Issues. This ...

  15. Korunk [Newspapers]

    A "Korunk" is the Hungarian-language cultural journal published in Kolozsvár; a first issue appeared in February 1926; the publication was ceased between 1940 and 1957, and resumed in February 1957. Selected issues od the journal contains left oriented reviews with strong anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi editorial agenda.

  17. Yiddish Intermediate School in Plungé Plungės žydų vidurinė mokykla (Fond 781)

    Minutes of teachers' council meetings, examinations records; copies of graduation certificates, including photos of students; class journals with the names of students and their grades.

  19. Operacijska zona Jadransko Primorje (SI AS 1760) Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland (OZAK)

    Selected records on activities of the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK), a district of Nazi Germany created in 1943 after Italian capitulation following the Allied invasion of Italy. Includes a fragmentary list of local residents detailed by German police. The area of the OZAK with its capital in Trieste comprised parts of the territories of present-day Italy, Slovenia, and parts of Croatia (Rijeka region). Odilo Globocnik served as Higher SS and Police Leader of this district in 1943-194...

  20. Oral history interview with Henia Shylit