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  2. Jewish Provincial Committee in Przemyśl Wojewódzki Komitet Żydów w Przemyślu (Sygn.367)

    Minutes of the committee meetings, reports, correspondence, lists of Jewish survivors, committee statutes, circulars, appeals and communications, budgets, lists of people using assistance, personal data of committee staff and some other documents..

  3. Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler collection

    Collection of copy prints, passport, certificates, documents, identity documents documenting the experiences of Edith Schmerler and Ernest Hubler (donors’ parents) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Also includes pre-war photo album documenting family and friends, and a scrapbook compiled on the occasion of Ernest Hubler’s Bar Mitzvah in 1933 that contains loose and adhered calling cards, postcards, letters and telegrams. Both Edith and Ernest were originally from Vienna. Edith left via Belgium, arriving in the US with her younger brother Herbert in May 1939. Ernest immigrated to the ...

  4. Oral history interview with Rina Diamand

  5. Fluss and Lipow families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Lipow and Fluss families of Berlin, Germany, including their immigration to the United States. Biographical material includes William and Bertha Lipow’s ketubah, immigration documents, correspondence, restitution paperwork, and photographs. Material related to the Fluss family includes identification documents and postcards.

  6. Oral history interview with Norman Gleiss

  7. Janika's Sunday (May 1940)

    Kodak safety film logo. Hungarian titles throughout. Title card with drawing of a child on a rocking horse “Ez a kis film abba a boldog világla visz” “vissza bennünket, amikor még nem vultak… Title card with sketch of an angry man with his hands over his ears and “sem gondjaink”. Stylized picture of a man sitting next to a woman with “sem szenvedélyeink” “a történet nem kitalált mese, hanem megtörtént valúság. Címe” “Janika vasárnapja” “a főszerepben:” János smiles at the camera. “Fotografálta és összevágta: Pető György.” “Történik:” “1940” (trick shots) “Május 26 Vasárnap” Small clock indi...

  8. Oral history interview with Maurice Levis

  9. The Furman family visits London en route to relatives in Poland

    The ocean. A man on a ship deck walks towards the camera several times, a big smile on his face. Ocean waves. A child runs around on the ship deck. A woman runs with her. They continue playing, holding hands. Small waves in the ocean. A ship with two funnels moves past, its deck crowded with people. Another large liner. A seagull flies. A man struggles with a large rod. People walk through city streets in London, officers, buses, and officers on horseback for annual The Lord Mayor's Show on November 9 to introduce the city to it's new Lord Mayor. The filmmaker stands opposite The Royal Cour...

  10. Senate Commission for the Affairs of Religious Associations 363-3 Senatskommission für die Angelegenheiten der Religionsverbände

    Selected records of the Senatskommission für die Angelegenheiten der Religionsverbände (Senate Commission for the Affairs of Religious Associations) related to administration and burial places in Hamburg area. Includes individual acts of the relationship between church and state, such as property, personal, personnel, legal and construction issues, etc. Consists mainly of materials on relations between the Christian non-Lutheran and Jewish communities, and boycotts against Jews.

  11. Walter Laqueur collection

    Articles, manuscripts, correspondence and other research materials compiled by Walter Laqueur (donor's late husband).

  12. Oral history interview with Pierina

  14. Ernest Wallach photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs in the possession of Ernest Wallach, a Jewish German immigrant who served overseas during World War II as one of the “Ritchie Boys.” The photographs depict Buchenwald after liberation, German soldiers, Nazi flags, general war and militiary scenes, and Nazi personnel including Baldur von Schirach and Eva Braun.

  16. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and post-war lives of the Markheim family of Kraków and Bochnia, Poland and relatives in the Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families. Documents include post-war identification papers of Maurice and Michael Markheim as well as restitution paperwork. Photographs include pre-war and post-war depictions of family members in Poland, DP camps, and Israel. Documents of Maurice Markheim include Bindermichl and Regensburg DP camp identification papers, including a card identifying him as a former prisoner of Mauthausen, a driver’s license, copies of his birth c...

  17. Oral history interview with Alan Harrison

  18. George Rothman papers

    The George Rothman papers document the Holocaust-era experiences of George Rothman (born Georges Bardenstein) and his parents Emmanuel and Esfira Bardenstein in Bordeaux and Paris, France, including Emmanuel’s enlistment in the French Army, George’s hospitalization due to a severe illness, his parent’s deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz, and his survival as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage. Included are pre-war biographical papers, correspondence, photographs, and a memoir. The bulk of the biographical materials consists of correspondence and immigration documents regarding George’s ...

  19. Eiland family collection

    Collection of documents, certificates, affidavit, and envelopes relating to the Eiland family including Adolf and Cecilia Eiland, and their children, Rudolf and Helen.

  20. Schubach family collection

    Documents, passport, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the emigration of Pauline Schubach [nee Pfeiffer], her husband, Gustav, and their children, Robert and Inge, in 1939. These materials also document their sponsorship by William Stein, Pauline’s maternal uncle, and Pauline’s efforts to try and obtain visas for her parents, Bernhard and Lina, in Rudesheim, Germany. Her parents were in Rudesheim until Bernhard’s death in 1941, and Lina’s movement to the Jewish old age home in Frankfurt. [Lina was deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp on May 15, 1942, and then to Auschwitz...