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  1. Handmade wooden hanukiah with Hebrew inscription made by Kindertransport refugees

    8-branched Hanukkah menorah with central holder for the 9th candle made for Louis Judah and Etty Cohen by 3 male student refugees at the Whittingehame Farm School in East Lothian, Scotland. One evening, the students requested that Mr. Cohen and his family come to the school and, in a heartfelt ceremony, presented the handcrafted menorah to the couple to thank them for what they had done for them. Judah and Etty were governors of the school, and members of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation which established the school in 1939. Its mission was to care for German and Austrian Jewish children a...

  2. "Before the Storm": Alexander Cohen's autobiography

    Consists of one memoir, 40 pages, entitled "Before the Storm," written in 2004 by Alexander Cohen, originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes the anti-Jewish measures in Budapest before 1944 and the chaos of life in Budapest in 1944. He describes his experiences in a Hungarian forced labor battalion and the deaths of members of his family and those of his wife, Magda, whom he married after liberation.

  3. Eugene Kohan collection

    Consists of two identity cards belonging to Eugene Kohan, originally of Nowe Zamsky, Czechoslovakia. Includes a card identifying Mr. Kohan as an inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp from May 1944 to April 1945 and a 1948 card identifying him as a professional soccer player in a German league, listing his place of residence as Heidenheim displaced persons camp.

  4. Selected records from the Archives Départementales des Côtes d'Armor

    Contains information pertaining to the persecution of Jews, Freemasons, Communists, and French Resistance fighters in the area in and around the Côtes d'Armor. Also contains information on post war memorials.

  5. The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series B (Political Department)

    Contains records of the Political Department represented the WJC with governments and international organizations such as the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Council of Europe. Records relate to the departmental activities reflected antisemitism, human rights, migration, minorities, genocide, statelessness, prosecution of war crimes, relations between Christians and Jews, peace and disarmament, reparations, the situation of Jews in specific countries (notably the USSR and North Africa). Contains also papers of three persons: Maurice L. Perlzweig, Robert S. Marcu...

  6. Joseph Haberer collection

    Group of correspondence written by family members and parents concerning attempts to emigrate from Germany. Joseph Haberer [donor] was sent on Kindertransport. Correspondence written primarily between Georgine Seckels and Berthold Haberer [donor's parents] in Germany and Jakob and Gitta Seckels [donor's maternal uncle and aunt] in California, concerning the Haberer's efforts to leave Germany; dated March 1939-September 1942; in German. Collection of photographic prints documenting members of the Haberer family and Joseph's experiences in England after his arrival via the Kindertransport. In...

  7. Records of the Regional Shekel Commission in Lwów (Fond 336)

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to the fundraising activities of the local branches of the "shekel commissions" across of the Eastern Galicia, central offices of the Zionist organization in London, list of the delegates to the Zionist Congresses, list of voters of the delegates to the Zionist congresses etc.

  8. Roman Haar collection

    The Roman Haar collection contains documents from Roman’s childhood, growing up in Poland. The photographs in the collection are mainly of Roman, but some show him posing with his father Salo, and his mother Erna, and his half-brother Joachim Fritsche. The larger photograph taken in 1943 is of Roman while he was hiding in Rzeszow, and one photograph from 1946 is of Roman, Erna, and Joachim. Another photo is from a children’s Purim holiday play put on while at Foehrenwald displaced persons (DP) camp. Also within the collection is a document ordering Roman to be separated from his mother and ...

  9. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers

    The Dingfelder and Wolff families papers contains photographs of the Dingfelder family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, as well as a studio photograph of Aline and Arthur Wolff, circa 1920s, and an undated tourist postcard of the MS St. Louis. Correspondence in the papers includes a typewritten letter written by Rudi Dingfelder in English regarding his wartime experiences imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp, Buchenwald concentration camp, and other slave labor camps, August 12, 1945; ...

  10. Arthur Keenan photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, after liberation.

  11. Agathe Ehrenfried papers

    The papers consist of a Nazi Party membership book ("Mitgliedsbuch") issued to Dr. Walther Brunk on Nov. 4, 1936, in Berlin, Germany, and two receipts ("N.S. Bolkswohlfahrt") issued for contributions in the amount of RM 4.50 in 1943 and inserted into the membership book

  12. Selected records from the Archives Départementales du Finistère

    Contains information on the systematic persecution of Jews and Freemasons in the area in and around Finistère. Also contains information concerning the expropriation of Jewish property in the same region.

  13. Sticker issued in the US to support relief efforts for Polish Jews

    Sticker with the caption "They Shall Not Die" with an image of a Jewish family in Poland wearing armbands issued by the American Federation for Polish Jews to raise funds and awareness of the persecution of Jews in Nazi occupied Poland.

  14. Lewis Shabasson collection

    The photograph collection documents the prewar lives of Lewis Shabasson (born Levi Szabason) and his family in Kozienice, Poland; wartime life in the Kozienice ghetto; and postwar life in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp and Munich, Germany. The collection also documents the prewar and postwar lives of Lewis’s wife, Lifcia Najman, and her family, originally from Radom, Poland, and her relatives in the Birenbaum family.

  15. Annette Morros photographic collection

    Collection of 35 black and white photographs taken by U.S. Army soldiers documenting the Nazi atrocities in Gerdelegen, where prisoners evacuated from the Rottleberode labor camp, a sub-camp of Dora-Mittelbau, were murdered; dated April, 1945. Stamp on back of most of photos, "Passed by U.S. Army Examiner, 33955/ Not For Publication."

  16. Diana Siedner collection

    Black and white photograph attached to card of two women and a man seated, two boys standing behind them, a child standing to the right and a baby seated on the left. Verso, black ink inscription; dated 1929; Lyoboml, Ukraine, Poland. Pictured is donor's aunt.

  17. Mordechai and Chaya Adler collection

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, in English, written by Chaya Konig Adler, originally of Lubaczow, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her family's experiences in Lubaczow and Zlotchov in the early years of the war, her experiences posing as a Polish girl in Warsaw and the constant threat of being discovered. After the war ended, she reunited with her surviving siblings and married Mordechai Adler. Also includes a copy of a diary and calendar (a luach) written by Mordechai Adler regarding his wartime experiences.

  18. Selected records from the Archives Départementales de la Seine-Maritime

    This collection contains documents on émigrés and refugees, including Germans, Austrians, and stateless persons residing in the department in 1940; the operations of the administration dealing with “Jewish questions”; deportations of Jews from the Rouen area; the designation of Aryan administrators for Jewish properties appropriated by Vichy; arrests and search warrants; the supervision of Jewish property in the Dieppe area; the appropriation of properties belonging to Masonic lodges; outlawed “secret societies”; Jews in Le Havre; and a lawsuit concerning the Dreier family’s attempt to reco...

  19. Stendal, Germany, information and photograph album

    Consists of one photograph album consisting of pre-war photographs of residents of Stendal, Germany. This album was discovered in the stable behind the house of Jenkel Denemark in Stendal. The stable was used as a gathering point for the Jews of Stendal before they were deported from the city in 1942. Also includes information about Jenkel Denemark and a history of the Jews of Stendal.

  20. Dr. Max Cohnreich diary

    Consists of one bound diary, in German and English, describing the life experiences of Dr. Max Cohnreich, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the diary, written mainly in 1939 and addressed to his grandchildren, Dr. Cohnreich describes his life in Germany, his emigration experiences, and his feelings on the current situation in Europe. After his death in 1949, his granddaughter, Margaret (Peggy) Stolowitz, updated the diary to include major events in the family. Also includes one article, written by Michael Evans, entitled "Coburg--The Case History of a Nazi Town." Mrs. Stolowitz's father, Ma...