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  1. Photographic print of David Eckstein and classmates in cheder

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613483
    • English
    • overall: Height: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Gelatin silver print depicting David Eckstein, seven years old, and classmates in cheder (Jewish elementary school), in Brod, ca. 1938.

  2. "Ha’Bricha Derech Czechoslovakia Ba’Shanim 1945-1946"

    Typed manuscript titled “Ha’Bricha Derech Czechoslovakia Ba’Shanim 1945-1946” by Elchanan Gafni. Gafni studied at the Sorbonne, Prague University, and Hewbrew University in Jerusalem, and served in several public positions in Israel. This unpublished draft manuscript describes the efforts to bring survivors from Czechoslovakia to Israel shortly after World War II.

  3. Wolf and Rachael Munic collection

    Collection of materials documenting the postwar life of Wolf and Rachel Munic in various locations including Linz, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Hamilton, Canada. Includes their Canadian passports, a notebook, handwritten memoirs by Wolf Munic dated circa 1948, their ketubah, identity papers, correspondence, and other documents from the late 1940s to early 1970s.

  4. Prayer book

    Hamash volumes belonging to Leo Loeb, with inscriptions by him as well as by his father.

  5. Photographic print of a grandfather and granddaughter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613481
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 10.940 inches (27.788 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.940 inches (25.248 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a grandfather and granddaughter, Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.

  6. Selected records from the State Archives of the Republic of Cyprus related to the Jewish emigration

    Selected records of the British colonial administration of Cyprus related to the Jewish legal and illegal emigration to Cyprus, internment camps for Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy as well as other matters related to Jews, Polish and other refugees in Cyprus before, during and immediately after WWII. Includes passenger’s lists divided by particular SS ships (1934); a list of illegal Jewish emigrants on board of the Bulgarian SS Rudnichar (1940); registers and correspondence relating to acquisition of properties in Cypru...

  7. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Diplomatic Legation in Budapest Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Budapeszcie (Sygn.501)

    Statistics, studies, historical essays, correspondence, notes, minutes, articles and speeches related to Jewish affairs, political and economic situation of Jews in Germany, Poland, Russia and other countries, antisemitism, Zionism movement and diplomatic protest of Polish Government against German atrocities against Polish Jews in Berlin, support of Polish government of emigration of Jews to Palestine, opening of Polish line to Haifa to facilitate emigration and tourism to Palestine.

  8. Wissbrun family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Fritz Wissbrun, his future wife Edith Kahn, and their families in Amsterdam, including Fritz’s deportation to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Vught). Included is correspondence written by Fritz in Herzogenbusch to Edith in Amsterdam, as well as letters to Edith from Fritz’s mother, Melanie Wissbrun, who was deported to the Westerbork concentration camp; identification papers, passports, vaccination documents, restitution papers, marriage certificates, family books, poetry, and material related to Fritz’s education in Germany and th...

  9. Selected records of the town Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Akta miasta Ostrowca Świętokrzyskiego (Sygn. 2891) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records pertaining to personal data of inhabitants of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski as well as a suburb Denków, including: the register books of permanent inhabitants, alphabetic lists of electors with the right to vote in 1939, and birth, death, and marriage registries from the Synagogue of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

  10. Ministry of Interior. Prisoner cards, labor camps Nováky, Sered, Vyhne and other camps Ministerstvo vnútra. Karta zaistenca, Pracovný tábor Nováky, Sereď, Vyhne

    Card files of Jewish inmates of forced labor camps in Slovakia for the years 1942 to 1944. In addition to the three main labor camps of Nováky, Sereď, Vyhne, the collection also includes the card files for several smaller camps (commonly referred to as Pracovné stredisko pre Židov), as follows: Degeš, Tehelňa HSĽS Nitra (brick factory), Ilava, Kraľovany, Kostolná, Devínska Nová Ves, Vyhne, and Žilina.

  11. American Red Cross pin

    American Red Cross service pin received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  12. Memorial and Nazis marching in Munich

    “NAZI MEMORIAL.” People outside Felderrnhalle, a landmark in the Odeonsplatz. Nazi soldiers stand guard in front of the Mahnmal der Bewegung monument at Felderrnhalle. Pedestrians walk by and heil. “RECENT CONVERTS.” Soldiers march in neat rows on the side of the street. “MARIENPLATZ” German civilians in the street by Old Town Hall. MS, New Town Hall in Marienplatz. “VON DER TANN STRASSE” Large banner across Von der Tann Strasse: “Unsere Ziele find Arbeit, Freiheit, Brot und ein Frieden der cher” [Our goals are work, freedom, bread and peace] Nazi flags. Men ride bicycles. A traffic officer...

  13. The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)

    Correspondence between the Zionist Organization, London and various individuals and organizations regarding the nature of a future state in Palestine, a proposal to the Zionist Organization of America, and Zionist organizations in Russia and Palestine, other matters, correspondence with Chaim Weizmann, minutes of meetings, outgoing letters, newspaper clippings, resolutions, Zionist congress proceedings, reports on the situation in Palestine and Jewish immigration, circulars of the Executive Committee, statistics, correspondence with various Zionist organizations in Nazi Germany, corresponde...

  14. Zigmas Jonynas collection

    Manuscript: incomplete, written by Zigmas Jonyas (donor’s father) about his life, includes one page about the destruction of Jews in Lithuania and a photocopy of that page. Includes biographical information, correspondence, clippings, and photographs about and relating to Zigmas Jonynas.

  15. Photograph of Rabbi Jacob and Annie Halperin

    Photograph of Rabbi Jacob and Annie (née Blumberg) Halperin who perished during the Holocaust.

  16. Oral history interview with Max Blumenstein

  17. Hilda and Julius Manasse collection

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepasses (German passports), one issued to Hilda Ruth "Sara" Horwitz (donor), born 1925 in Uelzen, Germany, who immigrated to the United States in 1941 through Portugal; two passports issued to Julius Manasse, born in 1890 in Germany, and his wife Hilda Manasse born in 1899 in Germany, both of whom immigrated to the United States from Germany through Cherbourg, arriving in the U.S. in 1938, along with their son, Kurt, whose American visa is present in his mother’s passport. Kurt and Ruth later married. Also includes immigration identification cards for Hilda an...

  18. Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc. collection

    Contains a solicitation letter with membership application and return envelope from the Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc.; dated February 1, 1939.

  19. Spiegel family collection

    Contains documents, photographs and correspondence regarding the experiences of Max and Ida Spiegel and their children Ruth and Alfred, who fled Emden, Germany. Photographs depict the family primarily before the second World War, including images from WWI. The family was able to immigrate to the United States in September 1938. Also includes a booklet detailing the Spiegel family tree, letters from extended family that did not survive, and a pre-war autograph book.

  20. Leo Mantelmacher memoir

    Typescript memoir, 6 pages, by Leo Mantelmacher (1919-2006), titled "How One Brother Saved His Other Brother's Life Without Knowing It." Mantelmacher, originally of Kozienice, Poland, described the experiences of his family in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and in particular, the evacuation of the Jewish population from his hometown of Kozienice in 1942, his own work as a forced laborer, his experiences working as a tailor on the side for Polish overseers, his experiences at various concentration camps (Auschwitz, Dachau, Allach), and those of his siblings, including his brothe...