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  1. Oral history interview with George L. Rockwell

  2. Oral history interview with Bela Pomeranc Friedman

  3. Oral history interview with Hillel Schwartz

  4. Oral history interview with Magda Auerbach

  6. Oral history interview with Judith Blau

  9. Oral history interview with Simon Bornstein

  10. Oral history interview with Sally Wechsler

  12. Corporal Linus Fincham collection

    Consists of three photographs of the newly-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp with description on the verso. The photographs, taken by Corporal Linus William Fincham, a member of the 5th Armored Division, Third Army. depict military activity in the camp and newly liberated political prisoners. Also includes a copy of his July 31, 1945 letter in which he sent the photographs home to his family.

  13. Bernhard Storch photographs

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs from Bernhard Storch. Includes photographs of the Krause family of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, many of whom perished in Treblinka. Includes several photographs of Ruth Krause, who survived the war in Siberia, including a photograph which her husband, Bernhard Storch, carried with him as a member of the First Polish Infantry Division, as well as wartime and post-war copyprints of Mr. Storch in uniform. The photographs had been sent to overseas family members, which is how they survived the war.

  14. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  15. Jewish refugees celebrate Purim in the Philippines, 1940

    "A Children's Party" shows Alex and Corinne Frieder and their children at a Purim celebration on March 24, 1940 at Mariquina Hall in Manila, the land donated by President Quezon for Jewish refugees. Many of the people at the party are German and Austrian Jewish refugees who were given visas to come to the Philippines. Children dressed in costumes at outdoor party, eating cakes. 01:00:41 Adults converse. Alex Frieder, wearing a white suit, smokes a cigar. Children and adults mingle and eat. 01:01:06 Cantor Joseph Cysner with camera around his neck leads a parade of costumed children to a mak...

  16. Frieders vacation in Europe

    The Frieder family takes a vacation. The first shots show a tour of the Coliseum in Rome, family at 01:07:56, and a group of schoolboys. 01:08:27 Men and women in uniform pose and salute (fascist). Views of the Arch of Constantine, outside the Coliseum, more Italian architecture, ruins, and landscape. 01:09:48 The bronze East doors of the Florence Baptistery designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti. Pan across foggy Florence with Brunelleschi's dome in the distance. 01:10:18 Edna, Louise, and Alice and their mother Corinne feed birds outside St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. Ornate façade. 01:11:22 The Da...

  17. Prewar religious service in Gilserberg

    Men in overcoats and hats walk toward the camera on snowy street in Gilserberg, Germany. 01:41:44 Brief, dark INT of synagogue, rabbi with tallit opening ark. Family in icy streets and other street views. 01:42:51 INT, woman in kitchen. Man with Artur and Helmut in yeshiva hats lift up glasses of wine. Julie blesses the boys. More interiors. Snow-covered streets.

  18. Franz Goldberger letter

    The letter and resume are addressed to Benjamin Davis at Walton High School in Bronx, New York, from Franz Goldberger in Vienna, Austria; dated January 13, 1940. Franz wrote to Benjamin asking for assistance in receiving an affidavit of support from either the recipient or anyone else who may be of assistance, in order to emigrate from Austria. The resume includes Franz's photograph and states that he was born in Saaz, Germany on August 6, 1899.

  19. Jewish Community in Łódź Łódzka Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska (Sygn.228)

    Contains records relating to Jewish community of Łódź dwellers before War World II. Includes records of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and houses of prayer; appointments of rabbis, religious celebrations and ritual matters; social welfare matters such as day care for children, and care of orphans; a list of children under the custody of a community; applications for allowances, holiday rations of food for the poorest; medical care: general and mental hospitals; schooling and culture: construction and management of schools, and celebration of anniversaries and state holidays. Includes also re...

  20. Jewish National Fund. Head Office in Poland, Łódź Żydowski Fundusz Narodowy. Biuro Centralne w Polsce, Łódź (Sygn. 627)

    The collection contains correspondence with the Commission of Foreign Currency of the National Polish Bank, as well as the files of the property matters, includes personal documents of Jews emigrated from Poland to Israel.