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  1. Teenagers smile for the camera

    Closeups of Ida Van Pesh (a non-Jewish friend), Vera Serlui (Ellis's second cousin, killed at Auschwitz on November 19, 1942), Ellis, and Abraham as they pose for the camera inside their home. The girls pose for a group shot.

  2. Samuel Gotz collection

    Consists of loose photographs, photograph albums, and documents related to pre-war Zionist Congresses and of photographs related to young Zionists in Latvia and Lithuania. The photographs depict groups of men and women in formal and informal settings. Includes a photograph album of the 18th Zionist Congress, held in Prague in 1933, and documents from the 14th Zionist Congress, held in Vienna in 1925. The material was collected by Samuel Gotz.

  3. Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers

    The Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers consist of records documenting the lives, medical careers, relatives, and persecution of Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz in Oradea as well as wartime and postwar Hungarian printed materials. Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz records include biographical materials, student records, correspondence, and legal records documenting Gergely’s and Kenéz’s relatives, educations, medical careers, involvement and prominence in the Jewish community of Oradea, persecution as Jewish doctors under the Hungarian occupation, defense by colleagues who provided testimonials ...

  4. Gladys Martin collection

    One letter, written on personal stationery of Adolf Hitler, from an American soldier ("Johnny") to "Gladys," 20 June 1945. In the letter, he describes how his unit is living in Hitler's former apartment in Munich, his general impressions of Munich, his recent tour of the Dachau concentration camp, and plans to return to the United States.

  5. Regional Hungarian Records

    This collection contains records from various archival repositories including the Hungarian Ministries, Lutheran Church and Jewish community. Records relate to visas and emigration applications; confiscation of Jewish properties; petitions for aid and tax documents. Included is a list of Jews of Sopron and an inventory of Jewish confiscated properties, 1945-1946.

  6. Justice Ministry : State Public Prosecutor's Office at the Superior State Court Vienna-General files Justizministerium : Staatsanwaltschaft beim Oberlandesgericht Wien-Generalakten

    Contains miscellaneous documents relating to regulations and administrative and legal matters addressed by the Justice Ministry in Vienna on a variety of issues, such as: punishment of sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews living in the Protectorate; convictions of females by the state court of Vienna for forbidden contact with prisoners of war; treatment of foreign laborers; confiscation of assets ("Vermögensbeschlagnahme"), control of incoming and outgoing assets ("Devisenfahndungsamt") in Nazi Germany and the Ostmark as well as the Nazi occupied territories; secret investigations ("...

  7. Oral history interview with Dieter Protsch

  8. Anti-Semitic flier, "Institut des Questions Juives"

    Anti-Semitic flier related to the "Institut des Questions Juives." One side resembles a ration ticket and the other, printed in red ink, contains further information about the "Institut d'Etudes des Questions juives" and also about an exposition being held at the Palais Berlitz, Paris, called "Le Juif et la France."

  9. Concert program and poster, Westendsynagoge, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1934

    One program from a choral and orchestral performance, as part of the "Weihestunde" series at the Westendsynagoge, Frankfurt am Main, 24 April 1934. Individual soloists (Edith Hernnstadt-Oettingen, Hilde Ruhm, and others) sang with the choir and youth choir of the Westendsynagoge, performing sacred and secular works of Georg Frederic Handel, Salomone di Rossi, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and others. Included is a poster announcing this performance.

  10. József and Jolán Schiff and George Faludi families papers

    The József and Jolán Schiff and George Faludi families papers consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting the lives of the Schiff and Faludi families in Hungary, József Schiff’s forced labor service, and Jolán Schiff’s deportation.

  11. Anna Csillag Fränkel postcard collection

    Postcards (9), sent from and sent to a variety of individuals in different concentration camps, internment camps, labor camps, or ghettos. Includes postcards from Izbica, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Ilag VII internment camp in Laufen (Upper Bavaria), Ravensbrück, and the Łódź ghetto. Also includes one postcard sent to a German army officer at the front, with an ink stamp at the bottom reading "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" and a blank postcard of the type used at Auschwitz, with a Polish postage stamp from 1970 commemorating Auschwitz and an ink stamp relating to an exhibition there in that ...

  12. Rose Stern Rauner collection

    Collection of letters from Emanuel and Berta Engel, in Augsburg, Germany, to their children in the United States. Includes a passport, drivers license, a traveler's identification card, and pre-war photographs of immediate Stern family and extended family.

  13. Pohronská county Pohronská župa

    Records relating to implementation of the Jewish Codex in Pohronská county; guidelines for a census of the Jewish population; official decrees and orders by the Ministry of Interior banning Jews from residing within certain neighborhoods and in various municipalities; official decrees and orders by the Ministry of Interior prohibiting Jews from attending public areas; punishments and administrative actions for employing and affiliating with Jews; regulations concerning Catholic Jews; rescinding of concessions and permits from Jewish business and restaurant owners; expropriation of Jewish-ow...

  14. Zionist Organizations Organizacje Syjonistyczne (Sygn. 333)

    Contains documentation of the Zionist parties and organizations that operated in Poland after the war. Includes organizational files, protocols of council meetings, correspondence, applications for emigration, personal files, materials for publication, bulletins, and files of regional branch offices of the following organizations: the Ichud, Ha-Noar Ha-Cijoni, WIZO-Women`s International Zionist Organization, Organization of General Zionists (Organization of General Zionists– Hitachdut Cijonim Klaliim) and Ha-Owed Ha-Cijoni, Jewish Zionist-Socialist Labor Party Poalej Syjon C.S. Hitachdut, G...

  15. Jack Postman collection

    Consists of documents and photographs regarding the pre-war and wartime experiences of Jakob Postmann (later Jack Postman), originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war identity and school documentation, a German passport, emigration paperwork, and wartime education and employment documents in the United States.

  16. Back to camp Print 12 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting exhausted prisoners being marched uphill while guards hit or shoot them as they return to Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and were meant to be “...

  17. Postcard, "Mander s'ischt Zeit!"

    Postcard: Recto: color image of three men, one of whom is a caricature of a Jew, a woman and a child running from Nazi flags with caption "Mander s' ischt Zeit!" printed across bottom; Verso: postcard addressed to Franz Eglauer in Linz from "Karl" and signed "Heil Hitler!" postmark dated September 21, 1938 and advertises the "Der Ewige Jude" exhibition in Vienna; in German

  18. Jacqueline Levy-Geneste collection

    Consists of photographs and a photograph album from the collection of Jacqueline Levy-Geneste, a German-Jewish woman who worked as a kindergarten teacher in various French internment camps, including Limoges, Rivesaltes, and Gurs. Includes photographs of life in the internment camps and the children with whom she worked, many of whom were Spanish Republicans. Also includes a small photograph album entitled "Le Petit Monde" depicting life in the Petit Monde OSE children's home in post-war France, of which Jacqueline Levy-Geneste was the director.

  19. Family visits blossoming tulips

    People visit sprawling tulip fields, probably near Lisse, Netherlands, Dutch flags affixed to a sign in the field. Ellis and her friend Hetty Winkel with an automobile behind them. 01:11:43 Brief view of toddler Hester (Hesje) Jas in a backyard garden, followed by more shots and closeups of the beautiful and colorful flowers (city in background). 01:12:15 Elisabeth Jas pushes a baby Hesje in a stroller. 01:12:24 Ellis, in the red dress as pictured earlier in Story RG-60.1373, near a flowering tree. Hester (b. February 15, 1938) was later killed at Sobibor with her mother Elisabeth Querido J...

  20. "Survivor"

    Consists of one testimony, two pages, in English, written by Brian Greenberg regarding his father, Samuel Greenberg, orginally of Schumsck, Poland. In spring of 1942, Samuel escaped the mass shootings of Jews of his town while he was gathering food. He was in various hiding situations, including hiding in hay stacks, before joining the Russian army in 1944 as a mine sweeper. In1945, he marched from Warsaw to Berlin with the Red Army and was wounded in battle. He survived the war and immigrated to the U.S. and married Brian's mother, Ethel, in 1950.