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  1. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  2. Teresa Ciarkowska Schmitz papers

    Contains five photographs of a family, appear to be pre-war or wartime, including wedding portrait and portraits of child. Also includes one document, handcopied and notarized in 1993, from record book for 1943-1944, documenting a ceremony that took place in the Heart of Jesus Catholic parish in Warsaw in May 1943, perhaps for baptism or confirmation of Teresa Elzbieta Ciarkowska.

  3. Hilzenrad family papers

    The Hilzenrad family papers consist of a diary written by Adela Hilzenrad, in which she describes the events in Drohobycz, Poland from the German invasion in 1941 until liberation in 1944. The collection also includes pre-war and post-war photographs depicting the Lantner and Hilzenrad families in Drohobycz, Stryj, and the United States including images of Adela Hilzenrad, her son Josaf Hilzenrad, her husband Dr. Mordechai Hilzenrad, her sister Chana Lantner, and her brother Dr. Henry J. Lantner.

  4. Werner Loval papers

    Contains photographs, school records, letters of reference, identification documents, and other material relating to Werner Loval's childhood and education in Bamberg, Germany, and his family's immigration to Ecuador.

  5. Bomb damage in Germany postwar

    German civilians clear rubble from heavily bomb damaged buildings. Young and old women pass buckets of debris to each other in a line. A young boy hammers stones into place. Brief slate indicates that the cameraman is Murphy. An explosion, followed by smoke and fire. Now in Frankfurt, P-47 planes taxi and take off from an airfield. Back in Berlin, young boys look at the camera. The top half of the screen is black. People walk down the street hauling belongings. American military trucks drive past. 01:05:54 An American soldier smoking a pipe holds a slate with the name Carter on it. Slow pan...

  6. Stefania Glat album

    Memorial album created by Mr. Bromberg and given as a memento to Stefania Mischel Glat in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, USSR on May 6, 1946.

  7. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers

    The Serafina and Bola Friedler papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Serafina and Bola Friedler, a mother and daughter from Borysław, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine) who survived the Holocaust after being liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. Among the documents collected by the Serafina and Bola are Red Cross identification cards issued to them after their liberation, an autograph book used by Bola while living at the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp, correspondence, and documentation of Serafina’s role as a witness in the trail against Nazi high official, Fritz Hildebrand ...

  8. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  9. Ration Coupon

  10. Noemi Sheinbein photographs

    Contains three photographs. Two photographs depict Maurycy Moniek Kokotek (donor's older brother) in the Bedzin ghetto; dated 1942 and 1943; Maurycy Kokotek was killed by Germans on August 8, 1943 in Bedzin. The third photograph is a group portrait of children and teachers at Jewish boys' School in Bedzin before the war.

  11. Dezső Kertész papers

    Collection consists of a series of documents, relating to Kertész's service in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and as a reservist following that war, his conscription as a forced laborer in the early 1940s, his later exemption from such work, and his role as a teacher at a Jewish secondary school in Budapest.

  12. Aharon Sandel photograph

    Consists of one photograph of two young children in Bogdan, Czechoslovakia. The children and their mother were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and perished, while their father, Aharon Sandel, escaped from a labor camp and joined a partisan group. After the war, he emigrated to Israel and remarried.

  13. Elkhanan Elkes collection

    Consists of pre-war and post-war family photographs, correspondence, and documents related to Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, his wife Miriam, and children Joel and Sarah. The collection includes Sarah Elkes' handwritten diary, in German, from 1935-1937. Sarah’s entries describe her schooling, school friends, family, summers, and Hebrew studies. The collection also contains correspondence between the members of the family, with Avraham and Pnina Golub (later Tory), pre-war power of attorney document, a letter regarding the health of one of Dr. Elke’s patients, and photographs and a letter regarding the...

  14. Selected records from the collection of the police of Ploieşti in the Prahova Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Police of Ploieşti, including documents related to various religious groups.

  15. Walter Absil collection

    Consists of one DVD entitled "A Witness to History: A message of tolerance and respect from Holocaust survivor Walter Absil" and a folder of copies of wartime documents related to Mr. Absil's Holocaust experiences. On the DVD, Mr. Absil, who was born Walter Bondy, describes his life in pre-war Vienna, his family's immigration to Belgium after the Anschluss, and their attempts to gain Belgian citizenship (including attempts to marry Walter's teenage sister to a Belgian citizen and Walter's adoption into the Belgian Absil family). The family went into hiding and were later separated; Walter's...

  16. Buchenwald and Natzweiler photographs

    Consists of fourteen photographs from the collection of Basil Peter Malamis, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Consists of twelve graphic photographs of corpses used for medical experimentation which were discovered at the Natzweiler concentration camp and two photographs, presumably taken by Mr. Malamis, of the crematorium at Buchenwald; these photographs are captioned.

  17. Cardboard backed Star of David badge worn by a Jewish Romanian forced laborer

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) while serving in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania, from October 1942 to September 1944. Ancsel, his parents, 7 siblings, and many relatives lived in Craciunesti, Romania, an area of northern Transylvania ceded to Hungary, a German ally, in August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award. In October 1942, Ancsel was conscripted into a labor battalion based in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania. Ancsel’s battalion put-up tar-covered telephone poles for 8 or 9 months, and was then moved...

  18. Brenner and Levenstein family collection

    Consists of 36 photographs taken of the Brenner family, originally of Riga, Latvia, between 1920-1940. Includes photographs of trips, weddings, and family gatherings. Also includes two letters, one written by Arthur Levenstein, undated in English, regarding immigration issues, and one letter written by Bella Levenstein to her aunt "Lienka," probably when Bella was about 10 years old. Also includes a drawing of three women and a house, drawn by Libin Levenstein. Also includes photocopies of correspondence and official documents in Latvian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The entire Levenstein family pe...

  19. Prewar family films

    INTs, office. Well-dressed couple on city street. Woman in bathing suit, she showers. Church. Women in outdoor park, walking along a path, eating tea cakes. The women walk small dogs in the city.

  20. Hitler Youth sports festival 1944 (color)

    Large, green banner with a black bird holding a sword and a hammer in its claws; there is a white swastika on its belly; in red lettering: “N.S.D.A.P. Hitler-Jugend Gebiet Oberdonau. Gebiets Sportsfest 1944.” Rows of girls in dirndls march past the sign. Swastika flags hang from a clock tower. A boy with an armband rides on a horse in a circle. Girls in short white dresses throw medicine balls and hoops as well as bowling pins. Several boys ride horses in a field. Girls try high jumping while a crowd watches. Boys and girls try to long jump. Boys try shotput. Some of them wear white tank to...