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  1. Personal Archives of Sofia R. Kotsyna (1873-1940), Jewish librarian, archivist and historian

    Contains Sofia R. Kotsyna’s lectures on elementary and post-elementary education, the library work of Jewish societies, the Second Congress of Archive Workers, and the works and archives of the Jewish historian P.S. Marek. Also included are letters from Jewish figures including A.M. Bergengeim, L.E. Motylev, and S.M. Ginzburg; and indexes to the collections of P.S. Marek, S.S. Vermel’, S.A. Rapoport, and O.B. Gavronsky. Of special interest are reports on the work of the Society for Promotion of Jewish Education from 1903 to 1917; library courses at Shaniaavskii University; and rules, accoun...

  2. Cyprus internment camps

    Contains administrative records created by Jewish internees in the internment camps in Cyprus, including correspondence with the Cyprus camp administration, legal files of the camp court, minutes and proceedings of administrative bodies within the camp, certificates issued by the Jewish Agency for Emigration to Palestine, legal files, reports, statistical lists of refugees, and more.

  3. Selected records from the State Historical archives of the Chuvash Republic related to evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Contains records of evacuations to Chuvashia during World War II, including information on resettlement, employment, food supply, and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees and members of their families.

  4. Post-war Shanghai photographs

    Contains nine photographs from the collection of Rabbi Moshe Sachs, who was a chaplain in Okinawa. These images, taken by UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) staff who were visiting Shanghai, depict daily life in boarding houses.

  5. Records pertaining to Alexander Freud

    Contains documents pertaining to the emigration from Nazi-annexed Austria of Alexander Freud (1866-1943), Sigmund Freud's younger brother, and the expropriation of his property and assets.

  6. Gerard LaBossiere collection

    Consists of 37 photographs taken by Gerard LaBossiere upon the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Mr. LaBossiere was a member of the Canadian First Army and took these photographs after taking a tour of the camp. The photographs depict the camp grounds and memorial signs and symbols erected after liberation.

  7. Personal archives of Pesakh Marek, Jewish public figure, folklorist and historian (Fond 9533, Opis1)

    Consists of personal documents related to the literary and public activities of Pesakh Marek, including correspondence with friends and colleagues, letters received by Pesakh Marek, as well as a small collection of letters of Marek’s acquaintances. Among correspondents are Maxime Vinaver, Saul Ginsburg, Yuliy Gessen, Leon Maze and others. The collection includes drafts of Marek’s research articles, papers, presentations and books and his notebooks and card catalogues. A significant part of Marek’s archives also has information about Jewish education in Russia, along with extensive correspon...

  8. Personal archives of Lazar Motylev, Jewish public figure and politician (Fond 9535, Opis1)

    Contains reports and drafts of presentations and research papers related to the activities of various Jewish cultural and political organizations in Russia and the Soviet Union. It also includes documents, meeting minutes, and bylaws, as well as newspapers, concert programs, catalogs of exhibits, and flyers.

  9. Personal archives of Aleksandr (Isaak) Katsenelson, Jewish public figure, publicist and historian (Fond 9534, Opis1)

    Consists of a variety of reports, drafts of presentations and research papers related to the activities of Jewish organizations in Russia and the Soviet Union.Documents include activity reports, bylaws, newspaper articles, concert programs, catalogs of exhibits, and flyers. It also contains personal documents of Katsenelson, including his diary for the years 1909–1915, an autobiography, and letters addressed to government officials and agencies.

  10. Records of the central committee of the HeHalutz Labor Movement in Russia

    Consists of bylaws and minutes of meetings of the Zionist youth movement HeHalutz, as well as correspondence with government officials and agencies, statistical information about HeHalutz activities, membership questionnaires, and lists of members. Also included are personal documents of Josef Trumpeldor, the movement’s founder.

  11. Records of the central council of the Jewish Communities in Russia (TsVaad)

    The collection consists of minutes of the meetings of the TsVaad ‘s Executive Council, declarations and circular letters regarding Jewish pogroms in Poland and Galicia, correspondence with Jewish communities and public organizations regarding evacuation of Jewish civilians from the zones of war conflict, food supplies for refugees and other needs of the evacuated Jewish population. Collection also includes various newspaper clippings, drafts of articles and questionnaires.

  12. Records of the All Russian Jewish Congress

    The collection reflects the history of the All Russian Jewish Congress' preparation. It also includes various appeals, lists of candidates from different electoral regions, minutes of the daily meetings, and texts of resolutions and speeches read at the Congress.

  13. Archive of the Diamond collection

    This collection concerns the diamond trade in Belgium between 1935 and 1946. The collection traces the looting of Jewish diamond traders, organized and centralized through the so-called Devisenschütz-Kommando, which ultimately expropriated property worth an estimated 72 million Belgian francs. The collection is organized into personal and subject files.

  14. Josef Vyšohlich letter

    Consists of one letter sent by Dachau prisoner Josef Vyšohlich to a relative named Stepan on May 11, 1941. The letter, in German, was written on Dachau stationery.

  15. Eric Gutsmuth collection

    Consists of three manuscripts regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Gutsmuth and Levi families. The first, entitled "So it Happened," uses family documents and testimonies to describe the experiences of the Gutsmuth family, originally of Giessen (Wiesek), Germany. Through these primary sources, Eric Gutsmuth, who compiled them, describes the experiences of every member of the family, both on the Gutsmuth and Levi sides, some of whom immigrated before the war, others survived in hiding, others of whom (including Flory van Beek) were rescuers, and some who were deported to concentration ...

  16. Records of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN)

    Contains two main components: organizational records of the record group VVN, and materials it collected on Holocaust victims and survivors, forced laborers, war criminals, and prisoners of war. Included are reports about victims; original ID-cards (Kennkarten) of German Jews with photographs and personal information; card indexes related to camps and prisons; and two volumes of a card index entitled “Prison Card Index of Office 710” from 1935 to 1937. There are also lists of Jewish victims and material on the Gestapo in Breslau, camp personnel, the murder of people with mental disabilities...

  17. Personal archive of Leon Gavrielides

    Consists of the personal archive of Leon Gavrielides, a Jewish lawyer who provided legal counsel to the Jewish Community of Rhodes, the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews (OPAIE), the Central Board of Greek Jewish Communities, the Jewish Community of Athens, and other Jewish organizations in Greece after World War II. Also of interest are cases of individual Jews against the OPAIE.

  18. Samuel Glasberg collection

    Consists of eleven loose photographs and a modern photograph album containing photographs from the collection of Samuel Glasberg. The images consists of family photographs, taken in Belgium and Poland from 1880-1962. Includes a Keren Kayemeth Leisrael acknowledgement of a donation from Samuel Glasberg for a tree fund in memory of deceased relatives.

  19. Hans Wolff letter

    Consists of one letter, four pages, containing a lengthy poem written by Hans Wolff in Berlin, Germany, in 1939. The letter was sent to family in the United States. Mr. Wolff perished in the Holocaust.

  20. "Beyond the River"

    Consists of one memoir, in English, entitled "Beyond the River," by Hanna Meller-Faust. The memoir was published in Hebrew as "Me-'ever la-nahar: pirke zikhronot mi-Transnistriyah" in 1985. Hanna prepared this translation, which describes her experiences during the Holocaust in Transnistria.