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  1. Portfolio cover

    Portfolio cover for book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  2. Engelmann family papers

    Contains a memoir, correspondence, and legal documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the Engelmann family. Originally from Berlin, Germany, the family emigrated to Turkey in 1937, where Peter, his Jewish father, Konrad, and Christian mother, Ilse, remained for the entirety of the war. Includes articles and narrations by and about various family members, with a focus on Dr. Susanne Engelmann, the donor's aunt, who wrote "From the Golden Horn to the Golden Gate" about her experiences.

  3. Olga Wachtenheim collection

    Collection consists of two composite photographs from the Munkacs Jewish Gymnasium, one of the last graduating classes in 1943 and the fourth grade class from 1943. Olga Wachtenheim is pictured in graduating class photograph; her brother was a teacher of the fourth grade class. Also includes one photograph of the Wachtenheim family after the war; 1946.

  4. Luftwaffe decorations presented next to Goering's special train headquarters on Eastern front

    Goering's train stopped in a wooded area. Luftwaffe ace Werner Moelders receives a medal. Goering awards the Ritterkreuz to a pilot named Rudolf Nacke, who has flown over 100 missions against the enemy. Werner Moelders, Adolf Galland, Major Oesau, and several other men are also present. The group enters a building, where Goering reviews a map with General Konradt. Brief shot of two soldiers at a switchboard.

  5. Doris (Dee) Muschel Schwartz collection

    Collection of papers, identification cards, a ship passenger list, clippings and correspondence documenting the experiences of Isidor, Ida and Doris Muschel [donor's parents and donor] and their journey fleeing Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1938.

  6. Boycott of Jewish businesses in Halle

    Pedestrians on a very crowded sidewalk. SA men hold signs reading "Die Juden sind unser Unglueck", although the signs are very hard to read. Another shot of SA men with signs. The camera pans up to show that the name on the shop is "Sobel." A large number of pedestrians pass in front of a business named "D. Hammerschild." The signs the SA men hold read, "Die Juden sind unser Unglueck, kauft nur bei Deutschen." Another sign reads, "Keinen Pfennig dem Judenkapital, kauft nicht in Warenhaeuser und Einheitspreislaeden." SA men with signs stand outside Wohlwerth (Woolworth's), Sponner, and the f...

  7. Dobiecki family papers

    The collection documents Barech and Golda Dobiecki and their daughter Bella’s experiences as they emigrated from Essen, Germany on the MS St. Louis 1939, their disembarkation in England, their immigration to Brazil, and their eventual immigration to the United States. The collection also documents the earlier immigrations of the Dobiecki’s daughters Hella to Brazil and the United States, and Bronia to the United States. Included are identification papers, restitution papers, immigration and travel documents, letters from the Jewish Refugees Committee while they were in England, corresponden...

  8. Albert Palatnik collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting the Palatnik family in Odessa before the war; all the members of the family were murdered in Odessa ghetto. Also includes a report card issued to Albert Palatnik stating that he is Jewish; issued in Balta, after the war.

  9. Synagogue destroyed by French fascists with the help of the SS

    French police stand in front of a bombed synagogue. CU shots of the destruction, exterior and interior. Panning shots including the Hebrew script over the door. According to the Bundesarchiv, in the night of 2-3 October, 1941, six out the seven synagogues in Paris were bombed by the French fascist Parti Populaire Francais. The attacks were carried out under the initiative and with the support of the SD, which provided the explosives.

  10. Saias family collection

    Photographic print and documents concerning the Saias family's experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes an image of Edith Schneidman-Saias [donor] as a baby in circa 1939 in her brith place Paris, France, where she was hidden. Documents include information about donor’s parents, Isaac and Louna and her ten-year old brother Salomon, all born in Greece, immigrated to Paris before the War and in September and November, 1942 where they are presumed to have perished.

  11. Central Historical Commission : Post-War documentation (M.1.S)

    The collection contains 7793 questionnaires. Information for questionnaires were gathered by the The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich) from a large number of Holocaust survivors. This data concern the estimated number of Jews before the war in their communities, the number of Jewish victims, destroyed and robbed Jewish property, slave labor, concentration camps, and the like.

  12. Moshe Gershon Frydenzon collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to donors family before the war; during the war in the Łódź ghetto, and after the war in DP camps and Paris, France.

  13. Lizou Fenyvesi collection

    Collection consists of documents sent to donor's mother regarding the fate of her first husband, Maximilien Reiter; the documents, dated 1947, state that he had been interned in Drancy, and from there deported to Majdanek on March 6, 1943. He "disappeared" and is presumed not to have survived. Includes a photographic image of Maximilien Reiter, dated September 1934.

  15. Donald Molofsky collection

    The Donald Molofsky collection contains mainly correspondence sent from Donald to his parents, from 1947-1948. Molofsky served as an engineer on the SS Exodus, but the correspondence does not contain much information about the voyage itself. The correspondence concerns details from Donald’s time spent on vacation in Haifa, Na'an, and in France. Also included are correspondence from the Molofsky family to Donald, letters from Donald’s friend Zeev “Vivy” Siegel’s parents to the Molofsky family, and various other letters. The Donald Molofsky collection contains mainly correspondence sent from ...

  16. Crowning of "King of the Gypsies"

    Janusz Kwiek is crowned "King of the Gypsies" in an outdoor ceremony before a large crowd of onlookers. He wears a crown and receives a blessing from an Eastern orthodox (?) priest. A group of Roma sing a song in celebration.

  17. Jehuda Feitelson collection

    Consists of documents illustrating Jehuda Feitelson's experiences immediately following his liberation from concentration camps, 1945-1947.

  18. Silviu Brucan collection

    Consists of the Silviu Brucan collection, which contains records of III-directorate of Securitate (counterespionage) relating to the surveillance of Silviu Brucan, his family and friends, and of foreign diplomats who were in contact with him between 1987-1989. (A small part of the documents cover the same subject from 1976 to 1986.) The documents mainly relate to the activities of Silviu Brucan, the Ceausescu government in connection with the workers' strike in Brasov of 1987, and "the letter of the six" written against Ceausescu.

  19. Selected records from the Gesandtschaft Rio de Janeiro

    Contains records from the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives) located in Vienna, Austria, pertaining to the Austrian Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Most of the records are NSDAP files relating to persons, organizations, and institutions in South America with Nazi associations or connections. Also includes information on anti-Austrian and anti-Nazi activities abroad, the Vaterländische Front, propaganda, and expulsions.

  20. "The Freeman Legacy: Their Past, His Future, One Survival"

    Contains one booklet entitled "The Freeman Legacy: Their Past, His Future, One Survival", by Michelle Freeman. In the paper, she describes the Holocaust experiences of her grandparents, Joseph and Helen Freeman, both originally of Radom, Poland, and their post-war life in the United States. She also profiles her father, Louis Freeman, and his experiences as the child of two Holocaust survivors. Includes photographs of the Freeman family.