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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Memorial and Nazis marching in Munich

    “NAZI MEMORIAL.” People outside Felderrnhalle, a landmark in the Odeonsplatz. Nazi soldiers stand guard in front of the Mahnmal der Bewegung monument at Felderrnhalle. Pedestrians walk by and heil. “RECENT CONVERTS.” Soldiers march in neat rows on the side of the street. “MARIENPLATZ” German civilians in the street by Old Town Hall. MS, New Town Hall in Marienplatz. “VON DER TANN STRASSE” Large banner across Von der Tann Strasse: “Unsere Ziele find Arbeit, Freiheit, Brot und ein Frieden der cher” [Our goals are work, freedom, bread and peace] Nazi flags. Men ride bicycles. A traffic officer...

  2. The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)

    Correspondence between the Zionist Organization, London and various individuals and organizations regarding the nature of a future state in Palestine, a proposal to the Zionist Organization of America, and Zionist organizations in Russia and Palestine, other matters, correspondence with Chaim Weizmann, minutes of meetings, outgoing letters, newspaper clippings, resolutions, Zionist congress proceedings, reports on the situation in Palestine and Jewish immigration, circulars of the Executive Committee, statistics, correspondence with various Zionist organizations in Nazi Germany, corresponde...

  3. Zigmas Jonynas collection

    Manuscript: incomplete, written by Zigmas Jonyas (donor’s father) about his life, includes one page about the destruction of Jews in Lithuania and a photocopy of that page. Includes biographical information, correspondence, clippings, and photographs about and relating to Zigmas Jonynas.

  4. Photograph of Rabbi Jacob and Annie Halperin

    Photograph of Rabbi Jacob and Annie (née Blumberg) Halperin who perished during the Holocaust.

  6. Hilda and Julius Manasse collection

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepasses (German passports), one issued to Hilda Ruth "Sara" Horwitz (donor), born 1925 in Uelzen, Germany, who immigrated to the United States in 1941 through Portugal; two passports issued to Julius Manasse, born in 1890 in Germany, and his wife Hilda Manasse born in 1899 in Germany, both of whom immigrated to the United States from Germany through Cherbourg, arriving in the U.S. in 1938, along with their son, Kurt, whose American visa is present in his mother’s passport. Kurt and Ruth later married. Also includes immigration identification cards for Hilda an...

  7. Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc. collection

    Contains a solicitation letter with membership application and return envelope from the Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc.; dated February 1, 1939.

  8. Spiegel family collection

    Contains documents, photographs and correspondence regarding the experiences of Max and Ida Spiegel and their children Ruth and Alfred, who fled Emden, Germany. Photographs depict the family primarily before the second World War, including images from WWI. The family was able to immigrate to the United States in September 1938. Also includes a booklet detailing the Spiegel family tree, letters from extended family that did not survive, and a pre-war autograph book.

  9. Leo Mantelmacher memoir

    Typescript memoir, 6 pages, by Leo Mantelmacher (1919-2006), titled "How One Brother Saved His Other Brother's Life Without Knowing It." Mantelmacher, originally of Kozienice, Poland, described the experiences of his family in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and in particular, the evacuation of the Jewish population from his hometown of Kozienice in 1942, his own work as a forced laborer, his experiences working as a tailor on the side for Polish overseers, his experiences at various concentration camps (Auschwitz, Dachau, Allach), and those of his siblings, including his brothe...

  10. Mordechai Moniek Hanani collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Wassertail family in Rajcza, Poland.

  11. Oral history interview with Zsuzanna Lorand Dallos

  12. Toibman family collection

    Contains an identity card for Pesia Toibman, issued in the Bershad Ghetto; a postwar photo of Benjamin Toibman; photocopies of documents related to Victor, Pesia, and Gregory Toibman being in the Bershad Ghetto, 1941 to 14 March 1944 (issued by the Bershad City Council 1972); and Benjamin Toibman's brief memoir of his Holocaust experiences.

  13. Lavan Robinson papers

    Collection of documents entrusted to 1st Lt Lavan Robinson, who was in the 86th Infantry Division of the United States Army. Robinson worked to bring order to the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany in 1945. In exchange, Robinson received gifts of appreciation from the people he assisted or worked with in the camp. Also included is correspondence received by Robinson after he returned to the United States and a modern letter detailing the events of the time period by Robinson.

  14. Wooden sign with a painted butterfly made from trash found in postwar Berlin

    Wooden sign with butterfly made of rubble found in the ruins of Berlin; verso: typed page affixed with explanation: in the summer of 1945 a small group of friends, painters and designers and decided to create something out of the ruins. The light blue came from tiles of a delicatessen store on Potsdamer Platz and the red brown came from bricks of an old building on Wilhelmstrasse.

  15. Miniature ceramic mug

  16. Rotman, Rosenblatt and Bialer families collection

    The Rotman, Rosenblatt, and Bialer families collection consists of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Genia Strasborg Rotman, Arthur Rosenblatt, and David Bialer following their liberation and life in post-war Poland, Sweden, and the United States.

  17. Rachel Rottersman correspondence with Grace Cohen Grossman

    Correspondence from Rachel Rottersman, a social worker who had worked with UNRRA at displaced persons camps in Germany following World War II, and Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, curator at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, dating from 1979-1980. The correspondence largely deals with requests from Rottersman regarding research about a mass grave near Baumholder, Germany; efforts to recognize a Polish couple, Victor and Ludmila Gromadski, as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem; and proposals to interview people who Rottersman knew from the displaced persons camps where she had worked.

  18. Główny Urząd Celny w Płońsku Main Customs Office in Płońsk Hauptzollamt Ploehnen (Sygn.1058/II)

    Reports and correspondence of custom officials on confiscation of foodstuffs of Poles and Jews and investigations against smuggling.

  19. Central Economic Office : aryanization card file Ústredný hospodársky úrad : karty arizátorov

    Aryanization card file of expropriated Jewish properties in Slovakia, arranged alphabetically by name of the non-Jewish Aryanizer (arizátor). Also lists the name(s) of the Jewish owners (maj. žid. podu.) as well as the type of property (druh živnosti) and its location (sidlo živnosti), among other data.

  20. Buxbaum family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war lives of Max and Anna Buxbaum and their daughter Inge (later Inge Rosenbaum) in Essen, Germany, and their immigration to the United States in 1939 on board the SS Manhattan. Included are biographical materials such as birth certificates, vaccination certificates, passports, marriage certificates, naturalization certificates, and Max’s German Army book (Militärpak). Also included are a postcard and list of passengers from the SS Manhattan. Photographs include engagement and wedding photographs of Max and Anna, Anna’s mother Rosa Lazarus, Inge, and a photo...