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  1. Gunther L. Eichhorn collection

    Contains a memoir entitled “After Sunset Comes the Dawn,” written by Gunther L. Eichhorn (donor’s husband) documenting his life from his birth and childhood in Germany, his family’s escape from Nazi Germany to the United States in 1938, and subsequent life in the United States. includes a postscript written by David Eichhorn (donor’s son).

  2. Provincial Office in Łuck Urząd Wojewódzki w Łucku (Sygn.1181)

    Monthly reports of the regional municipal offices regarding regional security, social and political movements, professional associations, communist organizations; new regulations of the governor, minutes of administration conferences, correspondence and statistics relating to political and cultural activities of Jews, their emigration to Palestine, and correspondence regarding communist activities.

  3. Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung collection

    Five issues of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, a weekly illustrated magazine that was published in Berlin, Germany from 1892 to 1945; issues in this collection: Number 49, 5 December 1940 Number 28, 10 July 1941 Number 29, 17 July 1941 Number 30, 24 July 1941 Number 32, 7 August 1941

  4. Béla Ingber family papers

    The collection consists of correspondence and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Béla Ingber, originally from Munkács, Hungary (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) as a forced-laborer in Hungary during World War II and as a Jewish refugee in Italy from 1945-1947. Correspondence includes postcards to Béla while he was a forced-laborer from his father Kálmán Ingber in Munkács, and post-war letters from his brothers Jóska, Miki, and Oli and his sister Libu. Photographs include depictions of pre-war family life, Béla and his brothers in the Czech Army, Béla as a forced-laborer in Hung...

  5. Jerome Ney papers

    Correspondence, documents, telegrams, and related materials concerning the efforts of Jerome Ney, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to help relatives emigrate from Germany between 1938 and 1941. Relatives included his second cousin, Herbert Neu, and Neu’s parents and sister, Sigmund, Carola, and Ellinor, who were able to immigrate to the United States, due to Ney’s efforts; as well as Jerome Ney’s paternal aunt, Emma David, and her four daughters, who were unable to leave Germany and perished in the Holocaust. Includes correspondence with relatives, government agencies, aid organizations, immigratio...

  6. Selected records of the Headquarters of the State Police in Warsaw Komenda Główna Policji Państwowej w Warszawie (Sygn.349)

    Registers of persons detained for an espionage and suspected of communist activity, a bulletin "Poufny Przegląd Inwigilacyjny" (Confidential Investigation Review), 1921-1934, albums of criminals, photographs of officers of the Polish State Police, a report "Ruch żydowski w Polsce' (Jewish movement in Poland), 1925; and investigative materials related to the murder of the Jungsztajn family (Correspondence, photographs), 1927, 1939.

  7. Summertime leisure; paying a visit to the cemetery

    Jirka (George) and Emma Vasilevsky at home in late summer. Together, they ride an adult bicycle. They swim in a shallow pool. 00:03:18 Emma accompanies George to the school for registration in first class. INT, mother Elizabeth eats at the table with the children. George flips the pages of a photo album with Emma and George. MS, George poses for the camera on his first day of school. George and a younger boy play on a rocking horse in the garden (probably "Strakova with her boy" according to the canister). Emma and George share a lounge chair and play in the sand while the mothers rest in t...

  8. Collection of letters by child survivors

    Collection of letters from child survivors of the Holocaust in Holland and France, regarding their immigration to Israel; addressed to the teachers Raphael and Gini who were living in Israel. Includes drawings and cards for Rosh Hashana

  9. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic: Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Munich Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Monachium (Sygn.480)

    Reports, studies, correspondence, statistics and other documents related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and Germany: registers of Polish citizens expelled from Germany, materials about the expulsion of Polish citizens, mainly of Jewish ethnicity, from Bavaria, orders to citizens to return to Poland for military service, and a descriptive list of Jewish organizations.

  10. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in London Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.504)

    Instructions, circulars, correspondence, reports, forms related to emigration policy, organization of transporting emigrants by the shipping companies to Palestine and US, emigration of Polish refugees to Canada and Jamaica, migration of Polish expatriates by Great Britain, migration of the English population, and Jewish minorities in Poland. Includes a letter requesting a return of the Baron Günzburg's book collection to Jewish representatives in Vilnius.

  11. Eleonora Diamand collection

    Contains glass negatives of photographs taken by Eleonora Diamand (donor's maternal grandmother) between 1905-1941, documenting life of her family in Lwow. Eleanora was killed during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944.

  12. Hansi turns three; dream sequence with special effects

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Oesterreichs. “Hansi’s Geburtstagstraum” “Momentbilder bis zum dritten Lebensjahr” “Hansi ein Jahr alt.” Hans Otto Kessler [Hansi] runs around a tree, and then eats an apple. A German title reads, “Hier spielt er Sich mit seinem Hund” Hansi holds a shovel, standing over a small dark puppy in a wheel barrow. A German title reads, “Die Gartenarbeit ist gesund” The child gardens holding a rod of some form and has an object in the mouth. The child giggles and smiles in a bath tub as someone rinses them. “Am Telephon, 2 Jahre alt” Hansi ...

  13. Joseph Rosenfeld papers

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Joseph Rosenfeld of Vienna, who was able to flee to the United States with the assistance of an American sponsor named Harry Rosenfeld.

  14. Isaac Mevorah collection

    Consists of discharge papers documenting Isaac Mevorah's release from Dachau in 1945 and a photograph of a Maccabi soccer team in Salonika, Greece circa 1936.

  15. Maya and Giora Amir collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Wachs and Liebesmann families. Salomea Lusia Liebesmann Wachs, donor’s mother, b. 1909 had three brothers: Benjamin and Mendel, engineers who survived in France and Abraham, physician, who was saved by a German officer and his wife in Stanislawow.; Lusia Wachs and her husband Artur Wachs, b. 1901, an engineer, lived in Stryj and worked for Polish Railways; Giora Jerzyk was born on July 10, 1937. Dr. Włodzimierz Łużecki, Artur’s boss arranged for him baptismal certificate for the name: Hieronim Kozdrowicz. False ID’s were iss...

  16. Irene Borchardt collection

    Contains documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of Irene Borchardt, born January 31, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. Irene was able to immigrate from Berlin to the United Kingdom in 1939. Includes letters from her family [mother Franziska, sister Lilli, father Jaques, brother Helmut]; to Mrs. Shaxson, with whom Irene lived in England; and to aid organizations from Franziska asking for help getting Lilli out of Germany. Includes a Red Cross letter dated October 14, 1942 from Franziska to Irene stating “I am going with Lilli to Papa and Helmut. Stay healthy and brave. God will receiv...

  18. Court of the First Instance in Łódź Sąd Grodzki w Łodzi (Sygn. 2390)

    Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to subm...

  19. Chaim Posner papers

    The Chaim Posner papers consist of correspondence and notes documenting Chaim Posner, his work as director of the Palästina Amt in Geneva in the 1940s, and his work for the State of Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. Correspondence comes from Basel, Geneva, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, and correspondents include several offices of the Palästina Amt, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Barlas, Richard Lichtheim, Edgar Salin, and Samuel Scheps. The collection also contains biographical materials including a student registration document for Posner from the University of Basel, Palestine ...

  20. Visiting prewar Athens

    [Problem with film scanning at head of film reel, likely due to shrinkage or broken splice] MS, friends. They bid farewell at a train station. Large group of young children elders. A friend on a busy city street in Athens tips his hat to the camera. Cars in the BG. Sam H. Elias in dark suit walks in a paved garden, waving at the camera. His friend returns, sitting against a flowerbed. MS, Sam Elias again, smoking by a statue. He walks up the steps of a columned government building in Athens. Three Greek soldiers walk by [film transfer problem, some shots repeat]. A sailor and two other men ...