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  1. Zalcberg family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs relating to the post-war experiences of Morris, Regina, and Chana Zalcberg. This includes emigration documentation from the Feldafing Displaced Persons camp, a photograph of the family, and six audiotapes of the oral testimony of Morris Zalcberg, recorded in 1981, who was in the Polish army before the war.

  2. Zalcgendler-Caspary family collection

    The collection consists of archival materials and three-dimensional objects related to Abram Zalcgendler's donor's father and Ruth Caspary's [donor's mother] emigration to Shanghai, China, from Europe during the Holocaust

  3. Zalie G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalie G., who was born in Paris, France in 1927, one of three children. She recalls a happy childhood; observing the Sabbath and kashruth; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's arrest in 1941; her mother bribing officials for his release; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; her sister joining the Resistance in Alenc?on; receiving papers to join relatives in the United States; her father refusing to leave; his arrest in the July 1942 Ve?lodrome d'hiver round-up (she never saw him again); her mother hiding during round-ups; her brother being sent to jo...

  4. Zalman H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalman H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, the youngest of six brothers. He recounts being the sole Jew in his public school class; antisemitic harassment; his oldest brother's draft in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death; two brothers escaping and working as non-Jews; smuggling food into the ghetto with Peretz, his next oldest brother; arrest by Polish police; escape; his father's non-Jewish friend once providing food; his mother's death; escaping with Peretz; moving from place to place; entering the ghetto often...

  5. Zalman Lubocki memoir

    The memoir of Zalman Lubocki of Kaunas, Lithuania is his eyewitness account of the German invasion in June 1941, life in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, imprisonment at Stutthof, hard labor, liberation, and his arrival as a displaced person at Landsberg, Germany. The collection is comprised of the original copy of the 100 page memoir written in Yiddish in 1945 when Zalman was living in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  6. Zamojre/Eckstein family collection

    Consists of 1pre-war photographs of the Zamojre and Eckstein families, originally of Germany; one photograph of the interior of the synagogue in Bad Nauheim, Germany, taken in 1946; and pre and post-war documents and photographs related to the education of Joseph Zamojre (now Zamora).

  7. Zangwill family collection

    The collection includes an envelope and letter sent to Liby Kaplan in Slonim, Poland (present day Belarus) from her family in New Jersey in August 1939 and a letter and envelope from Liby Kaplan to her family in New Jersey postmarked August 17, 1939. The collection also includes two photographic postcards of Liby Kaplan and her husband.

  8. Zarembski-Ferst-Kostanski-Wierzbicki families photograph collection

    Contains photographs of the Zarembski, Ferst, Kostansk, and Wierzbicki families. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Zarnicer family collection

    Document issued on behalf of Esther Zarnicer [donor’s maternal grandmother], living in Camp de Gurs [Ilôt L Baraque 14], granting permission for her daughter, Ruth, to be removed from Camp de Gurs for the purpose of immigration to the United States of America. Dated 21 November 1941 and signed by “Ester” and stamped by the camp director. Includes a photograph of Ruth’s parents, Esther and Robert Zarnicer [who died in 1932]. Ruth and her her brother Hugo were placed in the Chabannes children's home before later going into hiding under false names. Esther was deported and killed.

  10. Zaro Calabrese collection

    The collection consists of Nazi badges.

  11. Zaro Calabrese testimony of the liberation of Ohrdruf

    Contains information about the liberation experiences of Zaro Calabrese at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945.

  12. Zbąszyń photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs of Jewish refugees from Germany on the Polish-German border in Zbąszyń, Poland. On the verso, stamped by Roman Vishniac.

  13. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, a wooden box, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski and his family in Torun, Gdynia, and Warsaw, Poland, Breslau, Germany, Majdanek concentration camp, and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  14. Zbigniew Kosc collection

    Consists of 15 photographs of the donor’s parents and their families before and during the war in Poland.

  15. Zbigniew L. Pankowicz collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Zbigniew L. Pankowicz. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Zbirka arhivskega gradiva nemških okupacijskih oblasti in oboroženih enot na zasedenem slovenskem ozemlju Collection of archival records of the German occupation authorities and German military formations on the occupied territory of Slovenia during WWII ( SI AS 1751)

    The collection contains records of various German civilian authorithies and military formations located on the territory of Slovenia during WWII. It includes collection of records of SS Unterfuererschule in Ljubljana (Laibach), SA Gruppe Donau Organization TODT, OT (Oberbauleitung), LjubljanaLabor Office (Arbeitsamt): civil administration for the regions and municipalities of Lower Styria (Spodnja Štajerska), Gorenjsko (Upper Carniola), Koroška (Slovenian Carinthia), Kranjska Gora, Laško, Trbovlje, Celje, Maribor and other municipalities and regions of Austria and German-occupied Slovenia. ...

  17. Zbirka stampata, brošure and plakati Collection of printed materials, pamphlets and posters from Croatia

    This collection contains printed matter relating to the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia (sic), including regulations prohibiting Jews to appear in public places, the obligation for Jews to wear the Star of David on the left sleeve of their clothing, the registration of Jewish property, the movement of Jews into ghettos, the prohibition of sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews, and the like.

  18. Zborow Association in New York

    Zborov Landsmanshaften association events in New York City filmed by Nathan Okon.

  19. Zdenka Eismannova collection

    The collection consists of five watercolor paintings of camp life created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  20. Zdenka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zdenka K., who was born in Rochov, Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls forced relocation with her parents and sister to Kladno in 1942; their deportation to Theresienstadt; forced labor; receiving extra food from their Christian aunt; their train transport to Raasiku, Estonia; separation from their parents (they never saw them again); slave labor in Ja?gala and Kohtla-Ja?rve; incarceration in Tallinn and Reval; cleaning up bombing rubble; evacuation to a site in the woods, then another camp; becoming numb due to arduous conditions, starvation, and beatings; ship trans...