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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  5. Hashomer Hatzair in Cyprus (RG-19-2) השומר הצעיר בקפריסין

    Contains memoirs and other documents of the Jewish refugees and survivors on their stay in Cyprus in 1947. Also includes various publications, correspondence (1947), names lists of kibbutz members, the issue of Hashomer Hatzair journal "Ba Girush" (1947), published in Cyprus, the "exodus" story of "Ma'apilim" (illigal emigrants to Palestine) written by Yehushua Ratman in Yiddish.

  6. Oral history interview with Joseph Kahoe

    1. Liberation 1945 oral history collection

  8. Oral history interview with Nesse Godin

    1. Liberation 1945 oral history collection

  10. Selected records from the Legation of the Dominican Republic in Washington

    Contains letters, telegrams, clippings, and various other documents compiled by the Legacion de la República Dominicana in Washington, D.C., in 1940. The letters, addressed to Andres Pastoriza, Dominican Minister Plenipotentiary, are from various sources and written on behalf of Jewish refugees, requesting permission to emigrate to the Dominican Republic from various European countries.

  11. Harriet Postman correspondence

    The Harriet Postman correspondence documents Postman's unsuccessful efforts to assist Flora Hochsinger's immigration to the United States from Vienna. Letters include correspondence between Flora Hochsinger and Harriet Postman as well as between Postman and relatives, friends, and aid agencies Postman contacted for help, such as the Boston Committee for Refugees, B'nai Brith, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

  12. Mogilev Oblast Archive records

    These files relate to the activities of various Mogilev city administration offices and German occupation agencies in the Mogilev area during World War II. Included is information about criminal proceedings, the persecution of Soviet Jews, the confiscation of Jewish property, reprisals against Jewish and partisan resistance, regulations for mixed marriages, the Mogilev ghetto, the transit of refugees, Einsatzkommando activities, forced labor, census statistics, and partisan clashes with police forces.

  14. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 7)

    Standard footage/stills of the Nazi annexation of Austria. The narrator says that "Globke's" anti-Jewish decrees were immediately implemented in Austria after the Nazi takeover, for which he was awarded a medal. Czech refugees on a road and scenes of the invasion of Czecholslovakia.

  17. Letter requesting release from marriage obligation (chalitzah), written by a Holocaust survivor at the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp.

    One letter, handwritten, 5 pages, dated 26 May 1946, from Sara Rudney, writing from the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp, to her brother-in-law, Saul Rudney, presumably in Baltimore, Maryland, asking from release from her halakhic obligations to marry him after the death of her husband during the Holocaust. In the letter, Sara Rudney describes the circumstances of the death of her husband, Moishe, at the age of 36 on 31 December 1944, in the Landsberg concentration camp, and notes that her rabbi has instructed her to obtain chalitzah from her brother-in-law. She mentions the loss of most...