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Language of Description: Danish
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  1. Mirka Knaster collection

    The Mirka Knaster collection consists of forty photographs of the Knaster family (Baruch, Cyla, and Mirka Knaster) in displaced persons camps, including Santa Caterina, and Bari, Italy. The Jewish marriage certificate (Ketubah) for Cyla and Baruch Knaster.

  2. Hanka Ehrlich collection

    Consists of two photographs. One an Image of Hanka Granek, the donor, with her friend Moniek Taitelbaum, who perished in Auschwitz; the photograph was taken in Bystra, Poland in summer 1939 during their last vacation before the war. The second image was taken in 1940 in the Bedzin ghetto, Poland, of Rachela Pszerowska Ingster seated at a desk, a Star of David on her dress. Rachela, who perished in Auschwitz, was the sister-in-law of Szewa Ingster.

  3. Eskil Eriksson collection

    Consists of two copyprints of images taken after the liberation of a concentration camp, most likely Dachau; on image shows fencing, barracks, watch tower and moat surrounding the camp; and the other shows a pile of corpses being loaded onto a truck by survivors.

  4. Wolf Finkelman collection

    Consists of photographs, identification cards, certificates and other documents relating to Wolf Finkelman's internment in Mauthausen and his time in the Bindermichl displaced persons camps and his emigration to the United States in 1946.

  5. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection

    The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the photographs are the parents of Gertrude Fischbach Moritz Heller (b. December 30, 1876) and Friede Heller (b. May 25, 1880), and her parents-in-law Jonas Fischbach (b. October 17, 1885) and Amalie Fischbach (née Dull, b. September 29, 1884). The photographs were taken in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1938; London, England, circa 1939; and 1943-1944 after their arrival in the United States. All pictured were passengers on the MS St. Louis and eventually immi...

  6. Leah Rosenfield collection

    The collection conisists of scrip from the Łódź ghetto.

  7. Naomi Dallob papers

    Consists of five photographs and three documents: 1) image of group of men standing in front of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) building;; 2) image of crowd of men and women gathered on a plaza, some in the background holding flags; 3) image of a building; 4) image of women helping children walk down stairs located outdoors; 5) image of two men and one woman posing in front of an exhibit display, attached to ithe mage with adhesive is typed text; 6) greeting card: photographic image of steet with portrait of man at upper left corner and hebrew text at upper right cor...

  8. Wlodek Richter collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting members of the Baksht and Richter families before the war in Kremenchug, Russia (Kremenchuk, Ukraine); during and after the war in Krasnoarmeysk, Russia; and after the war in Daugavpils, Latvia, and Kaliningrad, Russia. Also included is Genia Baksht’s 1941 high school diploma from her school in Kremenchug.

  9. Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

    Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

  10. Jerry Gotkin collection

    Consists of a letter; written by Peretz Shkolnik, donor’s mother’s cousin, who survived the Holocaust in hiding near Jody, Lithuania, his hometown. In the letter, written in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy, Mr. Shkolnik relates his experiences during the war.

  11. Irena Bloch papers

    The Irena Bloch papers primarily consists of photographs documenting the Hecht and Bloch families before the war in Żółkiew, Delatyn, Orlow, Sopot, and Gdynia, Poland as well as Rachela Hecht’s marriage to Dziunek Dawid Zimand in Warsaw, Poland. The papers also include a marriage permit, ketubah, false work papers, school certificates, a diploma, and a letter Irena’s best friend Ruth Zeimer Czaczkes wrote on February 27, 1943 while in hiding with her son Rysio in Tarnow, Poland prior to their denunciation and subsequent murder. Photographs document the Hecht, Zimand, and Bloch families' pre...

  12. Berestowitz, Poland

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "In a drugstore" Pan village, horses, street. Group of men and boys at storefront. Children and teenagers mingle in street, others pose at doorway.

  13. Notes

  14. Obligation bond for the Warsaw Synagogue

    "OBLIGACJA" Number 1454, in the institution with list on the backside listing the breakdown of the shares. The bond was issued November 1, 1927.

  15. Destruction in Germany

    Destruction, ruins, rubble in Mainz. CU, sign reading "Zu den Bahnsteigen." Railroad debris. CU, sign reading "Bingerbrueck." US soldiers walking towards camera. Shots of airplane, soldier inspecting. Factory.

  16. Postcard from the Manouchian network of French resistance Jews

    Recto, photo images of Maurice Fingercwajg, Szlama Gryzywacz and Wolf Wajsbrot and a "Medaille de la Resistance Francaise"; verso, a paragraph in French which describes the members and the activities of the group; postcard is numbered "004794"

  17. Scrapbook of the American Jewish Art Club

    Includes exhibit announcements, newsletters, newspaper clippings and paper reproductions of art pieces from 1931-1962.

  18. Warsaw telephone dIrectory

    Telephone directory for the city of Warsaw, issued during the year of the German invasion.

  19. Jerry Shmoys collection

    Consists of six postcards and two letters sent to the Jerry Shmoys' parents from friends and relatives in Warsaw and Łódź, Poland.

  20. Coupon

    Consists of a Prämienschein, or coupon, issued to Samuel Katzman for good work in the Gross Rosen concentration camp.