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Language of Description: German
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  1. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection

    The Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection contains primarily photographs of Arthur Gelbart, who was a resident of Częstochowa ghetto and several labor camps, and Rose Grosman, who was kept hidden throughout the war. The photographs show both at several separate displaced persons camps as well as life prior to the war.

  2. David Goldschild photograph collection

    The David Goldschild photograph collection consists of photographs relating to David Goldschild and his extended family in Czechoslovakia; of David Goldschild and other war orphans in London, England relating to the Primrose Club of Jewish Immigrants; and a reunion of members of the same group in New York, circa 1950.

  3. David Goldband collection

    Consists of an "Ahnenpass," an official pre-printed booklet inscribed with specific familial information and officially stamped at each entry with Nazi national insignia, issued for the family of Hedwig Hartung, Berlin, Germany. Undated.

  4. Betty Gold collection

    Group of 23 black and white photographs of displaced persons taken in Linz-Bindermichl displaced persons camp, Austria.

  5. Photograph of Rabbi Benjamin and Chana Gelband on board the St. Louis

    The photograph shows Rabbi Benjamin and Chana Gelband, in a cabin looking out a porthole on board the St. Louis.

  6. Arthur Gross photographs

    The Arthur Gross photographs consist of ten black and white photographs of Arthur Gross and his family and friends in Poland before the war posing for pictures and partcipating and Maccabi sports clubs. The collection also includes one photograph of Aleksander Gross' grave in Straubing.

  7. Helen Goodman collection.

    Consists of six letters written by Yan Gutman (donor's brother) to Anna Gutman (donor's mother) while he was in a Soviet penalty regiment and while serving in the Red Army. Yan Gutman's crime was taking some salt for a piece of bread at the Krasnoyarsk train station.

  8. Frances Hirshfeld collection

    Consists of two documents issued to "Franciszka Rosenblum" (Frances Hirshfeld) and three letters with envelopes sent to "A.H. Wyman" (Frances Hirshfeld's uncle) in Jacksonville, Florida.

  9. Sandor Hoffman collection

    Photograph, black and white image of a young woman wearing a turban; verso: blue ink stamp pf photo studio (Kovats es Tarsa); Papa, Hungary; in Hungarian.

  10. Gertrude Jorisch papers

    The Gertrude Jorisch papers consist of a partial list of victims from Skałat, Poland (now Скалат, Ukraine); Gertrude Jorisch’s 13 page memoir about her prewar life in Skałat, the deportation of her family to Belzec, her time in the Skałat ghetto and labor camp and hiding in the forest, and postwar antisemitism in Skalat; and photographs of herself, her father, her husband, and other Holocaust survivors at the displaced persons camp at Deggendorf.

  11. Lina Rachel Kantor collection

    Consists of a Turkish passport, dated 28 June 1931, issued to Rahel Amato (donor's grandmother) of Rhodes, Greece, enabling her to remain, as a Jew, with her family in Rhode; and an Italian identification card, dated 5 October 1943, issued to Rachele Soriano (donor's grandmother), born 1878 in Rhodes, Greece, that states that she is Jewish and is a citizen of Turkey.

  12. Ethel and Rubin Kaplan collection

    Group of five black and white photographs relating to Ethel and Rubin Kaplan and their lives in the Leipheim and Ziegenhaim displaced persons camps.

  13. Dora Kardonskaya photograph

    Black and white image of studio portrait family of six; verso: black ink inscription, blue ink inscription "Dora Kardonskay /in the / upersid / Esfir Kardonskay (donor's sister) / (Levitan) / is sitting down /between her / mother and father"; dated April 17, 1932; Odessa, Ukraine.

  14. Eva Katz collection

    Consists of an identification card, "Kinderausweis" issued to "Eva Kreutsberger" (Eva Katz) before departing as part of the Kindertransport; red ink "J' on recto, middle name "Sara" added to name; issued 13 Feb.1939; Berlin, Germany. The card is pre-printed with hand written and stamped entries on both sides; a black and white photograph of a young girl onthe back is attached with metal rivets.

  15. Sabina Kurc collection

    Sabina Kurc collection consists of ten black and white photographs depicting the donor's immediate and extended family before the war in Grabowiec, Łódź, Wojslawice, Chelm, and Warsaw, Poland; and of a circa 1950 May Day demonstration in Legnica, Poland.

  16. John Krasny photograph collection

    The John Krasny photograph collection consists of eight photographs given to John Krasny by Steve, a fellow member of the counterintelligence unit of the United States Army. Steve [last name unknown] retrieved them from an unidentified German soldier. The photographs are images of Stalag XI D/321 camp for Soviet POWs in Oerbke, Germany, November 1941-Febraury 1942. The POWs were captured during the Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. Between November 1941 and February 1942, approximately 50,000 Soviet POWs died of starvation, hypothermia, and disease in the camp.

  17. Esfira Kizhner photograph

    Black and white photograph of a man wearing round glasses and plaid shirt beneath pinstripe jacket; dated 1945.

  18. Rosemary Kincaid collection

    Consists of ten black and white photographs and three photographic postcards bearing images taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation; captions handwritten on verso; dated April 1945.

  19. Louis Kfare collection

    Consists of a handwritten draft of letter on plain paper in graphite, written to Franklin D. Roosevelt by Simon I. Kononvitch (Anna Kfare's brother), in which he asks the President to stop "Hitler's annihilation of the Jewish people of Europe," dated March 1943.

  20. Der Greif

    Book, entitled Der Greif (I.Folge 1934) with a brown soft cover and an image of a mythological animal playing the harp and a swastika in black ink. Contains German patriotic songs, including chords; published 1934 in Heidelberg, Germany.