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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Joe Lombardi collection

    Consists of a typed letter dated 16 May 1939, by David Godel who discusses his family and their situation and requests assistance and a family permit. The letter was sent to England to Nicola Curwin's family (donor's wife) who did not know Godel or his family.

  2. Trudy Reich collection

    Consists of a letter written by Sophie Reich, the donor's mother-in-law, in Brooklyn, NY, to her family in Gorlice, Poland. The letter was returned to sender due to suspension of mail service.

  3. Dola Kestenbaum Körbel Kleinman collection

    The collection consists of family photographs of Dola Kestenbaum in Przemyśl and Jelenia Góra, Poland, and Semipalatinsk and Riazan, Soviet Union; letters and telegrams sent to Dola while she was in Semipalatinsk from her friends and relatives, including soldiers in the Polish Army, in Samarkand, Soviet Union, Jerusalem, Palestine, and elsewhere in the Middle East; letters written to Dola from Great Britain and Warsaw, Poland, after the war; documents relating to Dola's return to Poland; and legal documents relating to Dola inheriting property left by her relatives who perished in the Holoc...

  4. Victoria Borejdo poetry collection

    The collection consists of a series of poems written in the Warsaw Ghetto for Victoria Inwald Borejdo, donor's mother, by a judge she befriended in the ghetto. The first poem is hand written, housed in a small green notebook cover. The second poem, or series of poems, is type-written on nine pages.

  5. Palestine Post newspaper article about the Nyassa

    The newpaper clipping is an article entitled "Refugees sing 'Hatikvah' as ship comes in," written by Ernst Aschner, discussing the arrival in Haifa of 750 men, women, and children who fled to Portugal and sailed from Lisbon to Palestine aboard the ship Nyassa; the newspaper is identified as "Palestine Post" and dated 1 February 1944.

  6. Selma Blick papers

    The papers include one identification card and eight photographic prints relating to Selma Wahrhaftig and her experiences in the Saalfelden Displaced Persons Camp.

  7. Stephanie Mayer collection

    The Stephanie Mayer collection consists of three photographs with inscriptions. The photographs show Stephanie Pringheim Mayer with friends on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939.

  8. Certificate of Naturalization for Max Herz

    Contains a "Certificate of Naturalization" issued by the United States Government to Max Herz (donor's uncle); states that he is 54 years old, former nationality is German, married; issued September 24, 1945.

  9. Robert Weinberg papers

    One two-page undated typed document, entitled "Ist eine Assimilation der Deutschen Juden in Amerika möglich oder wahrscheinlich?" The first three-page typed letter is dated 7 November 1939. The second two-page letter is dated 13 Dec.1939. Both letters were sent from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  10. Deutsches Siedlerund badge with clasped hands across a Reichsadler

    Deutsches Siedlerbund (German Settlement) house emblem to show support for the expansive Nazi governement building program for German workers in the 1930s.

  11. Mirijam Slezinas passport

    Contains a Lithuanian passport issued to Mirijam Slezinas on July 8, 1938.

  12. Germany at liberation: refugees, destruction, etc

    French liberated prisoners. US soldiers and ammunition, firing from tank. Tanks on village street. Airplanes dive bombing. MCUs German POWs. German civilians. Damaged gate entrance reading in part "Trier." German civilians departing town; horse, oxen, and tractor drawn wagons loaded with possessions. 01:07:20 Slate reads "Luxembourg, April 14, 1945" Germans with belongings on carts. CUs, displaced persons in line for water on city plaza, waving to camera, holidng up water cans (staged). Digging with shovels. April 16, 1945 - MCUs, German children in park, in Wiesbaden, Germany, wrestling. A...

  13. Pamphlet

  14. Ceremony at the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror

    MLS, panning shots of buildings, various architectural details. MLS, panning Tyn Church from across a large town square. MCU, local girl in traditional dress poses with a man in uniform. Ceremony at the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror located at the Church of Saint Cyril and Saint Method (previously called the Carlo Boromeo Church). MS, large group of people gathered, men and women in line formation, young men in various uniforms carry various flags. Older men in civilian dress are also in formation. MLS, large group of nurses, in white uniforms, flanked by soldiers i...

  15. Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl

    Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl was an early confidant of Hitler but fell increasingly out of favor after Hitler's assumption of power. In 1937 Hitler ordered Hanfstaengl to parachute over Spain and act as an agent for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Hanfstaengl feared this was really a plot on his life and, in his telling, he convinced the plane's pilot to return to Germany. According to Albert Speer in his memoirs, this was all an elaborate practical joke and no harm was intended. However, Hanfstaengl was frightened enough to decide to defect. It is this episode which is documented in this foo...

  16. Peter Ney letter envelope

    Envelope in which a letter written by Peter Ney was sent, addressed to his parents.

  17. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

  18. Metal fork with ridged handle used in Theresienstadt

  19. Russian POWS singing

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 5: Russians seated on ground. Officer leaning against tree leading group in song. Marching and singing.

  20. Handbill