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Language of Description: German
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  1. Helen Silver photograph collection

    The collection includes a photograph, dated October 1945, taken in Wtoszczowa, Poland depicting a woman wearing a coat standing outside and a photograph, dated May 1938, taken in Gorki Nad Wisla, Poland depicting a woman seated on a bench.

  2. Photograph of Rakhil Shkolnik

    The photograph taken in Ukraine depicts Rakhil Shkolnik wearing a head scarf with text printed above the portrait and a drawing of a train at the bottom. Inscription on verso: "Rakhit sic Shkolnik / 1945 / Chernevetzy / Vinnitskiy."

  3. Photograph of two women

    The photograph was taken in Minsk, Belarus, and depicts two women.

  4. Photograph of a young woman and her grandfather

    The photograph depicts a young woman standing behind a seated man with her hand on his shoulder, "grandfather" written in margin below image. Inscription on verso: "Grandfather / he was a survivor too sic / from the geto [sic] bershade."

  5. Photograph of three girls standing on a balcony

    The photograph depicts three girls standing together on balcony; blue ink "X" inscribed over the girl on the right; blue ink inscription crossed out on the verso.

  6. Leo Kern photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photograph of members of the Kern family in Suceava and Kimpolung (Cîmpulung Moldovenesc), Romania, before, during, and after World War II.

  7. Simon Frydman collection

    Consists of a photograph taken in Otwock, Poland, in 1941 of Rifka Regina Frydman, Simon's younger sister who perished in the Holocaust; and a photograph taken in Świebodzice, Poland, of two Jewish men (on the left: Mr. Mogielnicki who survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and on the right: his brother-in-law who was killed by Poles in 1945).

  8. Clara Grossman collection

    The photograph depicts Yitzchok and Pasia Spector and their eight children on their farm in Szabrockrycky, Poland.

  9. Lola Kamien photograph collection

    The collection includes photographs depicting members of the Kirszenbaum family who perished during the Holocaust and two photographs depicting Lola and Noah Kamien during memorial services in Majdanek, Poland, on 21 September 1947. The family photographs were taken in Berlin, Germany, and Mielec and Domacyny, Poland.

  10. Amalia Kurland Spiegelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs of the Kurland family, taken mostly in Sosnowiec, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. Leonard Teski photograph collection

    Four photographs depicting Leonard Teski's parents, Maria Szelagowska Teski and Edward Teski, their daughter Joanna, and Janek Kon Konorski, a Jewish boy whom they hid during World War II. The first photograph depicts Maria and Edward with friends in 1938 a few months before their wedding. The second depicts, from right to left, Maria, Janek (age 7), and Joanna, the third depicts Janek and Joanna, and the fourth depicts Janek, all in August 1942 in Międzylesie, Poland.

  12. Abraham Ackerstein collection

    Consists of two documents from the SS Marine Flasher, thirty photographs, and three small photograph albums from the displaced persons camp in Föhrenwald, Germany, relating to Abraham Ackerstein.

  13. Esther Brookmeyer collection

    Five letters and one envelope written by Fischel Kirschenbaum to his uncle Bernard Kirschenbaum dated 1935-1939. Six photographs depicting family members of donor's father, Beni Kirschenbaum and one postcard with Jewish New Year wishes sent to donor's father from Fischel Kirschenbaum.

  14. Abraham and Simone Slowes collection

    Consists of 27 family photographs, two photo album pages, five documents relating to Abraham Slowes' family in Vilna (Vilnius) before the war, 45 copies of documents relating to Abraham efforts to secure his family's emigration to Palestine during the years of 1940-1945, and a copy of a family history written by Simone Weil Slowes.

  15. Sandor Berko collection

    The collection consists of eighteen original photographs depicting Sandor Berko and his family before the war in Tiszalök, Hungary; his father in a forced labor battalion; Sandor and others in displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria; after the war in Tiszalök and in Sweden; and one Ketubah (marriage contract) of Sandor 's parents-in-law.

  16. Rose Strauss collection

    Contains two photographs. The first photograph is an image of men and women seated in deck chairs and also standing behind them aboard the MS St. Louis dated May-June 1939. The second photograph is an image of men and women seated in deck chairs aboard the MS St. Louis dated May-June 1939.

  17. Abrasza Feldman collection

    The collection related to the life of Abrasza Feldman during the time of the Holocaust and includes certificates, letters, photographs, and medical reports.

  18. Esther & Myer Liebersohn collection

    The collection consists of nine vintage copies of correspondence written on "V-Mail" stationery between Myer Liebersohn, while stationed in Europe, and his wife Esther (donor), living in Baltimore.

  19. Gertrude Gutman collection

    Consists of an eighteen-page newspaper created by displaced persons on their journey to New York. The cover bears an image of a ship with “IRO” written above and “U.S.A.T. Gen.C.H. Muir/No. 29/31.10.49/Bremerhaven/[image of life preserver]/New York/9.11.49.”

  20. 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.