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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  2. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  3. Elisheva Schelaznicky papers

    Contins a false identification card issued for "Sonja Seegers" and used by Betty Beek (donor's couson) who died in Bergen-Belsen of typhus on March 15, 1945; issued in Haarlem, The Netherlands; dated September 15, 1941.

  4. Isaiah Minkoff Papers

  5. Jewish Labor Committee Records, Part II: Holocaust Era Files.

    In “Series III: Foreign Countries” of this fonds, we find several files containing “mixed materials” on Belgium, for the period 1948-1956. See box 80, folders nrs. 25-32 and box 81, folders nrs. 1-2. These numbers correspond with microfilm reels nrs. 237-238. In “Subseries IV:C: Child Adoption Program: Correspondence files” of “Series IV: Immigration, Resettlement and Refugee Aid” we note the following files: “Belgium: General & Lists” (box 114, folder nr. 29), “Belgium: Mila Alter” (box 114, nrs. 30-31) and “Belgium: Poale Zion” (box 114, nr. 32). These files mostly contain corresponde...

  6. Jewish Labor Committee Records, Part I: Holocaust Era Files.

    In “Series III: Foreign Countries” we find a series of files containing “mixed materials” on Belgium. See box 29, folders 9-15, corresponding to microfilm reels nrs. 77 and 78. The files are dated ca. 1940-1947. “Subseries V:C: Addendum” also holds a file on Belgium (1946) – see box 53B, folder nr. 6 (microfilm reel 167).

  7. Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) Records, Part III: Post-War Administrative Files and Anti-Discrimination Department Files.

    The series “General Files”, contains correspondence, flyers, reports, memos, documentation, … on a wide variety of topics, individuals, events, Jewish and other organisations. We point out the following files: “Belgium” (box 122, folders nrs. 40, 41 and 42; for the years 1957-1968), “Child Adoption Program: Belgium” (box 124, nrs. 35-37; years 1956-1964), “Child Adoption Program: Belgium – Lists” (box 124, nrs. 38-39; years 1957-1964), “Reparations: Belgium” (box 160, nr. 32; years 1961-1962) and “Soviet Jewry: Brussels Conference” (box 168, nrs. 20-21; years 1971, 1975-1976). The “Series V...

  8. World Jewish Congress

    This fonds is incredibly rich in information regarding the relation of the WJC with Belgium and the Belgian Jewish community, the refugee question before the war, the Shoah in Belgium, the immediate postwar reconstruction and relief effort, the restitution issue, Jews in the former Belgian Congo, … The files in “Series A. Central Files” (1919-1976) contain correspondence, minutes, records of conferences, and miscellaneous other materials. In its “Subseries 2. Executive Files” – holding files of several WJC leaders – we note the files “Belgium, Kubowitzki, Aryeh L.” (box A9, folder nr. 17; y...

  9. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  10. Frank and Edith Sim collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag and commemorative medal relating to the experiences of Frank and Edith Sim during and after the Holocaust at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  11. Holub, Glaser and Ornstein families collection

    Papers, correspondence, and photographs related to Eva Glaser (nee Holub), her parents, Josef and Marie Holub (nee Popper), her brother Hanus ("Honza") Holub, and her first husband Arno Erban, and their sons Peter and Tomas. Also includes papers and photographs related to Eva's second husband, Herbert Glaser, his sister, Ana Glaser, and Eva and Hebert's daughter, Vivian; a recorded interview (on CD) and transcript of an interview with Herbert Glaser; restitution-related papers; a photograph album with images of the Holub and Glaser families; documents, a diary and correspondence related to ...

  12. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities

    A propaganda film which laments the waste of money and other resources spent on caring for the mentally disabled and ill, at the expense of the "healthy" population. German intertitles describe the scenes. Film opens with busy street scenes, people going about their daily lives in the city. Switch to rural scenes, people farming, manual labor. Scenes of a Nazi parade and crowds at a huge outdoor rally. Flags flying, people saluting. A shot of the entrance to the "Silberhammer" mental institution; camera pans briefly around the surrounding countryside. The exterior of the institution, which ...

  13. Hanna Moneta photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Moneta family in Krakow, Poland before the war; members of the "Akiba" Zionist youth organization in Kielce, Poland during "Hachshara"; Hanka Moneta, who survived Płaszów, Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation in Sweden during recuperation; photographs of Mordechai Moneta (Hanka's husband) with his "Beitar" group.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Copenhagen

    LS, Christiansborg entrance (Parliament and Foreign Ministry building). Amalienborg Palace, residence of the King. 05:08:14 Armed guards. CU, insignia with King's initials. 05:08:52 Oil tanks in Copenhagen harbor (Shell, BP, etc.) 05:09:24 Danish and German boats in harbor. 05:10:14 In Copenhagen, on street outside "Prwatbanken". Bicycles, cars, horse and cart, modern apartment blocks. 05:11:08 EXT, Shell Centralen petrol building. Street, City Hall, automobiles. 05:12:14 Train, station. Copenhagen power plant. 05:13:08 EXT, NSDAP headquarters, swastikas. Power plant. German freighter flyin...

  15. Peter Kauf collection

    Contains thirty-eight original photographs of the Kauf family before the war in Berlin, during the war in Belgium, and after liberation. Peter Kauf survived the Holocaust in hiding; his older brother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered upon arrival; his parents were hiding most of the time, but at the end of the war, they were arrested and imprisoned in a transit camp in Belgium.

  16. Verdoner family holiday and houseboat

    EXT, MCU, a man in a small house boat, docked. According to documentation that accompanied original films, the man's name is Leo Wijnbergin Punter. Gerrit Verdoner comes out on deck, putting on his shirt, and takes one of the eggs from the table, puts it in his mouth and begins to ham it up for the camera before ducking back inside the cabin. MS, EXT of the houseboat, the sea, and the window of a building, there is a sign on the building that reads: "STALLING-R'JWIELEN". Camera continues to pan building and surrounding farmland. VCU to MS of two young women standing in the doorway of the ho...

  18. Beitar Austria collection

    Photos of the Beitar movement in Austria from 1935 - 1937; Copper symbol of the Beitar movement in Austria

  19. Rosh Hashanah card

    Rosh Hashanah card bearing an embossed image of a bird and a basket of flowers shaded purple. The card and envelope were sent from Eishishok, Poland (Ejszyszki, Lithuania), to Rabbi Aaron R. Charney in Bayonne, N.J.

  20. British II Armored Division Advance

    British soldiers. Tanks move through a burning forest into Germany. Forests burned to clear out Germans. One short shot of sign reading "Danger Typhus". Tanks roll down road. At gate of camp; watchtower. Germans march in, past German officers. Another officer walks up and gives a Hitler salute. More views of the German and Hungarian soldiers watching British armor pass by, and the Belsen camp.