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  1. Selected records of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany

    Contains original records and photocopies of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, Germany; name lists of Jewish families; deportation lists; correspondence; synagogue statutes; survivors' testimonies, diaries, and letters; personal papers relating to the Holocaust, to Jewish fate and emigration. Also contains photographs of events, e.g., Kristallnacht, and buildings such as synagogues, schools and other institutions.

  2. Jan Valenta collection

    The Jan Valenta collection contains documents regarding the detention and execution of Jan Valenta, a Colonel in the Czech army and active participant in the Czech resistance organization, Obrana Národa (“Defense of the Nation”). Comprised in this collection are three pieces of correspondence written by Jan during his incarceration. This includes a postcard to his children dispensing parental advice, a postcard to his brother requesting a toothbrush, soap, and toothpaste, and a letter written to his children on the day of his execution, which was reportedly smuggled out of the prison and de...

  3. Map of Vilna ghetto

    Rectangular form; black and white drawing of the ghetto in Vilna, Poland, (now Vilnius, Lithuania) with a overlaying graph; place names in Yiddish.

  4. Sulamita Simenauer Konar collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Sulamita Simenauer Konar’s mother Chana Pomerancblum Simenauer and grandmother Mina Zalcman Pomerancblum, both of whom survived in hiding under false identities in Jeleśnia, Poland. Included are a registration form (Meldebestaetigung) issued to Chana under her false identity of Maria Kolodziejczyk, and two occupancy registration forms (anmeldung) issued to Mina under her false identity of Luzie Wilczynska. The form issued to Maria Kolodziejczyk stated that Maria, maiden name Szczepan, was born on June 20, 1918 in Skala, in the Lvov regi...

  5. William Howard photographs

    The collection consists of 13 photographs taken by William Howard shortly after the liberation of a concentration camp.

  6. The World Jewish Congress Stockholm office records

    Contains correspondence and other records from the Stockholm office of the World Jewish Congress.

  7. Rivka Lozansky-Bogomolnaya collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and photograph albums relating to the life of people in the shtetl Butrimantz (Butrimonys), Lithuania, before 1941. It also contains a manuscript written by Riva Lozansky that describe the destruction of Butrimantz; the book, "If I Forget Thee..the destruction of the shtetl Butrimantaz," is based upon the manuscript.

  9. Selected records from the former archive of the city of Westerbork

    Contains registers, together with death certificates, of deported and arrested persons in the vicinity of Westerbork, Netherlands.

  10. Zygfryd Baginski papers

    Collection contains one album of official photographs of Dachau post-liberation, appears to be published by the International Information Office for the Former Concentration Camp Dachau; one photocopied typed manuscript of the Holocaust remembrances of Zygfryd Baginski [donor]; one set of photocopies of passport pages for Military Exit permit, issued Sep. 1948; one concentration camp information form, entitled "Outlet by Death."

  11. American soldiers holding Nazi flag

    Rectangular form with scalloped edge; black and white image depicting United States Army soldiers holding a German flag bearing a Swastika.

  12. Post-war Polish Jewish community center documents

    Collection contains three invitations for various events at post-war Polish Jewish community centers from 1947-1948: one invitation to the opening of the Jewish community center in Bytom, one invitation (in Hebrew and in English) for a spring dance at the Jewish community center in Wrocław, and one invitation for the 1st anniversary ceremony for the Jewish community center in Złotoryja, which also contains a program. The collection also contains one blank identity card for the Jewish organization of culture and art in the Dolny Sĺa̧sk.

  13. SS headquarters for race and settlement Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt-SS (NS 2)

    Contains selected records from Bundesarchiv, NS 2, the SS headquarters for race and settlement, involving implementation of racial and resettlement policies by the SS in Germany and German-occupied territories. The documents concern coordination with other German agencies, SS orders, commands, directives, regulations, investigations regarding race relations, and correspondence and reports sent between various SS offices. Also includes reports on the Jewish situation in various cities or countries, inspection reports of concentration camps, records concerning contact with foreigners during t...

  14. Merecki family collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the pre-war experiences of the Merecki family, who emigrated to the United States from Austria in December 1938.

  15. Application forms for the mandatory adoption of the names Sara and Israel for Austrian Jews

    Contains mandatory name-change applications received from Jews by the Vienna, Austria, district offices of the Bezirkshauptmannschaften.

  16. Madeleine Coleman collection

    Consists of three postcards written by Joseph Miltau, imprisoned in southern France, to his family in Paris, and one photograph of his daughter, Madeleine Coleman, in Paris in the summer of 1943. Joseph Miltau was later deported to Majdanek.

  17. Walter Wolff collection

    Contains identity cards and documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of Walter Wolff, who spent the Holocaust in Italy and in Germany.

  18. Marta Brod photographs

    Consists of 17 pre- and post-war family photographs of the Brod family of Istanbul, Turkey. The photographs feature Simon Brod, who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency of Palestine in Istanbul, and is credited with rescuing David Stoliar, a survivor of the shipwreck of the "Struma" in February 1942.

  19. Hans Garfunkel collection

    Consists of letters written to Bessie Silberman, in Chicago, IL, from Hans Garfunkel, as Hans was trying to obtain the visas and affidavits necessary to emigrate to the United States (in English and French); letters written to Hans Garfunkel from his parents in Germany (in German); report cards and other academic paperwork for Hans Garfunkel; and telegrams and consular correspondence regarding Hans Garfunkel's visa requests. Also consists of 12 pre-war and wartime photographs of the family and friends of Hans Garfunkel.

  20. Nussbaum-Koch family collection

    Consists of correspondence, passports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documentation of the Nussbaum and Koch families of Luxembourg. Includes papers and photographs related to Albert Nussbaum, who had worked with refugees in Luxembourg before working for the Transmigration Bureay of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon, then emigrating to the Dominican Republic; and to Gustav Nussbaum, Helene Kleinberg Nussbaum, Marguerite (Martha) Koch, and Rene Nussbaum.