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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: United States

  1. Ziggy and Delores Hudes papers

    The papers consist of photographs relating to Ziggy Hudes, his family, and the Catholic priest who helped to hide him during the Holocaust in Belgium. Also included is an identification card for Hanna Ginter, Ziggy’s mother, and order to go to a labor camp issued to Salomon Hudes, Ziggy’s father, and a marriage certificate for Salomon and Hanna.

  2. Ziggy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ziggy S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He recounts his parents' divorce; living with his paternal grandparents; attending a Jewish school; his father escaping east immediately prior to the German occupation; ghettoization in spring 1940; working in a metal factory; constant hunger; attempts to obtain extra food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; transfer a few weeks later to Stutthof; volunteering with friends in December when sixteen-year-olds were sought; transfer to Stolp; slave labor on a railway; his group of twenty Polish boys having d...

  3. Zigmas Jonynas collection

    Manuscript: incomplete, written by Zigmas Jonyas (donor’s father) about his life, includes one page about the destruction of Jews in Lithuania and a photocopy of that page. Includes biographical information, correspondence, clippings, and photographs about and relating to Zigmas Jonynas.

  4. Zilbert Family Collection

    Contains documents related to the donor's father's immigration from Poland, and subsequent correspondence from his family still in Białystok, Poland.

  5. Zina Alpern postcard

    Consists of one postcard, dated June 10, 1942, written by Zelda (“Zina”) Alpern in Salles-Curan, Aveyron, France, to Gertrude Wolf of Rochester, NY. On the postcard, which is torn and has a missing corner, Zina asks for news and expresses her hope that Gertrude will be able to send papers to assist with her emigration.

  6. Zina Gasko photographs

    The collection consists of photographs of Zina Gasko, her brother, Jefim, and her aunts and cousins in Krzemieniec, Poland, before World War II.

  7. Zina Jakuschewa deToll collection

    Consists of one set of working papers for Zina (Sina) Jakuschewa (now deToll), originally of Podolsk, Russia. Includes one work card and one work book (each with a photograph) identifying Zina Jakuschewa as a non-Jewish forced laborer assigned to Ravensburg, Germany, in 1943 and 1944.

  8. Zina Schreibman collection

    Photocopy of typescript text (4 pages), titled "An Episode in my Life That Will Forever Be Etched in My Memory," by Zina Schreibman. Also includes photocopy of 11 pages of Yiddish text.

  9. Zinaida Elkind collection

    Consists of a photograph, dated Summer 1944, of the donor at age twelve, with Anna Kosokovski, granddaughter of Vavara and Vladimir Kosokovski, her rescuers, outside the home in Berezino, USSR, where she lived in hiding for three years,.

  10. Zinaida M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zinaida M., who was born in Illint︠s︡i, Ukraine in 1921. She recalls attending accounting school in Kiev; returning home; marriage in May 1941; German invasion in June; military draft of her husband, brother, and father; briefly fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; mass shootings of Jews; assistance from some Ukrainians; her son's birth; her husband's return from a POW camp where non-Jews protected him; escaping to the woods in August 1942; locating a partisan unit which refused them entry because they had no weapons and had a baby; building bunk...

  11. Zinaida Rabinovich collection

    Black and white photograph of a woman wearing a heavy coat and hat; verso: blue ink inscription; dated 1947.

  12. Zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, Poland 1936

    A quick series of trims featuring zinc mines in Katowice, Poland (Silesian region). The mine featured is the Giesche Zinc Mine and Refinery. VS in the mine, cars full of zinc being loaded and guided by workers, using levers to control the cars as they travel along the rails in the mine. CUs of the cars and zinc ore. Images are slightly underexposed due to the fact that filming was done in low light in an underground mine.

  13. Zinc refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936

    Scenes from the Giesche Zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936. VS, INT near the furnaces, women sorting ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, the molten ore being poured into molds. 01:02:06 Workers' jackets hanging from the ceiling of the factory near the light fixtures. EXT, LS, workers exiting the factory, some get on their bicycles others leave on foot. Many workers are young, and smile for the camera. INT, workers filling the molds used for the molten zinc ore. EXT, LS of the countryside in south central Poland. VS of the rural village and th...

  14. Zinc refinery in operation in Katowice

    Scenes from the Giesche zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, circa 1936. VS, inside near the furnaces, men coming out for a break and getting water, women sorting the ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, men drilling inside the mine. 01:14:55 Good shots of the digging in the mine, workers leaving the mine. Scene with the workers collecting their bicycles at the end of the day. Several good CUs of the faces of the workers, the raw zinc ore, machinery, etc. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  15. Zinnowald Schule, Berlin

    Zinnowald Schule in Berlin. Girls on bicycles. INT classroom. Art class. CU, girl's drawing.

  16. Zinnowaldschule (a German school): girls in class

    EXT of school with CU of sign "Zinnowaldschule" at front. Schoolgirls on bicycles outside school. VAR shots of the school INT. Girls in class painting and drawing, at desks.

  17. Zinochka Craevitsky collection

    Contains photocopies of handwritten letter, in Russian, from a friend of Aron Craevitsky, Zinochka's father who was killed at the front in 1943, to Aron's mother, and of a photograph of Zinochka Craevitsky; and a handwritten memoir by the donor regarding the fates of Zinochka and her mother in the Minsk (Soviet Union) ghetto.

  18. Zinovij Kuschnir collection

    Black and white photograph of young man wearing dark suit jacket and tie with a white shirt with collar. Portrait view of head and upper torso. Print has rounded corners; white border with square corners. "Odessa 1950" written in pencil on reverse bottom. Image is of Israel Srulik Kuschnir [donor].

  19. Zionism; Travel to Palestine

    A 1934 newsreel, and "advertisement" to persuade Jews from Europe to travel to Palestine via ship from Constanza (Romania). Original archive copy has title and censor's permission for showing in British occupied Palestine (can be viewed briefly in this video, in a few frames at the beginning of the story: TC 03:52:45:19). Segment depicts the first voyage of a Polish ocean liner to Palestine. The film contains crudely edited footage of the embarkation at the Black Sea port of Constanza, the passengers enjoying the pleasures of the open sea, the recitation of Yom Kippur prayers on deck, an ex...

  20. The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)

    Correspondence between the Zionist Organization, London and various individuals and organizations regarding the nature of a future state in Palestine, a proposal to the Zionist Organization of America, and Zionist organizations in Russia and Palestine, other matters, correspondence with Chaim Weizmann, minutes of meetings, outgoing letters, newspaper clippings, resolutions, Zionist congress proceedings, reports on the situation in Palestine and Jewish immigration, circulars of the Executive Committee, statistics, correspondence with various Zionist organizations in Nazi Germany, corresponde...