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  1. Records of Hungarian General Credit Bank Co. Personnel and Organizational Departments Magyar Általános Hitelbank Rt. Személyzeti és szervezési osztály (MOL Z 53)

    Records related to the “aryanization” of the staff at one of the largest financial institution in Hungary, Magyar Általános Hitelbank Rt. (Hungarian General Credit Bank Co.) following the first anti-Jewish law in 1938, mostly contains personal dossiers of employees. Includes the private correspondence relating to Georges Vajda (Vajda, was one of the towering figures of Jewish Studies in this century. Born in Budapest on November 18, 1908, he died in Paris on October 7,1981).

  2. Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO), Sektion für Rasse-und Volkstumforschung, Interviews

    Contains interviews with Polish survivors of the research program conducted by the Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO).

  3. Jan and Helena Bodakowski photographs

    Consists of three photographs Jan and Helena Cenkar Bodakowski in the Wildflecken and Schwarzenborn displaced persons camps. Includes photographs of the couple's June 6, 1946 wedding in Schwarzenborn, and a 1948 photograph of Jan Bodakowski chopping wood at Wildflecken.

  4. Oral history interview with Jadwiga Zoszak

  5. Edmond Phillips collection

    Consists of one letter, 9 pages, written by Edmond Phillips on June 12, 1945, describing his experiences touring the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the letter, he quotes excerpts from the confession of an unnamed SS officer, likely Commandant Franz Ziereis.

  6. Ernest and Kitty Fischer collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, and prayer books relating to the experiences of Ernst and Kitty Lehrer Fischer and their extended family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Austria, Poland, and the United States.

  7. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Lot

    The collection contains pre-war and wartime lists of German Jewish refugees, of foreigners directed toward the internment camp of Argelès for enemy aliens and foreign Jews in 1940, and of the children’s home at Roumegoux; lists of French and foreign Jews residing in the département; forms declaring that the signatory is not Jewish; forms that the signatory is not a freemason; local application of antisemitic legislation; and Masonic lodges in Cahors and elsewhere in the area.

  8. DP camps compilation

    Compilaton containing footage of displaced persons camps from the SSFVA produced as research for the Museum's special exhibition on displaced persons called "Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951" on display from December 8, 1999 to May 21, 2000.

  9. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Ardèche

    Contains documents concerning the creation of “centers” and camps to intern foreigners at thermal springs and/or tourist sites in the department (Vals-les-Bains et Chomérac); statistics concerning the presence of foreigners, name lists by country, and lists of groups of organized forced labor (GTE); all aspects of the persecution of Jews under German occupation including lists of Jews living in the département, foreign and French Jews living under house arrest, Aryanization of property with those named to take over Jewish businesses, and offers to purchase Jewish belongings (real and person...

  10. Frieder family in Manila

    Jane Frieder swims in a pool, probably in Manila (note servant in white and plant vegetation in next shot), while Peggy floats in an inner tube. Jane practices diving. Scenes of life in the Philippines. 00:03:34 Housekeeper wearing white walks Peggy down the stairs. Jane and Peggy pose for the camera outside in the garden of their family estate. 00:03:56 Jane and Peggy swim in a pool, large cargo ships are visible in the distance. 00:04:42 INT, dark shots of a nanny helping the girls with their meal. 00:05:22 Jane and Peggy pose in white linen outfits at the Frieder family's Manila villa. 0...

  11. Steffens and Meyer families photographs

    The collection consists of one wartime portrait of the family of Heinrich and Else Steffens of Bottrop, Germany. In the portrait, Heinrich and Else pose with their son, Fritz, in a Nazi naval uniform and holding their infant daughter, Liesel. The family posed in front of a portrait of Adolf Hitler. There is an accretion of one photograph of the Meyer family of Bottrop. The photograph depicts Wilhelm and Fajga Dobra Meyer and their son Edgar August in a wagon shortly after their arrival in Palestine around 1939. Heinrich and Else Steffens's daughter, Liesel, had a chance meeting with Wilhelm...

  12. Phillip Timmick photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of an unknown concentration camp. Includes photographs of the burial of bodies, civilians gathered around a train, possibly loading luggage, and a survivor, the photograph taken next to a barbed wire fence. The photographs are from the collection of Phillip Timmick, a member of the United States Army.

  13. Claire Welch memoir

    Consists of one CD containing a memoir of the Holocaust experiences of Claire Weinberg Welch, originally of Brake, Germany. In the memoir, Claire describes how she recently discovered that she and her family had been picked up on Kristallnacht. Claire and her mother were released within a few hours and her father was released from Sachsenhausen in December 1938. They immigrated to the United States in February 1939.

  14. Jewish Brigade patch

    Jewish Brigade patch: square with blue and white striped background and yellow Star of David in center

  15. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Loir-et-Cher

    Files concerning the internment of enemy aliens (Germans and Austrians in the camps of Francillon, Marolles, Villerbon and Villemalard) from September 1939 until June, 1940; arrests and sentences by the Germans; register of foreigners listed by country; sequestering of property belonging to the enemy; Jewish affairs including lists of Jews and Jewish businesses; internments; a prison register to indicate that Jews were held there before being sent on to Drancy; and restitution of property. The sanatorium called “Les Pins” in the town of Lamotte-Beuvron was used to intern Jews during the war.

  16. Selected records of the Ministry of Propaganda, Bucharest

    Contains miscellaneous materials, including excerpts from reports and articles published abroad.

  17. France occupation photograph collection

    Two vintage copy prints depicting the French surrender to Germany. The first photograph is of the French and German delegations inside the “Armistice Car.” The second photograph depicts Hitler and his generals standing in front of the memorial slab for the 1918 Armistice with Germany; Glade of the Armistice, Compiègne, France; dated June 21, 1940.

  19. Gittler family correspondence

    Letters written between 1938 and 1941 by members of the Gittler family of Breslau, Germany. The majority of the letters were written by Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler and their son, Franz Gittler, and were sent to Ilse Gittler Muller (daughter of Wilhelm and Gertrud), who, with her husband Hans (later changed to Harold), had immigrated to the United States in 1938. The letters describe family matters and immigration attempts. Franz Gittler was sent to England on a Kindertransport and survived the war, but Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler perished in the Holocaust.

  20. Tibor Vince collection

    Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau by Hungarian-born physician Tibor Vince, a draftee assigned to the US 7th Army. The photographs show prisoner uniforms, a guard dog at the camp, and a photograph of Tibor Vince in front of a pile of corpses.