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  1. Personal archives of Aleksandr (Isaak) Katsenelson, Jewish public figure, publicist and historian (Fond 9534, Opis1)

    Consists of a variety of reports, drafts of presentations and research papers related to the activities of Jewish organizations in Russia and the Soviet Union.Documents include activity reports, bylaws, newspaper articles, concert programs, catalogs of exhibits, and flyers. It also contains personal documents of Katsenelson, including his diary for the years 1909–1915, an autobiography, and letters addressed to government officials and agencies.

  2. Records of the central committee of the HeHalutz Labor Movement in Russia

    Consists of bylaws and minutes of meetings of the Zionist youth movement HeHalutz, as well as correspondence with government officials and agencies, statistical information about HeHalutz activities, membership questionnaires, and lists of members. Also included are personal documents of Josef Trumpeldor, the movement’s founder.

  3. Dedication of Hitler portrait

    "Dedication of Hitler painting at Krupp's Institute for Physical Research" Unveiling of portrait of Bismark and bust of Hitler in a meeting room. Shots of officials talking, Krupp leaving. Chamber music group playing, audience members and speakers salute both pieces.

  4. Records of the central council of the Jewish Communities in Russia (TsVaad)

    The collection consists of minutes of the meetings of the TsVaad ‘s Executive Council, declarations and circular letters regarding Jewish pogroms in Poland and Galicia, correspondence with Jewish communities and public organizations regarding evacuation of Jewish civilians from the zones of war conflict, food supplies for refugees and other needs of the evacuated Jewish population. Collection also includes various newspaper clippings, drafts of articles and questionnaires.

  5. Admor letter

    Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back of the letter features a prayer in his hand. The letter reads (in translation): "Baruch Hash-m who took us out of the hands of murderers and the netherworld of destruction of the death camps ....

  7. Records of the All Russian Jewish Congress

    The collection reflects the history of the All Russian Jewish Congress' preparation. It also includes various appeals, lists of candidates from different electoral regions, minutes of the daily meetings, and texts of resolutions and speeches read at the Congress.

  8. Archive of the Diamond collection

    This collection concerns the diamond trade in Belgium between 1935 and 1946. The collection traces the looting of Jewish diamond traders, organized and centralized through the so-called Devisenschütz-Kommando, which ultimately expropriated property worth an estimated 72 million Belgian francs. The collection is organized into personal and subject files.

  9. Oral history interviews from town of Tulchin, Ukraine

    Consists of audio oral history interviews with transcripts in Russian conducted by St. Petersburg Judaica Project with the elderly members of the Jewish community in Tulchin, Vinnitsa Oblast, Ukraine. The interviews contain information about Jewish life (customs, local history, Holocaust, relationship within community etc.) before, during, and after WWII.

  10. Alois J. Liethen collection

    Consists of 35mm negative film and positive prints taken by Alois J. Liethen after the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps and at the residence of Fritz Sauckel in Weimar. Mr. Liethen acted as a translator for General Eisenhower on his 12 April 1945, tour of Ohrdruf; the collection includes images of Eisenhower. Some photographs are captioned. Also includes two CDs, one containing scanned images of the photographs and the other containing scanned images of a letter written by Alois Liethen on 13 April 1945.

  11. Remains of Lidice in June 1942

    Lidice, June 10-24, 1942. This film was made by Czech filmmakers for the newsreel "Aktualita" and discovered in a secret German archive in Prague in 1945. It documents the immediate aftermath of the Lidice tragedy, where 173 men were murdered and the town was set on fire by members of the Gestapo from Kladno and Prague. Section 6 of the RAD was summoned to remove all external evidence of this Nazi crime and was housed in nearby barracks. SS officers and the leader of the Kladno Gestapo, Wiesmann, can be seen in the footage. Two Czech filmmakers were already in Lidice on June 10, 1942. The m...

  12. Josef Vyšohlich letter

    Consists of one letter sent by Dachau prisoner Josef Vyšohlich to a relative named Stepan on May 11, 1941. The letter, in German, was written on Dachau stationery.

  13. Eric Gutsmuth collection

    Consists of three manuscripts regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Gutsmuth and Levi families. The first, entitled "So it Happened," uses family documents and testimonies to describe the experiences of the Gutsmuth family, originally of Giessen (Wiesek), Germany. Through these primary sources, Eric Gutsmuth, who compiled them, describes the experiences of every member of the family, both on the Gutsmuth and Levi sides, some of whom immigrated before the war, others survived in hiding, others of whom (including Flory van Beek) were rescuers, and some who were deported to concentration ...

  14. Records of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN)

    Contains two main components: organizational records of the record group VVN, and materials it collected on Holocaust victims and survivors, forced laborers, war criminals, and prisoners of war. Included are reports about victims; original ID-cards (Kennkarten) of German Jews with photographs and personal information; card indexes related to camps and prisons; and two volumes of a card index entitled “Prison Card Index of Office 710” from 1935 to 1937. There are also lists of Jewish victims and material on the Gestapo in Breslau, camp personnel, the murder of people with mental disabilities...

  15. Filmstrip: German defenses in France

    Filmstrip about German defenses in France. NO VIDEO ELEMENTS AVAILABLE.

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 90 -- Cross-examination of the Accused about the origins of his antisemitism and his trip to Palestine

    The camera fades in on Attorney General Gideon Hausner seated at the prosecution table looking over documents. Assistant State Attorney Ya'akov Bar-Or enters (00:01:43) and then Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bach both men are then seated at the prosecution table. Robert Servatius enters with his aid. Adolf Eichmann, escorted by two guards, enters the booth with documents sits down (00:02:56). There are various shots of the audience and the lawyers' desks. All rise as the judges enter and are seated(00:04:51). Judge Moshe Landau opens the ninetieth session (00:05:24). Landau asks Servatiu...

  17. Personal archive of Leon Gavrielides

    Consists of the personal archive of Leon Gavrielides, a Jewish lawyer who provided legal counsel to the Jewish Community of Rhodes, the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews (OPAIE), the Central Board of Greek Jewish Communities, the Jewish Community of Athens, and other Jewish organizations in Greece after World War II. Also of interest are cases of individual Jews against the OPAIE.

  18. Samuel Glasberg collection

    Consists of eleven loose photographs and a modern photograph album containing photographs from the collection of Samuel Glasberg. The images consists of family photographs, taken in Belgium and Poland from 1880-1962. Includes a Keren Kayemeth Leisrael acknowledgement of a donation from Samuel Glasberg for a tree fund in memory of deceased relatives.

  19. Hans Wolff letter

    Consists of one letter, four pages, containing a lengthy poem written by Hans Wolff in Berlin, Germany, in 1939. The letter was sent to family in the United States. Mr. Wolff perished in the Holocaust.

  20. "Beyond the River"

    Consists of one memoir, in English, entitled "Beyond the River," by Hanna Meller-Faust. The memoir was published in Hebrew as "Me-'ever la-nahar: pirke zikhronot mi-Transnistriyah" in 1985. Hanna prepared this translation, which describes her experiences during the Holocaust in Transnistria.