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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Ingeborg Price collection

    The collection consists of a printed leaflet containing a wartime poem, "La Terrible Epreuve"; a leaflet with an image of Marshal Petain on a horse, with a handwritten message to a child, addressed to Therese Majewski and counseling her to work hard, persevere, and be loyal; a broadside containing a mock testament from Adolf Hitler; and a copy of a French newspaper ("La liberte du centre"), announcing the surrender of the German army, May 1945.

  2. Ingeborg Samson: booklet of anti-nazi jokes

    This collection consists of a notebook containing hand-written, mostly ant-nazi jokes in Suetterlin script and a modern transcript of the same.

  3. Ingeborg W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ingeborg W., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1923. She recalls increasing antisemitism; expulsion with her parents and younger sister to Zba?szyn? in October 1938 because her father was a Polish citizen; assistance from Polish Jews; living with an aunt in Kalisz; forced transfer to Krako?w, then Szczerco?w; smuggling themselves to Warta; imprisonment in Szczerco?w; ghettoization in Warta; a public hanging of Jewish community leaders; separation from her mother and sister at a selection (she never saw them again); transfer with her father to the ?o?dz? ghetto; for...

  4. Ingrid De Varez. Collection

    This collection contains two letters, two resistance cards and two photos. First is a witness statement signed by members of two families who were hidden by Mr. Van Immerseel: Nathan Sommer recte Binik, Cynria Friedlander recto Dijm, Elias (Echaz) Chaim Lipszyc, Dora Dirdak, Jules Lipszyc and Toby Lipszyc. Second is a letter notifying Maria Van Der Meeren that her court order against Ms. Goffa, wife of VNV-member Armand Leclercq, has been reversed to protect the VNV and not disadvantage any family members of its members. The two present resistance cards belonged to Mr. Van Immerseel and to ...

  5. Ingrid Decker papers

    Consist of three manuscripts in German and English relating to the life of Elizabeth Koch-Thau during the Holocaust. They were written by Ingrid Decker [donor] in German and translated into English by her daughter. Contains another manuscript in German written by the donor entitled "Die Polenreise" along with some poems written by other authors.

  6. Ingrid Geber Willing memoir

    Contains a memoir about Ingrid Geber Willing's Holocaust experiences.

  7. Ingrid Kalanj Lyras collection

    Contains a biographical sketch, written as a letter, describing the experiences of the donor's great grandmother, Marija Obradovic Kalanj, a Bosnian Serb, who, with her family, lef tBenakovac (Bosnia) in 1937 to farm land they had purchased in Serbia. In 1941 they were forcibly expelled by ethnic Albanians and returned to Benakovac. Over the next two years various members of the family were murdered by the Nazis or Croatian Ustaša (Ustashi); Marija was shot by the Ustashi in 1943. A color photograph of a portrait of Marija and Mileta Kalanj, a color photography of the Kalanj family headsto...

  8. Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary collection

    Sewing kit, manicure kit and two perpetual calendars which belonged to Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary and used by her after she arrived in England on the Kindertransport.

  9. Ingrid Sacks collection

    Consists of photographs; a 1945 Aufbau newspaper article; letters written in Gurs; a school notebook; six original photos of the donor, including one portrait and one at Ecole de Filles; and six copy photos of the donor prior to her deportation to Gurs, in Gurs, in hiding with a rescuer, and in an OSE home prior to leaving for the United States.

  10. Inhabitants of ghetto

    CUs of people standing for the camera in the ghetto. One man holds a crutch.

  11. Inherit the truth

  12. Initiative on Genocide and Human Rights program

    Photocopied planning documents from American Sociological Association task force on genocide and human rights, including notes for planning meeting in 1993, and memoranda from various participants, ranging from well-known sociologists like Earl Babbie and Charles Tilly, to representatives of USHMM.

  13. Ink drawing by a US soldier of an officer offering food to a thin woman with a Star of David badge

  14. Ink drawing by Esther Lurie of Michlean Amir

    Portrait drawn by Esther Lurie, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951. Michlean Amir met Esther Lurie in the apartment of her grandmother’s friend, the historian Nellie Schur. Dr Schur was working on a project to create maps of the new state of Israel with the cartographer, Joseph Shapiro, who was Lurie's husband. Lurie offered to do her portrait. Esther Lurie was a professionally trained artist whose drawings and sketches, done from 1941-1944, while she was imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and Stutthof concentration camp, were published in 1945, providing eloquent visua...

  15. Innsbruck

    Title: CPC Film. Italian youth organization, light railway, Bavaria: dance, people's fair, beer. Ice skating. Motorcycle race.

  16. Inow family: copy correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence between Renate Inow, in England, her sister, Margalit in Sweden and Palestine and their parents in Wuppertal, Germany. The collection comprises 2 parts: an unbound volume of translations and partial translations of letters addressed to Margalit mostly whilst she was in Sweden entitled 'Voices from the Past'. This collection includes reproductions of photographs of the parents and a family tree. Margalit provides the following information in the introduction. She began collecting letters from her parents after Kristallnacht, and, after May 1939, fro...

  17. Inscribed marble tympanum from the former synagogue of Vrable, Slovakia

    Ornamental stone from above the entrance to the 1872 synagogue of Vrable, Slovakia, inscribed with Psalm 118, verse 19. The Jews of Vrable were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 by Hungarian forces allied with Nazi Germany. The abandoned synagogue deteriorated and was demolished in the 1970s by the communist government of Czechoslovakia.

  18. Inspection of euthanasia facility Meseritz-Obrawalde

    Doctors examine and care for very sick, emaciated children and youth. Panning shot of a medication (barbiturate) called Evipan Natrium, made by Bayer, and other medications (used for euthanasia?). Interior of a cell with a blanket labeled "Anstalt Obrawalde" (Obrawalde Institution, located in Obrawalde, Germany, now Obrzyce, Poland). A medic and another man inspect the cell. Views of the crematorium and the graveyard, with graves marked with small, numbered stones. CU of one of the stones, numbered 1632. A hand withdraws the stone from the ground and shows the camera that there is another n...

  19. Inspections

    Inspections, controls and reports re. forced labor of Jews.

  20. Inspector of the uniformed Protectorate police in Moravia Inspektor uniformované protektorátní policie na Moravě (B 300)

    Includes daily orders and reports from 1943 to 1945; records pertaining to the fight against partisans and paratroopers including lists of anti-partisan volunteers; arrest records; records pertaining to American, British, French, Italian and Russian POWs, forced laborers, black market profiteers, the use of convicts for the removal of unexploded ordinance, the setting up of detention camps, and other relevant records pertaining to the daily activities of the uniformed police and gendarmerie in the Protectorate under German control.