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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Oral history interview with Simon Bornstein

  2. Selected records of the City Grodzisk Mazowiecki Akta Miasta Grodziska Mazowieckiego (Sygn. 36), 1869-1950

    Consists of ordinances of German authorities, registers of physicians and Jews obligated for forced labor; files of the Commissioner’s Administration of Jewish Properties, the resettlement of Jews to the "Jewish Housing Quarter”, and personal files of Jewish municipal workers, including Bernard Kampelmacher, who later was a member of “Oneg Szabat” (The Ringelblum Archives).

  3. Peter Feigl papers

    The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs, printed materials, and photocopies documenting Feigl’s wartime experiences in summer camps, children’s homes, and schools in Condom (Gers), Le Chambon‐sur‐Lignon (Haute‐Loire) and Figeac (Lot), his teachers and classmates there, his escape to Switzerland, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the American Friends Service Committee with Jewish refugees in France. Correspondence includes letters from Peter and his parents in Fr...

  4. Oral history interview with Leah Gutman

  5. Toby Ticktin Back oral history collection

    Interviews on audiocassette conducted by Toby Ticktin Back in Israel in 1986.

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Steven Pressman collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus"

  11. Lithuanian Jewish charities Lietuvos Žydų labdaros draugijos (Fond 1147)

    Contains records of Lithuanian Jewish charity organizations who provided aid to the Jewish repatriates from Russia expelled from Lithuania during the WWI, and to Jewish refugees who fled from Poland, 1939-1940 (ca, 12,000 refugees). Includes also files relating to the activities of Jewish charities in Vilnius (Vilna), Kaunas (Kovno) and other cities in Lithuania; minutes, reports, financial and statistical reports of Jewish organizations "Ezra", OZE; lists of Jews who applied for the financial aid and medical treatment, and individual forms with personal data of Jewish refugees.

  12. Records of the Jewish Community Board in Utena Utenos žydų bendruomenės taryba (Fond 1233)

    The collections includes various materials related to the activities of Jewish community of Utena (Utyan). Consists of correspondence with government offices, minutes of meetings, circular letters from the Ministry of Jewish Affairs in Lithuania, voter registration lists, lists of community members, and reports on community activities.

  13. Mark Talisman collection

    The collection consists of drawings, correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting life in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Walter H. Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of German postage stamps and two revolvers relating to the experiences of Walter Rothschild as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.

  15. Sidney Bruskin collection

    The collection consists of a sign relating to the experiences of Sidney Bruskin as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II. Also includes a photograph and document. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Mary Cook and Nita Howton collection

    Oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps, work camps, and factories, and interviews with other wartime eyewitnesses, including former POWs, GIs, and medical aid workers. Also included is supplementary paper material (photos, correspondence, and publications).

  17. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    The collection consists of pins, an audiotape, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Yvonne Rothschild Klug and her family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the United States as well as correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude Fraenkel and her family before and during the Holocaust in France and Poland and her postwar emigration to the United States. Collection also includes a portrait of Yvonne Redgis (Rothschi...

  18. Oral history interviews of the Kempler family collection

    Oral history interviews with Tosca Kempler and Ignatz Kempler.

  19. Thermos and pot found in the territory of the former Brest Ghetto

    Traditional copper thermos used for Shabbat by Jewish families, and copper pot used by a Jewish family before WWII and most likely during internment in the Brest Ghetto.

  20. Donald Norton Pitts collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Donald Norton Pitts, who served as a foreign service officer with the State Department in Warsaw, Poland in 1950. Included are notes, reports, and writings, primarily about the political climate in Poland; diary; correspondence; identification card; clipping; metal dish; and negatives taken while Donald was stationed there. Also included are copy negatives and prints documenting atrocities against Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.