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  1. Central Consistory of Jews in Bulgaria (Fond 622)

    Contains reports, minutes, correspondence, and financial records relating to activities of the Central Consistory of the Standing Committee and the Public Cultural and Educational Organization of Jews in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Includes lists of Jews who left Bulgaria for Israel and lists of Jews living in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  2. Jewish bank Geula records (Fond 559)

    Contains selected documents including statutes; minutes of annual meetings and executive council meetings; correspondence regarding mortgages, local courts, and mergers; name lists of bank members; and circulars issued by other banks.

  3. Parliament (People's Congress) records (Fond 173)

    Contains requests made by the People's Representative Professor Stainov to the Chairman of Parliament and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding deportation of Asian Jews. Also includes Law of Protection of the Nation records: telegrams, resolutions, and other supporting documents.

  4. Main Administration of Broadcasting records (Fond 178, Opis 5)

    Contains a broadcast script about life in the labor camps in Germany for Ostarbeiter. The date of the script is unknown.

  5. Union of Journalists records (Fond 185, Opis 1)

    Contains the regulations of foreign journalists’ unions regarding welfare benefits, drafts of legislation regarding journalists in Bulgaria, and letters from establishments and private persons regarding foreign journalists in Bulgaria.

  6. Union of Doctors (Fond 274, Opis 1)

    Contains correspondence with the branches of the union in Sliven (Bulgaria) (file 62), Svogen (file 70), and Khaskova (file 79), including topics such as prohibiting Jewish doctors from having private practices.

  7. Bulgarian Peoples Bank of Ksanti, Fond 1222, Opis 1

    Contains dossiers of Jewish declarations of currency and assets held.

  8. Bulgarian Peoples Bank in Dedeagaeh (Fond 1240, Opis 1)

    Contains signatures of supervisors of the Commissariat of Jewish Affairs, correspondence relating to Jewish property, and Jewish declarations of currency and assets held.

  9. Bulgarian Peoples Bank in Seres (Fond 1251, Opis 1, file 926)

    Contains dossiers of Jewish accounts that were closed on March 5, 1946. The deposits were transferred to Greece.

  10. Bulgarian Peoples Bank in Kavala (Fond 1226)

    Contains dossiers on Jewish accounts from the bank in Kavala.

  11. Rosa Scholder letter

    Contains one letter written by Rosa Scholder asking whether Herbert Scholder and his parents, Julius and Lotte Scholder, had arrived in the United States, and about her own hope to leave Vienna and come to the United States.

  12. Gedal Rozental memoir

    Contains a 47-page autobiography of Gedal’s time during World War II and the Holocaust. It details his youth in Briceni, Bessarabia (present-day Moldova), and the outbreak of World War II. The autobiography lends specific details into the life in Jewish ghettos in Eastern Europe, and the harsh treatment by the Romanian forces. Gedal also describes his experience in the Soviet army, as well as life after the war and immigration.

  13. Ladislas Brod Speiser memoir

    Contains a memoir about Ladislas Brod Speiser's experiences in Auschwitz.

  14. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir

    The Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir include a black and white photograph of Gerda Buchheim Haas with her son Henry in Shanghai in 1941 and a 1996 memoir describing her experiences growing up in Berlin, fleeing to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and eventually to Shanghai via Italy and France in 1939, living in the Jewish ghetto under the Japanese occupation, and immigrating to the United States in 1947.

  15. Hans Weiner memoir

    Contains a memoir about Hans Weiner's escape from the Nazis and his tenure in the 608th Company of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, a corps made up of male volunteers who had enlisted in the British Army in Mandatory Palestine.

  16. Hans Rosenthal memoir

    Contains a memoir, 42 pages, about Hans Rosenthal's escape from Germany to Holland in 1939 and eventual arrival in Australia on October 3, 1939.

  17. Fishman family papers

    Contains eight black and white photoprints of displaced persons in Landsberg displaced persons camp, one copyprint of a newspaper clipping concerning the Fishman family, and one one memoir written by Max Fishman.

  18. A Short Biography

    Contains a biography about Joseph Lebovic's Holocaust experiences.

  19. A Journey From Germany The Memoirs of Curt Nussbaum, From Birth, Through the Holocaust, To America (1912-1946)

    Contains a memoir about Curt Nussbaum's Holocaust experiences.

  20. Oral history interview with Robert C. Pomeranky