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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Ostwald family collection

    The Ostwald family collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, diaries and memoirs, photographs, photo albums, and negatives related to the Ostwald family of Dortmund, Germany; the Strauss family; the Tendlau family; and the Weinberg family. The biographical materials series includes genealogy materials, family trees, and research files regarding various branches of the Ostwald family. The file on August Niemeyer (1887-1938), Martin Ostwald’s favorite Latin teacher, includes Niemeyer’s obituary and copy prints of the Dortmund school Martin attended. Materials relating to ...

  2. Akta miasta Łodzi

    • Files of the city of Łódź

    The Gettoverwaltung documents are correspondence with the Judenrat on all manner of subjects related to the ghetto, and correspondence with German government offices and companies regarding the ghetto’s manufacturing output, employment of Jews in labour camps, looting of their property – on matters of this nature reports were submitted by the Kripo (the German criminal police, which had a police station inside the ghetto). There is also a wealth of valuable material in Wydział Ogólny Zarządu Miejskiego w Łodzi (Allgemeine Verwaltung Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt, General Administration of t...

  3. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers

    The Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers contain correspondence, identification documents, immigration documents, school certificates, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families living in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) before and during World War II and the Holocaust. The correspondence centers on the emigration of Max and Irma Czerner from Prague to the United States with their infant son in 1939. The correspondence relates their efforts to secure visas and transportation for their young daughters, Helga and Raya Czerner...

  4. Reference work

    Photocopy of a register of Jewish citizens located in Berlin, Germany, in 1947 that was copied by John Finke in Chicago in 2000. John (then Hans) was a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Jews were forced out of their jobs and their businesses were confiscated. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician by trade, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was hospitalized with appendicitis. On February 29, his parent...

  5. Papers of the Institute of Jewish Affairs

    The records of the Institute of Jewish Affairs have been divided into five main sections, as MSS 237-41, maintaining the subject arrangement that the Institute used for its documentation collections. The records of the London office and British section of the World Jewish Congress are distributed in several places in this arrangement. The archive contains: MS 237: information from the press and other sources MS 238: minute books, together with correspondence files of the London office of the World Jewish Congress, largely for 1933-53, but principally 1942-53 MS 239: correspondence files of ...

  6. Rejencja Szczecińska

    • Regierung Stettin
    • Szczecin Regional Administration

    Of greatest significance are the files of the Wydział Prezydialny (Presidium Department), and within these issues connected with supervision of communes, the ruin of Jewish trade, anti-Jewish demonstrations, looting of property, arrests, and name changes

  7. Painting of a man in a fez done on pillowcase by Dutch Jew in hiding

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn39869
    • English
    • 1944
    • overall: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Depth: 1.880 inches (4.775 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)

    Painting and frame created by Dr. Samuel Vreedenburg in 1944 while he was living in hiding in the home of his former assistant and her husband, Janny and Willem Blom, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a copy of Van Gogh’s The Zouave and was painted on a pillowcase with a frame made from crib slats. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and, in 1942, Samuel and his wife Marianne sent their 9 year old son Max to live with their Christian housekeeper. That summer, the Germans began deporting Jews to concentration camps. In July, Janny and Willem visited the Vreedenburgs to encourage them...

  8. Akta gminy Szydłów

    • Files of the commune of Szydłów

    Akta z okresu okupacji niemieckiej: Dział Finansowo-budżetowy: 1939 sygn.1 Listy rozkładu państwowego podatku gruntowego; Akta z okresu Polski Ludowej: Dział Ogólno-administracyjny: 1948-1949 sygn.2-3: Sprawy organizacyjne /sprawozdania sytuacyjne, statystyczne/;plany pracy i protokoły, 1951 sygn.4; sprawozdania z działalności GRN 1944,1948-1953 sygn.5-12; protokoły z posiedzeń Prezydium 1945-1954 sygn.13-24, plany pracy, protokoły z zebrań kontroli komisji 1951-1954 sygn.25-29; protokoły z zebrań gromadzkich 1948-1954 sygn.30-33; Protokoły z zebrań aktywu kobiecego 1951 sygn. 34, protokoły...

  9. Naczelne Prezydium Prowincji Pomorskiej w Szczecinie

    • Oberpräsidium von Pommern in Stettin
    • Supreme Presidium of the Province of Pomerania in Szczecin
    1. Administracja ogólna [1802] 1806-1934; sygn. 1-189; 189 j.a. - dwór królewski, podróże i śluby członków rodziny królewskiej, hołdy, wybory do sejmu i sejmików, kontakty z różnymi ministerstwami, polityka zagraniczna, kontakty z Francją, Szwecją, Anglią i Danią i Rosją, urzędy pracy, ubezpieczenia, bezrobotni, roboty publiczne, programy walki z bezrobociem w poszczególnych powiatach. 2. Samorząd i gospodarka komunalna [1793] 1806-1934; sygn. 190-1189 (brak poz. 368); 999 j.a. - samorząd prowincji, sejmy krajowe, wybory posłów, otwieranie i zamykanie sesji sejmów pomorskich, sejmy w innych...

  10. Scale model of Block 5 men's barracks at Theresienstadt made by a former Jewish Czech inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn855
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Depth: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) b: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) | Depth: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) c: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Depth: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) d1-d15: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) e1-e5: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) f: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) g: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) h: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) i: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) j: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) k: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) l: Height: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) m1: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) m2: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) m3: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) m4: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) m5: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) m6: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) m7: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) m8: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) m9: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) m10: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) m11: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) m12: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) m13: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) m14: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) m15: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) m16: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) m17: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) p1-6: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) q1-2: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) r1-5: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) s1-7: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Scale model, 1:10 ratio, of Block 5, men's barracks, at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp made by Jiri Lauscher after the war. It was based upon his experiences as an inmate of the camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from December 1942 - May 1945. Even while in the camp, Jiri was concerned with preserving memories of the prisoner's experiences. He remained dedicated to this memorial work for the rest of his life. Jiri was from Prague which was invaded in March 1939 by Germany. He was fired from his job because he was Jewish. In September 1941, Heydrich, the SS chief, became Reich Protecto...

  11. The Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

    This collection of mixed media contains manuscripts, photographs, publications, artifacts and works of art collected and owned by Georg and Max Bredig. The collection documents Georg Bredig's scientific training and rise to prominence as a gifted physical chemist in pre-World War II Germany. In contrast, the scope of the collection takes a dramatic shift after the Nazi rise to power in 1933. As a result of Bredig's Jewish descent, his scientific career and very way of life was brought to an abrupt halt. These documents describe the Bredig family's struggle to survive the horrors of Nazi-occ...

  12. Metal mezuzah found postwar and used by a Polish Jewish survivor

    Metal mezuzah found and used by Israel Miedzyrzecki (later Israel Nahari) after Warsaw was liberated in January 1945 and his family was able to come out of hiding and re-establish a home. He brought and used it as the family moved to Łódź, then Munich, Germany, and finally to Israel in 1947. The Torah states that every doorpost in a Jewish home should display a mezuzah klaf, a small parchment scroll inscribed with two prayers. The scroll is enclosed in a case and attached to the right doorpost to serve as a reminder of the covenant of faith and a notice of an observant Jewish home. Israel a...

  13. Yehuda Bauer

    Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli scholar, talks about how he first became involved in the study of the Holocaust and how he tries to strike a balance between emotional involvement and objectivity. He talks about the Jewish Council and Israeli attitudes to them after the war. Lanzmann and Bauer debate Kasztner's actions and motivations and the Nazi fantasy of the powerful "world Jewry". The interview was recorded outdoors in the early evening at a kibbutz in Israel (probably Bauer’s home). FILM ID 3793 -- Camera Rolls 1-3 -- Interview Judenrat CR1 Bauer says he came from Prague in 1939 at the age of...

  14. Akta miasta Łańcuta

    • Files of the town of Łańcut

    Akta cechów 1406-1894; lata 1406-1894, sygn. 1-13 - Przywileje cechowe głownie dla tkaczy i szewców wydane przez właścicieli miasta. Akta z okresu 1866-1918 - Zwierzchności Gminnej; lata 1879-1918, sygn. 14-17 - Księga uchwał Rady Miejskiej, rejestry mężczyzn, materiały dot. obchodów setnej rocznicy uchwalenie Konstytucji 3 Maja. Akta z okresu 1918-1939 - Zarząd Miejski 1) Dział Ogólno - Organizacyjny; lata 1918-1939, sygn. 18-82 - Dzienniki podawcze, protokoły czynności, indeksy, okólniki, zarządzenia, regulaminy, instrukcje, księgi uchwał Rady Miasta, Zwierzchności Gminnej, Zarządu Miejsk...

  15. Akta miasta Zamościa

    • Files of the town of Zamość

    Akta z okresu 1810-1915: Akta kancelarii polskiej 1826-1866 16 j.a.:-fundusze miasta, masy poaustriackie, podatkowe; Dokumenty kasy ekonomicznej 1810-1869 96 j.a. -etaty, rachunki; Protokóły posiedzeń 1883-1915 14 j.a.; Akta kancelarii rosyjskiej 1863-1915 271 j.a. -wyznaniowe, narodowościowe, szkolne,targi, ceny, statystyka; Akta z okresu 1915-1939:Wydział Ogólny 1915-1940 339 j.a. -normatywne, wybory, protokóły; Wydział Finansowy 1917-1944 217 j.a. -budżety, sprawozdania; Wydział Techniczny 1917-1943 68 j.a. -budowa obiektów, ulice; Wydział Ruchu Ludności 1918-1943 17 j.a. -emigracja,ewid...

  16. Akta miasta Golubia

    • Files of the town of Golub

    I. Okres staropolski, 1593-1772 1. Księga ławnicza (1); 2. Księga sądu grodzkiego (2); II. Okres pruski, 1816-1920 1. Magistrat. Sprawy ogólno-państwowe, 1848-1930 (3-6); a/ wybory do ciał ustawodawczych (3-4); b/ sprawy ustrojowe (5); c/ obchody świąt ogólnopaństwowych (6); 2. Udział w życiu prowincji i powiatu, 1875-1930 (7-15); a/ prowincjonalne związki i towarzystwa (7-10); b/ wybory do sejmików powiatowych (11-12); c/ administracja powiatem (13-15); 3. Organizacja urzędu, 1832-1931 (16-56); a/ Rada Miejska- protokoły, wybory, posiedzenia (16-21); b/ ordynacje i prawa miejskie (22-24); ...

  17. Centralny Zarząd Przemysłu Włókienniczego w Łodzi

    Dział Organizacji: materiały dotyczące organizacji przemysłu włókienniczego, CZPWł i jego komórek organizacyjnych, dyrekcji, zjednoczeń, central i zakładów - m. in. statuty, schematy, akty erekcyjne; schemat organizacyjny, okólniki, zarządzenia i korespondencja Ministerstwa Przemysłu i Handlu; zarządzenia Generalnego Dyrektora, okólniki, pisma okólne, rozporządzenia służbowe i wykonawcze, biuletyny służbowe CZPWł; protokoły z posiedzeń i konferencji Generalnej Dyrekcji CZPWł, konferencji i zjazdów przemysłu włókienniczego, dyrektorów zjednoczeń, problemowych i in.; wykazy i charakterystyki ...

  18. Wooden sculpture of a grieving woman made by a Lithuanian Jewish artist

    Wooden sculpture depicting a woman grieving over a loved one’s body carved by Jakovas Bunka to commemorate the Jews who were massacred in Plungė, Lithuania in 1941. In August 1940, Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union. On June 22, 1941, German forces invaded Soviet-occupied Lithuania, and Jakovas’ family fled east into the Soviet Union. Many Jews from Plungė were unable to flee, and within days local collaborators locked them all in the Great Synagogue with no food, water or fresh air. On Sunday, July 15, the Jews were marched to a forest where the adults were shot by drunken guards ...

  19. Agudath Israel Congregation fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • C0005
    • English
    • 1938-2016
    • 16 boxes, 3 scrapbooks; 28 CD's containing photographs of events, 2 scrolls A.1.6 - A.2.3 2 scrolls in OS

    Fonds consists of the administrative records of the synagogue including minutes, annual meetings, financial, bulletins and the rich programming of the Men’s Club, Sisterhood, Malca Pass Library. Files contain: Minutes of the Board 1949-1986, 1993-2007, Annual Meetings - 1949-1986, 1991-2007, General Meetings, 1953-1981, various committees, 1955-1996; Bulletins (1948- 2009 with some gaps), Agudath Israel Men’s Club, (1961-1980); Sisterhood membership, (1938-1940,1956 - 1987), minutes of meetings, (1955-1997), Newsletters, (1955- 1984), Cinderella Ball, (1962-1983), Nearly New Shop (1968-2000...

  20. Starostwo Miejskie w Warszawie

    • Stadthauptmannschaft Warschau
    • Office of the Warsaw City Governor,

    The collection contains i.a. birth and death statistics, weekly reports of the chairman of the Judenrat (1941), the dispute over the boundaries of the ghetto, forced labour, Jewish mutual aid, the fight against typhus, applications for passes, and cases of illegal trade and smuggling