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  1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    I’M AN AMERICAN premiered in 1940 on the eve of WWII. The NBC radio broadcast was spearheaded by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Labor to foster a “deeper consciousness of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship and more tolerance for fellow american of all birthplaces”. The weekly program featured distinguished foreign-born citizens discussing their naturalization process, the meaning of “democracy” and reminding all Americans of the value/privilege of U.S. citizenship. Sound recordings of I’M AN AMERICAN are available from the NBC Radio Coll...

  2. Collier's magazines

    The collection consists of four Collier's magazines dated Jan. 17, 1942; Mar. 28, 1942; June 20, 1942; and Sept. 12, 1942. The magazines feature illustrations by Arthur Szyk on the front covers.

  3. Manfred Lewinnek collection

    The collection of consists of correspondence, documents, journals, and publications relating to the experiences of Manfred Lewinnek before and during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany as well as his experiences as a member of the United States Army while stationed at Camp Cooke, a prisoner of war camp in California, where he was responsible for the re-education of German POWs.

  4. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sde Nehemia

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sde Nehemia Testimonies: 1. Liza Gidron (1986); 2. "Mijn vlucht uit Westerbork" ("My escape from Westerbork"), by Herman Italiaander; Articles: 1. Yaakov Naeh, "With the children on the train to Auschwitz", "Davar" (18/03/1993), pp. 3-4 [regarding Aharon Mancher]; 2. Dan Amtel, "From Czechoslovakia to Israel - in four years ..." [regarding the aliya of Yehuda "Boki" Boksbaum]; 3. "The great escape", "Sofshavua" ("Weekend"), ["Ma'ariv"], Apri...

  5. Collection of Hauptabteilung soziale Verwaltung (HSV), the Labor and Welfare department of the Generalkommissariat zur besonderen Verwendung in the Netherlands, 1942-1944

    Collection of Hauptabteilung soziale Verwaltung (HSV), the Labor and Welfare department of the Generalkommissariat zur besonderen Verwendung in the Netherlands, 1942-1944 The department was established in order to draft Dutch laborers to factories in Germany and Eastern Europe, the Arbeitseinsatz; Included in the collection: Documents from the Hauptabteilung soziale Verwaltung (HSV), regarding the draft of Dutchmen to labor in the East, and their labor conditions, 1942; Documents from the HSV, regarding the regulations for the draft of Dutchmen to the Arbeitseinsatz, 1942; Letter to the Rue...

  6. Breznik and Zylberglajt families collection

    Two limestone sculptures done by Arie Breznik (donor’s maternal cousin) from Boremel, Ukraine; one of the sculptures is symbolic grave for his family; Ink Drawing: done by Moshe Breznik (Arie’s 10-years-old brother), depicting Theodor Zeev Herzl. Arie kept it throughout the war in USSR. Correspondence: letters and postcards from Zylberglajt family in Warsaw, where Jankel Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal grandfather) was an owner of toy company at 51 Nowolipie Street; dated: 1936-1941 in Yiddish and Polish; other letters and postcards are from Zeev Zylberglajt’s friends and relatives, before th...

  7. Arthur J. Mainzer collection

    War diary of U.S. Air Force combat cameraman Arthur Manizer (about 40 pages) and one 16mm original kodachrome film documenting Arthur Manzer's wedding to Germaine Giradot on June 30, 1945 in a suburb of Paris, France (Montreuil Sous Bois).

  9. US war information publications collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers and five Office of War Information pamphlets published in the United States circa 1941-1945.

  10. Phonograph player with accessories and phonograph records

    Phonograph player with accessories (crank and needles) and 24 post-war phonograph records. Nechama Zelikovna Shulman (nee Figlin) [donor's aunt] took the phonograph player and some of these records with her when she was evacuated from Gomel (Belarus) to Chkalovsk district in summer 1941.

  11. Jozsef Barsony collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner identification bracelet and many pieces of Allied occupation currency relating to the experiences of József Bársony in Hungary and Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  12. Osterreicher and Konigfest (Kingsley) families collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the Oesterreicher and Königfest (later Kingsley) families and their experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Accretion: Collection of scrip from the Theresienstadt [Terezin] ghetto given to donor's father

  13. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers: "Das Schwarze Korps" published by the SS in Berlin, Germany, dated December 8, 1938 and December 15, 1938.

  14. Luigi Lucaccini collection

    "Mein Kampf"" and "Adolf Hitler: Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers." The copy of "Mein Kampf" was published in 1941 and given to a young couple Eck-Gerritsma on the occassion of their wedding, and was signed by the mayor of the town of Beuderich in Westfalia, Germany; dated July 1, 1942. "Adolf Hitler": 1936 album from Germany containing propaganda photographs describing "life of the Fuehrer" and disseminated by a cigarette company with photographs pasted in by the buyers; The album was later found in Germany by an American GI and dated May 6, 1945.

  15. Samuel Klehr collection

    The collection consists of three Yank Magazines.

  16. Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of documents, a canister of film from the 1936 Olympics, a scrapbook of postcards, and a publication.

  19. Reichsminister des Innern: List of the addresses of Nazi officials

    List of addresses of the main Nazi government officials produced by the Reichsminister des Innern, marked ‘Secret' 

  20. Emigration to Palestine: leaflet re costs