Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Romanian
  1. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  2. Centrala Evreilor

    Contains correspondence, requests, and reports from the Jewish Center in Romania. Correspondence relates to forced labor camps in various places in Bucharest, Romania, and Jewish schools including a list of 42 women at forced labor at Institutul Central de Statistica. Some letters addressed to Radu Lecca by Nandor Gingold concern requests of exemption from forced labor for various Jews. Other requests concern the special taxes for Jews and Centrala's inspection in Transnistria. Correspondence of Filderman relates to Jewish doctors from 1941 to 1943. Collection also includes information conc...

  3. Selected records of the Cluj Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Includes selected fragments of transcripts from war crimes trials held in Cluj, Romania, from 1944 to 1945, documents from the Inspectoratul de jandarmi, Inspectoratul de politie (including police reports from Cluj, Turda, Abrud, Aiud, Dej, Huedin, Zalau, Alba Iulia), and Parchetul General, Prefuctura judetului, Tinutul, Parchetul General Maghiar, and Pretura plasii Cluj, and a few documents from the Prefectura judetului Somes and the Jandarmeria judetului Turda. Most are status reports, requests, transcripts of trials, and police/gendarmes reports on everything from Zionist and Legionary m...

  4. Telegram

    Telegram, dated December 1942, from Mrs. Benjamin Spitzer to Mrs. Isadore Freedman, warning of the wholesale massacre of Jewish children in Europe and requesting a meeting of national Jewish organizations. Mrs. Spitzer was the Chair of the Conference Committee of National Jewish Women's Organizations; Mrs. Freedman represented the Habanoth organization.

  5. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Aisne

    Documents from the following prefectures: Préfecture régionale, Préfecture de l'Aisne, Sous-préfecture de Soissons, and Sous-préfecture de Château-Thierry. Contents include: repressive measures against Jews and Jewish companies; name lists of Jews by citizenship; list of Jewish companies; reports of the Prefect; deportations of non-French Jews; lists of Jews who could not be located; German orders and their implementation; secret societies; war crimes and war criminals; German atrocities; police reports; the concentration camp of Rotallieu; application of the October 1940 law; economi...

  6. Selected records of Jewish communities in Romania from Asociatia Culturala Mondiala a Evreilor Originari din Romania (ACMEOR)

    Contains records of the following Jewish communities in Romania: Botosani, Alba Julia, Bacău, Bucharest, Cernauti (Chernivt︠s︡i), Dorohoi, Falticeni, Galați, Iași, Piatra Neamț, Craiova, Constanța, Ploiești, Suceava (Suchava, Succava) and others. Also contains information about the ships Struma and Mefkure, antisemitism, Aserei Zion (arrested for Zionism), aliyah (going to Israel), parachutists, and files on the indivisuals Zissu, Filderman, and Safran.

  7. Archiv der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen / Sammlung Maršálek

    Contains archival material from Mauthausen and its subcamps, such as Ebensee, Gusen, Gunskirchen, Wien-Saurerwerke (Vienna), Melk, St. Aegyd am Neuwalde, Wiener Neudorf, Steyr, St. Lambrecht, Wiener Neustadt, and Schwechat. Documents include death books and prisoner lists, original maps and plans, miscellaneous correspondence, drawings and artwork, and written reports and statistical compilations. Also contains documents pertaining to the brothel in Mauthausen, sick bay reports, correspondence pertaining to medical experimentation on prisoners, and numerous transcripts of interviews with su...

  8. Selected records from the Archives départementales de l'Isère

    Selected records from the préfecture, sous-préfecture, and police department in Isère, France. Includes materials related to the "Jewish question," law, general correspondence, Aryanization, Jews who were "objects of police inquiry," name lists and photos of Jews, deportee statistics, postwar memorial to victims of opression (1945 reports), Jewish organizations, the law of 3 October 1941, resistance, foreign workers, labor units, foreign Jews interned in camps, refugee directives, and the papers of Jean Batailh.

  9. Dr. Philip Solomon letter

    The three-page letter was written in Munich, Germany, and sent from Dr. Philip "Pinny" Solomon [donor's father], a physician in the U.S. Army, to his parents, Max and Dora Solomon, who lived in the United States. In the letter Pinny discusses his search for and discovery of his cousin, Jakob Ben-Zion Feinstein, who had been a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp.

  10. Passover postcard

    The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names unknown and Lea Lemchen, age 7, [2nd row on the right] were killed in the Rīga ghetto in 1941. Bluma Sandler, age 4, [donor's cousin / seated on the right] Sara Cherfas, age 3 1/2, [donor / seated in the center] and Ester Wishnevskaya, age 7 [donor's father's cousin / standing in the center] survived by escaping from Latvia to Russia with their parents.

  11. Risa Silbert papers

    The 13-page manuscript was written by Risa Silbert (née Kagan), originally of Klaipėda, Lithuania, immediately after her liberation from Stutthof concentration camp and describes her family and their experiences during the Holocaust.

  12. Board of Deputies of British Jews records

    Contains documents relating to the response of the British Jewish community during World War II, including aid for refugees, immigration and Palestine issues, reports of persecution and conditions for Jews in Europe, as well as correspondence with Jewish communities and organizations in Europe and throughout the world, and President's and Secretaries' papers. Correspondents include: Neville Laski, Adolph Brotman, Selig Brodetsky, and Barnett Janer. Also contains Aliens Committee minutes and papers, Foreign Affairs Committee minutes, and Press Committee publicity material. Also contains reco...

  13. Sztejnsznajd family collection

    Documents regarding the Sztejnsznajd family of Lutsk, Poland. Collection contains postcards, articles, forms, and documents relating to the family's life in Lutsk and also of their attempts to emigrate to the United States. The family left Poland and arrived in the United States in 1939, though many of the extended family perished in the Holocaust. The collection also contains 31 volumes in Hebrew and Polish of the children's periodical "Hakatan" from the newpaper "Olameinu" from 1936-1938 and 9 volumes of the newspaper "Olameinu" from 1938-1939 in Hebrew. Includes also one cardboard bound ...

  14. Selected records from Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (NS1)

    Contains reports, ordinances, and correspondence between the Nazi Party headquarters and its regional offices as well as officials in the occupied territories. Records include information on: Aryanization and confiscation of Jewish-, church-, and foreign-owned property; heat supply stations for various concentration camps, provisions of food and supplies to prisoner-of-war camps (Hilfszug Bayern), use of forced and slave labor, a report on the disbanding of Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and miscellaneous antisemitic newspaper clippings.

  15. Grace Miller photographs

    The images are of U.S. troops with the 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division supervising German civilians who were forced to clear corpses from the ruins of the "Boelke Kaserne" at Nordhausen concentration camp.

  16. Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg

    The 1937 Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) at Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg. Grand views of the decorated stadium with thousands of participants and spectators. Flags. Adolf Hitler greets the crowd from an open car. BDM girls in the stands, many heiling with hands outstretched. Nazis march past Hitler. Military review of airplanes and tanks.

  17. Ruth Templehof Szorecki manuscript

    Untitled World War II and post-war memoir of Ruth Templehof Szorecki, born in Łódź, Poland. The memoir tells the story of the family from 1939 to 1962. The Szorecki family worked in the Warsaw ghetto, escaping selections by hiding, until the family managed to escape to the non-Jewish sector of Warsaw, Poland, in 1942. They posed as non-Jews for the remainder of the war and in 1949 emigrated to the United States.

  18. Ohrdruf liberation photograph

    Photograph taken at Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945. Photograph shows four men with arms raised surrounded by United States Army soldiers. In the foreground is a pile of charred wood and what appears to be skulls. One camp inmate is shown talking to the soldiers on the left-hand side of the photograph. In script on the back of the photograph: "Ordroff [sic] Concentration Camp 30 min. after capture."

  19. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of Nordhausen concentration camp.

  20. American Zionist Fundraising photographs

    Photographs show American fundraising events for Jewish causes, such as the National Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German Jewish Refugees in Palestine, and the National Palestine Appeal Conference. Most of the photographs are posed publicity photographs and show the most prominent Jews of the day in the United States.