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Language of Description: Romanian

  1. Selected records from the Prefettura Gabinetto Ebrei di Roma

    Contains records related to Italy’s 1938 “race law” and the ensuing census of Italian Jews, notably on individual discrimination cases and exemptions on the basis of health, mixed marriage, decoration in World War I, or membership in the Fascist Party.

  2. Selected records from the Questura Ebrei di Roma

    Proceedings of the Commissione provinciale per le sanzioni contro il fascismo (provincial commissions to punish Fascist crimes); reinstatement of Jews in professional associations.

  4. [Newspaper]

    Newspaper published by the Altestenrat, the Council of Elders, in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. It was the only newspaper allowed in the ghetto and only published decrees issued by the German authorities.

  6. [Newspaper]

    Headline: "Jews Face Massacre."

  8. Raya Karschon photograph collection

    Contains a photograph album with 19 images documenting Raya Karshon's experiences in Switzerland while at a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis, and her time in Belgium after World War II. Rectangular form; light brown embossed paper cover with edge lacing and fabric lining; black and white photographs mounted on black paper pages that are tied into the album; inscription in ink on first page.

  9. Seeligmann family papers

    The collection consists of identification photographs of members of the Seeligmann family and documents relating to the Seeligmann family who fled from Berlin, Germany, to Tianjin, China, in 1939.

  10. Gabriel Koren photograph collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Gabriel Koren (born Gabriel Korn), originally of Przemyśl, Poland, who survived World War II as a hidden child in a convent. Photographs include depictions of Gabriel’s parents Lejb Abraham Korn and Gitl Rappaport Korn, both of whom perished at Auschwitz; Gabriel as a child immediately after the war; and with the Mandel family, whom adopted him and immigrated to Israel in 1948.

  11. Hugh and Kari Williams collection

    The collection consists of seven 35 mm color transparencies (slides) depicting street scenes in Eastern Poland and showing Jews wearing Star of David armbands.

  12. Norma Sack letters

    Contains correspondence about the Holocaust experiences of Mina Sack Babushkina in Liepaja, Latvia.

  13. Selected records from Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP, Berlin (NS 51)

    Collection includes reports about the political situation in Austria, Belgium, France, Romania, and other countries before the beginning of World War II as well as press reports from other countries about anti-Jewish politics in Germany. Also contains records on aryanization and persecution of Jews in the occupied/annexed Eastern territories and antisemitic correspondence from various countries, including France and the United States.

  14. Disbanded Jewish organizations Gelöschte Vereine

    Contains records of Jewish organizations disbanded by the Nazi administration after the Anschluss in Austria in 1938. Includes records of religious and secular organizations.

  15. Confiscated property Entzogene Vermögenschaften

    Contains records of Jewish-owned movie theaters in the vicinity of Vienna, Austria, expropriated by the Österreichische Filmvertriebsgesellschaft, later called the Österreichische Filmvertriebsgeschaft; restitution files after World War II; and 178 files of individuals whose personal property was expropriated, including inventories of items, objects, and insurance polices.

  16. Collection of 269 titles of Polish underground newspapers

    Contains of 269 titles of the Polish World War II underground newspapers.

  17. Underground newspapers from the State Archives in Kraków Prasa konspiracyjna

    Contains samples from 29 Polish World War II underground newspapers.

  18. Judenrat in Lublin Rada Żydowska w Lublinie

    Collection contains minutes of Jewish council meetings, memoranda and announcements of departments, and correspondence between Judenrat and German authorities. Includes documents related to the labor camps in Lublin, Poland, at Lipowa Street, in Bełżec, and in Cieszanów in 1940; name lists of inhabitants of the ghetto in Lublin (in Podzamcze) and of the ghetto in Majdan Tatarski, Poland; name lists of German Jews deported from Szczecin, Poland, to District of Lublin in 1941, and name lists of Jews from Vienna, Austria, deported in 1941; also includes documents related to Jewish property i...

  19. Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss letters

    Contains letters written between December 1940 and September 1942 by Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss in concentration camps in France, addressed to Clara's sister and her husband, Recha and Wilhelm Reutlinger, in New York City. The letters contain information about the conditions in the camps; the Dreyfuss's experiences in Gurs, Les Milles, and Rivesaltes; and their unsuccessful quest to leave Europe. Each handwritten letter is accompanied by a German transcription and an English translation.

  20. Horace Freeman photograph collection

    Contains 19 photographs depicting scenes from Buchenwald and Ohrdruf concentration camps after liberation. Captions are written by Horace Freeman on the verso of the photographs.