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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Russian

  1. Hirsch Grunstein photographs

    Contains copies of two photographs pertaining to Hirsch Grunstein's Holocaust experiences.

  2. Charna Reina Koryski correspondence

    A series of letters written in Yiddish on small white pieces of paper detailing the pre-war life of Charna Reina Koryski of Vilnus, Poland. She wrote to her widowed sister-in-law (Eva Koryski Hurwitz) of Rochester, NY about her children and the poverty and sickness the family was enduring. She thanked those in America for sending money and clothing but continued to stress the poverty they all endure. The series concludes with a letter from Rochester marked "return to sender" with a Nazi stamp. This letter, from Eva Koryski Hurwitz, Charna's expressed concern that they had not heard from the...

  3. Etti Hecht and Paula Leibowitz collection

    Collection contains 19 family photographs of the Hecht family of Romania. The photographs are both pre- and post-World War II. Collection also contains two documents relating to the 1948 emigration to Israel of Lieb Hecht and a 1959 document from the German war tracing service regarding the whereabouts of Lieb Hecht.

  4. Chateau La Hille album

    The collection consists of one bound photographic album, full of black and white photographs of children playing and of the landscape surrounding the Chateau La Hille. Each photograph has a caption written in small white print, in German. The title of the book reads" Chateau de la Hille: 1 September 1943- 23 Oktober 1944." Some pages have protective onion paper between them to preserve the photographs.

  5. French stateless identity card

    The collection consists of one small identity card from the Republic of France issued on Dec 30, 1934 to Chaya Gerszenfisz, b 1897 in Razdan, Poland. A black-and-white photograph of a woman in her late thirties is on the first interior page, and opposite this is a black-and-white photograph of three children: two girls, with a boy in the middle. The children seem to be arranged left to right by age, with the youngest girl on the left. On the third page, four children are listed as also being covered by this identity card: Zipporah, Simone, Samuel, and Joseph. The card, which proclaims on th...

  6. Leonore Gumpert correspondence

    The Leonore Gumpert correspondence consists of letters and postcards dated 1938-1942 to Leonore in America from her mother, Clara Joseph, in Kassel and Darmstadt and from her sister, Inge, in Kassel, Darmstadt, Brussels, Seyre, and Chateau de la Hille. Some correspondence from Germany includes messages from Leonore's aunt Martha and grandmother Josephine. There are also a few letters and postcards from Leonore's father, Julius, and from relatives in New York. Most of the letters and postcards describe daily life in Germany, Belgium, and France and relate efforts to immigrate. One October 19...

  7. Henny Bienenfeld-Buncel photographs

    Five black and white photoprints: four are of groups of children, mainly girls, playing, and one appears to be a family photograph, with parents and three children. The photocopies are enlarged photographs of group pictures of children playing. One of the photocopies is labelled "Villa Helvetia."

  8. Bella Birenbaum photographs

    Eighteen photographs of the family of Bella (Bertha) Birenbaum [donor], from both pre and post-war. Pre-war pictures appear to be in Bialystok, while post-war are labelled "Selvino." Photographs appear to be mostly snapshots and posed group photographs. The donor has labeled each photograph.

  9. BDM; woodshop

    Sequence of four trims: 01:14:40 BDM girls running. 01:14:52 Woodshop. 01:14:55 BDM girls. 01:14:56 Woodshop.

  10. Nuremberg Trial ticket and program

    Consists of one program and one ticket for the "War-Crime Trials; Nurnberg, Germany, November 20, 1945-." The program contains biographies of the defendants and a floorplan of the courtroom. The ticket is for Session 118, and there is an illegible black ink signature on the diagonal, and below it, a pencil signature of "Alex Sonheim." Also includes the envelope used to send this material to Mr. Sonheim's wife in the United States in 1945.

  11. Ralf Mielzynski photograph

    Collection consists of one photograph of Ralf Mielzynski as an infant and one large brown envelope, from the City Studio in Amsterdam, with half of a star of David stamped onto the back. Ralf and his parents Siegbert and Alice Mielzynski were deported from Amsterdam to the Westerbork concentration camp in January 1943. In July 1943 they were deported to the Sobibor concentration camp where they all perished.

  12. Scenes from the port city of Gdynia

    LS, EXT, a freight yard as materials are taken off trains, piled in the yard. Workmen move lumber, in the northern port city of Gdynia which is Poland's main port city on the Baltic Sea.

  13. "The Eyes of Jewish Resistance" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, "The Eyes of Jewish Resistance," 71 pages, by Litman Litow, compiled by Leon Litow. The memoir recounts the childhood of Litman Litow in Visheva, Belorussia, his experiences on the run and in hiding from the Nazis, and his subsequent years as one of the leaders of a Jewish partisan unit. It also describes his experiences in Russia after the war, emigration to Italy and then to the United States, and reflections on Holocaust commemorations. The memoir contains black and white photocopies of family photographs. The collection also contains a copy of the memoir on a CD-RW...

  14. Henry C. Senger collection

    Contains a four-page memoir titled "The capture of SS Colonel Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss the last commandant of Dachau," created in 2003 on the 58th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau. Henry C. Senger describes how he captured the SS Colonel Martin Gottfried Weiss, last commandant of Dachau. Also contains an interview with Mr. Senger published on June 12, 2003, in the "Local" section of a newspaper titled "The Record."

  15. William Horn memoir

    The collection consists of a personal narrative by William Horn regarding the persecution of the Jews of Radom, Poland.

  16. Erika Lewin Weinblum papers

    The Erika Lewin Weinblum papers document the efforts of Erika Lewin Weinblum in her role as the secretary of the Emergency Committee for Parents and Children of European DPs in Shanghai. The Emergency Committee series contains mainly correspondence to members of Congress and various political bodies including the White House, Department of State, and the United Nations. The correspondence concerns amendments to legislation that would permit Jewish displaced persons in China to immigrate to the United States. The personal items series contains various documents for Erika Lewin Weinblum that ...

  17. Heinrich Himmler photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photograph albums including family photographs of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS; his wife, Marga; and their daughter, Gudrun. Also included are photographs of Nazi officials and gatherings.

  19. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    01:03:45 Men digging in the aftermath of the German military air raids on Warsaw. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Scenes of the chaos in the streets after the German air attack. Two young men are recruited by a Polish soldier to help with the digging. They are all in suits and ties, some in trench coats and hats, and they keep digging. 01:04:18 Railway underpass, a train stuck on the tracks that are now covered with debris, women and men climb out of the railca...

  20. UNRRA supplies

    Boxes of UNRRA supplies from USA stacked. Ship "Falstria", bundles piled high in FG, crane, workers moving bundles. CU "US Mail" on side of bundle.