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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Russian

  1. Berestowitz, Poland

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "In a drugstore" Pan village, horses, street. Group of men and boys at storefront. Children and teenagers mingle in street, others pose at doorway.

  2. Notes

  3. Obligation bond for the Warsaw Synagogue

    "OBLIGACJA" Number 1454, in the institution with list on the backside listing the breakdown of the shares. The bond was issued November 1, 1927.

  4. Destruction in Germany

    Destruction, ruins, rubble in Mainz. CU, sign reading "Zu den Bahnsteigen." Railroad debris. CU, sign reading "Bingerbrueck." US soldiers walking towards camera. Shots of airplane, soldier inspecting. Factory.

  5. Postcard from the Manouchian network of French resistance Jews

    Recto, photo images of Maurice Fingercwajg, Szlama Gryzywacz and Wolf Wajsbrot and a "Medaille de la Resistance Francaise"; verso, a paragraph in French which describes the members and the activities of the group; postcard is numbered "004794"

  6. Scrapbook of the American Jewish Art Club

    Includes exhibit announcements, newsletters, newspaper clippings and paper reproductions of art pieces from 1931-1962.

  7. Warsaw telephone dIrectory

    Telephone directory for the city of Warsaw, issued during the year of the German invasion.

  8. Jerry Shmoys collection

    Consists of six postcards and two letters sent to the Jerry Shmoys' parents from friends and relatives in Warsaw and Łódź, Poland.

  9. Coupon

    Consists of a Prämienschein, or coupon, issued to Samuel Katzman for good work in the Gross Rosen concentration camp.

  10. Maximilian Landau collection

    Consists of 323 photographs and 17 documents relating to Maximilian Landau and his work in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, Germany. Relates in part to the development of sports activities in the camp and includes photographs by George Kadish.

  11. May Schechter collection

    Consists of two black & white photographs: an image of Union of Artisans members honoring Gershon Kotliar [donor’s uncle and central larger image], 16 Aug.1928, Romania; and an image of Union of Artisans of Soroka, Romania group portrait, honoring Mayer Roitman’s emigration [donor’s father, seated 3rd row, 7th from left], and also present is Melech Kotliar [donor’s uncle seated behind him], 14 Apr.1930.

  12. Ralph Ransenberg collection

    Consists of three items, all shot from German mortars during the occupation of the beach head in Anzio, Italy:.1) Document: "Not Guilty!"; written by John Lewis, anti-communist article; dated November 1944; 2) document: "To them it's a JOKE!"; antisemitic article with drawing verso of two men filming a battle scene, dated November 1944; and 3) political cartoon: "Are you shedding your blood to fatten him?"; anti-Communist; picture of pig with Stalin's face on a map of Europe and Asia; verso: quotes from G.B. Shaw, Sumner Wells, Mackenzie King, General Smuts, and Churchill; not dated.

  13. Christy Lee La Bauve collection

    Consists of a photograph of a book burning in Berlin, Germany.

  14. Buchenwald prisoner registration card

    Consists of a prisoner registration card issued in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  15. Clarence Juech collection

    Collection of photographs and original negatives taken by Clarence Juech (donor’s father) who was a member of the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 4th Armored Division, US Army that liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  16. Zvi Rosenwein collection

    The Zvi Rosenwein collection consists of documents, postcards, and photographs relating to Zvi (Zwi, Cvi) Rosenwein's internment in Tittmoning civilian internment camp and to his work in the Liebenau displaced persons camp in Laufen, Germany. The collection includes original postcards and letters, mainly circa 1943-1945 from friends, relatives, and associates in Switzerland, Budapest, the Łódź ghetto, Palestine, and other locations. Includes a series of original correspondence, much of it using coded language, with Nathan Schwalb in Switzerland and Josef Kraus in Budapest. Also includes an ...

  18. Sanford Sigoloff collection

    Consists of one framed photographic print by Roman Vishniak that depicts a teacher and a student studying Talmud.

  19. Lenore Khan collection

    The Lenore Khan collection consists of photographs, correspondence, passports, advertisements, announcements, and other documents relating to the Neustaetter family of Munich and Stuttgart, Germany.

  20. Bianca Baar collection

    The Bianca Baar collection consists of fourteen black & white photographs of the Hartman family, mainly pre-war; two postcards sent to and from Klara Herz, a distant cousin of the donor, in Birkenau; and a prayerbook that survived in hiding with Yehudit (Gelb) Preisz, aunt of the donor.