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  1. Frima Laub papers

    The Frima Laub papers consist of photographs of Frima Gleiser (later Frima Laub) taken in 1945 and 1947. Four of the photographs were taken at the Schlüpfing displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany and shows Frima with an unidentified friend. Also included is a poster featuring a photograph of Frima and announcing a performance sponsored by the Association of Jewish Women in Havana, Cuba, in 1949.

  2. Isaac Bitton papers

    The papers consist of one two-page carbon copy of a letter from Dr. Azancot, head of the Jewish community in Lisbon, Portugal, to President Salazar regarding the protection of refugees in Portugal and photocopies of articles appearing in the Portuguese newspaper "Diario de noticias" regarding the Jewish community in Lisbon.

  3. Photograph of members of "Hanoar Hazioni"

    The photograph of the Zionist youth organization "Hanoar Hazioni" (No`ar ha-Tsiyoni) taken in May 1939 in Sosnowiec, Poland. Sitting from left to right: Dr. Burshtyn, Josef Kozhuch, Samek Meitlis, Lola Pomeranzblum, Benjamin Bimko. Josef Kozhuch, Samek Meitlis, Lola Pomeranzblum, and Benjamin Bimko belonged to the underground Zionist resistance movement and were all killed by the Germans in August 1943.

  4. Maurice Raynor family papers

    Contains Red Cross papers, family photographs, and school photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Isaac and Sientje Rabbie (later Raynor) and their children, Maurice and Helena. Includes photographs depicting the family in pre-war Amsterdam, wartime correspondence with family, and post-war photographs and documents, including a photograph of Helena Rabbie shortly after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen. She perished a few days later at the age of eleven.

  5. Report card

    The school report card was issued to Aba Feuerstein in Zbaraż, Poland, on June 28, 1914

  6. War Merit Cross 2nd Class with swords medal

  7. The Jewish Transcript (Seattle, Washington) [Newspaper]

  8. Sign excluding Jews from a property

    Enameled, metal sign prohibiting the presence of Jews. Such signs were often present in shops, restaurants, and other public buildings during the Nazi regime. While there was no singular law requiring the physical segregation of Jews from other Germans, a series of over 400 laws enacted throughout the 1930s increased restrictions for Jews in every aspect of their lives. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. The German government began instituting laws the following April, which began negatively defining and segregating Jews f...

  9. Oral history interview with Icek Wluka

  10. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  11. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  12. Concentration camp jacket with a prisoner ID patch worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Benjamin Milich, age 30, in Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Dachau concentration camps from August 1944 to May 1945. The jacket has a hidden pocket and a patch with his Dachau prisoner ID number, 96699. Benjamin, his mother Rajzla, and his siblings Abram, Leib, and Anita lived in Łódź. In spring 1940, they were forced into the ghetto. In July 1942, Abram was sent to Auschwitz. In August 1944, Benjamin, Leib, and Anita were sent to Auschwitz. In late August, Benjamin and Leib were transferred to Kaufering labor camp in Germany. After nine months, they were...

  13. Photograph of a field

    Contains an undated image of a field with trees and a fence in the background.

  14. Book

    Insert in book concerning the study of eugenics

  15. Cemetery; synagogue

    Contemporary footage of a memorial or Jewish cemetery. CU, EXT ornate sign in Hebrew (gravestone?). Different views of synagogue. Pan to Jewish star on roof of building.

  16. Large wooden crate used by Zegota, a Polish underground group, to hide false documents

    Large, lidded wooden chest used by Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council to Aid Jews), called Zegota, to hide false identity documents for Jews in German occupied Poland. Zegota was an underground organization, most active in the Warsaw region, where its members, Jewish and non-Jewish, helped Jews go into or remain in hiding. It found them hiding places and provided them with medical care, food, money, and false identity documents. About 50,000 sets of false identity documents were distributed during the German occupation, which began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Zegota was f...

  17. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  18. Arrest of Jews in Romania

    MCU, low angle, soldiers marching into a town. Cut to MCU, Jews with their hands in the air, emotional shot of a woman clinging to and hiding behind a man (presumably her husband or a relative), the man has his arms raised. MCU, men with their arms raised, being searched by Romanian soldiers. They open their jackets, check pockets, etc. MCU, low angle, a man sleeping, curled up on the ground, another man, or possibly a woman, covered in a blanket is curled up, sleeping next to him, a cat is visible cleaning itself in the background. Low angle pan of a street in the village.

  19. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two men standing at the door of an oven with a corpse on a stretcher; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  20. Book

    Book concerning the study of eugenics.